Do You Have the Right Friends?

The biggest thing is that no matter what, I always had people who had my back, understood me, and never said I should get a job.

I find that, like me, when I started doing my own thing, my friends were my old friends. My friends from my job. My friends thought that Nirvana is having a paycheck for the rest of your life and working for a company that can tell you to do whatever they want you to do, whenever they want you to do it.

And they don't get it. It's not that they don't love you. It's simply they don't understand the thinking it takes to be an entrepreneur, to be on your own, to be responsible for your own income.

So they've never been there. Right?

A lot of times, anyway.

So, surrounding yourself with like-minded and, more importantly, like-spirited people is the number one suggestion I have for people.