Each and everyone of us has an inner voice. It speaks to us regularly! Over time, we learn to suppress it when it tells us things we do not want to hear. At an early age I knew I wanted to get into business. Coming from a family where most everyone else has chosen the corporate ladder, there was understandably a lot of reservation over the path I wanted to follow. However, when the time came, and I passed up job offers after I graduated from college,  I felt keenly that I had made the right decision. Looking back on my experience since I graduated some years ago, I do truly feel that I could not be any happier with what I have achieved and accomplished since then. Everyday poses a new challenge, and provides me the motivation to jump out of bed and get to work.

Your inner voice may tell you that climbing the corporate ladder is what you want to do, or maybe you feel the urge to bring about positive change in this world, and social entrepreneurship is what you see yourself doing. Either or any way, I think we need to learn to trust our inner voice and heed and follow the path it prompts us to. It may admittedly sometimes sound absolutely crazy, or may even scare you. The fact of the matter is, it is usually always right! Like they say….. we miss 100% of the shots we never take.

It is true that in many cases our circumstances may not readily and immediately allow us to act upon what we really want to do. That should not however be an impediment for not taking a couple of steps forward in the desired direction to start achieving what you really want to do. We only live once….it is best to make the best of it by following our heart and instincts, and do what we truly want to do.