SPI 919: How to Start New Things Without Quitting the Old Things

If you have any ounce of entrepreneurial energy in you, whether you've tried to start something before and it failed, or maybe you are doing something and it's working for you. Either way, this is a struggle that I know many of you have dealt with. And honestly, it's something that I've wrestled with my entire entrepreneurial journey. So picture this: you're climbing a ladder. making steady progress upward when all of a sudden you see another ladder right next to you.

This new ladder looks shinier, maybe it leads somewhere more exciting and you begin to wonder, should I jump over? But what many of us do is we try to straddle both ladders. And the trouble is you can't climb either one effectively if you have one leg on each. You're kind of stuck in the middle and going nowhere and also putting yourself in danger. It's not the safest way to climb a ladder to straddle two and sometimes three or four.

And this is the entrepreneural's dilemma. And today we're gonna solve it together. I'm gonna share my framework that I've developed over the last 18 years of building businesses from my very first automated website that still earns passive income today to more recent decisions like moving on from the switch pod with my partner Caleb, which we talked about a couple episodes ago in episode 917. And so by the end of this episode, I hope that you'll have a clear system for knowing when to let go. Because that's really what helps us move forward.

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