Pulling out of a Business Partnership

I have to sever a business partnership. I tried it out, and I got out of my comfort zone. The thing is not going to work out, so I’m exciting the joint project.

This doesn’t mean that I am not good at working with someone else. It doesn’t mean that I am doomed to be a solo entrepreneur. All this means is that this specific partnership project is failing to produce fruit juice on par with the squeeze.

This is me talking to myself, of course.

Self talk

I can often be hard on myself and lean toward negative self-talk, doubt, shame, etc. The decision to break from the project is the right one, but it’s my nature to believe it should somehow be able to work.

I’m learning to be more objective when analyzing the impacts of my decisions. In this instance, a joint venture between two single-person agencies is causing a lot more negative stress than I think is necessary considering the reward.

That’s not how these things should go. Well, at least, that’s not how I’m going to allow these things to go. I’m making a decision that’s best for me and pulling out.

The losses, like any business venture, are time and money. Both of those are things I will have more of as long as I’m alive. I mean that I can live with those losses; I’ve proven I can.

The win was that I put myself out there again to partner on a project.