My husband loves to tell the story about something I said when we first met. “I’ve created my reality by thinking a certain way and if you challenge it, everything could fall apart. I have to believe what I’m doing is right and stay focused on where I’m going, not on what could go wrong.” He thought

Every founder I know makes some version of this bargain: I’ll feel good when I hit the number. I’ll relax when the deal closes. I’ll rest when the team is solid. I’ll stop pushing when I’m sure it’ll work. But we’re not just postponing feeling good. We’re also practicing a way of being. What You Practice If I spend

I make movies in my mind. And so do you. We did it when we started our businesses.  We saw ourselves calling the shots, finally doing things our way. It felt intoxicating and invigorating. If we hadn’t been able to see it and feel it, we probably wouldn’t have had the courage to do it. But sometimes this superpower

I’ve made some spectacularly bad decisions in business. Strangely, they’re not the ones I regret most. The decisions I made gave me something to work with. A result. A lesson. A chance to do better next time. The decisions I didn’t make left me with only my imagination. That’s the harder kind of regret. There’s no result to evaluate,

10 years ago I met a monk named Dandapani at a conference for entrepreneurs. At first, I wondered what he could possibly teach me about business. It turned out to be quite a lot because his specialty was focusing the mind. He said that in order to focus, you have to know what you want.

I thought I was fearless. Pitch the client, hire the team, build the product. But inside I was afraid. With clients, I was afraid they wouldn’t stay, or that they’d find out we were figuring things out on the fly. With employees, I was afraid they’d take advantage of me, or make a mistake that