The door of challenges always opens into that of opportunity
If this fish learned how to fly, it wouldn't have been caught!
Entrepreneurship has more than its fair share of challenges, but from my experience, each time I have been HEAVILY challenged, the opportunity they opened up for my personal growth have always been even more monumental!
Opportunity comes to those who knock on the door
There are two ways you can live your life, either you sit back and live with what life provides OR you put all your effort into making your dreams a reality and make providers give you the life you know you deserve. In other words, the squeeky wheel always gets more oil 
Most people, sadly, never achieve the life they truly deserve BECAUSE they never bother taking a stand and making active decisions on a daily basis to make them a reality.
Challenges come in all shapes and sizes
The only people who don’t have challenges in life are those who are six feet under. Everyday presents its own amount of challenges and opportunities, big and small… but for entrepreneurs, they are magnified. Challenges don’t just affect you personally, they seep and grow like wildfire with those you deal with. For instance, you got a web designer who is off on vacation but you get a call from a client who needs something done yesterday… what do you do? Call the designer back from vacation OR delay a project OR try to do it yourself OR outsource… the possibilities are as vast as the stars in the universe. Each has its positive and negative aspects! Balancing the challenges, trying to create some homeostasis WHILE pursuing a goal that is somewhat rocking the boat of competitors and the world is a tough act to achieve.
Opportunities come to those who wait… NOT!
I don’t know who said that opportunities come to those who wait because they rarely do! If you sit and watch television and are hoping to build an international company… you need to throw the television our along with the couch you where sitting on in the garbage! Opportunity comes to those who really, with vigor and zest, try to make things happen in the face of constant rejection, down-talk and the most evil of all, the status quo. Entrepreneurs are usually the mavericks trying to unbalance and create a little chaos in a world that is hell-bent on creating stability and predictability! Entrepreneurs are the people who realize they have nothing to loose and endure no matter how much is thrown right back at them… they use the momentum of failure to power their success.
Why do we teach children 9-5?
With all the economic chaos right now happening in this world that that seems to come every 5-7 years on a cyclical basis, why do we still teach our children the importance of a 9-5 life? This is like teaching a fish how to breath slower in a tank that is slowly emptying! We need to teach our children to fly, not hold their breath! Entrepreneurs, both successful and otherwise, are the high-fliers who are usually given very little credit for their failure. Failure is an incredible teacher that just keeps on giving, we should teach our children to take a leap of faith, rock the boat, screw homework… go out and create a little chaos! Homework is a method of control, control leads to a reduction in creativity which ultimately, makes them perfect candidates for the 9-5 lifestyle that they need to avoid like the plague. 9-5 is NOT a career in my opinion, just ask all the people who believed in this false-prophet looking for jobs now in a downed economy. 9-5 just create an environment that is constantly striving to create stability in a world full of chaos… learn to control and master chaos and you will be going WITH nature instead of against it! Stability is but an illusion.
The Bottom Line
Challenges are GOOD, chaos is GOOD, stability is BAD, 9-5 mentality is EVIL.
