I heartily agree with your advice about segmenting your time for family and work. Both work and family have a creeping effect when it comes to your time. Put them both in their place and keep them there. Sometimes you need to sacrifice one over the other as the need arises, but generally it is possible to compartmentalize these portions of the life you have chosen.

I’m only 24, but I have enjoyed the ride I have had so far (going on a 4 years being full time at this). I agree with Rick, perhaps I won’t hit a home run this time around, but I never want to work for someone else, and there are ALWAYS new ideas to try. The world is constantly changing, there is always room for a new idea realized.

I can’t express enough how much this experience has taught me. I have learned not only through my mistakes, but have learned to expect and accept mistakes as a regular part of business. Ultimately your success is not based on how many things you do right, but how you deal with things when they go wrong, because they will, they will go REALLY wrong sometimes.

Much <3

I am in the same situation and, while it is probably more difficult than if I were single, having a family keeps me focused on my tasks so that I am actually making progress on my startup.

My family is also my incentive to do the startup. I don’t think I had the maturity, experience, or initiative needed to start my business when I was 20 — or even 30. It took being in my present situation to give me the reason I needed.

When someone tells you that something can’t be done, it’s because they haven’t yet figured out how to do it.

I would also look at the people saying that it can’t be done … if they’re other entrepreneurs, I believe they are trying to reduce the competition in an already crowded marketplace.

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