3-26-12
9:05 AM CST
To Whom It May Concern (Everyone):
Don’t stop believing.
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3-26-12
9:05 AM CST
To Whom It May Concern (Everyone):
Don’t stop believing.
I’m currently on my 9th different business card since graduating from college. However, on the outside looking in, nothing about my job description has changed. 7 years later, I’m still helping people buy and real estate.
But a lot has changed. For one (a big one), I’ve found my WHY.
My latest card doesn’t offer a full name, title, cell number, email address, or even a fax number for you to send me what could’ve been scanned.
I went this route for three reasons:
1) We can get stuck in the rut of what our card says we do. (For me, there’s way more going on here than just real estate transactions and I have a rut phobia)
2) We change the world not by doing what we’re told to do, but by doing what we’re not told to do.
3) I want my life to represent an idea not a title. A win here happens when you start to unlock that idea.
“Do you have a card?” If so, it probably describes more of who you aren’t than who you truly are.
Sow.
Grow.
Harvest.
Whatever your goals, dreams, and ideas are farm them.
Then pray for rain.
Hint: God is the silent partner in all great enterprises. Abraham Lincoln
Note: I post this because it is directly pointed at myself.
Email is beautiful – it beats the heck out of the pony express. But it is killing my productivity.
It’s the drug I can’t get enough of. It steals from my business, my family, and all forms of productivity.
I think we need to be weened off. Maybe we can pursue 15 minutes in the inbox and then 45 minutes of true work with our hands, feet minds, and voices?
How is it that we now have the capability of ever constant communication (which is good), but we’re trading it for actually producing something?
What is the one thing that has imprisoned and kept of the great musicians from producing their music? Drugs. I would say the same goes for the entrepreneur and his email.
Checking our productivity > Checking our email.
Ashton.Gustafson 