How Your 1st Business Is A Lot Like Life's Progression

What to Expect When You're Expecting (Your First Business)

For the first-time entrepreneur, opening a new business is an immense, confusing, and too often defeating, culture shock.

Opening a business is as drastic of a lifestyle change as having a newborn for the first time.

For instance:

The moment the child is born, you quickly learn that you are not the one in charge.

The baby wakes you up when he or she wants to wake you up. Regardless of how much of a pain it is to you, ignore the baby's sign that you need to pay more attention and you're in for trouble. If the baby does not want you leaving the house, you're probably at risk of stagnancy.

Your baby's attention on demand is a fact of life, regardless of whether you're tired, due at work or a social function, and completely without regard to the fact that you are the one paying the bills and that "Baby" wouldn't even exist if it weren't for you.

You could pay a babysitter each night or even have live-in help if you could truly afford the luxury, but you don't want to rack up debt on tasks that you could do or learn how to do on your own. To you, it doesn't make sense to do it any other way, as you love your child even when he or she is a pain sometimes.

It's instinctive; the reason you capitulate to all of the infant's needs is because it would be unthinkable not to. This is even though you know other parents who would not do a fraction of the work you do. Sometimes you might imagine putting a little less effort into everything, but the possible ramifications disgust you enough to keep you working, awake and alert.

Then, one day you are tired, you are worn out... and you wake up in the morning with a full night's sleep. The baby was somehow able to self-soothe for long enough to you to separate from it to get a quick nap.

However, you know that you are still not the man of the house, as the baby is fragile and still requires large amounts of care. Your baby is still not as safe under someone else's watch.

At this moment, you think about your neighbors' kids who had live-in help when their children were growing up, and now that their children are in middle school, they appear to have grown into complete brats who are no longer a joy to the parents. Instead, their kids merely are a source of consistent heartbreak, frustration and they spend through their poor parents' money without any behavior improvement in sight.

Fast forward a few years. Those twins have vanished. Their parents couldn't even afford to live in the neighborhood anymore - there's some speculation, but nobody knows exactly why. But your kid grows up to find a nice spouse after getting an MBA at Stanford and, as you look back you, realize that the difference between yourself and the twins' parents was not talent, but willingness to be there.

by: kas ksundheim

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