{"id":3374,"date":"2010-01-20T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2010-01-20T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:04:03","slug":"the-next-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2010\/01\/20\/the-next-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Heaven\"<\/p>\n

Sometimes, as business owners, our fear gets the better of us. It’s inevitable.<\/p>\n

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Running a business is fucking hard. It’s especially brutal on the self-confidence.<\/p>\n

We can’t acknowledge our progress. We want to feel more sure. We want someone to tell us our answers.<\/p>\n

There are so many unknowns, and we are risking a lot. What if WE are wrong?<\/p>\n

No idea what to do.<\/h3>\n

When I feel “the questions” weighing me down, I remind myself that my business is no different than my travels.<\/p>\n

When I trekked the Annapurna Circuit through the Himalayan Mountains<\/a>, it was scary, exhilarating, empowering, crazy. And, like with my business, I had no idea what I was the hell I was doing.<\/p>\n

I knew where I was starting<\/strong>, and I had the confidence<\/strong> and support<\/strong> that I could get to where I wanted to end up. And that’s about it.<\/p>\n

The rest of the journey was the amazing, life changing experience of simply putting one foot in front of the other and discovering where it took me.<\/p>\n

And, if you’d note, I’m not dead. So that strategy has legs.<\/p>\n

Embrace the ride.<\/h3>\n

It’s cool if you have no idea what you’re doing. No one does.<\/p>\n

Just do the next thing that feels right.<\/p>\n

photo by: me!
I took it on the Annapurna Circuit<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Heaven\"<\/p>\n

[tweetmeme] Sometimes, as business owners, our fear gets the better of us. It’s inevitable.<\/p>\n

<\/ br><\/p>\n

Running a business is fucking hard. It’s especially brutal on the self-confidence.<\/p>\n

We can’t acknowledge our progress. We want to feel more sure. We want someone to tell us our answers.<\/p>\n

There are so many unknowns, and we are risking a lot. What if WE are wrong?<\/p>\n

No idea what to do.<\/h3>\n

When I feel “the questions” weighing me down, I remind myself that my business is no different than my travels.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-an-innerpreneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","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=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}