October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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August 15Have a Little Faith
Happy they themselves who call / To risk much, and to conquer all; / Happy are they who many losses, / Sore defeat or frequent crosses, / Though these may the heart dismay, / Cannot the sure faith betray.
Margaret Fuller—Life Without and Life Within (1859)
You're not in control of your business—you'll never be, not fully anyway. There are simply too many elements over which you have no control.
Letting go in the face of this constant uncertainty requires faith.
Just getting up and walking out the door requires a level of faith, but running a business, dreaming a big dream, not hyperventilating every single day of your entrepreneurial life, that requires amazing faith.
But faith in what? Maybe it's a god, but maybe you're a god.
Faith in yourself, faith in your power to manifest through focused attention, faith in your ability to witness miracles, that's the faith you possess. That's the faith the universe offers you. It's there for everyone.
Faith like this isn't about wishing something will happen; it's about knowing it will happen. Maybe not as you mapped it out on the whiteboard, maybe not because you're in complete control, but in time, in your way, as you knew it would.
Today, let go more; have a little faith.
Challenge Question
- What do you need to give up controlling? Do you have the faith to do it?
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