How Running At Night Made My Business A Success

I want to share this excerpt from a recent speech that applies to all of you reading this post:

I like to run, and sometimes I run at night.

Well, while running I have my headphones on and am in the zone.

I am not looking around in the bushes, or up at trees, or down alley ways…

I am just running, and that’s not scary.

But if I slow down and take off my headphones to stretch or tighten my shoes, and look around — It can be a little frightening…

Shadows look like people, people look like zombies (thank you, imagination), car doors slam, and random noises are like surround-sound.

It can get a little freaky — I can get a little freaked out.

So, what do I do?

I just put my headphones back on and keep running because there is nothing to be afraid of.

And that is like getting started in entrepreneurship…

If you are just running as hard and fast as you can, you can not slow down to think about it not working or what might happen.

But if you go slow, you start to think about:

• What if I invest my money into this thing, and I lose it all?
• What if my family and friends don’t support me?
• What if I’m in over my head? I mean, I don’t know what it takes to be a business owner!
• What if no one wants to buy my product?
• What if I don’t get enough people to contract my services?
• What if I screw this up?
• What if, what if, what if…

Too many people “what if” themselves out of the best thing that could ever happened to them in their lives…

So just get going, start running and don’t slow down. You may trip, you may stumble, but if you just keep going, you’ll cross that finish line

Start running…because there is nothing to be afraid of.

You can do this.

To Your Success,
GP