Feeling Sensational and Scared Sh*tless All At Once? You Must Be A Business Owner.

I’ve got a problem.

I’ve become used to feeling on-top-of-the-world-amazing, and scared shitless all at the same time.

It’s like I’ve constantly got one foot in quicksand, and the other on solid ground.

I’m always sinking under the surface, but never actually drowning.

You know?

I KNOW you know what I mean.

You have to be a little crazy in order to work for yourself.

It requires a level of… gusto. We’re a group of people who’ve decided to skydive without the guarantee of a parachute.

And that sounds dangerous and stupid.

So why do we do it? I reckon it’s the same reason why people actually jump out of planes.

It’s for the thrill of it.

But it doesn’t come without risks.

Running your own business kinda feels like skydiving.

It’s freeing, yes, but it’s also terrifying.

You never know what’s going happen… and let me tell you, in the last few years of being in business for myself, I’ve had my fair share of “holy shit moments”.

I’ve created some great work, produced average work, worked with incredible clients, and seriously despised some.

I’ve made money, lost money, I’ve even had money stolen.

I’ve lost business partners, and formed formidable partnerships.

I’ve laughed, swore, smiled and cried – sometimes all in the same day.

I’ve had great ideas, shit ideas, ideas that never went anywhere, and ideas that will stand the test of time.

I’ve said brilliant stuff, terrible stuff, spoke loudly, and other times, not loudly enough.

I’ve felt screwed over, let down, but also supported and inspired. Sometimes from the same people.

I’ve made tough business decisions that ended friendships, but I’ve never wavered from my path, not once.

I guess you could say, I’ve earned my stripes.

Or scars.

And you know what? I wouldn’t change it for anything.

It’s like I’ve gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson.

I’m leaning on the rope, bruised and bleeding, but I LOVE it.

I choose to do this – to feel like this – every day.

There is never a perfect day.

In fact, there’s never a good day or a bad day – it’s good and bad all at the same time, and everything and nothing all at once.

It’s like coming first and last place in a race. You’re always the winner – and you’re always the loser.

Because that’s the risk of business.

It’s why we do what we do.

We’re addicted. Once you taste this lifestyle (of feeling on-top-of-the-world amazing, and scared shitless all at the same time), you’ll become hooked.

It’ll be hard to go back to the security of working for ‘the man’.

You’ll feel caged. Trust me, I know.

Working for yourself means you’ll go through some of the most fucked up shit you’ve ever experienced.

And the lines between professional and personal life will forever be blurred.

You’ll ebb and flow in and out of the eye of the storm, and constantly feel like your world could turn on its head, at any given time.

And you’ll LOVE it.

Bring an entrepreneur (I dislike using that word, but here I am using it), will change you.

There is never a right way, or a wrong way.

There’s only your way.

YOU decide the path. You decide the outcome.

It’s a pressure cooker of decision making.

It’ll break your back, but boy oh boy, it’ll give you a spine.

Business isn’t easy.

Business isn’t always fun.

But one thing that is always is?

Yours.

And that’s bloody beautiful if you ask me.