Handling Your Well-Wishers

When you are successful your well-wishers knows who you are.. BUT when you are yet to become successful, you know who your well-wishers are..

I changed the above quote a bit, as the original one had “Unsuccessful” in the second line, which is not my situation at present.

Today I sent a whatsapp to my friend, asking him about his well-being. He is in a full time job with a big IT company. Two months back, I shared with him my decision to be an entrepreneur and to leave my current job.

So after the general “How are you”, “I am fine” messages, his next message was “Work, Any?”

I think, these blunt and dumb messages are expected in our startup journey from our well-wishers.

The mantra is — Do not overreact. Let us use them as our sounding board to practice our sales pitch or our weekly progress report pitch. I told him about 5 different things that I have learned or doing in my business. After sending him long messages on my business progress, I asked “How is your work?”. His response was as I had expected “It is ok. nothing much, just going on with the flow”

Voila! My insight for today is — There are people who want to go with the flow, but there are people like us who wants to create our own stream so we can create our flow and move with it.

Thanks to my well-wishers for making me invent this stream analogy :-)

Looking forward to another challenging and learning week!