From Pro-Gamer to Pro-Entrepreneur

I haven’t posted in awhile. (I don’t count the Twitter Weekly Updates–those are automatic). I’m sure my one reader (okay, maybe two) will be relieved. Finals week and new diets tend to change our habits and priorities temporarily, but I realized something after reading this post from Clay Collins: I’ve been living in a dream world and will soon be snapped back into reality.

If you didn’t know (or realize from my insanely youthful obnoxious humor), I’m a college kid. I do have a somewhat successful web design firm and a few other startups I’m working on, but at the end of the day (around 4 in the morning…), I’m still a college kid. What I realized was that I’m playing a game. Using my business as an excuse for my lack of productivity in other areas of my life has been an addicting habit that I now realize will kill my business endeavors. If I keep running full-steam ahead accomplishing nothing, I will just lose faster.

As of right now, I am going to stop playing the game. I am going to make my business my business. It will consume my energy moreso than it does now, and it will likely become my life moreso than it is now. The difference–I will make it into something worth talking about, instead of something cool a college kid thought up while skipping Philosophy.

Are you playing a game? Are you using your business as an excuse in your life? If you are, stop playing. Get serious, crack down, and have something to show for it when the dust settles.

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