Entrepreneur- 5 P.M.-9 A.M.- In my way
Hello everyone.
Welcome to my second blog. If you want to check my first blog then click here.
Well, I am really excited to write this piece as it is one of my most favorite subjects and I would love to discuss this with you all.
I am grateful to all who have helped me to understand this and also some books, especially Entrepreneur- 5 P.M.-9 A.M.- launching a profitable start up without quitting your job by Kanth Miriyala and Reethika Sunder.
Life is a journey, a journey to change our perspective, a journey to move from Point A to Point B.
Suppose you are traveling by train. You have the window seat. The train is running at full speed. As a matter of fact there is some vibration inside the coupe. Now, you may either enjoy the views outside of the window or you can start yelling on the vibration.
Entrepreneurship is also a journey, a journey to reach point B from point A with some vibrations in between. At point A you take decision for a start up by keeping in mind all the vibrations (the difficulties), at point B you successfully manage to launch your start up by overcoming the difficulties.
At point A, we need to clear four things- 1. My key strengths (our skills), 2. My passion, 3. My money-making ability, 4. My purpose.
Once these four are clear to us, taking the first step to reach Point B becomes easier.
In the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”, there is a beautiful line said by Will Smith- “You got a dream, you gotta protect it”.
We mostly fail to protect our dream due to some fear- fear of losing money, fear of losing time, fear of “what they will say if I fail” and so on. The more your fear grows, you start to procrastinate.
Contrary, if your dream is higher than your fear, then you start taking action.
So if we see ourselves procrastinating then we must feed our dreams to make them healthier than our fear.
Following quality content on YouTube, reading good quality blogs and books, listening to biographies, spending time in good association, taking action- can feed your dream and make it healthier.
Now, we have a healthy dream, but here comes the time issue.
Job, friends, family, etc. Our daily calendar may look full, but is it? Are we completely using our time well?
A fuzzy calendar may look full, but there is a lot of space left in it to fill.
Prioritizing our duties will make us understand how much we can have time left to invest in a new venture.
Take it in this way- we are using FB 2 hours per day. If we can save just 1 hour from it, in a week we will save 7 hours, in a month 30–31 hours, in a year 365 hours. These 365 hours are more than enough to do meditation for mental well being, learning a new instrument. At least more than enough to know how to write a professional email. Isn’t it?
We need to find that one special spot that can solve our financial problem. We need to find that sweet spot by aligning our strength, passion, and making money.
We can refer to some of our skills as Our Strength. A skill where we are good. A skill that we have learned and practiced to make it sharper.
Passion can be referred to something that we love or feel interested in.
Now the toughest part, can these two anyway help me to earn? Is there any market need that can be found?
If our answer is yes, then we have got our sweet spot. Hurray!
For me, I like to write. It’s my passion. I have the skill to write as I have writing poems and articles for a very long time. Now, can my writing help me to earn? The answer is blogging. So here I have my sweet spot.
If our sweet spot is not yet clear to us, then we must write down our strengths, passions, and money-making ability and by aligning them we need to find that sweet spot and start working on it.
It’s never too late to start something new.
Signing out.
Happy learning!
Some recommendations-
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam biography by Gulzar
