About 15 years ago, my dream was to start a business. At the time, I was working a full-time job. It was okay, but I wanted something more.
I wanted to try my hand at entrepreneurship.
And naturally, I started doubting myself by asking questions, like:
- Do I have the time for this?
- Will starting a business stress me out?
- Isn’t entrepreneurship hard?
- Maybe this isn’t the right time to do this?
Question after question, my mind was systematically keeping me from jumping in.
Our minds like comfort. Anything that threatens comfort is the enemy.
To accomplish big things, it’s our job to push through those limiting beliefs by diving in and getting started.
Somehow, I did push through.
A few weeks later, some friends and I started the business.
We spent nights and weekends building up the company from scratch for months. After the 9 to 5 workday, we’d convene and work until 1 or 2 am almost every night.
Each Saturday, we would work. Most Sundays, too. It was exhausting. It wasn’t fun and required a hell of a lot of work.
Finally, the business began to gain momentum.
But, something happened that we didn’t expect.
And no, it wasn’t a good thing.
You thought I would describe our new business as wildly successful, right? Thriving. Lots of money. Thousands of customers. All that time we spent building up this little enterprise paid off. Right?
Wrong. The business never got off the ground.
Life got in the way. It failed.
But you know what? That’s all part of it. Though the business failed, we learned more about ourselves than we did over the past ten years working a 9 to 5 job.
Fact: You will fail. It’s a part of life.
Another fact: Failures are how we learn.
Learning from your failures beats regretting not trying.
The #1 reason why people fail is that they don’t try.
And when we don’t try, we never succeed. But even if we fail, we learn something about ourselves that no classroom can teach.
Freakin’ try. You never know what brilliance will come from trying.
Example: Want to start that side hustle? What’s stopping you?
Affiliate marketing side hustles can easily generate thousands of additional income, month after month.
Hell, a couple of friends of mine make between $7,000 and $10,000 a month in extra income, all online. One of them quit their full-time job to build up a side hustle and just bought an $800,000 house without blinking an eye, lol.
I called him crazy. He was like, “Bro, do you know how much I make?”
So, I have a single question for you:
What skills do you have that can be monetized today?
