Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
By: Kristina Ercegović, a connector and Business Café mom
I often say that the first step you need to make is to get out of your own way. I myself am my own greatest nemesis, and I often stand in my own way.
To be honest, I had doubts whether the Business Café could equally succeed outside the framework of our former common state.
And after my introductory speech in Vienna, when the first guest speaker started speaking, all my doubts were dispelled in a matter of minutes.
Listening to Petra, and later her colleague Victor, as they emphasized the importance of networking for success, as they advocated focus on ones goals, with the advice that we must never give up, that we need to do the right things and to learn from our mistakes, that we must regularly rest, pointing to all the same problems that we here – in our “crazy, anti-entrepreneurial states” – face, from the wrong choice of clients, over the lack of environmental support, and even the problem of collecting what you earned… I saw for the umpteenth time that we are all connected and that we all face the same challenges.
Then what followed was the mingling of all the gathered entrepreneurs – faces beaming with joy, those same smiles, that same familiar yet indescribable energy, and the same atmosphere we’ve seen in our six countries over the last seven or more years.
I barely managed to grab a moment of solitude, to stop in the middle of that crowd, and realize that there will always be a need for personal socializing and the need of entrepreneurs to get together with the likeminded people, who understand them, who will show them that in all of this, THEY ARE NOT ALONE. And as we all have the same problems, hence our decision to go further wherever the road takes us – without fear whether Business Café can be replicated in other countries. Because we saw that it can. After the summer we plan to go to Berlin, and where then… we’ll see.
AND AN IMPORTANT NOTICE! At the end of all conversations with entrepreneurs, again the same advice – “MARRY WELL”, or to be clearer, choose your life partner wisely.
And when we’re at it, that’s how my “new business baby” was born – Ljubav, kilogrami i novac (Love, Kilos and Money) www.ljubavkgnovac.com
Namely, over the last six months, all our Business Cafe guests point out that their success is due to the wise choice of a life partner and his / her support – hence the Love.
Since our sedentary lifestyle causes problems with excess weight for many of us – hence the Kilos. And along with this, the entrepreneurial path is accompanied by the challenges of revenue growth and collection of invoices, which is related to our relationship with money and management there of – hence the Money.
These three spontaneously gave birth to the first international conference on Love, Kilos and Money. 17 lecturers from three countries. Details about everything, as well as the possibility of early bird registration can be found at www.ljubavkgnovac.com
See you there as well, I hope, and I’ll definitely see you at the regular Business Cafe events – 15 March in Varaždin, 29 March in Zagreb, and so on.
Let me salute you on behalf of the entire Business Café’s international family with this sincere message: “Dreams do come true, so keep on dreaming, and get out of your own way”.