It’s about to happen, if not already: the annual recitation of accomplishments and wins. Few speak in their yearend wrap-up about lessons learned the hardest way: from failure, from rejection.

Yet a few brave self-reliant souls do.

These are the ones to pay rapt attention, learn from, as they have learned from themselves.

These are the ones to share with others, similarly challenged.

These are the ones to celebrate for their honesty and introspection, not by emojis, but with sincere words of appreciation, back patting for being real, authentic, transparent, giving, memorable.

Is that you? As “is that you” offering consolation and words of praise,. or “is that you” exposing your inner soul for the expanding successes and failures that entrepreneurial life rollercoasts us through? Or are you both? 

Tell us.