- July 2, 2018 -
Ever notice that the more time you spend in front of a computer, the worse your long-distance vision gets?
I'm sure that's why my golf game stunk yesterday.
Darn computers!
But it got me thinking.
It's all about focus - and golf is a head game.
You gotta focus on the short game...the chip shots, the pitch shots, and the putts.
You gotta focus on the long game...driving for distance.
And when both are in sync, man it's like magic.
If there is one word that describes GaryVee, it's the word ‘hustle.’
He's the guy who says, “I typically spend four or five hours a day using social media to engage with people. Some days, I’ve spent up to 12 hours on TweetDeck. Every day, between every phone call or meeting, in every cab ride—during every spare second—I’m on Twitter. I have 850,000 followers, and I care about every tweet.”
God bless America, but I'll be da**ed if I'm going to spend 12 hours a day Tweeting!
He's also the guy who says, “I’m grinding when you’re sleeping.”
Vaynerchuk's got an amazing work ethic that I can relate to and admire.
But even squirrels distracted by every nut that falls in their path have to sleep at some point.
So I just don't get the whole "serial entrepreneur" attraction.
Sounds impressive.
But seems to me like an admission to having an addiction to the "next great thing."
An addiction to starting but not FINISHING.
GaryVee may be able to focus long enough to bring a venture to fruition, but not everyone has the Type AAAAA personality, drive, and endurance that he has.
Currently we have two businesses.
Once we got the right team and the right systems in place, Cheryl took on the management of the day-to-day management of Barron Marketing.
We used some of the reserved income from that business to start the wholesale property company.
I'm the point in my property business where I've got the right team and systems in place for our Pittsburgh location, the hub.
And now we can start expanding into other areas using the same model.
It's about moving laterally.
Not abandoning one venture for a bright, shiny new one.
Being a lateral entrepreneur means...
...creating assets that appreciate in value and produce cash flow.
...creating assets that become self-sustaining, running (mostly) independently of you.
...creating assets that can be sold one day.
A lateral entrepreneur has the mental clarity to know his/her long game along with the discipline to play the short game and sink the ball...before moving on to the next hole.
That's just me. If others are cool jumping from one venture to the next (and I know many from our network marketing days) that's cool.
Me? I'm just too old to keep chasing nutz.
Interested in that model?
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