Doing business with no Regrets

Doing business with no Regrets

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Week 13: VW Beetle is like a Business

Yesterday I was looking out at my 1970 Volkswagen Beetle that I am fixing up, it is my first car that I bought in high school for 900 dollars. I caught it on fire by going up the Lewiston hill at 65 miles per hours which threw a piston rod through the engine case, releasing tons of gas, mixed that with the sparks from the spark plugs and you have a fire at the back of Volkswagen Beetle. Standing on the highway watching people go by watching me watch the fire, I realized that I was one of my life’s dreams to fix this car up and drive it until I die.
Yesterday I asked myself after 15 years of dreaming, is it worth fixing up my car? Was it worth a thousand or so dollars on carpet, engine parts, gears, mirrors, seats and ect to fix up a car that has sat in a back yard? The answer is “YES” because it is my dream. “YES” because it is part of who I am. Just like my business to build ultralight aircrafts, when I look at it and think about all the stuff I have to learn on how to build airplanes, all the materials that I have to buy and build and trial and error, I constantly ask myself, it is worth it do have my dream business or should I do something else?

The answer is “YES” it is worth all the trouble because it is my dream, it is who I am. And no matter how depressed I get or how much flax I get from friends and family or from myself, I can and will build a business that I am passionate about and dream about. Just like my Beetle, I can ask myself is it worth it and have doubt, the answer is still “YES.”

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