Throughout childhood when the topic of success would come up I would inevitably hear the phrase:
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
The cynicism never really sat well with me, but it wasn’t until much later in life that I better understood the flaw in that logic.
You know how it’s easy to stay upright on a bicycle while it’s moving, yet extremely tough to do so when it’s perfectly still? The force that makes this possible is also key to a stable, successful business. And that force is momentum.
Setbacks are inevitable, yet there’s a simple technique for turning any failure into a win.
I was on Zoom with an old friend whom I hadn’t spoken to in years. We were recording this week’s episode of Starting Now and it was such a great chat that the planned 30-40 minute conversation quickly ballooned to 90 minutes. But with even more left to cover, we decided to leave the remaining conversation for another episode.
We ended the show, I stopped the recordings, and we kept talking. Another hour had passed before we were ready to wrap up and that’s when we discovered that the unthinkable had happened.
The podcast audio inexplicably failed to upload.
I believe in the benefits of mindfulness and simplicity.
Less, but better.
Yet, to an outside observer, these past couple months might tell a different story.
This happens to me all the time. Tell me if it sounds familiar.
