Chapter Seven

Walk to Work(Even If You Work from Home)

Being an entrepreneur is an endurance sport.

You need to always be in training so that you can improve on the past and be prepared for the future. You are accountable to you 100 percent of the time. Your job is to bring your best self forward every day.

As an entrepreneur and business owner, you make a lot of decisions and keep a lot of balls in the air. It’s important you don’t get stuck in a rut, attempting to fix a new problem with an old approach. Staying out of ruts takes training. As someone asked at a retreat I attended:

“How can you create the future if you are referencing the past? You will only re-create the past in the future.”

I’m not suggesting you forget the past. There are ...

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