Success Traits of Baby Boom Entrepreneurs – Part 7
Posted on | March 9, 2010 | No Comments
So far we have seen in this series of articles dealing with the success traits of baby boom entrepreneurs that those of us born to this generation have a lot going for us in the creating of a second career.
- We understand autonomy and are resilient.
- We are innovative and confident.
- We are intuitive in our ability to make right choices.
Today I want to look at success trait number 6, as Amy Grossman has laid things out. The sixth success trait is the ability to be decisive. To be considered decisive you must be able to make a decision and then be able to stick to/follow through on that decision.
What makes baby boom entrepreneurs a decisive lot? Well, I think that we are decisive for a couple reasons. First, because most of us who are starting second careers, have lived through and succeeded at our first. You see, being successful in a career requires that we make lots and lots of decisions. Some succeed and some don’t. But, in making them we learn how to be decisive. The most important part for “second career” success is that we made the decision and learned how to stick to and follow through with the decision we made.
The second reason that baby boom entrepreneurs are decisive is that we realize that we are living in the second half of our lives and to be honest we don’t have the time to mess around too much! I personally love the idea of working in my own business throughout my productive years. That being said, I don’t want to waste any of those years just playing games. I had to decide what direction my business would take and now I am focusing my attention on all the necessary considerations to make it successful. I think that most boomers who are entrepreneurial in nature think the same way of this “second career.”
So, because we have successfully navigated our first career and because there are (like it or not) some time constraints on the successful development of our second career, we must be a decisive group. We must make right decisions, based in right thinking, and then follow through with those decisions in ways that make us successful.
Talk more later …
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