No Right Answers, Only Steps Forward

Intro

In 2024, I went down a path of figuring out what entrepreneurship would look like for me. It was an opportunity to test out so much. I had already learned a great deal over the previous couple years of self-development, and a lot more in a consolidated period of time once I was actually in it. It’s a bit of a corporate cleansing and learning to mobilize your expertise if you’ve never dabbled in it. Through that experience of balancing everything at play, something really sparked in my head about what separates the doers, versus those who never do. Those that build a business, versus those who never take the leap, never put their chips on the table and go all in.  

I realized the secrets was no service offering, no magic dust, no special sauce, and certainly there is no software that does it for you (yet). It was not even based on that one customer you really want. It was an unlock for me when I heard advice of those who have done- you could have two or three big customers and have the same revenue as 20 smaller customers. It was another significant step for me to understand there really is never a good time—you hear it all the time, but you don’t believe it until you see it. You can be planned in advance and better prepared, but that still doesn’t make it a good time, as there will never be a good time to take that risk. You’ll find all the reasons you can to avoid that risk if you allow that mentality and cycle. 

Here is a little more detail on how I look at it, and what it takes to get through that hump, reflecting a bit on what that really was and what was released inside of me.   

The Story

Uncertainty. I want to know what’s going to happen. We constantly look for signs of the results that are coming, the proof, to see the future. We want to know what the stock market is going to do, who the president is going be, or who will win the 2025 World Series. No one knows any of that stuff in a definitive way, compared to seeing the signs, and dots when you look back.

For your own journey, what are you doing to form those thoughts? Are you sitting, waiting for answers to find you for the path to drive itself? Or are you happy with building, working, doing, to fill in those dots? As much as someone would like to think their future is predetermined, they don’t have all the answers. They don’t know what’s going to happen, they don’t know how they’re going to get there, but they keep going, and that’s the real magic sauce that so many don’t have, is they won’t start, they won’t do, and they won’t keep going without certainty.

Certainty is what holds people back from taking risks. If you are looking for certainty, you’re holding yourself back. I’m all for reducing risks that are unhealthy, untimely, and fatal risks, but if you’re reducing all risk in the spirit of making things more certain, you’re missing out. Uncertainty drives innovation and results. Uncertainty is often in the path to success. The path to success if often fueled by uncertainty.

So when you start coupling some of these items together, you look at certainty, knowledge, action, risk, and a Northstar forward on what’s important. Embracing uncertainty is the missing link for so many entrepreneurs and corporate climbers. The sooner you allow yourself to go down a path that is less certain with more opportunity and excitement, the sooner you realize you’re embracing your future by not allowing your present to hold you back. 

Closing

Your desire for certainty is holding you back. Let go in the confidence that your work, value, learning, and connections hold the keys, and you just need to unlock this secret.

It’s available to everyone if you’re willing to take the steps forward to go get it.   

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About the Author, Graham Peelle