Thread by @aaronwhoughton

I used to get paid $20k/day to advise early stage #startups. Average revenue growth of the startups I advised was 10x over two years.

I gave the #founders the same advice every time.

Pre-product-market-fit founders should organize their schedules like this.

A short thread 🧵

1) You have lots of great ideas about how your company can make money.

Figure out which ONE is most promising and spend 70% of your time executing on it.

If someone is buying one of your products, learn everything you can about them and find more people like them to buy it.

2) Choose one or two other ideas that are promising and allow yourself 5% of your time to begin laying the groundwork for them.

Having conversations with people who can help you build the idea later, or speaking with target customers about their interest in the idea.

3) Allow yourself an additional 5% of your time to manage administrative overhead like contracts, taxes, trademarks, domain buying, etc.

Unless something is absolutely dire, do not allow this type of work to take more time.

4) Your personal self-care routine should happen during business hours.

Spend 20% of your work time supporting yourself in these three categories.

Mindset: journaling, gratitude, therapy

Movement: biking, yoga, walks outside

Connection: friends, calls, playing with pets

I study the #selfcare routines of high-performing #entrepreneurs.

They treat self-care as work because they feel it’s critical to their ability to perform as the leaders of their businesses.

They spend 28% of self-care time on Mindset, 23% on Movement, and 21% on Connection.

If we haven’t met before, my name is Aaron Houghton and I’m a serial entrepreneur.

I sold my most successful business for $169 million when I was 30.

I burned myself out and nearly destroyed my mental health. I’m passionate about helping entrepreneurs avoid the mistakes I made.

If you found this thread helpful and you’d like some new Mindset, Movement, or Connection ideas to mix up your day, subscribe to my self-care routine in the Founders First app.

I’ll recommend two activities for you every day based on how you’re feeling.

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