I realized that if I didn t wake up the next day, my business wouldn t continue. In fact, about two years ago, he brought together an advisory board for that very purpose. We asked prominent business people in the area to assist us in decision-making. Dionne says his experience has taught him to be very careful of saying no to a new idea. Before you say no, before you make a decision, go as far as you can with it.
People often say no without enough consideration.
You cannot get a job offer if you don t apply for the job in the first place, and you certainly cannot purchase a company without being rejected a number of times in the process. You never know what the exercise may bring you unless you throw yourself into the middle of it. You have to hit as many nails as you can because you never know which one will go in. So, if one day, like these entrepreneurs, you wake up, look around and find yourself self-employed, before you run screaming from the room, remember, you re in good company. You flowed with the river.