By now you have figured out that I love thought-provoking quotes. Yesterday, this one appeared in my inbox from Heartmath.com:
“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps–we must step up the stairs.” — Vance Havner
As women entrepreneurs, particularly After 55, we must have the courage to step up the stairs. What a beautiful phrase. All the thinking, planning, consulting, networking and visioning are only lovely exercises unless we put our foot on the stairs and step up. Remember that babies try to go up the stairs, rock back and forth, fall back, watch, try again and again and then get up one stair. With more practice they get up more stairs until, within a few months, they handle the stairs as though they have always done it. Eventually they may learn to take two stairs at a time, slide down the bannister and venture all other permutations, but they always know how to go up the stairs.
I think we Women of a Certain Age have two additional challenges to face squarely in addition to those faced by all entrepreneurs: the feeling that because we have our life experience we should be able to accomplish our goals faster and the concern that we may have a limited time horizon. I’ll take a look at each of these in the next two messages.
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