DETERMINE YOUR LIFE; ESTABLISH YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

Studies have shown that one of the decisions people in work places find hard to take is leaving their paid jobs and facing the uncertainty of being their own bosses. This problem cuts across all cadres of staff but it is more common among young executives between the age ranges of 30-50 years. Asking them what their alternative plan of actions would be if they leave their paid job is a tasking and challenging question.

Some people are not really sure if there is need for it while some feel the time is not ripe for such an action, yet they suffer in silence on their paid jobs. The management of their company hardly appreciates their efforts as many of them lament that they have stayed up to eight, ten years on the same level without promotion. Some of them get suddenly and arbitrarily transferred to very remote and frustrating distant places without immediate payment of transfer allowance to aid their movement or out of station allowance to enable them settle down at their new locations. Young persons who are just out of school and who are their children’s age mates are employed by their company’s management as their bosses in order to spite them.  Such immature and inexperienced persons become their bosses and they are the ones that determine their faith and life for them.

Life is full of mysteries and ironies. It is often a wonder to find that while very many unfortunate and less privileged persons wallow in abject poverty and can hardly afford one meal a day in our country, very few and probably less than 5% citizens live in extreme affluence and on daily basis make and stash away endlessly billions of money. It is not as if these lucky bourgeoisie (highly prosperous or very wealthy persons) according to Karl Marx, a Sociologist, have special physique or special brain which the proletariat (commoners) do not have. What distinguishes them from the lot is that they have financial independence and self actualization. They have succeeded in carving a niche for themselves through the identification of their passions and building up some businesses that revolve around these passions. Most of them have monetized their hobbies or the things they loved doing most at little or no stress; things which hitherto they used to do freely.

Consequently, the relevant questions one needs to ask oneself in ones’ quest for the millions include: who am I? What is my passion? What is it that I often do which when doing I derive joy, excitement and personal fulfillment in? Is it teaching or imparting knowledge to people? Is it writing? Is it working with computers? Is it helping others to solve problems like helping people to get accommodation as Real Estate agents do? Is it helping workers to respond to queries? Is it selling things or marketing?

In answering the question “who am I”, one is bound to identify what one’s given talent(s) is (are). It is this question that would enable one to know one’s calling or one’s endowed or bequeathed gifts. The answer to the question “what is my passion” would undoubtedly reveal what one has always enjoyed doing for people free of charge and without stress; what one has always excitedly, joyfully, intensely and endlessly done either as hobby or pastime exercise. Then one should endeavor as much as possible to see how one can turn this hobby or activity into money making venture (business enterprise).

In turning your hobby or passion into a money making venture you must remember that the best way to make money is to identify a common problem which people have and which your business can solve for them. It is people’s continuous need to solve the problem and your continuous ability to solve the problem that would generate money for you. You cannot make money easily without first giving value or service to people.

The truth however needs to be told that one day if one does not leave one’s paid job voluntarily, the job will leave one forcefully and most time it happens suddenly and untimely. Many workers especially bank workers live in fear today because they stick to paid job as if their success in life depends only on it. Many of them have the talents that can make them become the dream person they wish to be in life but they are scared to take initiative for fear of the unknown. We trade off our financial freedom in exchange for monthly salary without alternative plan and we are made to believe in job security. Unfortunately there is no such thing as job security in paid employment.

Why not plan having your own business now before it is too late!

The following are various passions which people have turned to business enterprises:

Acting

Article selling

Article writing

Artwork collection

Baseball

Basketball

Blogging

Body building

Car racing

Carpentry/Furniture making

Cleaning

Computer programming

Cooking

Dancing

Digital photography

Drawing

Electronics

Entertaining

Exercise (aerobics)

Facilitation

Fishing

Fixing/orgaising things

Football

Freelance writing

Hairdressing

Horse riding

Hunting

Knitting

Lawn tennis

Magic

Modelling

Movie watching

Painting

Partying

Photography

Playing music

Product reviews

Reading

Renting movies

Research

Re-writing badly written adverts

Running

Selling/marketing

Sewing/Fashion Designing

Shopping

Singing

Soap making

Sports commentary

Sports writing

Swimming

Talking/Speech making

Teaching

Training

Web logo designing

Website building for others

Website designing for others

Writing e-books