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The most valuable commodity that people have... is time. When you ask people to give you their time, the best payback you can give them is then to take action. You may agree with what they said, or you may not. But standing still is not an option.
I used to host a parade of people that would want to buy me a cup of coffee, bounce their idea off of me, make me an offer to execute their ideas for them, or generally seek career counseling. It's not that I am great (I'm not...) but just they were searching a path to freedom. It's relatively assumed for some reason that entrepreneurs will donate their craft for free. You don't go to a doctor for a free checkup, and you don't call a painter for a free paint job, but for some reason, everyone calls an entrepreneur for a free coaching session.
Anyway, the one rule I had was that I wouldn't meet with you a second time just to talk about the same shit over again. If I couldn't discern you had taken action on what we talked about last time, that was it. I wouldn't meet with you again, because you were wasting my time. I'd meet with you a month later, or a year later, as long as you weren't standing in the same spot.
You're standing in the same spot.
You had a thread a month ago in which you posted essentially the same dilemma. Meanwhile, you have let life get to you over the past month, and taken minimal discernible action with all of the discussion last month about the dilemma that is still plaguing you. That's OK, but don't ask people to have the same discussion again. Time is too short. You're free to spend as much time in limbo as you want to (and you want to...) but this isn't worth a whole new thread over.
Read through last month's thread. Nothing's changed with regard to your business. The development with your wife may be new, but that didn't really just happen over night. Standing still is not going to produce a different outcome. Take action. Decisive. Don't let fear and analysis paralysis keep you in it's grip for another month.
Steven Covey has a great analogy on putting first things first. You need to answer the BIG questions, but you've let the smaller things dictate the last month's activities. It's time to let the first things be first. Make the BIG decisions, and then let the littler things that come up fill in around the big initiative, what ever direction you decide to go in. Decide, and move.
I used to host a parade of people that would want to buy me a cup of coffee, bounce their idea off of me, make me an offer to execute their ideas for them, or generally seek career counseling. It's not that I am great (I'm not...) but just they were searching a path to freedom. It's relatively assumed for some reason that entrepreneurs will donate their craft for free. You don't go to a doctor for a free checkup, and you don't call a painter for a free paint job, but for some reason, everyone calls an entrepreneur for a free coaching session.
Anyway, the one rule I had was that I wouldn't meet with you a second time just to talk about the same shit over again. If I couldn't discern you had taken action on what we talked about last time, that was it. I wouldn't meet with you again, because you were wasting my time. I'd meet with you a month later, or a year later, as long as you weren't standing in the same spot.
You're standing in the same spot.
You had a thread a month ago in which you posted essentially the same dilemma. Meanwhile, you have let life get to you over the past month, and taken minimal discernible action with all of the discussion last month about the dilemma that is still plaguing you. That's OK, but don't ask people to have the same discussion again. Time is too short. You're free to spend as much time in limbo as you want to (and you want to...) but this isn't worth a whole new thread over.
Read through last month's thread. Nothing's changed with regard to your business. The development with your wife may be new, but that didn't really just happen over night. Standing still is not going to produce a different outcome. Take action. Decisive. Don't let fear and analysis paralysis keep you in it's grip for another month.
Steven Covey has a great analogy on putting first things first. You need to answer the BIG questions, but you've let the smaller things dictate the last month's activities. It's time to let the first things be first. Make the BIG decisions, and then let the littler things that come up fill in around the big initiative, what ever direction you decide to go in. Decide, and move.