# And THAT’S The Day You Became An Entrepreneur…

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It happened the day you took personal responsibility for a problem that wasn’t your
own.

On this episode Russell talks about how every entrepreneur is someone who found 
a problem and took responsibility for it. Here are some of the enlightening things
in this episode:

 * Why entrepreneurs are different than the rest of the world when it comes to seeing
   a problem.
 * Who some of Russell’s inner circle members are that are a great example of taking
   responsibility of a problem and fixing it.
 * And why when entrepreneurs take responsibility for a problem, it changes the 
   world.

So listen here to find out how to be an entrepreneur by taking responsibility for
a problem that you didn’t create but want to fix.

—Transcript—

What’s up everybody, this is Russell. Welcome to a late night episode of Marketing
Secrets.

Hey everyone, I’m about to head to bed but I listened to a podcast this week from
Ryan Moran, from capitalism.com and he’s got the Freedom Fast Lane show podcast,
which is pretty awesome. I love it a lot and he goes deep into the ecommerce side
and also business investing and other things that I don’t typically focus on, which
has been fun for me to kind of listen to him and world. But he said something in
one of his presentations, it was a stage event somewhere,  I don’t even know, a 
few episodes back. And I don’t remember how he said or what he said but it sparked
a thought in my mind.

So I’m probably going to slaughter how he said it. He said it probably much better
than me, but the concept was so cool. What he basically said is the difference between
entrepreneurs and the rest of the world, yes we are different folk if you haven’t
noticed. But what he said was interesting, he said, entrepreneurs are the people
who see a problem and then take responsibility for it. Isn’t that weird?

I think about the world we live in today. The problem is most people don’t responsibility
for anything. Even though they do things that are really bad or wrong or whatever,
they won’t take responsibility. They want to blame it on their mom, or their brother,
or their sister, or whoever. The world is all about blaming someone else for all
the issues that it has. What makes us entrepreneurs weird is we see a problem and
instead of blaming somebody else, we look at it and say, “I’m going to take responsibility
for that problem, I’m going to figure out an answer.”

And when I heard that I was just like, oh my gosh, that is so interesting. Because
most people don’t do that. Most people don’t see an issue, a problem and then be
like, “I’m going to take responsibility for that.” I was thinking about this with
Clickfunnels for example. For a decade we tried to build funnels and it was frustrating.
And yeah, we could have blamed everybody else, I’m sure we did. Everyone else did
that, it’s the tech designers, the developers, programming is hard, all the things.
It wasn’t for us until we said, you know what it does suck and I’m going to take
responsibility for it, this is my issue now. And then we figure out a way to solve
it. And that’s when everything changed.

That’s so fascinating. For you, as an entrepreneur, or someone who wants to be an
entrepreneur, I think if we all make conscious decision of what we are doing is 
consciously saying, “That problem right there, I’m taking on myself, I’m taking 
responsibility for that.” Instead of doing what most of us do, what’s our human 
nature. “Oh it’s them. Oh it’s her.” I didn’t fix anything because of this, because
of this. We just want to pass the blame, pass the buck so often, but that’s what
makes us weird.  That’s what makes us different. It makes entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs.

We see those problems, we see those issues and we take a personal responsibility
for it. I was thinking about this as I was looking at the Inner circle meetings 
over the last couple of weeks. I could go through all 100 of my entrepreneurs and
share this, but just a couple of them off my head.

Pamela Weibold for example, she was a doctor and she started seeing all of her friends
who were doctors committing suicide. Person after person after person. And she could
have sat there and blamed this, blamed that, but instead she stopped and said, “
I’m going to take personal responsibility for this issue and I’m going to save doctors
lives.” And she’s gone out there and done that. She’s created a platform. She’s 
one of the most amazing people I’ve ever seen. She’s literally spent every penny
she’s ever made to go and save doctors lives. She’s like, “I can live on 20 grand
a year, I’m good. Every penny I make goes back into helping save doctors from committing
suicide.”

Because she took that as her own personal responsibility. That’s not her responsibility,
it’s not her fault. Yet, she looked at it and said, this is my responsibility. That
day she became an entrepreneur.

You think about another one, Annie Grace, who is so cool. She’s someone who her 
whole life drank socially. It got to a point where she kept drinking and drinking
and she couldn’t break away from it. And she started looking around and it wasn’t
just her, it was other people and she went on this mission and started saying….and
again, drinking is not her responsibility. People struggling and trying to give 
up alcohol addiction, that’s not her responsibility, she’s got better things to 
do with her life.

But she looked at it and said, “This problem, I’m going to take responsibility for
it.” And she’s gone out and changed thousands of people’s lives. Thousands of people
she has helped break away from this addiction that’s robbing them of their freedom,
their happiness. She took that personal. She didn’t have to, she didn’t need to 
but she decided to and that day she became an entrepreneur.

I could go through person after person after person after person, the day that they
looked at this thing, this problem that wasn’t even supposed to be their own, but
they saw it. And whatever it was, I don’t know if tuition, if it’s God, if it’s 
a spark, if it’s your brain. Whatever it is, you see it and there’s that spark saying,“
That one’s mine. That is the problem I’m going to fix and I’m going to take personal
responsibility. It may not be my fault, but I am the one who’s going to fix this
and change it.”

And that’s what makes you different as an entrepreneur, and it’s fascinating and
exciting. And if you wondered, how do I become an entrepreneur, how do I do that?
It’s time to start looking at that and saying, “Instead of pushing responsibility
on different places, different things, different people, different whatever, look
at a problem and take on that responsibility yourself. And that’s the game plan,
that’s how it works.

Anyway, I heard that three or four days ago and it’s been ringing through my head
over and over. I keep thinking about person after person after person in my inner
circle, and entrepreneurs I work with, and inner circle members, and Two Comma Club
members, and I look at the people around me who are serving and doing stuff. Every
single time I could link back to, that is the problem they took personal responsibility
for. They didn’t have to, they didn’t need to, but they did. And that’s the magic.

So I hope that helps you guys. I hope that rings through your head and makes you
start looking and being more aware of the stuff around you that’s happening and 
trying to figure out what it is that you’re going to take personal responsibility
for. Because when you do that, that’s the day you’ll become an entrepreneur, and
that’s the day you will literally change the world.

Thanks you guys, so much for everything. Thanks for your support, thanks for your
effort. Thanks for your contribution to the world. We love you guys, we appreciate
you guys, we enjoy serving you guys. And we’re so grateful that you listen to this
podcast. If you like this podcast and learn anything from it, please go to iTunes
and subscribe and share it with another entrepreneur who could help. Thanks so much
you guys. Talk to you soon.