I’m excited to kick off a series of posts that are co-authored by Mike Willee of Traklight. Mike has been part of the Traklight team for nearly two years, working tirelessly for our customers and tediously on our blog. We took to Haro.com to ask people about their biggest business mistakes, including intellectual property (IP), of course. In this series, we’ll share some of the most common and significant lessons learned from the more than one hundred responses we received. We will examine how personal values shape startups and, conversely, how startup life can alter personal values.
When starting your own business, you try to plan for success and growth. You work hard to hire and develop a team that’ll grow your business. Every day you make decisions—often without thinking of the long-term effects of those choices—that will chart the direction of your company for years to come. Somewhere along the road to success, it’s possible to lose sight of why you got into business in the first place. Many entrepreneurs make decisions that incrementally shift the course of their business, until suddenly, they’re no longer doing what they set out to do. Others get so wrapped up in their company that they lose sight of everything else in their life or completely overwork themselves.
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From Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO & Founder
“Entrepreneurs often completely sacrifice their personal lives and health in order to focus 100% of their time and energy on their business. While you will never escape the demands and responsibilities of being the leader of a company, you have to remember that if you are not happy and healthy, you are much less of an asset to your organization. I have worked myself so hard in the past that I have wound up in the hospital on two occasions. Now, I carve out time to be with my family and exercise every single day, even if that means running at midnight in the rain.”
