What I have learned

"Success consist of going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
Some of the most successful people in the business world have failed over and over again and the reason we do not dwell on their failures is because their success has outshined all of it. If you are going to be a entrepreneur then you have to learn to embrace failure because each lesson will lead you to more success. Jeff Sandefer said "choosing the life of a entrepreneurial her begins with a paradox: you have to dream big but start with small steps. No matter how difficult this path gets I will continue to push forward step by small step until I have reached my goal. I will then set a new goal and begin the process again step by small step."
I believe the hardest part about becoming a entrepreneur is taking that first step, too many great ideas and great companies were never started because the dreamers feared failure and never took the first step. I have learned as a new father that my son fears almost nothing because he has not been taught what to fear either by experience or by someone teaching him to not do certain things. We can learn a lot from children as business leaders because children are brave, honest, and forgiving. Children will take a first step in almost anything and can fall into danger if not given the proper mentor or parent. Children will say anything to anyone because it is the truth and the truth is the greatest gift that everyone will try and take from us. Children are forgiving to anyone that does them harm almost instantly but they are most forgiving to themselves no matter how many times they have fallen and found trouble. If we could apply these simple lessons into starting a business we would have no regrets after taking that first step.
Everything I have learned these last few weeks from my classes and from interviewing and reading other business leaders failures and success is that time is the most valuable commodity we have, It is the only piece of our lives that we have full control over. "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back."-Anonymous. That is the key to a successful life is what we did with our time. Did we use all our time and energy to chase a dream and start a business? When that business failed did we spend all our time and energy doing everything we could to make it successful? Was that time we spent failing over and over again chasing our dream educational enough that when we try again we will do it better? Do not let time and fear take the what might have been when you look at your past. Let time and fear be your motivation of would could be in your future.