It all starts with an:
Once you have the idea you have to:
You’re confronted with:
You jump in there and suddenly you’ve got this:
But you still have lots of these:
You learn everyday, use all your intellect, all your creative ability, your blood sweat and tears… basically, never quit, learn to enjoy it, become good at it, and you start getting this:
My analogy once you’re a couple years into it, you have so many moving pieces it’s amazing, you’ve got to keep communication going with many many people, it’s quite the orchestration. it’s like you are a server at a restaurant with a 100 table section:
You have your two 30 tops you definitely need to stay on top of, maybe they are your manufacturers. You’ve got 7 six tops that are always needing more wine poured, maybe they are your sales reps and int’l distributors. You’ve got a bunch of 4 tops, 3 tops, some 2 tops in the corner, all your marketing contacts, seamstress, graphic designer, CFO, website tech, social media group, athletes, events, fedex, accountant, and down the list that are always needing they’re plates cleared. And you have that 1 person way off in the corner sucking down his sodas way too fast. But if you don’t stay on EVERYONE, keep everyone’s water glass full all the time - your section will go down.
Eventually the idea is to reach a level of mastery, efficiency, success:
So that you can do a little of this:
Or in my case, lots of this:
Photo: Adam Barker
And this:
Photo: adam clark
Cheers.
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