Who I never want to be!

Personal Recipe by Harley Schreiber



I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Think about the type of person you’d NEVER want to be 5 years from now. Write out your own personal recipe to prevent this from happening and commit to following it. “Thought is the seed of action.”
 
I do not want to become an old man who is trying to hold onto the things he accumulated in his earlier years.  It has seemed to me that the older business owner can sometimes become a road block in his own company in his later years.  He does this by becoming risk adverse.  Worrying about preserving what he has accomplished.  His company becomes old school and stodgy.  His people become stunted, because they stopped personally growing as the boss continues to avoid more and more risk and challenge and new thinking.
 
A have a joke with a friend of mine who also owns his own business.  We say its always, "all in"!  You know, in poker, where the poker player pushes all of his chips into the center of the table and says, "all in".  And I think that is my action plan, the one I have to commit to.  The core value that I want my business to commit too is that we would help our people grow.  I think that to help them grow requires that I am willing to embrace new technologies, to continue to change how we do things in our business and try things that seem bigger than we are.  It requires that I not back down from the mantra, "all in".
 
Risk!  Its what's for dinner!