| Being a spare room entrepreneur is more
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| | Of course, we need to compromise; we
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| than just a way of making a living, it is
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| | can't expect always to be doing what we
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| a way of living your life.
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| | love. Striving for balance in our lives
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| It isn't an easy way to live. In the
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| | is a never-ending challenge. Most of us
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| past, being in business independently was
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| | discover that we must establish clear
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| the norm, and people typically worked and
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| | boundaries between our personal lives and
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| lived in the same place. That isn't the
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| | our careers in order to preserve our
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| case today, when most people are
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| | health, our families, and our sanity.
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| employees. Everyone from the tax
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| | Nevertheless, even those who draw that
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| collector to our mothers would understand
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| | line most distinctly still view their
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| us better if we would just go out and get
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| | businesses as embodiments of their
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| a job.
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| | personal talents and values.
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| Moreover, many of us who choose
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| | It is true that there are also many
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| independence make the further decision to
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| | employees who hope that their work will
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| stay small. This contradicts a popular
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| | utilize their talents and enable them to
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| conception of entrepreneurship, which
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| | have a lasting and positive impact on the
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| holds that everyone wants to run a big
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| | world. In general, though, our culture
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| business and get rich. If you want to be
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| | doesn't support such aspirations. We are
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| a spare room entrepreneur, then, get
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| | encouraged to view our paycheck as full
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| ready to bemisunderstood.
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| | recompense for our labors, while personal
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| When I talk about spare room
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| | satisfaction is to be found in our
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| entrepreneurs, I often find myself
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| | private lives, which will be made more
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| describing what we aren't. We aren't
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| | elaborate, exciting and fulfilling by all
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| unemployed. We aren't between jobs. We
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| | that money can buy.
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| don't loll around all day in our pajamas.
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| | During an airplane flight, I read an
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| We aren't failing just because we're not
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| | article in a business magazine. It argued
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| taking on new employees and tripling our
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| | that seeing your business as an outgrowth
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| business each year. We aren't idle just
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| | of yourself is a sickness. The article
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| because we're home, nor, by contrast, are
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| | said that we should view our businesses
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| we workaholics just because our home
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| | solely as ways to make a lot of money as
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| lives and our productive lives frequently
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| | quickly as we can. Then we should use
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| overlap.
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| | that money to live the lives we want. For
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| It is more difficult, given that spare
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| | some this might be relaxation on a small
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| room entrepreneurs are so disparate and
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| | tropical island, but it could also mean
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| represent so many different, strongly
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| | writing a novel, engaging in
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| held views, to make a positive statement
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| | philanthropy, living a life of prayer and
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| of what we are.
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| | contemplation, or playing the stock
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| My interviewing convinces me, however,
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| | market.
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| that we do have some important common
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| | This argument is attractive because it
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| characteristics. One is that we are
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| | identifies entrepreneurship with the core
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| impatient. We want to do what we want to
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| | beliefs of our society about getting and
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| do when we want to do it, without waiting
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| | spending. Moreover, it feeds into our
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| for someone else to give us permission.
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| | fantasies of riches and freedom. It
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| And while anxieties and insecurities are
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| | implies that fabulous wealth is lying
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| our frequent companions, we have a very
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| | around for the taking, available to all.
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| high estimation of our own abilities.
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| | I know I'd love to have enough money to
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| We're people who don't exactly fit in,
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| | realize all my dreams, and so would the
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| and are proud not to. We may make our own
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| | rest of the people in this world.
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| mistakes sometimes, but we despise making
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| | But I also understand enough about the
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| somebody else's. Most of us recall, even
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| | culture I live in to know that I would
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| as children, having an independent streak
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| | then begin to have more expensive dreams,
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| and all the troubles and rewards that
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| | and that I'd have to keep laboring to
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| such a personality can bring. And while I
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| | realize those. I'd never be able to
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| haven't found any research that backs
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| | disentangle the price of my material
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| this up, many of us come from families
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| | indulgences from my value as a person.
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| with members who were in business for
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| | Our lives consist not just in how we
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| themselves.
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| | spend our money but also, and probably
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| What are we looking for is money,
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| | more crucially, in what we do to earn it.
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| naturally, but we shouldn't be too quick
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| | Our work is the way in which we have an
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| to accept that as the only answer. For
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| | impact on our place and our times. We
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| all the people in this book, business is
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| | express ourselves in the world through
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| more than making money. It is how they
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| | our work. You can't simply avert your
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| express themselves in the world. They
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| | eyes from what you do and still be the
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| can't say that what they do is just a
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| | sort of person you want to be. You can't
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| job--because it is not just a job.
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| | just buy a good life. You have to live a
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| What we are looking for, I think, is
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| | good life. And though many of us might
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| integrity. We are seeking to integrate
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| | shy away from such grand pronouncements,
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| all our interests, talents, personality,
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| | living a good life is what most spare
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| and character into a way of life that
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| | room entrepreneurs are trying to do.
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| expresses who we are.
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