Here’s the deal. If you’re looking for your investors to have all the answers for how to build your business, you’re in deep trouble. You need to step up and run your company.
Think of a recent situation, or as far back as you remember, where you experienced rejection. What if the rejection was disguised as your protection from something down the road?
It is fundamentally impossible to live intentionally and “on-purpose” if you haven’t defined your future self. Even more, it’s impossible to actively learn in a transformational way without a clear future self in mind.
A wise person once said, “Nothing has meaning except the meaning we give it.” Pretty simple, yet profound. Fortunately, this idea can be applied to virtually any hypothetical imaginable.
Up until one day in my life, I had never really thought about why I defined success that way—instead, I’d been obsessed with how I would attain those things.