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Guest Blogger: Bobby Vaughn - Director of Church Planting, NorthWood Church

I’m an avid twitter-holic.  I have it on my phone, all my computers, and I even wake up to check it in the middle of the night (under the covers, of course, so my wife doesn’t catch me).  Many of you know exactly what I’m talking about (don’t deny it).  This morning on my twitter feed I read that someone wrote an article giving advice to young entrepreneurs, so I went to read. What a great article! I won’t go into the entire details here (click on the link to go read the entire article for yourself, it’s worth the time), but there was a paragraph that caught my attention and made me want to share it with you.

Jon writes:
“You guys are young. You’re already light years ahead of where I was at your age. And whether what you are doing now becomes a huge success or it doesn’t the most important is who you guys are becoming. Businesses come and go. But the stuff you learn now and the networks you guys build will be with you for the rest of your lifetime. And you’re in an incredibly fortunate position to be realizing that at a young age. Most people don’t figure that out until they’re in their 30s, 40s or later and they’re saddled with a mortgage and ton of credit card debt and they have families and then at that point there’s little chance they’ll step on the entrepreneurial treadmill.

“So do all of that. Take as much risk as you can as early as you can. Put yourselves in positions where there’s a really good chance that you’ll fail. And learn, learn, learn. We’re moving into a world where the person who is learning 8/10/12/14 hours a day is at a huge advantage over the person who isn’t. The world is changing ridiculously fast right now and that’s to your advantage if you’re continually sharpening the saw. And there has never been a better time to do that. With blogs, podcasts, Twitter, more great books than ever. You are really in an absolutely amazing position.”

Great advice.  Put yourselves in positions where there’s a really good chance that you’ll fail.

Godspeed.
(*original article taken from http://jonbischke.com on March 17, 2009)