It's easy to say, “Be Grateful” but it can be so hard to do for the hard-driving entrepreneur inside.

It's easy to say, “Be Grateful” but it can be so hard to do for the hard-driving entrepreneur inside.

He didn't tell me about a single thing he'd purchased or a vacation he'd taken. He told me that money and time create two effects – they multiply whatever you are, and they hasten whatever you're becoming. Obviously, whether those effects have positive or negative consequences depends on the individual – who they are and who they're becoming.

He told me that not worrying about consumer debt or monthly bills was very nice and he should probably be more appreciative of it, but after time, it becomes the new norm, and you again start to look for larger mountains to climb and battles to conquer.

Finally, he said that the biggest negative about his success was that he woke up every day realizing that the vast majority of everyone on the planet is living in poverty and there's nothing his success is going to do to make a difference on any mass scale.

He said that the biggest positive was that it had given him “time” and “meaning” to become more of who he is – and Laura (his wife) more of who she is. He has time and resources to explore the “rabbit holes” that intrigue him all the way to the end. And he can prepare a pattern and expectation for children to follow to do the same.

No grand thesis or great fireworks inducing conclusions here, but real meaty heavy stuff.
I told him that thinking of entrepreneurial success as a multiplier and hastener of what's already inside me, rather than a change inducing miracle cure for all that's negative inside me was a new paradigm – one that required, and is still requiring me to re-think a lot of things.

Nice post Clate – Talk to you later.

Nick