This above all else, watch your expenses!

The essen­tial enigma is that despite all the things you may hear as you sin­cerely set out to launch your very own ven­ture, is that there is a very strong force which can best be described as, a force designed to assure you will fail.

 A more com­mon and descrip­tive term for this force can also be used, its expenses. 

It is help­ful to look at the world as sev­eral dif­fer­ent forces. One of these forces wants you to believe you can and will suc­ceed in your ven­ture. The rea­son for this posi­tion is that this force or group wants to sell you the prod­ucts that will help you to succeed.

An entirely dif­fer­ent force also exists and it is entirely far too com­mon to ignore. This force or group can be col­lec­tively referred to as the naysay­ers. Now its really hard to under­stand where all the wis­dom that the naysay­ers seem to pos­sess comes from. A very com­mon form of this is the per­son who tried to launch their own ven­ture and failed. There­fore they want to tell you, how dif­fi­cult it is to suc­ceed (and of course they are right) the real ques­tion you need to ask your­self is why are they telling you, that your ven­ture will fail? Put very sim­ply the odds are with them and against you. There­fore it is very easy for them to pre­dict your fail­ure with rel­a­tive accuracy.

The naysay­ers have noth­ing to lose by telling you that your ven­ture will fail. If you accept their advice and give up before you try then you will not have to taste the dis­ap­point­ment of try­ing and fail­ing. If you forge ahead any­way and suc­ceed then they will be happy to con­grat­u­late you, and admit that in your case they were wrong. If you do try, and fail, then they will be on hand to say, “I told you so”. 

  It often will appear as if the very fab­ric of soci­ety is pit­ted against you. if you per­sist in swim­ming in the wrong direc­tion against the cur­rent, you may become a strong adher­ent to var­i­ous types of con­spir­acy the­ory. You will find all sorts of peo­ple who want you to explain your ven­ture in detail. The rea­son you keep believ­ing that these peo­ple want to take your idea and leave you out of the pic­ture is because that is very pos­si­ble and even prob­a­ble outcome.

 When you finally decide the only way to progress is to do it on your own, rely­ing pri­mar­ily on your own abil­ity, then you become part of a very hard work­ing crowd which could be cor­rectly called, the boot-strappers. 

Some how with­out the proper fund­ing and exper­tise you have to get your ven­ture far enough along that you can actu­ally show it to some­one, and then take it to the next level.

Stephen C. Sanders

August, 14, 2012 1:27am

 PS: Obsta­cles are by nature dif­fi­cult to over­come, yet if and when either you or I are by some mir­a­cle able to over­come these built-in obsta­cles, we will become much wiser and able to accom­plish great things, that most peo­ple only dream of.