Is This a Real Idea or Just an Exit Plan?

Here's your reckoning.

A reckoning is a position check, an honest look at where you actually are before you move. Nobody can do it for you. That's the point.

The tell is usually in why the idea gets loud, and when. So pay attention to that. One of these questions is going to make you uncomfortable, because the honest answer isn't the one you came in hoping for. Stay there anyway.

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If the idea held up, the next fight is with the planning phase, and it's already started. Stop Thinking, Start Building is where the first real version gets out of your head and into the world.

These reckonings are a taste of how the Real Growth journal works: fifty-two of them over a year. Not buying anything today? The writing behind all of this goes out weekly on Substack.

If something lands, hit reply. I read everything.
Karissa