Did you take a break? It's your job.
The Friday Finance Break
Welcome back from the Winter Break!
I hope you had some time over the past few weeks to pause, breathe, and reflect from a higher altitude.
As founders, so much or our time is spent focusing on:
What's urgent?
What's next?
What will get us to the next milestone?
...To the next month?
...To the next funding round?
There often isn't time to bubble up to a higher altitude, to ask more fundamental questions, like:
Why am I prioritizing what I am?
What milestones should I actually care about?
Where do I think my industry is going?
Why am I doing things the way I'm doing them?
Is there a better way?
Breaks like the holidays can be an amazing opportunity to step away and create the brain space for this higher altitude thinking.
Because here's the thing:
That time, aka "Thinking Time", might feel like a nice-to-have.
It might even feel like a waste of time when you're pedal to the medal.
You might feel like you "don't have time for strategy" when you're just trying to survive.
But as a Founder, it's important to realize that your most important job as CEO
Is not Chief Doer Officer;
It's Chief Decision Officer.
To do that job well,
You need to do whatever you need to do
To think.
Here's hoping you gave yourself that gift this holiday season.
If not, maybe it's time to call it quits today and catch a 4-day weekend.
We'll all still be here when you get back.
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