The Leap
Posted on : 13-05-2006 | By : RohailR | In : Entrepreneurship, Everyday
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Sometimes we fear things and we don’t even know it. Whether it’s running for class president, starting a new club at college, or starting a new business, certain things- whether it be the fear of failure or uncertainty in our abilities- things hold us back. But I’ve learned that the best thing one can do is to just take the leap. I know it sounds ambiguous, but that’s all there really is to it. If you believe you can be a success at something, you just have to go for it. Often times our brains are hard wired to think negatively, and so it is important to overcome this automatic connection by continually reinforcing positive thinking patterns. And by doing this it makes it easier to take the leap, which is exactly what I am doing.
Now the summer is officially here and I’m ready to take bigger leaps this time. I have a full time job now at a consulting company, which, as much as you may disagree with having “entrepreneur” and “job” in the same sentence, is proving to be a very valuable experience for me. I’m talking with vice presidents from JPMorgan, SEO specialists, consultants, and a wide range of professionals pulling in six-figure salaries everyday. I am confident that my time at the company will prove invaluable. Many of the people who I work with are highly experienced in the business world with people boasting PhD’s in business from presitigious schools such as Columbia. I’m proving myself valuable at the company and look to create as many contacts as possible.
Now most college kids working at my job might be working there to save up for a down payment on a car or such. Myself- I’m saving this money to fund my next big project. It’s a risk, I know, but it’s one I’m going to take because I truly believe this project has huge potential to become something big. I think it solves a huge problem and has a large enough audience to be a success. So stay tuned, you’ll want to.
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a couple of thoughts come to mind;
Feel the fear, and do it anyway – by Susan Jeffers, and the millionaire mind intensive.
Buy the book and read it in its entirety, many successful people have credited this book to their amazing success. Read this soon!!! Then call me for futher ‘direction’…
one further thought, have u heard of Anthony (Tony) Robbins? I went to see him in Feb this year – we should definitely talk about this. Google NLP (neurolinguistic programming) to get some ideas… but we should really talk.
Most definitely. I’ll be adding those two reads to my list. I’ve heard of the millionaire mind, the millionaire next door, and the automatic millionaire, all of which are supposed to be good. But I suppose the millionaire mind is more philosophical than actual techniques. I’ve definitely heard of Tony Robbins, I didn’t know you went to see him. I downloaded some of his stuff (legally ofcourse) and found it pretty interesting. NLP is powerful stuff.
For the record, Millionaire Mind is essentially a whole bunch of good research of literally who millionaires are and what they think is important and so forth… not really philosophical.
Anyway, I should probably be keeping up with your blog a little better. Just today, I wrote about “Making the Leap.” I just termed it, “Just do it!” After/If you read it, you’ll see that your title would work better, lol.
But I’m right there with you in that you simply have to make the leap sometimes. And usually the overall consequences are anything but negative. Keep it up, Rohail!
My mistake– I meant to say The Millionaire Next Door is more about the financial mindset (not so much philosophy, I suppose) of the wealthy as it outlines how even though they do have the riches they continue to save as much as they can and spend as little as they can.
Ha, that’s really ironic about how your post follows a similar theme to mine. Of course yours is much more eloquently put, lol. I also love the “screw it, let’s do it” mantra