Internet Users Hbk - Appendix A Your Personal Assessment - Entrepreneurship

• Have trust or faith in a person or thing.
• Possess a feeling of assurance, especially of self-assurance.
• The state or quality of being certain: I have every confidence in my idea and my ability to succeed.
• Do you have a feeling of emotional security resulting from faith in one-self?
• Confidence is a firm belief in one's powers, abilities, or capacities
• “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face” (Eleanor Roosevelt).
• Self-confidence, trust in one's own self-sufficiency
• Commitment
• A pledge to do, an obligation
• Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
• The state of being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons
• “What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might” - Marcus T. Cicero
  
  “A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads” - Thomas Carlyle

• Your attitude is a frame of mind with which you approach a subject, a problem, a person or any circumstance.
• Either it is positive, negative or indifferent.
• The most important aspect of attitude is that you and you alone are in full control of it
• The choice is totally yours, your choose
• Hence, if you choose to look at things in the positive light, then you will find that many doors will be opened to you because positive outlook presents you with a “can-do” attitude.

• If you are paralyzed by the fear of failure, you will remain inactive.
• No one wants to fail but when it happens, there is nothing to fear.
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is moving forward through fear.
• Walt Disney and Henry Ford were both bankrupts.
  • Walt Disney formed his first animation company in Kansas City in 1921. Flushed with success, he began to experiment with new storytelling techniques, his costs went up and then the distributor went bankrupt. He was forced to dissolve his company, at one point could not pay his rent, and was surviving by eating dog food.PopCrunch
  • Henry Ford. Unfortunately, he focused too much on the engineering and not enough on marketing, resulting in poor sales and bankruptcy. He was forced to leave the business in 1902 after investors threatened to withdraw their capital. FreeInfoSociety
• It is the Kiasu syndrome, a self-defeating emotion that creates fear that gets in your way – FEAR of losing
  • One who is afraid to lose out to someone else, often to the point of selfishness; an over-cautious person; afraid of losing out to someone else, and therefore often behaving selfishly and disregarding others; dog in a manger

• If you are, have you evaluated, researched and really understand your idea or opportunity?
• Have you evaluated your personal needs?
• Does your idea or product, service fulfill a need?
• Do you have start-up capital and reserves?
• Can you face and make decisions?
• Are you ready to stick with it?
• Do you have adequate skills, resources, credit?
• Where do you get assistance, information?