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Mitch Jackson is an early adopter of livestreaming and has spoken at the New York, San Francisco, Los Angles Periscope Summits (Summit.live), and Social Media Day San Diego. He’s been profiled at INC.com and shared marketing tips from the stage at the 2017 Tony Robbin’s Business Mastery Event in Las Vegas to an audience of 2,000.
Being a small business owner is crazy hectic. Despite our best efforts, we always seem to be pulled in one direction or another on a daily basis.
The needs of our customers and clients and the demands of ongoing administration, marketing, and paying the bills never stop. For many, doing all this while balancing personal obligations tugs without relief on our hearts, minds, and souls.
This is a reality. This is what it’s like to own a small business and be an entrepreneur.
And it’s all OK.
When I first started practicing law way back in 1986, a partner in a big firm said, “Mitch, get ready to spend the rest of my career trying to get caught up.”
He was right. I’ve never been fully caught up since that day.
You may feel the same way. I want you to know that you’re not alone.
I believe there’s a difference between being caught up and keeping things manageable and under control.
In the law (yes this is a business), we’re all dealing with continually evolving facts, laws, calendars, and jurors. Change and uncertainty are constants.
But here’s the deal. I wouldn’t have it any other way. There’s always something new each day, and I haven’t been bored in more than three decades of practice.
The art of enjoying your business and practicing effective time management is to understand and embrace controlled chaos. Do what you enjoy doing and for the most part, delegate everything else out.
Don’t sweat the small stuff. Understand that you don’t have to be in control of everything.
Appreciate the reality that when all said and done, the sun will come up tomorrow and everything you didn’t get to today can probably be done tomorrow, the next day or maybe even next week.
It’s OK.
Most concerns of small business owners are just first world problems.
When I’m neck deep in controlled chaos, I try to do what Mike the Milkman suggested long ago. Do this, and you’ll be just fine.
I promise. I speak from experience.
I’ve been there. Hell, I’m still there. I’ve just learned not to let all of the nagging first world problems get under my skin.
Embrace the opportunity and excitement of having your own business. Enjoy the journey, take care of your customers and clients, and always keep moving forward.
By the way, if this post made sense to you and, you think I added a bit of perspective to owning a small business and being an entrepreneur, feel free to click here to share this post on Twitter 😉
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
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I’m a trial lawyer, and when I go to court, I’m usually surrounded by a lot of really smart people. For the most part, the judges are brilliant, and opposing counsel usually brings their “A” game.
But here’s the deal; despite being around all these bright people day in and day out, none of them come close to being as smart as my father-in-law. His name is Mike, and he’s a retired milkman.
He has a year or two of community college under his belt, he enlisted in the army, didn’t finish his formal degree, and the rest is history. Mike majored in people skills and minor in street smarts, common sense, and hard work.
His business career started out with loading heavy milk crates onto the back of tall trucks. Twenty years later, it ended with him owning a successful dairy distributorship and being selected as Chairman of the Board of his bank.
He retired at 52. Not bad for a milkman.
Mike’s one of the brightest guys I’ve ever been around, and he’ll tell you that one of his best early decisions in life was marrying Joyce, his bride of 57 years. She’s not only been his business partner since day one but also a big reason their three daughters have all grown up to be smart, intelligent and successful independent women.
After Mike and Joyce had sold the dairy distributorship, he and some friends decided their community needed a new bank, and so they started one. None of them had any banking experience, and I still remember Mike sitting on the living room floor playing around with different bank logo designs, with stacks of banking regulations and documents stacked beside him for review. As things turned out, the bank thrived and was eventually sold to a large national banking institution for a very nice profit.
Before I married his daughter, Mike asked me if I had my priorities in the right order. The look I gave him must not have been very reassuring because he immediately added, “Mitch, here’s what you need to do. Here are my three keys to success…
Continue reading “Mike the Milkman Delivers His Three Keys to Success!”
Many of you know me only as the “Streaming Lawyer.”
What you may not know is that for the past 32 years, I’ve been one of the Senior Partners of a California litigation and trial lawyer law firm that I started back in 1986 called “Jackson & Wilson, Inc.”
This past weekend we updated our law firm website with the help of Scorpion (full disclosure, I’m a brand ambassador for the company). We happen to think the new site is fantastic and would enjoy your feedback and suggestions. When you have a couple of minutes, please click here to take a look.
Thanks!
Earlier today I enjoyed joining marketing and #newsjacking expert, David Meerman Scott, for a few minutes on today’s Growth Institute Webinar, “Real-Time Marketing for CEOs: How to get noticed, get leads and grow your business.”
I’m not sure if there will be a recorded version of the live show but click here for the original link. If it’s recorded and available to the general public, I’ll update this post and share 😉
This was fun! A big “thank you” for the opportunity to share the Let America Know’s “You Should Know” legal newsletter with my social media legal community.
This service provides consumer attorneys with an easy and effective way to keep consumers and clients updated on what we do and what consumers need to know to stay safe. Hopefully I shared a few new ideas to help lawyers share the newsletter with their audience. Full disclosure, I am a brand ambassador for Let America Know (because I’m such a big fan of the service!)
Several weeks ago, Clearview Social founder, Adrian Dayton, hosted his webinar, “Social Sharing 2.0: 9 Tips to Generate New Business From Sharing to LinkedIn.” He was accompanied by “Streaming Lawyer” and Rainmaker Mitch Jackson.
Here is a fantastic summary of what Adrian and Mitch discussed. Enjoy!
Click here to get access to the original full interview.
