#Gratitude I remember hitting the wall early on with SalesQualia when it seemed I couldn’t find a new client for the life of me and my entire delivery model was screwed up.
My university teaching gigs ran out and I was reaching into cash reserves to pay the mortgage. 💸
But there was something in all of it that I relished –
🛑 These problems were MY problems, and I got to solve them.
I had worked at large companies where no one ever took ownership of anything, and worked at startups where every problem was all hands on deck.
With SalesQualia, when the headwinds kicked in and the problems cascaded, I was the one who got to solve them.
🎗 Remember, you could always go back and get a corporate job, complete with brown walls, committee meetings, and meetings about when to have the next meeting.
🖥 You could spend weeks working on presentations and slide decks only for every recommendation to get ignored and every project to have its funding pulled.
🙄 You could be at the corporate off-sites with bad coffee and bagels, sitting next to that annoying mid-level manager trying to pawn their work on to your team.
I get it – deals aren’t converting as fast as you need, and the ones are at lower prices than you deserve to charge.
The engineering team is working overtime but can’t seem to get all the bugs fixed and the new integrations working.
It’s hard to find and keep the best talent, and investors keep asking for sales updates, cash flow projections and more details in your data room.
Yeah, some days it sucks and every day is really f&cking hard.
🙏 That’s when it’s important to be grateful – that you’re taking the risk to go at it, that you have customers that rely on you every day, that you’re building something that the world’s never seen before and that your team has your back no matter what. 🙏
