A short, first-person motivational monologue by Dean Graziosi addressed to entrepreneurs. Graziosi lists the hidden sacrifices behind business success—going against family/friends, taking on debt, late nights, personal development, fear and imposter syndrome, hiring mistakes—and emphasizes persistence through failures until momentum and growth arrive, at which point outsiders often attribute success to "luck."
Think about this. Isn't it how it is? Sometimes in life and in business, you go after your dreams. No one knows that you had to go against your family and friends calling you crazy, that you had to raise the money or put money on credit cards, or you had to stay up all night week after week trying to figure this out. You had to work on your own personal development because you wanted to keep things moving forward. When you were scared to death, when uncertainty was at an all time high, when you felt imposter syndrome about an inch away or a millimeter away from robbing your dreams, you kept going forward. You failed more than once. You hired the wrong person. You kept moving forward. Finally you get momentum. Finally you start getting energies. Finally you start hiring people. Finally you start hiring new people and doing new things. And you start fueling the economy, fueling your own life. And then you hire more people and have more success and things keep going harder, faster, stronger. And then you get to a certain point and what do people say? Wow, she's so lucky.
