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Workpost 27: Business Inspiration
Byjack
- Start with what you love
- Learn how to do what you love doing better
- Find a partner to fill gaps within your execution
- Come up with simple execution plan
- Figure out where the revenue comes from
- Start with purpose, later you manage purpose not employees
- Delay gratification
- Culture has to be client centric
- Hacking luck is about persistence
- Taking risk increases luck
- How to deal with failure
- Don’t let things own you
- Do not let short term ego go (enjoy looking like a loser)
- Learn to embrace getting a D
- Take your time
- Don’t ask yourself what you will do when you grow up, ask yourself what problem you want to solve
- Write down in detail what person you are looking for in a cofounder
- Opposite of what you love to do
- Same moral code
- Post it everywhere
- Sell the sizzle, not the steak
- Build sales relationship
- Do they need you?
- Do you like them?
- Marketing is about experimenting and connecting with people over time
- Marketing is all about the process and the system
- Marketing is about having fun
- Write press release like its the actual story, do all the work for the journalist (high res photos)
- Lean into marketing for other brands you like and they can lead to brand sponsorship
Something I was thinking about in this video is how I love challenges, but I don’t like failures. But maybe the most important thing to do, or a really good outcome for a challenge is failure, and I can focus on failure if I want to. I think maybe a big part of failure, is unexpected outcomes. It isn’t important that you didn’t succeed at what you originally went for, but how you grew in the process of trying and discovering what unexpected things were on the other side.
The cofounder part is also really interesting in writing down what I want so I can recognize someone when I see them.
Sales relationships makes me think about reaching out with all my goals and involving people on a journey because that is the thing that interests me the most, it is the thing that I can connect with people on very easily and naturally.
Marketing is making me think that failure might also be about the story you can tell afterwards. The story is not about success, it is about the exciting hook and premise. Failure is one of the most interesting ends to a story, although it can be depressing.
Workpost 18: Addicted
Byjack
I’ve been playing pokemon go so much recently. I’ve made a lot of progress in the game, but I really worry that I’m getting addicted because of how stressed out I am right now.
I stressed out about my relationship and about my career path moving forward. I want to make sure that work does not take over my life and that it stays aligned to what I want to do moving forward.
Every time I feel stressed, I reach for the pokemon go. Holy shit, I am addicted.
I feel very tired, but no longer sick. That is a good thing at least.
I’m going to walk around the airport. And this time, instead of catching pokemon, I am going to meditate and think.
On the plane I meditated on some of my issues and I came to a big realization. The first step to feeling or processing any pain is to notice and name the pain that exists. I spend so much time avoiding thinking about painful emotions or experiences, avoiding thinking about how things hurt me it makes it hard to face the pain at all since I’m not taking the first step,
I want to focus on doing that more now as the first step to processing more emotions.
Workpost 14: Tired
Byjack
I am worrying about a couple of things. First of all, I went to bed at 2AM again. This is becoming a pattern that I need to address ASAP.
Thinking about what I need via connection theory here is what I came up with:
- I need to be able to let go of not being productive during the day. It is hard, but I need to be able to say, I accept where I got to today.
- I need some way to process that pain and any anxiety from the day. Connection theory is telling me to yell and scream or hyperventilate.
- I need to get into bed at the proper time but again, like last time, I can intice myself with being able to use my phone while in bed.
Also, I feel linked to this is my anxiety around work.
My initial thought is to stop “trying” and pushing harder against a problem, rather everytime I hit an issue, write down all of the questions I have, then work out those problems outside my apartment, walking or going to the gym.
Connection theory is telling me drawing might help as well.
Overall, I feel like total shit and I feel the lack of sleep is taking a toll on my digestion. I hope to relax enough to take a nap and get back into working order.
Workpost 63: Extreme procrastination
Byjack
I’m struggling with some extreme procrastination where I don’t want to work at all.
Let me try to process.
I feel like there is no point and I feel overwhelmed. I feel it in my chest, this invisible resistance.
I feel scared to shoot more videos, it brings up fear in my heart.
I guess anything I do I can break down into a process instead of doing everything all at once.
Workpost 72: Refocusing
Byjack
There are a couple of things I’m feeling into.
- I wonder if I have prediabetes since I do not feel well after eating sugar. I feel a bit numb and my stomach doesn’t feel good. I feel it in my kidneys as well.
- I really want to tackle my bloating and take it seriously. I was able to find way to tackle my knee issues, I should be able to tackle them too. My first thought is just to massage right below the belly button softly but for a long time, it tends to work and is very gentle.
- I want to refocus on my businesses, maybe create some challenges around them now that I’m excited and motivated to work on them again.
- I want to do what I set out in the last workpost, cleaning out my to-do list as cleanly as possible.
Ok here are some of the symptoms of prediabetes:
- Increased thirst – yes at night
- Frequent urination – nope
- Increased hunger – nope
- Fatigue – not really more than usual
- Blurred vision – nope
- Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet – nope, more on the back
- Unexplained weight loss – nope
- Dark spots on the skin – nope
- Skin tags – nope
- Slow healing of cuts and wounds – nope
So I probably don’t have prediabetes, just don’t respond well to glucose spikes or processed sugars.
In terms of bloating, I want to keep it simple, just doing very light circles right below my belly button really is causing me to feel like my gas is leaving. I want to make it a habit to do that when I’m feeling bloated.
Also, when I feel stressed, I want to focus on breathing. I want to charge my watch more often and use it to check my stress levels.
I’ll leave my business planning to dedicated blog posts, but overall, my next step is to improve my working tools and setup.