Rohit

There’s just too many shiny objects always being shoved in our faces. Try to focus on something for an hour without checking your phone — much less focus on something for at least 90 days or ideally (in terms of the business world), how about…a year? Gulp. Yeah, most people can’t do that. At all. Instead, they jump from one thing to one thing to another, always pivoting, always trying something new, but never giving something enough time to develop before they give up and throw the towel in, only to go and do the same thing over and over. It’s a vicious cycle. It’s like putting a marinade on your meat that says you need to give it 24 hours, and then 20 minutes later you throw it on the grill. Of course that’s not going to work, because you didn’t give it enough time to develop the taste the marinade was supposed to create. Instead, you ruined a perfectly good piece of meat. And unfortunately, a lot of people ruin a perfectly good business or idea off the same premise. Impatience. Business is a marathon, not a sprint. Remember that. Every step forward you can take is going to require patience, time, and overall discipline. Not grilling the meat after 20 minutes when it needs 24 hours. Patience is the name of the game. If you’re patient enough, you can develop great things. Like a business that runs itself without you, allowing you to retire, or work less, or only do the parts you really want to do.