“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”- John F. Kennedy
As an entrepreneur, I’m often overwhelmed by the scope of my work. At times, I begin to long for the perceived certainty of working for an established company with a fixed routine and clearly defined responsibilities and a boss to cushion the mistakes, but nah. I know deep in my heart that I want to own and build something with my bare hands, no matter how difficult it is to do so. My heart bleeds every time something goes terribly wrong with my start-up, but that heartache is something that is worth enduring.
In times when I’m casted with endless self-doubt, I seek comfort from people who went through the same path. The human civilization has lasted for such a long time and whatever scenario you think you’re going through that is specific to you, you can probably find someone else who can relate and have coped with it fairly well.
This answer by Jimmy Wales on Quora to the question, What was the biggest turning point in Jimmy Wales’ life?, left me thinking and restored for some reason.
But my life, good and bad, is a series of decisions every single day. Some decisions are bigger than others, but no decision is bigger than that ‘every single day’ series of decisions. The thousands and millions of decisions you make are much more powerful than any one ‘big’ decision.
Why is this important? A lot of young people are worried that they’ll make the wrong “single big decision” when the moment comes. You might. You might not. It won’t matter nearly as much as you might think. Every single day you have the power to decide differently, to choose a new path, and that includes decisions about whether to study something new, whether to work an extra hour or go home, whether to watch this movie or that, whether to read this book or that. And all those little choices are critical – get a few of them wrong, but try to get most of them right.
