The Entrepreneur’s Conflict Between Creativity and Discipline

You can find exact dictionary definitions of discipline here, here, and here. In these definitions you find words like obey, punishment, and  rules. They describe discipline as an act of willpower, as training, and as a pattern of behavior. In short, these dictionary definitions of discipline make the idea of discipline sound constrained, painful, and anti-creative. This ideal of discipline […]

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The Point in Life When Things Get Easy

Tonight, my wife made a statement that I found rather thought provoking.  She said in an unusually melancholy voice…”I keep waiting for the point in life when things get easy.” My immediate response was that I didn’t think we were at the point in our lives where we wanted easy. She wasn’t in the mood to […]

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Measuring The Value of Your Side Hustle

Generating money from a side hustle has little bearing on its intrinsic value.  The last thing you should want is a j.o.b. from 9 to 5 and then spend your 5 to 9 creating yourself another j.o.b. (Just Over Broke). Instead, you should view a side hustle like a series of projects with specific start […]

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