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It=E2=80=99s exciting but you=E2=80=99re always worried about getti= ng thrown off. In the first few years, it feels like the startup is trying = to kill you every week. There=E2=80=99s a new competitor, customer issue, o= r engineering issue that threatens to kill everything you=E2=80=99ve been b= uilding.=20 Well, I have good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that feeling n= ever truly goes away and the company will continue to try and kill itself. = The good news is that it=E2=80=99ll happen less frequently. Once you=E2=80= =99ve gone through a few big swings, you begin to realize that the ups, dow= ns, and spirals never last forever and are rarely fatal. That=E2=80=99s an = open faced shit sandwich if I=E2=80=99ve ever seen one.=20 I'd like to share some habits I=E2=80=99ve built that are working for me. N= ot because I've got it all figured out and you should follow my exact appro= ach, I don't, and you shouldn't. I'm sharing because I've found things that= work for me, and I hope you might find one or two helpful ideas for yourse= lf. tl;dr - the major variables that impact how I show up every day are: sleep,= food, exercise, philosophy, relationships, & hobbies. Give yourself a scor= e for each right now -1, 0, or +1 for each. How=E2=80=99d you do? I=E2=80= =99m in the positive now but I=E2=80=99ve spent a good amount of time in th= e negative.=20 I rode my bike to the office for 7 years, not super far but far enough that= I=E2=80=99d put all my gear on (shorts, jersey, shoes, etc=E2=80=A6). Ther= e were days where 7pm would roll around and I=E2=80=99d still be sitting th= ere in my bike gear and a pair of flip flops. It=E2=80=99s exactly as bad a= s you=E2=80=99re imagining it.=20 I knew exercise was important to my mental state but I hadn=E2=80=99t figur= ed out the rest yet. When Covid hit, I moved to working from home and lost = that daily morning commute. It took me 2 years to realize that, aside from = all the other craziness, my body was really missing daily exercise. So, he= re=E2=80=99s what works for me, I=E2=80=99ve grouped them into categories t= hat I think impact one another, for me at least.=20 **Exercise, sleep, & food. ** In 2017, I had two concussions within a 4 month period and the two biggest = symptoms were sensitivity to light and anxiety attacks. I solved the first = by wearing sunglasses nearly everywhere. The second was a little harder bec= ause they would occur as or immediately after I would fall asleep. I=E2=80= =99d be asleep for less than a minute and would wake up with my heart going= as if I were in a fist fight with a bear. I once woke up running, I=E2=80= =99m not sure from what but when I realized I was awake I was mid stride an= d already out of my bedroom. It=E2=80=99s funny now. At the end of 2017, we= had twins and my sleep was immediately better=E2=80=A6 problem solved (sar= casm). My biggest problem was falling asleep, there would be nights where I= =E2=80=99d be able to feel the anxiety and would know that I=E2=80=99d be u= p until 3am or 4am.=20 One counterintuitive change has helped me dramatically. I started working o= ut regularly after reading two books, Burn and Exercised. It helped but I w= as still having trouble sleeping every now and then. The real magic, for me= , came when I started getting up at 630am every weekday and doing my workou= t. I use Fitbod by the way and it=E2=80=99s fantastic. I=E2=80=99ve been in= this routine since the beginning of the year and so far haven=E2=80=99t ha= d any issues like I was near the end of last year.=20 The habits I=E2=80=99ve adopted that have helped: * No alcohol Sunday through Thursday, unless we have company. =20 * Read calm fiction on my kindle for 15 minutes before I fall asleep.=20 * Exercise every weekday morning at 630am.=20 * I shower and change into outside clothes after every workout.=20 * 16 hour intermittent fast until lunch unless I make pancakes for the kids= .=20 * Protein shake after lunch to reduce the hunger madness I was getting at 4= pm daily.=20 * Every January, my wife and I give up alcohol and track our calories.=20 It took me months to onboard each of these habits and I don=E2=80=99t recom= mend trying all of them at once. Try one at a time and see if it works for = you. I=E2=80=99m not an expert in any of these, they=E2=80=99re just habits= that have helped me and placebos are ~50% effective so take my results wit= h a grain of salt.=20 **Philosophy**.=20 I didn=E2=80=99t want to write about this one because there was a time a fe= w years ago where it was the cool thing to do if you were an entrepreneur. = I=E2=80=99m sick of hearing about it, even though it=E2=80=99s helped me gr= eatly.=20 The thing is, it doesn=E2=80=99t really matter what philosophy you follow. = The thing that helped me most was taking 10 minutes every morning and readi= ng about it. I set the goal of not reading on my phone until I had gone thr= ough my morning routine. Reading a little philosophy every morning helped m= e process emotions and events from the previous day.=20 The biggest thing that helped was the time to calm my brain and prepare for= the day. I tried meditating, mindfulness, and stretching but they weren=E2= =80=99t the same. It=E2=80=99s also really hard to stretch on the toilet.=20 If you must ask, I read about stoicism. What worked best for me was reading= the original texts (translated to english), Meditations and Moral letters = to Lucilius. If you=E2=80=99re just getting started, I enjoyed A Guide to t= he Good Life.=20 When life gets crazy I still remind myself, =E2=80=9Ccontrol your perceptio= ns, direct your actions accordingly, and willingly accept what is outside o= f your control=E2=80=9D.=20 **Relationships and hobbies. ** Two things I didn=E2=80=99t make time for in my early days. When Carb.io wa= s taking off, my girlfriend (now wife) would refer to me as the ghost of di= rty dishes. I think there was an entire month where we lived in the same ho= use but didn=E2=80=99t see each other. I worked too much. Overworking mysel= f meant I was mentally exhausted at work and wasn=E2=80=99t making good dec= isions. If I would have worked less, I think it=E2=80=99s likely I would ha= ve made better decisions. My wife and I try to hold Wednesday=E2=80=99s open for a couple check-in bu= t with kids and full time jobs, it=E2=80=99s been hard to consistently have= energy for it. The biggest thing that=E2=80=99s been recharging us is goin= g to see live music. It=E2=80=99s how we met and what we enjoyed most when = we were dating.=20 We now make it to around 2 live shows a month, they=E2=80=99re not huge nam= es and sometimes it=E2=80=99s just live music in a bar, but it=E2=80=99s ou= r thing and keeps us close. Your thing will be different, your person will = be different, but it=E2=80=99s important to invest time nurturing the relat= ionships that are meaningful to you.=20 I don=E2=80=99t just do this for my significant other, I have a list of fol= ks ranging from my brother to a buddy from high school that I want to keep = in touch with. I chose a frequency to connect with them and have a reminder= in my phone that I look at once a week. These relationships are my support= network, therapy when I don=E2=80=99t want to admit I need it, and my chee= rleading squad when I need a boost.=20 _Pro-tip_: One thing that didn=E2=80=99t work for my wife and I was trying = to run our weekly couple check-ins like an EOS L10 meeting=E2=80=A6 even ba= d ideas are worth trying once eh? When you=E2=80=99re training for a triathlon you obviously need to exercise= quite a bit. What surprised me was that you=E2=80=99re not supposed to go = 100% every time you train. As you advance in your training, you need to ste= adily increase your volume of activity. Active recovery is light exercise t= hat you do between big workouts to promote the healing (recovery) process.=20 My active recovery from startups involves spending time with my family, pla= ying games with my friends, and going to live music with my wife. These are= all things that take time away from me working more and give my brain some= thing to focus on other than what=E2=80=99s going on at work.=20 Making time for active recovery has benefited me personally and professiona= lly. When I am feeling relaxed and recovered, I make better decisions and a= m able to achieve a higher quality work product. I can work 12-14 hour days= and it happens from time to time but I know that trying to sustain that ef= fort level for too long is going to compromise the quality of my work.=20 Thanks for reading. Let me know if touching on the personal stuff like this= is interesting.=20 Collin=20 PS - I love learning about habits that are helping others so if you have so= mething different that=E2=80=99s working for you, hit that reply button and= let me know. =E2=80=94=E2=80=94=E2=80=94 You are reading a plain text version of this post. 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How I ha= ndle stress

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Good morning Andrew,

Building a startup is like riding an old wooden roller coaster with= no seat belts. It=E2=80=99s exciting but you=E2=80=99re always worried abo= ut getting thrown off. In the first few years, it feels like the startup is= trying to kill you every week. There=E2=80=99s a new competitor, customer = issue, or engineering issue that threatens to kill everything you=E2=80=99v= e been building.

Well, I have = good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that feeling never truly go= es away and the company will continue to try and kill itself. The good news= is that it=E2=80=99ll happen less frequently. Once you=E2=80=99ve gone thr= ough a few big swings, you begin to realize that the ups, downs, and spiral= s never last forever and are rarely fatal. That=E2=80=99s an open faced shi= t sandwich if I=E2=80=99ve ever seen one.

I'd like to share some habits I=E2=80=99ve built that are w= orking for me. Not because I've got it all figured out and you should f= ollow my exact approach, I don't, and you shouldn't. I'm sharin= g because I've found things that work for me, and I hope you might find= one or two helpful ideas for yourself.

tl;dr - the major variables that impact how I show up every day a= re: sleep, food, exercise, philosophy, relationships, & hobbies. Give yours= elf a score for each right now -1, 0, or +1 for each. How=E2=80=99d you do?= I=E2=80=99m in the positive now but I=E2=80=99ve spent a good amount of ti= me in the negative.

I rode my = bike to the office for 7 years, not super far but far enough that I=E2=80= =99d put all my gear on (shorts, jersey, shoes, etc=E2=80=A6). There were d= ays where 7pm would roll around and I=E2=80=99d still be sitting there in m= y bike gear and a pair of flip flops. It=E2=80=99s exactly as bad as you=E2= =80=99re imagining it.

I knew = exercise was important to my mental state but I hadn=E2=80=99t figured out = the rest yet. When Covid hit, I moved to working from home and lost that da= ily morning commute. It took me 2 years to realize that, aside from all the= other craziness, my body was really missing daily exercise. So, here=E2=80= =99s what works for me, I=E2=80=99ve grouped them into categories that I th= ink impact one another, for me at least.

Exercise, sleep, & food.

In 2017, I had two concussions within a 4 month period and the = two biggest symptoms were sensitivity to light and anxiety attacks. I solve= d the first by wearing sunglasses nearly everywhere. The second was a littl= e harder because they would occur as or immediately after I would fall asle= ep. I=E2=80=99d be asleep for less than a minute and would wake up with my = heart going as if I were in a fist fight with a bear. I once woke up runnin= g, I=E2=80=99m not sure from what but when I realized I was awake I was mid= stride and already out of my bedroom. It=E2=80=99s funny now. At the end o= f 2017, we had twins and my sleep was immediately better=E2=80=A6 problem s= olved (sarcasm). My biggest problem was falling asleep, there would be nigh= ts where I=E2=80=99d be able to feel the anxiety and would know that I=E2= =80=99d be up until 3am or 4am.

One counterintuitive change has helped me dramatically. I started working= out regularly after reading two books, Burn and Exercised. It helped but I= was still having trouble sleeping every now and then. The real magic, for = me, came when I started getting up at 630am every weekday and doing my work= out. I use Fitbod by the way and it=E2=80=99s fantastic. I=E2=80=99ve been = in this routine since the beginning of the year and so far haven=E2=80=99t = had any issues like I was near the end of last year.

The habits I=E2=80=99ve adopted that have helped:

  • No alcohol Sunday through Thu= rsday, unless we have company.

  • Read calm ficti= on on my kindle for 15 minutes before I fall asleep.

  • Exercise every weekday morning at 630am.

  • I shower and change into outside clothes after every workout.

    • 16 hour intermittent fast until lunch unless I make panca= kes for the kids.

  • Protein shake after lunch to= reduce the hunger madness I was getting at 4pm daily.

  • Every January, my wife and I give up alcohol and track our calor= ies.

It took m= e months to onboard each of these habits and I don=E2=80=99t recommend tryi= ng all of them at once. Try one at a time and see if it works for you. I=E2= =80=99m not an expert in any of these, they=E2=80=99re just habits that hav= e helped me and placebos are ~50% effective so take my results with a grain= of salt.

Philosophy.

I didn=E2=80=99t want to write a= bout this one because there was a time a few years ago where it was the coo= l thing to do if you were an entrepreneur. I=E2=80=99m sick of hearing abou= t it, even though it=E2=80=99s helped me greatly.

The thing is, it doesn=E2=80=99t really matter what phi= losophy you follow. The thing that helped me most was taking 10 minutes eve= ry morning and reading about it. I set the goal of not reading on my phone = until I had gone through my morning routine. Reading a little philosophy ev= ery morning helped me process emotions and events from the previous day.

The biggest thing that helped wa= s the time to calm my brain and prepare for the day. I tried meditating, mi= ndfulness, and stretching but they weren=E2=80=99t the same. It=E2=80=99s a= lso really hard to stretch on the toilet.

If you must ask, I read about stoicism. What worked best for me= was reading the original texts (translated to english), Meditations and Mo= ral letters to Lucilius. If you=E2=80=99re just getting started, I enjoyed = A Guide to the Good Life.

When= life gets crazy I still remind myself, =E2=80=9Ccontrol your perceptions, = direct your actions accordingly, and willingly accept what is outside of yo= ur control=E2=80=9D.

Relatio= nships and hobbies.

Two th= ings I didn=E2=80=99t make time for in my early days. When Carb.io was taki= ng off, my girlfriend (now wife) would refer to me as the ghost of dirty di= shes. I think there was an entire month where we lived in the same house bu= t didn=E2=80=99t see each other. I worked too much. Overworking myself mean= t I was mentally exhausted at work and wasn=E2=80=99t making good decisions= . If I would have worked less, I think it=E2=80=99s likely I would have mad= e better decisions.

My wife an= d I try to hold Wednesday=E2=80=99s open for a couple check-in but with kid= s and full time jobs, it=E2=80=99s been hard to consistently have energy fo= r it. The biggest thing that=E2=80=99s been recharging us is going to see l= ive music. It=E2=80=99s how we met and what we enjoyed most when we were da= ting.

We now make it to around= 2 live shows a month, they=E2=80=99re not huge names and sometimes it=E2= =80=99s just live music in a bar, but it=E2=80=99s our thing and keeps us c= lose. Your thing will be different, your person will be different, but it= =E2=80=99s important to invest time nurturing the relationships that are me= aningful to you.

I don=E2=80= =99t just do this for my significant other, I have a list of folks ranging = from my brother to a buddy from high school that I want to keep in touch wi= th. I chose a frequency to connect with them and have a reminder in my phon= e that I look at once a week. These relationships are my support network, t= herapy when I don=E2=80=99t want to admit I need it, and my cheerleading sq= uad when I need a boost.

Pro= -tip: One thing that didn=E2=80=99t work for my wife and I was trying t= o run our weekly couple check-ins like an EOS L10 meeting=E2=80=A6 even bad= ideas are worth trying once eh?

When you=E2=80=99re training for a triathlon you obviously need to exe= rcise quite a bit. What surprised me was that you=E2=80=99re not supposed t= o go 100% every time you train. As you advance in your training, you need t= o steadily increase your volume of activity. Active recovery is light exerc= ise that you do between big workouts to promote the healing (recovery) proc= ess.

My active recovery from s= tartups involves spending time with my family, playing games with my friend= s, and going to live music with my wife. These are all things that take tim= e away from me working more and give my brain something to focus on other t= han what=E2=80=99s going on at work.

Making time for active recovery has benefited me personally and prof= essionally. When I am feeling relaxed and recovered, I make better decision= s and am able to achieve a higher quality work product. I can work 12-14 ho= ur days and it happens from time to time but I know that trying to sustain = that effort level for too long is going to compromise the quality of my wor= k.

Thanks for reading. Let me = know if touching on the personal stuff like this is interesting.

Collin

PS - I love learning about habits that are helping others so if= you have something different that=E2=80=99s working for you, hit that repl= y button and let me know.

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