I have always been different from most girls. I always felt like the weird-o and like I didn't belong in a certain group of friends; I still feel like that. One would think that someone who felt like the outcast all the time would have low self-esteem, right? Absolutely wrong. I feel like that those people who don't connect with me are simple people who only care about mindless things.
Calling me a narcissist would be incorrect. The reason why I'm not a narcissist would be that I don't hold all the personality traits of a narcissist, including but not limited to selfishness, relationship sustainability, difficulty feeling empathy, hypersensitivity to insults, inability to view the world from other's perspectives, and I care about other people.
The reasons why one would call me a narcissist is because I'm insanely success driven, I believe I'm special and unique, I'm an expert in many things, and I believe I'm successful and will be more successful than anyone who tries to do what I do. No one can take that from me. Am I wrong? Well. just because you don't see it yet...doesn't mean it's not there. Who are the people that capitalize on good investments? The people who buy into them before it's huge...some people have the ability to know what is coming and I'm thankfully one of them.
I'm young female that is proud of my accomplishments and that is okay in my book. I'm proud of myself and I have a right to be. I work more hours than any person that I have ever met. I find solace in my work; I truly enjoy doing what I do...even at 4 in the morning.
The other day my mother was nagging me about how unhealthy it was to work the number of hours I do. I hear it from everyone and even retrain from sending emails until it's early in the morning, so it doesn't look like I only slept for 2-3 hours that night. I have always been ashamed of my sleep habits until I started researching them this week. Many successful entrepreneurs rock the same hours as me and manage to do it more gracefully than me. I'm young...I haven't mastered everything yet.
As I was doing my research, I ran into a blog that stated these major CEOs and presidents were lying about these hours. There is no way anyone could work those hours and be productive. Is that so? Well, clearly the person who wrote that blog doesn't have what it takes and can't fathom the things we do, which is why he or she will never feel the drive that we feel. I have attached a link to the blog for you to read: http://www.quora.com/How-do-CEOs-who-sleep-for-only-4-5-hours-daily-manage-to-function-and-run-multi-million-dollar-companies
Why do others immediately assume that someone is lying because it's something they could never do? I can't run fast, but that doesn't mean that everyone who tells me they are running a marathon is a liar. I believe most successful entrepreneurs are too busy to share or admit the amount of work they do; it makes us even more different than most people. I'm going to share with the world what it actually takes to grow a business 400% a year. Success is the best drug in the world and you can't imagine what it feels like at a level like mine.
I took nothing and turned it into something. How? Unfortunately my friends, it's a simple answer...work.
Do others really think that the most successful people in the world all decided to make up lies about how much they work? Are you kidding me? There is a direct correlation between successful people and the numbers of hours they work. I don't brag about the hours I work, because I'm ashamed of them. I have attached another article from Business Week that is proof of this correlation below:
http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-ceo-sleep-schedules-2013-10?op=1
I'm very busy and I barely sleep, but I do a damn good job at running my company. Numbers don't lie and my multi-million dollar empire is proof of this. Do you think you have what it takes to do what we do?
At this very moment, I'm typing this blog, underwriting loans, writing emails to our development team about the code they are writing for my underwriting process, monitoring my employees remotely, and listening to youtube videos in the background about PPC. The best part of this is I'm doing all of this in a towel on my bed. Why? Because I don't pass jobs off that I don't understand. How can you monitor people doing things If you don't know how to execute the job?
An Entrepreneur can do any job that her employees can do. You have to know everything or your business will fall apart. Anyone who tells you to work less and make the same amount of money...is full of it. They may get by, but they will never be as successful as we are. I would really like to meet Tim Ferris and see how many hours he really works; I'm sure it's more than 4.
Everyday I'm posting updates to my workday for you non-believers who think the life of an successful entrepreneur is easy. Do you want the same bank account? Well, it wasn't free...
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