Taking risks

“I realized that I’d been talking to the wrong people about my business and my dreams. I was talking to people who would pull me down, not people who would push me up. For me, the hardest part of leaving a secure job and starting a business was dealing with what my friends, family and co-workers would say or think.”
– Robert Kiyosaki (author, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, investor, teacher, entrepreneur, millionaire)


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

I am struggling today. The "old tapes" are re-playing in my head. My spouse does not believe in what I am doing. He tries hard to be supportive, but he is afraid of the risk I am taking and the lack of security. He would much rather I have a hourly rate job that at least had the security of a "set wage." But one of the reasons that he is feeling so insecure right now is that his job may be in jeopardy. Through no fault of his own, he may lose his job. He is worried because we have no other visible means of support and my ventures have not produced profit to this point.

I am tempted to just "give up" and "go get a job." But there is another part of me that says; "you are so close, don't give up." I am choosing to continue and push on toward my dream. I have looked at the "worst case scenario." and I am willing to face that scenario for the possibility of creating my dream.