How many excuses can entrepreneurs come up with not to have to accept that maybe they’re the ones doing something wrong:

There’s the entrepreneur who used to run a busy restaurant and now blames the pandemic for his loss of clients – all while other restaurants are back to normal. Could it be his lack of marketing, not the pandemic, for people not to have come back? If nobody knows you re-opened, why would they after months of not hearing from you assume you’re still in business?

And then the entrepreneur who sees his female peer getting funded and blames his unfundability on gender. Could it be her strategic and operational excellence that set the female entrepreneur apart, not their femininity?

Or what about the entrepreneur who blames his employees for not working more efficient and smarter while he recruits them fresh out of college. Could it be his lack of appetite to pay for qualified staff that gets him into trouble time and time again, not the staff’s inexperience?

SPARK OF THE DAY

The good thing about acknowledging your own shortcomings is that you can do something about it. You failing means you’re in control. You can correct course. 

There’s the safe sounding narrative and then there’s reality. Don’t confuse the two.