A friend of mine wants to become a director, he has this interest from many years. He dreams about it, talks about it whenever we meet but never worked towards it saying that he is not in a position to quit his job.
When I suggested him to start with directing short videos during weekends continuing his daily job on weekdays he completely refused the idea to direct short movies saying his aim is to make a great, full length movie and short movies are not a right way to start.
WHY STARTING SMALL IS UNDER-ESTIMATED ??
Sir Richard Branson started his entrepreneurial race with a school magazine.
Aravind Eye Hospital, the worlds largest opthalmological institution, started with 11 beds.
Every great achievement starts small.
If you want to become a director and couldn't start your career with film institutes start with short videos..
If you have developed a product first test it on a small market..
If you wanted to become a writer start with a blog or short stories..
Starting small has great advantages…
- It is easy to start and there wouldn’t be much risk attached to it.
- You are doing what you wanted to do, though not at the scale you dreamt of. This is a far better condition than not doing what you want to do at all.
- You can test how good your product or service is or could be.
- You can practice the art and can get better at it by rectifying your mistakes.
- You can develop a network which might be useful later.
- And finally an important one…you will get the actual hands-on feel of the work from which you can decide whether it is the routine you wanted to follow for your rest of your life in full time.
Watching Sachin Tendulkar hitting a sixer is always fun and dreaming to play that way is quite obvious but getting in there, working hard daily, being consistent and staying out of the diversions is not everybody's cup of tea.
This reminds me of my interest during school days to be a part of Indian cricket team.
I irritated my parents for some time with my over-enthu about cricket till they joined me in a summer coaching. After the initial days of coaching the entire scenario was changed, I lost interest in the game which I once decided will be my career.
May be I was more attracted to the glamour around that sport than actually playing the game.
If you are not in a position in doing it in a big way…at least start small. Because you can always do what you wanted to do this way.
When I said start small I did not mean to be small. I am not talking about the end. What I am saying is about the beginning, the FIRST STEP.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." ~ Zig Ziglar
There may be reasons for not to start big but there is no reason and no one to stop you from starting small...that is the beauty of it.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." ~ Zig Ziglar
There may be reasons for not to start big but there is no reason and no one to stop you from starting small...that is the beauty of it.
Thank you for reading.
Are you attracted to the fame or to the actual game?
Are you ready to the take a first step right now, though small. Or will you wait for a big start on a big day, which unfortunately may not happen ?
