it’s funny, as I head out on this 5 day road trip from Northern Kentucky to Las Vegas I have the question in my head “why do you do this stuff.”

I’ve got to think it’s a question we as entrepreneurs all ask ourselves.  

Questions like:

 “why did I get myself into this?”
” what was I thinking starting a business?”

” why am I really doing this?”

I’ve heard others who are business owners echo these thoughts, but many of us don’t tell anyone else.  We tend to live a lonely life.  We live in our own heads and don’t want to tell others.  

I don’t know if it’s because we don’t want to show weakness, or lose the faith they have it us.  Maybe it’s because we think we have to be a one man/woman army.  Regardless of why we do this, it typically is short lived and we snap out of it and get to work. 

The facts are, doing what we are doing is freaking tough.  It’s hard.  It feels like some days are damn near impossible.  

And then we see someone from our team loving their job.  A team member having an absolute blast.  A client telling us how much we’ve helped their business.  

Like the image above, where a restaurant owner emailed me to tell me the impact America’s Best Restaurants and the ABR Roadshow has had on his business.  This is what makes it all worth it.  To see the result pay off for someone else, and to know that it’s a direct effort of the prior 15 years.  When I see things like this I saw WOW, we did that.  

And you should to.  Because someone out there is smiling from the food you served, from the service you gave them, from the bad day you helped erase.

And know this, what we’re doing is freaking hard and there’s a reason basically no one else is doing it!