Johnathan Budd had a highly passionate post with a video and at the end we were asked to leave a comment:
I want you to LEAVE the BIGGEST reason you are building your business, spending your time learning new goals, researching how to succeed, and developing yourself into an entrepreneur.
This is how I responded.
I am driven. I am motivated. In that internet marketing is now a science, it is the creative aspects that I like. Creative aspects for me are the results from the originality of thought, the expression, the interaction, the learning, the teaching, and gaining satisfaction from accomplishment. The challenges make it much more fulfilling than any 9-5 job ever could. It’s like I am painting a masterpiece and I have to concentrate on the brush strokes on a small corner of the painting. As I work on the colors and learn how to mix the paint to achieve the exact real life colors and textures and then transfer them to the canvas, a picture of the future is emerging.
I of course will have to consult with others with whom I will associate to have them help and guide me and give me perspective to the process of finishing the painting. And it will be those relationships that I end up fostering that will determine whether my painting is a masterpiece. I can’t do it myself and when I do finish the painting, it will be because of those with whom I trusted and shared my passions. The success will be reciprocal as one of my passions is to help people understand and achieve things that they didn’t know they could archive or thought unattainable. My way is perfect only for me. But there are things I can offer that will help others and in return I will learn from others.
In the end, I want to be able to help people and kids in some of the eastern Europe countries that would make a typical U.S. minimum wage job seem like a muti 6 figure job here. Outside of the main cities there are families that live on $50 a month, don’t have a water heater, use outhouses still, and live the life our parents and grandparents lived in the 20′s and 30′s. There are orphanages whose conditions are deplorable at best, and run by corrupt governments and bureaucracies were little ends up directly benefiting the children. That’s my dream. to see the smile of some happy children who are the happiest they’ve been in their lives just because I bought them all some new shoes.
Chris, this question is such a process for most people. I have spent the last 3 years devoting my time to helping others find their “true why”, one that is beyond the material in search for the heart, the passion, the real reason as to what makes one get out of bed in the morning! And wouldn’t you know it, my own “why” has changed with my awareness of what is possible. It’s such an enjoyable, yet sometimes frustrating journey. But to answer the question you have posed here, my reason for building a business, developing the skills of an entrepreneur (because I was not born one like young Mr Budd), the failing forward that I have experienced, it’s all for something way bigger than my own needs. I am tuning into my heart, and I believe I am here to inspire others to do just the same. Like you I aspire to see the smiles on the faces of those less fortunate from not only the new shoes I can provide, but for the time that I can give just to simply listen.
I am so grateful for our connection Mr Kilber, Thank you x
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