Being an entrepreneur is terrifying.

I was recently asked, “How do I become an entrepreneur?”.

My answer was, “The process begins with looking at and analyzing the key decisions you’re making in your career, in your personal life, in your neighbourhood, and in your business.”

The answer is that it you need to know yourself to start on a path like that.

There’s so much fear, so much stress, struggle, hard work, anxiety.

No matter how you cut it.

But it’s worth it.

If you want it.

When I step into the role of entrepreneur, I feel like I don’t know it all.

Every single time.

And this is the only way you’ll be successful as an entrepreneur, but this feeling is also damn scary.

It takes a special kind of personality to go into an environment where you know you don’t know everything, you recognize that you need to feel like that, and you’ll know that you’ll constantly be figuring it out, and never get that comforting feeling that someone else will be able to figure it out for you or tell you exactly what to do.

This is the reality of entrepreneurship.

I’ve made mistakes that I’ve had to repair.

I’ve sometimes made quick decisions, and I’ve underestimated people and situations.

I’ve also paid some heavy personal dues, as have many people who work hard, and become entrepreneurs.

And, yes, I’ve had some of my own personal failures.

With each of those failures, you learn, and you level up.

But you will never know everything, and that truly is the beauty, and the terror of entrepreneurship.

So if you want to be an entrepreneur, the single biggest indicator of success, is correlated with the level of stress, anxiety, failure you can handle, in the constant pursuit of learning, understanding, and perpetual personal and professional growth.