AuthorSharon Eden-Smith (@sharonedensmith) is the entrepreneur who established Eden-Smith Music. She will be posting blog articles about the business of... 
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As I said in my blog article entitled,
I had no intention of owning my own business. Here I am, an entrepreneur!
A few years ago, I visited an extreme adventure park. I was not going to participate in that either. My plan was to sit quietly and read a book. Others would enjoyed themselves among the 7 obstacle courses suspended in the trees. My reading never happened. I took one look at the rope ladders, swings, tightropes, bridges, zip-lines, etc., dangling above my head in the foliage, often multiple stories up, and there was no way I was going to be left behind! Each obstacle course had a harness system. This was to mitigate the risk of injury to the user. The system, however, did not alleviate the potential risk all together. On the final obstacle, of the last course, I stepped onto one of the small octagonal platforms. It twisted slightly. I lost my balance. I slid off. The edge of the wooden structure caught my right leg just above the ankle. Before my harness stopped my fall, I had a scrape from my ankle all the way to my knee. The surrounding area turned blue, black and purple, almost immediately. My shin resembled the menacing clouds of a severe thunder storm about to break. I still have a scar from the incident. Mitigating risk is a constant necessity for all entrepreneurs. Compared to owning an extreme adventure park, my music business is relatively risk free. The industry of private music education is considered conservative on the risk assessment spectrum. Despite those facts, the day to day operations of Eden-Smith Music still have me feeling as if I am maneuvering through one of the courses, testing my abilities on the obstacles. I have my harness on, but I know that I can still fall. I can still get hurt. I can still scar. So why does a person who never dreamed of owning her own business become an entrepreneur, especially if that is the way I feel most of the time? I love the build! The ability to watch something grow, to know that I have had a hand in it, to dream about where something can go and to set the goals to get there are all part of participating in the extreme adventure park of entrepreneurship. For me, the journey is worth the risk. If you enjoyed this article, let me know. Post a comment! Like it! Tweet it! You may also want to read another article in this series:
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