{"id":1796,"date":"2009-06-11T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:46","slug":"when-in-doubt-take-the-next-small-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/06\/11\/when-in-doubt-take-the-next-small-step\/","title":{"rendered":"When in Doubt, Take the Next Small Step"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nI made a mistake. I got ahead of myself. I temporarily forgot my purpose. I got caught up in someone else’s ideas and began ignoring my vision.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it was a lack of self-confidence that began leading me down the path – I’d like to think it was a desire to collaborate, improve, share and help – whatever it was, along the way I stopped thinking that my voice mattered. I stopped considering what brought me joy and what felt ‘right’ and instead focused on what I thought I ‘should’ be doing. I am not infallible and I often go astray.<\/p>\n

I am no longer involved with InnerpreneurVentures.com or Innerpreneuring.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“You never learn by doing something right \u2018cause you already know how to do it. You only learn from making mistakes and correcting them.”<\/em> – Russell Ackoff<\/h3>\n

I am now back to square one, trying to come up with ideas of how I (and others) can help spread the innerpreneur message and create value for our community.<\/p>\n

The next small step I want to take is to create a forum here<\/strong>, where innerpreneurs can connect and share ideas, get advice and plan in-person meet-ups.<\/p>\n

I’m surrounded by self-doubt, but inspired by passion. Maybe it’ll work and maybe it won’t. Either way, I’ll learn from it.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: mnomono<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n
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Perhaps it was a lack of self-confidence that began leading me down the path – I’d like to think it was a desire to collaborate, improve, share and help – whatever it was, along the way I stopped thinking that my voice mattered. I stopped considering what brought me joy and what felt ‘right’ and instead focused on what I thought I ‘should’ be doing. I am not infallible and I often go astray.<\/p>\n

I am no longer involved with InnerpreneurVentures.com or Innerpreneuring.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}