When you start your own business, passion project or adventure, you think about all the love you're going to put into it. You probably also think about the issues that might come up and how to avoid them (spoiler: you won't, but that's a different topic).
What I never thought, being an overthinker myself, is that becoming the person who can run your own project is harder than building the business itself.
Businesses, on average, don't succeed in the first month, or even the first year, and anyone who's been through it is reading this from home, nodding.
Nobody prepares you to watch your business grow, then stop growing, then go down, then keep going. Nobody prepares you for how hard it is to see something you've put so much love into get stuck, or to face adversities that are truly unavoidable. Nobody prepares you for having no set schedule, for building the discipline to keep going, and, most of all, for learning not to rely on success, results and big numbers to keep trying.
Sometimes building a business means no income. Sometimes it means long hours and no instant gratification at the end of the month. It might mean building resilience and discipline until the thing you're working towards becomes true.
But how lucky are we, the few who are delusional enough to take our chances, to feel that uncertainty, to be tired from building our own dream?
To me, that's pretty lucky.
