Tim Ringgold is a board certified music therapist in Orange County, CA, as well as an author, columnist, and international speaker. He has provided music therapy to thousands of teens and adults in residential treatment. Tim was the first person to give a TEDx talk on music therapy in 2012.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t come out as an entrepreneur until my twenties. I still tried to be an employee, I thought you know I was trained to be, I was bred to be an employee. And I remember coming out jokingly… I used that phrase to my family I came out as a musician at 22. I told my family listen I am a musician, that’s not a hobby, it’s not a phase it’s who I am. And they were devastated… It’s like there was no financial plan for a musician. And I say musician but I also put in parentheses entrepreneur. Because musician takes the raw material of music which is a raw material and they craft it into a higher value products or service and deliver that higher value product or service. And so they take something from low value to high value. So being musician is all about value creation and you are your own boss”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” Wayne Gretzky
Recommended Online Resources:
- Genius Network – World’s Greatest Wisdom. Join Your Tribe of Tribal Leaders 10x Your Wealth, Connection and Contribution by Having an E L F Easy, Lucrative and Fun Business and Life
- Genius Network Insights – Resources You Can Utilize Right Now. There are resources you will find valuable right now
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“launch. And then launch again. And then launch again. And launch again. And what I mean by launch is whatever you are thinking about doing do it because you will learn more in the doing the new ever will in the planning or thinking… So as the entrepreneur whatever you are thinking about doing set shorter deadlines, do it more often, launch more often, be willing to get punched by reality more often. Because every time you do you learn from it and that’s the only way 95 percent of us ever get better”…[Listen for More]
More About Tim Ringgold:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tim Ringgold:
- “there’s this line between self-made success because that’s kind of a misnomer, nobody rises alone we all benefit from each other in ways that we don’t like to take credit for”
- “the shift in thinking like an entrepreneur, understanding that there is a difference between value creation and time for money – that was massive, it was a massive shift. And I wish that I had had some mentoring and training early on to understand to stop treating dollars for hours and that employees trade dollars for hours but entrepreneurs create value in the world ”
- “defining it for yourself because success is undefined and its subjective. So, if you don’t take the time to define it you are living someone else’s definition of it which is not satisfying. Because you will achieve the metric and you will be like but I don’t feel good. Well it’s because it wasn’t your metric, it was someone else’s and you inherited it without thinking about it”
- “for so many people the entrepreneurial journey is a little bit of a metamorphosis for them. Like I said before there’s a few that just come out of the womb I’m an entrepreneur but for many it’s a little bit of a transformation and they start their entrepreneurial journey because there’s something they love to do and then they want to create a company or a business out of that thing. But if they don’t understand the difference between a job and a business, they don’t ever end up owning a business they just own a job”
- “when I have the courage to ask people directly for things politely and respectfully with a good reason why I am always amazed at how many people will say yes”
- “my learning curve from doing versus my learning curve from learning are two very different things”
- “stress cripples productivity, it cripples focus, it cripples creativity and it cripples connection. Which are all things that you need is an entrepreneur I believe to be viable”
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