Lemonade or Entrepreneurship

No Lemonade, Just Entrepreneurship

Lemonade or Entrepreneurship?When I started this blog in this format in October of last year, I was perplexed by this thing called a tagline. I wanted to come up with something catchy and something that reflected overcoming struggles and challenges, a topic that I know a lot about.  I decided to call it “Defining The Fine Art of Turning Lemons into Lemonade.”  This sounded catchy and sounded somewhat intelligent.  I  like to dress up my writing a little and this should do the trick.  Sometimes I cloud the message instead of making it clearer.

I ran off to Kinko’s to develop the artwork for this new idea.  The final result was a picture with lemons on the left, a stock photo of a despairing businessman, a charming picture of me in the middle, another stock photo of a businessman winning a race and a photo of a pitcher of lemonade on the far right.  I was proud of the fact that this was the first art I had worked on in about five years.  The header picture also replaced the stock photos that came with the WordPress format, beautiful as they are, that don’t reflect the struggles I have been through.  That was then…this is now.

I had a few friends that I knew didn’t like the theme, but they were nice and didn’t say anything.  Then I got an email from a stranger mentioning that they didn’t know there was a fine art of turning lemons into lemonade.  I had already begun a reinvention stage to this blog and this was the icing on the cake.  It was becoming clear to me that what I wanted to communicate and what was being communicated were mismatched.  It was reinforced again when a very close friend of mine sent me an email with the pin picture (inserted above) in it.  I thought it was funny, but it was definitely time to change this blog format.

I have always been about entrepreneurship and the successes, large and small, that entrepreneurs go through. Although I am rebuilding myself and my life, entrepreneurship will be the basis for this reinvention process.  Starting and growing businesses is the heart of entrepreneurship and this is where my passion lies.

It also reflects a shift in my thinking from the struggles of the past to the successes and accomplishments to come.  By the way, if you are going to start with a lemonade stand, make sure that your venture into enrtepreneurship is compliant with your state and local laws.

Michael Neely

My name is Michael Neely and I am an entrepreneur, blogger, FOREX trader, coin collector and businessman. I have also been known as a waiter, bartender, Series Three (Commodities and Currencies Options and Futures). I currently live in New England with my beautiful fiancée, Patsy and Pip, our Jack Russell terrier.

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