Are you currently thinking of starting a business and you are surrounded with a lot of “what ifs”? What if the business does not succeed? What if you do not break even? What if customers refuse to come? You are not in this alone. Even as I am writing this, I am having the same experience. What you need to know is that successful business owners all had their “what ifs” seasons but they still went ahead to confront their fear and set up the business. That is why we have Microsoft, Dell, Interswitch, Dangote, Globacom et al today.

Thomas Edison tried thousands of different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained,

“All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”

Edison replied very confidently,

“Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know now that there are thousands of elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”

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