8E8 Show Ep64 Mars long
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It takes a lot of energy to launch.
We saw this with the
colonization of Mars.
They're literally building rockets
right now to just get that payload
into space, that have enough
power to launch that.
And I think this is a really great
point when it comes to startups
because it just takes a
lot of energy to launch.
Probably one of the most
common conversations I have
with our startup practices that
we work with is just getting into
the amount of energy that it takes to get to that point where it's almost like
now you've got to orbit.
Now it's like,
OK, breathe.
And usually that's probably somewhere around year three.
It could be middle year
two, it could be year four,
but somewhere in that span you've launched and we now kind of get
to this point where it's
like OK, we made it.
We're not going to die.
But it took an immense amount
of energy to get to that point.
But that also means you have
to have places where you stop
and refuel.
And so Mars colonization, enough power to get them into orbit
and then they got to kind of hang out and get another rocket to come up
and refuel them to
continue the journey.
And so I think it's almost like separating these phases.
There's the launch phase,
and then there's the growing the business phase, or the next phase
almost like the dream.
We all have this dream of launching a practice or launching a business
and so that dream is not
the short-term launch.
That dream is the long-term goal.
And that can be 10 years, 20 years, 40 years, the next 60 years.
And so we just have to kind of
chunk out, pull out, segment out
that launch and go
this part, this launch,
is going to take a ton of energy.
The rest of it?
We can't expend that type of energy for the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years.
It's just not going to happen.
We'll burn out.
You won't get to your destination.
So what you have to do is have
a moment after the launch
and whether that's something
really specific and intentional
where you slow down
and go let's refuel
or whether you just have moments
or whether it's just kind
of a downshift in pace.
But having the time
where you go OK.
We launched, took a ton of energy.
In order for us to get through
the next 10 to 20 years,
we've got to have refueling
points along the way.
And whatever those look
like, stopping to celebrate,
continuing education,
inspirational stuff,
whether that's just
things in your lifestyle.
It could just be you haven't
worked out for three years
because you've been launching
a business, and I get that.
Now it's time to make some
of those adjustments, refuel,
put back into yourself and your team because you got the next 40 years
of this thing to get there.