What makes them different from one another? What separates an employee, manager, entrepreneur and LifeHacker Entrepreneur? They are very different breeds with distinct differences in priorities and life philosophies. Each breed needs to be seperated from the crowd based on what they believe in and what their goals are towards. Do you have any examples churning in your mind as you read them? Would love to hear your thoughts!
First, we will have to define what an employee, manager, entrepreneur and lifehacker mindset is like. The legend below and thoughts will illustrate what is meant.
Legend Employee = e , Manager = M ,Entrepreneur = E ,LifeHacker Entrepreneur = LHE
e: To work for others
M: To ask others to work
E: To have others work for you
LHE: To lead those who have others to work for you
e: To arrive as late as possible and not get noticed, then leave the office on time
M: Those early hours and voluntary overtime got you to this seat. Who can blame you if you want to make sure people don’t leave until they get their work done.
E: To get results from the work that is done
LHE: To minimize waste of time and get results from the 20% of work that matters (yes)
e: To dream of retirement
M: To wait for retirement
E: To retire young and early
LHE: Life is too short to retire from what excites you and love to keep doing. Keeping morale and motivation up by distributing recovery periods and enjoy mini-retirements on a regular basis. Life becomes stale when lifestyle becomes a stale predictable routine. Adventure time!
e: To buy what you want and then what you need at the lowest price
M: To buy what you need and then what you want at the lowest price
E: To buy whatever you want and need at the lowest price
LHE: To rent whatever you don’t need and own nothing, if you really need to buy, go for the best quality at the best price…better still, ask one of your thousands of contacts if they have any great bargains.
e: To follow instructions
M: To give instructions
E: To be in charge and give objectives for the managers, still busy like hell
LHE: To be neither the employee, the boss or even the chairman. Determine a systematic guideline to how to do things. Be the owner who owns the business and the system, then make sure someone ensures that they keep working, meeting targets on time.
e: To make enough money
M: To make more money than the rest
E: To make a lot of money
LHE: To make a lot of money because you know what you are going to use them for and what you are working for. Having specific causes, reasons and well defined dreams that you have already visualized. It’s like a step by step program, follow suit and reach your goal by the timeline with the resources to bring you there.
e: To have a little more
M: To have a little more than more
E: To have more quality of life and do something useful for society
LHE: To have less quantity and more quality, less fluffy stuff and clutter that become barriers to productivity, to do the things that matter in life and to recognize that many “feel good” things in life that having tons of money can buy is just material comfort which doesn’t really matter. To have more time for family and new experiences, to cut down on time spent on complaining that there isn’t enough time and work out a system to free your time. Earn more so you can delegate more to earn even much more, knowing when to have less to get more. To have a purpose in life and contribute something useful for the World instead of going to random places doing random things and reaching a random destination your life has randomly been given by the randomness of life if you do not sit down, think and choice one.
e: To receive pension and hopefully be able to retire when it is time to retire.
M: To obtain company stock and keep the company surviving so that you can cash out when it’s time to retire and go enjoy life.
E: To reach financial freedom and do more of what you love to do
LHE: To have cashflow keep flowing in because of what you love to do and then automate the whole system and let it run on auto pilot. You understand that a continuous and growing cashflow is much more worth working towards rather than a big payoff on a one time deal. Big one time deals are much harder to get than an almost guaranteed flow of income from multiple streams of income, besides, big deals take up too much time and energy that it’s no longer lifehacking, it’s being hacked alive!
e: To do whatever you are asked to do even if you dislike it
M: To do whatever you are good at doing, like it or not
E: To have the freedom to delegate whatever you don’t like to do
LHE: To have the freedom to delegate whatever you don’t like to do to the people you personally know who like doing it, not those who don’t mind. And because of the time you have freed from your chains, you now also have the freedom to pursue what you like to do and have the best experiences in the world living your dream. To do the things that really matter and gives meaning to your life
