In 2003, I struck out on my own and founded Sandstorm Media, a copywriting and content marketing company.
Each screw-up resulted in being pulled aside and reamed out for not figuring it all out on my own.
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He taught me how to think clearly, the rest I figured out on my own, with help from upstairs.
It was a new level of responsibility, risk-taking and way of relating to others that was absolutely essential for striking out on my own into new territory.
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Then I started competing in the various junior classes that are staged as part of the DTM race weekend as I started out on my own motorsport career.
Everything I did as a player I was blessed to have a chance to play for some of the great coaches in the history of the game has prepared me to go out on my own.
But I must have taken this critical insight for granted, because when I ventured out on my own to launch my business, my desire for speed clouded my judgment and I forgot what I always knew: The Team is what matters first and foremost.
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He touches on a couple things I left out of my own response, but that deserve more discussion.
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"I'm a Worksman marketer, in my own way, " he said before starting out on the job one morning.
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Because of these qualities, within three months of joining my company he was out in the field, conducting examinations on his own.
Little sister, when I open my mouth and you're free to skip from my belly and out into the sunlight, be born again on your own terms.
Earlier in the afternoon another veteran jockey, Ruby Walsh, suffered a fall in the Aintree Hurdle, ruling him out of the Grand National, where he had been due to ride On My Own.
But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.
Having engineered my own exodus out of Florida, I was newly arrived in New York, living on the Lower East Side, flat broke.
In fact, I personally took my own advice just the other day on a major decision that was hounding the heck out of me.
But because I took myself out of it I wasn't as hard as it could have been, as I just got on with my own thing.
Austrians tend to believe (and my own beliefs are on the fringes of that school) that things will generally sort themselves out, that intervention is likely to make things worse.
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Ms. CHARLENE LEE (Analyst, Forrester Research): And if I can own enough shares on the public market to have a majority of the shares, I can then have majority voting on the board, I can own the board of directors, kick out the current board of directors and put my own executives in place.
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