For Entrepreneurs, Every Day Is Game Day
When I worked as a corporate executive, I found that there were two types of days: practice and game. 
Practice days were for chipping away at projects steadily, gathering data, writing business plans or communication briefs, and getting my team on board. I toiled like a worker bee before the winter, and all for the sake of a day that came once every quarter. A day when the stakes ranged from a bad week all the way to a bad year:
The game day.
Game days were different. Game days were when things really happened. I sold my marketing plans and budgets for projects, my vision, and my capabilities as a leader to the powers-that-be. To make the sale on the right initiative, I might even throw in my vacation days. In other words, I hustled. And rarely would I ever get turned down — asked for revisions, sure. But there was no such thing as a real door slam — I just had to knock to be let in. Read more:
