What did launching do for your mental health?
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As entrepreneurs, we spend so much time hustling, agonizing, organizing, and pathologizing. The burnout rate for founders is high. When you finally launched your product or service, how did it make you feel?
When we launched our beta (not on PH, but to our beta group), I felt peace. Finally, I could rest my mind on problem-solving based on facts instead of stressing over things that weren’t real. I’m curious to know how your mental health changed post-launch and what you’re doing to keep yourself sane in the meantime.
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Peace is the right word. The stress before launch was never really about the product, it was about not knowing which of a hundred small things would blow up first. Once it shipped, I finally had one clear thing to look at instead of a mental list I could not put down. Running more than one business at once, I never fully get that feeling back, because the moment one thing calms down another one starts making noise. What I am building now, FounderFlow, came directly out of wanting that same post-launch clarity every day, not just after a launch. What are you doing now to keep that peace instead of sliding back into the agonizing part?
@stacywycof83995 All of this. I think what keeps me from losing my mind juggling multiple companies is giving myself breaks. I think we often feel like we have to do the thing or else everything will fall apart. But that's precisely when I take a step back. Otherwise, I can't make moves appropriately. It's coming from a stressed and overwhelmed place.