Combining Business and Pleasure
It was 1987 when Mark and I decided to start aggressively combining business and pleasure. We were involved in video production and had just discovered the sport of mountain biking. We racked our brains on ways we could combine the two. Voila! How about producing some instructional mountain bike videos?
Mountain Biking Videos
Both of us went all in, and pioneered the first-ever mountain-bike videos which we distributed around the world enjoying thousands of sales. Every serious mountain biker HAD to have our titles in their video library. Sales have since subsided, as the market became saturated with videos, then DVD’s and now Blu-Rays. Now our videos are considered “classics” and because people are starting to feel nostalgia for the 1980’s, they may enjoy a popularity with the “next generation” of mountain bikers. We’ll see.
We Love Mondays – Business and Pleasure
We have so many friends who feel chained to their jobs, going nuts on Fridays and dreading Mondays. They eagerly await their retirement years when they can do exactly what they want with their time. But it’s not like the body gets more youthful and energetic as time advances. It’s quite the contrary. How do you even know you are going to make it to 65 or or even 55? Are you dragging your feet through life to a job you can’t stand, just for the money?
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are able to avoid that feeling. I’ve certainly paid my dues in all kinds of jobs ranging from babysitting and picking weeds to bussing tables and waitressing. There was a short stint as personal secretary to a quirky millionaire who turned out to be a sexual predator. Oh yes, dues have been paid.
Looking back I find that when I really started following my heart – that little “voice in your head,” I no longer worried about where my next job or paycheck were coming from. When your mind is free of worry, the channel is free for the circulation of money. The nature of money is to circulate, and if you worry about money, or hold on to it too tightly (i.e., don’t give to charity) it’s like a crimp in an air hose and you’ll start suffocating. These things have been written about by everyone from Napoleon Hill, to the people in “The Secret.” So I won’t cover it here.
I will just encourage you to follow your passions, for time is fleeting. Don’t be one of those people who says “I will be happy when…” You’re missing the opportunity to be here now.
