A few days ago a dear friend, a freelancer, referring to a common acquaintance, told me: “that person will hardly be able to be a freelancer or entrepreneur / entrepreneur in the future”. We discuss and agree on a couple of essential entrepreneurial characteristics strictly related to stress management in moments of great criticality.
A treatise can be written on this topic but here, I tried to summarize the characteristics in 6 points to be able to work as a freelancer or entrepreneur / entrepreneur. Professions that I share because they have enormous similarities with respect to the “approach” and the “internal mindset” in understanding work as a personal and professional lifestyle.
Let’s see them together:
1) ability to manage stress and remain centered, positive, proactive and optimistic, despite what is happening around them
2) ability to know how to manage stress effectively with respect to cash flows in an “electrocardiogram” style and have a “healthy” relationship with money
3) crystalline vision of a scenario where you want to make a difference and leave your mark
4) ability to be fluid in changes, even and often sudden, and ride them – or rather – become more and more skilled in using one’s intuition to anticipate them
5) have a high and healthy ability to risk propensity – sine qua non – of the ability to be a leader
6) ability to build, maintain and nurture professional (and friendly) relationships
I could add many others but for now these are those, from my point of view, the basis for being “free” entrepreneurs or “free” professionals.
I would add: many people who work in the company have such peculiar characteristics, for example many CEOs, Sales, Account Managers or people with other transversal and other roles. They are not necessarily characteristics exclusively for entrepreneurs: what matters is the “mindset” of how one interprets and how one lives one’s work and personal life.