Day One Energy

I was inspired to have this conversation with us today because I was reading one of the books, one of the business books I was reading, uh, recently was Dan Sullivan's latest, uh, The Greater Game.

And in the first chapter, they start to talk about some of the attributes that successful founders have that maybe the average person doesn't have.

And, and these are not, like, genetically wired traits.

They are sometimes habits or things that we could also adopt and, and learn from.

Uh, maybe there are some, like, baseline states and, and this day one energy we're gonna talk about, whether this is something you can manufacture or something that you just have inside you.

But they talked about the founders that were most likely to succeed over the long haul.

And I'm sure you've heard some of these, uh, quips online around success loves speed, how, you know, founders who stop and optimize their work often miss opportunities, right? Like, the, like, constant drive and innovation and moving forward often creates, like, messy SOPs and messy process.

But the innovation and drive forward often is what creates success, right? Especially in this day and age.

Sitting down and, like, optimizing your email nurture sequence maybe isn't the best place to spend your time when there are all these amazing, new, unique opportunities that you might wanna tackle.

So they were talking about all these different attributes that founders have, and the one that stuck out to me the most, because I'm so committed to helping naturopathic doctors feel valued and respected in primary healthcare, was talking about this idea of day one energy.

And founders who are more successful have day one energy every day.

Every single day that they wake up, it's day one energy.

So if we think back to what it felt like to be in school, where we maybe were, uh, shielded from some of the realities of practice, there seemingly were patients...

I mean, at least when I went to school, there wasn't really social media, so I didn't get to, like, hear or see the state of naturopathic medicine outside the walls of the school.

I'm sure it's very different now.

But you are, you know, in a bubble.

You are in the little group.

Everyone agrees with and believes in naturopathic medicine inside that building.

And so you don't necessarily get exposed to other opinions or other ideas or have to face the realities of trying to practice in primary healthcare, right? You don't really have that experience while you're in school.

So your day one energy when you leave school is, you know, [chuckles] clean, beautiful, excited, right? It doesn't have some of the hurts that we start to accumulate through our career, through rejection, through, uh, you know, some of those professional experiences that we have.

But founders who are able to maintain day one energy actually have greater success.

And it means, like, what...

And the description of day one, and, and I've added my own little, uh, piece to this, is that we wake up hopeful, excited, future and forward thinking.

You know, uh, you have let the rejections from yesterday, you know, stay in yesterday, essentially.

And waking up with the belief that your ideas are important, they matter, they belong here, they're gonna change the world, and you just have to, like, tackle the day, right? And when we graduate, I think we have those feelings.