The Case for Uncertainty

Entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable to uncertain times. Whilst we do work ordinarily more than the 8 and 9 hours in a working day, we are not readily assured of the monthly salary, even though we are saddled with the monthly costs and expenditures of running a business.

All such incidences can make the times and seasons uncertain. And it can be tough.

But in all honestly, all times are uncertain, for we all live for and in the moment. We enjoy increased sales, better client interaction etc and even when we enjoy these it doesn’t mean that the future we desire is certain.

In my work as a management consultant and business coach I am constantly having to remind entrepreneurs that the entrepreneurial life is a journey, with ups and down, speed bumps and speed limits, uphill drives and high way experiences. In all of this we learn. What to do. What not to do. How to do. How not to do. How to do better.

The price and the prize of entrepreneurship
The price of entrepreneurship is uncertainty, and the prize is a vision fulfilled, success even in the midst of uncertainty. Someone recently shared with me a precise lesson in living. She said, if we knew the times and seasons, we would not need faith. If the suffering patient knew the time day, time and year s/he would be healed, h/she would have no need for faith. If the newly married couple knew at their wedding that it would take five or even ten years for them to conceive their first child, they might have spent the first five years of marriage happier in expectation as opposed to unhappy in expectation.

Uncertainty, the fuel for the drive to success
Much of entrepreneurship is a risk. A risk that is faith filled, buoyed with competency, skills, ability, networking, service excellence and then good fortune. It is often the uncertainty in those moments that fuel your drive to success.