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When The Going Gets Tough

Entrepreneurship September 02, 2016

An entrepreneur’s life is obviously full of ups and downs. Sometimes it’s a stretch of period where it’s all rosy for a few weeks followed by bad news after bad news for another few weeks. Sometimes though, the good and the bad happens in one day! There were times when I was just numb, too busy to dwell over the bad news and just focus on the next task in hand. But there were also times when it’s what I thought about day in day out and I lose sleep over it.

Anyway, at this very moment, Alhamdulillah, things are under control in the office. But still, knowing that the path is made of hills and valleys, I would like to write in here things that have kept me going in the past so next time when I need a pick-me-up I can use this list as a reminder. I believe this list can also be used for non-entrepreneurs and everyone in general :).

1. Give yourself a lot of LOVE!
Yes, it’s time to be kind and gentle to yourself. Often time, we emphasize on our weaknesses way more than our strengths, especially this period of time where self-esteem goes down the drain. We switch into self-pity mode which without us realizing it, send message to our mind that we are incompetent and powerless. Then we start to behave in a negative way that impacts the way we talk to people and how they see us and it will only make things worse.

We often associate our self worth with job title, wealth, money in the bank and we feel worthless when things go wrong in one of those aspects. Actually, self worth shouldn't be defined on what we do or with other material things, It's actually the intangible things like how much love we have and receive, our knowledge, talents, our character, our values, our experiences and other things that cannot be taken away from you. I learned this during my days in my Psychology class in college and I remember during that time I was also so moved by Whitney Houston Greatest Love of All. The song made me understood that I have to learn to depend on myself and to build myself on the things that people cannot take away from me no matter what happens. I've experienced quite a few different level of status and wealth since I was little and I'm grateful that those don't change who I am. It helps describe me, but who I am on the inside have nothing to do with that.

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself

It is the greatest love of all

So yes it's super important to love and respect yourself. In fact, nothing is more important than how you feel and you think about yourself. When you are content and have that inner stability, you don’t need validation from others and what others think of you become none of your business. During one of the early tough days, I wrote an affirmative paragraph and saved it on my phone. I read it EVERY MORNING in front of the mirror. I won’t give the exact paragraph in here but it’s more or less something like this:

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