Startup & entrepreneurship is a new
normal in professional journey.
Educational qualifications have changed
from postgraduate degrees to college dropouts. Professional experience
qualification as an employee is boring.
A sudden shift in “reference” based on few
DATA points is mind-boggling.
Another thing, which worries me, is the
yardstick of success in the startups.
When I started 2mpower, my focus was to bring a change in
people’s lifestyle, to make them healthier, thereby reduce the burden of
man-made chronic diseases on individual, family & on society at large.
As a founder, I firmly believed in
practicing healthy & holistic lifestyle. My family adopted it
whole-heartedly. And we stared influencing our friends and acquaintances
slowly.
Our initial years were spent learning the
human behavior and psychology. Iterations were made constantly, as we learn
what is working and what is not.
Austerity was practiced to conserve the
small capital we had invested to experiment this concept. Later, when our
friends & family gave us more money, we continued to use every penny to
perfect the model.
Money raised subsequently was looked at as
an obligation to return. And keep the trust of our well wishers.
While some of this ethos exists in many
startups, the societal pressure on success yardsticks is corrupting the DNA of
entrepreneurship.
This is similar to education, where we rank
the school based on the remuneration packages offered to its students. Not on
the knowledge & wisdom imparted during the tenure.
Entrepreneurship is great. It helps evolve
you as a human, make you responsible for the society you live, and help create
wealth for people.
Every individual should experience this
journey in true spirits. Once you start treading this path, it is a marathon
race. While you will reach the finish line sooner or later, enjoy the trials
& tribulations, successes & failures, and joy of not cheering from the sidelines!
As GetActive, we continue to focus in helping corporate to
become ACTIVE, by increasing employees activity levels to 10,000 STEPS. We
encourage walking, in small measures all through the day. And help build a
lifelong habit of staying active & healthy.
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