Where do you want to be 10 years from today? Are you happy where you are right now? What steps are you taking TODAY to help get you where you want to be?
These are the types of questions that we like to ask since these are the questions that actually matter. As an impact-driven firm with an outrageously optimistic mission, we have to ask these questions.
This process is not about your next role and it sure as hell is not about your resume. We don’t care about your next role, certainly don’t care about your resume, and, to be honest, we often won’t even care about your feelings.
Bold thing to say but it’s the truth.
We Care About Future You
Okay, so what am I saying? More importantly, what do we care about. We care about YOU! Long term YOU! 10 years from now YOU! FUTURE YOU!!!
So what I said earlier is correct but not completely correct. While we do care about your resume and your next role, they are only important so long as they are a means to an end. Your desired end. If you do not know what that is, no problem. Many don’t. Let’s walk together, figure it out, and take some action to get there.
That is what this process is truly about. Let’s build something great together. Something extraordinary. Something that you and I would not have even dreamed to be possible. Together, let us BUILD FUTURE YOU.
How We Can Help You Build Future You
Okay, so how do we get there? There are a few steps that we need to take, but here are the first ones that come to mind. First things first, we need to abandon your mind of these limiting beliefs that are holding you back. Also, we need to instill a sense of urgency. Real urgency. I often say “gazelle-like intensity” since that’s a healthy visual.
Gazelles are preyed upon in vast open plains by the fastest land mammal to ever live on earth: the cheetahs. When the cheetah gets going, it can hit a top speed of 80 miles per hour. EIGHTY MILES an hour. Despite this impressive speed, most of the time, the gazelles escape and the cheetahs need to move over to a new target.
How, then, is it possible for this comparatively much slower, less trained, wildly outmatched to escape the destructive grasp of a cheetah??? URGENCY. Move with urgency baby, emulate the gazelle and see who, if anyone, can catch you.
Okay moving on, what are some other things that we need to abandon. Mediocrity, excuses, and the need for motivation. That’s a lot but we can handle this one step at a time.
Let’s start with mediocrity. I am allergic to it and you should be to. I often repeat to myself, “If I cannot be great, I do not want to be”. I recently added something along the lines of “Consistency is the only option”. Either way, you get the point.
Staying Motivated in the Face of Uncertainty
Motivation is fleeting. It rarely endures but we still need to get things done in the interim. This is where consistency and discipline come into place. If you are able to implement those two super powers into place, you will be absolutely dangerous.
Right now, I am not feeling particularly motivated to finish this letter. I started since I felt motivated and had an urge to get a thought down before I forgot, but now I have fleshed out the initial thought and am not particularly eager to continue to expand on it and that is okay. No one cares whether you were motivated to get something that needs to get done or not. What matters is that it is actually done. That right there should be inspiring but it makes me realize that this letter may never truly be done. To create a collectively exhaustive (shoutout to econ stats professor for the term back in the day) list of all the things we need to abandon and all the things to implement would be an insurmountable task. Thousands of books on the topic have been written and thousands more will be created.
This is okay. As long as you have your guiding north star and are committed to taking the steps necessary to get there, you will get there. We will walk with you along the way and help you get there. Now, this brings us to a new question: How bad do you actually want it?
