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According to Bloomberg, 80 percent of businesses fail in the first 18 months. Entrepreneurs pursue Happiness and with such passion that they have been willing to start revolutions and drive businesses to their ruin for the sake of achieving success, wealth, or being obsessed with their ideas. Majority of entrepreneurs make the same sacrifices for money that money can’t buy. They sacrifice happiness, time, energy, health, home, family, honor, and respect. These sacrifices are made for reaching a destination of money or wealth and even after reaching that destination, happiness is totally non-existent. The journey is the destination and that’s more important than the ultimate goal itself.
The pursuit of happiness and money by entrepreneurs still consumes their lives and everyone around them. In my book, The Daily Happiness Multiplier, I talk about the Seven Enemies of Wealth and how the daily habits can bring happiness from the inside. Entrepreneurs experience moments of happiness – the close of a big sale and receiving a big check after lots of hard work and sweat, the growth of their business, the joy of an award or recognition, the extra icing on the cake on any deal, the successful launch of new ideas, and much more. However, these are just moments that can change from good to bad in an instant just like the weather. The moments that bring us happiness can evaporate in an instant, replaced by periods of darkness that can bring despair. So the question remains, how do we deal with such rapid changes?
Entrepreneurs need to use happiness as a foundation for achieving success in their business and not vice-versa. They need to find joy in what they do and do it with passion and a die-hard commitment to make a difference for others. That’s where happiness is and can take the success of any entrepreneur to another level. Happiness is too often measured by entrepreneurs by what they have or how they feel, here and now versus what they hope to achieve through a lifetime dedicated to a great purpose pursued with great habits.
My book “The Daily Happiness Multiplier” talks about the 52 Secret Habits that can help entrepreneurs discover their true hidden potential in life and business. The book was written with a purpose of helping entrepreneurs implementing one new habit every week pertaining to their situation to build a whole new “improved” and “passionate” entrepreneur in a period of one year. Entrepreneurs often fall prey to “I’m proving” versus “improving” and walk on the path of self-destruction. The quest for proving something to somebody or the world or to themselves can lead to so many wrong decisions and actions that are many a times irreparable. I have written the book with a single minded purpose of helping you “improve personally and professionally every single day.”
In life, as in any kind of journey, if you know your destination, and you know you’re on the right path to that destination, each step along the way brings an increment of fulfillment. The complete difference in these two life approaches is that one exerts internal control over the extent of happiness to be realized along the way while the other must rely on external stimuli ( an impulse purchase, a funny TV show) to bring fleeting moments of happiness. It’s the difference between being happy on purpose, with a purpose, versus waiting for happiness to find you or having to create it superficially. My book helps entrepreneurs develop a clear purpose and vision to find true happiness to create the foundation of any everlasting business.
By Bimal Shah. To get My book, The Daily Happiness Multiplier, visit the website or join the 21 day happiness challenge at www.TheUltimateHappinessChallenge.com You can email Bimal directly at info@BizActionCoach.com.
