Waking-Up Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

America is known as "the land of opportunity." This country was founded by entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial spirit has been alive since. Despite the economic crises, small business owners continue to thrive with the hopes of surviving the bad economy. While "the giants" have been helped by the government, the "little guy" and the "Mom and Pop's" struggle to stay afloat. This has caused a bad case of "the Blues" in this country, and it has put out the fire in the hearts of many entrepreneurs. Are you one of the many that has given up on your entrepreneurial dreams? Has this economy kill your desire to start your business?

If your answer is yes, maybe is time to look back to history, when our forefathers and founders came to this land, looking for the dream. They had less financial opportunities, they had less technology and resources at their disposition, they had less lines of communication, and certainly "no WEB." Despite that, America grew to what it is today, and many people from countries around the world, still want to come here and make their dreams a reality. We complain, we talked about Dooms Day, we wine about the present state of the country, but have we asked ourselves how our entrepreneurial spirit is doing.

You may argue that you have no desire to start a business; that it is not for you - not your style. You may argue that you are happy working as an employee, and happy to get paid weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or whenever you get paid. Not everyone is cut to be a business owner, and it is fine if you want to work for someone else. What I am talking about is the attitude in which you approach the way you make your money - as an employee, or as a business owner. Are you constantly complaining about your boss, your co-workers, having to go everyday to work, having to open your business everyday and dealing with your customers...? If you answer yes, it is time to wake up your entrepreneurial spirit. It is time to wake up the spirit with which you earn your living everyday - being that as an employee or as a business owner.

This country was founded and developed by people with hopes and dreams, and the spirit to work hard for their families. This country was awakened once, and it needs to be awakened by us, again. We cannot depend on the government to fix our spirits, as this is the only thing that truly belongs to us and nobody can take away. Despite the situation we are in right now, being that employed or unemployed, renting, or losing our home or business, there is something that no one can take from you - and that is the spirit with which you approach every day. The same spirit that was with our forefathers and founders, the same spirit that lives in every one of us despite race, color, age, religion, creed or gender. This spirit is inside you and the only one that can raise it or kill it is you. So stop blaming the economy, the crisis or the government, and wake up again - wake up your entrepreneurial spirit.