Business Guy Looks at Life
Lessons from the Mop Closet
Lessons from the Mop Closet
Somewhere a bird is chirping.
Somewhere a VW Micro-bus pulls off for gasoline at a truck stop on the way to Butte, Montana.
Grass is starting to turn green. (Well, not in Butte, Montana)
A couple of daffodils that caught the sun just right have already bloomed.
Spring seems to be on the way. Excessive frolicking may occur.
Business Guy, on the other hand, is not so carefree.
He answered an ad once that said “be your own boss.” Work for yourself. Don’t punch the clock. Travel. Live your own life.
Now, even though he does not live by the timeclock, he lives by a different one.
Now he lives by quarterly returns, monthly P & Ls, daily and weekly goals, inventory/distribution/creative or writer’s block problems, and many other sleepless vagueries that could bring the simple dislike of morning traffic to its knees.
Today’s lesson for Business Guy is that Self-herding may be glorified, but it’s way overrated!
These three things must be done.
1) Do something people want and/or need.
2) Do it as much and as well as you can.
3) Get over yourself. You don't really work for yourself — you work for your customers.
You may not become a poster boy on a beach, but being your own boss in a mop closet isn’t bad either.
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