Resilience Is Learning to Struggle Well

Twelve weeks later, I can say this with certainty: my business is advancing, and I am different too.

I officially completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in Baltimore, and I will not pretend it was easy. There were long days and demanding assignments, and a four-hour commute that tested me more than once. I kept showing up anyway, because somewhere along the way I found a definition of resilience that reframed everything for me. Resilience, I learned, is not the absence of struggle. It is learning how to struggle well.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

I have been thinking about that ever since. Life and entrepreneurship will always bring the hard days. The goal was never to outrun them. It is to keep moving through, to learn inside the difficulty, and to refuse to quit on the vision.

So much of our anxiety as business owners lives in the cost of the journey. We fixate on the time an investment will take, and we nearly miss the experience of taking it. This time, I did not miss it. Three months in rooms with brilliant, generous leaders left me fundamentally shifted.

Maya Angelou said, "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." That is what this season gave me. Not just sharper tools and a bigger vision for AllProfit HR, though I have those. It gave me back the woman doing the work, and I like who she is becoming.

I am grateful for the alum who nudged me toward this, for the faculty who poured into us, and for Cohort 27, who worked and struggled and made it through beside me.

This chapter is complete. The work is just beginning.

If you are a leader learning to struggle well, do not do it alone. Let's build the kind of organization that can hold you and your people through the hard days. Schedule a discovery call with AllProfit HR, and let's talk about what's possible.

See you on the way up.

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