In my previous blog, I mentioned the two After 55 additional entrepreneurial challenges–expectation and time. Today I want to look at expectations.
Let’s face it, by our age we have been around the block maybe more than once. Now we have an idea for a new business–or maybe it is a consuming passion. Like all entrepreneurs, we would like the instant gratification of quick success, but the truth could also be that we expect a little quicker return because we have so much life experience and perhaps even business experience. Prior experience of any sort may prove to be of enormous help, but I think our hard-earned wisdom may prove most beneficial in unexpected ways: patience and a sense of the ebb and flow of life.
Now, patience is definitely not my strong suit. I want what I want (or what I think I want) now! Yesterday might have been soon enough. And yet, I am also slowly coming to believe that, within reason, things happen as they should. Notice how many qualifiers there were in that sentence.
Another one of my daily quotes (this one from TheDailyGuru.com) last week had this to say:”Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no shortcutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” — Asha Tyson
On days or weeks when it seems we are barking up the wrong tree, we have the wisdom to know that there will also be times when everything seems made to order to make us happy if we can just hang on. Very few Gen Xers, Gen Yers, Millennials–or whatever label is attached–know this as we do.
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