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Fiona Duffy
The Happy Startup School

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By Jack Hubbard
CEO Propellernet & Dream Valley Projects

The overlap between what you love, what you are great at, what the world needs and what gets you paid. The sweet spot.

Make a grid on a piece of paper, write down your ideas on the left and the things that make your life better on the right (pays well, location freedom, meet cool people, creative freedom, perform at Glastonbury, sublime food, swim with turtles, climb mountains, rescue animals, help others, whatever does it for you).

What does that show you?

Now start a few projects, not because you think they might make you money but because the thought of the project gets you juiced up and raring to go. Start projects that tick your theoretical boxes and then observe which ones push your actual buttons when you are in them.

You only know when you DO. Action brings clarity.

The full picture is never clear but keep working at it and every now and then the clouds will part and you’ll see a big shiny motivating vision and then the clouds will close in again, and when they next clear the vision is bigger and brighter. Level up, keep going.

Observe the real world around you (not the edited media versions) and continually enquire “how does this help me?

Look after your wellbeing and the answers will come.

The plan changes, evolves and grows as you do. Thats the fun of it.…

…now start.

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Fiona Duffy
The Happy Startup School

Chief Happiness Officer @spookstudio & @happystartups I tweet a lot about my cat and wacky nail polish. High fives all round.