Those desires are not wrong. But without disciplined boundaries, they become expensive. The rose-coloured glasses are not the enemy. Without them, few entrepreneurs would leap at all.
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Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 8 – What Does the Future Hold
Will the business continue because it is evolving into something structurally sound? Or will it continue because stopping feels unbearable?
That distinction matters. One reflects adaptation. The other reflects attachment.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 7 – The Rose Coloured Glasses Premise
She hasn’t retreated. She hasn’t scaled back the vision. If anything, she is pushing harder. More conversations. More ideas. More tweaks. She convinces herself that movement is the antidote to anxiety.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 6 – They Didn’t Come
The practitioners continued hovering at the edges. Friendly. Encouraging. Curious. But still cautious. Waiting for proof. Waiting for movement. Waiting for something visible enough to justify their own leap.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 5 – The Road Blocks
The great irony of entrepreneurship is that the people who benefit most from small businesses, landlords, local suppliers, tradespeople, councils, are often the ones who create the most friction.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 4 – How Do I Fund it
Cashflow becomes her Black Dog. Not a dramatic, snarling beast… but a low, persistent shadow.
It walks just behind her. She can’t escape it, because part of her doesn’t want to.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 3 – The Entrepreneurial Bug
She wasn’t thinking in terms of structures and spreadsheets. Those were my domains, and they would come. She was thinking in terms of outcomes: a complementary health practice of her own. A space built around her strengths
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 2 – The Trigger
In that light, the business wasn’t just a venture. It was a vehicle. The only visible path to stability in a life that had been shaken loose.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Chapter 1 – I Am Not Employable
Mandy was right in that emotional corridor, right between heaven and hell, living the sequel Chapin sang about before she even knew her first story had ended.
Death By a 1000 Cuts – Foreword and About the Author
This book is not about a single catastrophic failure. It is not the story of fraud, scandal, or reckless extravagance. It is something far more common, and therefore far more confronting. It is the story of accumulation.