Mercury is in retrograde . . .
“If you do "lose" something this month, chances are you'll be better off, dear Taurus. Eclipses tend to delete parts of our lives that we no longer need, even if we think we do. Let it go. You never know how much better life can be until you end one situation and begin a new one. . .”
This was my horoscope this month. Ok, I am not normally one to overly concern myself with where the planets align, but geesh this month was a doozy!! After about two years, we shut down a venture we had been incubating. A lot of the market indicators suggested that this was going to be a tough one from the start, but never under estimate hubris when it comes to launching the next best thing . . .
And while we never thought this idea was going to be the next great IPO, we did have high hopes, as does anyone starting a new venture (why else would you start it, if you didn’t?) And one of the most challenging aspects of this whole experience was letting go. Honestly, we should have wrapped it up about six months ago. For those of you familiar with The E-Myth , we had long ago shifted to working in our business instead of on our business.
So, on a particular gloomy and rainy day – reality came a callin’. I could spend the next six months trying to figure out how to fix a broken business or I could move on. We had spent a lot of money, time, and energy in this venture – was I prepared to throw that all away? Well, apparently we were going to spend even more, if it was going to be salvaged - and the outcome remained dubious at best. It was time to move on.
While the decision was painful, I think it was the right one. The clouds didn’t exactly part, but blue skies surely appeared on the horizon. We had back-burnered some projects, and now we could free up some resources to explore them. With the weight of the old project lifted, new ideas came flooding in like the old days. A sense of possibility had returned.
According to Entrepreneurial Engineering - “In general, entrepreneurs fail three times before they succeed.” Apparently, I still have 2 lame ideas left in me – LOL.
Last month’s horoscope closed with “Keep strong. Later you will see that, oddly enough, things worked to your favor. The universe works in wise and mysterious ways. Trust it . . .”
I can hardly wait for April’s horoscope!!
This was my horoscope this month. Ok, I am not normally one to overly concern myself with where the planets align, but geesh this month was a doozy!! After about two years, we shut down a venture we had been incubating. A lot of the market indicators suggested that this was going to be a tough one from the start, but never under estimate hubris when it comes to launching the next best thing . . .
And while we never thought this idea was going to be the next great IPO, we did have high hopes, as does anyone starting a new venture (why else would you start it, if you didn’t?) And one of the most challenging aspects of this whole experience was letting go. Honestly, we should have wrapped it up about six months ago. For those of you familiar with The E-Myth , we had long ago shifted to working in our business instead of on our business.
So, on a particular gloomy and rainy day – reality came a callin’. I could spend the next six months trying to figure out how to fix a broken business or I could move on. We had spent a lot of money, time, and energy in this venture – was I prepared to throw that all away? Well, apparently we were going to spend even more, if it was going to be salvaged - and the outcome remained dubious at best. It was time to move on.
While the decision was painful, I think it was the right one. The clouds didn’t exactly part, but blue skies surely appeared on the horizon. We had back-burnered some projects, and now we could free up some resources to explore them. With the weight of the old project lifted, new ideas came flooding in like the old days. A sense of possibility had returned.
According to Entrepreneurial Engineering - “In general, entrepreneurs fail three times before they succeed.” Apparently, I still have 2 lame ideas left in me – LOL.
Last month’s horoscope closed with “Keep strong. Later you will see that, oddly enough, things worked to your favor. The universe works in wise and mysterious ways. Trust it . . .”
I can hardly wait for April’s horoscope!!
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