It is six months since I uprooted my life in Ecuador and returned to the land of my youth, in the far northwest corner of the USA.  Since that day, March 13, 2020, my life, like yours I imagine, has been nothing like I expected it to be.  Within 24 hours of my return to the USA life was put on hold for everyone in my new community. Restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters, public restrooms, retail stores, beaches, even gatherings of more than a few people have all been closed, restricted, eliminated.

Now, six months later, little has changed.  These are hard times to consider starting a business.  The vacant storefronts I see as I walk down the street (masked and carefully distancing) are a dark cautionary tale.

Business can be risky. Businesses can fail, though no fault of our own.  So, those of us who carry the entrepreneurial gene; those of us who are always thinking of starting something, a service, a solution to a problem, a product that will make life better, what do we do now?

I don’t have an answer but, as summer weather fades into a damp winter, I am beginning to use my own coaching tools to consider the possibilities.

What are you doing?  Have you lost your business in these trying times?  If so, what will you do instead?

Let’s work together to find our way back to a life of service and profit.

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