The Return of the Accidental Entrepreneur
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Time
Time is both the best friend and the worst enemy of the entrepreneur.
You have control over your time and your activities, but when all of the momentum has to come from you, when you have to take on so many different tasks, time can easily disappear. When you are an entrepreneur, you are either working or you are not. You need an infrastructure to be able to take time off, to allow a weekend to be a weekend, to actually, gasp, take a vacation.
But again, it takes time to build an infrastructure, and until then, only very short vacations are possible (weekends).
Money
Money is always an issue for an entrepreneur.
Having money or at least a financial backer helps. Having a reputation helps too. But having ONLY a reputation means you have to play a somewhat different game.
You can’t do massive marketing. You can’t hire a sales team. You have to be smart, aggressive, incisive, determined and lucky.
I can’t claim to have all of those traits — I’ll just have to settle for lucky.
So Carlos E. Garcia is back as the CEO of my very own Garcia Research. Small fish, small pond, but it’s MY pond.
So I’m happy. Again.
Summary- Takeaways :
Not everyone is suited for corporate life.
You need Jedi mind tricks to control your anxiety.
Use the fear – it can paralyze but it can also motivate.
That doesn’t mean you will enjoy having to work every weekend and not being able to take a vacation.
Yes, being an entrepreneur is scary, it is difficult, but it is also rewarding in various ways, particularly if it lets you be who you truly were all along in the first place.
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