I’m Boring and It’s Made Me a Better Entrepreneur

What I’ve learned from my first decade as a business owner

When I was in my twenties, I did all the things that twenty-somethings do: I went to clubs, drank until I blacked out, slept around, ate junk food, and did dangerous things like driving way too fast and going surfing alone.

Now I’m 36 but I might as well be 85, in a retirement home, and dominating bingo every Thursday. I am the most boring person I know, and it makes my life better than it’s ever been.

I like it this way and I will only get more boring from here.

Livin’ la vida boring

Here are a few things that make my life boring and exceptional:

1. I don’t go out past 8:00 pm
2. I don’t drink
3. I don’t eat junk food (often. Very rarely I will eat some Doritos or mini Snickers around Halloween.)
4. I wash my face, brush my teeth, and floss every night
5. I never sleep in makeup
6. I put on clean clothes every day. (You might be surprised at the amount of people who don’t.)
7. I drink enough water
8. I always use my blinker, check my blind spots, and wear my seatbelt
9. I watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy most weeknights
10. I wear socks all year round inside my house and to bed
11. I eat the same ten or so meals with very little variance
12. I exercise at least three times per week
13. I don’t eat a lot of meat
14. I eat a lot of vegetables
15. I do self-development work regularly
16. I listen to self-growth podcasts
17. I’m into astrology (that’s more basic than boring but I’m including it anyway)
18. I don’t eat refined sugar
19. I don’t eat dairy

You should be boring, too

Being boring is my favorite thing about myself because it allows me to show up more consistently to create the life I want.

If I were to constantly be doing ratchet and irresponsible (dare I say “exciting”) things, I could never predict how I might show up, therefore I would never gain momentum toward success.

I can’t control anything external to myself, but I can control how I show up in life.

Becoming an entrepreneur has taught me that showing up consistently is the only way to make progress toward a goal.

The compound effect is real and consistency matters.

In what ways are you boring?

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