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Get Out of Your Head and Talk to People to Overcome the Fear of Starting
I’ve been a “watch-ya-preneur”.
In early 2000, a neighbor shared the book Rich Dad Poor Dad with me. He was an entrepreneur building his first business.
We had talked about start-ups and he knew my frustration with my full-time job at the time.
I read the book in one sitting on a rainy spring day. I’d like to say that the book catapulted me into entrepreneurship, but it didn’t.
I spent my spare time reading about business, how to come up with ideas, design thinking, audience building, customer problem fit and lean startup. Pick your favorite start-up buzzword and process. I’ve consumed it.
Looking back I regret the hours and years of reading and not doing. But, all that watching watered the seed that was planted so many years ago when I first read Kiyosaki’s book. That seed has been growing for years now.
We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of…
