Personal Sacrifice
Kevin Fream
America's Cyberist Helping Financial & Professional Services Avoid Loss, Improve Business, and Eliminate Doubt
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It's another SecOps Thursday with candidate interviews and finalizing account types with ratings for the new CRM prospecting.
There's complexity, skills, and myriad decisions with all the other phone calls and messages that might as well be bullets. There are no easy days in business.
"Class, this is Mr. Elderod that has an important story for you", the finance professor said. It was one of the few classes where the formulas made no sense and now we had story time like children?
It was the Wall Street era of slick suits in business and bright colors with the collars turned up when wearing casual polos. This guy was bald and frumpy with a straggly beard, wearing brown corduroys and an ugly sweater from two decades earlier.
I looked around like Maverick in Top Gun judging the reaction from the room and was surprised there was no dismay or even feigned interest.
The message was clear. Running a business would make you physically exhausted and emotionally devastated with no time for yourself, ending up divorced with no friends or money.
I'm called "lucky" often and have avoided Elerod's common story of tragedy, but the personal sacrifice is real and only those striving in business understand the extreme psychological challenges that most people simply can't endure.
Daily Mission:?Know that your personal sacrifices will not be understood by your family and friends.
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