Raising Entrepreneurs: What to Do When Your Kid is Born to Think Differently

Written by Sam Rosen


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-Teach your child in creative, ‘outside-the-box’ ways. In a recent article with 19 year-old CEO Cameron Johnson, he told a story about how his parents gave him stocks – literally, shares in a company – in his stockings for Christmas. There are many ways you can teach your child about financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and individuality.

-Make self-awareness and wealth consciousnessrepparttar highest priorities. This entails a significant amount of soul-searching. And while many adults are adverse torepparttar 129728 concept of change, often letting go of fear and facing your demons can berepparttar 129729 most inspirational model for your child. I have a friend who, after years of living in a fear-based reality, she learned to let go and allow herself to forgive and love others. She has never enjoyed better relationships with her children.

-If your kid acts up, stand in your truth. Don’t beat aroundrepparttar 129730 bush or overreact. Of course, you want to be sensitive to your child’s feelings and come from a place of authentic compassion. But when it comes down to it, tell it like it is – they’ll appreciate it inrepparttar 129731 end.

-Give your child ample opportunity to discover independence for him or herself. It’s critically important that your child learnsrepparttar 129732 process of creating one’s own experience of reality from a first-hand perspective. Sometimes this requires being more firm or lenient than one would like. Yet remember that you grew through making mistakes, and so will your child.

If you see your child exhibiting entrepreneurial behaviors, make sure you show your support throughout his or her growth process. And if your kid is struggling to find motivation, don’t worry – as long as you followrepparttar 129733 guidelines above, you will instillrepparttar 129734 characteristics of greatness and, in due time, inspirerepparttar 129735 leader within.

Sam Rosen is a full-time college student at the University of Pennsylvania, entrepreneur, and author of the Succeed Young Total Success System, available at www.succeedyoung.com. He founded Succeed Young Enterprises with the goal of empowering young entrepreneurs to get a head start in life and master the principles of success. To contact Sam, email him at sam@succeedyoung.com.


Do One Thing Different

Written by Oz Merchant, C.Ht., NLP Trainer & Coach


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How about starting in baby steps? Do one thing different! Anything at all for that matter. Anything to breakrepparttar pattern. For example, as soon as I realized what I was doing, I turned around got back inrepparttar 129725 car and got out again. I walked around torepparttar 129726 other side, openedrepparttar 129727 opposite side door, withrepparttar 129728 opposite hand. It woke me up! Allrepparttar 129729 way torepparttar 129730 point that I did something different with every client and with every conversation, I had that day. From then on, I try to vary my entry as much as possible. Pretty soon I'll have to be walking in on my hands.

So think about your own life. Where are you stuck? And then find out when you are stuck? I was stuck right before I approachedrepparttar 129731 door. Go back torepparttar 129732 point right before you are stuck and do something different. Go some place new all together.

And be creative!

As the director of the CORE Changes Institute, Oz Merchant, trains and coaches individuals for personal and professional excellence utilizing cutting-edge transformation technologies such as NLP, Hypnosis, TFT, and EFT to name a few. Get access to the Success Skills E-Letter and remember to get your free copy of his latest e-book "11 Simple Lessons to Manifest Your Destiny," at www.corechanges.com


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