Small business or entrepreneurial business is not like the corporate world.  If you are a CEO, company president or owner of a small or entrepreneurial business, you are it.  Everything depends on you.  If you don’t lead, the company doesn’t prosper.  So here is a list of things that small or entrepreneurial business people don’t do.  All of them won’t apply to you but you will recognize certain aspects of yourself.

1)  You don’t work 40 hours per week.  Some weeks 40 hours is half a week!

2)  Many times you eat lunch on the go or at your desk.

3)  There is no such thing as a weekend.  You’ re constantly thinking about business.

4)  If you go on vacation, you take your laptop and cell phone and are in constant contact.

5)  You don’t spend as much time with the family as you would like because the business requires long hours.

6)  You know you should exercise and you’re going to get around to it as soon as you get a little more work done and can make some time.

7)  It’s impossible to keep your desk straight because the work keeps piling up.

8)  You promise your husband or wife that you are going to get to those house repairs one of these days.

9)  You have to hire a landscaper to cut the grass because there are city ordinances about mowing the grass at 10 pm when you get home or at 6 am Saturday morning before you go back into the office on the weekend to catch up on some work.

10)  Politicians don’t understand that you risk everything, every work day of your life.

So please explain to me why the politicians don’t understand all that small business adds to the economy.  How small business generates the majority of small jobs in this country.  Why do politicians want to tax you out of existence when you sacrifice so much to be successful?  Everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.  But I want you to remember that when election time comes around which politicians are anti-business and pro-tax.  Vote them out of office in 2010 and 2012.  Make sure the voice of small business is heard loud and clear, where it counts, with every vote.