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A Baby Is Your Excellent Biz-Mentor, Unless She Is Born Dead
Yeah sure, but what has it gotta do with a baby? A baby business mentor? I hear you ask. We were babies once. From what I can recall, I can recall nothing. None of us can recall what went on when we were babies. Our earliest memory about ourselves probably when we went to kindergarten and later. Those happening earlier were told to us by our parents or grandparents. It is this very particular period of time that is of my interest. This is where natural development plays a very important role. This is also where the natural mentorship shows (to those that happen to notice :-)).
As a newly born baby, she knows nothing but crying. In fact she has to be directed to cry, if she hasn't done that already. The medical argument is to make her lungs and cardiac (?) work for the very 1st time, and thus her whole inner organs. I am no doctor, so please forgive me if the above underlying argument is not accurate. You got the idea, that's the important thing :-) It's the 1st sign of living.
Doing business for a newbie is similar to the process above.A newbie knows nothing to start with. In order to get into business she has to be directed as well. To what? You ask. To get started doing (not crying) whatever is needed to make it happen. Reading business books, talking to business friends and other business researching will be among the appropriate things to do.
A baby DOES ONLY what she can do. She keeps DOING JUST that. She makes progress over time that way. Re-read those three sentences, let them echo in your head, body and soul :-)
Once she can say "a..a", she keeps saying that. Over time she can then say "mama papa". Once she can lift her head, she keeps doing it. The same also true when she can turn her body slightly. Over time she can turn her body to lie on her stomach. And on the baby story goes with her progress after progress after progress...:-)
NOTICE that once she knows a "how-to", she puts it into practice again and again. Her knowledge of "how-to" grows over time, and so does her achievements. She won't
make any progress if she doesn't put into action her know-how.
A good mentor is the one that shows how things should be done. A baby walks her talks. She is an excellent mentor indeed.
That's the way a business should be done. In order to succeed, you have to put into practice the theory you know at any given time. Make your mistakes. Keep learning from them. Our mentor has shown us that she can achieve a lot that way. The same will apply to us as well. Knowing and talking alone will get us nowhere. Only Action will get us somewhere more advanced.
ALSO NOTICE our mentor never does things she can not yet do. She never tries to run when she only knows to crawl (she is yet to learn how to walk first). Why doesn't she? Because she can't, she hasn't reached that level yet. What would happen if she insisted? She would get injured very seriously, did you say? I agree :-)
So is the case with business. You gotta know your limitations. Never push yourself to do things beyond your current ability. It will do more harm than good if you insist. Go set your goal high. Just make sure to make your solid baby steps to get closer and closer and eventually reach it.
One thing our baby mentor always does. She keeps on learning new stuff. She keeps up with the way the world around her changes. She rides the wave of change, so to speak. Business world is ever changing indeed. To succeed in it, keeping up is the least we should do. To do better, innovation and creativity will have to come in. This is another topic altogether :-)
Never thought a baby could teach us so much, eh?
In fact she can teach us a whole lot more.
About the author:
Linggar Sentanu Japra is an ordinary easy going man, very motivational, inspirational and down to earth. He is the kind of friend you can talk to with ease and confidence. His newly launched blog is http://huge-traffic-marketing.blogspot.com/
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