You don't have to bet the farm...Stop thinking old-school!

I have lived in a bubble in my thinking for some time now. What I thought was the only way, was really fear and a lack of information. I dreamed something really big, and I contained it. Because of Old-school thinking, I shelved that dream. 

There’s a subject that I’m totally stoked on - a mission, and for the last two years, I’ve done little but hold it all in. Bad idea, do not try this at home. What I should have been doing for the last two years, is this right here. By now you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about. I’m talking about your passion! I’m talking about speaking what you’re most passionate about, what you’re totally stoked on. Developing relationships with others who are interested in your passions. Helping others grow, develop and engaging them in new ideas. You don’t need an office, or employees to start. You don’t even have to quit your day job. You definitely do not need to bet the farm, or cash in your life savings to get your best idea off the ground. You just need to be able to communicate to others and energize them with the thing you’re most excited about.

When I thought of The Business Dojo, I thought building, staff, guest speakers, inventory, and invest everything. Don’t get me wrong The Business Dojo will still be the coolest place on earth for small business owners to come train, develop, strategize, and spar with the best minds in the business. Someday down the road that dream can come true. Then I realized, why am I waiting. Why am I holding inside this desire to help and work side-by-side with fellow entrepreneurs and business owners. Just because I don’t have a physical location to do it? Forget that!, Start now, we can help each other now. We don’t have to wait and you shouldn’t have to either.

The world of blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and so on are your platforms. Here is your community, there are people here who are ready to help, and there are people who need your help. There are people here who are just as passionate and excited about your endeavor as you are. This technology, is now bringing us closer. We know more about each other, the things we love and the things we hate. The political views we follow, the causes we support and everything else in between. Use it, use this new power of social interaction to allow you the freedom to tell the world about what drives you! You’ll find out real soon that you’re not alone. When your community grows big enough and your ready to open a physical store or company headquarters you won’t be advertising struggling to find interested patrons. You’ll be having a barn raising party! Your community will rally together to support and help you flourish because their your friends and biggest fans. So what’s your deal? What makes you tick and why are you not telling us about it already?

The gloves are off already

So here’s the straight talk. If you as the business owner are not constantly on a daily basis spending time thinking like an entrepreneur, you’re going backwards.

What does that mean? It means, everyday you’re planning one month, one year, five years down the road. You’re saying to yourself, if this is my business right now, how could it be better? Your asking questions about how your customers feel, what would they like you to do better, what would make them talk to all their friends this week because you did something completely unexpected.

The entrepreneurs thinks about significance, the total package. The entrepreneurs thinks in big ideas and doesn’t care whether everybody else thinks it’s possible or not. Why should you do this? Oh I don’t know maybe you just like to be average, stagnant, frustrated, or maybe you don’t mind that your customers are ready to move away from you and onto the next best thing. No, I don’t think thats you, but it can be at times. We get tired too, and yes you could always get a job and work for someone else. You could be “safe with a regular paycheck” or “company insurance”, but you would miss out on such a greater purpose. We need to move our companies and our ideas from average to significant. My suggestion to you, as it is for me, is to keep a log. A log that shows every day, and on that day somewhere during it, you began to push, move, dream, shape, and change the future! Now go do it! The rest of us are tired of boring and mediocre.