Dr Ehoneah Obed - PharmD (2024)

09/10/2021

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻.

That experience makes me feel like I can easily learn anything I choose to provided I am ready to give it the time.

Learning doesn't end when you complete school. In fact, for people who want to lead in life, the actual learning begins the moment you are down with school.

The true learning that will take you to the top is what you do when no one has given you a curriculum and no way is constantly reminding you to learn because you have an upcoming exams.

You choose what to learn, how to learn it, when to learn it and where to learn it. That's the point where discipline is most needed and they people will discipline themselves to learn what they must and put in the actions are the ones who truly wins.

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲.

06/10/2021

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀/𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹
Are you aware of what the statistics for startup failures are?

According to a recent article published on embroker.com, it was noted that about 90% of all startups fail by the fifth year and 10% of these failures usually happen within the first year of business.

This means that for every 10 startups that were started this year, 1 is going to fail by the end of the year whereas almost 9 of them will not exist by the fifth year.

This is alarming for someone like me looking forward to building my own startup. Getting to read these statistics made me anxious and zealous at the same time to find out what could be the cause of such a huge number of failures and what could be done by myself and my team or any other person to mitigate these.

Would you want your business to fail within the first year of starting it? Or do you wish to go out of business by the fifth year of operating?

Obviously not! I don't think any startup founder(s) ever envisage going out of business when starting. Almost every founder looks forward to running a successful business and all you can envisage is how you are going to earn some of the millions (in whichever currency) that others are also making.

Some others too are envisaging how they would earn the trust of various angel investors or venture capitalists to invest huge sums of money in their business and put them high up in the market.

These are all valid expectations for every startup founder. But the question is: if startup failure is at this high rate then what should I as a founder do from the beginning in order not to fall prey to whatever is causing these sorts of failures.

As curious as I am about this topic, I have done a lot of research about it because failure cannot be my portion and by hook or crook, I want to be part of the 10% that will succeed.

Wouldn't you want to know what is responsible for such high statistics for startup failures in order to avoid them and also join the 10% that succeeds?

Of course, I know you would like to know and that's why I am sharing what I discovered with you in this post.

During my research into this topic, I came across a lot of reasons which were attributed to be the causes of startup failures. However, I found out that a particular person's own encompassed all the others, and his explanation made so much sense.

That is what I picked up and would like to share with you today.

It was an interview that the billionaire owner of the NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, granted one of my favorite entrepreneurs, Patrick Ben David (Valuetainment channel on YouTube).

In the interview, when Pat asked Mark Cuban about what he thought was the number one reason why startups/businesses fail based on his personal experience and also his experience as a shark (part of the shark tank team - check this on YouTube if you don't know what it is).

He gave an outright answer which came out as if he didn't even have to think about the question. My guess is he had come to that understanding over time and had that information at his fingertips.

As such, you and I also need this information at our fingertips.

The answer he gave was: LACK OF BRAINS, LACK OF EFFORTS.

According to the billionaire, these are the two main reasons why businesses/startups fail and these are basic and applicable to any business at all.

He went on to explain these two reasons for failure.

With respect to the lack of brains, he explained that you are going to go out of business if you are not ready to learn all you can about your business and the industry that you are getting into. He went on to mention that no one enters a business in a vacuum.

No matter what, your business is, you are in competition with others. What this means to him is that, whichever business you are getting into now, someone else is doing a similar thing and for that matter, they may know as much as you know now.

They also want to win and hence will be willing to add on to their current knowledge. If you, therefore, do not commit yourself to learn more about the business or the industry you are getting into then your competitors are going to kick you out of business.

Therefore, lack of brains (not willing to learn) is a primary reason why businesses fail.

To the second reason, he went on to explain that even for people with the right set of knowledge, the differentiating factor is your ability to execute on your knowledge or in simple terms your ability to do the work.

If you are not willing to do the work, any of your competitors who outworks you can put you out of business.

As simple as these two reasons sound, they are indeed the reasons why most startups fail. If you take failed individual startups or businesses and look at the various reasons why they failed, you will come to appreciate that the underlying reasons are indeed lack of brains and lack of effort.

Let's take a look at some of the reasons stated by some startup founders for their failure and see if what Mark Cuban taught us is true or not:

- Running out of cash (from funding or personal money):
Let's relate this to the two main reasons. Were the founders willing to learn how to raise funds to support their business and did they put in the work to actually get the money?

Did they put in the work to learn about the potential of their idea? Were they willing to learn about why their idea wouldn't work, what their customers thought of their product and all?

In summary, their lack of knowledge or efforts led them to not having enough money to sustain their business.

Others include: Failure because of
- competition
- Pricing or cost issues
- User unfriendly products
- Poor marketing
- Cash flow problems

Your assignment now is to see how the two reasons act as underlying reasons to any of the above reasons stated by various failed startups as the reasons for their failures.

It is therefore imperative that everyone willing to build a successful startup or business that will stand the test of time should have the following traits:

- Readiness to learn all you can about your business, industry, products, users, potential investors, etc
- Readiness to put in the work (effort) to achieve all your goals

Is there any other reason you think is responsible for the failure of businesses that are not captured within these two? Comment it below and let us also learn from your experience or opinions.

- Written by: 𝗗𝗿. 𝗘𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗵 𝗢𝗯𝗲𝗱 (𝙋𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙩 &𝙖𝙢𝙥; 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩)

30/09/2021

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲
There was a man who was promised a golden opportunity and all that he was to do was to get to the top of a very long staircase.

This staircase was so long that you couldn't see the end of it neither were you able to see what's going on at the top of it.

This man stood there wondering, what possibly could be awaiting him at the top.

What he was able to behold on the staircase was the rough edges and all the scattered pieces of rocks laid strategically to impede his movement going up.

He was so worried about what could happen if he tries to go get that golden opportunity.

What if I fall off any of the rough edges?

How will I cross these rocks?

What if what they promised me is a lie?

How much energy do I need to reach the top?

What if this staircase is never-ending?

"Hmmm, as for me I don't want any trouble ooo. It's better I stay right here knowing my fate than to go up this creepy staircase not knowing what will happen to me" - he thought to himself.

He started looking for alternative ways to get to the top and also trying to ask anyone he came across if they knew what the top of the staircase looks like.

Unfortunately, all the people he asked gave him different opinions on what the top of the staircase was like.

He became so confused and just didn't know what to do next.

Wandering down below the stairs, he couldn't find other possible ways around it. He kept going round and round looking for a better way to get to the top.

For several days, he kept wandering but not finding anything. This man was beginning to give up after several failed attempts to get alternative ways.

Gradually, the zeal to search for other ways was dwindling. The strength to look around was going down. The answers he was getting from others who claim to have been to the top before were demoralizing him.

He finally got fed up and sat down the stairs.

When he was asked why he was always seated at the foot of the stairs, he said

"I have discovered that the top is not for me, I was made to find myself here so here I am. If the top was for me, there would have been an easy way for me to get there.

Why then do I have to stress myself to go after something that wasn't made for me.

Also, I believe God's time is the best, if he really wants me to have this golden opportunity, it will still be waiting for me and God will send me a helper who will take me up these stairs. "

This is the story of most people and probably exactly where you find yourself now. You know and believe that you are made for more. Unfortunately, there's this huge staircase on your way. You see the challenges around you but don't know how that is going to be solved.

Even if you try, you don't know how far you can go because you don't know where the help will come from.

You then start looking for alternatives. You start asking people around you for ideas on how to get to the top. You listen to those who seem to be winning and they share their thoughts with you but most of them don't seem applicable to you because your own challenges are a bit different.

You keep wandering and not ready to take that first step on the staircase ahead of you. You have all these questions on your mind that you cannot answer.

"Hmmm, what should I do now?"

"I am a bit comfortable with what I am doing now even though I wish I have a lot more than I do. Should I risk all this comfort for something that may not end well for me?"

Your zeal to continue searching for other ways starts dwindling. Your strength starts going down. The answers you get from other people who have succeeded start demoralizing you.

You become too confused to do anything else that will take you from where you are now to you the top where the gold is awaiting you.

Time and tide indeed wait for no man and a time will come when no matter what you do, you won't be able to climb the stairs again.

Now is the opportunity to climb whatever stairs that are ahead of you. Most times the challenges that you foresee in your path are not really that challenging. But until you confront them, you will always feel that they are heavier than you can carry.

Just take the first step.

Then take the second one before you realize you will be at the peak of the stairs.

Take life one at a time, instead of seeing all the possible challenges that will obstruct you, go ahead and tackle these challenges one after the other. You will be amazed at what doors open up to you.

Sometimes, all that is truly needed is for you to make the first move.

If you make the first move early and you later find that it was the wrong thing to do, you would have realized it early to get unto another path. But if you keep waiting for the perfect path before you take the first step, that perfect path may never come.

Your first step is usually what matters most, are you ready to take the first step?

- by: 𝗗𝗿. 𝗘𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗵 𝗢𝗯𝗲𝗱 (Digital Consultant)

29/09/2021

Let your focus be on becoming a better person in everything than you are now.

27/09/2021

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴?

Not every seed grows in any soil at all. There are some seeds that require some form of specialized soil conditions in order to germinate and stand the test of time to become a tree to behold and bring forth fruit in its rightful time.

Imagine such a seed being planted in a soil that does not support its growth.

Unfortunately for the seed being used in this analogy, this seed has no power over where it will or will not be planted. Someone else (a human being) decides whether or not it will be cultivated in the right set of conditions or not.

However, unlike the seed, you as a human being will have to come to a point where you determine which type of soil (figuratively) will support your growth and strive to locate yourself in such a soil.

There are a lot of things that you may not be able to control just like that which happens to the seed. For instance, you can't control where you are given birth to, the parents who give birth to you or the financial status of your guardians.

All these seem to make it look like you are just some seed that someone else throws into any soil they like without consulting you first.

Do you think so?

The moment you become of age to decipher good from evil (as gotten from the Bible), you have to be ready to strategically position yourself in an enabling environment.

Irrespective of your current situation, you have to be ready to locate that environment that will enable you to become who you truly want to become.

Some few years back when I got introduced to the internet, I wanted to explore it and use it for whatever I thought was possible then (not so close to what I know now though).

Unfortunately, I was just a village boy who didn't have the luxury of accessing the internet anytime I wanted.

The network connectivity was so bad that you could hardly do anything with it. Just so you may know, I didn't even know what a smartphone was by then. We were using a 2G Sony Ericsson phone to access the internet.

This was very challenging and the other alternative which was a better option was to go to the internet café.

Unfortunately, the internet connectivity issues were so bad that even the internet cafes weren't spared. You could sit behind one computer for hours without achieving anything productive.

I explored the nearby internet cafes where I was either downloading software or tutorials on these software (that's truly the beginning of my journey into the I.T. field).

No matter how hard, I tried. It wasn't going easy because I was spending so much money and getting not so much from it.

It was not until I was in the Senior High School (Ghana Secondary Technical School) that I found an internet connectivity strong enough to permit you to access the internet and be productive on it.

Unfortunately, as students we were also not allowed to use gadgets (phones or computers) and so the only time that you could access the internet was during the ICT periods.

In my final year, as a member of the premiere robotics team for the school, we were given a laptop and access to the school's WiFi. That was when everything changed for me.

The change I talk about here is not even close to what you are thinking about now.

It wasn't because we now had a computer and that I could have access to the internet. No, far from it. In fact, there were 10 of us sharing one computer. Can you imagine that? And almost all the time we were either researching for something on our next project.

I told you it wasn't what you were thinking.

What then was the change that I mentioned?

All of a sudden I found myself amongst a group of smart colleagues. There were about 5 of us who were chosen to be part of the team because of our academic performance and the other 5 were chosen because of their I.T. skills.

I got to know that when it came to anything technology-related I was the least (maybe I am being modest but that was truly how I felt) amongst them.

I could sit and wonder what at all they were talking about when these colleagues of mine started talking about technologies and their capabilities.

𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲:

1. One of my colleagues was able to hack into a very secured wireless internet connection

2. Someone could type more than three times as fast as I could even though I have been learning Mavis Beacon Typing and had even gotten to the intermediate level.

These and many other things that I saw my colleagues do challenged me to start digging more into the I.T. field.

I, therefore , made a firm decision to start learning about the new technologies that my colleagues have been talking about.

I went to the school library in search of a book to help me learn some of these skills. I came across one website development book and that was how I got into programming.

The moral of this story is that, I may have never gotten myself into programming (which I do a lot of nowadays and make a living from) had I not gotten into that robotics club.

Being a member of the club served as an enabling environment to propel me to who and what I am now.

Wherever you find yourself and whatever you find yourself doing, if the environment does not support your growth or journey to becoming who you really want to become, then you have to find a different route or do things differently.

Having an enabling environment comes in different forms and shapes. For some of you, you will need to:

1. Change the kind of people (friends) you move out with

2. Change your location

3. Change the kind of discussions you get involved in

4. Change what you spend your free time on

5. Change your mindset

.. And many more others.

Just take a look at your current situation and also look forward to who you want to become in future and ask yourself the question:

Which of these things around me now will prevent me from becoming that person I want to become.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.

Challenge yourself now and get yourself out into an enabling environment for that is only when you can guarantee your success.

[Side Note: A fish out of water will definitely die before its time - Think about it]

It's time to go up I say, let's meet at the top.

- Dr. Ehoneah Obed (Pharmacist & Digital Consultant)

25/09/2021

If you want to lead in anything then you must be ready to experiment with things. Get ready to step into paths that no one has before. It is through such that various secrets to success are discovered.

24/09/2021

𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗕𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗧

🤔 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲?

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24/09/2021

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹?
Is there a goal that you wish to achieve but you seem to struggle and fail to achieve it?

Well, a lot of people find themselves in similar situations so you aren't alone. Does that mean there is nothing you can do about it? Absolutely NO! You really can achieve that goal if you do this.

Before I tell you what exactly you have to do, let me share with you a personal story to illustrate this point.

Some few years back when I was about to enter the university, I took a comprehensive assessment of my life and sought counsel from my elder brother who had graduated from university at the time.

Some of the questions I asked myself then included:

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚?

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤?

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝟭𝟬 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙚?
𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚?

Eventually I came to the conclusion that I wanted to be able to build my own business by the time I am done with university. This means that I had 6 years to build a business because I was going to read the 6-year Doctor of Pharmacy programme.

This idea was solidified in my mind after my elder brother also shared with me some of his personal experiences in school and how being able to achieve something like that will go a long way to help me in life after school.

There was no doubt that I was going to build a successful business by the time I completed school because I was overly convinced about its possibility.

School began and I started making plans on how to execute on this plan of mine. The first thing I thought of was to engage and associate with other like-minded people. Within the first few weeks I attended a seminar on how to start your own business and I learned so much from there.

After that seminar, I put together a team of friends to start an NGO on campus focused on personal development and mentorship (even though that's not the focus of this story - I will tell you more about this in later posts).

Soon afterwards, the mid semester examination bells were ringing. I had spent almost all my time doing one of three things; learning my pharmacy related stuff, learning some digital skills (particularly programming and designing) or working on the NGO.

I felt pretty confident about my preparation for the exams. The week of the exams saw me forgo any of the other things and focused on just my academic stuff. In fact, writing those five papers wasn't easy at all. I began to question the times that I had been spending doing the other things.

Were they really worth my time? Shouldn't I be focusing on my academics since that was the reason why I was in the school in the first place?

My first ever examination result that I saw was for Anatomy and Physiology. We were in class that fateful day when the lecturer walked in and pasted the results on the class notice board. Afterwards, he mentioned how disappointed he was in our results. He added that the highest score was 60 out of 82 and the least was 13 out of 82.

Was I perturbed? Not at all because I believed in the possibility of scoring that 60 marks. After he left the class, the whole class was silent and no one dared to get up and go check their results.

Eventually, some people mustered courage and went to check their results. The facial expression of almost everyone who went to the notice board changed on their way back.

Expecting to have performed well, I got up and headed for the notice board. I got the shock of my life seeing the score beside my index number and name. I didn't want to create a scene so I quietly exited the notice board back into my seat and refused to talk to anyone till the end of class that day.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘄? 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱?

What did I get? You may ask. Well, take a guess for yourself but mind you I was expecting to have gotten if not the highest at least something close to that.

I scored 48 out of 80 which to me wasn't good enough looking at the efforts I had put into my studies even though relatively people saw it to be a good score. It dawned on me that the other things I was engaging in was taking a toll on my academics and therefore I needed to rethink my whole plan.

From that time onwards I did less of almost any other thing apart from studying. I really needed to make it because I know I am a brilliant student but the results of my quizzes were suggesting otherwise. How will I explain my failure? I didn't want to entertain failure at all so I invested all my time in my books from then onwards.

After some days, it looked as if my dreams for starting my own business were diminishing and being replaced by my desire to succeed academically (which was in itself a good thing too).

It was not until the second semester of the second year when a friend who happened to be a senior colleague was looking for someone to design a flyer for her political campaign. I volunteered to do it for her and she paid me for that work. That was just an eye opener.

𝗪𝗼𝘄! 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼?

I then started telling people about what I could do and friends were asking me for favors and I didn't hesitate to do it for them. Soon people started reaching out to me for some of my services but I wasn't sure whether I wanted to make it into a business or not. Mind you, I didn't have anything to lose if I stopped doing those things but I couldn't say the same for doing the opposite.

Sometimes, I wished I had the courage to turn those skills into a profitable business but my worry was how that was going to affect my academics. I will end up stopping for sometime and getting back to it when I felt that I had some free time (which was not often).

In third year, I still wasn't sure whether I wanted to pursue it. I spoke to my brother on a number of occasions about what was happening and we both agreed that I needed to make some sort of commitment, which will ensure that I am able to build the business and succeed academically as well.

That there was the goldmine and the turning point. The word worth noting here is "COMMITMENT".

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲?

I decided to invest some money into the business and officially run it as one. Even though I didn't have money at the time, I spoke to my brother again and he was ready to give me some money. Therefore, during one of my vacations in third year I went to the registrar general department's regional office to register a company. Yeah, that was the level of commitment I was ready to make.

Mind you I couldn’t make that money go to waste because in the first place the money didn't belong to me and I didn't want to create the impression that I couldn’t be trusted with money. I therefore had to work tirelessly to get this business up and running so as to earn my brother's trust.

Once this huge commitment has been made, I was ready to sacrifice anything and everything to build a successful business and also to succeed at my academics. This served as a huge motivation for me and kept me going on both arms till I completed school.

Fast forward to the time I completed school, I graduated as one of the very top students in the class and I already had my tech company (𝗜𝗞𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘-𝗚𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗) up and running.

Now let's turn the wheel in your direction. From my story, what do you think you are currently missing?

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥!

What have you committed that you will be ready to sacrifice everything for?

Note that when you have everything to lose, you will be ready to sacrifice and get things done the way they ought to be.

Thus, the challenge now is that you have nothing to lose even if you don't achieve your goal. To turn this around, you have to make the commitment and get ready to sacrifice as much as possible to achieve it.

In summary, you have to want to achieve it badly in order to achieve it. I believe in you and know that you can if you make the right commitment. Enjoy the process of achieving your goals.

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𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀

Imagine having the best ideas in the world or having a particular brilliant idea that is likely to change the world but not being able to articulate this for others to appreciate it.

Your ability to convince others to buy into this idea or your vision for that idea is what is required for you to turn it into a profitable business.

That is exactly what entrepreneurs do, they turn ideas into profitable businesses. However, one of the greatest asset that every successful entrepreneur has is the ability to convince other people to buy into their ideas and follow their vision irrespective of how crazy their ideas may sound.

Don't forget people like to do business or buy from people they Know, Like or can Trust.

If you can make them like you, or trust you then it becomes easier for them to believe in your vision or patronize your business.

𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧.

I became conscious of this when I came to understand the saying that "𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢".

In all your getting as an entrepreneur, strive to get 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲.

It may be you convincing your first business partners, investors or your customers. You need these people especially your customers in order to come out as a successful entrepreneur.

The true question is how do I develop the ability to easily convince people? We will look at that in subsequent posts.

𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙪𝙥, 𝙡𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣.

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