Chris Gardener is a business mentor and personal development coach. After the death of his wife he told his kids he doesn’t want them get jobs, because their future is better than that. He sees people mistaking “being busy” for “being successful”. He believes life is much more than that.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Finding what I was looking for to be the right time, I’d always thought, I’d always knew that I would start my own thing whatever that would be, but I was working in a company where I was surrounded by colleagues who I found brilliant, I was learning every day and I had share options and all those things that help retain you in a business, so the decision to break free and become more independent was one that became more difficult because of being more comfortable”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary KellerFavourite Quote:
“Be a contribution”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Facebook – is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California.
- Podcasts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“What’s the symptom that so many entrepreneurs get trapped into, and it’s what I call the business delusion, and why do people get busy and then keep being busy, it’s because they don’t get connected or they forget the reason why they started the business in the first place so my highest level tip if you like or advice is prioritise and get clear on your reasons for doing whatever it is you do and then design everything else, your business, your life, in order to achieve those things that are your reasons for doing it” …[Listen for More]
More About Chris Gardener:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Gardener:
- “How could I earn more, how could I get more clients and actually just chill and be a contribution, because if you’re saying am I better than I was yesterday, am I better than the competition, with contribution there is no better, just contribution”
- “What is the one thing I could do, such that if I did it, everything else would either become easier or unnecessary”
- “It’s about beliefs and attitude; it’s about belief that something is possible”
“You’ve got to have a bigger future than your past and that’s why people as they get older they kind of stop growing and they kind of, literally they start dying because they don’t see a bigger future than they’ve already had in their past”
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