Today has transformed itself into a bit – quite a bit – of a writing/email day and if I catch your response at another time, it may not "be a writing day" so might as well write this now. I get a lot of emails from old professors, old friends, various net forums, applications, job contacts, relatives, blog contacts – sometimes it's just hundreds of emails!!
I realized some of the things I try to do (like building a web page for the web design and the lifecoaching ideas) most other entrepreneurs simply DELEGATE to other people by hiring a web-designer to create the web page or the hire a marketer to post flyers or some other marketing equivalent. I can't afford to hire a third-party contractor so I just have to put enormous amounts of time and energy into learning how to do what that other third-party contractor person would otherwise do. This has provided an incredibly useful scope of how money works. Almost anything you can pay someone to do (whether it be fixing a computer, building an annex to a house, or even designing a surfboard) you, technically (with a few exceptions) could learn and read how to do that yourself and accomplish that task with relatively inexpensive resources. Some tasks, obviously, would requires years of training (like designing and shaping a surfboard out of fiberglass, which is an example of something that you'd probably be better off just purchasing), and time, which is why so many people simple hire others instead of the do-it-yourself approach which I have undertaken. But nevertheless, I have a fascination with the realization that you can do most anything on your own given enough time, determination, and knowledge.
That said, I've realized it takes awhile to "shift into those other design modes", meaning, I can't work on a web page one day, and then try to focus in on marketing the next day because those "transformations" require you to take on the roles of almost two totally different people. I've realized that those projects take time to shift out of or into. In other words, if all you do is web design, or sell color-sorting manufacturing machinery, or something, it's simply to consistently do that because you get into the knowledge groove, but it takes a lot of time to fully do one thing and then morph into another professional zone that encompasses and entirely different knowledge-base. Conclusively, things will feel much simpler and easier when I have a single profession and don't have to keep shifting into the role of a "web designer" or "job seeker" or "marketer", etc.
I realized some of the things I try to do (like building a web page for the web design and the lifecoaching ideas) most other entrepreneurs simply DELEGATE to other people by hiring a web-designer to create the web page or the hire a marketer to post flyers or some other marketing equivalent. I can't afford to hire a third-party contractor so I just have to put enormous amounts of time and energy into learning how to do what that other third-party contractor person would otherwise do. This has provided an incredibly useful scope of how money works. Almost anything you can pay someone to do (whether it be fixing a computer, building an annex to a house, or even designing a surfboard) you, technically (with a few exceptions) could learn and read how to do that yourself and accomplish that task with relatively inexpensive resources. Some tasks, obviously, would requires years of training (like designing and shaping a surfboard out of fiberglass, which is an example of something that you'd probably be better off just purchasing), and time, which is why so many people simple hire others instead of the do-it-yourself approach which I have undertaken. But nevertheless, I have a fascination with the realization that you can do most anything on your own given enough time, determination, and knowledge.
That said, I've realized it takes awhile to "shift into those other design modes", meaning, I can't work on a web page one day, and then try to focus in on marketing the next day because those "transformations" require you to take on the roles of almost two totally different people. I've realized that those projects take time to shift out of or into. In other words, if all you do is web design, or sell color-sorting manufacturing machinery, or something, it's simply to consistently do that because you get into the knowledge groove, but it takes a lot of time to fully do one thing and then morph into another professional zone that encompasses and entirely different knowledge-base. Conclusively, things will feel much simpler and easier when I have a single profession and don't have to keep shifting into the role of a "web designer" or "job seeker" or "marketer", etc.
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