Entrepreneurs Anonymous
A 12 step program for recovering entrepreneurs
Do you experience the following and do you want to change?
- Have you decided to stop wanting to be a business owner but only been able to keep the idea out of your head for a short period of time?
- Do you wish people would stop telling you how risky being in business is and that you would be better off employed?
- Have you ever thought about starting different types of businesses?
- Have you tried to start a new business within the last 12 months?
- Do you envy people who are willing to accept being an employee/executive?
- Has your need to start a business in the last year interfered with your job or of even getting a job?
- Has your need to become an employer created stress within your family?
- Do you ever think about starting several businesses rather than just one?
- Do you tell yourself that you can stop thinking about owning your own business and can get a job whenever you want to - and be happy as an employee?
- Have you suffered career losses due to your focus on becoming an employer?
- Do you have periods when all you can think about is the vision of owning your business?
- Have you ever felt that your life would be better if you could accept being an employee?
If you answered "yes" to more than four of these questions you may be at risk. If at risk then perhaps becoming involved in the following program may be beneficial and allow you to become gainfully employed and a happy cog in someone else's wheel.
© 1998 British Far East Holdings Ltd.
The 12 Steps to Successful Servitude
- Admitting we are powerless in our questing to be and become business owners and acknowledge our lives would be more manageable were we employees.
- Accepting the fact that we can never become successful in gaining the control over our lives we sought as business owners.
- Deciding to turn our lives, energy and talent over to the care of one or more financially responsible and stable employers.
- Make a searching and fearless moral and financial resource inventory of ourselves.
- Admitting to ourselves and to another trusted party the exact nature of our wrongs and shortcomings.
- Being ready to immediately change our lives and address the character short deficiencies recognized.
- In all humility seek a release from and removal of our deficiencies.
- Make a list of all persons we have harmed and be willing to make amends to them all to the extent of our ability to do so recognizing that full recission may not be possible.
- Make direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue to take personal inventory and when wrong make such an admission.
- Seek, using whatever authority figure is acceptable, continuing assistance in the need to continue the resolve to forsake the curse of needing to be an employer and have control over others and your own life.
- Having freed ourselves from the burden of entrepreneurship we are prepared to try to help others afflicted as we once were with the need to control and prosper.
© 1998 British Far East Holdings Ltd.
Additional steps might include:
A. Resolve not to read biographies of successful individuals who overcame hardship.
B. Avoid reading publications describing successful business.
C. Periodically visit socio-economically depressed communities and debtor's prisons if such exist in your community.
D. Study publications describing the competitive advantages of used or lower priced cars and other equipment.
E. Study legal notices chronicling bankruptcies.
F. Make contact with the former spouses of failed entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs Anonymous ("EA") seeks counselors willing to help assist those burdened with ambition and a need to employ, create and prosper. Such individuals should themselves have once been among the ranks of hopeful believers in their own invincibility.
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© 1998 British Far East Holdings Ltd.
Support Organization for Those Still Loving Entrepreneurs
DreamNoMo, an organization for those still loving entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts to return to the employment accepting majority.
As spouses and friends frequently become co-signers for entrepreneurs, a broken pen could be used as the symbol for the organization.
© 1998 British Far East Holdings Ltd.