Halfway Reflection

I have found this course to be very different than I had initially anticipated. It has taught me a lot and given me different points of view on the business world that I had never seen before. One thing that it has taught me is about behavior within the business world. Tenacity is very important as an entrepreneur. However it is not the only important trait. As an entrepreneur, there are a few things you have to be. You have to be tenacious, open minded, and versatile. Being tenacious is probably the most important. You must be respected in the business world if you are to be successful, and being tenacious will help a lot with that. You must be open minded as well. An idea that you might have is probably not going to come out exactly the way you pictured it. There are so many factors to be considered when starting a business that you have to keep an open mind in case things do not go the way you thought they would. Lastly, is is very important to be versatile. As an entrepreneur, you are almost guaranteed to experience failure and rejection. It is very crucial that when your ideas get turned down, you are able to tweak and fix them in an efficient way.

Everyone has those days or moments where they feel hopeless. They might think that they their only option is to give up. However, if you are going to survive in the business world, you can never give up. One time in high school I was sick and missed about 3 or 4 days of classes. I was so behind on work and with finals coming up, I was very stressed. I was debating whether or not I should do both the work and study for finals, or just study and forget the work. I finally decided that I was going to give up on the work and take the bad grade in that rather than the exam, which would still hurt my grade a bunch. Just when I thought my grade was screwed, I decided not to give up on my work. I asked my friends to help me out and they came through, helping me both study for my exam and complete my work.

If I had to give three tips they would be don't care what other people think, network as much as possible, and don't be selfish, but keep an eye out for yourself. I would say don't care what others think because when starting a business, it is likely that you will take a lot of criticism. Let it go in one ear and out the other and continue moving forward. I would tell others to network because it is so important to have connections in the business world. You never know when you might need a hand. Lastly, I tell you to look after yourself while not being selfish because there are a lot of people out to get you in the business world. It can be a crude environment. Therefore, make sure to keep an eye out for yourself and make sure no one is harming you or your business.