Do not be too rigid that no one can change your mind; neither man nor God.
While you ought to make thoroughly researched plans, the wise ones have found out that the final call on whether to pursue or not depends upon your conviction and not really about how lucrative the business opportunity looks.
I have flunked several business ideas not because they are not viable, but because I become aware that God is not backing me up to execute that particular idea. I’ve even gone a step further by deciding that even if I’m already running the project before I realise I shouldn’t be doing it, I close it up immediately. (This is the real reason I shut down LearnThem, that online learning platform).
Many people are in businesses they have no business in and this merely wastes their time because they will toil for years and make no tangible headway. More pathetic is perhaps the case of people who are exceptionally skilled individuals who stubbornly insists on starting a company even though she lacks the skillset required to start and run a business.
Not everybody can be an Entrepreneur. What everyone really needs is a workplace where the people have created an atmosphere that allows you to do your best work. God has paired up many skilled professionals with other equally skillful partners that can help them in areas they are poor but over time, the skilled professional feels she can go solo and hence against strong signals she shouldn’t get out, she steps out and crashes for it.
Commit to the Spirit of God for final guidance and not to your plans. Let God have the power to change your plans easily.
This is what really determines whether or not you will actually succeed in the long run.
