The Value of Hard Work

Thank you for all the nice emails regarding my health (or lack thereof) the new SPAM Show, etc. It’s always nice to hear that something I do or say materially makes people much better off.

Last week I was at Erick’s bootcamp.. Stu and I were talking about an insane number of people who didn’t do their “homework” they had assigned on the nightly basis. An overwhelming majority would be an understatement. All that time away from work, all that money, all that effort…. and people end up blowing their opportunity to move their businesses forward.

It’s such a sad thing to see. It’s one thing for Geek Squad Dave’s and Amazing Ben’s to run around on vapor for years, such incompetent fools couldn’t get a job or build a business even if they wanted to, but where is the excuse for the rest of folks for their businesses not amounting to shit and not even trying?

There is no excuse. I don’t care what you call your “model” or what your value system holds, no client deserves to have their infrastructure handled so unprofessionally.

Speaking of trying, I did get some questions about the lack of daily blog posts. Folks, I’ve been doing my job. That’s growing and managing the company that makes so many of you so much money. Even if you don’t do business with us, we do a ton of freebie community projects, podcasts and the money for all that doesn’t grow on trees. Someone has to make it in order to spend it. We are growing, we are adding products, we are improving our processes and Shockey Monkey, all those take a lot of time.

To anyone on that same page – life is good. On Saturday I went to Disneyland with friends. On Sunday, I flew to the other coast and went to Disney World with family. Today we had two new people start and we won a major contract. Life is good. So to all those of you working to make things better and improve your companies and your clients – thank you.