Eric Siu walks through a reflective exercise called Then, Now, and Later. You map where you were 10 years ago, where you are now (he's 39-40, married with kids), and what you want in 10 years, including specific revenue targets for your business.
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You're not the type of person to do this, but it'll be fun if you do it. Okay. It's called Then, Now, and Later. So you basically reflect on 10 years ago. And then, so 10 years ago, like, what were you doing? Where were you in your life? Like, how are things going overall? Am I making sense so far? Yeah. Okay. When you look at now, it's like, okay, how are things going now? Like, you're 40, I'm 39 years old, we're around the same age. Like, you know, is our life— did it turn out the way we expected it to be? How's it going now? You're married, we're with kids, right? And all that. Then you do 10 years out, like what's going to be happening in 10 years, right? Are you doing like $2 billion in revenue, $3 billion in revenue, whatever, right? So I thought that was a great exercise because people really got to reflect