Watch these videos when you think you won’t last another day

Startups are hard. Keep yourself motivated by any means necessary.

Jimi Smoot
Mission.org
Published in
2 min readJul 10, 2016

--

I think it was Sean Parker who said: “Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.” Ben Horowitz shared his dismal perspective when he said: ‘’as a startup CEO I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.’’

If you are someone who is creating something from nothing you will encounter the darkness at some point on your journey. In these moments you will need to reach deep within yourself to find something that will help you keep going forward. Meditation can help with this but sometimes, when things get really hard, you can return from your inward search empty handed.

This post is for those times.

If you find yourself in this situation, here are a few videos that may be able to help you get through the next 24 hours.

Watch on repeat if necessary.

It Is About How Hard You Can Get Hit

“Life will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it”

Remember What You’ve Overcome

“The only difference between the one that quits and the one that doesn't is that they show up every day”

The Game Is Won Inch By Inch

“On this team we fight for that inch”

You Are A Failure Until You Are A Success

“F$#k”

Are You Really Done?

“When your mind is telling you that you are done, you are only 40% done”

Stop Making Excuses And Start Moving Forward

“Excuses are tools of the incompetent which create monuments of nothingness.”

Set Your Mind To Things That Looks Impossible

“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard”

--

--

Jimi Smoot
Mission.org

Software Developer, Host of “The Prior Transformation” podcast