If you’re serious about becoming an entrepreneur you have to stop people holding you back, or you will never start you’re real journey. If your parents hold you back on your journey as an entrepreneur you have to cut two “umbilical cords”.
The first “umbilical cord” is money.
When your parents are supporting you financial and giving you money, then they have leverage and they will use it to manipulate you to do what they want you to do. They will always justify their actions by feeling you ashamed for having taken their money.
They will make you feel guilty and obliged. Like you owe your parents something and need to pay them back by doing what they want.
This first “umbilical” cord can be cut by you building a business.
Hustle hard and build a business that makes enough money for you to stand on your own feet and survive financially. Then cut off any financial support you’ve been getting from your parents.
Then there’s the second “umbilical” cord, which is emotional.
Even when you are standing on your own feet, your parents might still try and pressure you emotionally to do what they believe is the right thing for you. They’re doing this because they love you, because they think they know what’s right for you. But they don’t know it.
Only YOU know what’s right for you.
But because they’re your parents and feel responsible for you, they will put emotional pressure on you, manipulate you and persuade you with all sorts of arguments to make a certain decision:
To do this education.
To get that diploma or degree.
To get this job or climb the corporate ladder.
Whatever it is – You need to stay grounded in all that emotionally manipulative turmoil and stay focussed on your truth.
You know what you gotta do deep down.
And it’s completely contrary to what your parents want.
Now that you’ve cut the financial umbilical cord, you can also cut the emotional umbilical cord by simply reaffirming your parents that this is what you’ve decided to do and that they won’t be able to change that. Look them in the eyes and tell them that you love them, and then go your own way and never look back and prove it to them.
If they don’t accept it and don’t stop manipulating you at that point, move to a different place, minimize the communication. It hurts, but even your parents don’t always know what’s best for you.
You have to protect your dream.
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