Being An Entrepreneur Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is a marathon, not a sprint. It requires a lot of endurance to reach your goals.

If you treat the process like a sprint or like you’re only in it for the short term, you may end up losing in the long run. Sprinting is a lot different from running a marathon.

The process and experience of training and running a marathon is much longer. You do a sprint in 10, or 20 to 30 seconds. It’s much faster. You put all your energy and effort into that just that short timespan.

With a marathon, there are potentially many pauses and breaks. You have to stop and rest. You have to hydrate — you actually stop or slow down for water. You may even slow down enough to eat something because you can’t run 26 miles without having a piece of nutrition to fuel your body.

There are points when you speed up, and then there are points when you have to slow down or stop.

Business has spurts of growth and endurance

As entrepreneurs, we will have spurts of excitement with projects that we push forward, to which we give all our energy.