This is true.
You are only as good as the people who will miss you when you’re gone.
Also, make the memories kind and soft. Make it so that the lack of your presence will not be a burden, but a reminder of chance and possibility. Make them miss you not for who you are but for who they were when you were around. Make it a longing, not a begging.
That’s legacy.
Since early on, they tell us it’s going to be easy.
That most things are natural, that talent is innate, that success is overnight. That relationships are a given. That having kids is just as simple as drinking a cup of coffee. That the way you go into the world, your purpose, your principles, are going to be very clear and eventually magically manifest in front of you. Without any effort.
Instead, it’s tough.
Almost every thing that is worth something requires blood, sweat, and tears.
And that’s probably what makes it worth it.
Journey over destination.
Brand is not for your startup only if by brand you mean one of the following things.
A new logo.
A different color palette.
A TV ad.
A celebrity endorsement.
A brand typography.
A cutting-edge website.
If brand instead is your story, the unique point of view you are offering, thought leadership content, reputation, then you should get started with that yesterday.
A thought is just a thought.
It comes and goes. It might come back, and certainly it will go away once more.
The challenge is that often we take that thought and build our reality around it. That person is mean to mean. Nobody wants me. I am not good enough. And by doing that, we twist our reality to match the thought. The thought will stay and we become conditioned by it.
Blow thoughts away, particularly the negative, devious, perverse, mean ones. They are just thoughts, until you build them into something bigger.
There’s I did not have time to do it. And there’s I didn’t do it.
There’s You sent the invite too late. And there’s I didn’t come.
There’s The team is not supportive. And there’s I am not delivering.
There’s They don’t care about me. And there’s I am committed.
One is the path to stagnation. The other is the path to continuous growth.
To take the latter, you need ownership.
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