7 Priceless Lessons I Learned Running a 1-Man Consulting Practice for 4 Years
Failing, falling, learning, rinse, wash, and repeat
It was December 2018.
Then, I was hanging on a tightrope. I was that corporate rat dying to resign. The annual bonus, due at the end of the calendar year, kept me going.
But not for long.
I left after pocketing the annual bonus. And without a job.
It was the scariest moment ever. But being pissed with my day job filled me with courage. I took a leap of faith.
Then I started a 1-Man consulting practice.
On the side.
The rest, as they say, is history.
The 7 Lessons I Mastered from the School of Hard Knocks
It is never easy at the start.
My mentor said that real-life experience cannot be taught. That is why we call it experience. Oh, Amen to that.
Unless and until we take the bulls by the horns, we are just another spectator. Or cheerleader. Or commentator.
These 7 lessons came to me while I wrestled with the bull named Reality.
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