16 Entrepreneurs Discuss on Whether Mistakes or Failure Have Affected Their Success
#5- Made a way to my best years ahead – Meredith Atwood
In 2017, I experienced the worst year of my life—both professionally and personally. I had leapt out of the legal profession as an attorney to be an entrepreneur. I watched, helplessly, as things completely out of my control caused utter destruction to my best-laid plans. I was left sitting with nothing. I had given up my lucrative paying legal job—for what was now gone. I didn’t sleep for weeks and then months. During these dark times, though, I learned that I had to build, start over, ask myself the right questions—and not look back. It took great restraint not to go back to the law(what I knew), but to continue on the path forward (what I knew I needed)even though I had to start over. Now, almost two years, a booming podcast and not one–but two!–book deals later, I know with all of my heart that the destruction was the best thing that could have happened to me. In the theme of Ryan Holiday’s, The Obstacle is the Way, I often say—that worst year of my life was completely the way to my best years ahead.