Financial Freedom: Mind Your Business
Posted on 12 October 2011
I had always understood the phrase “mind your business” to mean “see no evil, hear now evil, say no evil”. Like a good boy I was trying to be, I learnt to stay out of issues that do no concern me, except I was invited, or my help was obviously needed. As I began my journey to financial freedom, I felt really foolish. I came to realize that the phrase meant just that. Mind your business. I realized I had no business to mind.
There is no way you can attain financial freedom without minding your business. For sure, there are folks that are regarded as the neighborhood FM station, that carry live broadcast of what is happening to other people. You may feel cool that you don’t do that, you are minding your business. Which business are you minding?.
Most of us mind our employer’s business. There is nothing wrong with that. We cant all start life as employers. We have to work for someone sometime, pay our dues and garner requisite experience and maturity for launching out. However, after having worked for other people for ten years, it’s high time you started minding your business, literally.
A business can be built around your talent, passion or hobby. All you need is a sound mind and boldness; a sound mind to galvanize your ideas into a workable plan, and boldness to launch out.
Some folks hide behind the excuse of not having a talent. That is absolutely impossible. There is no one on this planet without a God given talent. If you look hard enough, or listen to your heart, you will discover what you love doing, what comes naturally to you, which you do not have to struggle to make happen.
We all have a natural flow. Fun things we love doing. Things that give us the adrenaline rush, things we wish we could be doing.
That is the seed for a business. A business we can grow beyond our wildest imagination. Lots of mega corporations, conglomerates and multinationals started as a hobby that grew into a home business. It does not happen overnight.
More often than not, your business idea is your passport to financial freedom. It starts as a thought, and idea. That is the seed. This is where most businesses die, before conception. It is akin to human conception and birth. An idea/thought is like the sperm. Our mind is the egg. The egg has to be fertilized and get implanted in the womb before it can grow, and begin the most amazing nine months of growth and transformation.
Sadly, most “fertilized” ideas don’t get implanted. They get aborted, thrown away, junked. They die before they had a chance to be born.
Many reasons can be adduced for this, mainly distraction and fear. Most times, our minds are focused somewhere else, mainly in the rat race; how to make a living, settle our bills put food on the table and go for holidays. When ideas come into a mind caught up in survival issues, they hardly register. Sometimes, we ponder on it for a few seconds, but since it does not put food on the table in the short term, we simply junk it.
Sometimes we meditate on the idea, even fall in love with it, but fear and low self-esteem kills it. We mark it impossible and send it to the thrash. Great ideas that would have given birth to multi-million dollar businesses end up with the thrash. Sometime in the future, we begin to wonder where others get their ideas.
To attain financial freedom, we have to take serious every idea that comes to us. Embedded in each is a seed of greatness. We have to receive it, have it implanted in our minds, incubate it and grow it into a business. After having birthed a business, we have to nurture it from birth, infancy, toddler-hood into adulthood. To do this, we have to mind our business, right from the time it is still in the idea stage. We must recognize it as a business, and tender it till it grows and booms.
If you don’t mind your business, it will die. Keeping your nose out of the Jones’s business is not enough. Mind your business.
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