What challenges are you facing today?
On a recent business trip to Fort Worth, I stopped in the John Wayne Museum and found this sign, which is now on display in my office.
Dictionary.com defines Courage as “the quality of mind and spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger and pain.” Entrepreneurship is “the state of running a business with considerable initiative and risk”.
As I thought more about this phrase, I realized that it is precisely what all of my entrepreneur clients are faced with every day. You see, they must saddle up regardless of the peril before them.
It takes incredible courage for an entrepreneur to invent or create a product or service, take it to market, and persevere through the many long days and sleepless nights spent working their heart out, trying and succeeding to make their business successful.
I have 1:1 conversations with my CEO clients every week, and the war stories they tell and the challenges they face are nothing short of those from a John Wayne movie.
Market fluctuations, employee issues, pricing, marketing strategy, execution, cash flow… all of these and more.
So what challenges are you facing today? Do you have the guts and the courage to saddle up? Do it; your team members, clients, and communities need you.
Coach Keith