Omar Zenhom says quitting your job is easy; the hard part starts the next day. The first 90 days aren't about the market or product, but about building the discipline to work without a boss, a schedule, or anyone watching you.
Let me start with the thing that most content about quitting your job completely just skips over. Okay? Quitting is not the hard part. Okay? The hard part starts the morning after. Because when you leave your job, you don't only lose a salary, right? You lose structure. When I was a teacher, I knew exactly which classroom to go in, what subject to teach, who am I teaching it to, from what curriculum? It was prescribed. Okay? You lose any external accountability that most of us have relied on for their entire lives. And the crazy thing is when you When you start in the beginning of your entrepreneurial career and you have no alarm clock for someone else's schedule, you have no commute, you have no meetings to jump on, or you have no calls, you have ultimate freedom. And that lasts about 2 weeks and then reality hits, okay? Nobody warned me about this. I thought the hard part of entrepreneurship was the business. The hard part is actually learning to be your own boss when you never had to do that before. You have to have the discipline, the schedule, the ability to sit down and do the work when nobody's checking on you, when nobody's gonna ask you, "What did you do today?" This is the real challenge in your first 90 days. Not the market, not the product, you. Thank you.
