You went into this because you wanted something more—maybe it was something more for your spouse, for your children, for your parents, or maybe just for yourself. Maybe you had that “enterprising” feeling inside you that just wouldn’t leave you alone. Maybe you were thinking, “Yeah, I guess I could continue to work the job that I’m working, and maybe I’d be happy, but I just feel like there could be more.”
Maybe you knew you’d be sorry if you didn’t give it a try, if you didn’t try to create something or build something for yourself. Maybe you didn’t have any hope for a retirement, and you didn’t trust social security to take care of you. Maybe you did have retirement funds building through the job or position you held, but you worried that it wouldn’t be enough.
You had a drive within you that nagged at you to begin working on something, building something, or starting something, even though you didn’t know at the time what that something was. You knew you had the spirit inside you to start this something—and honestly it could have been anything—as long as you fed that urge inside you to cultivate something and watch it grow.
As Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s, once said, “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” You are a doer!