I’ve celebrated extreme success by drinking so much that I woke up the next morning with raspberry jam on my toes. And vice versa, I’ve been so down that my diet consisted of French Vanilla ice cream and Lucky Charms for 14 days straight. (Believe it or not, I am quite fit!)

My point: With experience and time, the curve gets less extreme and your emotions more level. You’ll begin to notice where you are on the curve and instinctively know how to manage yourself.

So, celebrate your successes and then stay in your pj’s in the bad times, but know that the stages of the curve happen all through your life over and over.

ENJOY THE RIDE!

I posted some of the following on the “Entrepreneur …Myth” thread and meant to put it here.

I think a lot of folks are missing the point here and tell me what you think of my re-cap.

1) Un-informed Optimism
—2) Crash-Burn Escape Velocity
3) Informed Optimism

Burn-Out Escape Velocity has two roots: 1) Humility (an “ability” or “skill,” in terms of speed, at recognizing truth and submitting to it) and 2) Forward Moving Will-Power.

Will and Humility (given the above definition) can we ever move-forward and submitt to self-realized genius.

Thanks for Shining the Light Brother,

Octobox

Thanks for the suggestion. The last time my developer and I tried this, the retweet plugin caused the site to hang and overloaded the server as it needed to ping Twitter. Any suggestions for alternatives?

Best,

Tim

Being a lifetime entrepreneur and restaurateur for a long time, it is so true..

Seeing that bleak place at the bottom needs to kick you in the head, and kick you into action, remembering your ‘best of times” can help to remind you that life is not over, it’s only money, and that you DID have the good busy times, that tend to be result of positive actions that can be repeated.

Also, always be analyzing your business and adjusting, keeping your business in the sweet spot can make life much easier.

Good luck everyone!!