How do you think following that advice would have impacted the path you have taken in your professional life?
That’s a pretty simple question to answer for me personally. I’ve always been open-minded, but I’ve also always been so busy I would have to ignore and/or sacrifice certain things or people. That being said, I would have run my businesses instead of let them run me. I would have created the time to listen to people that offered solutions, and I would have advised myself that if I’m not making changes consistently to improve personally and within whatever business ventures I was involved, START DOING IT NOW! I would advise myself to create a business model that is sustainable if I’m not available to work. Life happens, and I was severely injured one time and wasn’t available to run the business day-to-day operations for a while. I lost it all, and it was tough! That experience taught me that you must have a self-sustainable business model or you’re risking everything. So, my advice to everyone that runs their own business, ask yourself what would happen if you couldn’t show up for a month? Would your business survive? Would you still have revenue coming in? How much? Something to think about…. Great question!