3 Steps to Become the Empowered Entrepreneur You Want to Be
by Joanie Connell
Young entrepreneurs often have great ideas but don’t know how to get out there and do it themselves. Here are some “empowerment” tips they can use.
3 Steps to Become the Empowered Entrepreneur You Want to Be
by Joanie Connell
Young entrepreneurs often have great ideas but don’t know how to get out there and do it themselves. Here are some “empowerment” tips they can use.
The voices are unanimous. Parenting to raise independent, resilient adults is hard work. It involves pain and discipline. It results in frustrated and hurt children—at least when they’re not getting what they want. But we all have to get through that to grow up and be responsible, considerate, self-sufficient people who can hold down a job and take care of others.
Parents typically want their children to be happy, independent adults one day. To make that happen, we as a society have to support parents to “parent up” and let their kids grow up.
Establishing a good work-life balance can be more important than you realize, Connell said. In fact, a lack of work-life balance, which leads to increased stress in employees, can have a huge impact on both employees and employers.
Listen to the podcast to hear the answers. (Millennials, this podcast is also for you!)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” –William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” –Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan wasn’t known for his intelligence. It was his talent that made him a superstar. His wisdom came from years and years of practicing and from both his successes and failures. Michael Jordan played a total of 1,072 games in his 15 NBA seasons, not including the playoffs. He won 706 and lost 366. Michael Jordan knew about overcoming obstacles.
One day I was in a karate lesson. I was feeling a little blue and it showed. The 20-year-old instructor asked me what was wrong. I said that everyone was making New Year’s resolutions and I didn’t have any that I felt passionate about making. He reflected for a moment and said, “Perhaps what you need is not a resolution, but a resolve.” He took me completely by surprise because he was right on the mark—and he was only half my age!
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.” –Epictetus
In his book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande imparts innumerable pieces of wisdom about what is in and outside of our control as we age. In fact, it is precisely control that is most important to us as we age. We want control over our freedom to choose. Current methods of attending to aging people tend to take that away. No, we don’t have control over aging and dying, but we may be able to control to a certain degree how we live as we age and die.
“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.” –Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We like to think it won’t happen to us or we’re smarter, more capable than the people who tried and failed before us. While that may be true, if we don’t listen to the reasons why things turned out the way they did before, we won’t learn and do it differently.
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.” –Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Students feel pressure from companies to have job-relevant experience on their resumes and they feel the only way they can get it is to take unpaid internships. On the other hand, companies feel pressure from students to have educational experiences and they don’t want to have to pay interns for that.
The Problem with Unpaid Internships guest blog in The e.Mile People Development Magazine
On May 21, we taught the first Rady School Center for Executive Education (CED) course completely in the VirBELA virtual world. The course was aptly titled “Managing High Performance Distributed Teams” and we had participants as far away as England in VirBELA with us. Guess what happened?
Rady Exec Ed Program Recap: Managing Distributed Teams using VirBELA Virtual World
Engaging Millennials by Joanie Connell
“Some business leaders have attempted to make work stimulating, fun, and educational for Millennials, but I’d like to suggest an alternative approach. Instead of preparing the workplace for them, prepare them for the workplace.“
High school students should take heed, says Connell, and place life skills—traits like resilience, independence and creativity—high on their list of requirements when choosing a college.
See full article here.