Thursday, March 23, 2017

Don't Ask .... Rule #1 of Rules of Engagement with an Entrepreneur




If you are friends with, dating, married to or simply trying to understand your entrepreneur friend, don't ask, "What are you doing tomorrow?" That is unless you want an answer that can and usually does include one or more of the following topics: determining whether or not to rearchitect your entire social media platforms because Facebook just made another, unpublished change to post distributions, or a better approach to some recent Utube videos that you recorded, or weighing the pros and cons of a new GoPro, or deciding on whether or not to invest in the newest Surface Pro.

In other words, there is NEVER nothing to do.

Now lest you become discourages as to whether or not you are ever going to get "your time" with said entrepreneur, if the above list never changes from day to day, then you are NOT having a discussion with an entrepreneur, but with someone who thinks being an entrepreneur means just staying busy and not actually doing anything; or someone who is an over-analyzer (my past speaks to that.)

We entrepreneurs thrive on relationships with those who speak their mind and say what they want. We don't tolerate drama, IN THE LEAST, so don't go there. Say what you want and when you want it.

We generally aren't boring. You will generally be in for a roller coaster ride with us. We work hard and play hard.

Today was payday for one of my businesses. NOTHING, NOTHING better than even the smallest of paydays with a business for which you are putting in the work. #dothework. I finally got a lead into maybe the largest home schooling parent network in Phoenix. Any entrepreneur knows the feeling of that kind of event; 5 seconds of joy followed by the realization of the work involved and downstream potential payoffs (kind of similar to having a child.) LOL