Key Takeaways From an Entrepreneurial Journey

CSKSpeaks
3 min readAug 16, 2021

(- There’s none defeated over here)

Entrepreneurship isn’t easy. It’s the most challenging yet the most rewarding thing you can ever come across. Being an entrepreneur demands an entire out-of-the-box lifestyle and an unorthodox approach towards every aspect of life. While people fear that Entrepreneurship is tough and that they might fail, it is important for all of us to understand that there is deep learning involved in everything that you will go through as an entrepreneur. Whether your Entrepreneurial journey lasts for a few days or for a lifetime, the learnings would always follow!

Let’s see the key takeaways involved in an entrepreneurial journey and justify the fact that there is no one defeated here!

  • Accepting failures as a normal part of life

Failures only make you stronger on the road to success. While most people tend to stumble upon coming face-to-face with failures, entrepreneurs learn to accept that failure is as normal as breathing, eating, or anything similar in life!

  • Development of a mindset to always be on the lookout for new opportunities in life and utilizing them to the fullest

There is always an opportunity hidden in anything and everything that happens is life. All we require is a mindset to identify those opportunities and utilize them to the fullest. Entrepreneurship is such a powerful experience that moulds your mind in a way that you could have never thought of before!

  • Becoming an efficient multi-tasker

Doing one task at a time is good but if you can be equally efficient while multi-tasking then why not make the best use of it?

An entrepreneur needs to be a swift multi-tasker and do multiple jobs from hiring skilled people to firm registration to payrolls to devising strategies and be the head of almost every department (marketing, sales, finance, management, other required roles) in the initial phase of a Startup.

  • Taking and handling frequent risks in life

Handling risks with the right attitude and approach is one of the most important things in life. When you are under pressure, Entrepreneurship can teach you to bring the best out of you in such scenarios.

  • Personal Finance & Budgeting

This is where most common people lack nowadays. The lack of proper knowledge of finance had led to the downfall of many people who, in spite of having enough wealth, couldn’t capitalize on the same! The same can be taught practically while having a startup.

  • Simplicity is the biggest creativity

Normally when we think of creativity, we look for the most unorthodox ideas there could be but a true Entrepreneur can see creativity in the simplest of things around us. Once you also start doing so, this world will become a different place for you altogether.

  • Perseverance, Tolerance, Determination

Such qualities are rare nowadays but if you are the owner of a startup, you automatically tend to develop these qualities over time because of the challenges involved and the maturity to overcome them in a certain specified state of manner.

Inference

By now, I am sure that you must have understood that whether you make billions or nothing in Entrepreneurship, you cannot be termed as defeated as an entrepreneur because, by the end, you realize that you have learned more about life with a single experience than many people who work in a multinational company with the stable career. Thus, it is the outlook that matters, and your takeaway from the experience stays with you forever!

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Dr. ChandraSheKar is one of the youngest CEOs in the Indian Education Sector. He is an Author, Edupreneur, and a Top Ranked Digital Public Speaking Coach.