Easy come, Easy go
"Ears that hear and eyes that listen" is an earlier post that I tried to demonstrate how we often do not actually hear or listen to what is happening in our lives.
Once upon a time I was sitted among campus colleagues and the speaker in front was addressing us on entrepreneurship. In my head I was thinking "...I have no clue on what I can do in order to have a successful business." And then the speaker suddenly said "start with what you have".
The training I got early this year on entrepreneurship taught me that you should have a business idea (try a unique one) then start with a bit of capital. Again in my head I was having these thoughts; I don't know where to start from, what idea could I possibly think of? and hmm where do i get the capital? right now I have no job, I don't want to get a loan from the bank? and where will i start? how will I build a customer base?
Well, many of my learned friends only talk of that day when they become lawyers and will be swinging to the bank after a case is won.. And back then as a freshman it seemed so easy, till i went for my judicial attachment, till you know how humans give you scary stories like;
"....hmm you will open a law firm at a small office space with that placard written "Commissioner of Oaths and Notary Public" then that room costs aroung sh20000 per month to lease it out.. The first 5 months you have had 2 to 3 clients and you have to maintain your practice, pay your landlord!!!"
So one important voice says to you, "people should only advice you, the last opinion, judgement or solution should be wholly based on you, other people's views are only a guide" A second voice asks "how have those who have made it in their life reached there?"
Their is a reason why the Global Entrepreneurship Summit was held here, a blessing in disguise maybe, something for our young youths to think about, no, even the old I would say.
If I would deduce my own opinion from what others told me I would say, Entrepreneurship can come in many forms, Starting a business, starting an organization where you voluntarily train others to be where their potential in life can take them, It can also be waking up everyday going to the office to work for someone else and in the process suggesting ways in which that organisation can develop and how you can develop in it. If only we would take our minds off quick money, nothing and I insist nothing comes easy.
When I was younger I used to wonder how God carefully made humans, plus the universe and then you get to a Science class and you become more confused, for instance the two ears that we have, have close to twenty other organs inside them. Ben Carson's "gifted hands" inspires me as he writes that every single time before he went into a procedure for surgery he lifted his two hands and prayed to God to bless the work of his hands and for years all his patients survived the most complex of surgeries
Did you know that out of the 5 intuitive thoughts in your head, 3 are usually negative thoughts of "I cant, I dont know how, I will fail, I am a failure" Our thoughts translate into words, then we say them, then we react the way we reason, and finally make a decision based on how we reason"
Imagine if we would think this way "I will be succesful one day, I will go to school first, I will pass primary, go to secondary, go to campus, I have to graduate, I will advance to other degrees, I want to work for this and that company, I want to be the director of this company, now its time for me to start my own company, Oh I am already on the track. I want to help other people see their potential." Not a single negative thought did you allow to interfere with your path
After the sessions I had on enterpreneurship I went home and tried planting vegetables two weeks later they were out and good looking I was encouraged, My sister and I did calculations of our sales and we were optimistic, the next week, birds descended on our vegis and ate all of them, I was dissappointed, discouraged I even let go of it. Then one day I told a lady of this and she asked "you just gave up like that?" I was mad at myself for the first time, I for one I am never a quitter especially on the first trial. Days, months passed by and I got another idea and I am currently working on it. I will not give up this time
So shouldn't you,
If it comes easy, it will go easy
Once upon a time I was sitted among campus colleagues and the speaker in front was addressing us on entrepreneurship. In my head I was thinking "...I have no clue on what I can do in order to have a successful business." And then the speaker suddenly said "start with what you have".
The training I got early this year on entrepreneurship taught me that you should have a business idea (try a unique one) then start with a bit of capital. Again in my head I was having these thoughts; I don't know where to start from, what idea could I possibly think of? and hmm where do i get the capital? right now I have no job, I don't want to get a loan from the bank? and where will i start? how will I build a customer base?
Well, many of my learned friends only talk of that day when they become lawyers and will be swinging to the bank after a case is won.. And back then as a freshman it seemed so easy, till i went for my judicial attachment, till you know how humans give you scary stories like;
"....hmm you will open a law firm at a small office space with that placard written "Commissioner of Oaths and Notary Public" then that room costs aroung sh20000 per month to lease it out.. The first 5 months you have had 2 to 3 clients and you have to maintain your practice, pay your landlord!!!"
So one important voice says to you, "people should only advice you, the last opinion, judgement or solution should be wholly based on you, other people's views are only a guide" A second voice asks "how have those who have made it in their life reached there?"
Their is a reason why the Global Entrepreneurship Summit was held here, a blessing in disguise maybe, something for our young youths to think about, no, even the old I would say.
If I would deduce my own opinion from what others told me I would say, Entrepreneurship can come in many forms, Starting a business, starting an organization where you voluntarily train others to be where their potential in life can take them, It can also be waking up everyday going to the office to work for someone else and in the process suggesting ways in which that organisation can develop and how you can develop in it. If only we would take our minds off quick money, nothing and I insist nothing comes easy.
When I was younger I used to wonder how God carefully made humans, plus the universe and then you get to a Science class and you become more confused, for instance the two ears that we have, have close to twenty other organs inside them. Ben Carson's "gifted hands" inspires me as he writes that every single time before he went into a procedure for surgery he lifted his two hands and prayed to God to bless the work of his hands and for years all his patients survived the most complex of surgeries
Did you know that out of the 5 intuitive thoughts in your head, 3 are usually negative thoughts of "I cant, I dont know how, I will fail, I am a failure" Our thoughts translate into words, then we say them, then we react the way we reason, and finally make a decision based on how we reason"
Imagine if we would think this way "I will be succesful one day, I will go to school first, I will pass primary, go to secondary, go to campus, I have to graduate, I will advance to other degrees, I want to work for this and that company, I want to be the director of this company, now its time for me to start my own company, Oh I am already on the track. I want to help other people see their potential." Not a single negative thought did you allow to interfere with your path
After the sessions I had on enterpreneurship I went home and tried planting vegetables two weeks later they were out and good looking I was encouraged, My sister and I did calculations of our sales and we were optimistic, the next week, birds descended on our vegis and ate all of them, I was dissappointed, discouraged I even let go of it. Then one day I told a lady of this and she asked "you just gave up like that?" I was mad at myself for the first time, I for one I am never a quitter especially on the first trial. Days, months passed by and I got another idea and I am currently working on it. I will not give up this time
So shouldn't you,
If it comes easy, it will go easy
I always thought I did not have an "business like mind" till you reminded me of my little farm when I was growing up! Now that you have that new idea, I will hold you accountable to growing it up and not giving up! Perhaps even buy a stake in in the business!
ReplyDeleteI will keep on keeping on. That i promise
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