Entrepreneurial Spirit in America

We rednecks can be damned determined 

     Most of my people came from East Texas and Oklahoma in the 1950s for job opportunities in the oilfield.  Why?  Because even though there was an economic boom after world war II oil was where the jobs were. 

     But in West Texas as we all know who have lived there most of our lives it can be either feast or famine.  There's time when employment opportunities are just not there. 

    The conventional logic might be to say "well why don't you just move to bigger cities where opportunities are?"

     But there is another solution that people are overlooking.  Maybe we as Americans are asking the wrong question.  Why not look for opportunities and Bloom where you're planted?  

     And 1983 the west Texas area was plunged into a recession with record unemployment.  And while my daddy for brief time became a Long haul truck driver my grandfather my granddad on my mother's side of the family decided to form a business out of a recession.  It's been done before with remarkable results, just look at Domino's Pizza p.  

     The problem is most people who are not aware of the combined age economy are thinking only one word JOB!  That translates to one thing to me Just Over Broke!  My maternal grandparents sacrifice their time and their labor to keep the business going for 5 years until Grandad's Health broke down and he had to sell.  It was granddad that gave me the entrepreneurial spirit. 

     In 1994 I left home to attend Texas Tech University.  I had already had a rich incubator culture through the Texas School for the blind Permian high school and Odessa College but it was time for me to move on to my next step of transition. 

     Don't get me wrong my bachelor's in political science and math communications means a lot to me but I learned a lot more outside of the classroom it's really about the entrepreneurial spirit this being in my second and third senior years in college. 

     To be an entrepreneur you need to have the necessary traits of an entrepreneur.  You need to have the ambivert personality which is in the middle of introvert and extrovert.  You need to be a competent person of influence, and I'm not talking about a celebrity influencer.  You need to have excellent creativity skills bar none along with the arts of communication delegation edification inspiration and be well read.  You need to have impeccable ethics and strong faith in God. 

     You need to be able to set attainable goals, dust off your networking skills, be of service to your community and people around you.  More importantly it's good for you to Wade through the storms of adversity. 

     My grandparents did such a thing in the early years of their business. 

     "Sometimes boy you have to sacrifice what you want get what you need " Grandma Sawyer told me.  "You can't be a damn fool brat and pretend to make it in this world."

     Back them those words from Grandma were pretty tough but you know what they made all the difference in the world in my life and have we find my life true richness that I have never known. 

In Christ 

Jimi Hendrick

EYP