John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing has started a dialogue about your perfect day. What does it look like. The comments are long and varied, some detailing hour by hour and others cutting to the meat of the matter and listing outcomes.
But the one thing I see that is consistent is the creativity and the focus behind the described days. After more than 25 years in the corporate world before opening my business in 2004, I have noticed a vast difference in what a perfect day looks like: entrepreneur vs. corporate slave.
In the corporate world the perfect day was measured by your ability to show up on time and attend a lot of meetings. If you were late - you were a poor example of a worker. It didn't matter that often the ones who arrived early and stayed late were the ones at the water cooler, long lunching and shopping on their company laptop.
As an entrepreneur, the description of a perfect is much different; results are what matter. The results include:
- making a difference in a customer's life
- securing a new client
- expanding your company vision
- being healthy and making time for exercise
- loving your family and taking time to share breakfast with them before they go off to school.
How would life be different if every company allowed their workers to be measured by their results and not just their ability to show up?
Thanks John for the discussion.
What is your perfect day like? Are you in the corporate world? An entrepreneur? Do you see a difference between the two? Who is more successful and how do you measure that success?
Deborah Chaddock Brown
