How To Build a Successful Business (That No One Knows About) by Q. Reyes – Artistic Warfare #22

May 17, 2009 Q. Reyes 0 Comments

I’m sitting in front of my computer smoking a cigar I bought at a Pasadena smoke lounge, sipping slowly on a Dos XX beer, having a great time. That’s my life in a nutshell – the same nutshell my business revolves around.

My business is simple: I provide media content. Whether it’d be the written word or a visual vehicle, I create amazing stuff with very little. I’m a very lucky guy and sometimes I have a hard time believing the great things that happen to me. If I wasn’t there actually experiencing those things, I wouldn’t think they were real.

I’ve met quite a few people in my life, from President Clinton to MOTU. I’ve been to quite a few places, as well. As a matter of fact, I was born and raised in a tropical island. How much more can one ask from a childhood?

My business is embedded in my life. I do what I do because of my business and my business does what it does because of me. My business and I are two different people, and sometimes we get along, and sometimes we don’t. We wake up at the same time, and do the same things. We go to bed together. It’s there when I’m taking a shower, and it’s there when I’m driving down the street.

There are millions of businesses in this country, and you can multiply that if you count the businesses in the entire world. Those famous businesses we hear about constantly are rarities. We don’t hear about most businesses. Especially mine.

It’s a gift and a curse to be an unknown business. You feel limited at times, and there’s little you can do about that. Yet, there’s something special about a successful business no one knows about. It’s a diamond that has yet to be made into jewelry. It’s a diamond, nonetheless.

Does money make a successful business? I don’t know yet. I know my business is successful because I’m stress free. I do what I love, and I love doing it. I wake up and make coffee and watch CNN, or check my email, or read a book, or whatever I want to do. I eat when I want. I go to the gym in the middle of the day, if I feel like it. I just don’t see how it can get any better.

Sure, I wouldn’t turn down more material wealth. Why would I? But what really matters more than accomplishment is the fact that I am a master at my craft. I would bet anything that you could count the number of people that can do what I do the way I do it. It’s seldom you find someone mentally liberated enough to look at himself in the mirror and smile every time. That’s the essence of my business.

I’m always looking to challenge my business and impress myself. I work in the business of illusion. The illusion of perfection is all but an illusion. Perfection in business means making calculated mistakes. Learning and absorbing knowledge like a sponge, while not being so hard on yourself.

Everyone in business is looking for something. Whether it’d be power, money or recognition, it all means nothing. When you realize the truth, you are instantly successful. When we stop living in past accomplishments or in future hopes, we enter success. Success is happening right now. Success didn’t happen and it won’t happen. It’s happening now.

If you don’t reach a state of business enlightenment, then you work towards a suffering obscurity and irrelevancy. The smartest business people are not the smartest business people at all. If you read business the right way, it reads Busy-ness. Panhandlers are smart business people. They get money for just existing. Talk about low overhead.

Money comes and money goes, just like our lives. The richest man will give up his fortune for just a few more moments of happy existence. We all will come to pass at one point, and it doesn’t matter how successful a business has become. Once we remove the endless goals from our life, we can actually see that all that matters is right in front of us in the first place. We already have it all, just by being alive.
I don’t believe money is the root of all evil, but I do believe that money is not the root of life. The ability to build a business from scratch and make it successful its a matter of chance and opportunity. If Albert Einstein never had an opportunity or if Thomas Edison didn’t have a chance, how would that change so many businesses today? If Barrack Obama had been a smart businessman, he would have never invested so much time and money in trying to become president.

The bottom line is that if your personal life is a mess, you’ll never be successful. Period. It doesn’t matter how much money your business makes, you will be forever miserable. Yet, the reverse is also true. If your business sucks, but you love your life, then you have achieved the purpose of the business in the first place.

That’s why my business is so successful. I’m not dependent on anyone or anything to give me more things. I already have it all. I love my life, and therefore I love my business, because my business is in the industry of living to the fullest and loving every moment.

Q. is a professor at the Compton Lawn-Mowing Institute teaching Gas-Power Mower Advance Physics. Q. also enjoys long walks on the beach, horseback riding and writing mini-bios that are absolutely unrelated to his articles or his life in general. Q. can also be found on the internet by searching for “sexy Puertoricans”.