You are a follower

 When you follow someone in religion, you follow someone at home, you follow someone in business. You are an employee, you have a boss, you wait for someone to pay you. Without someone you are lost, you lack direction, you are confused. When there is no employment you are frustrated, you are in the wilderness. You are a follower. 

You need direction from ‘above’, the government plays an important role. There is always a leader who dictates where you are going. There is always a need for an authority. 

You have grown up this way, there was a teacher, a principal and they were very integral to your behaviour. Without them you didn’t know where to go, what to do, when to do it, how to do it. They answered your questions, according to you they had solutions. They have it figured out, your only job is to find out from them.  

To ask them to explain and to show you and to train you. And this is your existence without which you are confused, lost. 

Now you want to do something different in one area of your life. You want to start your own business but in every other area of your life you are a follower. The transformation has to be wholistic. 

Most people are following and so it seems impossible to abandon this way of living. All the people around you go to church. They all do the same things. If you want to question things then you have to deal with this painful reality that you maybe the only one who is doing something and this might mean you are lonely. Nobody said the road of entrepreneurship is a socially exciting one. You may have fewer friends, you may have less people who understand you. You may want to do things exactly how you used to do them, to go back to your previous way of living .

You are scared of failure. There is no failure for a person who is serious about what they are doing. There is nothing that happens that will be a failure. Just as when you are putting a puzzle together, you will put a piece in a wrong place but that is not a failure, it is part of building the puzzle.