Entrepreneurship is the uncertainty of doing work that may never pay off. The feeling that you wasted years chasing something that fails.

This is by far one of the hardest things about entrepreneurship. The uncertainty.

I find it easy for my friends from the outside in to tell me that life must be great.

Making money. Working on your own schedule. Building things. Meeting people. Etc.

The reality is that it’s far away from the truth.

It’s lonely – you are the only one that is always on the ride. Friends come and go. Employees come and go. Ideas come and go. You don’t.

It’s hard – everyone looks to you to solve the problems. And, if you don’t, no one will.

It takes time – people expect that you have a track record from the start.

Very few people are actually interested in the starting story. Most people want to see that what you are doing is grand, impactful, and impressive.

But, it never starts there.

For you? It means that you are spending most of your time behind this one thing.

Trying to get it off the ground.

For what? No pre-defined outcome.

That by definition is entrepreneurship.

And, those that are comfortable with doing things day in and day out with no end in mind.

Well, then you’re a born-entrepreneur. It’s very rare.

These are skills that I have learned to build. I was never programmed this way.

Who would? Most of the people I know would never work for free for 1 hour. Let alone hundreds or thousands of hours.

And that, by definition, is why so few do it.

It’s hard.