I have stumbled on an idea that dispels what others feel about business and are thus missing out on the most spiritual experience of them all.

Pain = Business. Simple as that. Business is good. NO, business is source.

Someone shining your shoes doesn't take much pain away from you so get paid accordingly. Somebody linking buyers and sellers and is the first to do so (eBay) takes away an enormous amount of pain from a load of people and gets paid accordingly.

To be the first to do something in business requires an enormous amount of bother and overcoming obstacles that nobody has yet tackled and automated for others (why is shopping at Walmart / McDonalds so easy - they make the bother of doing shopping so much less because they have tackled the issues for us and are now reaping the rewards because we don't have to face up to it). Microsoft - talk about making lives easier for everybody - they transformed millions of people's lives, Bills Gates became the richest man in the world doing so.

You want to start a million dollar business - look for pain in your life. If others have it as well then fix that pain for you and others and voila - kerchinggggg.


Here's the bonus - I'm mean a big bonus.
When you are overcoming the problems in setting up that business (my estimate is about 500 odd simple jobs to do before the business is up and coming), you are confronting your fears and thus going step by step to eliminating your ego !!! 

Might I add the most amazing spiritual experience would be setting up a business exporting goods out of North Korea. 

North Korea's score ranks 5 out of 5 in a recent poll of most difficult to trade countries in the world. 

The pain would be monumental, the resources would be completely untapped, you would come up with showstoppers EVERY day that would prevent you trading at all.  The infrastructure just isn't there and the first person to set it up would be rich beyond measure - that is what pain is.  You would face personal battles to keep focused during tough times - of which there would be many.  You would suffer rejection by the locals for not being able to communicate.  Your whole living comforts would be compromised and again a struggle for you to change as opposed to the world around you.  

Hong Kong and Singapore are rated the two easiest economies to do trade in the world with a score of between 1-1.5, where 1 is the perfect economy with no barriers to trade and 5 represents the worst economic state to do business with.  USA scores about 1.8 lying about 5th in the world thereabouts of easiest economies.

If you want to try it - 3 months would be all you could muster, you would learn so much about yourself and your resolve.  I suggest it is the utlimate challenge that would be the business equivalent of climbing Everest for the first time. 

As an added challenge - do it with a tight budget and on a tight timescale and you must survive or you don't eat. 

3 months - that's the challenge, you would change and change amazingly.

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