Mr. Godin- If you're starting out as an entrepreneur or a freelancer or a project manager, the most important choice you'll make is: what to do? As in the answer to the question, "what do you do?"Some questions to help you get started:1. Who are you trying to please?
Small business owners/starters.2. Are you trying to make a living, make a difference, or leave a legacy?
Paying the bills is nice but I'd like to make a difference, thereby leaving a legacy.3. How will the world be different when you've succeeded?
The small businesses owners I've helped will eventually be running large businesses and teaching their grandchildren the principals that helped them succeed and eventually handing over the keys to them.4. Is it more important to add new customers or to increase your interactions with existing ones?
Both. I'm interested in building business friendships.5. Do you want a team?
Sure.6. How big?
No larger that 8. Then maybe teams of 8 people up to 152 (19 teams of 8).7. Would you rather have an open-ended project that's never done, or one where you hit natural end points?
Depends on that particular teams goals. I prefer having completion dates but see the value in the perpetuation of good ideas.8. Are you prepared to actively sell your stuff, or are you expecting that buyers will walk in the door and ask for it?
Neither. I wish to seek out folks I already like and help them succeed at higher levels.9. Which: to invent a category or to be just like Bob/Sue, but better?
Invent a category to help Bob/Sue get better.10. If you take someone else's investment, are you prepared to sell out to pay it back?
I will not accept investment money. I do it myself with cash or I don't do it.11. Are you done personally growing, or is this project going to force you to change and develop yourself?
I stop growing/changing when I'm dead. I can't help but to learn/fail, change and grow. 12. Choose: teach and lead and challenge your customers, or do what they ask...
Teach until I can no longer.13. How long can you wait before it feels as though you're succeeding?
I succeed a little more each day.14. Is perfect important? (Do you feel the need to fail privately, not in public?)
Perfect does not exist. Everything is in perpetual BETA test mode.15. Do you want your customers to know each other (a tribe) or is it better they be anonymous and separate?
The more they know each other, the more they will be able to strengthen each other.16. How close to failure, wipe out and humiliation are you willing to fly?
I embrace, stand and build on failure.17. How open to criticism are you willing to be?
Very. If it's constructive, it's helpful. If it's destructive, it's ignored.18. What does busy look like?
A log jam. If I'm 'busy' I'm doing something wrong. I like to flow.What about you? Take the time this weekend to answer these questions for yourself.
Small business owners/starters.2. Are you trying to make a living, make a difference, or leave a legacy?
Paying the bills is nice but I'd like to make a difference, thereby leaving a legacy.3. How will the world be different when you've succeeded?
The small businesses owners I've helped will eventually be running large businesses and teaching their grandchildren the principals that helped them succeed and eventually handing over the keys to them.4. Is it more important to add new customers or to increase your interactions with existing ones?
Both. I'm interested in building business friendships.5. Do you want a team?
Sure.6. How big?
No larger that 8. Then maybe teams of 8 people up to 152 (19 teams of 8).7. Would you rather have an open-ended project that's never done, or one where you hit natural end points?
Depends on that particular teams goals. I prefer having completion dates but see the value in the perpetuation of good ideas.8. Are you prepared to actively sell your stuff, or are you expecting that buyers will walk in the door and ask for it?
Neither. I wish to seek out folks I already like and help them succeed at higher levels.9. Which: to invent a category or to be just like Bob/Sue, but better?
Invent a category to help Bob/Sue get better.10. If you take someone else's investment, are you prepared to sell out to pay it back?
I will not accept investment money. I do it myself with cash or I don't do it.11. Are you done personally growing, or is this project going to force you to change and develop yourself?
I stop growing/changing when I'm dead. I can't help but to learn/fail, change and grow. 12. Choose: teach and lead and challenge your customers, or do what they ask...
Teach until I can no longer.13. How long can you wait before it feels as though you're succeeding?
I succeed a little more each day.14. Is perfect important? (Do you feel the need to fail privately, not in public?)
Perfect does not exist. Everything is in perpetual BETA test mode.15. Do you want your customers to know each other (a tribe) or is it better they be anonymous and separate?
The more they know each other, the more they will be able to strengthen each other.16. How close to failure, wipe out and humiliation are you willing to fly?
I embrace, stand and build on failure.17. How open to criticism are you willing to be?
Very. If it's constructive, it's helpful. If it's destructive, it's ignored.18. What does busy look like?
A log jam. If I'm 'busy' I'm doing something wrong. I like to flow.What about you? Take the time this weekend to answer these questions for yourself.
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