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Gratitude & Leadership Qualities

Happy November! This month is always a month of thankfulness for me.   As I enter the holiday season and hit the final stretch of the year, I am always reminded of what is really important to me. As I  reflect on this year, I am grateful not only for the chance to  own a business but also for the journey that owning a business has taken me on.  Being a small business owner is tough, but it has taught me so much over the last 8 years about myself and about others.  We have put over  three thousand people to work since inception and I am truly grateful for the chance to help so many. I recently had the chance to catch up with a friend and I shared with him how blessed I feel that we have been in business for 8 years, I also talked about how hard it has been.   We talked about the journey of owning and running  a business.  While the journey is what I am most grateful for, it is what has been the most challenging.  In the beginning, I  adopted the mindset that failure was not an opti