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Founders stress about things they can't control: product launches, fundraising, hiring. You can't predict the future, but you can control what you do today. Doing the right things now directly improves your odds of success later.
Founders stress about things they can't control: product launches, fundraising, hiring. You can't predict the future, but you can control what you do today. Doing the right things now directly improves your odds of success later.
When I speak to founders and CEOs about what worries them and what stresses them out, most often it's the unknown. Are we going to be able to launch the product? Are we going to be able to raise the funding we need? Am I going to be able to attract the talent that I'd like? And so one of the things I work with them on is saying, well, there's a lot of things you cannot control about what happens in the future. But what you can control is what you're going to do right now, right here today. So are you doing the right things to put you on a path to succeed with fundraising, hiring, product launches? And if you're doing that, you'll be fine. So rather than living out in the future, try and come back and live to today and see what you can do today to actually improve your chances for tomorrow.
