Convincing Energy- Understanding your capacity is key to unlocking your companies growth potential.

Convincing energy is still the thing I run out of the fastest; after big asks or big days filled with asks, I often need a day (or two, or several) to recover.

This means that sometimes (often) the growth of my company, How to be Second, is stuck behind my convincing energy; frankly, this also limits our “luck potential”, because the only way I have found to influence luck (which plays a brutally important role in success) is to just increase our “luck surface area” - aka, how many people I know and make asks of.

Turns out you can’t guarantee a “Yes” if you ask 100 people for something, but it also seems to be a hell of a lot more likely.

I’ve been able to smooth out the number of asks I need to make partially through the people I surround myself with, but it all goes back to getting help.

This one isn’t solved, it’s just lived with. Let’s talk about convincing energy, how you can better understand where you are at, and how we can all live with our capacities to show up and ask for the resources and help our companies need.

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