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As a start-up you want to have a mission you are working towards and trying to accomplish, but you should also remember that achieving the goal is not 100% within your control. You are just one factor, one member of the team, one part of the strategy. You're only a contributor to achieving that goal. And even when you achieve the goal, it is not going to make you happy.

You need to find a way to work without actually wrapping up your entire ego and identity in accomplishing this one goal.

Isonhood felt like she was going down a rabbit hole. Anger, anxiety, guilt, depression clung to her. She eventually sought out counseling.

One of Adea’s friends, Angel, received an anonymous call that he saw Adea being put into the bed of a pickup truck that was outside her apartment. The person has written down the plate number and the description of the truck.

It is often times knowing how to ask the right questions. Giving people answers is not necessarily a solution to problems, but asking challenging questions that prompts people to think critically allows them to come to their own conclusions.

It is nearly impossible to change people who are not enrolled in the journey. People who do not want to learn cannot be taught. But, real change can happen when someone leans in.

Feedback is very much a part of the working environment and offers great benefits. There is the chance that too much feedback can lead to a lack of confidence for employees. It is a balance of leaders building up their teams in order to build the trust needed to offer feedback.

Anthony has a logistics background, as does his cofounder. Besides, wine business already has a heavy supply chain and logistics setup, so the challenges were more about building the software than dealing with the logistics.

Bernard shares about the beginnings of Food By People, a marketplace for home-baked goods that leveraged the Cottage Food laws passed by the US government.

A book can be really a powerful medium because it is long-form by design. A message from a book usually leads to more thoughtfulness and more clarity and more completeness, with more nuance than a one sentence tweet, or a short Instagram video can do.

Context switching, practice it. When faced with multiple tasks, most people will try to resist, and turn everything off so they could focus on only one task. That does not work, if you are kept distracted. If instead you teach yourself to go from one task to another, with the goal of finishing the new tasks fast and quickly getting back to the original, then being distracted will no longer be a reason to worry. The distraction will no longer appear distracting.

1) Worrying about something so far out that it might not happen.

The way to stop worrying about future problems is to get more information to understand the problem, and to figure out the next step.

2) Being nervous about the things outside of your control.

As stated, they are outside of your control so there is nothing you can do; the only sensible solution is to stop worrying about them.

3) Worrying about something that you know you need to do, but you also do not want to do, like laying people off, for example.

This is perhaps the most challenging worry as it involves emotions, and emotions are not easily quantified.

To stop worrying about this type of problem, put the emotions aside and think through the logic of the business case first, quantify the business issues. Once you understand why you have to resolve the issue at hand, you will find a way to deal with the emotions of doing it.