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Always Be Hustling— Why Selling has Become as Certain as Death and Taxes

Chris Herd
3 min readJan 16, 2018

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Nothing is certain but Death and Taxes

Used to be true. It used to be that you were born you lived and you died. Doing so permitted you to have a progressively better lifes as the global tide rose and all boats rose with it.

This is no longer true

Globalism is stagnant for the West which has bred the conditions of populism we are seeing now. The States, Brexit and a host of nationalist parties across Europe are providing evidence that a more insular belief system — championing ‘Patriotism’, ‘National Identity’ and taking back what is rightfully yours.

The problem is simple.

What worked for our grandparents and even more so for our parents isn’t working for us.

In days gone by you could fall into a corporate job where you knew your standard of living would progressively increase through life. You knew that the job you had could buy increasingly better things and you could support your 2.4 kids and have the occasional vacation.

Those became certain — and we depended on

Life was good. Inheritance of a good life was assured. Sure school helped, but it was not a prerequisite for…

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Chris Herd
Chris Herd

Written by Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌

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