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What To Do About The Struggle [a letter to entrepreneurs]
The hard thing isn’t usually what you think it is. In the entrepreneurial journey there are a lot of emotions, life gets down right shitty some days. There is hope though. You’re on a journey only the greatest minds of our world start out on. A journey that most won’t try make. The journey of a true entrepreneur is plagued with disappointment, triumph, and even more let down. As long as you stay a little more positive than those negative thoughts you’re going to come out the other side a winner.
When you’re in it, it sucks. There’s no way to describe it. It’s a necessary evil, without the years of failure there is no learning, and no learning means no company.
What is the struggle?
Something every entrepreneur human being goes through. The longer you can last, the further you will go. A lot of people don’t last. The Struggle eats them up, destroys their soul, and all they’re left with is a scared, hurtful attitude towards anything outside of what is expected. Protectionism sets in the status quo is the only way of doing things.
Why do we have to struggle?
Simple, the universe doesn’t give you anything for free. Nothing in life is easy. The more you struggle, the better the reward.
There’s a famous quote from Bill Gates “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”. You have to struggle, there’s no easy way about it. You have to go through the bad to appreciate the good.
How long has the struggle been around?
The struggle has been around since the dawn of civilization. Our ancestors went through it. Anyone who has done anything worth talking about has been through it. Anyone who has that crease near the corner of the eye, you know the one, the one that lets you know they’ve been through a lot.
When we’re in the struggle our minds are our greatest enemy. We tell ourselves lies, we’re delusional, we create a reality in our heads that’s just not true. Humans are amazing at finding every possible way a plan can fail. We find every loophole that might come back to bite us in the ass. In this horrible state of mind we never look for the positive horizon with the attitude of it gets better. No instead we try to warn our subconscious with these thoughts, it’s a defence mechanism sounding the alarm bells. Read more
2015 Year in Review at Strategy Lab || ep 42 #inthelab
Growth, experiments, and a whole lot of page views! The 2015 wrap up of Strategy Lab Marketing, the little marketing engine that could do the impossible!
4 new @stratlab t-shirt designs
6 new posters
7 new postcards
11 new stickers
42 #inthelab episodes filmed and published
48 presentations given
56 websites Built
85 websites monitored in Google Analytics
1,205 likes on Instagram
1,242 lottery tickets given away
1,575 keywords tracked weekly in Moz
89,983 website page views on strategylab.ca
1,161,000 pages crawled weekly in Moz
The Aftermath of UpliftingT-shirts.ca | eps 40 #InTheLab
“It worked, it really worked!”
We went into this class not knowing what to expect. It was my first time teaching entrepreneurship and I wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity for some hands on learning!! A few weeks back before we started UpliftingTshirts.ca I filmed this #InTheLab episode asking the question, how do you teach entrepreneurship? At that time I had no idea what would happen with our newly founded company disguised as an experiment disguised as a class.
How Do You Teach Entrepreneurship? || Eps 35 #InTheField
How do you teach entrepreneurship? How do you teach an art form?
My best guess is you must experience it.
I don’t have the answer but I do know it’s not the traditional way of textbooks, quiz’s, sitting in desks and writing tests. Memorization is not a quality we need in the world of 2015 and beyond, so why do we keep putting so much emphasis on the standardized test? Read more
How To Actually Teach Entrepreneurship
I’ve taken several entrepreneurship classes in my day, in Highschool and in University. Nothing compares to what Mr. McFarlen is doing at Regina’s Campbell Collegiate. Read more
We Love SYPE and You Should Too
Saskatchewan Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs (SYPE), is a group of young, influential business minded folks who are the future leaders of our economic powerhouse of a province. That’s correct, these people are moving AND shaking. Last Thursday night SYPE hosted their Movember Gala.
It turns out that we not only attended but I (Jeph) ended up winning Mustache of the year. Ironically, Derek Wu, Brandon’s brother, proudly won the worst mustache of the year, which might I add, came down to a sock off which Derek prevailed.
The night was a hoot to say the least.
If you haven’t been to a SYPE event, try one out or if you want to get involved in a major way, join the board. Read more