Now I don’t have many regrets. I figure life is too short to do so.

But the greatest regrets which stay with me all revolve around not showing courage in difficult situations…

Times when I didn’t stand up for myself in my high school years.

The fact it took me almost a decade to start my own business, even though I knew I wanted to do something when I was fifteen.

Not standing up for myself and confronting issues more directly in the first 12 months of my business.

Do you know what’s interesting about this?

All of these regrets are based around things I didn’t do.

You see, even though my first business failed miserably and caused me an untold amount of headaches at the time, I don’t regret it.

Sure, I regret not firing a certain staff member earlier, but I don’t regret the decision to do it.

Because I learnt something.

And I demonstrated courage under fire.

The great thing about business is there are always a great number of opportunities to demonstrate courage, aren’t there?

Sacking vendors or staff when we know it’s the right thing to do rather than holding on over fear.

Lifting our prices when the time is right.

Letting go of a client where there is no longer a match between the two of us.

Investing in an advertising campaign even though it scares the living daylights out of us to take the leap.

Even spending the money on one’s own education (such as http://www.morecustomersmadeeasy.com or
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But remember this…

I don’t know about you, but when I look back to the past, my primary regrets are for the things I didn’t do and the times I didn’t demonstrate courage… not the times I did.