American Chronicle is presenting 7 Reality Checks to help you reconcile your dreams with reality so that you can build your dream into a thriving business:

1. In spite of your best intentions you will make mistakes
2. Things go "wrong"
3. Not everyone wants or needs what you have.
4. Humbly welcome opportunities to profit.
5. Customers have bad days, too
6. Sometimes whole systems go wrong or you find out too late that a new project was not quite ready for prime time
7. Owning a business can be isolating