Any regrets about the things you never tried?

You once had an idea that felt absolutely brilliant at the time. Maybe you lacked the capital, or perhaps you could have scraped some together, but you simply didn't have the guts to pull the trigger.

Looking back from where you stand now, do you regret letting it slip away?

I personally had a concept that would have required about $10,000—a massive amount of money for me, both then and now. I am confident I could have turned a profit within a year or two, but I just didn't have the funds (and I still don't). If I had been in a position to fund it, I would have gone for it without hesitation. It's a genuine regret of mine.

I was right on the verge of setting up my own LLC, but I pulled the plug (and wasted about 500-$200 on various filing fees, if I recall correctly).

That was maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Honestly, I'm not sure if the concept would have even caught on—it's more likely the big players in the industry would have just eaten me alive.

Ideas pop into my head constantly, but I lack both the drive and the guts to actually make them happen. For now, I’m just getting by month to month with my job while I finish up my degree.

Once I graduate, I might finally commit to one of these ventures (unless I hit a massive jackpot in the lottery), depending on how my finances look.🙂

I had three different paths lined up. I was actually on the verge of pulling the trigger on two of them, but tourism always seemed to pull me back in. Then, just when I was getting serious about the third option, someone completely random comes up and starts talking shop—and suddenly, everything just clicked.

Honestly, I can’t help but wonder how much I would have struggled if I’d actually gone through with those second or third ideas. For the last few years, I’ve been dreaming about this current venture, though I kept telling myself it was an impossible dream—finding a decent commercial space, breaking into the market, all that stuff. Looking back at what my other alternatives were...😲

Maybe they wouldn't have been total financial disasters, but I would have burned out trying to force myself to do something I don't even care about.

So, I’ve gone through a ton of ideas over the years. I’ve actually pulled the trigger on a few of them, while others just sat on the shelf because I was broke, busy, or life just got in the way. Out of the ones I actually went for, about two-thirds were what you’d call "successes," and the other third... well, not so much. But hold on, what does "success" even mean in this game? That’s the million-dollar question right there.

Look, you can have a killer idea and execute it perfectly, and honestly? It still might not amount to jack. To really make it in the entrepreneurship world, you need like twenty different qualities and twenty specific conditions to line up just right—and even then, you never know which unexpected curveball is going to come out of nowhere and absolutely wreck your plans. What are you supposed to do when you launch something that works flawlessly for a few years, brings in the big bucks, and scales like crazy, only to suddenly fall apart later on? And the kicker is, it happens every single time for some completely different reason.

At the end of the day, launching your own business is totally worth it simply because being an entrepreneur feels like the most natural thing in the world. You don't have some boss breathing down your neck, you do things exactly how you think they should be done, you've got total freedom, and nobody is there to stifle your creativity. If that kind of lifestyle clicks with you, then entrepreneurship is definitely your calling, and even a massive failure won't stop you from getting back up.

But let me tell you something: if you aren't genuinely enjoying the grind and the sheer freedom it provides, stay far away from this life. Being an entrepreneur is easily one of the hardest paths you can take. Why? Because it demands an insane variety of skills and abilities, and it is just so damn unpredictable.

But man, when things are clicking? There is nothing better. It’s almost better than sex.

Everything I set out to do, I did. No regrets. Some of my moves were definitely idiotic, but looking back, everything worked out pretty well. I’m satisfied.