Before You Start a Business, Ask Yourself These Important Questions
Pressure from society and the decision to start a business
Do you want to start a business because people or society make it feel like that’s the only way or possible way for you to make it big or become wealthy, making your first billions?
If that is a yes for you, go back, sit down, be alone, then take your time and think about it.
Especially if it’s a business of buying and selling.
You don’t have another source of income, no other skill, and no help or sponsor from anywhere?
What happens on the days you don’t sell? When you finally make sales, you end up using that to feed or take care of something urgent, capital and profit gone.
Unless you have a good strategy.
Think about it first.
If maybe you don’t have the brain to process it well, look for someone who already has the knowledge and wisdom, someone who will tell you the truth.
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I have been in this situation, just a student trying to start up something for herself. Started up a buying and selling business, but ended up using it for myself (I ate up the money).
Funny right? But I had to be alive to run the business as well.
I didn’t have another source of income, and no skill to keep everything running, no sponsor, it was just me and the business.
Instead of starting up a buying and selling business when you have nothing, I will advise you to check out these things (you can just choose):
- Learn a skill if you can bring out time for that
- Get a job, save up to start your own dreams
- Get a job, then start up a business that does not necessarily need your attention (you can be working, and your business is still running)
- Start a digital business (though you have to learn how to do this)
Have you ever felt pressured to start a business before you were truly ready?
Share your thoughts or experience in the comments — your story may help someone make a wiser decision.
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