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Mel,
At our last Roundtable meeting, Susan Kruger said, "One of the reasons I come here is just so I can have friends!"
It's not that Susan or her husband Brian are not friendly or do not have friends or cannot make friends. It's not like their relationship skills suck or anything like that. They're actually awesome, popular people.
It's just that when you're an entrepreneur, your problems are DIFFERENT from everybody else's. You do not have the same problems they have.
You can't say to your regular friends, "We decided we really really needed to go to Johannesburg South Africa for a few days to pitch a new client on a deal and it cost us $13,000." They will not nod and smile and understand you. They'll be quietly upset that you get to do cool things and they don't.
They don't really even stop to consider what it costs you if that deal falls through.
You also can't brag to your regular friends about how you just beat your best control by 56% and your income just spiked $11,000 per month.
You can't complain to your regular friends how the last 3 people you hired were all deadbeats.
But most of all, you can't ask them for advice.
Who do you get wisdom from, anyway?
The higher you climb, the farther you fall from one bad decision. And the bigger the bruise. The narrower the range of what works and what doesn't.
The more successful you are, the more selective you must be about your friends and advisors.
Even BEFORE you're successful, you find out real quick: there are not many people you can trust.
When I was just starting out, I had access to a message board roughly equivalent to our current Mastermind Club private forum. I *desperately* needed help at times - and when I sought help, it HAD to be sterling advice the first time out.
If I didn't get it right the first time, there was NOT going going to be a second time.
A handful of times, their advice paid off. BIG TIME.
In investing, they teach you: The key to doing well is not making big screw-ups. It takes a lot of 25% increases to make up for one 100% loss!
Same is true selling products, getting clients, chasing your dream.
You need a peer group. You need confidants. That's why increasingly, the value of Planet Perry is the communities. From the Mastermind Forum (which has no equal anywhere on the Internet), to 4-Man Intensives and Roundtable.
All are networks of people who care about each other and care about your success.
In all of these places, you can almost always get the exact answer you need within a day. And probably within an hour!
There are very few places in the world where you can get that.
One of the most important things you will ever do in your career is build those relationships. They are your safety net. If the thing you're doing does a belly flop, it's your friends who are going to connect you to new vistas and help you bridge the gap.
Perry Marshall
Time and motion
Flesh and blood and fire
Lives connect in webs of gold and razor wire
Spin a thread of precious contact
Squeeze in all that you can find
Spontaneous relations
And the long-enduring kind
-Neal Peart, "Time and Motion"
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