Rent or Innovation?

It wasn’t easy for me to make the decision to relocate directly from my vacation, but it wasn’t really difficult either. It wasn’t really difficult because I was hungry for some action and a push. I took advantage of the events that were happening to reset and go towards my aspirations. That being said, I realize that not everyone can leave, and in a way it’s a privilege now.

I was afraid to move abroad, because I used to depend on the rent of my network and the skills I got in Russia. It was my personal oil pipeline, on which I easily multiplied my income over the past few years. At the same time I didn’t enjoy it, I got money, I had my apartment renovated, I could afford to go anywhere I wanted for a weekend, but I was not happy about it. I complained to my psychologist that I was bored. Probably my hobbies like running and cooking became a substitute for me. I love running and cooking, but not so much to build my life around it. But this’s what has been working out for me over the last year.

Living on rent is a great solution if you’re in your 60s, but at when you’re 30, as I am now, choosing this path is to doom your services to becoming a commodity soon. Rent is also a great solution for those who have made their masterpieces in life and realize that you won’t have that combination of market conditions and the right timing.

Innovation is not just a fancy and pretty word, but a path of trial and error. The birth of something new through pain, blood and sweat. There will be no immediate success and no comfortable environment, the uncertainty will be overwhelming. It’s not just about getting new knowledge, you’ll have to instantly transfer it into action and gain experience. And then we draw conclusions (HADI cycles). And so on again, until you find yourself in the moment of rent.

I wouldn’t say that my relocation to Georgia and plans to move to a third country is innovative. Rather, it’s an attempt to find my place in a new and different world without relying on the current rent. There are an unimaginable number of opportunities to make money in Russia right now, but I’m not interested in them because:

- I just don’t want to be in an atmosphere where you can’t even tell what you’re thinking and feeling, outside of your close circle in the kitchen (I’d be afraid to write such honest posts while in Russia);

- it’s income in rubles in an unstable economy;

- it’s a devaluating experience when transferred to another country.

That said, you have to understand that it’s not twice as hard to become a trendsetter in another country, but 10 times as hard. If you don’t move fast and efficiently enough, the risks of getting a provincial mindset are much higher abroad. I think all my friends who moved a few years ago are experiencing this. First you have to make an effort to accept another culture and become a part of it by assimilating the rules. Then you have to start changing them. It’s incredibly difficult, by the time you do the first, you may not have the strength and desire for the second.

I hope that I succeed. Ready to help anyone who wants to reinvent themselves or their business. In Russia or abroad.