by Wadih Haddad, an EO U.A.E. member and founder and CEO of The Box Self Storage Services, LLC

Back in 2005, I began my entrepreneurial adventure by storing a few boxes in my bedroom. What I couldn’t have known at the time was how this simple chore would lead to my self-storage business, which now operates 24 facilities in the region. As my journey unfolded, I found myself stumbling many times over, making the kind of mistakes that make you want to give up entirely. But those errors, while painful, taught me some valuable lessons learned. Here are four that kept me going: