I couldn’t begin to tell you the number of projects I’ve worked with CMOs or CEOs on that died because either they moved on or I moved on.
They were really impactful ideas. Meaningful creations. Community building efforts.
They were concepts built for the long-haul. And quite frankly, they were ideas that you can truly wake up giving a damn about.
(Sorry if it spoils it for you, but I don’t wake up with insane passion about a Google Adword.)
And it’s these very ideas that I’ve felt have held me back in my career because I ignored a reality of applying time constraints.
I knew the average time span of an executive at an organization is 3 years. Thus, it would have behooved me (as it does now) to have worked those ideas under the scope of what’s achievable in that time frame.
And believe it or not, since doing that, I feel I’ve actually made greater impact with those ideas that if I had designed them to be longer-term executions.
If you want to write a book, it might be worth defining what “in your time” looks like for it. Is your deadline before having kids? Before money runs out? Before?
If you want to take on a new client for your consulting business, it might be worth defining what “in your time” looks like for it. Will you work with them only until you hit 400k in revenue for the year? Will you do it until one of your clients asks you to become an FTE?
An exercise in time restraints is an exercise worth doing, especially if the idea you have to execute is also worth doing.
Stay Positive & Don’t Let Good Ideas Die Because Of Time (You Can Control That)
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