Myself and @RazorCut have been discussing this for a number of months now and I think it would be interesting to get other people's thoughts.
For years now I've always wondered why millionaires, billionaires and other generally wealthy people all still continue in their line of work. Or start other businesses.
For example there's a guy from my home city who's built a £3bn empire selling home goods from thousands of shops nationwide. He still goes to work most days even though he's a billionaire.
My thought process was if I had their money I'd be travelling the world and enjoying life rather than continuing to work.
However as I've got older and wiser I've realised that you'd probably get tired of traveling at some point and to these people they've built something bigger than themselves and are excited to grow it for as long as possible.
Which leads me to the question, when you are working on your business what's the goal? To build something bigger than yourself that's going to last for years even after you've gone or just earn enough so that it enables you to do things you actually enjoy outside of work and give you time freedom?
Do external things like the weather, Covid, weekends, holidays not matter to you because you genuinely love working and building your business every day?
For me in my current business (digital marketing) I view it as something that can enable me to do things I enjoy, like travel, holidays etc. I don't wake up and think I'm so excited to grow this business and help other people today. I don't know where the business model will be in 3-5 years nevermind in 50 years. I don't think it's a legacy business that's for sure.
If you asked me what business would make me forget about external things it would be owning my favourite football (soccer) team. I'd be so excited to get up and work every day. The only issue is that I'm only about £7bn short at the moment ha.
I'm still searching for that business model where I love spending the majority of my time working on instead of counting down the days until my next holiday or feeling like its groundhog day. Are you?
For years now I've always wondered why millionaires, billionaires and other generally wealthy people all still continue in their line of work. Or start other businesses.
For example there's a guy from my home city who's built a £3bn empire selling home goods from thousands of shops nationwide. He still goes to work most days even though he's a billionaire.
My thought process was if I had their money I'd be travelling the world and enjoying life rather than continuing to work.
However as I've got older and wiser I've realised that you'd probably get tired of traveling at some point and to these people they've built something bigger than themselves and are excited to grow it for as long as possible.
Which leads me to the question, when you are working on your business what's the goal? To build something bigger than yourself that's going to last for years even after you've gone or just earn enough so that it enables you to do things you actually enjoy outside of work and give you time freedom?
Do external things like the weather, Covid, weekends, holidays not matter to you because you genuinely love working and building your business every day?
For me in my current business (digital marketing) I view it as something that can enable me to do things I enjoy, like travel, holidays etc. I don't wake up and think I'm so excited to grow this business and help other people today. I don't know where the business model will be in 3-5 years nevermind in 50 years. I don't think it's a legacy business that's for sure.
If you asked me what business would make me forget about external things it would be owning my favourite football (soccer) team. I'd be so excited to get up and work every day. The only issue is that I'm only about £7bn short at the moment ha.
I'm still searching for that business model where I love spending the majority of my time working on instead of counting down the days until my next holiday or feeling like its groundhog day. Are you?
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