If you are truly an entrepreneur, wanting to lead and create, it's a difficult journey. My experience is you need to build resilience in both failure & success.
In failure the hoard of ‘sensible voices’ comes out to diminish your attempt, precisely highlighting the weakness of ideas - which were strangely also essential for the attempt to begin - they are voices that don’t stray for the same old tracks, well worn and proven, creating little. It is hard to resist their barbs, while listening hard to learn for the future.
In success, there is a explosion of events, some accolades, a momentary oasis.
I’ve found myself mainly surprised we got there, seeing all the things yet to do, planning forward.
What now? It is a transient place.
The best focus is others (and giving) as you know it's not your success alone.
My theory is that if you are built this way, you have to learn this journey as your calling. It is as Steven Pressfield says in his admonishment below, a terrifying journey, but it is yours to do.
It has to remain the ‘power’ in your life, in your career.
Just find the very few people that understand - they won’t diminish you, they won’t ‘instruct’ and saying little, they will be with you through life.
S
‘Sometimes, when we’re terrified of embracing our true calling, we’ll pursue a shadow calling instead. The shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalisingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us.
Are you pursuing a shadow career?’
Steven Pressfield
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