Why I want to be an Entrepreneur

My last post speaks to why I want to be an entrepreneur. Over the last three years I have learned to live without certainty. This has served me well! It mostly came about because of an important spiritual change in my life. Making decisions without certainty is not that difficult for me anymore.

I'm still trying to find out what motivates me to be an entrepreneur. I don't think it is a desire for fame, or perhaps it is. I sure don't want to become a guru or to be known as one.

One of the reason that I'm driven to be an entrepreneur is because of curiosity. I love to learn and it is a big part of my life. I always have one or two books that I'm reading at the time. I also like other creative ways of learning, going on retreats to monasteries, traveling, exploring spirituality, religion, leading an active life style and other ways.

The other reason is that I want to create value and capture it as well. Creating value to me is being resourceful to people and companies I work with and I also do this on a personal level. Capturing value is how I pay myself and price the professional services I render. So money is part of it too.

From the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker

They [entrepreneurs] are not content simply to improve on what already exists, or to modify it. They try to create new and different values and new and different satisfactions, to convert a "material" into a "resource", or to combine existing resources in a new and more productive configuration.