Year One as an Entrepreneur - Lessons Learned

Today marks the 1st year anniversary of starting Launch My Health. This milestone brings a lot of feelings, but the one that sticks out the most is pure gratefulness. I cannot put into words how thankful I am for the Launch team and the entire network of professionals, friends, and family that have supported me over the past year.

As I reflect over the past year, I have often felt I like jumped out of a plane without a parachute, but I wouldn’t trade a day of it. I have never felt more alive and inspired that I have the opportunity to make a difference and help people create health for themselves. I love waking up every day knowing that I am exactly where I want to be.

Here are a few lessons I learned being an entrepreneur (in no order):

1.       LOVE your business- I wouldn’t recommend starting a business to make money, start a business you have a lot of passion for; know that you will be working 12–14-hour days and weekends so you better like what you do!

2.      Thrive in ambiguity- You never know what is going to happen in a day, let alone the week or month. If you need a lot of stability or clear direction, I would not recommend owning or starting a business.

3.      Grow some thick skin- No sugar coating, not everyone is nice, and some people are rude and unprofessional.

4.      Fail fast and pivot- Test your ideas and be ready to adjust quickly!

5.      Listen- to your customers and what they want, you will only be in business if you have a product or service that people want to buy. See number 4!

6.      Multi-task and learn- I had no idea how hard it would be to become an expert in literally everything. There is no IT help desk, HR department, or finance team! I am so grateful for Google and YouTube!

There have been many hard days over the past year, countless tears shed, and sleepless nights, but I am so happy that I took a leap of faith and that others had faith in me too (thank you investors and Launch team). A special thank you to everyone reading this that has a smile on their face, I feel your support and encouragement.

As I reflected on the past year, I spent some time reading my journal from the past year, came across this writing and it seems fitting.

“Every failure is a stone laid on the path to success.”

Looking forward to year 2!