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What we don't see, though, is the work they are putting in behind the scenes to be influential in their organizations: 1. The strategic thinking that they put into creating a plan to influence the organization 2. The process & effort that they put in behind the scenes to get buy-in from people, and 3. The skills they have mastered through deliberate practice to operate smoothly in high stakes situations.

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The path that works for me is journaling. I start with naming my emotions and then what actions trigger those emotions and then what is the best/worst case, what can I do right now (options), pick best action item.

This process takes me from understanding my emotions to clear next action.

Unless I have a clear next action my mind can’t let go.

Book written by Brad Feld and Amy (his spouse)

I appreciate Chris a lot for the time he puts into his blog and I have acknowledged that numerous times in my comments on disqus.

But I disagree with him on this topic.

That is what pissed me off. I was not a founder. I did not have a house and I was not going to take any more CC debt. But I put everything else I had on the line. And Chris is telling me that unless I founded a company everything I gave up meant nothing. Even founders draw the line some where right. After that second mortgage? Similarly I had my line drawn some where too but it was pretty deep.

That nails it.

Priorities change with age when you get wiser but those were the choices I made in my 20s for a company that I was not a founder of.

But there are many successful blogs that do not have an engaged community that comments at that volume. I was trying to explain just that aspect. I should have written that upfront. I also agree that being early and consistent helps in building the community.

But it means that if Yahoo invested in it, they might have had a shot at getting it right.

Overall one way for me to see the value of the internet is the fact that it can help us have the experiences we could only have with people close to us geographically in the past with someone located half way across the world. And i think every service that is adding value today is doing just that. :)