Life Path
….or at least a game of pickle that is!!! Little background – I live in an affluent town full of abundant families with a wealth of children. On my children’s bus stop alone there are 21 elementary age kids that clomp onto the bus every morning at 7:25 AM. That being said, every morning before the bus arrives the kids play Pickle in the front yard of the corner lot where the bus stop is. I don’t know if you played “Pickle” when you were a kid, but the whole premise of the game is one person has a tennis ball and is “IT”. That kid tries to throw the tennis ball at the other kids while they are running from one base down the field to the other base on the opposite end of the field. If you get hit you’re “IT” and it starts all over again.
The play usually goes something like this….one brave soul will dart out, “grabbing the bulls by the horns” so to speak running as fast as he can down the field. In the instant that he takes off 3 to 4 others will immediately follow. The majority of the kids stand there waiting, and as soon as the ball has been thrown at someone, they dart down the field with no worry of being touched by the ball. Beyond that there always seems to be a few that will even saunter down the field because the ball has been over thrown and there seems to be no apparent threat. At the same time, those few brave souls that started all the commotion to begin with have sprinted back and forth down the field 2 or 3 times while the ball is loose. The ball will finally be retrieved and brought back to the middle of the field and the play will start all over again.
What I realized this morning is that being an entrepreneur is much like being the leader in the game of Pickle. You have to be willing to “grab the bull by the horns” and run with it. You can’t wait for someone else to go first. You might get hit, but you might not. It’s a risk you are willing to take to get the prize on the o
….or at least a game of pickle that is!!! Little background – I live in an affluent town full of abundant families with a wealth of children. On my children’s bus stop alone there are 21 elementary age kids that clomp onto the bus every morning at 7:25 AM. That being said, every morning before the bus arrives the kids play Pickle in the front yard of the corner lot where the bus stop is. I don’t know if you played “Pickle” when you were a kid, but the whole premise of the game is one person has a tennis ball and is “IT”. That kid tries to throw the tennis ball at the other kids while they are running from one base down the field to the other base on the opposite end of the field. If you get hit you’re “IT” and it starts all over again.
The play usually goes something like this….one brave soul will dart out, “grabbing the bulls by the horns” so to speak running as fast as he can down the field. In the instant that he takes off 3 to 4 others will immediately follow. The majority of the kids stand there waiting, and as soon as the ball has been thrown at someone, they dart down the field with no worry of being touched by the ball. Beyond that there always seems to be a few that will even saunter down the field because the ball has been over thrown and there seems to be no apparent threat. At the same time, those few brave souls that started all the commotion to begin with have sprinted back and forth down the field 2 or 3 times while the ball is loose. The ball will finally be retrieved and brought back to the middle of the field and the play will start all over again.
What I realized this morning is that being an entrepreneur is much like being the leader in the game of Pickle. You have to be willing to “grab the bull by the horns” and run with it. You can’t wait for someone else to go first. You might get hit, but you might not. It’s a risk you are willing to take to get the prize on the o






















