When I started HELP over a year ago, I had many ideas I wanted to implement, actually to many! However, these past 5 months I’ve been able to focus my full energies on launching this non-profit. It feels good. Yet, I can tell you I would do so many things differently if I could. Such as:

• I would have waited to release the vision and website.
• I would have spent more time talking to key non-profit leaders stateside.
• I would have spent more time on the ground, with local indigenous leaders.
• I would have kept the vision simple, effective and focused.
• I would have led my volunteer team better.
• I would have raised more funds before we launched.

You get the hint? I made a lot of mistakes, I continue to second-guess myself, I stay awake at night wondering if I have what it takes to make this thing succeed.

Yet, I have zero regrets. You can’t launch a perfect organization, you can’t help but walk through the dark valley of uncertainty, there is no way everyone is going to believe in you or your vision.

Entrepreneurs have to have thick skin, deal with failure, learn from mistakes and have a can-do mentality. In the world of startups, weakness is sniffed-out quickly.

The key is quite simple, is your passion to succeed stronger than your willingness to fail? For me, I have no doubt that I’m called to do what I do. For instance, my wife would quit her job in a heartbeat and move (any country) tomorrow to serve the poor, this is deep confirmation. (Necole tells me often that I lack faith and I’m a wimp because I no longer like to take risks) I have a deep passion to help those in extreme poverty. So each day I fight, struggle, worry, and work as hard as I can, the best I know how.

And when Its all-said-and-done, I seek God for favor, direction and blessing. Because the dream is way to big for me…Hopefully, it’s not to big for God! So I continue to journey forward, refusing to give in to doubt, fear of complacency.

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