Entrepreneur, Listen To Your Own Noise!

I had never understood the concept of "listening to your own noise" until I become an entrepreneur. It has nothing to do with dismissing the coaching, advice, and guidance from those with experience. All it means is; deep inside of you, lies the primary and sufficient resources you need, therefore, trust yourself and your ideas, as no one can do it for you.

If an entrepreneur does not believe in her/himself or his/her idea. Who else can believe on her/his behalf? Listening to your own noise is to be a prisoner of your own destiny. Convicted only- by what is placed in your heart and mind. Taking out the emotional aspect of being a dreamer/entrepreneur. Listening to your own noise does not mean being big-headed, but has everything to do with being single-minded, hard-working, committed, desperate and a solid state of mind. The daily struggles of entrepreneurs are; out a hundred things that will happen to entrepreneurs in a day,  ten will be good, and ninety will be bad, but entrepreneurs will not be deterred by the ninety. The will continue to pursue that which is placed in their hearts, and wake up the next day and repeat the cycle.  You may ask yourself, how do they make it? The answer is: They listen to their own noise.

No amount of discipline, hard-working, single-mindedness........ etc,  can take away the importance of the strong state of mind of an entrepreneur.  If the entrepreneur's mind is not healthy and strong it becomes porous, allowing everything to go through. Its ability to sift, package and reframe information received for the benefit of the entrepreneur ceases, and thus become detrimental.  What propels an entrepreneur from rejection to rejection then breakthrough is his or her state of mind! 

At the start of my business career, when  I was pitching for finance or new business, I was turned down a couple of times. After receiving the negative response I would ask, how could I improve for my next pitch, I knew the "NO" did not mean "END". After numerous pitches, gradually the feedback changed from " funding declined" to was "we will invest in the jokey, not business". All it meant was- they believed in me, but my idea needed refinement. From this experience, I realized something amazing about fanciers. Their first prize is always a viable idea, but when they find a passionate, committed and mentally strong jokey, who has moved a needle or taken the risk in his or her own venture, they look at proposal differently.

My journey in entrepreneurship revealed to me that; if you do not have confidence and conviction coupled with a good attitude in receiving feedback, then your business will never take off.  It is important to allow those who have "walked the talk" give you input, but never allow them to shoot you or your idea down without showing you where you can improve. Be a prisoner of your destiny and your idea. How many people have been told that their ideas will never work, but, today their trashed ideas, are enabling the lives of those who trashed the idea? Remember some feedbacks we get are merely people's reflection of their insecurities, relationship with risk or their disappointments in themselves.

Out there, there are people who are qualified in telling others- "it won't work", "it has never been", its too risky, yet those people have not tried anything. Listen to your own noise.

Listen to your own noise!
Be an eternal optimist!