You don’t have to know everything before you start.
Starting a business requires a lot of skills and understanding how to apply those skills. What if I told you that you don’t have to know everything before you start? Continue reading to see how to take a variety of career skills and mix them up to create your dream job.
How to Start a Business While Still Learning
You can learn a lot on the path of an entrepreneur. The biggest lesson of all is that most of that learning happens during the process of starting a business, not before.
For instance, when I started a sewing business, I was still learning how to sew! I had received my first sewing machine six months before while pregnant with my first child and decided I wanted to make homemade items for my daughter. I began with a tutu and soon upgraded to clothes, cloth diapers, toys, stuffed animals, curtains, blankets, and costumes. I eventually landed on my main product: personalized applique name pillows. I designed these myself based on the ideas I had for my daughter’s room decor. From children’s nursery tales to rockets and trucks, I created pillows that were both fun and keepsakes for the parent and child.
I hadn’t planned on starting a sewing business when I bought my sewing machine. I only knew that I wanted to learn a new skill that would allow me to grow my creativity. In the process, I challenged myself with new sewing techniques, learned how to navigate online business and sales, picked up some photography courses on the way, and brought in a little money.
While I didn’t continue that sewing business for long – because I also learned that sewing large orders of the same product gets boring! (maybe I should have considered limited editions) – I added a new skill to my bag. As I moved on, I picked up that bag of skills and still continue to carry it with me.
Why? The answer to that question is what I want you to remember from this post. And that is this:
The most creative and innovative entrepreneur learns new skills and then combines those skills to create something completely new.
When you learn new skills, there are multiple ways you can use them, even if your original reason for learning them was something completely different.
How to Start a Business with the Skills You Already Know
So how do you know which skills to apply to your business? Choose all of them! Consider yourself cross trained on a variety of careers. You can mix and mingle admin skills with music skills to create a music studio. Use your social media skills to grow a non profit. Apply your creativity to solving cybersecurity problems. The key is to think creatively and to keep an open mind. You can apply any skill to any job. Make it uniquely yours.
In summary, you already know many of the skills that you need to be entrepreneur. The other skills will come as you go.
Application time: ask yourself this: What skills are you learning now and what creative spin can you put on them to make them uniquely yours?
