Entrepreneurship: 23 Questions

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

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1207024_background_green This intellectual and personality query poses 22 questions which are generally and specifically designed to measure competitiveness, self-reliance, patience, emotional stability, flexibility, objectivity, and other important entrepreneurial traits. Evaluate yourself ahead of time to better plan your career, careers and business fields that you will enter in the future or change course and tack now.

The following twenty two questions in this examination and interview are worked out to carefully evaluate your ability to work on your own, how competitive you are in your job and life while at the same time being able to work along and with others. You may be a “team worker”. You may be a very effective “lone wolf” personality, worker and employee. In additional there are guideposts to measure emotional stability, flexibility or stubborn rigid mindless as well as emotional and workplace situational objectivity and fairness in your mental traits and assessments of others.

When you are finished, total up your score to verify and count up just how you would rate and rank as a business owner. Give yourself 4 points for each response in the “A” category, 3 points for each in the “B’ category. 2 points for “C’s”‘ and only 1 point for those that fall into the dreaded D lineup.

1. I am ready to give up the security of working for someone else with the independence of running my own business, even if it means more work and less pay:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

2. I’m more decisive than most people I know, and I believe I am able to do whatever I put my mind to do:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

3. I have sharp and keen mind. : A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

4. In my previous jobs I’ve worked for long and extended hours, and if necessary I’m still willing to do the same:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

5. I am motivated to do the best in everything I do:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

6. I can handle chronic problems and obstacles without getting frustrated or losing my patience.

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

7. I like challenges and hate to feel like I’m wasting my time on routine tasks:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

8. I prefer competence over personality, and would rather work with a difficult person who’s competent than a person who’s very congenial but less competent:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

9. I’m more of a leader and more likely to organize a group than to follow the lead of others:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

10. I’m more at ease in making decisions and giving orders than having decisions made for me and taking orders:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

11. I’m good and disciplined and follow a strict timetable in order to complete tasks in time. : A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

12. I give importance to my employees’ well-being, but not at the expense of my business:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

13. Given reasonable odds, my efforts usually influence the outcome of an endeavor:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

14. My energy level is superior to other people. :

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

15. In a crisis, I’m able to retain my calm and composure and still do well. :

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

16. I do have patience and admit to myself when a situation is beyond my control:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

17. I love challenging tasks such as analyzing, attacking, and completing a complex task:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

18. I’ve often led and organized projects and groups:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

19. I can easily change course once I’ve started a project:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

20. It wouldn’t be happy to terminate an unproductive employee, but I’m capable of doing it if the situation calls for it:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

21. I’m adventurous and would like to experiment and try new things—from meeting new people to trying new activities:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

22. I’ve had a strong background and experience, either in business or as a hobby, in the field in which I plan to start a business.

A. more than 3 B. 1 to 3 C. between 6 months and 1 D. none

23. I’ve had the following business experience:

A. owned and managed my own business B. management-level experience (supervised others) C. employee-level experience (no supervisees) D. none

Add up your tally. If you score 70 to 80 then you are on the right track. With effort, focus and steady consistent work you are on the right path. Score 80 – 90 and you have entrepreneurs in your blood and makeup. You are destined to do exceptionally well in chosen fields, tasks and adventures in your business life.

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How to Drop Your Creative Resistance

Posted on July 16, 2009 by admin

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The simple truth is creativity functions best when you let go of resistance to the creative flow. Resistance comes in many forms. Anxiety over a creative block is a form of resistance. Finding Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) for why you cannot or aren’t whatever enough to come up with the vision or the energy to create is another face of resistance. Worrying about how you’re going to pay your bills or how the critics will view your work is nothing but resistance. Resistance is saying NO! to YOU. It is saying NO to what your heart is calling you to be, do and experience.

Let go of your resistance. Trust. Trust that you can, are ‘enough’, will be able to keep a roof over your head and handle criticism of any kind. Just drop the baggage of resistance that you’ve been carrying around with you that makes you too exhausted to get your creative juices flowing. Even if you give yourself permission to let go for only 1 day, just drop it! Drop out of the vicious cycle of artist block and stunted creativity.

“Drop out” suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. It meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean ‘Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.’” -Timothy Leary

When you drop your creative resistance you change your structured path of least resistance. Your current path is mired with fear and self-doubt. When you drop your fear and self-doubt you create a new path; a path that is clear, free from the quagmire of restraints and limitations to your creative flow. You are open to new vision.

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” – Anais Nin

It is very easy to drop your creative resistance. Just be willing. Take a deep breath and begin. It doesn’t matter how you begin; just do anything. If you’re a painter pick up your brush or knife and choose a color. Put some paint on a canvas and let go. If you’re an actor, audition for a role that you think is impossible to win. If you’re a writer, write a romantic comedy if your work is largely science fiction. Do something out of your ordinary, out of your comfort zone, and be willing to fall flat on your butt.

“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.” ~Brendan Francis

If you do create a stink bomb, have a good chuckle over the experience and notice that the fall didn’t kill you like you feared it would. In fact, you learned a thing or two about yourself and how you can improve your work. It is in the lessons learned from new experiences that your vision of what’s possible for you expands. And laughter will give you distance. Laughter lets you to step back from an event, learn from it and then move onto bigger and better experiences.

Drop the resistant Inner Critic monkey-mind chatter filled with doubt and anxiety. Chuckle and hum a little tune..”I can see clearly now, the brain is gone…”

“The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.” – Joseph Campbell

Copyright © 2009 Valery Satterwhite

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor & Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles in the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com Free tips!