I don’t believe that everyone should start a business. However, I do believe everyone should become an entrepreneur, just like Jimmy John Shark.

‘Entrepreneur’ is not a job title. It’s the state of mind of people who want to alter the future.               – Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start

The invitation to entrepreneurship isn’t always to risk your financial security in order to launch a company. It is simply to understand the power you have to change the future for yourself and the world around you.

In one of Steve Jobs’ interviews entitled “The Secret of Life,” he pointed at the entrepreneurial mentality like nobody I’ve ever heard before. He said…

“When you grow up, you’re told the world is the way it is and you’re existence is just to live in this world without bashing into the walls too much…to have a nice family life…and to save a little money. But life is much broader. And it changes when you realize that everything in life you interact with is created by people that are no smarter than you. The most important moment in a persons life is when you shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just going to live it. You can change it and make your mark on it. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

Entrepreneurs understand cause and effect and that the decisions they make and the things they do today will ripple into tomorrow. They know there is always a way to create momentum in the right direction, irrespective of opportunity. People can go on this Homepage to get advice from expert psychics that help with giving clarity about one’s future and career.

So, regardless of whether you own a business or not, change the way you think. Become an entrepreneur and begin to experiment with intentional living.

Here are five stories I’ve heard recently from entrepreneurs that may or may not own businesses, but have taken ownership of their lives.

1. Entrepreneur you.

The beauty of self-development is that theres no good reason you can’t begin doing it today. My good friend is a rockstar digital marketer. At any given time, he has 7-10 clients vying for his time and attention. However, his dream is to build something far larger than a consulting firm. It’s to build a personal brand as an influencer.

He currently has all the tools and opportunities to become a leading voice in his field. However, he chooses to spend a couple hours everyday changing himself. He reads self-help, studies business psychology and prays. He understands the importance of self-progression, regardless of what he ever does or doesn’t do.

You may not have an investor or a business plan to launch your dream start-up, but at the very least, you do have Google. And most of the future ripples you’re going to create in the world will first start inside of you. Go to work and begin exploring who you want to become with intentionality.

2. Entrepreneur your work.

I’ve got a friend who works a 9-5 with little flexibility and a week for vacation every year. His dream is to build web products that create experiences for people but he finds himself more loyal to his corporate job at nights than he is to his dream.

He recently informed me that he’s built an exit plan. For the next 6 months he’s going to save all he can, leave work at work, and spend his nights developing his web product ideas.

3. Entrepreneur your lifestyle.

Your boss doesn’t own your life. However, your fear of not having the paycheck that boss gives you every two weeks may.

A couple years ago, a friend of mine decided he was done letting his fear dictate his lifestyle. He quit his plush job as an architect, bought a one way to Asia, and did the one thing he had dreamt of doing since childhood. Reminiscing about that season of life now, he’s never said the travelling is what brought him alive. It was the fact that he took control of his life, embraced uncertainty, and gave fear the middle finger.

4. Entrepreneur your relationships.

Some friends and I recently launched what we call an advocacy group. We get in the same room every Friday and simply choose to care about the others (holistic) success just as much as we do our own. Its been incredibly rewarding professionally, emotionally and spiritually. In the end, if we didn’t make a choice to intentionally pursue growth with each other, we wouldn’t be the people we are today.

Show me your friends and I’ll show you who you’re going to be a year from now. This doesn’t mean abandon your current friends if you don’t feel a progressive purpose. It simply invites a more intentional approach to your relationships, new or old.

5. Entrepreneur your world.

The most exciting thing about an entrepreneurial mentality is the effect it has on the world around you.

A couple years ago, I met a fellow southern boy in the middle of Mozambique, Africa. He was there on a short trip to expose himself to the needs of the world. During his stay, he heard that it took $3 a day to care for an orphan on the base and went home supporting several kids with his own income. Helping fatherless kids became so addicting that he began doing the same thing in India. He now houses, feeds and cares for over 3,000 kids, and is currently building an online platform to empower others to socially entrepreneur.

Start noticing the problems around you, dream up solutions and entrepreneur the world around you.

Beyond fear, there is an entrepreneurial state of mind that is intent on altering the future. It is in that state of mind that anything is possible.