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I have this line from @alexwestco's Twitter bio in a deck of daily inspiration that my planner software cycles through: > Currently at $300k/yr with http://cyb
by brushfoot 4y ago
I have this line from @alexwestco's Twitter bio in a deck of daily inspiration that my planner software cycles through:
> Currently at $300k/yr with http://cyberleads.com http://cyberleads.com. Previously failed with 19 products.
Failing doesn't mean you're a failure. It's just feedback from the world that something about what you were doing didn't work. Sometimes it's product, sometimes it's marketing, sometimes it's behaviors in your own life, sometimes it's circumstances beyond your control. Every time something fails, it's a chance to look at those and try to understand what happened.
And sometimes what you realize is that you just plain don't care about what you were doing, and that's okay. That's a chance to revisit what success means to you.
I know it may not mean much in the immediate aftermath of what feels like defeat, but you did something few people have done: you worked on a startup for 7 years. There are so many lessons you can take away from that -- whether that's how to make your next venture succeed where this one failed, how to "fail faster" next time, or that you hate the whole startup scene and want to do something else with your life.
Just remember, what happened isn't your life's final verdict -- it's just one piece of the puzzle. It could be the stepping stone to a great 7 years to come. Keep your stick on the ice.
- gala8y 4y ago> in a deck of daily inspiration that my planner software cycles through OT: Would you care telling some more about details? How does it work, did you set it up yourself, how it's done? I am very much interested.
- brushfoot 4y agoThe software is called Amazing Marvin (https://amazingmarvin.com/ https://amazingmarvin.com/). Marvin has a modular system of features that they call Strategies, one of which is Affirmations, which is a set of user-defined messages that it pulls a random message from once a day to show above your tasks. I mostly use it for inspirational quotes. I'm pretty happy with Marvin overall. It natively supports time estimates and different types of task scheduling (specific days, weeks, months). I came to it from Todoist, Remember the Milk, and Outlook tasks. I had also tried Taskwarrior. My only complaint is that performance is not so good once you have more than a couple hundred active tasks. But Strategies are great. I love that they can be toggled and how many there are.
- gala8y 4y agoThanks a lot. Looks like Marvin is using many approaches and it is all nicely chunked down into features - interesting set. I was particularly interested in these Affirmations. I see potential in presenting such 'reminders' to influence behavior / mindset. Marvin is the first piece of software I see trying to do this (added: I see it being done in a rather static manner, but still...)
- frays 4y agoThanks. Cyberleads seems like the epitome of what a Startup would expect to go through, and its product also looks great. Noted this down.