WARNING: This one’s gonna hurt...

Hi Entrepreneur, Tell me if this sounds familiar… Your inbox is overflowing with week-old messages, and new ones are piling in every day. You stopped trying to plan your day or even keep a to-do list months ago because your days are spent putting out "fires" or addressing the constant "shoulder taps" and "Gotta minutes?" that come in from your team. There’s no time to read, think, or work on the important but "non-urgent" projects, and most days, it feels like you’re everyone else’s executive assistant. If you eat lunch, it’s on the run or at your desk, and you know your health is suffering. You’re exhausted at the end of each day, but it never seems like anything truly important ever gets done. At best, you’re just spinning plates, but you quietly wonder how long you can keep it all together. When you get home, your family complains that you’re working too much and that you’re never around. It stings, especially when you remember you’re supposedly doing all of this for them. But what if it could be different? What if, instead, your average day looked more like this… You wake up, check your email, and the only item in your inbox is a link to the updated Company Scorecard. You review it, and aside from a few "Yellow" areas, all the key metrics are "Green" across the board. You start to ask about the metrics that are behind target (i.e. the "Yellow" metrics), but then you notice your team has already included an explanation of the steps they’re taking to get those numbers back on track by the end of the week. Knowing today is taken care of, you’re free to read, think, and strategize about the future. As a general rule, you don’t attend any meetings except for the Monthly Business Reviews and Quarterly Sprint Planning sessions, and aside from check-ins with your leadership team, you’re free to focus on the work you love doing that makes the biggest impact. Best of all, you have deep, meaningful relationships with your family and friends, and you have ample time to enjoy personal hobbies as well as trips and experiences with the ones you love. So, what is your average day like? If the first scenario hits a little too close to home and the second scenario sounds like an unachievable "entrepreneurial dream," then I have good news… The "entrepreneurial dream" scenario I just described can be your reality, but to achieve it, you must first confront a harsh truth that most founders will never learn and even fewer will admit. I call it "The Founders Curse." More on that tomorrow...stay tuned. Talk soon, Ryan [ryan-deiss-signature]   Sent to: {EMAIL} The Scalable Company, 4330 Gaines Ranch Loop, Ste 120, Austin, Texas 78735, United States Don't want future emails? [Unsubscribe](