My sincere apologies to all my esteemed readers. I have been extremely busy with new and exciting projects which i will be launching very soon. Its been a while, since i contributed on this blog. At the beginning of the year, we made a commitment to add value to content on this blog. You will begin to see changes very soon.
During my absence from this blog, i was engrossed in a project which is so dear to me. During initial planning phase, i had a brain storming session with my business partners over some critical funding issues. We were pondering the best funding options available for the project. During the course of this discussion, there were diverse views with regards which financing option was the best and so forth. As the discussion progressed i recall my close ally, out of the blue saying' but guys, are we going to pull this project through'. Given the magnitude of this project, who is going to give us such an amount of money? We are up coming entrepreneurs, are the finance houses going to give us audience?
I was taken aback by my partner's sudden change of heart over a matter we had over flogged. From conception we were all motivated by one thing - to pull off the project at any cost. We knew our shortcomings and had discussed these in detail. We had agreed on alternative financing options if the ones we were targeting did not materialize. Now my closest buddy was beginning to develop feet of clay......I looked him direct in the face and said 'hey man, are you doubting our ability to successfully implement this project?'...he looked sheepishly and said noooo, its not like am doubting anything, i am just thinking like a human being, man this project is no small feat.' Again he echoed his statement of doubt.
I sat him down and said '...man, i have prayed again and again about this project, what we are doing is to facilitate, the project director of this venture is God. If he has approved it, i dont see us failing. No financial house or institution will deny us any funding.......come to think of it, we have been working on this for over a year, we have been successful at all the regulatory documentation and now, we are almost there, how can we fail after coming this far?. Where is your faith, i asked looking directly in his face again. He looked at me and said, i believe it will come to pass, dont worry we will get it done, i was just expressing my feelings.'
What i deduced from my partner's feelings on this particular day was lack of focus and belief in oneself. He was seeing unsurmountable obstacles instead of opportunities. Impossibility was what he could see instead of avenues where we could use to get the project off the ground. These feelings are what separates entrepreneurs from wanna bes. If you are to embark on the journey of entrepreneurship, you need to develop and think positively.
Positive thinking is the process of creating thoughts, that create and focus energy into reality. To bring into creation a positive outcome, which you see as a benefit to yourself or others.This thought process is a powerful gift endowed to us by the almighty, which unfortunately many of us do not use for our benefit. Those who have effectively used this feelings are what we call successful people in different spheres of life.
Being an entrepreneur takes a lot of courage and determination to overcome adversity. Watch out for part two of this article as i will share in detail the traits of successful entrepreneurs.
To your success!!!!
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