Beyond Entrepreneurship

Welcome to entrepreneurship! It’s a crazy, wild ride with the best and the worst times. Here are some of my biggest tips. Number one: Don’t feel bad when you struggle to enjoy every aspect of the business. Most of us get into something because we like one or two parts of it. For me, I love the creation process as well as the custom design process and then the profit at the end and seeing the statistics on how my business is growing. Some of my products I can’t wait to make and others I wake up in the morning dreading having to do the order for it that day. In a bigger company, you could hire and train someone to do the parts you really hate, but for me, in a business where I am the one and only, it’s all on me and that can be really stressful sometimes. I’d also say that it’s okay for you to not enjoy every moment of business ownership or entrepreneurship. I promise that even if you’re excited about it during the day, being up at 2am night after night trying to keep everything togethe...

The highlight of this week’s class was the motivational video that the presenting group showed as part of their project. It mentioned that in order to be an entrepreneur, you have to do the things that other people aren’t going to want to do or aren’t going to be motivated to keep doing. Only some of the people who want to be entrepreneurs actually have what it takes. As an entrepreneur you have to be willing to work when others play, never be satisfied, you have to be able to take criticism, to be humble, and be willing to sacrifice your time right now so that you can enjoy and reap the benefits later. It reminded me of the quote “to get what you’ve never gotten, you have to be willing to do what you’ve never done”. It also talked about how failing can be a really important part of the process, and that it’s just finding another way NOT to do something. The main thing I was thinking about during the video was not just my businesses and the ones I plan in the future, but my health and ...