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On What Motivates You…
Ziya G. Boyacigiller
This presentation was created and given by Ziya Boyacigiller who was leading Angel Investor and a loved mentor to many young entrepreneurs in Turkey. We have shared it on the web for everyone’s benefit. It is free to use but please cite Ziya Boyacigiller as the source when you use any part of this presentation. For more about Ziya Boyacigiller’s contributions to the start-up Ecosystem of Turkey, please go to www.ziyaboyacigiller.com
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If you love what you do,you don’t work a day
in your life…
Confucius
Copyright (c) 2003 Ziya G. Boyacigiller
Why does one become an entrepreneur?
money
excitement
power
fame
work
social contribution
knowledge
challenge
Copyright (c) 2003 Ziya G. Boyacigiller
What motivates you?
1. Write something you loved doing at the top of the page. You can think about your age ranges – pre-school, primary, mid-school, high school, college years and what you loved doing during each of those years and make a list first. Something you loved doing should be: with what you spent any available time you had, and lost track of time and all worries while doing it.
2. Describe your fantastic career, take it to the limit, don’t hold back.3. Write what you see happen 5 years later.4. Write what you see happen 10 years later.5. Expand list above by saying “What I loved most about…” on the left margin.
Write the insight you gained from each section in the margins (what your writing taught you about yourself). This you can do for each section one by one, or you can lump them together as shown in example.
6. Repeat above steps for each item in your list in 1. Now, review “What I loved most about…” column for all your stories. Find out the recurring themes in your stories – these give insights into “what motivates you”. You need to choose a career that fits these motivations for you to be happy and successful.
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Example: List of What I did… pre-school
Drawing Building wooden-block houses Train set …
primary school Playing the violin Reading Watercolor painting Board games …
high school Riding bicycle Playing chess Judo Electronic hobbyist/repairing radios …
college Camping & touring in Anatolia Photography Watching art films …
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What I loved most about it
Recurring Themes
Freedom Outdoors Independence Seeing the world Fame, Respect, Sharing my
experiences/ teaching
1. Loved riding my bicycle as a child Fame is very
important for me
Contributing to society is always mentioned
2. My fantastic career as bike-touring the world, my name in travel magazines, modeling in sports advertisements as a celebrity, famous lecturer…
3. Five years later I am mountain explorer on bike, travel in Tibet and other underdeveloped countries, send tapes and photos to magazines, draw maps for National Geographic…
4. Ten years later I teach geography and lead tours to mountains once a year.
Example: My Story…
5.
6.
Double Checking Motivations Meet people who work in the business you want to
work in, and see if you like them. You will spend many more hours with them than you will with your family and friends. If you don’t like being with them, it will be difficult for you to be at work with them…
Use Amazon.com, a bookstore, Google etc. to find books and magazines on the subject of your business and see if you like reading them, if you get excited reading them, if you get in the “flow” reading them…
Copyright (c) 2003 Ziya G. Boyacigiller
Copyright (c) 2003 Ziya G. Boyacigiller
What Business is Right for You?
Who you are
What you know
Who you know
What motivates you
Your values
Your network
Your area of expertise
