Acclimation..

Just tonight, we were talking about how we remember those days when we would buy a $10 bottle of wine, and eat out for lunch every day. Those were the days before we “made the leap” into the world of a startup back in May with Startup Weekend.

What would I change? Absolutly nothing. Happiness is truly not a product of money. Sure it takes a bit to survive, but I have barely making rent the last 6 months and never had so much fun. The people we meet, the lessons we learn, and the progress we see makes me want to get out of bed every day to “go to work”. In fact, I wouldn’t go as far as to even call the 17 hour days “work.” However, there are the hard days!

Especially lately with 14 events planned before the end of the year, the stress has been mounting. Realizing that we are never ever “caught up” is a feeling that you learn to live with. Its so hard soemthing when you wish you could just climb up on a hill and yell at everyone to stop and just listen to you because you know you have an amazing product, you just can’t express it in a perfect message to everyone quick enough!

What do you get when you have too much stress from a startup? A stiff neck and a stressed out girlfriend. So Ashley and I started hot yoga. Holy hell. I never knew that it would take something like twisting upside down and sweating like a pig on the gridstone to forget about that startup thing… It is so important to take the time to do this or something similar. Time to start riding the bike again too.

Can’t forget the food. Most days we forget to even eat until 3pm. The dozen cups of green tea we have every day seems to get carry us until we realize that we have to make some pasta again… I’m tired of pasta and rice. Seriously.