The Higher Up the Ladder You Climb the More Your Bum Hangs Out…Who Knows What Evil Lurks In the Heart Of Men!

In a sense there’s a degree of risk getting out of bed in the morning. From a business perspective if you choose to stand out and walk the path less traveled risk is always present. What I advocate is being a business person first and an entrepreneur second, what that means is evaluate everything you do in business based on the likely consequences of what you do, instead of just charging ahead in the name of entrepreneurialism. I suspect that being an entrepreneur is not a valid defense. There is a need to be responsible.

Therefore entrepreneurs don’t take risks so much as they manage it even though they are at risk, it comes with the territory and so does the benefits.

I’m personally taking risk in the business sense every day on many fronts. With sending out an email like this, there is risk. Maybe it’ll offend somebody. Although I manage that very well because I don’t really give a damn. The array of joint ventures I undertake bring with them a high degree of risk. When I finally succumbed to the notion that there was a practical way to have my own Mal Emery type coaches spreading the word via Streetsmart Business Builders run by John Denton there is risk. Many in fact, but also many potential rewards. It's a managed risk that I'm willing to take.

Even I don't get it right. A different joint venture that I went in to has not worked out how both parties had planned has caused me a great deal of anxiety and a visit or two to my lawyer recently. This was in spite of all my best efforts to the contrary.

Every time I take on a client and allow their problems to become mine, there is risk. After all, like any sportsperson you’re only as good as your next performance. And guess who they blame. In fact I’ve had a few of them this week. Just serves to remind me the worst thing about mentoring clients is the client.

‘Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men?’

Some will attempt to slime you with guilt. Not withstanding you exhibit initiative and they exhibit none. They will attempt to guilt you into feeling queasy and uncomfortable with your own success, in order to bring you down a peg or two so they feel better. Whatever you do, do not welcome them into your mind.

My buffoon filters have become well defined over the years but every so often one slips through, eager to abdicate all responsibility.

Then there’s the ever-increasing red tape bestowed upon business by bureaucratic no hopers who have never risked or spent a cent of their own money in their life in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success. And yet make and enforce the rules with immunity. You go figure.

A foe not to be forgotten is your competitor. In my experience that’s where most of your complaints stem from. Particularly if you’ve climbed high up the ladder of success, because that’s where your bum really hangs out.

Best Regards,

Mal Emery

Committed to Elevating the Financial Wealth and Wellbeing of Society Through Entrepreneurial Excellence and Guilty of Conspiracy to Create Capitalism.

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