When defining success as an entrepreneur, it’s a fact that there are no shortcuts to how it can be achieved. It differs with the phase you are in and the goals you’ve set to achieve. Some will say the number of employees in a company is the real measure of success while others will say it’s the impact you achieve.
April is National Stress Awareness Month and it happens that today’s conversation falls on International Moment of Laughter Day, which couldn’t be more perfect given the times.
I have two takeaways for you today: 1) you are not your business and 2) a stoic mindset can make the difference in how you emerge from this crisis.
My Story: In late summer of 2016 I was deep into the biggest crisis of my life. I had spent much of the previous decade running other peoples business and it had cost me a lot–a marriage, for example–but I was not going to let it cost me my relationship with my kids, and I was not going to go through life feeling like a drone that someone else was controlling.
