Obstacles or opportunities? Pursuing the dream of entrepreneurship

April 20, 11:22 PMPhoenix Home-based Businesses for Moms ExaminerKendra Tillman

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Do you see obstacles or opportunities? Your vision is all that stands in the way of you pursuing your dream of entrepreneurship.  You may have never heard the name Momofuku Ando, but I’m positive you’ve heard of Ramen noodles. Momofuku tinkered around with the idea of packaged ramen noodles for over 10 years before he finally got it right. As a result, he is credited with inventing the first instant noodles and cup noodles. Interestingly enough, he was a failed businessman who actually went to jail for tax evasion before helping to build a multi-billion dollar industry. He developed this new method of making noodles following World War II – a time of great hardship in Japan. If you ask me, he had some pretty good excuses for why he couldn’t be successful in life. Instead he had a dream of bringing peace to the world by making sure there was enough to eat.

Have you resigned that you need to place your dreams on the back burner because you have bills to pay?
If we watch the news and believe it, we may be tempted to think there is no hope of ever finding a career or starting a business that is fulfilling and pays well. We are in a recession after all, right? Did you know Costco, Burger King, Applebee’s McDonald’s, Famous Amos cookies, Microsoft are all businesses that were started during a recession? Did you also know that in the past 70 years, the US has had 12 recessions averaging about 10 months each?

What this says to me is that there will always be seasons of famine and seasons of prosperity. We are not to retreat during the seasons of famine. Famine is a time when you can prepare for the season of prosperity that’s sure to come.

Do you see opportunities right now or do you only see obstacles?

Desperation and defeat can cause you to look for opportunities that you wouldn’t have looked for when everything was going perfectly in your life. You may not have persevered as long if you had felt like you had other options. You may not have dug as deep. Momofuku’s idea for instant noodles was birthed out of a desperate need during a food shortage in Japan.

If you’re not satisfied with your situation, don’t be like the old dog that moaned and whined all day long. A stranger was passing by and asked the owner why the dog was moaning and whining, he stated that the dog was sitting on a nail. The stranger asked, “Why doesn’t he get off?” The owner stated, “I guess it doesn’t hurt enough yet”.    Do the circumstances in your life hurt enough for you to do something about it?  Are you going to continue moaning and whining about your life and let hours turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and months turn into years?

Get off the nail – whatever it is that causes you to moan and groan about your present situation – and start forward to your dreams!   Leave me a comment that tells me one thing that you could do this week to move you towards the life you're dreaming about. What need is there in the world that you could fill as a business?