Graduation Day

My friend Dave Christi has recently graduated from a unique school. My friend Dan Nachtrab calls is The Fast Track to Self Employment Academy. Here are a few bits of advice Dan gave to Dave and that he has in turn given me permission to pass along to you, in case you too have or soon will graduate from this same, uh, institution.

• This is a job. Treat it as such. Put in your eight plus hours a day.
• Thank your wife for helping you pursue your dream.
• Make a plan and set goals: One Month, Three Months, and so on. When you hit a goal, celebrate it with a gift to yourself.
• Thank your wife for helping you pursue your dream.
• If the mic is off, the marketing hat is on: networking, SEO, defining your mission statement, labeling mailers, etc.
• Thank your wife for helping you pursue your dream and buy her a gift. (Massages packages are nice.)
• Practice your craft.
• Be happy. It rubs off on others.
• Only share your successes with your closest, dearest, jump-in-front-of-a-bus-to-save-you friends. Others will knock you down and try to keep you in your current place. Why? You make them realize they gave up on their dreams. (This might include family members, not just friends.)
• Thank your wife for helping you pursue your dream.

Thank you, Dan. Good advice.