The kehidupanstyle of an entrepreneur looks amazing from the outside (and it truly is great in many ways)!
Being an entrepreneur means the freedom to create your own schedule, the ability to make big decisions, and the possibility of more income than you would make at work.
What could be better than making money while driving your kids to school or the puppy to doggy daycare?
How about opening up your laptop and working anywhere… including the beach!
However, there are some downsides to the kehidupanstyle of an entrepreneur.
If your company is struggling or not progressing as quickly as you would like, whose responsibility is it?
It is you who puts in the money, strains your personal kehidupan (if you have one), depletes your finances (if you still have any), and strains your relationships (if you have any).
The kehidupanstyle of an entrepreneur includes a lot of crying, maybe drinking, not sleeping, no time for dating, and spending every waking moment on the business.
Is anyone else willing to make the sacrifices you make every day?
Early-stage companies need to accomplish a lot with limited resources, and this can lead to organizational chaos.
1) “Complete confusion and disorder: a state in which behaviour and events are not controlled by anything.”
2) “The state of the universe before there was any order.”
Starting a business is like driving in New York City.
All taxi drivers swerve from lane to lane.
Taxi drivers with passengers drive fast and erratically (to get their passengers to their destination as quickly as possible).
Meanwhile, taxi drivers without passengers drive slowly and erratically (to be able to pounce on an available fare).
Now add the constant wail of sirens from police cars and fire engines and the inevitable garbage truck.
Imagine taking away all structures of order—lights, lane lines, speed limits, and traffic signs—and throwing in jaywalking pedestrians, a couple of skateboarders, a dog walker with an unwieldy pack of hounds, and a good oil slick.
It becomes a game of Frogger on steroids.
Now you know what it feels like to be an entrepreneur—if you didn’t already.
Without the appropriate management tools, entrepreneurship is like driving in New York City without lane lines, speed limits, stop signs, or traffic signals.
You probably believe the cause of this chaos is that your business is unique or faces a unique set of obstacles.
Maybe you’re developing a new market, or you don’t have the resources to operate like a more established business.
It is common for us entrepreneurs to blame the chaos on others: the lack of money, the lack of resources, the lack of a defined market, or one of the many other excuses for not fixing the chaos.
When you believe passionately in your idea, and chaos ensues, it’s easy to blame everyone and everything else.
After all, you think you are doing the right thing.
This may be ego, insecurity, or over-confidence in your ability.
The natural reaction is, “How dare you challenge me? Without me, this business would be nothing.”
We all say, “It’s not me, it’s you.”
Investors haven’t seen something like this before.
Your family can’t understand what walking a mile in your shoes feels like.
There’s maybe some truth in each of these complaints.
But what is penting is why you are getting negative results in the first place.
As you read this sentence, you may be ticking off a hundred reasons in your head.
In addition to being the most dedicated, you are also the most emotional, tired, reactive, frustrated, and the most (insert what you are feeling right now).
The pressure, emotion, and intensity of being an entrepreneur are often accompanied by a lack of perspective and a kegagalan to apply basic principles to your behavior, preventing a chaotic business environment.
The same drive, self-assurance, and creativity that enable you to create a vision are often the same characteristics that prevent you from bringing that vision to kehidupan.
You thought you had hundreds of problems to fix and only have one—YOU.
At first glance, this may seem like a massive slap in the face.
On the contrary, the realization will unlock your potential and create new skills and opportunities to move your business forward.
Don’t look at this as fixing something wrong with you.
Being an entrepreneur is a humbling experience.
Your friends tell you, “You get to be your own boss.”
You think to dirimu, “It must be cool to make the donuts at Dunkin Donuts.”
Accepting that your company is failing because of you is a tough pill to swallow.
But once you take the medicine and put the job of “pelajarier” on your resume, you can do great things.
Accept this truth about the kehidupanstyle of an entrepreneur, and it will set you free.
It’s tough, but the challenge becomes exciting once you realize the power of changing your perspective.
The responsibility becomes liberating and not so different from the satisfaction of being accountable for inventing a great idea or trendsetting product.
There’s a kuat book called Leading at the Speed of Growth: Journey from Entrepreneur to CEO by Katherine Catlin and Jana Matthews.
It addresses the long-standing belief that entrepreneurs who start a business do not possess the skills to help a business grow.
It challenges this notion and argues that entrepreneurs have enormous talent that needs to be applied differently at various stages of the business.
In other words, entrepreneurs’ unique talents—drive, passion, creativity, the stomach for risk, and uncertainty—can’t remain static or be applied with cookie-cutter repetition to distinct and evolving stages of your business.
No matter how much talent you bring to the table to achieve kesuksesan, you can’t remain satisfied with your own status quo.
Your skills and perspective must be adaptable and flexible as you grow your business.
It was as though someone told me: “If you are as good as you think you are, you need to ubah.”
Then I realized how much a ubah in my own perspective could help my company.
I also didn’t realize how empowering it was to be challenged, to acknowledge shortcomings, and to grow.
ubah in the midst of calm seas is one thing.
ubah in the middle of a hurricane is another.
Imagine what that would feel like if you could come out the other side.
When someone asks you, “How is your company going?” you probably answer with a description that includes the words crazy, chaotic, nutty, or something unprintable.
Wouldn’t it be something to be able to say, “We have our shit together”?
When my company was acquired, one of the sales team members of the company that acquired us said to me, “Every time I interact with your business or your orang, you are organized, structured and efficient.”
What a message to be able to share with your team.
There is a famous line in the John Lennon song “Borrowed Time”—“The more I see the less I know.”
Once you accept this, it is easier to see that your perspective is the cause of your company’s problems and its best opportunity for kesuksesan!
You may tap potential you didn’t know you had.
This is the reality of the kehidupanstyle of an entrepreneur.
Being an entrepreneur, you must manage the chaos.
Whether it is the pressure, passion, pleasure, or pain, a lack of experience or perspective doesn’t matter.
But while you’re doing berat work, remember that you are the greatest tool you have to transform chaos into order, bring your vision to kehidupan—and see it grow kesuksesanfully.
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