This is an except from my book: 101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers.You have got to be happy with what it is you are doing and working on, otherwise you will not enjoy your time.You have to be competent with what you are doing, otherwise you will struggle to see results.Do the work once and get paid forever, use this as a standard benchmark on how you create new systems, assets and things. I am lazy and ambitious; lazy to create an automatic system and ambitious to want to create something big and profitable. Leverage: do more with less.Keep going, because the day that you give up is the day you will regret not finishing for the rest of your life.Keep learning, because you are one skill away from changing your fortune, you don't know what you don't know and the smarter you become, the more you realize what you don't know.Do not be discouraged; do not let a temporary defeat turn into a permanent failure. It simply means that you need to go back to the drawing board and reconfigure what it is you have to offer to the general public and whether or not they want it.Be adaptable, as the world changes constantly and what worked this year may not work next year, the methods that worked in 2007 may not work today.Have fail safes and contingences, because rainy days do happen.Be wise and humble, because when you are corrected, whether from a mentor or the market, you have to realize where you went wrong- as being stubborn is not a good trait to have.Question of the day: Are you becoming an entrepreneur?