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Ask Yourself This Basic But Important Question First Before Embracing Entrepreneurship

Push all other questions aside and make this one a priority to answer.

Azleen Abdul Rahim
8 min readSep 7, 2023

When I decided to jump into entrepreneurship, I wasn’t aware of this important question before. No wonder I was hitting so many walls, facing so many challenges and experiencing a couple of serious burnouts throughout my entrepreneurship journey. By not properly answering this question, my journey, at one point, I find it a little clueless sometimes.

What do I really want to achieve in life in the next five years through this entrepreneurship journey?

This is the question I was talking about. I realised it only after four years into my entrepreneurship journey. Imagine wasting my time those years trying to figure out the path I was pursuing. It requires me to do a little bit of deep thinking, dig deeper trying to understand my true self and read a number of inspiring stories from other entrepreneurs around the world, just to find myself and what I really want in life. Then, I decided to answer it by choosing from these options in hand.

  1. The business will grow big, get investors in, secure a huge series of funding and establish the company into a huge entity. This option allows me to have a lot of money but no…

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