Assume your POWER

Hello ,

Thank you all for taking this time to read and may be learn something or get inspired from the following.

This is a very special title to me, I connect to this personally , emotionally and I am sure most of us were in that phase.

Assume your POWER

As you all know my inspiration is John Lee Dumas, EntrepreneurOnFire. His podcasts inspired me to start my own blog and write about some quotes that his speakers share and some that inspired me over my journey.

Every post that I had so far, not too many but every one of them are very inspiring for any or all Entrepreneurs out there can relate to them. And i used to believe these are mainly focused on entrepreneurs in the beginning stage, but today I realized that I am so naive that there is nothing like a beginner as an Entrepreneur because our motive is to believe in themselves and also respect the fact that there is more to learn out there -- write about that wiki word

So for this post I was thinking about what to write and an AH-HA moment (as John says in his podcasts) stuck me. I was listening to Episode 734 with Judy Robinett, an Author, profiled in Forbes, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg as a super connector, with over 30 yrs. of Entrepreneurial experience, I decided to share my thoughts on that episode.

I listen to people say that they read the same book or watch the same movie more than once and i thought why would they do that because the surprise is gone, but I have to say i listened to this episode more than 3 times.

My Thoughts

A quote that was shared on this episode

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time - Oprah

Guys, listening to over 100 episodes and talking to entrepreneurs and reading few books about entrepreneurs, I have found a pattern that most of the failures they have in their journey is because they didn't go with the gut or ignore the first time.

So the first take away listening to the first 10 min is go with the gut.

And the next one is a small story shared by Judy about an article that she read on Wall Street about how to be3come financially independent in America, says there are 5 ways.

1. Doctor

2. Lawyer

3. Inherit

4. Marry It

5. Start your own business

this is so true for all of us, even though some of us might fall under the first 4 but we are entrepreneurs so we fall back to the 5th, Starting our own business.

And from the past experiences from Judy, the biggest lesson that she shared was "Cash Is King".

Some of the lessons that are shared are

1. being the right room for raising investments

2. make sure your investor is also your customer

to be in the right room or have the right person to invest in us the key thing to have connections, so that next takeaway is

Your network is your networth

Absorb it and get into action, this is one of my biggest failures. I am from India and never went to an English medium school but came here to prove myself. Fear has always stopped to talk to people, make new connections of write about quotes for a fact.

But inspiring from other entrepreneurs made me a new person, and listening to this episode inspired me more to go out there and make connections.

Networking is something that makes a huge change in our journey. I had several experiences by not knowing or not being the right room because of that network.

So Entrepreneurs go out there, meet ups etc. and make sure you surround yourself with awesome people who been there and done that, who can give you the right advice for your company.

Combining the network and trusting your gut, gives us the best combination and in the best network of people for that right room and the right investor for our success.

FEAR, is the biggest problem we all have that holds us back from what or where we wanted to be

looser brain is the greatest enemy

Best advice she shared with all of us is Keep Moving and "Assume your POWER".

Entrepreneurs, Assume your POWER, trust your gut and make connections because let me repeat,

Your network is your networth

Rock on guys

Thank you

Vijaya Malla

@vijayamalla