Entrepreneurship Is Not For The Weak At Heart

By Steve Biko Wafula / Published March 14, 2022 | 8:53 am

KEY POINTS

You will apply to 100 clients and 90 will outright reject you. The other 10 will give you promises to engage you and then never pick up your calls or reply to your emails.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Tears will be your best friend. Sweat will be your companion. Blood will be your partner.

Guts will be that neighbor that cheers for you always. Bad days will be more common than good days.

Entrepreneurship IS NOT for the weak at heart. It will have you falling more than how our politicians have failed us. And it will depend on how many times you manage to rise after every fall.

You will sacrifice everything trying to build something that your family will hate because of the failures. Your friends will distance themselves from you because they will see a desperate person. You will doubt yourself and cry every day wondering what are you doing.

You will apply to 100 clients and 90 will outright reject you. The other 10 will give you promises to engage you and then never pick up your calls or reply to your emails.

Tears will be your best friend. Sweat will be your companion. Blood will be your partner. Guts will be that neighbor that cheers for you always. Bad days will be more common than good days. In a week, only a day will give you hope that will propel you forward.

Despite all these, strangers will have faith in you. They will buy your products or services. They will retweet your tweets and Share your updates as your friends support celebrities they have never met despite you begging them to just retweet your tweet.

God will see your honest work. He will hear your daily prayers and in a short period of 10 years, you will be rolling in so much cash, so much success that you wouldn’t believe it is you.

It is ok to doubt. It is ok to fail. It is ok to struggle. It is ok to ask for help m. Do these things over and over until you make it. BUT it is not OK to quit. Life is like football. It doesn’t care how beautiful you are playing it. If you don’t score, no one will celebrate you. If you want to be remembered, work so hard that they have no option but to always remember you. Work so hard that they are forced to tell your story as the benchmark for HONEST success.

I hope this inspires you and stokes your dying embers into a powerful flame that will ignite your passion once more.

This has been written by Steve Biko Wafula, CEO, and Founder of Hidalgo Group of Companies.

About Steve Biko Wafula

Steve Biko is the CEO OF Soko Directory and the founder of Hidalgo Group of Companies. Steve is currently developing his career in law, finance, entrepreneurship and digital consultancy; and has been implementing consultancy assignments for client organizations comprising of trainings besides capacity building in entrepreneurial matters.He can be reached on: +254 20 510 1124 or Email: info@sokodirectory.com

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