Chapter 4
You cannot quit on your entrepreneurial dreams because the world needs you to see it realized. I want to assure you of this truth that it was not and never a mistake that you had the courage enough to decide to start.
You can do a little task even right now to list out at least ten entrepreneurs, whom you enjoy their products right now in your life and whom you will ever be grateful that they understood the truth that someone like you needed them to realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
Try to imagine having to walk all the way from Malaysia to Germany to either visit your friend or to deliver a certain message. I just heard you say “Unimaginable!”
Well, this is why we will never stop being thankful to the men and women who understood that the world needed them to see their entrepreneurial dreams realized in that even in the face of failures, setbacks, disappointments, stress, sickness, disabilities, etc., they set out to invent the bicycles, the cars, the airplanes, the mobile phones, the ships, the sewing machines, the fabrics and so many other inventions that have made our lives and our way of living very easy and comfortable.
Have this at the back of your mind that the moment you decide to quit on your entrepreneurial dreams that you are doing the world you have not seen a great disfavor.
However, even though you decide to quit, the interesting news is that the quest, which has been deposited in you to achieve will be given to another to realize it because a new world has been destined to be sustained by the realization of that quest.
I guess Thomas Edison understood the truth that the world needed him to have his dreams realized in that even though it was recorded he failed a thousand times, he only counted those times as ways not to do it right until he eventually found the way to do it right.
We can take a cue from Thomas Edison and learn to count setbacks and failures in our entrepreneurial endeavors as ways not to do it right instead of seeing failures and setbacks as the end of the road and resolving to call it quits with dreams that need you to see realized.
I bet you our lives today would have been extremely difficult if men and women refused to see realized their dreams of making our world a better place.
Your call to realize your entrepreneurial dreams was not a mistake. Your embracing this truth that the world needs you, will keep you focused on your goals even though you are neck deep in your entrepreneurial challenges and setbacks.
No matter how deep you are in your entrepreneurial challenges and setbacks, resources will be made available to help you realize your dreams if you persist because you have been chosen to fulfill destiny and to help sustain new worlds through the realization of your entrepreneurial dreams.