week 134: you have to die to stay alive

founders dilemma

thank you to over 11,000 of you who tune in weekly and share this with your friends and family. it means the world to me to have you along for the ride as we build a zero-to-10-million-dollar business (we recently crossed $6m in 4 years) and beyond.

i also love adding a personal note at the end of these, and i’m so grateful for the space you give me to do that without judgment.

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one of the entrepreneurs challenge day in and out is to die daily to stay alive.

what i mean by this is that very often you hit road blocks and challenges that make you wonder things like this:

• i feel alone

• is it worth it

• this might be it

• i know there is a better way but may be i am not cut out for it

and the list of disillusionment keeps growing with time.

but here is what i have learned that have helped me to keep going:

• you have to have the passion for it to keep going the distance (i have been in martech for 20 years so i am passionate about go-to-market)

• you have to have team and people who believe and lift you up when you are down (my business partner and also my wife always believe in me)

• you have to have open time to think and relax (i picked up tennis again to get healthy both physically and mentally)

you have to die is to live.

you have to believe.

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on a personal note, today is big day - the resurrection day!

of all the days in a year, today is all about Jesus dying for us so we may live.

this… to some is just a story and to many others.. is the truth.

if this is not true, no worries - just another good old story.

but if this is true, everything changes.

for me… my life completely changed when my family and i came to Christ and recognizing that we are sinners and the only one who is sinless could take my place and that’s Jesus.

few things that come to mind as i think about Jesus:

the world timeline have divided into A.D. and B.C. bcos of this one person.

we have 7 days in a week bcos of this one book.

we know God is love because of this one act.

so today, happy Easter for it might be just the note you might want to hear that you are loved and someone paid a heavy price for you and for me and have asked nothing more than to love God and love others.

that’s what Jesus claimed so HE is probably worth looking into.

leader point: in business and in life, you have to learn to die daily to self to have an impactful life.