Life running a start-up is very unique. You have highs, and you have lows. In one day, you ride a rollercoaster of emotions, so just imagine the spectrum of feelings you go through in one year.
Victory is sweet. Maybe it’s so sweet cause it’s not always a certainty.
On the matter, former Green Bay Packer coach Vince Lombardi would say:
“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans.”
That might be true in sports, though the truth is that in that arena, you have a score to determine who wins. In business and life in general, victory is sometimes elusive and oftentimes relative.
At the risk of sounding like The Donald, in life you need to be a fighter and a winner, and frankly, beyond the bravado and swagger, few people are. It’s all talk, an image, mainly, a facade.
I don’t particularly recommend people to go out and say how tough they are, how much of a winner they are; returning to the sports analogy, they should do the talking on the field and let others do the talking. That’s how you create an honorable legacy.
In my primary role as Chief Cheerleader and Motivator, I tell you, I have to walk a fine line between being positive/optimistic and being realistic. But if there is one thing I have learned it’s this: don’t let the bad things in life get you down, and don’t let the good things get to your head.
The ideal is to try to see the forest through the trees and view all potential bad things as the hidden opportunities they actually are; but you need a PhD. from the Tony Robbins school of life to truly believe that.
It’s almost like statistics theory where you basically need to eliminate the outliers on both sides, roll up the sleeves and focus to “beat the guy in front of you,” and Lombardi would say.
I think I understand why some people become successful while others melt down and fizzle out: the winners don’t let anything phase them, they know what it takes to win and deliver when it counts.
I love building and running a startup. In fact, we just turned one and now that contracts come back signed, I sometimes do not even think it’s fair to call ourselves a start-up… but I’ll never stop thinking that we are one when it comes to hustling.
Allright, back to work, enough pontificating.
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