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I need to be an entrepreneur. Now what?

I cross paths with a lot of people, especially older job seekers, who say “I need to start my own business, but I don’t know what it will be”.  Wanting to be an entrepreneur and independent is the first step along a path of millions of steps, each one carrying the virus of failure.  If you don’t choose a target really well in this first step, you probably will catch the failure flu. So, how do you choose?

I think the basic foundation of any successful business person is a really strong self-assessment.  That’s the first step in the ACE Methodology. I’ve found that successful entrepreneurs fully understand their strengths, weaknesses, passions, experience and values then put them to work in a focused direction. Honest self-assessment is really hard (you think it would be easy, but it isn’t) because you can be too close to yourself. Friends and family (even strangers) often have a better perspective on what you’re good at and passionate about.

“Passions” will help you get up in the morning to accomplish something. “Strengths” will help you do it well.  “Experience” will help you avoid a long education and rookie mistakes. “Values” will help you persevere (or not) when things get tough or boring. Strong values for accomplishment will help you glue everything else together. We discuss this a lot in Startup Assembly Manual.

The “keep trying until I succeed” is a pointless war cry without a clear goal and path and plan.

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DeadSight

Sequel to ALONE

Mason and Amy Banks thought they would enjoy a peaceful retirement from a career of delivering swift justice to bad people.

They wouldn’t.

Much of how the brain functions remains unknown. But Doctor Feng Zhuang was convinced he had discovered a world-shattering secret.

And some unscrupulous people discovered a way to take unfair and cruel advantage.

A Jacobs/Benson Thriller

 

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Sudden Reversal

If you are an American Socialist, don’t read this.

Your head might explode.

It outlines a political conspiracy so expansive, so corrupt, so thorough and plausible, that it could be true.

When I originally wrote this book, the background events igniting the storyline hadn’t happened yet.

But now, many have… and the elitist cabal writing the future history must be stopped.

You may not like my solution.

But you WILL not like the reality!

A Jacobs/Benson Thriller