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June 23, 2006
No Time to Write...Too Busy Having Amazing Sex!
No, not really--just wishful thinking.
What I am busy with is the Big Idea. In the last 3 weeks it has become a monster breathing down my neck. Between conference calls and happy hour events, meetings with potential clients and afternoons with current collaborators, I am exhausted. I actually came home last night, plopped into bed at 10 p.m. and slept until the alarm went off at 8 a.m.--when I started it all over again. Is it possible that I'm becoming a real businessperson with a normal schedule? (Given that I was up until 3:30 a.m. the night before working on Big Idea updates, I think probably not.)
Anyway, I'm coming up to July 1st, my self-imposed deadline to decide the future of the Big Idea. According to my 2006 Resolutions:
I will devote myself to the Big Idea for the first six months of 2006. I will cultivate networks, clients, and projects—always looking for ways to be financially self-sufficient. I will make a point of attending relevant conferences, meeting with local organizational allies, and following up on all new contacts. In July 2006, I will reevaluate this decision; at that time I may choose to re-engage in a search for regular full-time employment.
So now it's almost July and time to start some critical thinking. I'm planning on taking July 1 & 2 to do some real planning in terms on finances, clients, partners, etc. I've already started a brainstorming list--it seems that I'm never out of ideas, just lacking ideas with a lucractive future. That said, there are one or two ideas that I think might really take off.
Long story short, no hot sex, just regular old entrepreneurship.
Comments
"Is it possible that I'm becoming a real businessperson with a normal schedule?"
I think you answered your own question:
"I was up until 3:30 a.m. the night before working on Big Idea updates"
"just regular old entrepreneurship."
I don't know what you mean by "real businessperson" but all the *etrepreneurs* I know (including the presidents of small companies I would consider to be still very entrepreneurial) all work crazy hours. They have no "normal schedule" - or rather, their "normal schedule" is working until 3 am sometimes and getting up at 5:30.
If, by "real businsnessperson" you actually mean "regular" or "average" businesspersson, or as they are called in Japan "Salary-man", I would say you are not one - and if that is what your goal is, you should get a "real" job. :)
Of course, I also don't think etrepreneursship *has* to be like that. I think/hope that one can run a succssfull business and still have a real life outside of it. But even then I wouldn't consider them to be a "regular" businessperson.
Posted by: kevin at June 24, 2006 01:55 AM
