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How the Culture of Discipline Serves Entrepreneurs
While I was working as a classroom teacher in the inner city of Los Angeles over a twenty year period, I absolutely detested the fact that I was forced to adhere to a strict schedule throughout every single day. The administration made it such that every moment of our time from the second we drove into the school’s parking lot in the morning until we backed out and on to the street in the afternoon was carefully accounted for and controlled.
When I resigned at the end of June in 2006 I was thrilled at the prospect of doing exactly as I pleased now that I would be working for myself as an online entrepreneur. Yet this euphoria would not last as the harsh realities set in.
At first I slept each morning until I awoke on my own, did as I pleased for most of the day, went to bed whenever I was too tired or had run out of activities to keep me interested, and did what I considered to be real work for some period of time in between.
This schedule and mindset does not make you very much money, I soon found out. The business only grows and flourishes if you are there, mentally and physically to make it happen.
Instead, by creating a strict schedule for myself I was able that summer to lay the foundation for what would become a very lucrative and enjoyable business.
