Own Your Life
Last time, we talked about the definition of bigg success. We said that bigg success is life on your own terms.
You might wonder if we’re being redundant when we say “your” “own” terms. We can understand why you might think that, but we felt that it was important to convey ownership explicitly.
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We’ve heard about Brand You. It’s useful to think about the brand image we present and how we market ourselves, but we think it doesn’t go far enough. When it comes to creating your dream life, you are an enterprise level manager, not a brand manager.
A new paradigm
A new paradigm about the role we play in our own lives is gaining traction. Our definition of bigg success – life on your own terms – encompasses this new mindset.
You are the entrepreneur of your own life.
We normally think being an entrepreneur means “I own my own business.” We’re saying that, whether you’re employed or self-employed, you are an entrepreneur.
You own your life.
You run it as you see fit.
You create the life that you want to live. Life on your own terms.
You bring together the resources necessary to build that life. You put the structure that is needed in place to achieve your bigg dream.
That’s what an entrepreneur does.
Your life is your enterprise
It’s not just about the work that you do. Your life is about more than that.
Entrepreneurs don’t just sell a product or a service. They build a business, an entire enterprise.
Your life is your enterprise and you build the life you want. This encompasses both your professional and personal lives.
As the entrepreneur of your own life, it’s crucial to find ways to make all the parts of your life work together. Even more than that, find a way to get all parts of your life working in synergy – with one part adding to another and vice versa. Now that’s bigg success!
CBS resisted, but Lucy insisted
Lucille Ball was the star of a popular radio show called My Favorite Husband. We’re not sure how many husbands she had, but this show was about her favorite one!
She played the wife of a bank vice president. With the advent of television, CBS wanted to move her show to the new medium. But Lucy wanted her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz, to play her TV husband.
CBS resisted, but Lucy insisted.
The CBS executives eventually gave in and I Love Lucy became a bigg success.
Lucy was an entrepreneur! She lived her life on her own terms.
A unique solution for raising the kids
We know a couple who are divorced. They have young children.
Instead of fighting over custody, they have chosen to add on to their house so they can each go on with their lives and their children can be with both of them every day.
This is a unique solution that is working for them. What else matters? Some people think it’s kind of strange, but why should these two people care?
They are entrepreneurs, living their life on their own terms.
A merger that works
We decided we wanted to work together, to merge our professional lives as well as our personal lives. We created Bigg Success to allow us to do that.
We travel together. We work together. We live together. We see each other all the time.
It wouldn’t work for many couples, but it works for us. We’re living our lives on our own terms.
How about you?
What does life on your own terms mean to you? How are you taking ownership of your life?
Thank you for sharing your time with us today.
Join us next time when we’ll talk about the “terms” of life of your own terms.
See the entire series
Own Your Life
The Power of Defining Your Terms
The 5 Elements of Bigg Success
The Bigg Idea Behind Bigg Success
Direct link to The Bigg Success Show audio file:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/biggsuccess/00357-032409.mp3
