Go to the extreme edge of possibility. If you thought of it, it's because it is worth it.

 

I once presented a self-defense security gadget in a start-up contest some years ago. It was a super innovative project that I wished to develop with all the energy that I had, believing in the utility and in the promised success of this gadget, and hence mobilizing almost all my life on it.

I actually won the contest. It was an honorific victory though, which was not so bad actually, but this didn’t financially help me to develop the project the way I meant it to. I must say that, like many others, I then thought that the financing would make it all. I was convinced that only consequent funding could give life to the project and make this leading-edge product exist on the market for real.

Why you should balance the external resources with your inner resources.

Like many other young project holders, I put the bet on some external resources (such as material, financial, partners, etc.), underestimating my inner ones which actually were THE things that would have made the difference. This mindset was prejudicial to me, the same way it is prejudicial to many others who persist to count on others and on external factors to reach their goals. Hence, at the first life test concerning the project, I dropped out.

And what happened is that this project that I thought to be unique, special and pioneering (it actually was), has been exploited elsewhere in the world under some other formats (not including mine, fortunately), with some other resources.

Whatever thoughts you emit, they are sent in the universe. Do not let someone else catch it and realize it for you.

Having the product now existing on the market and seeing the same or almost the same idea being valorized by some other people is not the point. Since my brain is, let’s say roughly functional, I still can come back on this project (and I actually will one day), and give it another personal touch in order to keep it innovative. So this is not really a big deal.

Cling to it with the same conviction and energy that you mobilized to conceive it.

The big deal is that I didn’t cling on enough to my dream. I actually overestimated my capacities in convincing myself about the huge success of the project, with my perception of it at the moment being somewhat of a romantic rather than pragmatic. Yet ironically, I really underestimated myself in the sense that a more warrior-mindset project-holder would probably have touched, tested, turned, returned, destroyed, rearranged and then spliced back the project in order to make it rocket up with limited means but with a huge vision. 

I have no regret about this since again, I can take this project back at the point I left it, learning to balance a better way this internal and external resource aspect.

It was meant to exist so just Make It Happen!

But, since there are too many similar cases of dropping out, the big lesson to get from this is:

“When you have something in mind in terms of projects, dreams or goals: whatever the state of advancement, the existent or inexistent means, the pretended capacity of your engineer-associate, or the time required to make it realized, … JUST DO IT! LEAD THE PROJECT TO ITS END. AND MAKE IT HAPPEN !”

  

Remember all the way that if you thought of it, if you mobilized all of this time, material and financial means on it, if you spent some energy discussing over it with some others, it simply is because IT IS WORTH IT!  At a certain stage of your reflexions and observations, you realized that this product or service met some specific needs. And, from another less Cartesian spirit point of view, if you thought of this product or service, it simply is because this product or service was MEANT TO EXIST! So again, just MAKE IT HAPPEN!

 Do not let other people do it for you.

Be the one launching AND catching the ball!

Once more the Natural Life Process (which is the reflection of a moving Nature) is in action. And this Natural Life Process (which is made of an infinity of processes, movements and cycles), is such that in respect to it, WHATEVER COMES OUT FROM SOMETHING NECESSARILY LANDS SOMEWHERE. Hence, while drafting, conceiving and talking about your project, you emit something that could either be energy, vibrations or anything alike. If thus you are not the direct captor of these waves (which logically should be the case), energy or whatever the name you will give it, some other people in some other places of the globe will capture it in your place. Just as if you were launching your tennis ball against the wall, waiting to get it back but since you spent too much time calculating the external factor like the angles, the power of the shot, the frequency of the bounces, etc. another person came and catched what was supposed to be your” ball’’,.and just goes away with it!

Learn the rhythm and master the process.

So this is what the Natural Life Process looks like! It looks like these ions in a permanent moving dynamic. You can whether wait for this dynamic to cease and get more stabilized (when there will be no more energy to boost it), or just learn to anticipate, to react as soon as possible and to learn to understand and to follow its rhythm, the same way a torero learns to master the move of its bull (how I hate this image actually!).

But then again, whatever your choice, if the project is this important to you to the point that it made you mobilize the whole part of your life, better go to the edge of your efforts.

Because for certain, it is worth it!. ©

Cornélia ANDRIAMASY RABEMANANJARA

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