Jeff Dudan says get financially stable first, then decide what's next. Quantify your time's value—$100/hr, $1,000/hr, $5,000/hr—and use that number to choose what work matters and who to work with.
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Now you have to get above that place where you're paying your bills and you're surviving. And. Right. So the first thing you have to do is you gotta. You gotta get stability, and you gotta establish that the next thing you're thinking about is, okay, well, what's next for me and what's the next level of it? If you're gonna spend five years building the business and you think it could be worth this based on what you're gonna have to get into it. Now, that's a pretty extreme number that adds up pretty quickly. But maybe the number for you is a thousand dollars an hour, maybe it's $200 an hour, maybe it's $100 an hour, $5,000 an hour. Whatever it is, when you realize that that is a construct about the way you're thinking, see how it impacts the decisions that you make around what you do, who you do it with, and how much time you put into it.