BABASOLA KUTI - BEST ADVICE SERIES ON WHOOTAFRICA.COM The best advice I ever received was from my great Uncle and a legend industrialist Chief Chris Oladipo Ogunbanjo. He told me “No matter how big your problems are, don’t worry yourself to death. The heavens will not fall. Even if they fall, as the Chinese say: “We have 1 billion people to hold it up”. The journey into entrepreneurship is riled with hurdles and obstacles. Most of us want to own our own businesses without realising the acute challenges that this throws up into our lives. As we begin the usually difficult task of getting our businesses into action, we begin to experience difficulties that stretch beyond our businesses and extend to our personal finances and family life. For me those wise words have made it easy for me to sleep with a huge problem on my mind and still wake up focussed on solutions. I am a systems analyst by training but with the wisdom from that statement, I have learnt to believe that there is absolutely no challenge that is insurmountable. It has helped me acquire a kind of inner strength that surprises many when as we say “it looks like it is over”, and I am able to ‘Houdini’ my way through what seemed impossible…I have built many businesses from scratch and even when the plan falls apart, I am always focussed on the objective. Forget about having a plan B, C and D…it can fall apart such that there seems no way out. The most important thing is that immediately you identify where you want to be in businesses, don’t quit till you are there. Even when you are down to your last pennies, begin to think about how you can achieve those goals without spending a dime. You may not know 1 million Chinese people to prop up the heavens on your behalf, but out of the 100 people you know (who also know a 1000 people) someone somewhere will also be looking for what you have without you ever knowing. When you are tired of running, jog! When you are tired of Jogging, Walk! When you are tired of Walking, Crawl…Don’t stop till you reach your destination. Often times it is nearer than you think but you never know how near if you quit along the way. I often muse that without problems, solutions would be useless. Culled from: whootafrica/whoot-africas-best-advice-series-part-
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:31:00 +0000