The Keypoint Is, We Are Start-ups of Our Own
We are all born to be prodigies with no excuse. If you fail at a thing, stop figuring out what you need to improve or change in your life direction. We need to realize that it’s all too sudden to call for dramatic action, to stop striving on the thing you enjoy doing.
I’m telling every single of you, that we are the product of our very first owned start-ups.
Therefore, enjoy the hurdles. Invest your sweat, your time, your energy, your crazy ideas. Invest all you have for the sake of your progress. Argue hard over assumptions and opinions. Find the rationale behind your bases, sketch a workflow that works on you, challenge your own doubts with facts, not fear. Question every presumption.
The outcome? Oh, you’re so as predicted. Save room for yourself — for the progress you will be unable to see.
If you find it hard, hit yourself against arguments.
Stuck? Get the value juices out of your investors — partners, supportive relatives, your career mentor (read Ryan Holiday’s great view on mentorship here), or even your biggest frenemy.
The idea of start-up is based on the fact that each of us has unlimited potential to launch. As skepticism can kill, well there will be no end-point of continuing education and pursuing career ladder up to the top.
While, easy within reach, there’s this potential blank space you could expose as your start-up. Your most-Googled items, the topic you religiously watch on TED videos, the idea you are confident to launch as icebreaking chit-chats in the meeting room.
The awesome things about settling down ourselves as start-ups come as follow:
You have indefinitely flexible time-bound targets.
Finger-flicks.
How often you need to set yourself spare time to think about your goals? Try to reframe a better you as a start-up program, set your progress as a start-up progress. So you are basically the thing people will invest in, you are how you invest your time in. Be present, be focus, be frank, but don’t be hard on yourself.
The point is, allocate your time for yourself. All of your baby-steps, major changes, aggressive strategies are all designed in a time-frame, tailor-made.
You made your own, of course.
Get yourself as a blank whole year calendar. What would you write on the blank spaces?
You won’t need coworking spaces. Spend me-times as you like, maybe with a sip of your favorite, Java or Rosé? You pick.
I spent at least 10 minutes everyday just to enjoy the present. Reflect upon the snoozes of your morning alarms, morning spoonful of rush, how you wish to acquire Teleport function from office back to the next meeting place. Spend your time, before bed, in-between loofah sessions, or after your daily meditations.(Kudos if you have meditation as daily part!).
See how far you are to your dream, how close you were to the nearest fallacy. Well, I am not a happy-go-lucky optimistic person. But even if you are not, like me, there’s always something we could be grateful of.
I do self-contemplating gratitude journal, inspired by Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. But set aside your me-time everyday to release your office politics tension as well the pressure people set on you. Pressure makes diamonds but hey, pressure-cooker makes purée too.
As strong as your ambitions are, you are supposed to get yourself driven.
So here’s the thing.
You = what you make+what you believe — what you worry.
All things surpassed you, most stayed too long before it left you right away. Approaching as answers to your prayers — promising and delightful — but sublimed before you have a moment to grasp them. Those which came sweet, ended bitter. The sparkles of life which has been flashing in front of you as a glimpse of heaven, but leaving you as emotional baggage burdened you inside and out.
All leave you nothing but…what?
Memories? Oh sentimental.
Scars? Hmmm… dark.
Lessons? Oh, you’re a believer of lifelong learner too.
Now can’t you see? Others could easily assume, others can judge you based on their opinions. Start-ups aren’t getting somewhat empowered by recognitions nor awards. The spirit of improving lives and the grit — they are all ignited within themselves. The so-called paradigm that changes are made within our mindset.
As low as you expect on yourself, you’ll get yourself surprised.
Only if you are those among the typical front-seated students in class. The oh-no-I-failed-the-test who ends up being the best student of the class.
I am a believer that each of us is a tough lifelong learner. We fall and get up each time learning a new lesson, wiring them down in life milestones and get them written in our notebook. There is a sky above the sky, God above your love-hate relationship-based bosses, tycoons among the top spenders. (just kidding.)
Don’t overlook your weakness, but firm-believe your strengths are the best investment God redeemed on you.
No matter how hard life’s going to hit us, we’ll endure the hurricane — until we’ll get ourselves graduated from this life.
Now the question is, where your start-up idea brings you?
Share us, how your first ‘meeting’ with yourself going. Explore the potential in you and we’ll see how you can ask for more investors investing in you!
