Driven Entrepreneur

I spent hours this past weekend working on an assignment for my accounting company and since then have become caught up in being fully responsible for every task this company entails even when my father is responsible for the majority of the tasks, since he is so obviously an expert. He went to the hospital at 3 AM today, which is another reason why I felt the need to take full control, but it back fired against my values and goals. I realized that I was struggling to mentally own up to the responsibilities of the business, when other goals and desires started clashing with my mind space: My Mary Kay/success coaching business and my academic interests in becoming a CPA. I feel like the CPA I work for. He accounts for doctors and dentists, and even owned a medical practice once, but failed since he knew nothing about the medical field. I intend to learn all I can to make my accounting business succeed, but another entrepreneurial desire pokes at me constantly, desiring my attention. I've put it on the back burner, mentally, lately, because of fear of failure when it comes to exams, but in reality, I'd rather spend all night planning and scheming to enrich the lives of others by launching my success coaching business and learning accounting, rather than devoting all my efforts to maintaining my accounting company. Sad, but true. I'm not going to give either up, but I really need to determine my priorities. One reason why is there is a convicting distinction between an entrepreneur and student. An entrepreneur is ruled by deadlines of clients, while a student's schedule is ruled by exam and project deadlines. I came into this fall semester as a part-time entrepreneur and 3/4-time student, but over the course of the semester it's become 3/4 entrepreneur, and pt-time student. Clearly depicts my values, huh? I need to get real. I need to concentrate on what is the core of my desire, since there is where I shall be most successful.

Read more about my angst in my other blog