Why Climb The Corporate Ladder If You can Make Your Own?

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited!” Tseleng Monyatsi

It is a waste of a good material when potential greatness never erupts to the pinnacle. Everyday I see people who could run conglomerates and come up with innovative and creative ideas that could change the fabric of society as we know it, stuck at dead-end jobs in the name of security.

You can easily exclude yourself from the above mentioned group. Many people do not believe that they are stuck at dead-end jobs. But is it really not?

Do you have the guts to challenge what you could become without a guaranteed stream of income…At least for a while?

Some of the world’s best success stories have unorthodox origins. Mark Zuckerberg—CEO and co-founder of Facebook, is a Harvard drop out. Bill Gates—Chairman and founder of Microsoft is also a Harvard drop out. Michael Hewlett---The H in HP stands for his surname, he also dropped out of Harvard. And the Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were doing their doctoral studies at Stanford when they met…and you guessed it, they also did not finish it.

Am I advocating for lack of education and proper academic foundation? No. I am trying to show you that the world’s best success stories had guts to challenge their self actualization without guaranteed stream of income for a while. And today, you are the consumer and they are your suppliers. There is something wrong with that picture.

In the words of Raymond Ackerman, “Starting a business is 90 percent guts, and 10 percent capital.”

I don’t know about you, but I refuse to believe that America is the best thing ever since sliced bread. I have decided to write this article to identify 3 factors that are holding you back apart form security..

1. Lack of Entrepreneurial culture.

Unfortunately, we live in the country where entrepreneurship is not celebrated. When we were growing up, our parents instilled the sense of subservience---remember those words,” when you grow up and WORK…I want you to build me a house. You are programmed to work. You were never exposed to possibilities of doing it on your own. We are born to win but conditioned to lose.

2. Ignorance

Many people fail to eat the humble pie when it comes to partnering with and submitting under the people that have the resources that they don't have. I don’t know whether it’s a black thing; but a black man would rather be humble and work tirelessly for a white man but ask him to do the same for his own kind, it won’t be done. Again, I say, we are programmed to associate authority with colour.

You see, In order to have something you never had, you are going to have to do something that you have never done. In the words of TJ Malamule, “Your network determines your net worth.”

3. Lack of Knowledge

Many people don’t read. They don’t subscribe to relevant material under the auspices of entrepreneurship. As a result, we do not develop competencies in strategic areas, and eventually we don’t change.

Please ask yourself this question, Is this all that I can become?

Yours In Motivation

Thapelo Jonas [Your Very Own...Life Coach]

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