Michelle's Entrepreneurial Journal
Weekly reflections on learning, building, and becoming an entrepreneur
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Drive is easy to admire. It looks powerful. It moves fast. It gets attention. Direction, on the other hand, is quieter. It requires thought. It requires restraint. It requires saying no as often as saying yes. The older I get, the more I realize that drive without direction can build momentum in the wrong direction…
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Entrepreneurship has never felt abstract to me. It has always felt known and safe. I grew up watching my dad build companies from the ground up, pivot when things didn’t work, sell, start again, and carry the weight of responsibility. Business was never separate from our family life; it was woven into it. I was…
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Most people don’t fail because they aim too low. They fail because they spend too long preparing to aim perfectly. There is a quiet temptation to wait for clarity before action, to delay meaningful decisions until certainty arrives. But life rarely offers certainty upfront. Instead, it reveals direction through movement. The path becomes visible only…
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The way we measure our lives quietly shapes the choices we make every day. Whether we realize it or not, everyone operates with a scoreboard. Some people measure life by achievement, others by stability, influence, or recognition. The danger is not in having a metric, but in choosing one that rewards the wrong things. When…
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Ethics are not just a set of rules we follow when someone is watching; they are the quiet decisions that shape who we become over time. They influence how we treat people, how we use power, and what we choose to value when pressure is high and shortcuts are available. More than anything, ethics reveal…
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Creating a life of meaning is less about achieving impressive accomplishments and more about choosing what matters most and living in alignment with those choices. Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture reinforced this idea for me. He did not achieve his childhood dreams because life handed them to him easily, but because he lived intentionally. He understood…
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Over the past two weeks, I have been traveling throughout Asia, which gave me an unexpected but powerful lesson: the importance of having a strong team. While travel can easily become stressful, especially when responsibilities continue at home, this experience reinforced how critical trust, communication, and shared ownership are within any successful business. Before leaving,…
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