Episode Transcript
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to another edition of the Empowering Entrepreneurs Podcast. I’m Glenn
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Harper. Julie Smith. You look a little fired up over there, Julie. What’s going
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on? Well, you wouldn’t share your opinions before this show,
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so now I’m. We are officially winging it. You do better when you’re
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winging it. That’s a rule. It’s all good. Let’s do it. All right. Go for
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it. What are the biggest lies that entrepreneurs tell themselves?
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I’m smart. I’m beautiful. No, that’s not. I tell my
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kids that every day. Right, right. Okay. Well, no, it’s not that one. I would
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say the biggest lie that we tell ourselves
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is that we are going to run
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a business, but we end up doing a
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task under the illusion that we’re running a business.
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Interesting. So mine was not
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preparing for whatever pivot may need to happen.
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I feel like as entrepreneurs, kind of what you’re saying is you’re there, you’re doing
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a task, and you may need to go right at the
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stop sign, but instead you’re just going to do the task and you’re
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going to continue to do the task, and you’re going to continue to go straight
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on the path, and maybe you should have just prepared yourself
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to take that pivot. Well, I think to that
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point, I think it is we have a to do
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list every day as an entrepreneur that says these are the things we should be
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doing and these are the things we actually really don’t have
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to do. But we’re going to do those and we get them confused and we
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end up doing the things that really don’t make us the money. It really doesn’t
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put us in a better position. We do these tasks because those are easier than
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doing the hard things. Well, I think it’s because it’s what you enjoy and it’s
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the path of least resistance. Right. I don’t know if I like doing some of
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these random tasks, but they seem a lot easier than doing the hard
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things sometimes. Right. And I think that’s the point. It’s like if you would have
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done the hard things, you would have been able to come to that pivot a
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lot easier, faster than makes it too
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easy, Julian, than continuing down that path. If you continue
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to do the easy thing, it’s really easy to continue to do the same thing.
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Right. And I, into the end, I think there’s another thing, another one
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of those things of the biggest. What they say is that,
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hey, I am think I’m in business doing
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this is what I sell or this is my product or
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service, but it’s, that is not your product
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or service. You, you get it confused as the entrepreneur,
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like, this is what I’m selling. But that, that could not be it. I,
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I, I agree with that one. Honestly, I do think people, you guys all know
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what that means. Like, if you think you’re selling, if you’re a
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realtor, you think you’re just selling a home, right? I’m going to sell a bunch
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of homes. That’s what I’m going to do as a realtor. I’m going to just
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close on these houses. But that’s not your product that you sell. That’s not your
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service. Your service is the American dream of, of the place that
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you can, the family can make their home, raise their family, be
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part of the community, decorate all the decorations, all the
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holidays. You’re selling this dream. You’re not selling just a
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piece of property. And when you make that switch as a realtor, per
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se, oh, my gosh, you now know how to be a better realtor
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because that’s what you’re really selling. Yeah, I agree with that one,
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100%. There you have it. Well, there’s another great
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edition of the Empowering Entrepreneurs Podcast. I’m Glenn Harper. Julie Smith.
