"I want to be the next G.com or the next Y.com"
"There is no point living the life of a salaried, I want to have my own business"
"Itne pagar main yaha pe kuch nahi hoga, usse accha hai gaon jaake kuch paison ki jameen le lunga - kamse kam naam to hoga"
"Recession ke naam pe companies haat dho ke lee rahi hai"
"Did I slog out my education years to get an engineering / management degree and work for someone with target pressure?"
"After Tuesday even the work week says WTF!"
Last week I met around 20 people (colleagues and friends) who were pretty depressed with their jobs and above were the common statements I heard.
Every successful man has made these statements, but not all who do are successful. So where is the GAP?
Lets analyze.
Every day, I keep bumping into people who are not happy with the current, want to venture off, but are not sure of what to do and how to do.
I won't be stating any examples of successful businessmen here because you can Google their stories but I'll be helping you with the go-abouts.
Just follow a few simple steps:
1) Level 1 - Think not so deeply!
Think about what you want to do - a Vague thought!
Great!!! Awesome!!! Its come. I want to be a successful Entrepreneur or a Business Man.
2) Level 2 - Lets get to the tooth!
Cool! That was simple, Isn't it?
Now, think slightly further and deeper of what do you want to establish.
3) Level 3 - Ask not others, yourself!
Just ask the following questions to yourself -
What do I wish to do now, after 6 months, after a year (assuming everything works hypothetically)?
What do I wish to achieve by doing so?
Will this be short term or long term?
Do I have the expertise in this domain (its Okay even if "No" is the answer)?
and the most important question -
What do I have to loose if I go for it?
5) Level 5 - Keep shut!
Okay, now that you have the answer to your questions, Keep Shut! Don't let anyone know about your plans. Its not the risk of your ideas being stolen, its about you giving up on your plans after listening to negative feedback. So just keep happy but low, like exactly what you are doing now, you are so keen that you forgot I missed out on point no 4 - No I din't.
4) Level 4 - Give UP and Quit!
What do you give up? Negative thoughts, constructive feedback (as it will keep asking you to amend your plans), TWA - Time Wasting Associations, Useless conversations that eat up a lot of your time.
Okay, so far so good!
What next?
You can't do everything in one day. So do this exercise and I'll be back with my next blog post soon to show the way further.
