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Hello there, this is Yasui, a solo business owner running a company that mainly inspects high-pressure gas facilities.
Lately, I’ve been running around trying to secure funding — and honestly, it hasn’t been easy.
My initial plan to get financing for equipment didn’t go through, so now I’m back to square one. I decided to take a detour, because sometimes the long way around is actually the fastest route.
When you’re running a business, raising capital is one of the most important—and toughest—things you’ll ever do.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that I’m short on operating funds or anything like that, so no worries there.
Let’s just say that some serious opportunities—maybe even bigger than I deserve—are starting to surface.
Sorry if that sounds a bit cryptic, but… that’s about all I can say for now (haha).
From the start, I decided that I wouldn’t hire employees myself, and that I’d take full responsibility for my own life and choices.
Unless some very rare person appears who actually wants to work with me (hard to imagine, right? lol), I plan to continue outsourcing and partnering with contractors as needed.
Running a company comes with turning points every few years.
Sometimes it’s good news, sometimes it’s bad.
There have been moments when I thought, “How on earth am I going to get through this?”
But overcoming those moments is what has helped me grow.
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing—far from it.
As I wrote before, even now, I’m constantly wrestling with uncertainty.
When we feel like we’re about to exceed our own capacity, fear naturally sets in.
But the truth is, our actual limits are usually much higher than we think.
The human potential is far greater than the estimates we set for ourselves.
Still, to truly understand your limits, you need a solid process, a proper system, and a clear method in place.
That’s the only way to measure how far you can really go.
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