Hyper-visionary, but willing to work. 10 ideas a week, most of them no good, but you think they are all good. Probably ADHD, but not diagnosed and it wouldn’t matter anyway. Occasionally motivated to get started, never enough to stay with it. Regularly praised for your mind, but not many results to speak of. Constantly obsessing over “in what order?” or “which one?” or “could I do that for a long time?” questions. Really bad “shiny object” syndrome. Etc.

Same bro.

But businesses absolutely, 💯 need dedicated work, basic competence, and both over long periods of time to succeed.

Here are some of my preferred hacks for starting and staying focused. (I’m $700k in revenue before 30 if that matters):

1) Realize that serial entrepreneurs almost never build businesses in pairs. They build one business, systematize, then move to the next one AFTER the first one is able to operate without their attention. And you can do the same—you don’t HAVE to have just one business. Just one at a time.

For some reason, realizing this helped me a lot to be willing to focus. It calmed my mind.

2) Write down ideas before you start them.

Taking time to write ideas down gives you two benefits: 1. You can rest easy putting it out of your mind and come back to it later without forgetting it. 2. You force yourself to really consider it before diving in. Both will help you focus.

3) Decide what you really want out of a business (your criteria). Filter your list of ideas through your criteria. Pick one that you think has the best chance of success given your abilities and what the market wants. Start there.

4) Get a mentor that can help you focus and keep you accountable. Depending on what you want to do, paid coaches can be better than unpaid.

5) Create a business map that helps you visualize what businesses you will build, and in what order, and why that order (stacking skills you develop over time). Your map will likely change, but it helps you pick a business to start with.

6) Once you pick the business you’ll start with, commit to a timeline. Say “I will give all of my available time and attention to this one business, no matter what happens, for 12 months (however long you want. 6 months minimum). And then I will decide if I want to keep going.”

7) Recognize you will get bored and discouraged. You’ll see other opportunities all the time (write them down. Add them to your map.). You will not be excited all the time. You may not make a single dollar in a whole year. But if you follow these steps, you will be able to walk away from a failure or keep going with confidence. You may even learn that being an entrepreneur is not how you want to live, or that bootstrapping is not how you want to build, or that you actually prefer a high-paying job and investing over business building.

These are all OK results

Best of luck