Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs

Ever see the movie Click starring Adam Sandler? It’s about an architect who is an absolute workaholic who is only focused on getting further in his career. He finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward, pause, and rewind through his life.

He uses the remote to fast-forward through his life and stop after he gets huge promotions at his job and ultimately ends up becoming super successful and rich.

But here’s the catch. There’s always a catch. At the end of his life when he becomes super rich, gets the dream job that he’s always wanted, and becomes “architect of the year,” he isn’t happy.

His family has forgotten about him, he becomes ill, and everything that he’s ever loved and cared about ended up resenting him for never being there for them. He’s a wreck and wishes that he could rewind everything and go back to the beginning before he decided to speed through his life. But he can’t.

He thought that skipping through all the moments with his family and the hard work that it takes to become successful was the answer to all his problems, but he realized that is wasn’t.

So here’s the question for you my fellow young entrepreneurs: If you had the chance – if you had a universal remote that allowed you to fast-forward through your life – would you use it to get you to the point where you “have made it?”

Would you use the remote to bring you to “success” and skip the entire journey as a young entrepreneur growing a business all the way to you are older, rich, influential, and successful?

I don’t know about you guys, but I would never use the universal remote. I wouldn’t want to skip the journey to becoming successful. The journey is what makes it fun. The journey is what you learn from. Being an entrepreneur is all about taking the journey, getting up when you fall, basking in your feats, and feeling special when you change the lives of others along the way.

This movie makes you think about your end goals and makes you realize that wanting to speed through life isn’t guaranteed to be fulfilling as you may think. As they stated in the movie, that pot of gold at the other side of the rainbow, that you desire so badly, may just turn out to be a pot of wheat.

So enjoy life. Enjoy every moment that you have as a young entrepreneur on the journey to success. Enjoy the people that you meet and the lessons that you learn. Don’t take any of it for granted. Embrace the present, work hard, love life, and build your future.