Week 13 Reflections

A question I have really been asking myself lately is if this is really the path for me. The entrepreneur path. I feel like I am very risk averse and cautious and I am not sure I have what it takes. Let alone the education, work experience, and anything else that most entrepreneurs have that I don’t and probably won’t before I were to try. But the thing I can’t ignore is the pull I feel in my heart that this is the right path for me. I don’t know why. I know I have many gifts naturally that could benefit me in business, but it makes me nervous with the time commitment since I do have a lot of kids and still want more. And I just don’t know how it will work out. But then I think, we are living in a man’s world of business still, and what if there are paths we haven’t explored yet that work better for moms/women? What if we have gifts to getting there that haven’t been used in the ways that I could? And that could help me have a good work/life balance but still achieve major success? I mean, with God anything is possible, and like Thoreau was quoted in one of our readings this week “I learned this…that if one advances confidently in the direction of [her] dreams and endeavors to live the life which [she] has imagined, [she] will meet a success unexpected in the common hours…If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.” And that is my hope. With God’s hope I will continue forward with hopes and prayers in my heart and dreams in my mind of how I want this to go and I will put my faith in Him, that He can make this work and help me accomplish what I am meant to accomplish, despite being a mom. Or maybe because of it.

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