I have always thought of myself as an entrepreneur, as an “idea guy”. Discussing business opportunities and possible future projects gets me excited and pumped up. I really enjoy helping people perfect their business ideas. The first time I was ever described as the “procrastinating entrepreneur” was on a cold and blustery Canadian winter night. A close, long-time friend of mine and I were sitting at one of our favourite pubs talking about some ideas that he had to expand his business. As usual, I was brainstorming and jotting all sorts of ideas down on paper. That’s when it happened, with a slight grin on his face, and what I am now sure was just a hint of pleasure, my good friend turned to me and said, “…you know, you’re a procrastinating entrepreneur
To be honest, I really didn’t know how to take a comment like that. It had both good and bad connotations. I don’t mind being described as an entrepreneur, but being described as a procrastinator? I wasn’t so happy about that part. I am sure that my friend saw the somewhat dissatisfied look on my face, and he had to notice me spitting out my favorite adult beverage. He quickly tried to explain his comments, “…what I meant was that you always seem to be helping with other people’s businesses, but you never act on any of your own ideas.” By now I was just a bit on the defensive side, and really couldn’t think of any witty come back other than, “Oh ya -like what?” Well, at that point, my friend started to describe the countless ideas and thoughts that I had subjected him to over the years, and I quickly began to realize that I hadn’t acted on a single one of those ideas, and that he was in fact 100% right, I was the “procrastinating entrepreneur”.
So after countless more hours of “procrastinating” and a lot of humorous e-mail correspondence between my friend and I, I made the decision to register the procrastinating entrepreneur website and see if I could help some other folks out there that are going through the same thing that I am. Over the next little while, I will be posting articles about books I have read, seminars I have attended, I will talk about anything that I feel can help you out. If you have any suggestions on content that you would like to see feel free to let me know.
Here’s hoping that this site will help you out of that rut!
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