Thomas Edison is credited with creating the filament in light bulbs that made them feasible for average americans to buy (no he did not invent the lightbulb).  In order to find the correct filament he tried over 2,000 times before getting it right.  If he stopped trying after the first few times, or even the first 1,999 times it would have been deemed a failure, but he didn’t, and thus it is considered successful.

I wish I was writing this after an amazing semester for the Entrepreneur Mentor Society of Dallas-Fort Worth (EMS) so I could rave about success, hard work, and The Power of Gradual, but unfortunately this isn’t the case.  

This semester nothing happened with EMS Dallas except for a lot of talk, after all of the work I put into recruiting only 3 people signed up (ouch). Some people will call this a failure, and I will agree with them; for the time being it has been a failure.  But I know that it isn’t the end, I will try again next semester, and upon trying again this stage will no longer be considered a failure, just a set back because failing is when you quit before you give yourself the chance to succeed. 

My first attempt with EMS was not successful because I did not give myself the chance to succeed. I did not ask for help, and thus I did not succeed, however I won’t call it a failure until I quit.  Over the past few months I developed a good network and I learned some valuable lessons, primarily that I can’t do it all myself and I need to ask for help.  The next few months will be spent re-tooling the concept, and bringing on a student board with leaders at each University, for them to help recruit and share ownership in the organization.

I’m not quitting because I know there are a lot of people who I don’t want to let down, and a lot of students I don’t yet know who I have the desire to help achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.

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