A founder turned down a paid speaking gig in Cancun to stay focused on building his company. He argues that saying no is as crucial to strategy as saying yes, and that opportunities are everywhere but discipline separates winners from the rest.
There will be opportunities and you need to stick to your strategy and be able to say no and eliminate things because business is noisy. There's no shortage of opportunities that people will come, hey, do this, do this, do this. Years ago when I was setting up Enterprise and I found this in my messages, I forgot that it even happened. This guy reached out to me and said, we've been following your stuff and we want to invite you to be a trainer in Cancun and everything will be paid for. And it took me 2 seconds to respond to him. I just said no, but I considered it not even for a second because I was so focused on I'm opening up Enterprise. This is what I'm doing. I think life in many regards, it's not about what you say yes to, it's also about we say no to. Yeah. Because there's more things that you could do, there's more possibilities that you could do, so you need the ability to cut off, to double down and focus on.
