Monday, March 14, 2016

Not being truthful and honest is only hurting yourself and/or your company

Another No again. They said “I don’t understand your vision. It’s not clear.” I speak in my head ‘well, it’s very clear, which part you don’t understand?’ I walked out with lot of doubts, including doubt on my communication skill. What it is that people don’t understand? I spent whole night to look into the mission statement and most importantly I needed to look into myself. I have a grand vision for my startup, but I think it was too grand that nobody understand. Maybe it was me been trying to go around and make things sounds so beyond and impersonal. Steve Job taught me that if you are about to die, will you do what you are about to do? If the answer was no for three days in a row you know you have to change. I thought I was following the teaching well until the moment of facing the truth. The moment that I learned I’ve been lying to myself because I want to feel good and avoid the unwanted feeling at all cost.
I also knew in order to have my startup thrive, I have to be honest and truthful with myself and re-write the mission statement that is clear to me and everyone who read about it.
Here is the new mission statement. ‘Soul Home is a home for girls without family, for first generation young immigrants. We are here to raise orphans and young girls to be stronger, healthier. To equip them to be leaders and entrepreneurs. Empowerment starts from America and to the rest of the world. Soul Home focus on making them healthier with a holistic approach that ensure they grow strong in all aspect of health (physical, mental, emotional, nutritional,spiritual, social and financial.) We do one on one coaching, mentorship, workshop and create supportive network for them - the network of powerful now and future leaders!

I have millions of reason to not to run a startup and have overwhelming workload that require lot of sacrifice include losing sleep and even appetite sometimes.
Why I do what I do? Why do I keep going even facing countless obstacle and limitation? It’s so painful that I don’t want to remember because I was THAT girl

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