It’s not easy having to stay on the course when everyone around you is jumping ship for something easier. Something less uphill, less fight, less battle. It’s easy to move to a different course to avoid those battles. But staying the course, that’s where the magic happens, that’s where things get good, better than you ever thought, if you just stay the course.
Whatever great idea you have does it end with “Oh and we’ll sell ads and people can pay to not see them.” That idea has been done, it’s out there, and loads of people are doing it. Come up with a better model, a harder one, to showcase how great your idea truly is.
You can stop the meeting whenever you want. No one is holding you back. Many are probably hoping that you do. The ones who end the meeting without the “let me give you back 5 minutes of your day” are the ones who see the direction and value as fleeting and are willing to call it in an effort to do something better tomorrow – maybe change the objective, the roster or the time. But…
If you can focus on one problem, you will find your purpose. If you can put all your energy into that one thing, you will find what matters and how to make it happen. Ideas will spring forth that you never knew existed from places you never knew you had. All because you set your focus to solving that one problem.
Is the first place you wish you started. Because then you wouldn’t have had to go through all that “trying stuff and failing and feeling like garbage about not having got it perfect before.” This is true. But now you know the first place to look next time, so now next time there will be a last place to look. The Last Place to Look is based on where you are in figuring things out,…