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How One Small Conversation Change Can Predict Entrepreneurial Success
The way you talk about time will show how you think about your business.
Mark Twain supposedly said, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”
These days everybody talks about time…usually because we could all use more of it. But unlike the weather, we can do a great deal about time — in fact, we can change our productivity just by the way we talk about it.
Business owners tend to view time differently compared to those who work in corporate America.
I recently realized this difference when I casually told a friend from the corporate world, “I’m going to hire someone to take my cat to the vet next week.”
She was aghast. “That’s so expensive!” What she meant was, “You’re being frivolous.”
But as an entrepreneur, I calculated the cost differently. I’m one of those urban dwellers who doesn't own a car.
If I took cabs, the cost would be almost the same as hiring someone. I’d spend time waiting for the cab or taking a bus.
