One of the most important thing that you need to ask yourself is – What is it that YOU truly want in your life?
- Not your parents.
- Not your spouse.
- Not your friends.
YOU
It is extremely important for your success.
Life Success – What do you want from your life?
For example…
Let’s say you’re a Software Engineer…
And you’re making average money per month…
The kind of money that’s “enough” to survive…
And “enough” to maybe go to a better restaurant once in a while…
But you want more!
- Maybe you want to make more money…
- Maybe you want to have more time to spend with family…
- Maybe you want to move to a nicer house…
- Maybe you want to do something that can actually help or impact more people…
- Maybe you want to follow your passion…
Whatever it is… here’s the thing.
You need to be VERY clear on what you want
And this is something that most people spend very less or almost 0 times thinking about…
That’s why after 5 years, 10 years…
They’re still staying in an “okay” situation…
But not the life that they truly want.
Here’s what I mean by that…
Let’s say right now you realised you don’t want to continue your job…
And you want to start something on your own.
You’re a person who’s very passionate about cooking…
Making nice foods and sharing with others…
And you have the idea to start a restaurant of your own.
BUT…
You actually enjoy a lifestyle where you can have the flexibility to work from anywhere you want…
And working at any time you want…
Or maybe also the ability to spend more time with family…
Not having to get stuck in the traffic to work…
THEN…
The idea of starting a restaurant is probably not the best option for you.
Why?
Because being in the restaurant business requires a lot of your physical involvement…
You probably need to be in the kitchen a lot…
And maybe even for long hours…
You might not have as much time to spend with family because of that…
And there might be a chance that you have to drive to work every day…
And you probably can’t choose your own working hours…
You see how things are just very mismatched?
Yet that’s how most people run their lives…
They’re doing something that’s not matching with what THEY want.
Because they’ve never spent time thinking about it when they start a business…
They probably just look at the angle of passion…
Or the money side of things…
But not from a holistic point of view.
What would have been a better idea for that person is this…
Starting an online business where she can teach people how to cook…
Selling cookbooks…
Creating digital courses on specific types of cooking…
Or many more possibilities.
That way she can be anywhere she wants…
No fixed schedule…
No traffic problems…
Not physically required…
And even MUCH lower starting cost than a physical restaurant.
Make sense?
I hope that gives you an idea of how important it is to be clear about what you actually want…
So that when you’re thinking about starting a business…
Or jumping into whatever “opportunity” that you think will work…
You factor that in.
Something to think about.
Hit reply and share with me your thoughts if you got some realizations!
