Ideas & Opportunities

Once you’ve made the choice to become an entrepreneur, your conviction will be the wellspring that refreshes you on the long road to success.

But there is one important moment that cuts across all the patterns and data; it’s that point when someone makes the crucial choice to become an entrepreneur. Once you believe you are the instrument, you will begin to see that you are.  This is the hidden strength that people summon within themselves to make that life-altering choice of sacrifice and hardship for something deeper and more meaningful.  

“Give me a place to stand and I will move the world,” announced Archimedes, over two thousand years ago. Like the great Greek genius, you must believe that you can be that instrument of change, before any change can occur.  This inner belief that no science or data can compress and define is your hidden strength. We can only simply respect its natural force as it happens.

Entrepreneurs, therefore, emerge from within themselves.  They match their inner perception with the outer situation.  The only question that remains, for you, is:  How can I make it happen?

Take responsibility
Each of us steps into the role of being an entrepreneur. We take responsibility first for directing our own lives.  But as we continue to draw on ourselves and find ways to make our vision happen, we will eventually find that other people are turning to us for guidance. This is how entrepreneurs become an inspiration to many.

No one can deny the simple truth that great entrepreneurs are also great people. They exist to give of themselves, and you can really give only from what you have. And when others sense that you are willing to give to yourself, your influence as an entrepreneur will expand tremendously.  Once ordinary people like Reese Fernandez Ruiz of R2R and Mark Ruiz and Bam Aquino of Hapinoy have become an inspiration to many in their journey as entrepreneurs.  You don’t have to look far to see actual people tap their hidden strength.

Live your dream
Align your life with your biggest dreams.  Where these meet is where you, the entrepreneur, live and learn. Quoting a Zen master: “Great faith, great doubt, great effort.” This, therefore, demands self-knowledge.

You’ll find that when you make such a commitment, your life doesn’t change quantitatively; it changes qualitatively. Instead of doing more of what you’ve done in the past, you do fewer things that are more focused on what is right for you as a channel to achieve your dream.


When you think the highest of yourself and start believing in your own potential, you begin to realize a life that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. You will eventually stop living a life of automatic pilot and begin making choices on the basis of what is important to you.  This is your life as an entrepreneur.

Brian Quebengco the founder and chief inoventor of Inovent Inc., the only Philippine industrial design firm accredited as a member of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. He is a part time professor at DLSU teaching Innovation Technology & Entrepreneurial Psychology. He is also a motivational speaker on entrepreneurship, inovention, and strength psychology. He can be reached at brian@inoventdesign.com.