by Wendy Burge 
 
Last week I offered questions that would allow you to dig up and set a proper foundation for your new entrepreneurial venture. This week I am giving you three more equally important questions to ask yourself that will transition your beliefs about your new business from it looking like a job you are creating just for yourself. Instead, developing you business into a full fledge expression of you and your best gifts that are structured to serve you and your needs as much as it allows you to be in service to others.
 
How is your business serving others?
In the process of creating your own businesses, you need to understand what benefit and value you are creating for people. What personal or professional experiences can you draw from which adds value and will set you apart in the industry within which you want to create your new business.  Can you save people money, time, or energy? Do you offer a solution to a problem that may not be so obvious to them? Understand this-Your Service will be the Transformational Experience you offer and which you must sell as an entrepreneur. This is especially so as a service-based entrepreneur, because You are what people are buying just as much as the service or product you offer.  
 
Are you willing to invest money into your personal development?
To be in business for yourself requires you to stretch and challenge your own beliefs. Finding your "true North" to guide your journey as an entrepreneur often requires an investment of money and time in learning more about yourself through the help of coaches and mentors. What you don't know-you don't know! It is only through awareness that you can leap frog your business to greater success through the help of others who want your success as much as you do.
 
Do you have a mentor or business structure to model after?
If you have an inkling of an idea what you want your business to look like, find someone that is already doing it-are they successful at it?  How can you learn from them, their model, or use them as a mentor? Money likes speed and fortunes are not made in the state of idle analysis. Learn from the people who are ahead of you in order to get going quickly and efficiently. They are often open to helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs and will gladly share a bit of sage advice on the do's and don't of creating a similar business structure. Most importantly, let me make one thing clear, the idea of competition is nearly non-existent as a conscious entrepreneur-that is an entrepreneur who clearly intends to be of service to people through their passion-based and purposeful business.
 
There is no need to feel competitive because what you have to offer is just as much about a service or product that transforms people's lives as it is about being more authentic and expressing the integrity within your own life. So, the intention of getting help to move you forward into a state which allows you to fulfill this purpose cannot in your initial start up be based in the fear that someone is doing this better, longer, or more successfully.
 
© 2009 Wendy Burge - Radiant Edge Consulting.

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