Prepare to be a Different Person - 37/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

In summer 2011, I had loads of friends and was rather social. We would go our drinking often. I had just turn 18 and I wanted to do crazy stuff.The people I hung around with were ambitious, in their own way, but not entrepreneurial in the slightest and not interested in the things I'm interested in now.After university I began to be more of an entrepreneur, and began to distance myself from a lot of people that I knew before. I tried being normal, and it got me nowhere.I was doing these online courses whilst I was learning about entrepreneurship and I realized I came to a cross roads in my life. I could either continue this path as an employee and work for someone else for the next 40 years and retire on a state pension. Or, I could go my own way and forge my own destiny.I decided that I would forge my own destiny, become the master of money and do extraordinary things in life.The changes in attitude, priorities and focus will make you a different aznd better person.I learnt about, what is called, a . Where you need to project yourself 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 years into the future and asking yourself whether what you are doing you'll have regret done.I could see myself at age 60 regretting not becoming an entrepreneur and doing things my way. I now know that one of the regrets of people on their death bed is that they did not live their life by their own rules. They were not adventurous enough.Along your journey as an entrepreneur, you'll lose old friends, because you are no longer what they want you to be. But you'll gain new friends, and you'll become the average of the 5 people you associate with.Your standards will rise and you will change as a person. You'll not be the same person when you start a business. You'll be a different and better person than when you started out.You are doing the work that people will not do, so you can soon live a life that people cannot live.Entrepreneurs start underpaid, and employees start off overpaid, but over time entrepreneurs become overpaid and employees are underpaid.Question of the day: what kind of person are you becoming?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.