Good advice - The Friday Finance Break

The Friday Finance Break

(For anyone just tuning in, every Friday we take a break from the CFO content and talk about mental health. If you're just here for the CFO stuff, we'll see you Monday!)

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​I came to a realization over my summer break:

I’m should prioritize working with small businesses more than other business types.

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I’ve worked with BigCos, VC-backed startups, accelerators, and more.

And yet

The one that fits my skills and personality best

Is small businesses.
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But here’s the thing:

I got some excellent advice to focus on small businesses

~10 years ago.

And the question is:

If I heard that advice 10 years ago, why has it taken until now to realize it?

Here’s why:

10 years ago, I was too naive to accurately evaluate the advice I was being given.

Because I didn’t yet know enough about myself

And I didn’t know enough about the world around me.

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It’s made me think a lot this week about how we choose what advice to take,

When we don’t have the expertise we need

To determine good advice from bad.
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Trusting blindly isn’t the answer.

But trusting your gut no matter what isn’t the right call either,

If you haven’t provided your gut with enough information,

To intuitively point you in the right direction.
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No answers this week, just the awareness that it might be worth questioning that voice in your head when it says,

• “Wow, this guy is a GENIUS!”

Or

• “Pffft… I’ll show this idiot!”

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