Motivational Monday

By Antti Vilpponen, January 25, 2010, 5 Comments

I wanted to take a different approach to start your week this Monday. Being an entrepreneur is considered sexy by many, but very few people realise the amount of energy and work entrepreneurs invest in their ventures on a day-to-day basis. Working for minimal pay, with extremely high risk of failure while aiming for that nonexistent chance of success and making a dent to the way we live our lives - it's not easy. Sometimes a little push is needed and here's my two cents for that motivation.

Your work is important - keep at it, stay hungry, stay foolish and start your day by watching the legendary Al Pacino's inspirational speech in Any Given Sunday.

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teppohudson January 25, 2010

Thanks Antti, this really made my Monday morning!

Tuomas Pollari, January 25, 2010

Also Alex Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross speech is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI It tells the only results count at the end of the day BUT if you work for your own company, you can reap all the fruits. "Coffee is for closers only" :)

Gunnar Mattiasson, January 25, 2010

Your quote "stay hungry, stay foolish" is from Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc) . Another great speech!

damiansen January 25, 2010

I like @jason calacanis point of watching the fight scenes in the gladiator :).

As a sailor, i usually like to think that focus and motivation is close to solo sailors that end sleeping as less as possible and being at the helm as much time as possible while doing everything needed to keep the boat sailing fast, some times even fighting against exhaustion and getting close to hallucination from such an effort (ok, a bit exaggerated on the hallucination part but you got my point).

Hard is not starting, It's every thing else aftewards. Motivation, pride and reward out of it (even if personal) is unbeatable.

PS: you should post these by the end of the day, when some of your users are going trough the "well, let's freaking nail this trough the night until my heart bleeds ;-)

VilleK, January 26, 2010

Good stuff! .. it almost sounds like its getting cold and a little bit dark in good old Finland :)

On a bit more lighter note ..

http://steadfastfinances.com/blog/2010/01/23/maybe-a-little-obsessive-compulsive-behavior-is-a-good-thing/