Early Signs Of My Entrepreneurial Mind

A little preface to my entrance into entrepreneurship. I think it’s important, because it’s usually the things that are buried deep in some one, experiences from the past, successes, failures, learning experiences, etc., that truly makes up a person and his/her fundamental passions.

I was a spoiled kid growing up. I didn’t ask to be, I just was. I guess it was because my parents wanted to give me what they didn’t have or could’t acquire when they were young(er). I’ve come to understand that this is common amongst parents coming from a poverty lifestyle when they were children.

Here in the U.S., they became a part of the middle working class group and got pretty decent paying jobs. My father is a painter and worked for the union majority of his career, so he was the major bread winner, My mother hopped from several jobs and being mother.

Since my father made some decent money, he spoiled me and my younger brother. We got the latest toys, video game systems (I grew up a video gamer freak), and gadgets. When I didn’t get something I wanted, I would freak out! And then I would get what I wanted.

The result of spoiling a child is negative. I admit, being spoiled when I was younger has produced some negative effects on my character, mindset, and mentality. But, with every negative, there are positives.

Being spoiled, I grown into having the mentality of wanting more. As I got into my teen years though, of course I wanted more, but my parents wasn’t willing and/or able to get it for me. My extravagant wants and desires was either too expensive for my parent’s budget, and they seen the negative effects of spoiling me as a child and wanted to put a stop to it. Which was a great thing for me as I look back.

With me thinking that I could get anything I wanted, I believed it. No matter what it was that I wanted, no matter how much it cost, I knew I could get it. In my mind, I always was thinking of how could I get what I wanted.

I knew that there was always a way, I just had to find it.

Back then the result was, more often that not, I got what I strove to get.

Looking back, I feel that this was one key “mindset” or trait, if you will, that had tremendously helped me in being the successful person I am today.

How?

That’s exactly it. HOW.

Come back to see how I did it…