Success Advice
What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Kids
When you’re pondering about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, don’t overlook the business savvy of kids. They aren’t always consciously striving to climb the ladder of success. However, the journey from toddler to teen leaves a trail of tested developmental data.
Here we feature the 8 areas of ‘kids’ mindsets:
#1 – Negotiations
Take stock of your own negotiating inventory.
#2 – Compromise
#3 – Resilience
#4 – Resources
#5 – Funding
You don’t know if you don’t ask.
#6 – Real World Social Networking
As we grow older we make less time for social groups like sports, performances and hang outs. There could be a lot of great new info we are missing out on from one another if only we made more time for social networking in the real world, not just online.
#7 – Promote Yourself
Those who are in need of your talents will find you.
#8 – Dream Big!
Success will allow you to address such minor details.
As you can see from the above tips, it’s sometimes worthwhile to look back as well as to look forward. Remember when you were a kid and unstoppable! Now the risks are greater, the challenge is bigger and the potential rewards make it all worth it. Like all kids, you practiced and honed your business skills. Back then, it was part of being a kid. Now it’s all a part of how to be an entrepreneur in the adult world.
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Mike Japuncic
Nov 5, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Great article! One that I would definitely add is PERSISTANCE. My boys have absolute, unwavering, demanding persistence when it comes to getting what they want. Whether it’s eating a cookie, not eating their vegetables, getting a new toy truck or not wearing a specific piece of clothing for no good reason. They will dig their heels in, kick, scream, cry and not budge an inch until they have their way. Many of us entrepreneurs should take this approach when we know what is right for our business (besides maybe the kicking and screaming).
Alexandra Hughes
May 26, 2013 at 6:22 pm
This is great! The one thing I would add is children’s inherent capacity to focus and be 100% in the moment – they are naturally mindful. I teach mindfulness to mother entrepreneurs and know that it is key to supporting resilience, productivity, creativity, etc…
Our children are masters of mindfulness!
joseph chuwa
Jan 25, 2013 at 10:49 pm
this is great and really can be proved out of children….
its real inspiring!
Aniket Chitre
Nov 13, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Wonderful and insightful post. I always thought there is somethings which adults can learn from children, you’ve simply explained it so well. I think it’s remarkable that even though social networking is supposed to bring us closer together, it’s actually splitting us apart. Today’s generation of children are even worse at face to face interactions than previous generations. Therefore I’ve a slight query with point 6. But otherwise a great post. 🙂
Ty
Oct 27, 2012 at 4:27 am
What a great post. There is so much that we can learn from children and it seems so simple when you look through the eyes of a child.
Alisha
Oct 27, 2012 at 4:14 am
My 3 year old has these down to a science…especially negotiations. LOL Great article and I’m going to share with my husband. 😀
Joel
Oct 27, 2012 at 4:40 am
Great to hear you have taken something from the article. Thanks Alisha! I hope your husband enjoys it as much as you do.
Ina
Sep 8, 2012 at 6:15 pm
The adult world is very complicated and we had to adapt to this system an mostly we think complicated. But the Key is going back to simplicity as we were as children. Its about the attitude and how we focus on things.
Erika Cannon
Jul 26, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Great points! Wasn’t it easy to be a kid? Why did we want to grow up so quickly? I’m always amazed at the resiliency and fearlessness with which kids face situations. I’m going to act child-like more often!
East Coast Fashionista
Jul 25, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Great article! Alot of wisdom in simplicity.
Brett Daniels
Jun 28, 2012 at 4:46 am
Kids are amazing, I learn something new from mine every day. I always tell my wife that we should see the world through their eyes. It’s like they see things in color with so many possibilities where as we see things as having to be black or white. Not only that, but their approach is so raw and uncensored, which is sometimes just genius!
Adam, I may have to check out your book. I just read a book that you might like in return called “How to Avoid the Common Failure” by Michael Horton. It’s a great reference for success, leadership and personal growth. I think it could be aimed at both personal and professional life.
Paul Duffy
Jun 27, 2012 at 1:01 am
Absolute amazing post and in all respects completely right because if you think back to when you where once a child we all developed and crafted these skills “i bet you read this article with a smile on your face thinking back to times when you where once a young negotiator”
Great Read
Adam
Jun 21, 2012 at 4:11 pm
I think this is a great article and is totally in line with my book which i released in April 2012. It is called Making Business Child’s Play and Making it demonstrates the importance of mastering the skills and techniques we possessed as children and exhibit as parents. By identifying the parallels between what goes on at home and at work, it demonstrates how we can transfer behaviours to be more successful within a business environment.
Making Business Child’s Play is for people looking for practical, action oriented ideas about business behaviours in an accessible entertaining style. It is written to be read in less than two hours, ideal for your next train journey or flight. It is not written as a textbook but provides lots of insights, hints and tips across a wide variety of topics through a very personal series of stories and analogies about the author and his two young children.
The book is for all types of people across all types of industries but is perfect for aspiring managers with young children working in an office environment. So, if you are interested in a book which takes a fresh innovative look at common subjects then this book is for you. Once you have finished reading, you will have discovered an array of practical tips and techniques giving you a changed and enriched perspective as a manager and/or a parent.
If you would like a complimentary copy, please let me know.
Nate Schubick
Jun 21, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Alot of these things have been attempted to be untrained out of us. Its weird noticing how smart children really are. Great insights this morning. Great post.