From Platform maker to Solo Professional: The Journey

 If you search with my name in Google and Facebook you will find me mostly as a platform maker but now, I have started my journey as a solo professional. The stark difference is shocking to me and I guess that if you were you in my shoe, you would have got shocked too.  I am going to describe about the transformational journey in this post.

You see in 2014, I became the founder president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB).  It was totally an offline type of organization but it needed support from online people for its existence. I noticed that most people who are interested about e-commerce were spending all of their time mostly in Facebook. So, we had a Facebook group for the association and I started spending many hours there every day. It became more than an addiction for me but my efforts brought very good results for the association.

After three years of trying, around 150 thousand people joined the group. The association become immensely popular and it was a massive hit. We were supposed to spread ecommerce business in Bangladesh and it happened within a very short time.

After that I was instrumental behind the rise of my own Facebook group called Search English. It has now more than 3.3 million members. I also witnessed similar success with two more Facebook groups and a limited success with another several Facebook groups.  Thus I became a successful platform maker in Facebook and Facebook itself officially recognized my efforts as a community leader in 2018 under the Facebook community leadership program (FCLP). I was included in a list of 115 community leaders from across the globe under this program.

For around one year, I wanted to Stop being a platform maker or a community leader. I wanted to become a solo professional or in other words, I want to work alone and become successful in whatever I do. At first, it became very difficult for me to think of trying for myself. It may sound very simple idea in which I will take care of myself and try for my success but in reality, I struggled a lot because I had lost the habit of taking care of myself for trying for myself for at least 10 years.

I have been struggling for the last few months for doing very simple task such as every day I should write 1000 words and then try to promote it and communicate with others in this field. It is not that I am a novice or a newbie since I have more than 25 years of experience in my professional life. I always wanted to be a writer and I enjoyed writing more than any other activity in life. Still, I could not write even just 200 words most of the days.

I really had to push myself a lot and after many days of trying, now, at last I have reached to the point that I can write one on 1000 words every day. As I have stated already that I want to become a solo professional and I want to totally try for my career now instead of leading thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people for a common goal or an impossible dream.

Now I want to work day and night to achieve success for myself. I realized that I lost the motivation to try for myself. If I had to again try for a community, then, I would be able to work day and night because I have got the scale experience and habit for that. Now , I almost have been become successful in transforming myself for my own success instead of dedicating my life for others.

At first, I felt that I was becoming a selfish person who cares only for himself and it was the major obstacle for my transformation. I had to convince myself about it for many days and in fact after trying for several months, Now, I feel fine with this idea of trying for myself.

You see the change in mindset was the biggest challenge because when I tried to do something I faced opposition from my own heart not from others. Most people do not bother about me. Instead, They are busy with their own life. So, After I convinced myself that I am not a selfish person- I could start writing and after trying for several weeks at last now I can type 1000 words.

I know my writing is not yet up to the mark and I am mostly writing about personal opinion. However I am very happy because I am trying for myself. I know that there are at least 10 million people who face the same problem like me. They dedicate many years of their lives for the society and then suffer a lot. They find it difficult to come back to their own career and try for their own success.

Now sometimes I feel that I should write up for them so that it can help them to deal with the adjusting reality. Someday, I really wish to do it and I want to speak to them. In this age thanks to YouTube, I don’t even need to be present in any event to talk to them As Youtube will help me to reach my voice to many of them who are struggling in life being a platform maker or a community leader.

I really feel very happy to be able to write this post because I could write really from my heart. I just wish that some people who are struggling like me I am going through this period of Transformation could write this post and get some mental strength. I will try to write such posts from now as it will help me to get mental strength and it will also support some people who are really in my shoes.