This is for you if you’re an entrepreneur (or one in the making) …
We are the dreamers.
The visionaries.
The doers.
We are your neighbors.
Your friends.
Or your family.
We pursue our dreams, rather than letting them die a slow death.
We’ve learned to ignore the negative people in our lives.
We know we are different.
And we relish in it.
We are unemployable.
We are good people.
We are writers.
Artists.
Technicians.
Directors and creatives.
We have a disdain for bureaucracy and red tape.
We love to build and enjoy our creations.
We are most definitely off the wall.
…Yet the most sane of them all.
We are passionate about our trade.
Yet we realize most people would never leave the ‘security’ of a job to live their dreams like we do.
We are the biggest employers out there.
We stick to it, amidst economic turmoil and media frenzied trash talking.
Thank the entrepreneurs that you know.
Tell them to keep on plugging and building.
Embrace the entrepreneurial spirit.
We are the future.
Troy
PS: My new Entrepreneurial Spirit Sauce book is just off the presses! 14 great entrepreneurs
put their heart and soul into this book and I am looking forward to sharing their stories with you.
Watch for it next week.
Hi Troy,
Just a quick note to thank you for the everyday postings. They are always inspiring and educational.
Thanks for your openness in today’s post…I hope things settle down and work out well for you.
I’m feeling pretty emotional myself these days, as I’m fighting Canada Revenue over an insane assessment that they are trying to pin on me. Craziness!
I might tie my CRA battle into my next posting to my customers …maybe not …have to think about it a little more.
Anyway…thanks again for your great stuff.
Vijaya
Thanks Vijaya.
Great to hear from you again.
The emotional side is a tough one for people to talk about… I certainly am a very close-to-my-heart type of person. But I have discovered the real power behind emotions in writing. It is not an easy thing for most to do… letting go I mean. But the payoff is huge.
Hope all works out in your battle… probably a good idea to share your inner most thoughts on the matter with your clients. They would be undoubtedly be accepting and sympathetic.
Let me know how it goes! Troy
Bula Troy,
You stand out as the small-entrepreneur’s copy-writing ally and mentor and I’m sure I voice readers sentiments with that statement. Thanks for this ode which we could spin to suit our various battles with inertia ridden authorities everywhere. May more power and emotional force be ours through your guidance. My current battle is with a local government agency tasked with marketing our fine agricultural outputs. Now since I have beaten them in setting up a trafficked portal for buyers and sellers they play hardball in not agreeing with my continuous commissions on introduced customers buys. But then unlike entrepreneurs they don’t have an emotion-filled plan of action to move forward our fine taro and kava.
Thanks for the kind words Simione.
Aren’t governments wonderful to deal with as an entrepreneur? Or not.
I worked for a year in a Government job (shhhhhhhhh) and it was one of the most vile things I ever did. From the constant drive of our crew to waste time on the job so we could get overtime pay…to the bon fires we would have with the wooden stakes we were supposed to be using for the actually surveying we were doing. Not fun. Then I realized that the crew chief I worked with, who had been there for 10 years, was making less than a buck an hour more than me.
It was enough to get me to go to business school, and to give me a permanent dislike for government workers.
The mind of an entrepreneur is a wonderful thing…too bad most people are too clueless to understand that the entrepreneurs are the unsung heroes of the economy, the job market, the creative thinkers, and almost all big breakthroughs throughout history.
People like you and I continue to try and change things, and we do over time. The key is that NONE of us can ever give up in our quest.
Sorry for the rant – it was great hearing from you and I do hope your challenges with your local governments get smoothed over.
By the way – your site is VERY ready for more great stories! The stories of those who harvest your taro and kava. Stories of how it is grown, etc. Maybe this page would give you some ideas (a Story Selling coaching client wrote this) – took their sales from $500 a month to $15,000 a month very quickly with this one page addition. http://amaralsbakery.com/story-of-sweetbread/
Thanks again for sharing Simione!
Troy
Thanks again Troy. And that’s exactly why I look forward to hearing from you often. I shall begin the stories of our taro and kava and as we know; to NEVER give up!