Thursday, November 26, 2009

Owner-worker and the drain of it.

We started with the idea that we can build a better school. Therefore we have to do everything by ourselves: teaching, marketing, cleaning, fixing, selling, making programs, managing kids, parents, and ourselves. I have no time for anything. I think of work 24/7. I have no time. I work. And even if I try to spend most of my time doing the work, it seems it will never be completed. We are on the stage of "worker-bee owners". We work; we manage; we have no time; we have no money.
(Correction. Nathaniel has much more time. He actually has all his time coz he doesn't manage anything. I am writing it to be fair.)
I work. I manage. I have no time. I have no money.
All this could be very depressing if I didn't operate in the "think ahead" mode. The vision of which is to go from bee worker owner to the manager worker. That will be like happy, alleluia moment for me. Imagine, I can use other people's time, talent, and skills to leverage my talent, to produce a better service and deliver to more people. At this point I have more time, more money, more leverage. I don't stop there of course.
The third stage of my evolution is to become an entrepreneur. The business operates on it own through workers and managers. I have time, money, freedom. I created great value for my business.

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