The business plan is unfinished. The book is still sitting there. The email has not been sent. But the fear of failure is keeping us from recognizing what creating something gives us, even when it does not become what we imagined. You still get the experience, the evidence, the insight, and the story. Put what is inside of you into the world. You cannot build an archive made of nothing.

I didn't have a mentor who sat me down and walked me through business structures. I didn't take a course. I figured it out the same way I figure out most things: by asking questions until I understood enough to make a decision, then actually making one. But it took me four years before I ever filed anything — four years of doing work, serving clients, and depositing money into a personal account like the whole thing was a hobby. Once I LLC'd, I started taking it seriously. That's not a coincidence...