This is a friendly reminder that if you're the smartest person in every room, you need a new room.

So the way I've addressed many CEOs who feel it's lonely at the top is to say that was a decision that was made. They may not have intentionally made that decision, but they did. Because one of the things is, more so than anything else, it's who can relate. And many small business CEOs don't want people to know what they don't know. The smarter ones, however, find mentors that's already been where they've been and are going places they desire to get to. Find those who have done what you want to do, ask them for advice and counsel, and then apply it to your life in a way that you can go execute against it. But keep them in your life in a way in which they enrich you, they pour into you, and you get better. But also be prepared to get news that you don't want, but you need because it makes you better.