Survival Strategies of Serious Entrepreneurs

Serious Entrepreneur, is your life balanced or a balancing act? In business today, it seems we are under greater pressure than ever before. In our quest to be successful, we’re working harder and longer just to stay in the race.

It often feels like one huge juggling act.

The life of an internet marketer consists of endless rounds of promotional and motivational pep talk, chasing of prospects, struggling to keep the head above the avalanche of instant messages and emails, keeping ahead of the marketing game, in short doing so many things including, perhaps, counting the chickens before they hatch.

All without getting sick, run down, or burnt out?

John Alston, who, as a serious entrepreneur, can understand the problems of serious entrepreneurs as much as anyone can ever, says: “For some of us, work is our first love, and for those of us struggling to make our businesses work, there are patient and enduring lovers, spouses and children hanging in there with us. For others there are ex-lovers, ex-spouses and alienated children who can and will testify to what you really value.” He wrote this in the Professional Speaker magazine of January.

Every job, and even every passion, comes with its own set of challenges. But internet marketing is a notch above all this in its tension generation ability. Serious entrepreneurs have devised their own ways for coping with the pressures of network marketing, because, it was a novel and untested arena and there was pretty much no training or warning on how to cope with it.

All serious entrepreneurs in the world of internet marketing are there because they see their work almost as a vocation, a calling. It is a call of the soul that they cannot resist. Every new challenge is seen by them as an opportunity to rise higher. They simply get drunk on the pleasure of picking up the gauntlet, surmounting the problem, and thereby going another step higher in the success ladder.

But they know when to shut the computer off.

However much they love their work, serious entrepreneurs ensure that internet marketing is not the be all and end all of their lives.

They could be equally passionate about adventure sports, passive hobbies, philanthropic activities, or whatever that could define another facet of their life. Serious entrepreneurs may play the roles of a father or a husband with equal relish.

A balance between work, play, worship, and giving back to the community is not so much about finding the time to do everything equally. It’s more about recognizing that time consistently spent engaging in the activities that we love the most feeds our soul and enables us to live a satisfying, grounded life.

If you think you have no time, remember the Parkinson’s Law “work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”

Maybe it is difficult to manage everything yourself. There is so much that can be done that there could practically be no end to the list. But a person has to get his priorities correct, and devote time to what gives him consummate satisfaction. The rest can perhaps be outsourced.

It was Albert Schweitzer who said, “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” And it perhaps holds true for serious entrepreneurs more than to any one else.

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