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Global Voice Magazine
THE JOURNEY BEGINS BY STOPPING NA N C Y B E C H E R
I ’v e b e e n a n e n t r e p r e n e u r m y whole life. I remember setting up a grocer y store in the living ro om with my little cash regist e r, g r o c e r y c a r t a n d f o o d f r o m the kitchen, making my family “buy” what they wanted to fix for dinner – all before I was i n k i n d e r g a r t e n . It w e n t u p h i l l f r o m t h e r e . M a n y, m a n y b u s i n e s s e s l a t e r, I ’m s t i l l s i t t i n g h e r e thinking of what I need to do to actually make this business something that I want and can be proud of. After a period of time when (due to situations b e yond my control – yeah, we all have those s o m e t i m e s , r i g h t ? ) I w a s n’t a t my b est and my business was somewhat lackluster to say the
least, I am starting to climb out the other side and can see where this is going -- where I wanted it to go w hen I b egan this part i c u l a r j o u r n e y 1 0 y e a r s a g o. Even though the problems began without my creating them, the c l i m b o u t c e r t a i n l y h a s n’t b e e n because I just sat back and let life happen around me. Far from it. Have you e ver felt depress ed over the way your life (and your business) were going? Maybe not depressed but have you felt like t h e r e w a s j u s t s o m e t h i n g “o f f ” ? That you could be doing somet h i n g d i f f e r e n t ? Ho w o f t e n h a v e your family and friends told you “ W h y d o n’t y o u j u s t g o o u t a n d g e t a J. O. B .” ? I h a v e o n m o r e
