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Your right, you need to give up the TV/games/ect in order for it to really work. Now all my extra time goes to my girlfriend and I watch DRV TV once a week. Nice one.
I'm about to become a stay-at-home Dad (my wife is heading back to work full-time and I'll be with our 6-month old), work my self-employed day job and still I want to find time for my own stuff. Hopefully hustle doesn't become an understatement!
Thanks as always, Gary.
Unrelated, but wanted to make sure you saw this article about a wine investment fund: http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/08/20/in-vino-v...
just thought you'd be interested given your recent wine investing talk with old jimmy cramer. I'm a stock market guy, but wine's one of my hobbies.
keep up the good work man
It's all about busting your tail and keeping with it for years.
Keep the advice rolling.
You're a huge inspiration. This video was exactly what I needed to build back all the steam I was loosing on my various projects. I look forward to more of your videos.
When I'm able to break out of that mindset, it's magical, and I impress the hell out of myself. I just need to figure out how to be more consistent about it.
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Well the grammar part is over. Though i never know when to replace the to with too.
This is very inspiring Gary. I try and do this while i study and work in a an internship with the goal of moving to the US and finding a Job while i build my brand there. It's gonna work because I'm gonna work!
People ask how I do it all. I bust my arse. I work, a lot. If you want it, you have to do it.
Great points.
Sacrifice appears to be a lost art.
Coming from an immigrant background, I have to say that American and its media does an excellent job. Creative adds and spins create a powerful consumer market.
At the end, its about feeding your own baby (business).
w/a wife, 2 kids...it's even harder, but it's on...i'm on track to resign this march
been at the internets game for a good 4 years...tired as a mofo, but, mental toughness and motivation to give my family more than the best keeps me killin it
ever since i spoke w/gary vee my biz has been rockin' at warp speed!
kill it!
--z--
It's damn hard with kids/their activities, time for my wife and extended family. But no one's going to give you the money.
Gary's right, you do have to live on 4-5 hours of sleep, but don't expect others that aren't into it to understand. You have to have the drive. Case in point, I have to travel all night Friday after 8 hours of the day gig to work all weekend on my freelance graphics work.
My goal is to work for myself and myself alone (and of course to have Aaron Rodgers beat Brett Favre in the Super Bowl). The prize is in sight, but some days I have to keep praying and reminding myself that it's all an investment...
Even though I was self-employed for 10 years before starting on my entrepreneur coaching focus, it took so much work to build my brand through blogging, podcasting, connecting with folks, doing press, etc. I had 2 babies in the 3 years since starting this work, and often the 9pm-1am became 9pm-3am.
It is worth every bit of effort!
So when people say building an online presence is easy, I just chuckle.
-Pam
*Those* type of people I want to know more of!
And there's another thing I want to add...
* You can also wake up early. Several years ago I started waking up at 4:15am to get some stuff done in the early morning hours, and this has made a huge difference. The early morning hours can be quite productive, especially when nobody else in the house is awake yet. When you're doing work online, time and location don't matter much. It can be 4:30am at a coffee shop, and you're still getting stuff done.
I suppose what I'm saying is this: Consider going after that proverbial worm!
Hope the trip to India was not too taxing. Our discussion is beginning to set in after the inital explosion of thought. Look forward to more conversation.
k-h
I recently posted this on my gf's blog : If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
- Ward, William Arthur.
She's been bustin her behind on her own business full time for a few years now. She's got her dream job and slowly building up so she can have a life as well.
Gotta keep on bustin your but till you get what you want. Never let go. The longer you work at it the closer you get.
where have I been?
how have I just found you?
(were you lost? :))
Great thought.
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I have a technical questions for you or other posters on the forum. How do the bar codes on wine work? Is there a central database that captures all the bar code information for wine to which a distributor like Wine Library would subscribe? How does the metadata – name of wine, vintage, etc - get tracked within a distributors system?
Gracias amigo.
Just to add one thing to the conversation : don't be afraid to go to your boss and re-negotiate your work hours if you think you have enough leverage. I dropped my hours to 50% when I started my new business. The extra time supercharges me + maintains enough cash-flow.
I'm a firm believer that hard work and competition can bring out the best in people.
Plus the harder you work at something the sweeter it will be when you achieve it !
My objective? make my 9-5 the Cleveland Wine Scene!
we all know this is brutal....
i heard an interview w/gary that hit me hard and set me off, and is what pushed me to say f**** this and time to go full time
he said how immigrants come to this country and win, b/c it's their mindset of not allowing failure to happen, they have no choice but success, and they come here w/no language and no money - just like his father!
just like my father
i'm resigning this year, who the hell is coming with me!!
--z--
Thank you for the honest message spoken from experience.
zach - My dad came to the US on a student visa and a one way ticket from Taiwan, because he could only afford a one way ticket. When asked what would happen if things didn't work out, he asked "why wouldn't it work out?" It's a modern day story of Cortez burning his ships. It sounds like a lot of our fathers did that, kudos to you!
Insightful and Inspiring. I'm doing the hustle 2.0, and if tired and pathetic little me can do it anyone can do it, you are completely on the money when you say pick your destination, choose your path, and go gang busters until you're there. As tired as I get I always feel an extra surge of energy after a GV.com post. Thanks.
I'm hanging out at the day job, the best job I will ever have in a fantastic industry. Working as the Director of Technology for a rural school district. It is a dream job by every measure. But it is a path I was pushed into and not the one I want to stay on. I'm a single dad raising two small boys alone. As flexible as the job is I want more time with my boys, I want to work on things that are important but less urgent, and did I mention more time with the boys?
I've been able to shift the classic 9 to 5 to an 8 to 4 by leaving for work the moment the kids are on the bus.
We're all home by 5, do a little dinner, a bit of hang time just us guys, story time (yeah they are that small) from 8 till 8:30/8:45, clean the house (part of the solo gig), and I don't get to START until 9:00 or 9:30 at night.
I "try" for 11:30 each night but usually fail miserably with 12:30 or 1am being more common than I'd like to admit. And I start the whole thing again at 5:30/5:45am the next morning.
Thanks for the reminder that focus, relentless perseverance, and endless patience is how we reach our destination.
And to follow the point you made. I dumped a crappy job prematurely in order to pursue an independent gig before. It ended badly. Patience is the key. Being impatient will end everything you work for before you even really start.
Push through everything, work your rear end off, and be patient. Eventually you will be forced to quit the day job because taking time off "work" to go to the day job will cost too much money.
Never give up!!!
You got good points here that aspiring probloggers should consider. We cannot serve two masters at the same, as they say. But then, why not serve only one and be-friend the other?
Just my 2 cents.
Uncanny. This is exactly the schedule I keep in building my web production business. 9-1 AM while working in my "Clark Kent" job as a web marketing manager. I also have 2 young children that I am able to spend time with after work, and put them to bed before starting the night shift in the studio. It is slower, and there are times where both family time and the work time are uneven, but that is no reason why you can't have a healthy climb to the tipping point!
Great post - love your enthusiasm!
I heard a story about a professional archer who was so good that he could hit the bulls eye from hundreds of feet away then with the second arrow, split the spot where he hit the first bulls eye. Someone said this guy is so good he could probably hit the target blind folded. Sounds impossible one person said. How can he hit the target without being able to see it? then the moral of the story: how can one hit a target they don't even have? You must have goals.
I set up an arts supply company a year ago while working three shifts in a factory. I have a family and all the usual committmenmts but I found the time by cutting out mindless web surfing, watching crap tv and being totally focused on dealing with the business.
It's hard work, no doubt about that, but after a year my business has grown to the extent that it's now providing me with a regular income, not enough to finish my day job but 2009 is the year when I'm expecting major growth.
I've got a real sense of achievement about what I've accomplished so far. I've got things organized now so that i do all the physical work like taking stock and sending out parcels when I'm alone in the house. All the computer work I can do on my laptop sat down stairs with my wife while she whatches tv.
You're right it can be done, but you have to work at it.
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Ok, actually I disagree "partly."
Gary, the problem with your "hustlin' from 9pm-1am" image is that it doesn't paint the whole picture. Yes, you gotta hustle. But just working "the hours" isn't going to bring success. Also, if you're working "all the time" (like 12-18 hour days) there's no way that all those hours are productive. Some of you are counting hours spent surfing aimlessly as work. You're just fooling yourselves.
Here's what I do: if I have the energy, I work hard. If I don't, I rest. I try to eat well. I try to get 6-8 hours sleep. I use my lunch hour to go to the gym for an hour.
People are generally productive in "bursts." Don't force yourself to work from 9pm-1am if you don't the energy to focus.
Try this instead. Become a consultant to a company that has similar customers. Just be careful you are not double dipping. I am doing this now and it allows me to set a schedule that works for both my consultant customer and my own web company. Everyone wins.
-Jerry-
One of the things that has kept me going is something an Army Brigadier General told me in Germany a few years ago. We were demoing a language trainer for them, and he basically said, if he had to sacrifice an extra hour of sleep each night so he could work with the Iraqi's a little bit better it would be more than worth it.