Are You A Wantapreneur?

What’s a Wantapreneur? That’s simple: it’s a person who wants to be an entrepreneur. Someone who thinks about starting a company, but never does; someone who thinks about marketing their business, but never does; someone who thinks about selling their car to invest in a startup, but never does.

Wantapreneurs are all over the place; they have big dreams and high hopes, but never take any action. The main difference – actually, the only difference – between an entrepreneur and a wantapreneur is: Action.

Rachel, from the movie Batman Begins, said it best: “It’s not who we are inside, but our actions that define us in life.” I’ll always remember that saying because it’s so true.

I have ideas, you have ideas, we all have ideas…. so what. Ideas aren’t anything more than – guess what – ideas. If you feel that you are a part of the wantapreneur legion, then step outside the circle and implement one of your ideas.

Like I’ve always said, entrepreneurship is a mindset, and if you feel deep down that entrepreneurship is inside you but you feel that your current circumstances have trapped you into just “wanting” and “hoping” (re: wantapreneur), then you should be doing everything in your power to breakout of those restraints.

Life is too short to sit on the sidelines and watch the world pass you by. Make the transition from the wantapreneur to the entrepreneur NOW, before you wakeup in your bed 20 years later and say: “Damn, I wish that I was 20 again… why didn’t I take action then?”

Sure, it’s not easy being an entrepreneur. It’s a life of ups and downs riddled with plenty of stress and plenty of happiness. But if you make the conscious decision to bust your ass now – while you’re young – then 20 years down the line you’ll wakeup and say: “Wow, look at the empire I’ve created. Look at the changes that I have made. I’ve done something great – something that I will always be proud of.”

Be the entrepreneur that you’ve always wanted to be and take off that wantapreneur cap – there’s no time to waste.

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