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The word "hustle" used to mean something completely different. It has now become the battle cry for the work at all costs mindset. Type in the hashtag #entrepreneur on Instagram, and you'll quickly see all the work yourself to the bone, 24/7 trash. It's time we snap out of it.
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As an entrepreneur, the word hustle means.
A lot of different things.
For me growing up in
a, a very poor family.
With very humble means.
Like hustling to me was working hard.
Hustling to me was trying to work or
outsmart those who had more than I did.
That in order for me to reach those
levels of quote unquote success.
That I had to rise above.
That humble background and
work just as hard or harder
than those who had a leg up.
But I think now the word hustle has
taken on a completely different meaning.
We hear it a lot.
We hear.
You know that hustle I'm
hustling and grinding.
Those are synonymous terms that, that
idea of hustle mania is really plagued
the entrepreneurial community for awhile.
And I lived it.
I breathed that.
I did all of that stuff.
I followed people like.
Grant Cardone, Gary V and I, I know
Gary V's actually backed off on
some of that, in the last couple
of years, especially with COVID.
But that whole idea around,
hustle and grind was basically
working yourself to the bone.
Is is just grinding so hard, pushing
through pain, sacrificing everything.
And in most of the time it was for
one goal, it was to have a big stack
of cash and a big bank account.
But I think for most entrepreneurs,
that's not why we get started.
That we, we get started
because we want a better life.
We want to make decisions for ourselves.
We want to guide the path that we follow.
But I think that now that.
Especially for that younger generation.
That sees entrepreneurial-ism
entrepreneurship has that hustle
and grind, fast cars and big houses
and planes and all of that stuff.
That.
It's kind of really muddied the water.
Because, you, you, you look at
Instagram, you look at social
media, you look at Pinterest.
I mean, those, you just type in
the word, the hashtag entrepreneur,
and like just all of that.
Work yourself till you're dead.
I'll sleep when I'm dead
mentality is like everywhere.
And that's what our kids are being
raised, to see that, that that's the norm.
That if, if you have a business, that's
what that equals that that is the term of
success that if you hustle and grind long
enough, You're going to get that stuff.
And I think that.
Like we have to break the cycle is
entrepreneurs and we have to break
that cycle of that work yourself
till you're almost dead mentality.
Because, for as many people that embrace
that lifestyle, that embrace that mindset.
I see so many people that end up broken.
They end up wasted.
They end up burnt out and
with nothing to show for it.
And.
Never more prevalent than
that was in the IT industry.
That, that idea that if you have a
business The equates to automatic success.
That's the barrier to entry to get into
an IT business is so low that everybody
thinks that, okay, I'm going to go start a
business and automatically be successful.
And that if I just hustle and grind
long enough, that I'll be successful.
And I coach a lot of people
now because I see it.
I see that.
That propensity towards that danger zone
because I lived it, I lived through it.
I lived through burnout.
I've lived through exhaustion.
And that's what I thought that if I,
if I just push myself harder, That
if I just pushed through the pain
and exhaustion a little bit more.
That you can reach your goal.
And then at some point,
we grow up that, when.
We reach points in our life.
When our children are looking at
us, we hit a certain age where.
Those checks that we're
writing as as younger kids.
Is not sustainable now.
And we, we have a little bit
more wisdom because we've
made a lot more bad decisions.
But the human experience
owning a business, all of that
is so much more than 24 7.
Hustle your face off.
And that I really think it's, it's
bad advice that you're really not
going to create more in that 14th,
18th hour of working in a day.
That's not where those
breakthroughs come from.
That's not where the
creativity comes from.
That's not where ideas come from.
I mean, yes.
You You've sparked some ideas,
after working, but for the
majority of people that that's
not where those things come from.
That being creative, giving
our all to innovation.
Doesn't come from being exhausted.
It comes from taking time
to take care of yourself.
It comes from having periods
to turn everything off.
It comes from.
Enough is enough turning the screens off.
And I think that's, that's the, what
we need to embrace is entrepreneurs.
Now we need to stop the hustle mania.
We need to stop that perpetuation.
That if you hustle and grind long enough.
And maybe if you survive, not
being dead, that, that's success.
So we need our permission.
We need permission as entrepreneurs,
as business owners, as people.
To stop the hustle mania to bury it.
And to put in a good
day's work and that's it.
40 hours a week is enough.
And.
I worked the 80, 90 hours
a week for 10 years.
And.
Like looking back on it.
I learned so much, like I could
have done more in less time.
If I just worked a little bit
smarter and had taken the time.
To regroup.
If I had taken the time to reset.
And to take.
Take a hobby.
To take care of myself physically.
Like I could have done so much more,
even now I could've done so much more.
If I had not done those
things 10 years ago.
So this is your permission.
This is your permission
to stop the hustle mania.
Take care of yourself physically.
Spend time with your kids.
You can still be a
successful entrepreneur.
If you do those things.
Watch a crazy movie with
your husband or wife.
Take time to cook a meal.
Take time to go on a long walk.
You can be completely
ordinary and be successful.
You can be completely
boring and be successful.
But we just, we have to end
that, that hustle mania.
Thanks for checking out today's episode.
I appreciate it.
tell me what you, you think
of the hustle, mania culture.
Put that in the comments wherever
you happen to be listening
to this from whatever, apple
podcast, Spotify, whatever.
But we're also going to be posting these
on social media, but share how you feel.
Do you think it's time
to end the hustle mania?