Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

What I struggled with:

• The same issues as last week around being productive. I just didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped to. It was another holiday week, but even so I was frustrated because I felt I should’ve done more.

What I learned:

• A friend is starting a company, so we worked on mission and vision statements together. We gave each other feedback. That wasn’t planned, but it worked out great. He brought a fresh perspective and provided great feedback and edits.
• The vision statement is hard to craft and takes time to get concise. I can’t do it in one sitting. But working on it forced me to crystallize my thinking around how the future could look if what I’m creating is successful.
• I shared what I learned from reading 52 books. See here. A few people asked to see the list of books. I need to figure out a way to publish that list on my blog. Ideally, I’ll be able to easily update it weekly when I finish a book. Goodreads offers a widget that can plug into a website, but it’s pretty bad. I might have to share manually via a blog post for now and figure out another solution that I can update weekly down the road.

Those are my struggles and learnings from the week!