Starting a company is hard.
The hardest part: the euphoric ups followed by the VICIOUS downs
I wasn’t satisfied that this was “the way it had to be”
I started digging. Worked with a coach. Read books
Here’s the #1 I learned to fight the ups and downs
I do it daily 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ First, let’s back up.
One thing entrepreneurs all have in common is that we are HUMAN.
Newsflash: Humans weren’t designed to be happy. We were designed for one thing: survival.
Now if you were designing an animal to survive, what are some things you may give it?
2/ How about an alert system?
Something to let them know they should be careful or stop doing something: EMOTIONS
Fear - what wants to be paid attention to?
Anger - what wants to be stopped?
Sadness - what wants to be let go?
Joy - what Wants to be celebrated?
What else?
3/ You’d want this animal to be able to use these emotions and quickly spot threats.
In fact, humans are built to walk into a room and first pay attention to anything that could harm them!
But these days, we don’t often experience threats aren’t to our physical survival…