The one productivity hack that really works!
The act of making a list is like organising the cluttered cupboard of your mind. Minus the backbreaking effort.
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3 simple hacks to deal with uncertainty!
“I don’t know if you do yoga or stretching but this was the best way that I could think of to explain it…
You know when you do any challenging stretch and the part of your body being stretched protests…it basically hurts?
And when it hurts, you automatically hold your breath and tense up. Your entire body tenses up in sympathy for the pain that the afflicted muscle is struggling with.
And then your yoga teacher (or common sense) will tell you…relax into the stretch.
Breathe out.
Relax all those tense muscles.
Instead of pulling away from the pain, lean into it.
And magically, the pain lessens.
It actually flirts with pleasure occasionally!
Uncertainty is like that!
The single key to success – being disciplined!
But what’s interesting is that I’ve found my struggle with indiscipline escalated massively over the lockdown when the number of things on my plate scaled exponentially.
Between working from home & working for the home, I found myself in full-scale rebellion-mode – actively shying away from doing what needed to be done & binging on what I wanted to do – napping at inappropriate times & then pacing like an insomniac at night…completing things in a screaming panic seconds before the deadline…missing my workouts…eating junk like it was going out of fashion…
Should I go on?
Are you making that classic startup mistake?
What is truly ironic about the startup journey, is that IF you complete the first phase – Bootstrapping for traction – successfully, then you have to unlearn absolutely everything you’ve figured out so far for the next phase -Scaling up!
And this is where most founders trip up and fail to make the transition! This is where they make that classic startup mistake – of clinging to control by trying to do everything themselves instead of delegating and growing quickly – which can make the difference between your startup growing quickly & surviving long enough to make an exit!
Why getting fitter changed the way I run my startup!
I was overweight after my pregnancy. After a lifetime of being slim and petite. And the process of shedding that
3 reasons why fund-raising is just the beginning!
When we raised our seed round and finally had access to funds to scale our product-market fit, I was so sure that life would be so much easier.
That since we now had money to spend, we would be able to do everything.
And give life to everything that we had wanted to for so long, but couldn’t!
Right!
We soon found out that life post fund-raising is just as hard and much, much more stressful than a boot-strapped environment.
And before you cry ‘oh, you poor lil funded startup’, let me give you three reasons why.