Like many women entrepreneurs, more often than not I try to take a Nike approach to life and business - I don’t overthink things, and just DO IT, although there are times when the day to day challenges put a spanner in the works of such an approach. And when revisiting the story of the inimitable Este Lauder, founder of Este Laude Cosmetics this weekend, I came across this quote by her on exactly this subject. She said, “I didn’t get where I am by thinking about it or dreaming it. I got there by doing it.” Her words were a great reminder that it is all too easy to sit back and daydream about how our entrepreneurial lives might look in ten or twenty years’ time, or dreaming about how that new business idea or great new product or service might look once launched, but unless we actually stop thinking and just do it, chances are it will remain just that - a dream.
Have yourself an inspired entrepreneurial day! — Melanie