Side effects of Entrepreneurship

·         Frustration Frustration hits you like the monthly mobile bill. Every month, we plan something great, but plans fail quite often. We can’t avoid the frustration of failure, but we can learn how to handle it.

·         Insecurity-You doubt your decisions many times. You won’t find anyone to help you out. This is a side effect of becoming your own boss. You can’t ask for directions all the time, even if you have mentors.

·         Self-worth issues-You doubt yourself. After continuous failures, you start feeling like you aren’t worthy of anything. Persistence and perseverance are keys to tackling such a situation.

·         Addiction of work-This happens with almost every entrepreneur. Addiction to anything has an adverse effect on life. It’s even possible for someone to become addicted to smoking or alcohol after starting up, as they use it to alleviate stress.

·         Sleep disorders-Bad sleep habits take the front seat when you have to deliver a product in time. There is so much chaos, from customers and employees to family, that you often mess up your sleep schedule. My own bad sleep patterns began to affect my productivity, so I started waking up at the same time every day irrespective of my sleep time. My routine adjusted automatically to my sleep timings.

·         Family relationships suffer-Have you experienced this when you don’t give time to your girlfriend, wife or kids? Even when you sit with them, you talk about recent funding news, or your difficulties in hiring, or how tough your customer is. Give it a break! Spend some quality time with your family.

·         Bad food habits-A very likely situation for bachelor entrepreneurs. You won’t have time to cook food. You will subsist on ready-to-eat junk food alone. You had better get on a fruit diet instead.

·         No social life-You won’t feel it because you are busy building your product or chasing your next customer, but your friends know how many parties you are missing.

I am not trying to scare you, but it is scary because I have experienced this in my startup life. If you still want to take a leap then go through the checklist below before taking the final decision.

Checklist before leaving your job

·         Why quit? Is it because I hate my boss or work, I want to pursue my passion, or I want to become my own boss?

·         Can I work on my dream venture while doing a full-time job? How much time will it take to launch an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?

·         What are my Plans A and B? What if both fail? Do I have plans C and D?

·         How much do I spend monthly? Calculate your present expenses and future expenses.

·         How much do I need to support the family in the future? Consider your obligations like marriage, your kid’s education, and the foreign vacation you promised your family.

·         How long can I survive without a salary? If you think your venture will start paying you back in one year then save money for yourself for at least two years, because your plans will fail quite often.

POWER OF RIGHT THINKING AND VISUALIZATION

Success is development of power to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others. In an age of tough competitions success can come through the use of such power only. Power is an organized energy or effort. It’s an ability to organize knowledge and the faculties of mind. We call it HUMAN SOFTWARE. Human mind can be compared with a computer, which cannot run a programme without software. The thinking process and the life experiences are what make our memory, which works like a human software.

Our experiences are not what happened to us but what we did with what happened to us. In other words our experiences are our responses to stimuli created by events of our life. Our responses to forthcoming events are based on past experiences in similar situations. Our thinking pattern plays the most crucial role in creating our memory and influencing our attitude. In fact, thinking creates memory and memory creates attitude which ultimately decides success or altitude of life. Thinking is the process of creating human memory. All that we are is the result of what have been thought so far. Every word we think is creating our life. Our very life is our thinking and the result of our thinking process. The secret of success lies not without but within the thoughts of man. Thoughts make weak men strong and strong men weak. Whatever all we do eating, wearing clothes, driving, playing, are preceded by thoughts. The very way we walk, the way we carry ourselves, our talk, our manner of dress, all reflect our way of thinking. What we exhibit outwardly, we are inwardly. We are the product of our own thought. Whatever we believe ourselves to be, we are.

Thoughts are the original source of all wealth, all successes, all material gains, all great discoveries and inventions and of all achievements. Our thoughts, those predominate, determine our character, our career, indeed our everyday life.

Thoughts are the guiding force behind all the actions. And our actions inadvertently lead us to success or failure. It is rightly said, “Thoughts make or break a man. It is also believed by great religious leaders that the universe is created by thought of universal mind. This universal mind is the super highway of information linking all the human minds together. That is why we react to thoughts of each other even when not physically in touch. They call it intuition or sixth sense. We are molded greatly by others through newspapers, movies, radio and some thoughts generated through casual encounters. We are constantly bombarded by varying degree of thoughts all the time. And some of them may tune with our inner voice and can lead to greater visions. You all might have heard a popular advertisement saying, “An IDEA can change your life.” The perception of some great scientists changed the course of humanity by channelizing common events into some great theories. The falling of an apple could be an easy availability of food but a powered brain of Newton took it as doors opening to great theories in Physics.

Mind is the source of all power and success is the product of creative thinking and firm belief in our ability to execute the ideas. Like attracts like is true when it comes to mental interactions. And we start getting help from our surroundings. Our mind sends silent signals that have magnetic influence. Positive frame of mind only invites desired results as thought creates after its kind and attracts upon which it is directed. For the thing which we greatly fear, that comes upon us. Our fear thoughts are just as creative and as magnetic in attracting troubles to us as are the constructive and positive thoughts in attracting positive results. Hence our thoughts should be directed on success and not on failure.

Visualization of positive outcome of our efforts gives a great power to our mind to succeed. This is a technique to deliberately foresee our success time and again in a relaxed state of mind. It activates creative power of subconscious mind and also focuses our mind towards our goal by programming its Reticular Activating System [RAS]. RAS is like RADAR for us which can send positive signals to others and can receive positive powers from others. In other words it magnetizes and attracts to us the people, resources and opportunities we need to achieve our goal. These people and resources might have existed earlier also but as our RAS was not activated we could not recognize them. If we keep visualizing happiness at destination point we will get strength and inspiration to face all odds of journey, rather we will enjoy our entire journey. Einstein says, “Imagination is everything. It is the purview of life’s coming attraction.” All discoveries and inventions have been preceded by imagination. The famous martial art champion and Hollywood film star, Bruce Lee, while struggling to establish himself as an actor in Hollywood, once wrote a letter to himself predicting that he would become superstar in coming ten years. He took this statement written by himself as a message from heaven, read it again and again every day and kept visualizing the glories and happiness attached with him as a superstar. This practice activated his RAS and being fully inspired he gave his best in acting to become a superstar in just two years with the release of his famous film ‘Enter the dragon’. Today in Olympics almost in every game players are advised and also trained to use this visualization technique. Visualization, in fact, keeps us focused towards our main goal and also keeps us fully inspired and confident to pursue it.

Visualization has a power to transform our desire into a will. And, desire is to obtain while will is a power to achieve. Therefore, we should navigate our mind with right thinking and through visualization technique we should reprogram our subconscious mind to power it up for spontaneous move towards our goal.

Reasons to Quit Your Job

Quit your job to take a better paying position? Definitely. Quit your job for a great opportunity? Absolutely.But there are a lot more reasons to quit your job (once you have something else lined up, of course.) And they all fall under one main category:

Life’s too short.Life’s too short to go home every day feeling unfulfilled. Life's too short to work for a terrible boss. Life’s too short to go home every day feeling taken for granted, feeling taken less than seriously, or feeling taken advantage of.

Life’s short to not be as happy as you can be.Say your grown daughter called and said, “I hate my job. I’m bored, frustrated, and feel like I'm going nowhere.” Wouldn’t you tell her to look for another job?Shouldn’t you follow the same advice?

Here are reasons to stop being miserable and start looking for something better:

1. Your input is disregarded… or even not wanted-Everyone has ideas. And everyone loves when their ideas are taken seriously – and implemented. The feeling that you’ve contributed in a special way is incredibly gratifying.But when your boss or company shoots down or even laughs at your ideas, that’s not only insulting, it's demotivating. And pretty soon you stop caring.Life’s too short not to care.

2. You get criticized publicly-We all need constructive feedback. We all need a little nudge. We all need to be told when we can do something better – and how to do it better.But we need to be told those things in private.Life’s too short to walk around waiting for the next time you’ll be criticized – and even humiliated – in front of other people.

3. You never hear the word, “Thanks.”-Everyone also needs praise. We all need to know when we do something well (and everyone, even poor performers, do some things well.)Life’s too short not to be recognized for the contributions you make.

4. Your boss manages up, not down-You know the type: as a leader they should focus their time and attention on their direct reports, but they spend all their time “following” their boss. It seems like your only job is to contribute to the greater glory – and advancement – of your boss.A great boss knows that if his/her  team succeeds – and each individual on that team succeeds – then he/she will succeed too.Life’s too short to spend your time developing your boss’s career at the expense of your own.

5. You feel like you have no purpose-Everyone likes to feel a part of something bigger. Everyone likes to feel they make an impact not just on results but also on the lives of other people.Life’s too short to go home every day feeling like you’ve worked… but you haven’t accomplished anything meaningful.

6. You feel like a number-Everyone is replaceable. Everyone, ultimately, works for a paycheck. But everyone also wants to work for more than a paycheck. They want to work with people they respect admire… and they want to be respected and admired in return.If your boss doesn’t occasionally stop for a quick discussion about family, an informal conversation to see if you need an help, or simply to say a kind word… then you’re just a cog in a larger machine.Life’s too short to only be a cog in a larger machine.

7. You aren’t even mildly excited to go to work-Every job has its downsides. (I’m willing to bet even Richard Branson has to do a few things he doesn’t enjoy.) But every job should also have some fun moments. Or exciting moments. Or challenging moments. Or some aspect that makes you think, “I’m looking forward to doing that…”Life’s too short to spend only looking forward to quitting time.

8. You can’t see a future-Every job should lead to something: hopefully a promotion, but if not the opportunity to take on additional responsibilities, learn new things, tackle new challenges… to feel like tomorrow has the potential to be different – in a good way – than today.A decent boss works to improve the company’s future. A good boss works to improve her employees’ futures too, even if – especially if – that might mean some of those employees will eventually move on to bigger and better things.Life’s too short to live without hope.

9. You don’t think you can do anything else.-That’s the best reason of all quit your job. I know what you’re thinking, “I make too much in my current job; I’ll never find something comparable.” Or, “There just aren’t any jobs where I live.” Or, “I’ve put too much time into this company (or career or industry.)”

All those things are true – if you let them be true.

You can do something else. You can do lots of something "elses."

You just have to believe – and trust that your creativity, perseverance, and effort will take you to new, happier, and more fulfilling places.

Life's too short to just stay where you are instead doing everything possible to live a better life.