你要有发现机会，抓住机会的能力。

　　Mostemployees do what they're assigned to do. There's someone else who's"assigned" to look out for opportunities, either a boss in a smallbusiness, or perhaps a sales department or a managerial team in a largecorporation. If you start a business, you need to be the one constantlywatching for opportunities - and be able to recognize them when you seethem. It might be a small opportunity, such as the chance to pick up anew client, or a large one, such as getting your product on the shelvesin a large retail chain, but as a small business owner, you have tokeep scanning the horizon yourself and positioning yourself to benefitfrom the opportunities that you find. As an employee, you may be usedto operating in a "head-down" position; if you're going to start abusiness and become successfully self-employed, you need to startoperating in the "head-up" position。

　　Being self-employed is very different than being an employee and can be a difficult transition。

　　大多数员工都是做着分配给自己的任务。也有人在分配的任务中寻找机会，也许是一家小企业的老板，也许是一家大公司的销售部门或管理团队成员。如果你开始了创业，你就要成为经常寻求机遇的人，并且在你碰到机遇的时候有能力分辨。也许是像接待客户这样的小机会，也许是在一家大型连锁超市销售你的产品这样的大机遇，但是，作为一个小企业家来说，你必须随时注意自己的周围，并让自己从发现的机遇中获利。作为一名员工，你可能习惯于被领导的位置。如果你打算开始创业并取得成功的话，你就要开始习惯处在领导别人的地位。当老板和做员工有很大的不同，这个过渡会很困难。