Hey, entrepreneur, we’re revisiting your courage, your daring, your imagination, your inspiration. And we’re talking about stuckness.

Remember - your new business promised presence of risk, danger, and amazing opportunity! It also promised great lack of comfort! How did it feel?

What does it feel like now? I know an awful lot of entrepreneurs who are now stuck, not moving forward, and still working their butts off.

What happens to entrepreneurs is that they charge until they’re stopped. Then they stop.

There’s ample justification for stopping – money, personnel, and of course, time.

What can we conspire or manufacture to get you past that stop? It’s really not intellectual – your problem-solving skills have worked fine up to now. It’s just that, well, it seemed like a good time to “rest”, “take a break”, “take score”, “do an inventory”, “hit the pause button.”

I believe the Sufis created this picture of mankind - each of us confronted by a trapeze positioned over a chasm. Will we leap up, grab the trapeze, swing back and forth, and finally leap across the chasm? So, the fulfillment for each of us is in the risk we contemplate. And an argument for a fully-successful entrepreneurship is to take your place on that trapeze, swinging over the chasm.

But the Sufis go further – they say that your fulfillment (and mine) is in the moment when we swing out and let go! When we’re actually in mid-air, having let go of the trapeze, above the chasm, but propelled by our own momentum to the new territory on the other side, that we fulfill ourselves.

Whew! Entrepreneurism by that definition is a really tough, exciting game!

There are other measures of successful entrepreneurship – acquisition of money and accumulation of security are more conventional.

My vote goes for time spent in the air, at risk, frightened and excited, on my way, I hope, to a soft landing on new ground. Beats stuckness.

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