What exactly is the recipe to a successful entrepreneurial career?

How to achieve a highly flourishing career? How to become a top-notch business icon? How to not fall every time life pushes you? These are common questions that seed in the minds of young entrepreneurs, beginners and even top-grade entrepreneurs. Businessmen and entrepreneurs lookout for avenues to find the perfect recipe of success to attain a highly achieving entrepreneurial career which is second to none.

So what exactly is the recipe? The answer is that there is no recipe at all! One has to toil their way through to achieve their goals and make their dreams into reality. Entrepreneurship is all about crazy highs and lows. We do not mean to paint the ugly picture of life, which is no less than the daunting face of disaster. However, it is what it is. The constructive way out is to stay motivated and think positive by looking at the bright side.

The real challenge is how to construct your way out through the lows and stay motivated to work with dedication as, after all, that is what counts!

Even if one tries to create a recipe for successful entrepreneurship, it will comprise a blend of consistent hard work, dedication, high spirits, passion, and substantive enthusiasm. Another essential aspect that the ‘success recipe’ encompasses is that the fear of failure needs to be brushed aside. And even if one falls into the gloomy avenues of failure, it is paramount to rise again and not give up.

Author of the famous book, ‘Rich Dads, Poor Dads, Robert T. Kiyosaki has rightfully worded that,

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”

The very charismatic entrepreneur Barbara Bry is a fine example of a woman who has become everything from nothing. She has attained an up-and-coming career through the recipe of success which encircles a mix of both hard and smart work. Through consistent hard work, dedication, and passion, Barbara has managed to achieve a rip-roaring career and has made her name in the industry. She is currently the chief operating officer of Blackbird Ventures that invests in and helps launch early-stage technology companies.

• She has vast experiences and has done substantive work in her career, which includes;
• Started her early career as a business writer for the Los Angeles Times, which laid the foundation for her success as an entrepreneur in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
• Starting companies and membership organizations
• Leadership roles in the non-profit sector
• Investing in early-stage companies
• Journalism
• Served on the San Diego City Council and running to be the Mayor of San Diego. 
• A demonstrated track record of developing and implementing innovative business models across multiple sectors
• Expertise in strategic planning, general management, budgeting and finance, raising capital, and marketing and corporate communications. 
• Co-Founder and board member of Atcom/Info that pioneered high-speed Internet access in hotel rooms. 
• Joined the initial management team of Proflowers.com (Vice President, Marketing) that went public (Provide Commerce) and was sold to Liberty Media for $477 million.
• Founder of Athena San Diego and Run Women Run, membership organizations started to empower women in the workplace and government.
• Acquired numerous awards, including induction into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame, the CONNECT Distinguished Contribution Award for Technology Innovation, and a YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award. 
• Active in the non-profit sector, including serving as President of the Children’s Museum of San Diego, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Business Advisory Council, and a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation Entrepreneurship.