The journey of an entrepreneur - #5: Conviction
On vacation, I faced a unique challenge: build a fire.
Not a push-button, gas-log fire.
A kindling-and-matches, singe-your-arm hair fire.
A hard task for someone who flunked Cub Scouts, never earning a single badge.
After meticulously selecting logs, strategically stacking them, and diligently lighting handfuls of dry twigs and scraps of newspaper…I learned a key lesson:
A successful fire must have a solid base of coals.
All these years I believed that flames fueled the fire. Nope.
Flames are a by-product. The awe-inspiring dance of blue and orange light is short lived without the steady support of red-hot coals.
Flames don’t fuel the fire; coals do.
It's similar when expressing your entrepreneurial spirit at work.
The attention-grabbing flames of results are fueled by the coals of conviction.