Angelica Govaert, who has run businesses from $10-50 million, uses one question to cut through stress: will this matter in 100 years? She argues that in a century she'll be a blip, and most current pressures don't survive that test.
One of the things I tell myself when I feel really stressed out is, will this matter in 100 years? Right? So one of the things that I've always told myself, anytime I feel stress, I, I'm a high performer. I'm someone that can handle high levels of stress. I've run large companies most of my life, $50 million companies. When I worked for L'Occitane, I was running like $10, $15 million, $20 million districts. And I have made millions myself owning yoga studios and running online businesses. And one of the things I tell myself when I feel really stressed out is, will this matter in 100 years? Right. And I'm like, well, in 100 years, like no one will even know who I am. I won't even be important in any way. In 100 years, nobody's going to remember me. Right. Like I'm just going to be a blip. So anything that I do has some level of irrelevance to it. Right.
