If you feel like you are drowning, read this

As I sit here at my desk, tears are still wet on my cheeks, the weight of a new bill adds another boulder to the mountain of financial strain I am currently undergoing. It’s a struggle — a relentless battle to stay afloat in a sea of expenses that threaten to engulf me and my budding business.

Leaving behind the safety net of a job to chase my entrepreneurial dreams was a leap of faith I don’t regret. Yet, amid this pursuit, I find myself grappling with regret over every penny frivolously spent and every moment frittered away in the early stages. Uncertainty wraps around me like a suffocating cloak, rendering me paralysed by fear and plagued by destructive thoughts.

Desperation fuels my attempts to stem the financial bleed by seeking supplementary employment. But my resume, once a beacon of my skills and experience, now feels inadequate against the competition. I wonder if the recruiters can sense the desperation seeping through my applications. Some job offers trickle in, tantalizing lifelines in this tumultuous storm, but they come at a steep cost — demanding that I relinquish the hard-earned clients I painstakingly acquired and retained.

Entrepreneurship — a journey painted with strokes of both elation and toil — can be a solitary road fraught with regret. For those of us building businesses who feel like we’re drowning, it’s crucial to realise that we are not solitary voyagers. The pain that gnaws at us, though all-consuming now, will ebb away, eventually (I hope) yielding to…