Your Are A Misfit - Admit It!

One of the maddening things about being an entrepreneur is,
the people around you do NOT necessarily understand your
obsessions.

They're content to watch TV. You're not. They go home and
leave their job at the office. You don't. They talk about sports
scores and the New England Patriots' amazing defeat; you
obsess about response rates and how many orders you got
yesterday on your website.

Today it's Valentines Day and your honey wonders why you
can't just go out to dinner and leave your obsessions behind?

I've got two things to say about this:

1. YOU ARE A MISFIT. You wouldn't be reading this email
right now if you weren't. That's why you can't get into some
boring routine. That's why you spend money and buy courses
and go to seminars and stay up all night and work weekends
and you get fired from perfectly good jobs and you can't stand
the Dilbert cube working under buzzing fluorescent lights.

You can't stand the man's boot on your neck and you'd rather
risk failure and disaster and embarrassment and even
bankruptcy, than submit to that hideous mediocrity that the big
machine wants to grind you into.

You said to yourself: "Self, if we can't fit in in an office, maybe
there's a place for us on the Internet where all the geeks,
freaks and misfits hang out."

And you're online because you're a geek and a freak and a
misfit and I am too and that's why I'm writing this and it's why
you're sitting here reading it while your friends are content to
discuss last night's Law & Order.

And you know what? It's OK.

You're a misfit and it's OK.

2. The Valentine's part of my message today is: Somebody
has to put up with you. Don't feel guilty about that; they get to
share in the rewards, too. Surely they knew they were in for
some of this when they signed up.

But think about it: When you're cutting your teeth as an
entrepreneur, it's often your sweetheart who is putting
the bread on the table and making ends meet. Enduring
your learning curve along with you.

Make sure you give that person the appreciation they're due.

Look 'em in the eye and say it. Oh, and a letter in the mail
wouldn't be a bad idea. Way better than an email, by the way.
Would only take you 15 minutes to express your appreciation to
her / him on a piece of paper and drop it in the mail.

Whadaya think?

A few months ago one of my Roundtable members from the
UK brought his wife with him to the meeting. He'd implemented
new ideas like a banshee and they are RAKING it in.

And his wife is there telling me, "You know, I'm real mum
about this recent success to my friends. They just get jealous.
If I told them how much we're making now they'll think they
deserve a share of it, and meanwhile, be completely
oblivious to all the years we labored hard together in the
trenches, making this thing happen."

And I'm sayin', Amen, sister. Yes, you are who you are
because a lot of other people have contributed to your
success.

Not just glamorous gurus either, but un-glamorous,
un-celebrated people who live with you and love
you and your crazy misfit idiosyncrasies. Husbands
and wives and children and moms and dads and brothers
and sisters, whether in blood or in spirit.

Make sure you thank them today for all they do for you.

To your success,

Malcolm
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