What if it doesn't work out?

Often times people ask this question before they engage themselves into a big project or any step of great achievement. They say, ‘what if it doesn’t work out?’ this is not to mean that you just have to do things anyhow they come but the irony is that that question, ‘what if it doesn’t work out’ has made many people divorce themselves from their ‘treasures’.

Let me break the ice in this way, it is very essential that you interrogate everything and anything you would want to do before you do it but at the same time, be positive and make sure you get what you determined in your mind to get no matter the opposition.

The people who have achieved great things in life have had told friends about their ideas and dreams, some got into the boat and today are billionaires while others thought, ‘what if it doesn’t work out’ and even up to today they are not as wealth as they could have been had they believed positively. For instance, Mark Zukerberg. He invited 5 people to his Harvard dorm room years ago to discuss a business opportunity – Facebook. Only two people showed up and they got in, today those two people are billionaires; Dustin Moskovitz ($10.7 billion) and Eduardo Saverin ($7.4 billion). I wonder what it will be like for the other three that were also invited but didn’t show up. There is nothing more expensive than a closed mind. The mind is like a flower, it only functions when it is opened. Perhaps the other three were saying what if it doesn’t work out.

Sometimes we doubt because of what we hear from friends and relatives, in many instances they will not ask you to say what if it doesn’t work, they will actually tell you bluntly and sometimes harshly that, ‘it will never work out’ and as we hear such negative suggestions we also begin to think, ‘what if for sure it doesn’t work out?’

At one point my friend Stephen Nyoni once told me, “whatever you choose to do you must be ready to pay the price and if along the way someone comes to help you, then they are doing you a favor.” In effect he was saying, people are not automatically supposed to help you or encourage you, telling you positive things. They may even tell you that it will never work. People have the right to criticize you and pour out what they think but it will be sad if you will act according to what everyone else says to you. You must believe as an individual that it will work.

Look, even you, you have the right to think about the possibilities of it not working out BUT ‘what if it actually works out?’ Things are possible as we think they are. You have a lot to live for but it will not just come on a silver platter, you must have the stamina to believe against all odds that it will work out. Believe that it will work out. The world doesn’t owe you anything, as a matter of fact if you die without contributing anything to this world, then you would have stolen from those that did.  

Your existence to this world is very critical, every negativity may be thrown at you to make you doubt that it can work out but there is a possibility of the future with this question, “What if it works out?”

I await to see you at the top. I believe in the possibility of it working out, It will work out just give it a try.

Olly Moonga

Thoughts Are Things