by Cassie Howard | Aug 21, 2016 | Making Money |
Sometimes I wonder why everyone isn’t an entrepreneur. I get mad that my non-entrepreneur husband has to go to work every day, and I whine to him and ask “why can’t you just create your own business so you can stay home?”, because I’d like the company. Entrepreneurship is fucking LONELY. But I know that being an entrepreneur is something you don’t get to choose. You either ARE an entrepreneur or you aren’t. You can’t learn how to be one. You can’t TRY to make it work, because it won’t. The thing about us entrepreneurs is that we LOVE the grind. The set-backsThe money lostThe mistakesThe late nightsThe early morningsThe missed partiesThe working on vacation & holidaysThe confusionThe stress A true entrepreneur LIVES for that shit. Believe it or not, we love it when things feel “hard”. We like the struggle and the push and the pull and the “what the fuck am I going to do?” issues that come up on a regular basis. We love it because we have the drive and the PASSION to make it big, to keep moving on, to prove ourselves, to do better, and ultimately, to survive and succeed in ways that others never could because they aren’t willing to take the risks and put up with the stress, money lost, late nights and early mornings. I remember once I heard Gary Vaynerchuck say something like “I used to secretly wish I lost all of my money, just so I could make it all back again and rise like a phoenix“, and I totally resonate with that, because I have the same...
