If there’s anything I want everybody to know, it would be that everyone is an entrepreneur, and our life is the first and the most important business we will create.
The reason why I affirm that everybody is an entrepreneur is because everyone has the capability and right to:
1) Dream big.
2) Create.
3) Work Hard.
4) Influence the world.
5) Give, rescue, and help others.
Dream big
When we are kids, we all have big dreams. For example, some kids want to be astronauts and go to space. Others want to be famous musicians or athletes. They don’t know that only approximately 0.01% of applicants, musicians, or athletes will make it to the elite. As kids, some of us had more reachable dreams, but at some point, almost certainly, we dreamed about something “impossible.”
Based on that, we can say, without fear of being wrong, that we all have the native capability to dream big.
Create
All of us are born with the ability to create. Since childhood, we take inputs and create and form new ideas, goals, or things.
Continuing the previously mentioned example, the want-to-be astronaut kid’s little knowledge is sufficient to create the dream or big goal and the steps to reach it. These steps might be as simple as asking for a rocket toy or a children’s book about the universe. However, no matter how simple, basic, or even wrong, we create a path, a set of goals and milestones, that we believe will get us closer to what we want.
Work Hard
We all have the capability to work hard on what we want.
As we grow up, our interests shift, and our dreams might do as well, but in any case, there will always be a path we can create and work hard on to achieve our dreams. As years pass, we accumulate wisdom and crucial knowledge to discover and pursue what we truly want.
That want-to-be-astronaut kid, now maybe a teenager, might realize that he needs about ten extra years of education after high school to fulfill his dream. That knowledge opens up new paths. If he’s okay with it, he must work hard during those extra ten years of education. If he isn’t, he might discover that his true desire is to go to space and not become a full-time astronaut. In this last case, he must find a path that allows him to do that and work hard on it.
In either case, hard work is a requirement for anyone who hopes to fulfill their dreams.
Influence the world
We all have something in us that can influence the world.
Through our hard and hopefully ethical work, we will interact with others. How we do things or the ideas we share often are enough to motivate and inspire others. The people we have inspired might improve something they do and inspire others. Just like that, a reaction chain of positive change starts.
Some of the influence we have in the world might be more easily traceable than the rest. For example, building a multinational company might be more tangible than the influence model we mentioned previously, but both are as powerful and crucial for society.
Give, rescue, and help others
We are abundant beings who always have something to give. It might be money, time, knowledge, or other skills and resources. Whatever it is, some of the people we interact with will lack something we have.
Also, we don’t know how crucial our support is for our fellows, so what might just be a simple service for us, could be life-changing help for someone else.
As a practical tip to excel in this area, awareness of what you have to give and what you lack is crucial to creating this synergy.
Why is our life our first and our most important business?
At the beginning of this speech, I mentioned that our life is our first and most important business. I say this because a business has revenue, expenses, profits, assets, liabilities, opportunities, and people involved. Also, the success of a business is directly dependent on making good decisions, correcting mistakes quickly, and learning from them.
Doesn’t that sound similar to a person’s life? If you can’t see the parallelism, let me clarify it for you. The average person has a salary, expenses, (hopefully) savings, something valuable (whether physical or intangible), some debt, opportunities, and people involved.
Remember this when you think that an entrepreneur is the one who owns a company. You’re already an entrepreneur. Your life is your business, and you have the right to dream big, create, work hard, influence the world, and give, help, and rescue people. Your decisions will shape the destination of your business, in other words, the destination of your life.