Subscribe Ask the Editors Search Entire site Smallbiz Bookstore Msg. There are miles of distance between employees and entrepreneurs new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking, new worries, new blessings. When you get near people who are pursuing their heart's desire, you can see the intensity on their face.
Life is too short to live without that kind of focus.
For each person, that first step begins in a different way. But the first transition entrepreneurs make usually occurs before then, in a moment of realization that there's more to life than what they've got and they need to do something about it. I didn't need a new job. Of course, for every person like Young who actually starts a business, a dozen more dream about it but can't make the transition from desire to reality, for one reason or another. Inc. All rights reserved.