Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Mahabharata
It is an epic. A story that is the source for all other stories. A creation of God and man. A balance between spirituality and practicality/reality. A book for life.
Underestimating financial-fuel and external factors
When I set out to pursue what I really wanted to do, I severely underestimated 2 things: external factors to work in my favor and the financial-fuel i needed to keep walking down the path that I had chosen.
Being prey to the loud voices of 'take the plunge', 'go for it', 'believe in yourself', etc were fine to the extent that they convinced me of the decision to enter the films/entertainment stream. But what I did not listen to were the voices of reason that asked me to conserve enough cash to keep the financial-fuel pipeline running. Depleting cash reserves may just push me back to the path I have left (at least for the time-being...and I am not happy about that).
Another under-estimated factor - external environment.
I want to do a lot of things, but cannot do it in isolation. I need a job in the film/entertainment industry, and that means that a lot of people who I dont know (and who dont know me) have to take a chance on me. They have to believe in me - which is a very difficult thing for anyone to do. And then, their CEOs, HR, and all the other people have to believe in me too. And then the company needs to have a job that I can do well in which is then dependent on the external business environment, etc. So, a lot of external factors have to fall in place for me to get the initial success on my chosen path.
Next time around, I will be careful and work on these things in parallel. There is no sequential path to success...parallel processing is important.
Being prey to the loud voices of 'take the plunge', 'go for it', 'believe in yourself', etc were fine to the extent that they convinced me of the decision to enter the films/entertainment stream. But what I did not listen to were the voices of reason that asked me to conserve enough cash to keep the financial-fuel pipeline running. Depleting cash reserves may just push me back to the path I have left (at least for the time-being...and I am not happy about that).
Another under-estimated factor - external environment.
I want to do a lot of things, but cannot do it in isolation. I need a job in the film/entertainment industry, and that means that a lot of people who I dont know (and who dont know me) have to take a chance on me. They have to believe in me - which is a very difficult thing for anyone to do. And then, their CEOs, HR, and all the other people have to believe in me too. And then the company needs to have a job that I can do well in which is then dependent on the external business environment, etc. So, a lot of external factors have to fall in place for me to get the initial success on my chosen path.
Next time around, I will be careful and work on these things in parallel. There is no sequential path to success...parallel processing is important.
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