Some people love working a corporate job. They somehow find peace and comfort in the tight grasping structure of it all and are fine with working for "the man." BUT, I'm assuming that if you are reading this, you are not that person and neither is Mark Asquith.

 

Mark is the founder of Excellence Expected and co-founder of Podcast Websites, and just like many of us, started in the corporate world. One of the first questions we asked Mark was "What lead you into entrepreneurship?".  His answer was 2 fold.

 

#1. He got tired of working for d*cks.

 

Everyone has heard the term of working "for the man." The crazy thing about that statement is nobody really ever knows who that man is. Mark tells a story about one day being told by a manager to get his highlights cut out of his hair. Now that wasn't coming from the manager who asked him. Some superior told the manager to tell Mark, and someone higher up than that told the superior to to tell the manager to tell Mark and so on.

 

But there's a second part to this answer. Even once Mark started working for himself at his first agency he found himself working with clients that he really didn't like and enjoy. He thought he needed to do business with these jerks when in actuality he didn't. The choice was his and once he realized that he made the choice to never work with or for those people again.

 

#2.  He realized he didn't care about the money. He would rather have less money and care about what he did.

 

From an 18 year old making $12k/year to a 25 year old making $140k/year his income obviously had a significant increase. But yet he still wasn't happy. WHY? Because he didn't enjoy what he was doing and who he was doing it with. So again, once he made came to this realization he made the decision to never look back again and went from making $140k/year to $20k/year. This leads me to Mark's most significant point in the episode.

 

Everyone assumes you have to do business a certain way. You have to look a certain way and act a certain way. The myth that people buy people is not really a myth except for the fact that those people are never really themselves in the first place. Mark realized this and stopped trying to be what he thought other people wanted and started being Mark.

 

From that he realized that instead of the tasks and "things" on your plate being the end game why can't how you feel be in the end game?

 

"You have to understand how you want to feel.  Be what you want to be without know what you want to do. Nobody knows what they want to do.  Things change. People pursue things or outcomes. You have to do those things but they are not the end game. The end game is how do you want to feel. You have to think a lot further than here’s what I want to build. You have to think down the road for the next 5, 10 and 20 years."

 

Tune into today's episode and hear the stories of how Mark used an uneasiness with the status quo to branching out and founding multiple, successful business. One of which we use today.

 

Resources from our guest, Mark Asquith:

(PODCAST): excellence-expected.com/audio

(FREE COACHING): excellence-expected.com/freecoaching

(BLOG): excellence-expected.com/category/articles/syndicate

(PODCAST CREATION): podcastwebsites.com

 

 

**Excellence Expected is a website that helps solo entrepreneurs stop feeling lost and create businesses that they love. Podcast Websites is a website with everything you need to create grow and monetize your podcast.**