Ways to do the work you were born to do
Nick Williams - Inspired Entrepreneur
Lola Fayemi - Urban Spirit
Nick Williams runs a business called Inspired Entrepreneur and he helps people start doing the work that they were born to do. He gave some really good advice in the first half of the show about how you can try and work towards making your passion into a business. Now it sounds great in theory but how do you take something from being an idea in your mind, sometimes a wild idea, into actually turning it into a business? Nick advises taking the idea and starting it in it’s simplest form as a first step. One of his clients went from being a recruitment consultant into starting her own clowning business ! I was surprised when he said it too but it’s proof that you can really turn anything into a business if you have a passion for it and if you answer the question: what is it that you in your wildest dreams would love to do? Once you find your passion, you can start working towards making it happen. Going back to the example of this lady, she went to see Cirque Du Soleil and said to herself ‘This is me’. With Nick’s help she made it happen. Nick says we are all born with certain seeds inside us and we need to let those seeds come to fruition, rather than try to be the person we think we should be.
In the second half of the show, we talked about self-self. Can self-help help or is it just a load of rubbish?
Self-help is a multi million pound industry and entrepreneurs have mixed feeling towards it: some entrepreneurs attribute their success to things like The Secret or the principles found in Rich Dad Poor Dad; and some people have the attitude that if you just work hard and take a commercial approach to your business you’ll do well. In the second half of the show I talked about it to Nick and Lola. Ok, so the interview is a little biased because I had two people on the show who are complete converts when it comes to using self-help but they still had some fascinating things to say. I asked Lola what advice she’d give to cynics and she said that most successful people use these principles without even knowing it. She also gave some excellent and very practical advice about how anyone can make self-help work for them.
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Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Business Theory, Entrepreneurs, self-help.
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