08/26/2026
If I could give one piece of advice to young people, it would be this:
If you can find something you genuinely love doing, and then figure out a way to build a business around it, you’ve found something incredibly valuable.
That doesn’t mean every day will be easy. Owning a business still comes with stress, long hours, risk, and plenty of things you won’t enjoy doing. But there’s a huge difference between working hard to build something you believe in and spending your life counting down the hours until you can leave work.
Pay attention to the things you’re naturally drawn to. Learn a skill. Get really good at it. Learn how to serve people with it. Then learn the business side well enough to make it sustainable.
You don’t have to follow the traditional path just because it’s the traditional path.
Find something you enjoy.
Become valuable at it.
Solve a problem for people.
And if you can, build something of your own around it.
You may still work harder than everyone else, but there’s something different about working hard for something that’s yours.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men…” — Colossians 3:23–24