Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2016 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 80

9 THINGS YOU NEED TO UNLEARN IF YOU WANT TO BECOME AN Entrepreneur Purpose & LIVE YOUR BY PATRICIA YOUNG I ’ve been on the entrepreneurial journey for a bit over 2 years now, and in full disclosure, I’ve experienced amazing experiences that have brought much joy, but I have also faced very challenging times. Times where I asked myself if it was worth the journey or if it would be better to just throw in the towel and go back to corporate, because even my marriage was being affected. That’s why I got really interested in learning more about the difference in the mindset between an employee and an entrepreneur. I did it for myself, but I also 80 did it because I know that I would be able to help my clients too. This is so common for people who transition from having worked for a paycheck for a long time, and they now want to start a business. One of the main things that I had to really understand is that, in order to become an entrepreneur, we have to give up security, so we can have more freedom. But it’s really hard to do that, because we have been conditioned since we were kids to go to school and then get a job. We have been programmed to be afraid of failing, and we even feel shame around failure. If www.AspireMAG.net | October / November 2016