In case you missed it on my Instagram page the other day, I put out a video about how I’m leveraging off the downturn to speed up my passion project. This picture sums it up, its my family and I starting on a journey down a long endless road, as we walk we hope for people to join us linking arms on the same mission. So what’s the mission? The mission is shifting the data that says you can’t have both. Statistically speaking if you’re an entrepreneur you’re not only more likely to suffer from substance abuse, behavioural addictions like obsession, be twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts but your also likely to abandon all important relationships in your quest to succeed. To sum it all up, entrepreneurs lead the way in divorce, nudging close to 70% of all marriages or long standing relationships failing.
I know these stats well because I was very nearly one of them. Business succeeding but relationship failing. Money in the bank but no memories with my kids. I very nearly lost it all!
But then, like any entrepreneur I set out to solve my own problem. I redefined what success meant to me, changed the structure of my company, created rules around what a positive relationship looked like and went to work on building the life and business I wanted rather than accepting the one that I had. In hindsight I was building the core 4: I, WE, US and IT. I mapped out what a successful Dan (I) was so I could contribute to a successful relationship (WE) which would put us in a position to be successful parents (US) and all of this would be fed by the company (IT) that i built.
Slowly and silently as we started to improve these areas of our lives people started asking, how do you have ‘both’? That’s when I realised that ‘both’ was just a metaphor for the core 4. Most people had 1 or maybe 2 but having all 4 seemed impossible. And so... the passion project started to manifest. What if I could take my hindsight and turn it into foresight for other business owners that happen to have families and are facing the same challenges as me? So I asked Megs, "What if we taught people some of the things we do as a family? What if we made the Sunday huddle a system to share? What if we gave them the perfect day for I, WE and US template? Could we show people the Birdseye Balance Planner? What if we just talked them through our story, our mistakes (mostly mine) and the new rules? What if we exposed them to the HIPPO concept or.... man what if we built a course specifically designed for people like us...? Entrepreneurs who are balancing their mission whilst raising a family?" Naturally the ‘devil’ appeared and said things like “who are you to share?” “Will anyone even want this?” But then I told it to f*** off knowing that if I build something that one person accesses and it gives them some tools to save a relationship or a business or a life then it’s worth doing. So, now we’re here... at the start of the road.
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