Entrepreneurship: Following your Dreams

Today I choose to share with you an image that caught my attention. But, please, keep in mind that this image/meme says is not straightforward.

It is important to keep track of our inner discourse, that little inner voice that will either pep talk us or be very unkind and destructive, and that definitely impacts how we face our daily challenges (particularly, those work-related), for better and for worse.

Yes, to build our dreams, we must have the discipline for it.

For this, we need to do our part and become the CEO and our own strategic business partner.

We need to create and establish a plan, a path to follow through.

We will have to work on it daily, even if just for 10 minutes of our day.

And we need to be positive (as in not giving into our fears or other people's negative opinions).

But we also need to be wise and realistic. 

Is our dream sound? 

Does it have potential? 

Does it have legs to stand on and to walk all the way through to success? 

What soft and hard skills do we have that will help us give life to our dream?

What knowledge and skills do we lack to help us make our dream come true? 

How and where can we develop that knowledge and skills and how much will it cost us?

We will need to work on the marketing side of our dream, and develop strategies to reach potential clients and business partners.

We will also need to develop strategies to deal with potential situations that might arise (for example, how to finance our business, how to be a step ahead of our competitors, etc).

And that is not focusing on the negative. It is thinking of what has the potential to be problematic and creating a plan to deal with that. It is considering potential negative situations and work those situations in a way that change them into positive outcomes. It is about preparedness.

Life is all about balance. Make sure your life has all the good parts to counteract the not so good ones. 

But lets not ignore the existence of the not so good ones, as those are the ones that kick our butts out of our sits and into action.

Life has every shade and texture. Take it as a whole and remember that you are capable of doing a lot more and that you are a lot more than you think.