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MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: Youth-Preneurship
Being youth month in South Africa, I want to focus on Youth-Preneurship. Without being too clichéd, we’ve all heard before that “the children are the future”. As such what type of future will they inherit or create?
If we continue at the current rate, we will run into serious trouble in the future. We have serious challenges with unemployment, crime, poverty, longevity and ultimately personal happiness and fulfillment.
Today I want to share with you 3 points on how you can start, develop and grow your Youth business from home, school or your garage.
1. Find the need…
There are literally hundreds of needs all around you. Needs for goods and services. Needs for solutions. By solving peoples problems you solve your own money problems. Focus on high-quality, high profitability opportunities.
Here are some examples to get your creative juices flowing:
Schools, businesses and homes in your area require stationery on the daily basis…Pens, pencils, writing pads, invoicing books, reading books, curriculum books etc. Register your company , speak to your principal or governing body to partner with them. Offer them a partnership they can’t resist. Offer them cost savings (competitive pricing), a small profit share in the form of a donation (please check for legality prior), or sponsor the schools rugby team on their next tour. Offer them more value (while keeping some for yourself) than they can get from a competitor.
Find a manufacturing supplier who can give you competitive prices and high quality which you can pass onto your school. Now find just 10 – 100 more schools and you’re into a serious business with serious prospects of a bright future.
Grow fresh produce on your school or communal grounds (get the right authorization before hand). Seeds cost little to nothing. If you’re really smart, get them sponsored by the local nursery. Add labour, a bit of education about crop rearing, soil fertilization, irrigation and viola! You have perhaps the freshest produce to offer to parents, local shops, restaurants and even super markets. With the right mentorship and guidance, you could launch your path to entrepreneurial wealth, job creation and the passage to big business requiring farm lands, hi-tech equipment, irrigation systems, logistics and distribution systems.
Start a bespoke cupcake birthday business. Try to supply every birthday at your school. Then supply the church, temple, mosque, synagogue with their birthdays and special occasions and events. If they’re really good cupcakes and are value for money, beware…success can be sweet.
Showcase Birthday parties with your DSLR and sell them only the pics they want? Package various options and snap away. Photography can be a great way to start, but real business occurs when you have an army of school going photographers working for you. You find the leads, make the sales and collect the cash…you own the business, your staff do the work. Find the need, fill the gap and prosper.
2. Beat the Competition – There is always competition.
To find a spouse you have to compete…To land a job you have to compete… Competition is about the survival of the fittest. It’s an ancient reality of “adapt or die…” By harnessing this law while in your youth it allows you to grow through rapidly changing environments, it forces you to outwit, outsmart and outplay your competition. You win by adding value. You win by staying relevant. You win by being flexible and adaptable in an ever-changing environment. Find ways of adding value and you will have customers to serve. “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground”.
3. Innovate, create…
You can start today by innovating and creating new products and services that the market has never seen before. Think Facebook, Twitter…develop your own app? Think about the cell phone? Twenty years ago we were in the stone ages…today mobile communication is at your finger tips. Think about products that people use every day that can be improved such as the electric toothbrush, razor blades, tooth paste. They’re always “new and improved” but don’t create any new results, yet you always pay more for them. Create something really “new and improved” and steal away the market. Create apps for parents such as “track my kids”, so that parents can monitor the whereabouts of their children 24/7. Develop an app you can tie back to your cellphone, so you never lose you keys again, ever!!! Solve problems, make millions…Mark Zuckerberg solved communications and social interactions through taking them online…Oops, he is a billionaire in $’s!!!
Innovation and creation does not lend itself to new products and services exclusively. You can add on value to existing products and services, launching your business from that platform. Someone found a way to take an age old commodity like vodka which has been drunk for hundreds and thousands of years and repackaged it in an innovative, creative way. I’ve seen blue bottles, silver bottles, black bottles, square bottles, triangular bottles and even skull shaped bottles of vodka! Same old wine in a new bottle…smiling all the way to the banks.
Note that these are just some ideas for your early stages of business growth and development. ..As business grows, so should you…Remember that ideas are a “rhyme a dime” but execution is king!
Wishing you youthful entrepreneurs immediate and sustained success. Keep on, keeping on. Signing off in the words of Steve Jobs “Stay Foolish, Stay Hungry!!!
For more on your Entrepreneurial Development, Sales Conference, Sales Training and Sales Coaching needs, contact me for a free 30 minute consultation to showcase our products and services to help you and your organization fulfill its goals and objectives. I welcome hearing from you.
Keep smiling, keep shining!!!
My name is Vinesh Maharaj and I’m your coach and partner in success…
Mobile: + 27 84 990 1539
Email: vinesh@vineshmaharaj.com
MONDAY MENTAL PROTEIN: 5 Core Skills to succeed at anything
Every craftsman has a tool kit, wherein he keeps his most prized tools. Be it a mechanic, carpenter, a surgeon, a manager or CEO. Your tools are the means to your greatness. The sharper your tools, the greater the demand will be for your skill set. Ask yourself what are your tools? In life, the quality and depth of your tool kit will determine the quality of your success.
In your shoes right now is your greatest asset. Yes, YOU. If you grow and nurture your talents and abilities, you will be filling your toolkit with the relevant requirements to become superb at executing your craft.
Here is a short list of 5 Core Skills you need to succeed at anything:
1. COMMUNICATE – The ability to communicate effectively is severely underrated in our existence. Sadly this art has been overlooked for its simplicity. Most people are resorting to micro communication based on social media tools; Whatsapp, BBM, imessenger etc. Alternatively its either poor or no communication. The power of communication will set you apart from your competition because the stronger the communicator, the better the results. Whether you are a salesman, a manager or a politician the quality of your results is based on the the quality of your communication. I often hear references to the “gift of the gab”, “smooth talker” etc. and can only applaud the mastery of communicator. The “gift” was earned. The “smoothness” was smoothed out. No one started out being a strong communicator. Actually we all start out ignorant babies, learning our a, b, c’s. This communication skill is a deep science in itself for its further broken down into internal and external communication, and also in verbal and non verbal communication. Invest in becoming a great communicator. Remember that your next level growth depends on it. So go on and read, study, take short courses to master this art. President Obama is a great example of a strong communicator, Michael Jackson was a strong communicator using his body and voice to woo the whole world with his rhythm and song. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a great communicator as The Terminator. He immortalized the phrase “I’ll be back”. What will you immortalize?
2. A WILL OF IRON – The best of results come from those persons who have dogged determination to overcome any and all obstacles to their goals. I’m talking about the super achievers who go over and above the call of necessity. They don’t just do the needful to just survive. They go to breaking point and hit hard, breaking down resistance or obstacles to their success. They fight tooth and nail to succeed. “No”, is just fuel in their engines. “Cant” is oxygen to their combustion. Their resolve accelerates in the face of adversity. They have resilience like steel and won’t be broken. The keep going, even when no one else will. That is their greatness. To develop a will of iron here are five simple ideas to get you going.
i.) Rise early
ii.) Go beyond your comfort zone
iii.) Finish what you start
iv.) Never quit
v.) Celebrate little victories
3. BRILLIANT AT BASICS – The best of the best are Brilliant at Basics. The develop the recipe, master it and then take it to market. They get that if brilliant at basics, they avoid the murky waters of challenges, problems and failure. Ask any baker, mechanic, architect or CEO how much do they really stray from the basics? The usual answer is never! If the recipe or formula works, why change it? Rather brilliance comes from the most basic. The next time you savour a delicious, warm baguette fresh from the bakery, ask yourself did the baker venture outside the brilliance zone? Of course not. Thats what makes that baguette brilliant. Your brilliance is to master your fundamentals. They are the cornerstones of your success.
4. INNOVATE – The ability to innovate will undoubtedly set you apart from the rest of the pack. The world is awaiting your new and improved products and services. Finding new and better ways and methods of production, access and delivery will open new doors and pathways to success. Sir Richard Branson is a great example of innovation. What he did with Virgin Atlantic opened the doors to modern day, quality experiential travel. Not only is Virgin making lots of $’s, its also championing the consumer and is constantly improving their service and astounding its customers. He is creative, takes and creates chances and is willing to learn from failure. Can you apply this to your situation? Absolutely. Go on and ask yourself “How can I make my product or service better, more accessible, less expensive and unique to to the market”? Keep asking your clients what they think and take notes. Gems will fall from heaven to answer your question. Find ways of adding immense value, after sales services and added convenience that keeps the market buying again and again.
5. BECOME A VISIONARY – All the greats, from the beginning of time were visionaries. Whether at art, philosophy, science or business they were the game changers. Because of them we have a longer life expectancy, better information, beauty and grace, employment and opportunity. Visionaries are those people who see the world in 3D. They see the challenges, opportunities and pave the way forward to creating exceptional products and services. Here are a few you will recognize and appreciate. Henry Ford who pioneered the motor vehicle manufacturing process to be the first to mass produce cars affordable for all. Oprah Winfrey, who was born in a unheard of town in Mississippi. She was raped at 9 and at 14 birthed a son who died shortly after birth. From nothing but vision and hard work, she created an empire. From her own TV show to owning her own production company (HARPO) to owning her own network; OWN – Oprah Winfrey Network. Lastly the iconic Steve Jobs; a university drop out, who “dropped into” classes like calligraphy while at campus. He had a vision of the future with his sleek, zen like mobile creations that took the world by storm making Apple the most valuable company on the NYSE in 2011. The ipad, iphone, ipad etc are remarkable testimony of his visionary spirit.
There are many other skills you need to add to your arsenal. These five however will separate you from the herd and as you push the envelope watch your confidence and competence grow. As you go through your day today identify just one that you can easily apply to strengthen your position. Don’t settle for less. Stop playing it small and safe. Live with faith in yourself. Intensify your efforts and become all that you can be.
Your coach and partner in success…
Vinesh Maharaj
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