The Worst Thing You Can Do As An Entrepreneur Is Everything.

I’m Commis Chef Chris Martin. I’ve been in the Culinary industry 16 years and I love spending my time helping as many people as I can whether it’s through advising on how I dealt with some of my life challenges, or if it’s through SavorThePassion.com where I’m working to increase the quality of life of all that I can through the power of food.

Lessons are best learned through experience

When I started Savor The Passion I was stuck trying to do everything. I was broke, scrappy & inspired. I knew there was so much that I didn’t know, but there was one thing I was certain of; if I needed to learn it, I could. That thought process lead me to diving face-first into the wall of the startup world and all the frustrations that came with it.

The Failures

I tried a great many things big and small. Savor The Passion has taken the most. I’ve dipped my hands in marketing in sales in coding in website design in mobile app design. I have worked to achieve some degree of success in all of them. The failures far exceeded the successes. My websites have worked, but they were clunky and ugly. My marketing worked, but they weren’t effective. My cooking is solid, but far from perfect.

When you start to realize how slowly things are moving when you are all-in on it and it keeps failing anyways, do you know how you respond? When all your time is poured into something you simply have no business working; that’s when we learn, do you work smart, hard, or both?

The Successes

In reading “Good To Great” by Jim Collins I learned something very important, know what you’re good at and see strengths in others. The more often I would focus on things the more I would see a change as I worked on ads, as I worked on automation, as I worked on relationships things seemed to change.

I’m so happy to have met the teams I have up to this point. They have taken things out of my hands that I’m simply not good at. Spending so much less time on specific parts of the business indirectly has been amazing!

Not only have they taken it off my hands, not only have they freed my time the amount of work they get done compared to what I did at the same time is an experience that just reminded me how important specialization is.

Go Time

In 3 weeks I finally get to show off the next step and I just can’t wait.

So much has gotten done lately and honestly I can’t wait.

Never will I design a website again or build the backend. So much is just not what I’m meant to do.

And That’s Ok.

Your Turn

How was your transition from hopelessness to power-zone?

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Stay Passionate. Stay Safe.

~Commis Chef Chris