Why Some Entrepreneurs End Up Hating Their Lives (7 minutes)
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 9 April 2015
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
So many people head into the world of entrepreneurship with high hopes, only to end up miserable and running back to a J.O.B. We call this "entrepreneurial failure to thrive."
It doesn't have to be that way.
We had great feedback on our first short and sweet Good Life Riff, so we're teeing up a new 7-minute piece about a huge miss in the world of startups and entrepreneurship One that leads to misery-infused money.
We also share 11 critical questions for every entrepreneur, business-owner and aspiring entrepreneur, oh heck, every living human with a pulse, to consider when trying to build something that both serves a need and also serves your own desire to craft a fantastic life.
Here's a quick excerpt:
Entrepreneurship is not about building a great business, it’s about building a great life!
But, you will never get what you want from the way you contribute to the world until you learn how to align your actions with your essence. And you cannot do that until you know who you are.
If you’d like to read the entire essay, read and answer the 11 questions offered, you can find it here on Jonathan’s blog.
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| 0:00.0 | So today we're sharing our second good life riff and we've been experimenting and having |
| 0:07.4 | some fun with some shorter spoken word sort of essay style episodes to add to our longer |
| 0:14.5 | mix. |
| 0:15.5 | If this is something that you like, if you enjoy the format then go ahead and let me know, |
| 0:19.3 | go ahead over to Twitter, add Jonathan Fields or just let us know around social media so |
| 0:25.0 | that we know whether to keep producing these for you. |
| 0:28.4 | Today is called Why Do So Many Entrepreneurs End Up Hating Their Lives? |
| 0:36.6 | So you finally started your own business or private practice and now you are in hell. |
| 0:42.2 | It's about three years in, things aren't going as planned, growth is slow. |
| 0:46.9 | You're spending so much time doing the grunt work and servicing customers, if you got |
| 0:51.4 | no time to focus on the big picture, growth is actually pretty much stalled. |
| 0:56.5 | And even if you're growing, the grind is just killing you, your health and waistline. |
| 1:02.7 | You give that up a long time ago. |
| 1:05.4 | Relationships joy done. |
| 1:08.0 | So you secretly yearn for regular hours and reliable pay tech, even if it means dealing |
| 1:13.2 | with an idiot for a boss and purposeless existence. |
| 1:17.1 | So you sit around looking for a sign from God and you're not sure if you want her to tell |
| 1:23.1 | you to continue or to walk away. |
| 1:27.3 | It's not that you don't believe they're still great potential. |
| 1:31.4 | It's just that you have no idea how to write the ship and you feel kind of like a prisoner. |
| 1:38.5 | So I've had this conversation with so many entrepreneurs and shared the cautionary tale |
| 1:42.8 | with so many aspiring entrepreneurs. |
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