A little background:
From Daniel’s StrengthsFinder Profile:
“You tend to be a very good adviser to many individuals. When offering suggestions or asking questions, you are much more engaged, intense, and involved than others. By nature, you typically check and double check your work. You need to ensure everything is in order. You likely adopt a serious-minded approach when evaluating the accuracy of reports, research results, evidence, data, or facts. It’s very likely that you are an enterprising person.
You effortlessly launch new ventures. You are likely to measure your progress on a regular basis. This information probably inspires you to work even harder. Because of your strengths, you can mentally zero in on tasks for hours at a time when you have a goal to reach. Driven by your talents, you naturally resist being held back, restrained, or controlled by people or events. You much prefer to be in charge of situations, materials, schedules, budgets, human resources, processes, or decisions. Waiting for someone else to issue orders or level judgments certainly is not your strength.”
About the Author, Daniel Comp
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 1955. I've never known my genetic father. My teenage mother struggled as a single parent. I suspect my childhood was the impetus of my creativity - a solution for days of nothing to do. No siblings, no pets, I remember laying on the floor of my grandmother's kitchen with Lincoln Logs and an Etch-a-Sketch - exploring.
My school years seemed to be a series of experimental physics and chemistry explosions, and the usual emotional rejections, as I was curiosity about science and girls. I sat in the front row of most of my classes, and volunteered for any and all artistic and creative opportunities.
During Vietnam, I studied Nuclear Power and Communications with the U.S. Navy. I greatly expanded my thirst for adventure by seeing the world from a deck of a ship - where the land was always just over the horizon!
In my twenties I struggled with a sense of purpose, direction and meaning. A simple prayer and a tragic fall from a glacier became a ‘life-changing' experience. I learned what being a quadriplegic was about – and that miraculous healing could be really 'up-close and personal'.
I've had a thirst for learning as long as I can remember. I've learned character from dead people, in hundreds of books, and dozens of symphonies. I've learned from compassionate mentors to follow my ‘knower’. I've learned that there's a time to listen, to speak, to duck, to stop, to turn and to slow down - and above all, to be patient ALL the time.
Through a lifetime of learning, I've found that we are more than our accumulation of knowledge. We are rich with experience, and plagued by our fears. We’re often immobilized in life, hardly knowing our capabilities, and we are each our best challenge.
For three decades I've been a social entrepreneur.
As a building designer and contractor my crews created ten million dollars of projects in the built-environment. I've been a contributing foot soldier of the web since '97 with Intelligent Netware™, and along with my loving wife Angelina Musik-Comp, we founded the two-time SBA award winning MOMtrepreneurs™.
I've created tools in use by hundreds of entrepreneurs, start-ups and giants like UPS, RiteAid, Starbucks and Microsoft, but none of it comes close to the joy I get being with David and Carissa, my kids, now grown and accomplished artists and athletes. They above all things are the 'reward'.
I'm an outdoor fanatic for windsurfing, kiteboarding, snowboarding, trans-America cycling, glider soaring, and any opportunity to play with my kids.
To summarize; my life has been a series of 'best efforts' in honoring God through creativity, investing in other people's dreams, creating memories with loved ones, and being aware that each moment is an opportunity to 'Make a Difference' for someone, somewhere.
I hope Entrepreneurial Schizophrenia® will do that for you.
I encourage you to participate in a workshop where you'll meet other cases like you, yourself and your boss! All of us look forward to meeting all of you.
Daniel Comp (with Angelina)
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