We all daydream. It’s an innate habit. The dream to be wildly successful, the dream to be known as iconic, the dream to have your own business, the dream to live your life instead of letting your life live you. But the pressures and anxieties often persuade us not to go down this path with a lot of students forgoing their dreams in fear of failure and under the society’s influence. But beginning your own business, perhaps by getting a personal loan, is a reality and it has been umpteen times over and when it is done by students who have no prior experience or just a little bit of it makes it even more a tantalizing prospect to follow as it guarantees you the things that others just keep dreaming of. The dream is always calling us in its direction, but it’s us who need to take decision to take that leap of faith.
Most of us our fear comes from the fear of the unknown and not knowing what path to take when following our dreams but nothing is impossible. There is procedure to this madness and it has examples in recent history. We will provide you the path many have taken to make themselves true successes and it is not too difficult to follow. Follow our lead and see what we have in store for you and your dreams.
The Idea:
We daydream of being successful, famous and a lot of other stuff but if we look closely, day dreaming often exposes us to the greatest of ideas that are the basis of any successful business venture more than anything. We often restrain our thoughts and pass on some great idea that just came to us by thinking that “Oh that’s impossible” and in that fleeting moment our destiny gets a thumbs down.
Latch on to any ideas that come into your mind and work on them. The best ideas are solutions to problems that not many people think exist. Ideas are the most wonderful thing there is. Pursue your ideas to any length if you believe that they are the ultimate solution to a certain problem and always follow your gut feeling on how great the idea is. It’s your brain who got you this idea and it is the same thing which is the best judge. Facebook was created out of an ingenious idea of Zuckerberg – Creator of Facebook, to connect everyone in the world. At that time, he didn’t know how will he do it or how much finance is required or to what extent this idea can be viable. He just had an idea and he took initiative to take it forward, everything just started falling in place there onwards.
Find yourself a Mentor:
You always listen to your inner voice, don’t you? Well there are some voices in the world who act as inner voices. They can go so deep inside you by their words that they are able to inculcate that belief you need to make it big. Mentors in this case are often those people who are dreamers themselves and have gone through a lot already. They can guide you to no end on a lot of issues from finding that all important self-belief to handling business operations.
More importantly mentors are that special kind of people who are called connectors. They are excellent networkers and can expose you to a wide range of people who definitely will come in handy once you start of your gig. Sometimes they can also take up a cloak and act as angel investors to get you that all important finance you require to set up your business.
Remain Unconventional:
People with great ideas and the passion to pursue them are mostly unconventional to begin with. Being considered eccentric will only add to your appeal. Being unconventional means not following the due course of operation as per the norm. Learning, un-learning, re- learning, reengineering are things which few do with vigor as it requires offbeat thinking and remember that first Ones mostly end up in failures. First ideas don’t work out well and this is where most people lose steam and give up. You don’t need to do that. Bill Gates, the now ultra- rich founder of Microsoft was failure at first. Before starting out his claim to fame company, Microsoft, Bill Gates’s first venture was traf-o- data, a venture which was devised to aid traffic engineers by processing raw data from traffic counters. It wasn’t a success but it was a seminal point in the making of Microsoft because after working with traf-o-data, they came to know how microprocessors actually function in tandem with DEC computers. That made them come a long way in building the arguably the world’s most iconic computing company.
The Self:
The entrepreneur’s way of believing and living has to be different from the whole lot. It has to have a mind that is free from all kinds of distractions plaguing a wandering soul to keep him/her keep experimenting, building and living out the ideas.
Everyone has worries, but they have to be taken care of if one wants to dilute the attention on the task that lies ahead. Students with entrepreneurial aspirations normally drop out of college to pursue the business they plan to open or if they prefer to stay in and complete their college, the debt burden is often a pressure and because of it a lot of students go into jobs to pay off the student loan they took initially. In such a scenario, a student must get a plan to minimize the amount of obligation it has.
Keep going ahead and don’t get yourself tangled in the opinion of others every now and then. Do listen to pieces of advice from everyone, advice is never bad. You never know which one has the ability to further your cause. Make yourself available to experiences other than business, indulge in your life and live it to the fullest. Network as much as you can and if you can, find yourself a partner in your dreams, one who shares the same passions and is on the same expertise as you. Bill Gates had Paul Allen by his side. Nothing great can be built alone and if you want to be great, take the lot ahead with you. You are passionate, it’s infectious, rub it off, you don’t know how many stories you can help while building your very own.