Freedom may not be free, but its most certainly worth the chase.

People can only tell you what’s possible for them.

You will need to see beyond, for them, and for yourself.

Founders, many of you consider yourself outliers, and special snowflakes

But what have you done and what are you doing to be 100% certain that you are?

Remember how you talk to clients and customers.

They are the hero when you’re doing it right.

When having capital conversations with investors; remember they are also your customer.

What they want and inspires them matters just like it does with clients.

Bummer to hear this is still happening

Pressure is a privilege - Billie Jean King

Stress is our internal response, & possibly an optional one.

Pressure is external force on us. Also responsible for creating the diamonds in our lives.

Pressure creates purpose and prosperity

Let your perspective shift outcomes

Before you get caught in comparison, remember that there is an unlimited supply of prosperity, human ingenuity, innovation and opportunity.

Be cheering on the trailblazers and be grateful

Your brother or sister, reaching their dreams, only increases the likelihood that you will do the same

Gratitude moves the galactical gears of possibility and prosperity.

Haters. Naysayers.

Bring it on.

You don’t have to understand because I do.

I was born in the heat.

Let’s see who persists.

Who can outlast. I’m made for distance.

Hope you brought lots of water

🔥🔥🔥

Life happens for us.

But most believe it happens to us and they act accordingly.

Check your lens, and make sure it's leading you where you wish to be and who you wish to be.

Can’t find customers?

Pitched 3 investors and haven’t raised yet?

Building a team but have only spoken to 2?

Whether it’s client, dollar or talent capital…

Or most things with startups.

You need more volume. Far more volume than you think.

Think 100X. Get out there!!

Startup life:

We ride at dawn.

Except for when we ride at dusk.

Then we ride then, too.

Stories can hold us as prisoner or enroll and inspire our collaborators and set us free

Which are you choosing?

Timing matters:

Early is the same thing as being wrong.

Founders look for the magic pill:

Here it is…

VOLUME.

Nothing beats experience.

Most founders have tiny volume.

Of clients convos.
Investors pitches.
Recruiting conversations.

How long it takes to build this experience is up to you and the volume you’ll commit to

Demand a version of yourself by setting new standards and goals so high you must become a completely different YOU.

Just. Get. Moving.

Momentum beats motivation

Build that inertia.

You’re a freight train 🚂

Your life is determined by the amount of discomfort you’re willing to sustain.

As well as the amount of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.

Remember this when you go get client feedback before you build.

And before you raise.

Multiply by massive action, and ownership

Versus the worlds way of being where something or someone else is always to blame.

This only minimizes you while you hold to the belief that something else is bigger than you

You can’t control the wind but you can adjust your sails

- Jim Rohn

When you ask for advice from an investor, listen closely.

They will tell you what would make them excited about you, your deal and the investment opportunity

Do you see yourself in an impossible situation or did you in fact, design yourself to it?

We are that powerful. And so much more so than we know. We attract and create the world we see and live in.

Too many founders focused only on the business of their startup and forget the more important and deeper work of the “business” of being and becoming

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Taking ownership of choices including missteps,

Means cleaning up broken agreements and communicating with others you may have influenced or drawn into drama when you made less conscious declarations and decisions.

joan - face (Official Video) YouTube video by songsbyjoan

All that practice. Years of crafting. To create a song that can move me to tears in minutes.

Founders: Keep practicing. Keep pitching. Keep pivoting.

It’s all worth it.

This song was written for me. This week of all weeks. Thank you Dad, thank you Joan @songsbyjoan

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Excuses and shifting blame have the payoff of making you feel better temporarily but are very expensive

This divorces you from ownership where all your power to create lies.

Dividing you from feedback which shows how and where to take action

Founders: Get out there and sell. Get out there and get it done.

Sell BEFORE you build. Software and product won’t save you.

Tons of early feedback and validation the market wants it before you build and raise, will.

Ps. Marc cofounded a little startup called Netflix

Before you build:

W/ lifestyle business- Ask yourself if the business model promotes & creates personal freedom

W/ a high growth startup venture-
Ask if the biz model will foster explosive growth

There is what the biz does, then there is how it does it. Model is the later

Two types of problems.

Abundance problems and scarcity problems.

Create more of the former and believe less of the latter.