We're Ardent Growth
We fix growth constraints.
We're Missionaries. Not Mercenaries.
Are you a mercenary who wants to make a few bucks?
Or are you a missionary who wants to make a difference?
Embrace Failure
Growth is a byproduct of learning through failure.
You will fail. Learn to accept it. It's far better to understand why you failed than to be ignorant of why you succeeded.
Seek out discomfort. It's the only place growth happens.
You decide how long it takes to get over disappointment? You cannot lose if you do not quit. Separate failing from being a failure.
Proof Over Promises
You don't become confident by shouting affirmations into the mirror.
Confidence comes as a result of evidence. Not the other way around. You have to build a stack of undeniable proof
Outwork your self doubt.
Everyone can make the same promises, but no one can have the same proof.
Proof > Promises
Play the Long Game
You can beat 99% of people simply by continuing to work without needing immediate reward.
It's hard to beat a person who keeps showing up every day. It shifts from winning to outlasting. And that's a very different game.
Anything that compounds does so over time.
The more successful someone is, the longer they can wait between doing and seeing the result of their doing.
Don't Cut Corners
Success takes work. A fuck ton of it.
Nothing worth doing is easy. There are no shortcuts. The work just needs doing and no one's going to do it for you.
"Boring" is what most people call the work it takes to become the best.
If you have to pick between doing the hard thing and the easy thing, do the hard thing. If the easy thing were the right thing to do, you would've already done it.
Fix the Constraint
Systems grow to their constraint and no further.
There are a million things you should do to improve—but you can't do them all.
You have to find and prioritize the constraint.
Prioritization means saying not right now to all the stuff you should do and focusing on the one thing you need to do.
Attack the bottleneck and ignore the rest. Let the small fires burn.
Have Hard Conversations
Whatever you want the most is on the other side of two to three hard conversations you've been avoiding.
Hard conversations create easy growth. Easy conversations create hard growth.
You either grow to your potential or you keep living the same life over and over again.
The difference is how many hard conversations you're willing to have and how fast you have them once you realize you need to.
We're Writing the New Growth Playbook for Professional Services
We're a group of people that like to solve problems.
