Help Comes Later

This journey begins with an outburst of crying, a slap on the butt, health and vision check, measurements, and so on. Your entrepreneur journey could be related this way as well. First the crying from leaving the safety and stability of your current career. Next a slap on the butt when your customers or clients don’t flock to your business, even though you think or know you have a great product or service offering. Afterwards the wisest of entrepreneurs do an assessment of where they are and how they’re performing. And the journey continues with your first feeding or vitamin K injection, which could be a cash investment from family and friends or venture capitalists.

Not sure where you are in this journey, but recall where you’ve come from and what you’ve completed so far. You may, just like me, not be where you desire. Your journey’s destination may seem so far away and your current situation may lead you to believe you’re unable to accomplish your objective. That is probably true, to a certain extent.

In your current situation, with your current resources, your destination probably is unattainable. You and I may very well be deficient in several areas to reach where we’re heading. The thing to remember is help comes later. Help in the form of new relationships. Help in the form of unexpected opportunities. Help in the form of new educational and financial resources. Help will arrive, in my case, at the most opportune time. When it’s toughest, most challenging, and seemingly impossible, help arrives. Interestingly enough, if you quit, you’ve lost all momentum and tons of time, effort, and energy.

An additional benefit of perseverance and resilience is the strengthening of character. In this instance, character means a defining quality or feature. Imagine if friends, family, coworkers, and the like knew you as a person that sticks with a thing. If they defined part of who you are and what you do as someone that doesn’t quit. Imagine the inspiration you’d provide to others when you informed them of your newest endeavor. Imagine the champions and cheerleaders you’d acquire by simply stating what you’re doing. They’d become convinced you’d accomplish your newest endeavor because it’s part of who you are and what you do.

An ancillary benefit is the belief you’d build in them. Quite naturally, they’d begin to compare themselves to you and with or without saying a word to you, they’d see similar traits you display that they possess. Your willingness to continue may provide confidence for others to accomplish a thing. Those watching may also provide you a needed moment of reprieve, an encouraging word or nod or smile, on those days when it’s quite uncomfortable.

Help is on the way. It will arrive, don’t stop.

Today, Monday, August 19, 2024, I am grateful that:

Rick and I got a chance to grab a bite to eat on Saturday. We’d had conflicting schedules last week, but got a chance to hang out and share a good meal. Great guy from Canada that’s transitioning to Cebu, he’ll settle into his new environment just fine.

I was able to finish most of the administrative work needed to send to Herb. I’ll wrap up the rest of it this morning, bu

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