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WAKE UP AND DO YOUR THING
• Picture yourself three months from now busy making it happen
Take The First Step
Jason is a former lab assistant.
"I was going down the rut route,” he told me. “For eleven years I’d get up at the same time every day, look in the same mirror, drive the same route, see the same faces, park in the same spot. I remember the day I quit my job. It was a beautiful early summer morning and as I drove to work, all I could think about was how much I hated it. By the time I got there, I had made up my mind—I was going to quit. I walked into my boss’s office and said, ‘I’m quitting’. And just like that, with no backup plan or safety net, I started down the path of entrepreneurship. It was one of the craziest things I’ve ever done, but it also turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”
Jason packed in his well-paid job and followed his dream. He sold his house, bought a small farm and started a business growing herbs and distributing organic seeds online. Today his wife and oldest son work alongside him full-time. “Going solo was a risk I couldn’t afford,” he says now, “but I was desperate to be somebody, to leave a legacy. The moment I did it, the next steps were always obvious. I would never have believed how much I was capable of on my own. I just had this crazy idea!”
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