July 5, 2023.

The OS of Entrepreneurship

An operating system (OS) is typically a collection of software programs that make a computer run and interact with its users. In other words, it is the foundation that supports the users to get the expected results.

What would be the OS of Entrepreneurship? What do you need for your practice of entrepreneurship to bring the results you expect?

I want to focus on the level of the individual. What are the OS components for an entrepreneur, freelancer, or independent professional?

The following answers are an attempt to create an index. Thanks to Tanja Tamše for the inspiration! The list presents the items in no particular order.

1. Build and nurture a community: who cares about what you do? It is not the same as a list of potential customers.
2. Support others to grow: How could you add value to others unconditionally?
3. Add fun to the mix: Create opportunities to enjoy yourself or with others, and build a culture of joy around you.
4. Constantly enrich your personal philosophy: If you don't update your philosophy, you'll get stuck on old beliefs that often limit your creativity. Deliberately challenge yourself.
5. Understand the role of fear: It indicates limiting patterns you can change to allow freedom and creativity.
6. Understand failure: It reveals your fear patterns.
7. Persist on what matters to you: What are you willing to do even if it doesn't pay your bills?
8. Learn to manage your energy: How to rest, get and give energy? Give, and charge your energy for mind and body.
9. Align what you want with what you say and what you do. It sounds easy, but it is not; alignment must be a conscious and deliberate practice.
10. Learn to communicate value: Help others understand what matters to you.

I'm starting to learn that there are at least two ways to understand entrepreneurship:

1. As a cause-and-effect approach: Everything you do is about controlling the factors that participate in getting results. It is essential to manage stress.
2. An evolutionary approach: Everything you do is about what matters to you. It is essential to develop skills for resilience.

The evolutionary approach is inclined to allow the unexpected.

The cause-and-effect approach filters out what is considered unnecessary and unexpected to focus on effectively achieving predefined objectives and goals.

Obviously, both approaches can be implemented in parallel.

Would you like to evaluate how you are doing with your OS of Entrepreneurship? Follow this link; after a few days, I will send the stats of all the answers I get :)

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I'm considering using Zapier to automate some of the processes in my Coworking space. I know it can automate messages, update spreadsheets, send invoices, update member status, book rooms, etc. The free version is pretty generous.

I wish you a great July!

Jose.