I still put in long hours, happy to work until 2am but that "drive" to get stuff done has just vanished over the years.
Starting out you are green and believe the harder you work the more you will make and when you have that mindset it's easy to get scammed. If you have business partners it's easy to get scammed. If you aren't 100% watching every transaction it's easy to get scammed. Constant over promising and under-delivering with suppliers/contractors makes it easy to get scammed. Joining start-ups and "you complete your part and I'll do mine" spending weeks of work just for them to decide not to proceed and earning nothing, again, scammed. Getting introduced to "big fish" that will change your life and they are 100% fabricating everything or are 1/10 what they make themselves out to be, again, scammed.
I work less hard than ever and earn more than ever. Makes me wonder how I would go now with an old head on young shoulders.
Has anyone else lost the ability to work "hard" since becoming an entrepreneur?
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Work smart, work hard, head down, hopes up. Shut out the noise, figure our your efficient SOP and hammer them out repeatedly. Test, assess, try again. The less you rely on external b.s., the better.
Working hard is barely a factor of success and a lot of energy can be wasted in the wrong direction. It’s important to be a bit skeptical, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
You wouldn’t make more when you were young and didn’t know anything. You can only be lazy now bc you have already put in all the hard work to learn
Hard work has nothing to do with success but it opens you up to opportunity which is what success is made of.
I disagree with the comments saying hard work isn’t a factor. Hard work is definitely a factor at first when you’re inexperienced. You need to learn as much as humanly possible as quickly as possible. You need to analyze every option on every decision and this takes time and effort. You need to make decisions and some may be mistakes that you need to correct later. You’re learning a new game and no one has given you an instruction book on what the game even is.
Later on if you’ve done the work – yes you can put together a streamlined business with your eyes closed without breaking a sweat. But there is no avoiding putting in the time to become an expert at something.
Yeah same here but i mean.. theres been a few outlets such as [The Mental Shift](https://thementalshift.beehiiv.com/subscribe) that has given me challenges every week to keep me going and honestly since then I’ve been progressing these past 2 months even more.
Stay hydrated, have a good diet, and excersise, and you’ll have more energy than you’ll know what to do with. I promise that.
Tbh yeah and it made me feel like a failure. There is….. so much behind the scenes work required and doing all of it plus the service while figuring it all out as I go… the first year was slow and mostly unofficial, last year was amazing, this year I just… it felt like too much for only one person, and I wasn’t giving it as much as I did last year. Idk why. I still worked hard and did good work, but I definitely didn’t work as hard as last year.