427 - Should You Choose a Safe Career or Follow Your Dreams?

0:00I've got something so exciting to share with you and if you're a business owner you're gonna wanna pay attention Dream Business Bootcamp is back and it's completely reimagined for 2025. This isn't just any workshop. It is a free three-day experience designed to help you take control, take action, and get the money and the freedom that you deserve. It all starts February 11th and trust me, you don't want to miss it. Head to dreambusinessbootcamp.com right now to save your spot. 2025, this is your year. So let's make it happen together. Should you follow your dreams or should you play it safe? This episode will show you how to tune in, how to trust your gut, and make the best decision for you.

0:46Choosing a path because you think it's safe and it'll make you money will eventually be deadly for your soul. You know, when I started my business, I was enormously in debt and I had to take on all kinds of side jobs and I lived on the cheap in order to get on stable financial ground. You know what? That actually took me seven whole years. I made a lot of tough choices during that time. I ate a ton of mac and cheese, and I deferred big things like buying a house. And I am so glad that I did that because here's what I've learned about business in three simple truths. Truth number one, never start a business just to make money.

1:26Starting any business means a ton of hard work, which I know that you know that fact. And if you're not 10 ,000 % committed to it and have some degree of love towards it, it's never going to survive. Now, yes, I know that there are people out there who start businesses just to make money, and some of them do succeed. But from what I've seen, they're the rare exception. Most people who start a business just to make money either fail or at some point end up hating it and quitting. And if the business does make the kind of money that they hoped for, they wind up feeling trapped and totally miserable, which does not sound like anything that you want.

2:06Truth number two, if you want guarantees in business, you don't want a business. So starting any venture does not guarantee that you're going to be profitable. There is no such thing really as a safe business, even if it's in a traditional industry that tends to make money like law. That's why it is so important to choose one that you're going to want to stick with over the long haul. Truth number three, a business you don't love is bad for your health. So, uh, Jim, how long you been on the safe path? Oh, I started a plumbing business a little while ago and I'm really not crazy about it. I'm up to about 10 toilets a day.

2:47I can tell. Now, obviously we're just joking, but this is really serious. We've all heard stories about people that are so stressed out and they are working themselves to death. Their adrenals get shot and they wind up with depression and sometimes even with heart disease and worse. Now you've mentioned that you've had health issues in the past. When it comes to your well-being, starting a business that doesn't light you up, the one that you consider the safe path might actually be the most dangerous thing you could do. There is no such thing as a safe path. If you're gonna build a business, please build a business you love.

3:25I know you wanna be responsible here, and yes, it is your responsibility to take care of yourself financially. And yes, you are an adult and you need to make adult choices, but it's also your responsibility to do what you were put on this earth to do. It is your responsibility to find a way to express what only you came here to express. It won't be simple. It's not going to be easy, but one thing you can bet on by taking the inspiring path is that you will never, ever live a day in your life saying, what if? And that is the safest bet that you can make. Thank you so much for tuning in. Now, before you go, I've got something you cannot miss.

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