This is a slideshow from a presentation by Garr Reynolds. It outlines the six lessons in Dan Pink’s new book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. Garr expanded a little on some of the lessons. Even if you don’t have to make a career decision right now the 6 lessons will inspire you.
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When I read articles and comments like the following I get aware of my situation as an entrepreneur.
“The New York Times’s Matt Richtel likens blogging to a white-collar sweat shop business in which workers are forced to slave 24/7 until they drop. In support of this, Matt cites the deaths of Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant and Om Malik’s heart attack.
No denying this is a tough business. But so are a lot of businesses. We suspect if the New York Times broadened its view to “start-ups” or other intensely competitive, high-pressure white-collar work environments like finance, law, or consulting, it would find a similar stress rate. (And not to play down what happened to Russell, Marc, and Om, but is it at least possible that “blogging” wasn’t the problem?).”
This is part of a new blogpost of the Silicon Alley Insider, read the full post here.
As an entrepreneur you become easy your own boss, who treats yourself like no boss would do. No mercy, pressure, no excuses are allowed… That is why it is important to create your own business around your passion.
Every once in a while you need to check in with a coach to be sure you follow your bliss. It is not easy to do that on your own, you don’t have the necessary distance. You add new discoveries where you have energy with and weed the parts of your business you don’t have energy with anymore. Now you are sure on the right track and now you can play fully.
If you need a break to recharge your batteries you automatically do that. If you need a distraction to relax from a task you change the rhythm and become flexible again. Getting out of the office to get a coffee or tea, go home early to play with your kids… Now it starts that the borders of personal life and business life get blurry, leisure time becomes part of business.
That is Zentrepreneurship how my coach Martin Sage calls it.
A couple of months ago in one of my coaching sessions with my coach and mentor Martin Sage, he told me he wants his own online video show. I told him how you can set up a virtual TV station with Mogulus.
On February 7th we started the show. Lena and Martin set up studio in his living room in Ibiza, Spain. I was watching online and coaching the camera operator through the chat room. That was an adventure. Approximately thirty people were watching online from all over the world: Austin, Berlin, San Diego, New York, Ibiza, Vienna, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Cologne, La Palma, Baltic Sea, New York Upstate, Cold Spring, Santa Cruz, CA. You could feel the buzz of a live experience.
Since then Martin experiments with different formats: interviews, lecture style, answering phone calls and emails, outside pre-produced videos, in studio live shows. That is his medium. He inspired ten other coaches and entrepreneurs to start their shows. Martin developed a whole network of shows: Coach TV by Global Coaching Network.
Since Martin and I met first time October 1999 he tells me that I need my own TV show. I changed my whole life, left Berlin, moved to New York, married an american woman, became a video producer and coach, became father of twins, moved to Austin, became the German Cowboy, produced the video podcast ‘Austin Business Babes’ for my wife Dana, helped starting Martins show, initiated four other online live shows: ‘Austin Spa Girls‘, ‘Love And Sex With Joy‘, ‘How To Talk To Men‘, ‘Women, Sex And Money‘.
As we say in Germany: ‘Das Ende vom Lied ist’, the end of the song is: Sylvester is always behind the camera in service for other people. That is a great strategy to avoid being in front of the camera. Not if you have a coach like Martin and a wife like Dana who are committed to your life’s purpose and never give up: tonight launches Coach TV Austin hosted by Sylvester Becker, the German Cowboy.
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