Okay straight to it.
Could as well get it over with as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Thesis: You don’t have to do any of the things everyone else is doing to be successful in business.
Straight to the examples with no delay:
NETWORKING
I never go to any business events or conferences. Ever!
Why? To go sit there listen to people ramble on about their lives on stage? Nah son. Know what I spend that time doing instead?
Working hard on my projects.
JOURNALING
Honestly, I wouldn’t even know where to begin with this. It’s just something I see people talking about in entrepreneur groups.
Know what I do instead?
Work hard on my projects.
VISION BOARDS
I’ve actually seen one of these in person. My friend spent like 5 days putting it together. It was like this huge collage/mosaic thing. Super Cool. But you know what I would have spent those 5 days doing instead? Working hard on my projects.
MENTORS
Meh, never had one. Ever. Successful people are typically busy so I wouldn’t even begin to know how I would try to get them to commit time to me out the blue. So know what worked for me instead? Worked hard on my projects.
ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS
Sounds like it could be cool. But alas, instead of the time spent going back and forth with folks that are struggling too, know what I settled on? Gonna blow your mind: Working hard on my projects.
UNNECESSARY MEETINGS
“Let’s meet up to discuss the idea?”
Wait, isn’t the sun still burning out and we’re all slowly dying?
Well nope. Shoot me an email. I’ll used that saved time, you guessed it: Working hard on my projects.
CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS
I don’t read their blogs, I don’t follow them on Twitter, I don’t spend any time building up any celebrities in my head. Now if they have some solid info that I need to take action on, I’m with it for sure! Don’t get it twisted. But celebrity for celebrity sake? No Gary V I’m not paying $3,000 to have a group breakfast with you. You know how many table tennis racquets that can get me?
Nah. Instead I focus on my ish, and…yep. Work hard on my projects!
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Now, I can almost hear you saying: “Come on Rohan, these things are useful and have really helped me.”
To that I say, I’m genuinely happy to hear that.
Like for real for real.
My mantra forever is, “If it works, do it. And do it often, and do it well!”
Just consider this my little alternative song to remind us that there are other ways to have fun up in this dancery! Word to Mary.
And if you’ve been doing these things and not really getting traction, don’t be afraid to join me on this ridiculous “Get Shit Done” and leave the extra-curriculars at the doorstep journey.
The water is warm over this way too!
So that’s about it, but real quick before I wrap this unpopular ass post up.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t say what “working hard” entails:
Working hard: Seeing what worked well for other folks and following that script as closely as possible and going all out on your version. Find something that people are selling the hell out of, see how they sell it, how often they post on Instagram, what press they are getting, etc. and follow the well lit path.
The alternative is trying to be super original, building something the world has never seen, and going down the dark unpaved overgrown back-roads that are hell to make it through.
That’s not working hard, that’s just working crazy.
Alright bet. I’m out now for real.
About to hit up this accountability partner mentorship & startup conference vision board creation networking event.
Well either that or I’ll be at the crib…
