Stoddart says persistent anxiety is the hardest part of being an entrepreneur
Tim Stoddart · I Make $5M/Year With 3 Businesses · Apr 27, 2024 · at 13:51
Entrepreneur Tim Stoddart reflects with host Pat Walls on the psychological toll and recurring anxiety that comes with running multiple businesses.
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“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that I worry all the time. Most of my time is just spent like, what's about to go wrong? What's a fire that's about to happen? Like, where can I see something coming so that I'm not blindsided and my life doesn't like fall to pieces because of some problem that I couldn't control. So like, yeah, I worry a lot. Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I'm thinking like, What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong? It's just, it's really difficult to make that go away.”
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