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What are the qualities and tendencies of entrepreneurs who make it, and how do you measure up?

Some have been driven to start their own enterprise. Many have done so and succeeded. Others only dream of it, while there are yet those who wouldn’t dare for lack of confidence in any ability to do so.

There may be those who want a full-blown, “for-real” business but, more commonly, numerous others who speculate and imagine that, “one day”, they may have a “side hustle” of their own that may even grow into the next big thing. And maybe even attain some of that freedom others seem to have because of it.

Such people’s ideas come in all brands, shapes, sizes, shades and orders of magnitude. But they are all regulated by the same factor: people’s opinions of and confidence in themselves!

What does it really take to make your mark where it counts, to actually succeed and, for that matter, what is the difference between those who have been successful in doing so and you?

The answer lies simply, not within the “successful habits” of the top entrepreneurs, but a handful of personality traits such individuals exhibit and their opinion of how they rate in each category, combinations of traits that can be observed, measured and, yes, even self-improved.

There is really no more to it than that.

If it’s really that simple to start up and succeed, why can’t you seem to get there?

Let’s answer this question with a question:

What would you think of someone who lacks stability, isn’t very happy, is deficient of composure or certainty and is relatively inactive and inhibited?

How would you rate their chances for success, even if they try to emulate the habits of the most successful entrepreneurs they look up to?

What if they further lacked accord or affinity with others, had a low interest in people and felt relatively withdrawn? What chances does this portend of success in a field that would require obvious good communication and interaction?

Now if you see yourself in the negative side of any of these traits, even a little, there is good news: all hope is not lost. Contrary to the popular idea that limiting factors such as these are permanent, these are qualities that can range higher or lower, have an optimum, and so can be changed.

That said, does success really require natural talent that you have to be born with?

The myth of ‘having to be born with talent’: Are talented people really ‘born, not made’?

Here is an excellent question to illustrate the point that, if you emulate the actions of someone successful or talented, you don’t necessarily get the same result.

Had anyone gotten a hold of the same exact art supplies as Vincent van Gogh or Claude Monet, followed their routines and habits, studied the methods they studied and gone through the motions of their daily lives, would you have tons of van Goghs and Monets around producing equivalent works of art? Would people be able to become artists merely under the influence of their idols and heroes of the arts?

Clearly, some do. But very few in the grand scheme of things. And, why not you?

Why is it that so few people do and so many others can’t reach that level?

In the absence of knowing any better, people decide “you have to be born with it”, give up, move on and possibly find an alternate activity.

And, being a successful entrepreneur, starting and running your own enterprise is no different. There are successes and failures based on these very factors.

But this is only in ignorance of the truth about what really regulates and predicts your ability to be a success in business or anywhere else in life!

What are the REAL traits of the most successful people and can they be acquired?

Just as it is obvious that someone who is unstable, unhappy, anxious, uncertain, inhibited and withdrawn would probably not be very successful at ANY activity, so can it also be assumed that these qualities reversed could be considered to be base requirements for success. These negative considerations and attitudes are themselves barriers, blocking any potential that may have been there.

But was there more potential underneath? More about that in a minute…

And while the positive side of these qualities alone doesn’t necessarily guarantee success in any venture, the likelihood of success would be increased significantly. With negative, self-placed barriers out of the way, the potential is there for the taking. From there forward, intelligence, creativity and drive can take over and move accordingly into the future. Prosperity is at least possible, but way more likely.

Don’t, however, write off the potential of those who experience the lower side of these traits. Just because someone may be unstable or unhappy doesn’t mean they don’t have the potential to change. Not when you consider that, though people display different attitudes, they all are natively endowed with the same potential in each category!

This means change is possible.

And to change there is only one thing to consider: Such traits are not identities — they are a sliding scale!

As it turns out, these are not fixed personality qualities, but a measurement of each trait on a scale of zero to infinite potential. And this gives us the real reasons people either succeed and fail at growing their own enterprises.

It’s not if they have the optimum or not, but how much of the optimum they are working with.

The question you should be asking yourself is, ‘how far-reaching is my potential, and how far from it am I?’

Everyone is born with talent, but some have more access to it than others!

Think about it…

Is happiness an absolute?

Are you always happy?

When you are happy, is it always of the same magnitude of happiness for each situation?

Can you be more or less happy? Can you like something or someone a little or a lot?

Are you likely to experience ranges of certainty depending on the situation or subject at hand? Can you be more or less confident?

The point is, though it may seem so, it isn’t only a certain, “fortunate few” who are simply born with qualities which make them succeed, qualities they have and you don’t. It is, rather, that certain people have less blockage to access these qualities. Some people are operating closer to their potential than others, but EVERYONE, no matter how far from it, has access to the optimum. They can’t help it. It is built in as part of them. You have that potential as much as anyone else.

The secret to success: knowing the optimum personality traits and how to move toward them…

While we all have some idea of the basics of our personality and our level of productiveness and creativity, where do we stand in relation to the optimum?

Everyone natively has the qualities of such things as composure and stability, of inherent happiness, and certainty. Every individual is innately moral, confident, motivated, creative and can predict and take control of the future. Anyone is naturally appreciative, able to communicate and is agreeable and capable of cooperative endeavor.

All of which are qualities (if you examine them carefully) of the most successful people in any field. But they are also qualities you have, whether you realize it or not, regardless of your opinion of them in yourself.

But, now you know you have them too. A fact that only leaves you with the problem of figuring out how you rate in each area, how far you are from optimum, and what it will take to get you there.

Fortunately, more than 70 years ago, someone took the time and spent thousands of hours of research to figure out, very scientifically, how this was done. And, now, there are metrics that can be used to determine your potential and your status in relation to it. You can find out just how much higher your potential goes than you imagined and measure how far you are from it.

You can measure these traits in yourself and know, just by examining your opinions of yourself and how you rate yourself in each one. And you can see how far your qualities are from their potential.

The best news of all is that, as “qualities”, these traits are themselves a sliding scale. They can be better or worse. They can better or worsen. They can improve or decline.

This makes such qualities not only metrics for success but an index for potential improvement.

How do you tap and cash in on your true potential?

What does it really take to conceive, build and grow your own enterprise?

Knowing the essential qualities and personal character traits required for success and understanding them to be a sliding scale with unlimited potential, an effective plan for attainment would include 5 basic steps:

1. CALCULATE: Determine your potential and how far from it you are in each category,
2. COMPARE: Discover the significance of the various character traits, relavtive to one another,
3. ISOLATE: Assess your strong and weak points to discover how far to optimize each,
4. STRENGTHEN: Learn how to Improve the weaker points and strengthen the good ones and,
5. STRATEGIZE: Develop and follow a plan that moves you toward optimum in each.

How would you implement these 5 fundamental and strategic steps?

First, you would need a test that isolates your view of yourself and no one else’s. The ratings and scores of each category would have to come from you and you alone.

After all, there is no more accurate view of how you rank than your own. And this would be the most accurate assessment there is because no one has a closer look than you do. No other opinion matters more than your own. Just as it is only you who can create your success, so is it only you who can stop you, with negative thoughts, diminished confidence, unhappiness and the like.

You would need a test that isolates this and, more importantly, someone to interpret it who is expert, not in you, but in what your test shows to be your opinion of yourself. That expert would have to know how combinations of traits can work to hinder you, while others serve to be of great benefit.

Overall, the test should lead to answers. Those answers should include not only isolation of strengths and weaknesses in relation to the optimum but also provide a road map of how to cash in on the inherent optimum qualities that you have and lead to a doable program to improve all of them to great success.

Perhaps some don’t seem to have to work as hard as others, but everyone is endowed with the best qualities possible. And even if those qualities have become jaded, occluded or suppressed, they can nevertheless be improved and moved toward their highest potential.

And, so far, no one has discovered ANY limits to any of them.

They are yours and it is entirely up to one person to claim them.

That person is you.

Want to take the test that will isolate your specific and unique combinations of these traits and your score of yourself on each?

Take the test here and have it evaluated by an expert who can help set you on the road to achieving your goals no matter your perceived odds of making it.