The Power of Time: What 5 Years Can Accomplish


When I first joined my company as employee #3, we had pipe dreams for the future of our business:

  • We imagined crushing the next year or two and selling our company for big bucks
  • We imagined becoming so well-known that everyone on the street knew our name
  • We imagined how quick and easy our path would be

Boy, were we imagining! Absolutely none of that happened.

As an entrepreneur, it’s very easy to dream up a rosy future.

Your imagination runs wild, and you dream of building something bigger than yourself. You literally warp reality in your head to survive the day-to-day.

But nothing good is ever as easy as you imagine. It’s always harder. And it always takes longer.

Yet, it is not impossible. The main issue with these dreams is that you envision them on a shortened time scale.

Great things don’t take 1 year to build. They don’t take 2 years. No, most great things take 5 years to build!

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Former CEO who accidentally retired at the age of 36. I share insights on FIRE, enjoying life, and personal growth at http://accidentallyretired.com

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