DS158 Do You Feel Alone
30 Apr 2019 · 2 min

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Kim Gaskill speaks directly to entrepreneurs about isolation and loneliness. She offers reassurance, encourages reaching out for support, and suggests nature as a way to feel less alone.

Kim Gaskill speaks directly to entrepreneurs about isolation and loneliness. She offers reassurance, encourages reaching out for support, and suggests nature as a way to feel less alone.
It's a new day. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is The Daily Spark. I was listening to a friend this morning talk about her struggle being an entrepreneur and feeling alone. Do you feel alone? You feel you're just beating your head against a wall and you don't know what to do and there's nobody there to help. You feel like giving up. That's a common feeling for entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, the, the pros of working on your own time, on your own schedule, on your own journey has a downside of feeling totally alone sometimes. But you know, we're not. We're really not. If you look around, there are people there to support us and to guide us everywhere. We just have to be the ones to reach out and ask. I felt kind of alone on this journey the last few months, many days. But I'm so grateful that I have people that I can reach out to, and they're just a click away or a call away. I'm standing outside here listening to the birds, which you know is my thing. And for me, when I feel alone, all I have to do is step out into nature and I see life. I see activity. I see vibrancy. And it just flows through me. Even if I'm alone, I don't feel alone anymore because that life force is out there. So find what that is for you today and reach out if you need it, because you don't have to be alone. Ever. Unless you want to, which is nice too sometimes. Catch you again tomorrow for another Daily Spark.