Let Go

by Pat Flynn

“Keep your head high, and thank your former employer for taking the chains off your potential.”

Playing the comparison game is never good, but seeing how John was running his business showed me how I could have done things differently if I had thought about my business in a smarter way.

“Every second you waste spending time thinking about a hater is a second you’re taking away from those who actually care about you and need you.”

It was only after Janna came on board that we nailed down an editorial calendar and started actually planning ahead when it came to a content schedule across all the different platforms. We’d add things to the calendar far in advance, then work backward to determine when all the pieces needed to be accomplished.

find an audience you truly want to serve, identify their needs, then find the solutions and method(s) that will best serve those needs.

Constant learning and growing is great, but if it doesn’t lead to improvements in what you’re providing the world, then it’s of limited value. You need to apply your mastery in service of your audience.

if you don’t believe something will happen, it probably never will.

If you’re always comparing yourself and taking action based on what someone else is doing, you’re probably going to be reacting more than you’re acting. So let go of comparing yourself to others, and just compare yourself to you.

In the The War of Art, Steven Pressfield asks, “Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”