Josh Steimle – Get Your Priorities Straight and Remarkable Things Can Happen

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuasteimle/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Josh Steimle</strong></a> is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker, best known for his framework<a href="https://www.joshsteimle.com/7-systems-of-influence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The 7 Systems of Influence</a> and the 300+ articles he’s published in more than two dozen publications like Time, Forbes, Fortune, Mashable, and TechCrunch. Get started on writing your book with Josh at<a href="https://www.publishedauthor.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Publishedauthor.com</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>“Business should never be your highest priority. If it is, you will lose the business along with everything else.”</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">Josh Steimle</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2><h3><strong>Wanting to be like the greats</strong></h3><p>Josh was a college student when he made his worst investment ever. At the time, he had what he thought was a great job making $13 an hour. The company Josh was working for was growing like crazy. And so he thought he should leave and start his own business.</p><p>Josh would look at the company executives flying around, meeting with venture capitalists, having all the fun and making all the money, and think to himself, “I could do that too.” So he quit his job and started his own business.</p><h3><strong>Doing what he knew best</strong></h3><p>Josh knew how to design websites and hence started a web design business. He thought this would be as easy as<a href="https://myworstinvestmentever.com/ep163-scott-smith-launching-a-business-find-your-future-you-and-listen-to-them-first/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> launching a business</a>, and then people line up and hire him. But nobody lined up. Soon enough, Josh had no money to pay rent and sold everything he owned on eBay to pay the rent.</p><h3><strong>Things start to looking up</strong></h3><p>After a while, Josh