Introduction
We are living in the age of social media. Browsing through Instagram, I find a lot of interesting images young people taking luxurious vacations, posing with fast cars and showcasing their so-called “couple goals” relationships. The problem with these glamorous social media posts is that it is almost impossible for anyone to achieve this nearly perfect lifestyle and because these social media personalities have garnered up quite the following, they have led many innocent people, especially the younger ones, to have unrealistic expectations of life leading many of them to depression or even suicide. Furthermore, these unrealistic expectations carried by many of the youth today has caused some unscrupulous people to capitalize and cash in on this instant gratification craze. Now when you turn on the news, you hear of forex scams, fake weight loss products, photoshopped travel photos, etc. all because people want instant results.
Little drops of water make a mighty ocean
We always see celebrities like Elon Musk, Christiano Ronaldo, Sarkodie, etc and let’s face it we sometimes wish we were them; the flashy cars, the fans, the mega-mansions, etc are all romanticized by the media but what they (the media) never tell you is the years of hard work, destroyed relationships and many failures before they reached the stage they are today. For Instance, Elon Musk failed in his first three rocket launches before he succeeded in launching his Falcon 9 rocket. What I want to say is that when starting, aim to achieve incremental success don’t only focus on your end goal because it takes many years of hard work to achieve overnight success.
Stop comparing yourself to others
This is one thing many poultry farmers are guilty of. Try interviewing a couple of poultry farmers and ask them the number of birds they have. You would find out that most of them have inflated their numbers just to impress you and give themselves a false sense of accomplishment. But this is not entirely their faults because they see colleagues with massive farms with thousands of birds and wish they were like them but they forget that other successful farmers once started the same way as them or probably worse.
How to set yourself up for success
- Take a one-year internship: Perhaps, you want to start a poultry farm but don’t have enough money, first, volunteer to work for free for one year for an experienced poultry farmer. Trust me, you are going to learn a lot and these skills will serve you well when you establish your venture.
- Find a poultry farming-related job: After you have finished with your internship, you would probably have gained the job experience necessary to find a job. Stay at the job for at least three years so that you’ll gain even greater experience. While working, make sure you live a minimalist lifestyle and save as much as you can.
- Start your farm: Use some of the money you have saved up to buy a plot of land and start something small. In this post, https://tinyurl.com/y89x74p8 I have explained a simple way you can start with a relatively small amount of money.
- Seek funding to expand your farm: Once you’ve gained all the necessary experience and have committed a significant portion of your own funds into the venture, it is very easy to raise funding from friends and family to acquire new day-old chicks, feed and other equipment. Now you could consider yourself a fully-fledged poultry farmer. Congratulations!
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