What a time to be graduating ! The global economy is on the brink of a second spell of depression, employers are aiming to cut costs which means many are laying off workers let alone hiring new ones, and why bother with training ? It costs money, and that ain't something to let go off too easily, so the solution is to hire experienced workers - why bother with fresh starters ! The US and Europe are seized in a debt crisis, so they look to cut spending. Where do these cuts come from ? Welfare comes to mind. In addition the price of education goes up. All this and rising inflation has a toll on ordinary citizens, whose frustration has reached the simmering point.
This is the world I plan to graduate into in a year's time. I do not pretend to be command; uncertainty looms over my life. Heck ! I don't even know how this academic year is going to turn out for me ! I'm an international student at my University and my finite duration Visa means I'm racing against time; either I get a job this academic year, or I take the journey into an even larger fog of uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a funny thing. Actually you may think, like many, that it is a scary thing ! You've probably got your whole life planned out; go to University - do well, get a great job, fall in love, be a millionaire by the time you're 40, and retire in a huge villa by the sea, or some variant of that. Uncertainty sure doesn't have any place in that plan, and so it is unwanted. Perhaps you think you can kick it out, but somehow it always finds a way back in; through the back door or some crack in the wall. I have been a victim of this fear of uncertainty, and I thought I could boot it out, but uncertainty is a feature of life that we got to live with. We can fear it, or (and this is the awesome part) ... or we can have fun !
Give up that urge to control, for only God is in control. Trust God to do what is best, and just do what feels right; think like an entrepreneur. To me, entrepreneurship is not about taking huge risks, it's just about being comfortable in an uncertain Universe. Sure, you may take a risk, but an entrepreneur enjoys the process - it's exciting, stress and fear come when the result becomes the focus and uncertainty becomes the enemy.
The Entrepreneur's world is full of opportunities. Not because the world provides opportunities, but rather because the entrepreneur's mind creates them. Therefore, opportunities are not a feature of the environment, but the result of a way of thinking - the entrepreneur's way. Being an entrepreneur is about thinking like one, I'm new to this philosophy and I still shiver at uncertainty, but now is a time to give up fear and have fun, and that's what this blog is all about.
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