Bob Nokley Entrepreneur

It’s finally here. After a long cold winter, one of my favorite times of the year is here. Spring and Baseball season.

I am often asked, how unsettling is branding oneself as an Entrepreneur? My direct answer is, “it’s an acquired taste.” The real bottom line is, if you are not a good listener and if you take everything personal – my suggestion is don’t move into the mainstream Entrepreneur lifestyle. The best example I can give is to compare being an entrepreneur to baseball. In the life of an Entrepreneur, life is only measured as homeruns. Listening is the singles. A lifetime batting average in comparison to actual opportunities, can be pretty low for an Entrepreneur. Can be that is. Not a certain. You most defiantly can find yourself in slumps. In baseball, the homerun hitters are more remembered for the clutch homeruns that the strikeouts! Another major comparison to baseball or any type of profession is that no one can do it for you and it can get pretty lonely pretty quick when something does not work.

You must listen, being a good listener is your time in the batters box. If you don’t listen, your gotta strike out. If you don’t have thick skin, your going to spend all of your time on the injured reserve list and become someone that went down injured not swinging…

The biggest difference in an Entrepreneurs life is, the audience is much smaller and your opportunity for swings and misses are measured one at a time. Not thousands. Take care of your opportunities. Listen for what the opportunities are telling you. It’s your pitch to miss.

“It’s not about what you can get, it’s about what you can give.” Bob Nokley CEO/Founder Nokley Group, LLC