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My Every day's Dilemma

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
–Guy Kawasaki, Alltop Co-Founder and Entrepreneur

Let me start this blog by asking a simple question.
Do you want to be rich?
We all know the answer to that. And usually, whenever I think in that perspective, I often think of having a passive income and then I open my laptop and start searching for ways to earn passive income. Results I get are freelancing (too many fake projects) and stuff I am not very interested in as an engineer. After searching for half an hour or so, I start thinking about what I can do with my skills and start thinking about automation and innovation. As I think about it, I usually get many ideas that could potentially help a lot of people and help me start a passive income through a startup. That is how my first venture in this domain actually failed. I just thought about the whole thing from an engineering perspective and I was a college student back then. I created the product but didn't have any consumers. I asked myself how can this be? The idea wasn't that bad. Why aren't people looking at it? Which made me realize, a startup is not a part-time job. I was considering it to be a passive income but it requires all of you. It required me to put in efforts for advertising, managing, recruiting a team, planning finance, and legal architecture. Common sense right? Well as a college student I was in a fantasy not matching the real-world scenarios. I was a college student back then, I am a software engineer now. Whenever I think about startups, there are a lot of questions that come to my mind.
  1. Am I willing to leave a stable income and step into the unknown?
  2. What if I fail?
  3. What if I am unable to get anyone to believe in the idea?
  4. Am I ready to face the society and typical Indian mentality?

I think the real question I should be asking myself is not whether I want to be rich but if I am ready to be rich.
And then I shut that tab and go back to the task I was working on.
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