Climbing the ladder of
success is not that easy, it is not just a day's job, you have got to be made,
then you are ready for the journey.
It started from your
education, but it is never based on the degree you own. The major players in
the business world were drop outs, they had a thing in mind, and they faced it,
and they succeeded.
Becoming an entrepreneur,
involves a lot of sacrifice, but it takes only the man of vision to succeed. If
you have got no vision to do business, I mean your personal/created business,
it is better you take your certificate and get a job to survive.
There are so many hurdles
in becoming an entrepreneur. Let’s take a look at 5 of them.
-Fear
For real, it isn't easy,
especially in my own kind of environment when thing are not working, but if you
had learnt to face challenges, you will find yourself breaking loose and riding
at the top. Becoming an entrepreneur entails a lot of challenges, the major
being capital.
Sometimes, you don't really
need big amount to get something started, and if you had need a sum, never let
that weigh down your entrepreneurship dream. Whenever the dream comes, always
act on it and never let fear weigh you down, make moves on how you can get the
capital, at least part of it to get something started.
One way of doing that is by
getting a loan, talking to family members, or open up a partnership, by the
time you begun to move around to get the problem solved, you will surely get a
solution.
-Procrastination
Procrastination is an enemy
of time, pushing things that is suppose to get done today till tomorrow is
dangerous enough to crumble a entrepreneurship dream, you are suppose to make
all arrangements and get started immediately, but you kept on delaying. I was
suppose to start up a piggery farm, I needed to talk to an old man who has a
pig farm so as to get knowledge as well as some space to set up my piggery, I
pushed the appointment of meeting the old man by one week, and unfortunately
for me, when I was ready, the man has already travelled, I had to wait for
another 3 months before the old man resurfaced, never delay, make all
arrangement, meet necessary people on time, an get started as an entrepreneur.
-Bad company
People you move with had a
lot of influence over your life, most of my friends are of the idea of getting
a degree and get a good, settle down and get married, but personally, I am not
into all this, I love freedom, spending my energy on myself, never like
somebody to be bossy over me, I loved to do something on my own, but they were
not motivating me, even killing my spirit and dream instead, but I have to
break loose, not that I totally de-friend them, I had to move far to them, and
make a distant contact, I looked for new friends, people of the same dreams and
visions, entrepreneurs and intending entrepreneurs like myself, guess what? The
experience was so wonderful; you will see yourself getting the energy to move
on.
-Limitations
As an entrepreneur, I
wanted to start up an online business which I had learnt so well, but I had no
laptop, internet was so expensive here, and the worst of all, power is damn
bad. At first, I was thinking it would never be possible for me to run these
internet deals due to these limitations, but one day, I said to myself,
"Rise above your limitation". a friend had got a laptop which is not
so useful to him, another had got a modem, a neighbor works with a generating
set almost 24 hours a day, I just have to talked to them, and after getting
those things, I kicked off, and within months, I am able to solve the problems
one after other, I started by getting a generator, my own laptop, and now I got
modems from different providers. As a successful entrepreneur, you have to look
beyond the limitation, never say it is impossible because situations had rose
against you.
-Excuses
Successful entrepreneurs
don't give excuses, always say "it is possible" instead of "its
not possible", always admit that it has not got done because you had not
acted. Excuses paralyses dream, don't allow it to pull down your
entrepreneurship dreams.
You can make it, you can be
a great entrepreneur, just be bold and get started and before you know it, you
will be riding at the top.
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