Expand your mind, enlarge your thinking, grow an abundance mindset, start now, and be memorable.

Chapter 1: You Can't Stop My Go.

Never give up, because entrepreneurs just don't. and they’re resilient.

The harsh truth is that; nothing comes easily if it did, everyone would be an entrepreneur, everyone would be rich, and everyone would be successful.

As an entrepreneur, you need to have faith, even if you’re facing obstacles. Your job is to believe in something that probably doesn't yet exist and to convince others to believe in it too.

You’re a leader, showing others the light, finding loopholes, and turning negatives into positives.

The Climate might not always be conducive, but even 10 times of disaster, a true entrepreneur will find a way.

No matter how many doors slam in the face of an entrepreneur he refuses to stay down.

Resilience might be hard to nurture, but I believe all of us can tap into our greatness.

You can fall, but a real man comes up seven times stronger.

Don't dread the rough times, tough times welcome them.

The truth about the resilience muscle is like any other muscle, it will only get stronger if it is used. That’s why the more you get knocked down, the stronger you will become.

Critical truths

Your biggest problem is feeling that you’re not equal to the task

Entrepreneurship doesn't exist without resilience.

You need to have faith even when you’re feeling obstacles

Find a “why” that is big enough to keep driving you forward and look for a hero who motivates you.

Chapter 2: Stay time to your Vision

But be flexible about what it may take to get you there.

As an entrepreneur, you will meet challenges. It's just a question of time. 

• You’ll encounter negativity

• You will feel betrayed and disappointed

• You'll lose friends.

• You’ll have doors shut in your face.

• you’ll want to give up.

The entrepreneurship journey is a lonely one and it’s not an easy journey.

The only way you’ll be able to face down whatever comes your way is flexibility.

Having the flexibility to find ways to maneuver obstacles.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be like water: when you pour water into a container, it doesn’t resist, it simply takes on the shape of that container.

Think of a river, then think of a rock or other obstacle in that river, and think of how the water isn't impeded in any way by the presence of such hurdles. It simply flows around and past them.

Flexibility doesn’t mean changing your mind with wind, however. Being able to change your plans in response to your situation, being able to react to unexpected events, and being able to adapt, is not the same as dropping your plans because you’ve run into trouble.

It also doesn’t mean blindly clinging to those plans even when you can see they won't work.

Flexibility is critical for the entrepreneur, no matter what industry/field you operate in. Flexibility is vital for anyone.

If you’re not flexible, it’s easy to allow the sudden gap in your timetable to wreak havoc with your deadlines and affect your productivity. On the other hand, if you're able to adapt to changes, you might just find a way to turn such situations to your advantage.

Flexibility can even affect your skills, think of how you negotiate, sometimes flexibility enables you to make the most of an unanticipated situation.

Don’t underestimate the value of flexibility in your personal life.

Critical Lessons:

• Never refuse to bend

• The worst thing as an entrepreneur is to treat a company's money as your own money.

• If you’re not reaching your business goal, don’t change that goal. Rather, find a different way of reaching it. 

• Be flexible in your personal life as well as your professional life. 

• Fail forward. Mistakes are inevitable, but they are also valuable. They are your school fees, so learn from them. They teach you what not to do. 

• Accept that things may not always turn out the way you planned, even opportunities that seemed foolproof and full of promise. 

• Draw on flexibility to help you move past the trials of life as an entrepreneur: disappointments, loneliness, and demotivation. 

• Instead of giving up, generate alternatives. 

• Understand that moving forward might be a slow process. Remember that you can give it momentum by doing one small thing every day to push you closer to your goal. 

Chapter 3: Your network is your net worth

Start with building your network.

Who you add to your network is vital because as the saying goes, If you hang out at the barber shop long enough, you’ll get a haircut.

In the same way, if you choose people who are inspiring, passionate, and full of greatness to populate your world, you’ll soon start thinking.

Don't think about the people you meet only in terms of having fun, partying, or dating. Find out if they can help you in business.

Delve into people’s skills, and you’ll be surprised.

Remember, though, that the people you hang out with ultimately rub off on you. If you create a network of people who excel, who talk about millions, and who have their eye on succeeding, their mindset will become your own. But the same holds if your mates are people who don't want to do much except party all the time.

While you are trying to find people who have the skills you need to build your business, keep an eye out for individuals who may become your mentors. Mentors are incredibly important to the entrepreneur.

Sometimes you just need someone who believes in you.

You can find mentors just about anywhere, your mentor could be an elder, a brotherly figure, your mom’s boss, or a peer. They can be from any walk of life. They don't have to be rich or famous.

The more diverse your group of mentors, the more you'll be able to get varying viewpoints across different subjects.

You don't need to speak to your mentor every day. If they're successful, they're probably busy with their own lives, so it might be good just to check in with them once a month or so.

Try to be unobtrusive, because you don’t want to bother them.

You need to remember that they’re not there to do the hard work for you.

Their job is to inspire you and encourage you to do the work yourself.

Don’t look to them for solutions to your problems, either they’re there to help you read your full potential so that you can come up with those solutions by yourself— usually by asking the right questions about you and your situation.

Introduce yourself to your mentor, tell them that you are a fan, let them know a bit about yourself, and offer them a service that will make their lives easier– but don't charge for it, and don't expect anything in return.

You’re looking to make this relationship grow, and one way of doing that is to exchange your know-how for their wisdom, which is probably worth more than any service you could ever provide.

Assisting them not only helps to build relationships but also shows them that you can add value to them.

Most importantly, never ask your mentor for money, they’re mentoring not investors.

There are other sources you can go to for funds, your mentor is present in your life to be nothing more than a teacher, not to help you fix things.

Whoever you choose to include in your circle, make sure their values resonate with your own.

Take time to listen to what they say. Remember that we were given two ears and only one month– and there’s a reason for that.

Critical lessons

• Your biggest problem is, you don't know how to network/sell yourself.

• No one expects you to be a master of all ones of business — but if you’re to make your business succeed you need to bring on the necessary skills.

• Try to meet other entrepreneurs, Remember that everyone you meet has the potential to help you work continuously to build up your network.

• Listen! 

Chapter 4: Changing Young lives

The act of service teaches you all kinds of things. It makes you appreciate what you have and gives you a greater idea of who you are.

Giving service that allows you to gain insights into how people live.

Giving back is a critical part of the entrepreneur's mindset, it wavers into their DNA.

The true measure of success for an entrepreneur isn’t how much you make, but how you positively impact people’s lives, especially young lives.

Giving your skills in service is an excellent way to become an expert, especially for a start-up company that may at first struggle to find clients.

But while there are undoubtedly benefits to giving your service, ultimately you shouldn’t expect any reward.

Entrepreneurs aren’t waiting to receive anything in return when they offer service. Because great freedom comes from great responsibility.

Critical Lessons

• Your biggest problem is you expect something in return every time.

• Service is the best way to learn about other people.

• Giving your skills free of charge, in services helps you hone your competencies and can build relationships.

• Life isn’t about tit for tat.

Chapter 5: The hustle Defined.

The world seems full of entrepreneurs who have made millions with their great ideas, but what we usually don’t know is how hard these entrepreneurs worked to achieve what looks like an overnight success.

Being an entrepreneur means signing up for a lifetime of graft. It means breaking up with partners who no longer have the patience for your long hours.

It means missing out on milestones in your friends’ lives because you’re dedicating all your time to your business.

It means getting up early every single morning of your life, and never sleeping in because you realize that every second diminishes your success.

For an entrepreneur, work ethic is everything. But many entrepreneurs aren’t prepared for the amount of physical effort you have to invest in your business. We look at jeff Bezos, Elon musk, and Bernald Arnaut, and we see the dollar signs. But the reality is that no success simply happens.

We cannot achieve anything without hard work, nor are we entitled to any rewards unless we work for them. The world owes us nothing. And it’s not going to hand us anything on a silver platter.

We’re going to have to get and work for what we want and keep working, day after day.

You have to keep investing your best for each of those 10,000 hours, even if it looks as though it’s not paying off.

You have to be as enthusiastic and delegate at hour 9999 as you were at hour 2 because you never know when you’re going to get your big break, you just have to keep going.

Success is not a simple race, it’s a marathon and you can be sure that whoever your business hero is, they have a start involving challenges as well as triumphs before they become an overnight success.

Work ethic encompasses attitude and service and teaches you qualities that you cannot do without in the workplace patience, humanity, selflessness, and consistency.

No matter what the strength of your technical skills is, you simply cannot suck without these qualities in life as well as in business. 

Service also teaches you the value of other people’s time, this is close to respect and humility. It’s vital to remember that other people’s time, other people’s time is just as important as your own.

Relationships are built on respect and humility. No one wants to work with an arrogant person.

Show people that you are willing to serve, that you are respectful and humble, and they will be happy to work with you.

Sometimes you’ll find that you not only have to act with humility– you have to be relentless.

In entrepreneur life, you’ll probably find that you have less time for yourself than ever. Even if you do it during the holidays, you won’t leave home without packing your laptop.

The company stops when you stop– which means, essentially, that you can never stand still. Don’t expect people to understand this though

Don’t be surprised if your friends and family aren’t cheering you on while you’re running yourself ragged trying to manage your hectic schedule.

Being an entrepreneur is lonely.

Maintaining your enthusiasm, even on your bad days, is vital because for an entrepreneur consistency is everything. You have to give your best every single day. And you have to show up no matter what.

Brands are built on consistency, so if your performance or product cannot be realized to give the same quality time, again, you are doing severe damage to your trustworthiness as a brand.

Something else you’ll need to accept is that while you’re nurturing your company to maturity, none of the money you make belongs to you.

Don’t expect your life as an entrepreneur to be an easy ride.

Critical lessons  

• Your biggest problem is you want to give up quickly.

• There is no such thing as overnight success.

• Consistency is everything.

• Remember that you have no colleagues to help you pick up the slack

• Don’t let your hustle go on cruise control.

• The buck stops with you, if you don’t work, the company won’t work. Be prepared for long hours, a limited social life, challenging relationships, and a shortage of holidays.

Chapter 6: Brand Building 101

Building your brand for others to consume or you also work ethic, consistency, focus, discipline, staying hungry, and ambition.

When you’re building a brand, you have to have a vision. it’s the reason you build that brand.

You can’t build a business if it’s only money that motivates you.

As a motivational speaker and life coach Tony Gaskins says “ if money is your motivate, you will always be lacking but when your purpose is rooted in service, the money chases you.”

Your brand has to serve a purpose.

Let your mind breed a new fire for passion and rise beyond the ashes of your limitations.

Once you’ve created your brand, you’ll have to consider marketing it. This is where innovation comes in.

Be as crazy as you can, or you won’t make an impact. You have to be a maverick. And you might be misunderstood because creatives almost always are.

But creatives have to create if they’re to change the world. We’re the master disruption.

Make sure you do something daily to bring your vision to fruition.

This is crucial because entrepreneurs often approach investors with nothing more concrete than a business plan.

They don’t realize that this doesn't provide any proof that your project will work, you need something tangible.

You’re only as good as your last project, so if you do something every day to take your dream forward, you’ll be able to show investors that you take it seriously.

Remember that you have to be willing to make sacrifices.

Turning your products into consumers' preferred brand of choice. There’s no point in

Simplify establishing a business or creating a product - you should aim to be the very best available.

Commit to being professional yourself: be on time, don't take on work if you aren’t equal to the task - rather and - promise and over-deliver.

You need to think big.

Believing in yourself and your brands is one of the most critical keys to success. It’s why the guy with nothing but enthusiasm wins over the guy with impressive degrees, and it means that people will buy your brand, no matter what.

Critical lessons:

• Your biggest problem is thinking a brand is built overnight.

• Identify your values, passion, and purpose.

• Use clever and innovative marketing techniques.

• Dream big.

• Build trust in your brand by being consistent and professional.

• Choose the best channels to get your brand over others.

Chapter 7: Curiosity Didn’t kill the Cat.

You don’t have to fall in love with them. You build them to sell them.

The nature of entrepreneurship is moving one, finding something new, and never stopping asking questions and learning, that’s the value of curiosity.

Curiosity is not something that can be learned or developed.

If you’re curious, you’ll naturally be attracted to learning. Lifelong learning is another part of the entrepreneur’s makeup.

Because an entrepreneur never falls as if they have arrived. The truth is that no one learns every day, whether through formed structures or informal ones.

Entrepreneurs are forever hungry and if you’re not, there’s a problem. Hunger is one of the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Hunger is what keeps you on your quest to turn your dream into a reality and then makes you take a risk on a new project, even though you’re still reeling from the challenges you encountered getting your last one up and running.

If you’re hungry, you’ll work for something even if it doesn’t pay. You’ll do anything in your power to keep them alive. You’ll keep your eye on the prize and refuse to get distracted by hunger “stealers” like naysayers or plans that don’t work out.

Hunger always builds.

As an entrepreneur, you don’t have the option of staying in your comfort zone.

Now you have the luxury of keeping all your eggs in one basket. You must keep moving, keep diversifying your portfolio, and keep finding new challenges because you never know when the world will turn, and the industry you set your hopes on has changed.

If you stay in your comfort zone, you’ll lose out.

Hunger is key to growth and sustainability.

The teacher who brought you down, the parents who left you couldn’t be relied on, the person who undermined you harnessed the way they made you feel because it could be that emotion that turns things around.

Ultimately, whatever decision you make, you need to be able to look yourself in the eye.

Your decisions will hopefully lead you to prosperity, but you need to feel comfortable with the choices you make too.

Take time to revisit what motivates you to create a vision board and update it from time to time especially if you’re feeling down and unmotivated.

The nature of comfort zones and slumps means that we don’t even notice when we’ve sunk into a hole.

Don’t let your ambitions take control to the point where you take on more than you handle.

Hunger is often the only thing. 

Critical lessons

• No one arrives, stay hungry

• If you’re not hungry, you won’t make it as an entrepreneur.

• Don’t let your hunger overtake you.

• Hunger and inspiration go handing hand

• Your biggest problem is thinking you arrived.

Chapter 8: The power of 20/20 focus.

Entrepreneurs are positively evangelical, that's not because we’re arrogant. It's because we’re so focused on what it means to be an entrepreneur.

It’s a good thing we’re so focused because truth to tell, there would be no story to share if we weren't.

So, ignore the nonsense, and focus on what matters. Return hate with love, kill them with kindness and bury them with massive success.

Crucial for any entrepreneur is that, people will test you, circumstances you, you'll be distracted, angered, and possibly even tempted to explore other career opportunities but you have to remain focused at all times or you will fail.

That’s not always easy because there are so many things that can derail you, relationship friends, maybe another distraction, and the most trying situations you’ll face when you encounter a new opportunity, are those that might require you to invest time and money.

Advice: make your main thing your main thing. Make sure your “why” is enough, and you’ll succeed.

Whatever your “why” is, it's a good idea to make sure you often remind yourself of it. Using a picture of your motivation, whatever it is, your screensaver is ideal because you will see it every single day, but you could put reminders somewhere else prominent.

Bear in mind that the focus is forward-looking.

Creating a business with a legacy, rather than an area that is rooted only in the present.

It’s easy to let your focus drift, especially when you’re not seeing things happen. We become impatient, we forget that it takes time to achieve our goals, and we seek distractions.

When this happens, you sometimes need a wake-up call.

Our time on earth is uncertain.

Critical lessons

• Your biggest problem is you’re losing focus.

• Beware of distractions.

• Place reminders of your “why” where you will see them every day.

Chapter 9: Get the basic Right

The most essential thing is that you might start making money very quickly but don’t make the mistake of thinking of it as “your” money.

The money you start earning first must be immediately invested back into the company.

You need to draw a salary from the company, but don’t think of splurging on luxuries.

Once the business has been turning a solid profit for several years, you might be able to spend some of that profit on yourself.

Money management: it's imperative to pay your suppliers and creditors first.

Maintaining your sense of professionalism at all times. When people don't know you, all they have to fall back on is their impression of you.

A poor impression is certainly going to cause would-be investors to think twice and it may even impact customers: willingness to buy into your brand.

People must have faith in you before they think of purchasing your products.

Entrepreneurs are by nature creative and your dress sense and the way you present yourself are probably an extension of that creativity.

You have to be authentic, and if you’re not a formal person. Wearing something a little quickly may work in your favor because it shows people that you’re confident and that you’re not prepared to be boxed in and that’s critical for an entrepreneur.

Casual doesn’t mean sloppy, suit or jeans; it doesn’t matter what you wear. If your appearance isn’t neat, your hair clean, your breath fresh, and your nails trimmed, you’ll have lost your audience before you even start talking.

Once you do start talking, make sure you know what you’re saying and especially know your numbers projections, balance sheet, costs, gross, and managing your cash flow requirements.

Be prepared for every single meeting, showing up late and not knowing answers to key questions is disrespectful and indicates that you don't actually care much about the outcome of the meeting and that you don’t care much about the outcome of the meeting.

Mumbling and looking down instead of meeting the eye of the person you’re talking to shows them that you have poor self-confidence and don't believe in yourself.

Being disorganized is a nail in your coffin, when you’re meeting someone, no matter who or why take the time to prepare. Research every possible question they may think of asking you, don't leave anything to chance.

Remember you will win big if you risk big.

Make sure your risks are calculated.

Starting a business is not especially complex. But it is to do the right things, over and over again.

Critical lessons

• Your biggest problem is you refuse to learn.

• Always be willing to put in more than 101% effort.

• Develop a business plan before you start.

• Work on the revenue streams by doing a business model.

• Know your numbers.

• Find partners with the strength to complement your weakness

• Never stop learning.

• Start with a strong foundation. 

Chapter 10: innovate and create your most significant problem.

When you're an entrepreneur, you have to innovate. when things don’t work out in your favor and they often won’t – you have to find ways to make things happen.

If entrepreneurs don’t innovate, if they simply play safe, they’re setting themselves up for failure. 

Innovation is crucial because industries never stop evolving.

How can you improve your creativity? Travel is a window into the world. It opens your mind and inspires you, and if you see people in another country doing something in a way that just makes sense, you can always localize it and implement it here.

If you don’t have money to travel, social media can also broaden your world. The key is to be selective about who you follow.

We tend to focus on celebrities and entertainment when it is content to inspire and inform you no matter what your interests, from music to farming,  fashion to construction

The internet has everything you need to help you grow, so choose your content carefully.

When you do come up with a golden idea, use a measure to gauge if it truly has the power to break ground.

Ask yourself if innovation disrupts and empowers.

Keep looking for new ways of doing things, and ways to create something exciting where previously there was nothing.

Critical lessons

• Your biggest problem is you fail to think

• If there isn’t a path for you to follow, create one.

• Become fierce and drop your fears.

• God gave you that precious brain to use it.