Careerpreneur Project

Operate your career as a well-run organization.

Careerpreneur - Business Plan for your Career is a proactive career book designed to assist career enthusiasts in designing one's lifework in terms of a Business Plan. The basic premise is you are both the product to be sold, and the company that sells it. You are a high-ticket item that needs to be positioned and marketed. The drive, vision and commitment of an aggressive entrepreneur is required. A dedicated entrepreneur exerts boundless energy doing whatever it takes to get the job done. A company business plan assists in directing that energy.

You are guided through a planning and implementation process that organizes your career strategy on a parallel tract with your company Business Plan. As you embrace the mindset of the Careerpreneur you develop your product and operate your company through the lenses of the manager of each major department in a well-run organization. You will be challenged to think strategically and encouraged to engage in possibility thinking. Reality checks will be ongoing with exercises, worksheets, research and practical reading material. You will systematically develop the critical elements necessary to have a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

By envisioning yourself as both the saleable product and the company that peddles your service, you position yourself to thrive in this highly competitive and constantly changing workplace.

There is no one absolute way to do it. In fact, this book is not for everyone. You either understand the concept of business planning, or are willing to learn about it. Most importantly, you must want to do the work. Careerpreneuring requires a commitment of time and energy. The shoot-from-the hip cowboy type can be successful with very little planning. If that is your approach, this project is wrong for you. A strategic approach such as this one develops your career process in the same way a company designs its Business Plan. It is a comprehensive and systematic process that will organize and focus your energy.

Embracing the mindset of the Careerpreneur allows you to self-coach as you develop your product and operate your company. Paralleling your career to the rigorous activity level followed by aggressive entrepreneurs accelerates your efforts. The concept is simple. It demands discipline, however, to self-assess, research, design a thoughtful plan and implement it.

In life, there are only two things that you must do. Paying your taxes is not one of them. What you really must do, is to die at some point. The other thing you must do is to live your life until you die. You have numerous choices about how you live your life. Why not experience passion for the work you are doing as part of the life you are choosing to live?

This is a special time for you to organize or reorganize your life choices. You can question certain behaviors you have. You can clarify what is important to you, and why. You can consider how you want to spend your time. Ultimately, you can expand your perspective to know what you want your career to do for you now and in the future.