Many people envision entrepreneurs as always driving the latest luxury sports car, wearing the hottest most expensive fashions, living in mansions around the world and going to all the A-List parties.
Not so.
Yes, you can make it big, and have all that -- and more.
But the whole point of being an entrepreneur is to turn your passions into profits. Do what you love, yet trick the world to pay you for it.
That's the essence of being an entrepreneur, otherwise, you'd just be working at some company, to make money doing something you hate.
Most people have jobs they hate. Well, hate may be a strong word. They tolerate them, they've accepted the fact that this is what I'll do, forever, and ever, because everyone has to have a job. Everyone has to work for someone. That's how you make money to enjoy the few hours you get to yourself each week.
Or at least that's the myth society sells us.
We're taught to stay in school, so you can get an education because a good education is important in getting a job. Oh, and you'll get one of those too. A job.
And you'll be at that job forever, commuting in traffic to get there and back, until one day you're given a gold watch and a blue box with all your personal things in it, and wished a happy retirement.
That myth is dead. Has been for a long, long time.
Though our society is still stuck in that myth, so anytime someone bucks the system and bolts for the door of entrepreneurship, they are automatically called a "rebel," a "troublemaker," and considered the darkhorse of the family.
"You don't want to end up like your crazy uncle Harry, do you?" is often heard at family functions.
No one knows what crazy uncle Harry does, other than he'll always show up late in his big and shiny European car from some automaker no one has heard of, arms full of gifts for all the naysayers.
Crazy uncle Harry is known as a person that likes to party. His big full-on laugh can be heard miles away, he's always the center of attention, flanked on all sides by others, laughing at and with him, and just as he arrived late to the party, he'll leave late too -- usually closing the place down.
However, it isn't is party-hard persona that scares people. It's the fact that Harry doesn't work for anyone. He's never had a regular nine-to-five job. Ever.
But that's still not what really scares people about Harry.
What really makes everyone worry and wonder about Harry, is this:
How come he never counts down the hours until he has to go back to work?
How come he never complains about his boss?
He's crazy -- uncle Harry.
Harry isn't crazy, he's an entrepreneur.
And like most entrepreneurs, he's living the life he's always wanted too.
That's the entrepreneurial lifestyle -- living life on your terms -- not living the myth society tells you is "life."
So the next time you see that relative that's been labeled the black sheep of the family, pat him or her on the back, smile, and ask them for some advice on starting your own entrepreneurial journey.
Then one day, if you're lucky, you'll be the one that gets the word "crazy" appended to their name at family functions.
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