Paid the cost to be the boss
Published: Sat, 07/24/21
Successful people need lovin' too.
Anyway, there's a song I really like called "The Boss".
It's by James Brown.
And, it's peppered with arrogant and cocky language about how he "paid the cost to be the boss". The context is him telling his ungrateful band, "You ain't jack without me and you know it -- I'm the one who did the work to get us here, and that's why I'm the boss."
To entrepreneurs it can have another meaning:
A reminder to enjoy being the BOSS.
You earned it, Daddy-O.
Now go enjoy it.
Take trips on a dime whenever you feel like it.
Drink imported beer & fine wines.
Learn how to play the piano.
Go on crazy adventures at home or abroad.
Or, be an unrepentant recluse just because you can, like Yours Grinchy.
More:
If you don't enjoy the fruits of your labor you will never live up to your full potential, because you won't be forcing yourself to expand your desires and, thus, make new goals to satisfy them.
Anyway, if this is you, here's advice you didn't ask for:
You paid the cost to be the boss.
Now, take some time off.
Spend some money.
Live it up.
Your business will still be there when you get back. And, you'll almost certainly attack your work with renewed intensity and ferocity. Plus, for practicality reasons, you never know when it'll all be taken from you (it pays to be paranoid...) by your government or when your freedoms will be further impaired in the name of “security” or “equality” or “the children” or Covid or whatever the boogey man is the powers-that-be are manipulating the low information masses with.
And if you're the hokey type, perhaps even do this, my Pet:
Look in the mirror.
Quote this part of James Brown's "The Boss" song:
"I'm a bad mutha"
Then, go spend some of your well-earned smackola.
On another - less hokey - note:
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Ben Settle