"Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain"

It is has been a good few months since I wrote my last blog and would like to thank those who appreciated my blog.

Most of you would agree your childhood days were the best part of your lives so far and recalling the good times give you a sense of happiness and wish to go back down the memory lane. I personally believe the reason why childhood days were the best was because we had lack of fear, we were curious and adventurous as well. Most importantly we had nothing to lose in our lives!

The older you become the more you fear because the more mature and clever you get. I finally realise why the late Steve Jobs once said “Stay hungry stay foolish”

Let me share a personal story which occurred about 6 years ago, me and my friends were fed up about the lack of football tournaments conducted in our town so being a bunch of 14 and 13 year old guys we decided to take matters into our own hands and conduct a football tournament with the help of our coach. Most people laughed at us or did not take us serious when we proposed the idea of hosting a football tournament. We secured the finance, invited 3 other teams, secured permission for the stadium and ready to go....

We ended up finishing second in the tournament but we were even happier to know we successfully hosted a football tournament. Till this day the tournament is by far the biggest achievement in my life! Looking back I realised we did not fear even once about not being able to host the tournament, the discouragement from people did not put us down, we came up with ideas for the tournament, handled big cash and had nothing to lose! I firmly believe lacking fear, being adventurous, having tonnes of determination and nothing to lose mindset proved vital for us.

The same traits can be applied to a young aspiring entrepreneur who wants to achieve whatever he/she is desiring let it be fame, wealth or both! The “Nothing to lose” mindset definitely gives you more freedom to explore because fear is erased! “Nothing to lose” is just not three words but a feeling one should have to erase fear.

I wish to be an aspiring entrepreneur, recently things have been going slow I have a business idea but became lazy to work on it and fear kept increasing until a few days back when I discovered a book at Waterstones titled “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain” by Ryan Blair which inspired me to write this blog and re-start my engine to ride towards the path of entrepreneurial success.

Let me finish off this blog by adding two more words to the famous “Stay hungry Stay foolish” phrase.

“Stay young Stay hungry Stay foolish”

Sorry for the lengthy blog, feel free to comment on the blog J