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\nYou\u2019ve read the book, you\u2019ve got your idea, but now you\u2019ve got to start living the kidpreneur lifestyle to back it up. Whether you end up starting your own business or not, it\u2019s important to build your life around good habits. Spending a weekend fragging noobs in Call of Duty, though tempting, isn\u2019t going to get you any closer to your dreams.
\nHere\u2019re some good habits that have worked for me. I very much hope that you\u2019ll give them a shot.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll never know how many good ideas you have until you start writing them all down. Besides looking like a hardboiled reporter from the \u201850s, carrying a notebook and writing down your ideas gives you a chance to think over your ideas. Take an hour every week or so to read over your notes and then transfer your best thoughts to the computer and work them out as needed. All entrepreneurs will tell you that luck is a big part of their success, but luck is a combination of chance and readiness. Taking notes is an important aspect of that \u2018readiness\u2019 thing.<\/p>\n
Group projects were always one of the roughest parts of school for me. I was always the kid who got stuck doing 90% of the work and I couldn\u2019t ever figure out what to do with the guy who came down with an unexplained illness when we had to present our final product. As an entrepreneur, you\u2019re going to be organizing people. Granted, you\u2019ll have the freedom to pick your own team, but this is a perfect opportunity to spot talents that someone doesn\u2019t know they have. Talk to the laziest person in your group outside of class and tailor their job to what they\u2019re good at. I promise you they\u2019ll be glad to contribute.<\/p>\n
Charity is good. It\u2019s good for the community, your resum\u00e9, and most importantly connects you with other good people. If you\u2019re too young to get a job, you\u2019re definitely capable of helping something out with a car wash or fundraiser. Organizing events is great experience for publicizing your product and connecting with your peers.<\/p>\n
Reading is one of the only \u2018active\u2019 forms of entertainment there is. When you watch TV, you\u2019re watching something entertaining. The parts of your brain that TV engages don\u2019t require active thought. Training your brain to analyze something critically is an important skill you\u2019re going to need in the future. Reading, aside from being one of the oldest forms of entertainment, is one of the best ways to engage the critical thinking and imagination muscles that\u2019ll help you dream up the next great idea.<\/p>\n
Someone once told me that the state of a bed is a good indicator of what\u2019s going on in your brain. If you can do something that takes about three minutes every day, then you can do more important stuff every day too. Making your bed seems like a useless chore, but it\u2019s more about respecting what\u2019s yours and the space that you live in. If you can manage that, I\u2019m sure you can manage something much, much more awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You\u2019ve read the book, you\u2019ve got your idea, but now you\u2019ve got to start living the kidpreneur lifestyle to back it up. Whether you end up starting your own business or not, it\u2019s important to build your life around good habits. Spending a weekend fragging noobs in Call of Duty, though tempting, isn\u2019t going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[23,60,27,40,31,61,48,42],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-advice","tag-entrepreneurship-for-kids","tag-habits","tag-kid-entrepreneurs","tag-kidpreneurs","tag-kids-in-business","tag-productivity","tag-young-entrepreneur","tag-young-entrepreneurs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n