Hi All!
I hope you’re having a great week so far. As always here’s your weekly On-Track advice, a collection of business wisdom, inspiring quotes, and insights on how other entrepreneurs in your field are succeeding.
Stay on Track This Week
A few items to read, watch, and reflect on.
- Newsletter Takeaway: A strong passion for your business is the key to entrepreneurial success.
- NEW Article: How to Save Your Business During a Recession
- Watch This 👀: How Bad Do You Want It?
- Book of the Week 📖: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Something to Reflect On🪞: “What advice would I give myself from a year ago now that I’m standing here today?”
1. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs
The biggest mistake that entrepreneurs make is that they start a business that’s about something they’re not passionate about. Only when you’re in love what you do will you be able to put in the hours necessary to get your business off the ground.
2. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” ― Dave Barry
Meetings give us a false sense of productivity. They can make us feel like we are accomplishing something even though we may not be making real progress towards our goals. They involve a lot of talking and discussing, which doesn’t always translate into work getting done.
Some Articles on This Topic
- How to Develop the Courage to Start Over in Your Career — 5 min. read
- 10 Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur in 2023 — 5 min. read
- 3 Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur This Year — 5 min. read
3. “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” ― Warren Buffett
Until next week,
Mike van der Poel
P.S. Going to the gym
Read The Last Issues
- #91: Stupid Ideas, Vision, and Hitting Your Goals – Jan. 3, 2023
- #90: Getting Rejected, Setting Goals, and Making Money – Dec. 27, 2023
- #89: Creating Yourself, Keeping Your Balance, and Forgetting – Dec. 20, 2022
- #88: Growing, Allowing for Distraction, and Suffering Vertigo – Dec. 13, 2022
- #87: Taking Risks, Living Fully, and Putting Yourself Out There – Dec. 6, 2022