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Never Sacrifice Your Passion

September 15, 2009

I’ve been struggling to come to terms with my negative feelings towards running my own business and ultimately not succeeding. (Notice: I didn’t call it a failure.) I’ve got few regrets, some hard feelings and I’m financially damaged because of the experience, but what tainted it the most has nothing to do with any of that. No, I think the root of my issues lie in the fact that I lost sight of what I wanted to get out of it, and lost site of what made me happy. In essence I set aside my passions for, what I thought at the time, was in the best interest of keeping the business going.

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About Me (D. Keith Robinson)

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