Scott Clary

1 week ago | hackernoon.com | Scott Clary

Most decisions aren't hard because the options are unclear. They're hard because your motivations are tangled. You think you're choosing between Option A and Option B. But really, you're choosing between what you want, what you think you should want, what others expect you to want, and what you're afraid to want. The best decisions come from untangling these motivations before you choose. I learned this from watching a founder struggle with selling his company. Good offer on the table. Couldn't decide.

1 week ago | hackernoon.com | Scott Clary

You wake up and immediately reach for your phone. Scroll through Instagram while your coffee gets cold. Check your email before you've even thought about your own priorities. Consume other people's highlights while your own goals sit untouched. By 9 AM, you've already trained your brain to react instead of create. Then you wonder why you feel behind. You're not behind in life. You're exactly where your habits have placed you. Every morning you scroll instead of create.

3 weeks ago | hackernoon.com | Scott Clary

Listen Here →The Hidden Business Strategy No One Talks AboutYour relationship is failing. Not your business relationships. The ones waiting for you at home while you "crush it" for another 14-hour day. While you're optimizing conversion rates and chasing investor meetings, your actual life is quietly unraveling. Your partner is building resentment. Your health is deteriorating. Your mind is fragmented. And you've convinced yourself this is the price of success. It's not.

1 month ago | hackernoon.com | Scott Clary

Listen Here →"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself." — Edmund LeeYou're surrounded by the wrong people. I know that sounds harsh.

1 month ago | hackernoon.com | Scott Clary

Listen Here →"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are." - Steve JobsYour life's most painful regret is already taking shape. It's not what you're doing wrong. It's what you think you're doing right. Those "exciting opportunities" filling your calendar? Distractions in disguise. The partnerships. The side projects. The endless meetings. The new ventures.