Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs

Did you ever hear the saying: “Everything happens for a reason” Or what about: “There are no accidents in life.”

I feel that fortune is one of those things in life that we’ll never be able to fully understand. Fortune comes in so many ways and often times is disguised in forms that we are only able to realize after the fact.

Fortune comes to entrepreneurs in many ways. Fortune can be defined by closing a deal, launching a new service that increases revenue, meeting the right person just at the perfect moment to help your business, or making the right decision that catapults your business to new heights of success and notoriety.

But what about the ugly side of fortune? Sometimes the world feels like it’s falling apart beneath you. As young entrepreneurs we all face extreme hardship from time to time and to an extent, it can feel never-ending at times. But with all bad comes good.

I find that most bad situations that I encounter while on my entrepreneurial journey can be tuned into fortunate situations for myself as long as I keep a positive attitude and a desire to bring myself and my business back onto a positive track.

Severs go down, clients drop your service, your girlfriend dumps you, your parents may not want you to be an entrepreneur, your site crashes, there’s fraudulent activity on your business bank account, you lose your business partner, that deal falls through, you can’t get any sleep, your don’t know how you’ll pay the bills, etc…etc…

These are all real example of the many obstacles that we entrepreneurs may face, things that negatively affect our business in one degree or another. However, these obstacles can only set you back if you let them. You can turn them into fortunes if your want to.

When something bad happens, embrace it. Yeah, that’s right, embrace the bad! When you embrace the bad, you allow yourself to see ways to improve your organization and to become a stronger entrepreneur – an entrepreneur better suited to succeed.

After my server crashed a few times, I decided to study servers and better educate myself on the ins-and-outs of running websites on dedicated servers and in doing so, I realized that many things that I was doing were absolutely wrong – things that would have led to even bigger problems down the line as my sites got bigger and scaled.

You see, from obstacles I was able to bring about fortune. So the next time something bad happens and has your business in a slump… just start thinking about how you can turn things around and bring about fortune from failure. There is always a way, you just have to find it.

When fortune closes one door, it opens another.

– SA’ID