Freedomizing

There are so many hurdles when starting a new business, you have to keep your focus. Easiest way to keep your focus is to change your perspective every now and then. Get out and get some exercise, hit the gym harder than you ever have, loose your mind in a game of basketball, racquetball, cycling, what ever it takes to wash your mind with endorphins so you can come back to the drawing table energized and free thinking.  Reach out to your trusted advisors, surround yourself with people that understand, and as for your friends and family, truly they are your first sale. If you can't sell them on the idea, (and they are fit to benefit from said idea, in other words, understand what you are doing) the market is going to chew you up and spit you out. Get the "rip the bandaid off" critisisms from family and friends, don't allow them to bring out the "kiddy gloves" have them rip holes in your dreams and aspirations of this new business. Then hit the gym, get the...

Not really much different than insanity! Do the same thing again and again and expect a different result defines insanity. Claiming that you have 10 years experience or 30 years expierence, but you've done the same thing year after year, that's not expierence that's insanity! Switch it up, learn new things, apply different perspective to what you are doing, "disrupt" your industry, or at least your clients. Be different, create different, create years of expierence! These are all coming to mind as I move forward on my newest business adventure.

I've taken quite a few risks in my time, and generally speaking I'd say I run along the same concept that 80% of business' fail in the first three years. So in theory, I'd say I've gone off on tangents of small business ideas probably about 9 times with 8 failures, 1 success. I'm due damnit! :-) So when a business idea comes to mind, I'm gonna go for it. It happened to be that that business idea came to fruition over the last week. The 1 in nine business' that was successful of mine, I dove in and didn't listen to the nay sayers, failure after failure, hardship after hardship, I had no choice but to keep going. And now that business, while very small, is finely tuned, and will theoretically supply for my family for the rest of our lives. I believe that it takes that type of gumption to have success in business, that and a lot of luck! But you can make your own luck, and it's time I started making my own luck. It started today with a website, It...

The ideal job comes up and you are looking to move up the latter in your company ... Now what? First things first, evaluate the position, is it something you want, and something you could succeed in? Upward mobility or moving you into a dark hole with no options. An example would be a highly specialized position that gives you a slight pay raise but once you are trained in that position you are effectively irreplaceable, thus they can't move you and the position may not be worth much more than they are offering in the first place. On the other hand it may be a position that is going to train you and give you experience in something many other companies are seeking, thus creating leverage and the sky's the limit if you become successful in said position. Once you have established the job is something you are looking for, ask for help! This is something that is so often looked over, so easily forgotten, and such a shoe in for a +1 prior to interviewing. In my opinion when looking...