If one is to become a successful entrepreneur, he/she is required to become effective in making decision and taking action. Over the years, any successful entrepreneur possesses a string of specific habits that makes them highly effective.

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May 5, 2013
Successful Entrepreneur: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People
U.S. President Bill Clinton read the book and invited Covey to Camp
David to counsel him on how to integrate the book into his presidency…
What does being an successful entrepreneur mean?
It means that one is ready to take a full ownership of his/her own financial life independent of
others, and that includes working for somebody else.
Being an entrepreneur means being daring, adventurous, bold and risky, simply because
you’re owning your own business, which means you have to abandon all sense of certainty.
There is no certainty in being an entrepreneur, and only those who are ready to embrace the
uncertainty can become successful entrepreneur.
If one is to become a successful entrepreneur, he/she is required to become effective in making
decision and taking action. Over the years, any successful entrepreneur possesses a string
of specific habits that makes them highly effective.
Successful Entrepreneur: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The writing of this article will be based largely on a book of the same title by Stephen R.
Covey.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a
business and self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. It has sold more than
25 million copies in 38 languages worldwide, and the audio version has sold 15
million copies, and remains one of the best selling nonfiction business
books. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by
aligning oneself to what he calls “true north” principles of a character ethic that he
presents as universal and timeless. In August 2011, Time listed Seven Habits as
one of “The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books”.
U.S. President Bill Clinton read the book and invited Covey to Camp David to
counsel him on how to integrate the book into his presidency.
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2. Think about it.
If you’re the president and you invite an author of a self-development book, asking him to
suggest how you should run your presidency, doesn’t that guy have something very important
to say?
Which is why if you want to become a successful entrepreneur, you will be required to acquire
these habits.

3. Successful Entrepreneur: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
1. Be Proactive
As I said before, being an
entrepreneur means that you
take a full ownership over your
financial life. When you take full
ownership over your financial life,
you are taking responsibility over
each decisions that you make.
Don’t be passive and don’t be
afraid of making mistakes.
Yes, you have to take
responsibility for your own
decisions, and yes, that’s why
you need to take an informed
decision. But you can not be passive either! Being passive gets you no where.
It’s much better to make a mistake and learn from it, rather than not taking any
action and not learning anything at all!
Successful entrepreneur makes mistakes a lot of time, but they learned from their experiences
and become more educated than the rest who are not making any decision.
Which one are you?
2. Begins with The End in Mind
It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first)
creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the
mental, just as a building follows a blueprint.
- Stephen R. Covey
What it means is that you have to have a clear vision – not just intention, or focus – of what
you want to accomplish in your mind when you begin your entrepreneurship. As Covey said, the
physical accomplishment follows your mind accomplishment.
The key is: Visualize!
David Wood, the founder of Empower Network, teaches this 24/7. He teaches that one has to

4. visualize his/her goals as vividly as possible in the mind that the goal almost becomes present
tense. It has to be so vivid that you can see, hear, touch and smell the environment you’re in
when you have accomplished the goal, in your mind.
This is not magic, by the way. What this habit creates for you is the commitment, focused
intention, and the readiness to take all the risks and dangers (so long as it doesn’t harm others)
it needs to achieve success.
Make it a habit that you visualize your goal everyday first thing in the morning! Take note that
people who make this a habit are 10 times more likely to become a successful entrepreneur.
3. First Thing First
You have to put whatever is the most important thing in your life in the first slot of your daily
agenda.
This habit is about time management, but more importantly about your personal values and
purpose. If you invest the first hour of your day everyday on doing one thing, your life will
definitely be directed towards that one thing in your life.
If you think being a successful entrepreneur is the most important thing in your life, then you will
have to, first thing in the morning, start an activity that will make you a successful
entrepreneur.
If you’re in Empower Network, David Wood always beats into our mind that we
have to blog daily.
If succeeding inside of Empower Network is your big goal at this point in your life,
then you have to commit the first hour of your day, everyday, blogging!
4. Think Win-Win
Being a successful entrepreneur, one can not be be selfish in building a relationship with others.
Realize that we don’t live alone in this world, and whatever decisions that we make, it will affect
others.
Do not think in terms of competition, but in terms of cooperation.
Competition minded people think that if I win, you lose; If you win, I lose. And I will make sure
that you lose.
Cooperation minded people think that life is about mutual symbiosis between other people
and themselves, with both party benefit from each other, thus forming a solid system.
To think win-win is to be mature, not over-compromising. It means that you’re mature
enough to reject somebody when you think it won’t benefit the system, but also emphatic
enough to compromise the weakness of others.

5. Pay attention to what Covey has to say about this.
A person or organization that approaches conflicts with a win-win attitude
possesses three vital character traits:
1. Integrity: sticking with your true feelings, values, and commitments 2. Maturity:
expressing your ideas and feelings with courage and consideration for the ideas
and feelings of others 3. Abundance Mentality: believing there is plenty for
everyone
5. Seek First To Understand Then To Be Understood
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums
up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12
What Jesus said didn’t just apply 2,000 years ago. It applies now too.
Most of us seek to be understood first, instead of to understand first.
To be a successful entrepreneur, in one way or another, one will have to fulfill the needs of
others. To understand others means that you have to know what the need of the mass. You
can’t become a successful entrepreneur without first understanding others.
Do not assume that you understand people. That is the mistake of many people.
Learn the art of empathy: Putting yourself in other people’s shoes.
When someone talks to you, most of the time you will start to compare his story with your own
story. The thing is, by doing that you’re assuming that you understand what he feels when
you’re still in his shoe. That’s when you say, “I know how you feel”, when you don’t.
If you master the art of empathy, probing the need of the mass won’t be a problem, and that’s
when you’re not just a successful entrepreneur, but also a good listener. And in my opinion, a
good listener wins 100 times over a successful but unethical person.
6. Synergize
To synergize means to work as a team. Remember the saying, “Two heads are always
better than one”?
Working as team with other people with a shared vision is more efficient than working alone.
Plus it’s a good learning ground, especially when you’re just starting out.

6. To synergize means to share your knowledge, and to listen to others’ suggestions. Thus as a
team, you are not only working but also learning, which is a never ending process. Life is a
learning.
Work with as many people as you can, but the most important thing, you want to work with
people that will lift you up higher, not those that will drag you down, if you aspire to become a
successful entrepreneur.
This is exactly what David Wood means when he was talking about leverage in Empower
Network. Leverage simply means, in his terms, the power of community that is able to lift each
individual up and to create new successful entrepreneur.
We have over 100,000 members who are lifting each other up to success.
How fast do you think each individual will grow and become successful entrepreneur?
7. Sharpen Your Saw
Often times when you are working on something with an intention in mind, but for some reason
you just get stuck and you can’t move on. Then, you should probably go back re-evaluate what
goes wrong.
Your saw might have gotten blunt.
Don’t keep ramming your head on the wall. You have to go back rethink of what have gone
wrong.
Most of the time, though, the reason is the lack of knowledge.
I can’t stress the importance of investing time and money in education enough, as it really
propels one even faster to the goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Most people are too preoccupied by the mistake they do and they keep on doing what they
have done before, which yield nothing but more mistakes and frustration.
If that’s the case for you, stop whatever you’re doing right now. You need to educate yourself
further. Don’t be afraid of investing money in your education, as any kind of education is
priceless, as long as they’re of high quality.
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Remember the part about being proactive?
This is the part where you are asked to become proactive, because your active decision right
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