Entrepreneurship is Hard, but You Should Still Love It

There are good days and bad days in business. If we’re being honest there are good years and bad years in business. But I wouldn’t trade it for a job.

The truth is as an entrepreneur, I LOVE my life. Most of the time. I don’t want to paint the super glossy picture I keep seeing in the ads I see on Facebook. I’m not sitting in front of a sports car or vacationing on the beach in a tropic location or jet setting around the world. But I am sitting on the couch in my sweatshirt and jeans working next to my husband and best friend. I am attending my sons band concert tonight. The 7th concert we’ve had this month, but who’s counting? I do get to decide what business I say yes to, and what business I say no to. I get to set my hours in a way that is in alignment with the needs of my family. In short, I get to set my goals and my pace every single year.

That my friends, is pretty dang amazing.

So yes, entrepreneurship is hard. But it is possible to have so much joy in the journey. Here’s 5 things I do that help me LOVE being an entrepreneur.

1. Perspective- It’s so easy to look ahead and see how far you are from your desired outcome or destination. It’s discouraging when all you do is look forward and realize you are never, and will never be exactly where you want to be. A successful business owner recently described this to me as chasing the horizons. Horizons move. And you never catch them. Instead another business owner recently told me one of his secrets is to look at life and say, “Everything is perfect for me.” Finding joy in the journey means that we have to find joy exactly where we are. Not were we will be. Not when we hit our sales goal. Right NOW!

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