Corporate Youth Jan. / Feb. 2014 | Page 18

know you are at your least productive, but just will not forgive yourself if you take the night off (after-all, entrepreneurs go the extra mile). Put on your shirt and go out and test yourself. Get to a club, hotel lounge or even international arrivals at the airport and make a business contact or two. Test if you can earn yourself a business card or two, merely through blowing off steam. Set yourself some goals; to get a number, achieve 500 rejections, overcome approach anxiety, have someone mistaken you for someone they know or should knowanything really. Just as long as you have valuable information about the owner of your business to analyse in the morning. Trust me it goes a long way into giving you much needed market research about you the person, the appeal of your product or business or simply teaches you a skill or two. Remember, Disney sells dreams, not cartoons. Keep an audience drooling over you for thirty seconds and they’ll reward you for the next thirty years, in profit or valuable skill. One of the most valuable social settings that teen entrepreneurs sneer at is a nursery or just babysitting. Now be careful not to be creepy and earn yourself a criminal record for the worst reasons, but between you and I, no one forces you to adapt or be more interesting and real than a child. Their innocence simply cannot allow them to mask the truth for you if you are boring. So between you and me, it’s not so much the clubbing or not clubbing. It’s merely the social setting you choose to display or practice YOU, your brand. So lunch in fancy hotels to clinch business deals may be more valuable than your performance on the dance floor. Save the cash and pay your secretary an early bonus, trust me she does more for your business. TeenAmbition@H_ONTO_H