u/whallil

I see more often than not that people think they are trying to form good habbits. The are so laser focused on sticking to those habbits but they aren't looking as the whole picture. what they really wan to do is improve all around, and that comes down to putting your focus on what's important to you and making time for it. You don't need habits for that. You need to prioritize the stuff that actually gets you to your goals. If one of those goals happens to be a habit that's important to you, then you make the time for it. It's not about managing habits. It's about managing what's important. That's personal growth management.▎

I've spent years thinking about this exact situation and I came up with a silly example that helps clarify the problem. Say your neighbor asks you to help change a lightbulb. If your neighbor is a 30 year old man, you're first going to wonder why he's asking, and then you're going to politely decline. If, however, your neighbor is a 75 year old woman with bad knees, you make the time. The difference isn't your neighbors age. It's the consequences of not helping.

Habits are the same thing, except it's only about you, so you're the one you're deciding to help. You tell yourself there's still time and that skipping today is acceptable. It's not that you don't have the time. It's that you haven't decided it's important enough or the consequences aren't apparent enough to make the time right now. there's no urgency to the habbit.

That half mile walk after dinner is something you want to do. Walking half a mile to the gas station because you ran out is something you have to do. Same half mile. See the difference?

So personal growth management is telling yourself that walk after dinner is important, because you've decided getting more exercise is a goal. It isn't urgent. It's still important. So you make the time. Do that enough times and it turns into a habit.

Thanks for spending a couple of minutes reading my post. I genuinely hope it helps! I would love to hear your thoughts

Thanks!

Maybe this isn't the right channel to debate this but i'm going to ask anyways. I have been working this past year and a half developing an app and I'm seeing now that as I'm getting closer to launch that I just can't do it all. I am a solopreneur not out of desire but necessity. I have a feeling a lot of people on this subreddit are in this same siuation. my question for all of you is this

**If given the opportunity to bring on help as a partner/investor, would you take it in exchange for giving up part of your ownership or is solo ownership your motivation?**

The reason I ask is I'm only 1 person and there's only so many hours in a day. I feel like giving up some of the company (because I can't hire them without company income) it an option and If the company fails to grow, it's because I can't get to market quickly enough. I'm not an expert in everything it takes to run a business. There far more qualified people than me who have done this time and time again. so it leaves me pondering if i should try to grown by myself and struggle because of my lack of experience/knowledge/time in going to market or give up some of the company if i can convince others to joine me. I feel I have a good product. it's almost built but the slog from a PoC to a paid SaaS is real and I need to figure out how to bridge that gap.