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One of the best advice pieces I've read - and straight from the heart too. Thx.

I'd add just a couple of things:

When it comes to mentoring, don't just look for a business mentor. Include personal growth support too (and for those of you rolling your eyes right now, I hear you - woulda sounded out there to me not all that long ago...).

If you look at the experiential stages entrepreneurs go through it so closely mirrors Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero's Journey' its amazing.

Far as I can tell (and my husband/partner and I've been studying this one awhile) this ain't just biz but our inner lives leading throngs of us toward a new kind of happiness and fulfillment, and through us towards creating a value-driven, service-based society. Just look at the web, SN and the like!

And for me and many of our clients and the people we interview and study, its very clear that staying the course through the lean times, transitions and dry spots that are just plain part of creation, innovation and growth is really made possible when your biz is your true purpose and passion.

If you're just in it for the $s its wildly hard to work up the oomph to keep on keepin on, well-mentored or not.

Lissa, these are very wise words. Thanks so much for sharing here with our readers.

Fabulous run-down of what it takes to succeed!

I'd just add one thing to your advice to "Get Help". If you are doing everything in your business from keeping the books to returning phone calls, you are going to burn out before you have a chance to succeed! You can't possibly be good at all of these tasks; meanwhile, there are thousands of excellent professionals out there to help you with bookkeeping, web updates, all sorts of administrative tasks, writing, etc.

In my opinion, the most important investment you make, aside from the investment in yourself (as noted by Lissa above), is to hire out the tasks you aren't good at, loathe, and keep getting in your way. Yes it costs money...but if you hire wisely, you'll see a nice return on that investment, both in dollars and in creative satisfaction (now that you aren't doing all that other stuff!)

Thanks, Terri, good advice. Thanks for stopping by.

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