Hey Entrepreneur, Ever Feel This Way?
It’s a funny thing, trying to grow a business. It can be frustrating and freighting, and it can downright exhausting. But it can also be exciting and inspiring, and make the adrenaline course through your veins.
That range of emotion lies in the fact that we are forced (by choice…hello, oxymoron), to wear so many “hats”. We are simultaneously responsible for the welfare of ourselves, our families and our employees…and the beneficiary of the unique and exhilarating ability to control our own destiny.
We are at once responsible to drive the revenue that fuels the operation, and again responsible to provide for the families that depend on it.
It is both a burden not suited for many, and a privilege withheld to the same.
The choice of where you focus is entirely…up to you.
There will inevitably be times when your focus is solely fixed on the responsibility, the pressure, the expectation, and even the ‘burden’. But my hope is that there are again more times that you will focus on the opportunity, the journey and the privilege.
The choice of where you focus is entire…up to you.
I am not suggesting that you only focus on the positive. There is value in pragmatism. But I am suggesting that you become keenly aware, of where you focus.
And when you’re having trouble diverting your mental energies to the privileged opportunities of the entrepreneur, I suggest you do one, simple exercise:
Write down your “why’s”.
Why did you start this business? Really.
Why do you dream of the success that is ahead of you?
Why are you willing to sacrifice your free time, and your ‘me time’, to make this happen?
If those answers don’t help you to refocus, if they don’t instantly put wind in your sails…then my friend, you need to get a puppy.
Seriously. Buck up. You can do this. I know you, and I know what you’re capable of.
Now get after it.
