MADEXXX
MADEINC
1. it’s going to cost you.
And I’m not just talking about
money either. Yes, you have to
spend money to make money. Yes,
you have to be willing to invest in
yourself before you can convince
someone else to do the same. But
that’s not all being an entrepreneur
is going to cost you, though.
In addition to money, it’s going
to cost you friends (more on
that later). It’s going to cost you
energy. And it’s going to cost
you a lot of time. I know we live
in this “microwaveable” age in
which everything seems to happen
instantly. But make no mistake
about, any success worth having
will not happen overnight. You’re
going to have to be in it for the
long haul if you want to be a
successful entrepreneur.
without stepping outside of your
regularly scheduled programming?
You can’t.
The bottom line comes down to
this: if you do what you’ve always
done, you’ll get what you’ve always
gotten. Period. So if you don’t want
to go further than where you are
now due to fear or whatever else
that has you bound, you might as
well hang it up now because the
entrepreneurship thing is clearly
not for you.
3. You can’t do it all by yourself.
Say it with me, “I cannot do it all by
myself. I cannot do it all by myself.
I cannot do it all by myself. I cannot
do it all by myself. I cannot do it all
by myself. I cannot do it all
by myself.”
And even with all the costs
associated with being an
entrepreneur, the one thing it
should never cost you is your
happiness. If it does, you’re doing
it wrong.
2. It requires that you leave your
comfort zone – all the time.
Comfort zones are dangerous.
They enable us to make excuses
for our lack of productivity
and ultimately prevent us from
becoming the better version of
ourselves. Whether you like it or
not, the world around us is always
changing. Evolving. Growing. That’s
why entrepreneurship and comfort
zones can’t coexist – because one
is rooted in difference and the
other is rooted in sameness. You
think the entrepreneurs you look up
to stay within their comfort zones?
They don’t. You think you can push
boundaries and do impactful work
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