Move Forward
You’ve heard it echoed through space and time, “Go out there and chase your dreams!”. What does that even mean? How can I chase what I don’t know? Go out where?
I think I’m learning what this means more and more as I push myself towards this entrepreneurial path. Not everyone needs to having their own business, to be their dreams. But I did find after thinking and thinking about the perfect way to have my own business. After years of thinking, planning, and strategizing - I finally made it, I made it to nowhere. Yippee!!
But how does that make sense? “You thought and researched how to start a business all these years and you don’t know how to start?”, you might be saying. Yeah! Pretty much. I wasn’t specific on my goals. I just liked the idea of having a business. I learned about having a T-shirt company, learning how to invest my money into E-Commerce, if there was a trendy topic during covid - I was most likely researching it. But I would keep doubting it, but if I sacrificed this, I wouldn’t be able to experiment with this business idea or that business idea. I was suffering from shiny object syndrome. Everything was so shiny from a distance, but I never wanted to extend my hand out to sink it in.
This analogy might help out people around my age. Imagine this. You’re a first time customer to this BRAND new restaurant. They have ALL types of food from all over the world! 100 dishes sit before you, but there are two problems
None of these foods are your comfort foods
Once you choose one dish, you can’t eat the other dishes for that day. Everything else is taken away
Some questions I’d think to myself is, “what if I choose the wrong dish?” “what if I might like the other dishes more?” - this is a problem we all have. Imagination and anticipation can be stronger than reality. We like to think all that time spent weighing all the options of 100 dishes, spending hours on-end debating all the options, is somehow valuable. After too much time passes, the dishes leave you anyways. Dishes aren’t guaranteed. Is it worth it to just try one dish and if you don’t like it, come back the next day and try something else? Who knows! You may find the dish of your lifetime, just coming back to that restaurant and ordering that same dish forever!
What’s your metaphorical dish? What dish would you try today if you knew all of them would disappear? Email me at neikotalks@gmail.com!
Game Development is my current dish. But I found out I can get another entree of Youtube as well. I’m going to be experimenting with these for awhile and keep coming back if I like it!
