You know what takes vulnerability and courage? Not meditation, or therapy or volunteering with sick kittens, what takes vulnerability and courage is running a homegrown business. Everyday putting it out there for people to knock down, putting it out there for people to vote on with their feet, putting it out there for people who don’t create, let alone create and put a roof over their heads doing it, to have a pop at it.
Being in business when you don’t have rich folks to fall back on means pulling out the stops no matter how you feel, improvising when your rent depends upon it, knowing that most businesses fail but the real failures are the ones who didn’t dare. You shared your feelings today? Awesome, I put mine up for sale and risked having them thrown back at me. Running a small business is personal growth for people who actually want to be useful, and people who actually have a set…