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Part I Choose Your Limitations
Start with what you want in life and work.
® Time and money to travel
® Coming home for dinner every night
® Bringing your dog to work
® Easy or no commute
® Working for a brand or business you believe in
If that doesn’t feel comfortable, start with what you
don’t want.
® Limited vacation
® Forty-plus hour workweeks
® Working in a cubicle
® Long commute
® Spending your time on a brand or business you
don’t trust or believe in
Keep on adding to your lists.
Next, look at your relationships to critical business
concepts. What is your understanding and experience
of . . .
® Money
® Risk
® Profit
® Success
This stuff seems pretty basic and easy to tick off, but it
is very loaded when you dive in.
Begin these conversations with yourself gently at first,
but go deeper when you see yourself starting to move
away. Do free writing.1 Keep a journal or, if you’re visual,
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