You're Not the Boss of Me!

Boy, if only tuning into what your boss was thinking were as easy as pushing a couple of buttons!

Over the years I have had a number of jobs and I always thought I worked hard and was pretty good at what I did.

Turns out I was wrong.

Now that I run my own company, I am beginning to realize that there is another perspective on things. There is a difference between working hard and working smart -- and more importantly, we may have a very different definition of the word "smart". If you aren't using the same definition, you may be a crappy employee.

I find nowadays I am working around the clock and paying attention to every detail of every deal, every project and every customer because I know that I what I do today will affect the days ahead.

It is tough to win a customer and even tougher to keep one long term. Every job well done is a reference that will help win the next client. It is so much more than a job when you know that your integrity and your word are on the line with every deadline.

So what is the difference? It ain't the money, because I was making much more as an employee. It isn't the schedule, because I worked 20 hours this past weekend after going all week.

The difference is that someone else can't break my word, so I make more commitments; someone else doesn't scrutinize my time so I spend it on my customers and their work; and more importantly, I understand what I am building and why it is important to my customers -- and now it is important to me!

So it all matters to me as much as the rest of my life because my business is a big part of my life not just something that finances it.

If you haven't started your own business, I do have these prototypes of the Auto-BOSS TU-80 (pictured above) that need an international distributor.