Long Game

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👋 Happy Friday Ladies and Gents,

Aaron has a gift for turning an ordinary Friday evening into the starting line of something we did not know we needed.

I was listening to a podcast when I heard him say from the other room, "I could only do 50." I asked him what he meant, and he told me about a guy he follows who does 100 squats every morning as part of his workout routine. Aaron decided to give it a try and squatted out 50 on his first attempt. 

Then he asked me: "Can you do 50?"

I thought to myself, "Can I do 50? That seems like a lot." There was only one way to find out. I hopped off the couch and started squatting, and before I knew it, I had completed 50 squats, and it was not all that bad. I looked over at Aaron and said, "I wonder what would happen if I did 50 squats for the next 30 days?" 

"You should," he replied.

I am seven days into my personal 30-day challenge.

You might be thinking, "What does squatting have to do with living an intentional life?"

That is exactly the right question.

That investor was wrong. Gamma is now worth $2B, with 50M users and more than half their growth driven by word of mouth.

They're one of 6 AI-native startups in HubSpot for Startups' free Bold Bets Playbook. Replit grew revenue 50x after half the team pushed back on the strategy. Ramp generated 100M+ views from a single stunt. Clay's co-founder wouldn't hang up a sales call until the prospect DMed him in Slack.

Each one took a GTM risk most founders would never greenlight. Each one paid off.

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Aaron and I are committed to honoring our fitness goals. It’s how we support and show up for each other.

We work hard at designing a week that reflects that. We strength-train together at the gym three times a week, we walk, and we nourish our bodies with whole foods to stay on track. We are also working on our mornings. The goal is to be up at 5:30 a.m. to stretch, get in a quick run, come back for breakfast, and start our deep work by 8 a.m. 

It is a rhythm we are building toward, and some days it looks closer to that than others.

We are also getting our sleep aligned. For years, I was a serial night owl, and Aaron was asleep on the couch by nine, which meant we were operating on completely different chronotypes. We are on track to change that, and I think I have made peace with the fact that my body needs it.

We are committed to modeling what an intentional life looks like.