With such a bleak financial forecast for the months ahead, is now the time to even think about becoming an entrepreneur?  The answer is yes.

In these times you need to take personal charge of your future.  When you work for someone else, as millions have recently found out, you do not have a lot of say about your work prospects.

Even though your job may be at risk or may have disappeared, your most important assets have not.  Those assets are your experience, talent and intelligence.  Now it is up to you to put them to work in a new environment that you control.

In every adversity there is a seed of equal or greater benefit.  So while a door may have been shut on you, another door has been unlocked.  You just need to find out which door that is.

Take inventory, determine what your assets are, where your strengths lie and what your passions are.   Look at your network.  Who do you know?

Now put your thinking cap on and start looking at possibilities.  Do not be afraid to think out of the box, it is the time to open your mind to possibilities. Start doing research, read books, magazines, surf the web.  Look for ways to turn your passions into a business.  Look for ways to turn your dreams into reality.

A good resource that you may want to check out is my website on having a home based business.  The homebusinesscompass.com talks about how to start a business.  Things that you will need to take into consideration and many ideas on businesses that you can start.

A job loss is a traumatic experience, but you cannot go back and change the past.  Feeling sorry for yourself will not help.  Realize your best years can still be in front of you, and then become determined that you will not be denied that future.

Napoleon Hill in his classic book Think and Grow Rich said that “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.”

Now, make it happen!