Very few businesses start as a sure thing with a smooth path to success. Our current culture and systems don’t encourage or facilitate entrepreneurship. If we want to be successful in business, most of us have to turn convention on its head, leap off into the abyss or at the very least, be willing to be a little uncomfortable. All that being what it is, I’ve rarely met small business owners who regretted making that choice. As a friend/coach recently said, it is easy to become woefully unemployable after owning your own business. We love our new gig too much to work for someone else ever again. The freedom and autonomy self-employment provides is almost always worth the uncertainty and and sometimes crazy roller coast of emotions and situations that business ownership brings.