Last Lecture

It has been fourteen weeks.  They have not all been easy but they have been rewarding.  During this time we have read the thoughts of many great leaders and spiritual men.  We have watched videos on others who have gone on to be great successes in the business arena.  Along the way we have been challenged to venture outside our comfort zone to reach our entrepreneurial potential.  All this information and advice has been beneficial and enlightening, so now what? Where do we go next?

Now, we start!  We come up with our idea, if we haven’t already, and we make a plan.  During these last weeks we have been given tools to form our ideas and take well thought out steps to action.  So now we do just that.  Look ahead to possible pitfalls, so you can have the answers already in place if those obstacles show up.  Seek out those with your best interest at heart and ask for their thoughts and incorporate the most advantageous into your plan.

Now go!  Take that next step, rent the space or get the business license or print those business cards.  Take a step.  Do not run headlong into the unknown but take well planned steady steps.  Always keep yourself open to new avenues of expansion but temper those adventures with your well established priorities.  It is so easy to chase after the newest shiny goal and leave behind what really matters most.  Make your priorities early and stick to them.  It may be that each of us will not become filthy rich or world famous but to those in our lives and those who seek our services we will be heroes.  Throughout all the lesson material, with all its myriad of stories and advice, the one thing that stuck out to me the most was to be true to who you are and who you want to become.  If I have learned one thing in my years as a business owner it is that have a lot of money is not the best thing about being a business owner, it is doing something you enjoy and finishing a job well done.  Don’t get me wrong if you don’t make some money you won’t be in business long but it doesn’t have to be the end all of why you do this.  Find the non-monetary reason for being in business for yourself and the journey will be a whole lot more enjoyable.