How to Leverage Entrepreneurship and Marathon Running

Entrepreneurship and marathon running have more in common than you think.

You need guts to practice entrepreneurship and marathon running at the same time. On the other hand, they have so much in common that leveraging the two activities will save you a lot of time and effort.

In the turbulent epidemic environment we are facing right now, people are starting to question almost everything. It can be anything from how you have been living your life so far to how you will live the rest of your days on earth. Without any doubt, the Coronavirus represents an unusual eye-opener.

If you belong to the big group of baby boomers like me, entrepreneurship and marathon running most probably do not fit into your familiar frame.

How were we educated?

Go to school, get a title, search for a job, and start climbing the career ladder. Building up your resume is how to carve out your life to the best. You never really understand how crazy this is until you get smashed in your face with this marvelous quote by Warren Buffet:

“Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.”

The sad reality is that around 80% of all working people don’t enjoy their work. When asking people why they are doing the work they are doing, most of the answers refer to external circumstances, like:

“Somebody told me this would be a good career for me.”

“Once you reach a certain level, the salary is high.”

The list can be long, but in the end, you start a life race that isn’t yours.

So, what does it have to do with entrepreneurship and marathon running?

All leading entrepreneurs have one thing in common:

They do their race!

Therefore, many people, mostly the 80% group mentioned earlier, try to turn them down because they are different. They take paths no one else does. If you are different, people will view you as a kind of “weird.”

What Links Entrepreneurship and Marathon Running Together

Being out running 5 AM is seen in non-runners’ eyes as something strange. The same goes for passionate entrepreneurs working around the clock, pushed by their enthusiasm for what they are creating.

There is much advice out there on how to be successful and happy in life. Much of this advice concerns the leverage effect in entrepreneurship and marathon running.

Become a self-expert

Figuring out and understanding yourself isn’t always easy. From childhood, we are brainwashed with specific ways of thinking, and it can be challenging to break that chain.

If you’re going to start training for a marathon, you need to be really honest with yourself.

What do I need to do?

And the most critical question:

Am I willing to do it? Do I have sufficient passion for following through and making it happen?

What is your motivation in life? Strengths you find out by yourself. It’s curious and scary at the same time, but a large group of the population fears their real passion. It can be due to societal influencers, education, or any other external source faking up your life.

Figure out your strengths and weaknesses with this free test. Maybe you have certain qualities you are not entirely aware of.

Push your limits

No one can tell you better than yourself what you’re good at, what you’re not so good at, and the overall skill set you’ve gathered during your lifetime so far. Use it, push it, and challenge yourself.

My passion for marathon running teaches me how to plan for new challenges constantly. It’s all about setting a realistic goal, preparing for it, and sticking to the plan.

Your entrepreneurship works precisely the same way. You will have a lot of hurdles on your way, but the final goal is so decisive that nothing can keep you from conquering every obstacle.

Some people call us stubborn. I would instead prefer to use the labels, passionate, and goal-oriented.

Pushing the limits repeatedly is a typical characteristic of people dedicated to marathon running and entrepreneurship.

Surround yourself with inspiring people.

There are two possible reasons you’re not doing things:

A) You convince yourself that you can’t do it.

B) People around you tell you that you can’t do it.

There is a quote by Jim Rohn that goes like this:

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

So many examples from both the sports world and the business environment show that Jim Rohn’s statement is nothing other than the naked truth.

Networking is fundamental in all entrepreneurial communities. It is worth gold to exchange ideas, benchmark new topics, or just get support and help from others.

The same goes for marathon training. It’s a vast program you’ve got in front of you, and you need to get input and feedback from other like-minded fellows to optimize your training best.

Entrepreneurship and Marathon Running are All About Goals, Planning, and Execution

If the first three advice talks very much about the characteristics of people dedicated to marathon running and entrepreneurship, the following three are very much the “what to do” tasks to be successful.

Goalsetting

You probably knew it before, but it cannot be emphasized enough. Without a well-defined goal of where you should be heading, it’s like going out and searching for something you don’t know.

During Christmas and New Year, when the marathon season pauses, I used to slow down my training (your body needs some rest, too) and prepare my running agenda for the coming year.

I usually run two or three marathons per year, and my training goals will always focus on those essential races.

Similarly, your business goals for the coming year should undergo the same process. The vital thing here is always to have measurable goals.

It’s incredible how my running and business procedures still leverage each other. It’s almost like copy-pasting with different wordings and, of course, other numbers.

Detailed planning

To reach your goals, you need to plan in detail how to achieve them. You should establish the corresponding sub-goals every month, week, and day. It’s always easier to handle smaller sub-goals than big over-all goals.

In both marathon training and your business, there are days when everything is going like clockwork. However, you will also face days when almost everything goes wrong. It’s a typical characteristic of entrepreneurship and marathon running.

With smaller sub-goals, it’s much easier to make corrections and even changes in the planning.

Disciplined execution

All that has been mentioned so far will be worth nothing if there isn’t any execution. You need to “walk the talk.” Disciplined execution, sounds like military drilling. And do you know what? It’s precisely what it is if you want to reach your goals.

For any reason, you could not meet a scheduled training session or your sub-goal in your business that day didn’t happen. That’s OK. After all, we are humans and not machines.

What is essential, though, is to catch up later during the week on what is missing. There is no difference between a runner and an entrepreneur.

From Here, What to do Next with Your Entrepreneurship and Marathon Running?

If you already have the six steps in place, you are probably already running your own business. Maybe you also have other passions in your life. In my case, it’s marathon running. Still, you might be a passionate golf player, traveler, surfer, scuba diver, or something else you really love to do.

You must have the correct framework to leverage your business and your hobby. Once in place, you can do whatever you want if you have the necessary platform and knowledge to support your passion and your life journey.

View the following short video, and I’ll show you what I did to get this essential leverage.

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