It was January, and I had arrived! No, not because it was the new year but I was finally the CEO of a scrappy company that I had been working in and developing for the last five years.
With all of the work, long nights, and personal growth I had put in to get to that point, I expected to wake up the next morning with a sense of vision, clarity, and purpose that was unmatched. The mantle had fallen, and it would be a magical moment! What I woke up to instead is a very clear sense that yesterday I knew what I was doing and how to be productive, and now I had no idea what I was doing. How could this be? I had spent all of that time growing as a leader, growing myself, the company, and others and yet I felt lost. I knew the company, knew ...
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