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May 20, 2010

“take the cream off the top, leave the milk behind”

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[“Love Fore­ver”, which I sent out in the news­let­ter recently. You can buy the print here etc.]

Ear­lier I was tal­king on the phone to my friend and men­tor, Jerry Colonna. I drew the wee mons­ter ‘Cube Gre­nade” on his blog a few months ago.

During our con­ver­sa­tion, while I was moa­ning and groa­ning about the relent­less day-to-day pres­sure of being a small-time entre­pre­neur, Jerry, in his kind, gene­rous, lucid and laser-focus way, remin­ded me that in spite of my trials and tri­bu­la­tions, somehow in the past year I had mana­ged to morph from a “mar­ke­ting con­sul­tant” to full-time artist.

I guess that’s exactly what has been hap­pe­ning. I don’t quite know how I mana­ged to pull that off– although long hours, low overheads and a superb busi­ness part­ner cer­tainly helped.

Jerry then tal­ked about his own career evo­lu­tion– from suc­cess­ful New York ven­ture capi­ta­list, to pri­vate busi­ness coach with a thri­ving practice.

Jerry told me that he simply crea­med off the part of being a VC that he liked the most– i.e. hel­ping good peo­ple make a dif­fe­rence– and for­got about the rest.

During this con­ver­sa­tion, I sud­denly rea­li­zed that I’m now trying to do EXACTLY what Jerry has already mana­ged to do for him­self. Take the cream off the top, leave the milk behind.

I can think of worse ways to spend the next cou­ple of years. You?

Tags: Buy cartoon Prints, Cube Grenades, Hugh MacLeod, Jerry Colonna, Love Forever, Valentines Day

2 Responses to ““take the cream off the top, leave the milk behind””

1. Tania Ramonde says:

   May 20, 2010 at 5:47 AM

   You never know where life will take you to! Enjoy the trip, make as many good deci­sions as you can and choose your batt­les. The rest is unw­rit­ten!

   Great post, very inspirational!

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2. Peter says:

   June 9, 2010 at 4:40 AM

   Взгляни сюда: поможет построить частный дом качественно…
   Также можно недвижимость франция купить и взять в аренду виллу во Франции.

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