WHAT YOU FEEL: you feel like there is always too much to do with no progress

PERSPECTIVE: Every entrepreneur faces an overwhelming set of tasks to be accomplished.
The list is endless. Strategy. Technology. Team. Business models. Plans. Tactics. Functional areas. Branding. Staff. Money management. Offices. Fundraising. For every ten hours of time, there are one hundred hours of work. Put aside the passion, energy, emotion and pressure and think of all the
things that need to get done. It’s like standing in front of a dam holding back a river of water. Your first issue of the day arises, and pokes a hole in the dam and you plug it with one finger. Then the next hole and you use another finger. After a few hours, you’ve encountered ten issues and you’ve used your ten fingers. Problem solved. Then another leak springs and then another. No problem, you are an entrepreneur and you are creative. You use your toes. Soon it’s only lunchtime and you have used all ten fingers and all ten toes. Then one more hole comes and you figure out a way to use your tongue.
Sound familiar? It’s not only the number of holes to fill, but the nature of the holes. Some of the holes are little holes—a hundred small tasks that need to be done. Some holes in the dam are larger and more complex. These are things like business strategy, business models, technology, vendor selection and fundraising that require deliberation, multiple perspectives, as well as the time to vet and implement the right solution.
With all of these issues on your mind, and holes to plug, you must still run a business and manage the chaos of the day to day.

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