Tuesday 8 July 2014

My Adventures of flying solo

So there I was, 13-odd years into a corporate career, finally deciding to take the plunge into the vast and unpredictable world of entrepreneurship. True to my meticulous nature and my ever-present excel sheet, I had spent time examining my options, done my SWOT analysis, worked out the financials…basically I had done all possible left-brain thinking and created scenarios, sub-scenarios and counter-scenarios. And I sat back and wondered why this was the nth time I was doing this same exercise when I hadn't moved a muscle in the right direction in the past, and what was so different about this one time that I was willing to take the plunge now, when I did nothing about it all those other times. For all you employees-turned-entrepreneurs out there, what is that one moment - the trigger - that gave you the courage (or the foolhardiness?) to 'just do it'?