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Today I was talking with a client and he was telling me a sad story.

Basically they fired their old IT company because they somewhat “tried to bank on them”, by asking too much money for simple things that would even fail to work as advertised.

All of this happened during an emergency situation that was caused by the lack of “futureproofing” of the product the IT company developed, so it was partly their fault to begin with.

What he told me (and I’ve agreed 100%) is that we often avoid communicating issues or failure. Instead we take different routes.
We fear shame, but in fact communicating that you won’t be able to finish the job properly is important too. If they did that, they might be still on the contract of the company, maybe for less things, but still working nonetheless.

I’ve always wanted to inspire people to do great things and for many years I’ve talked into that.

I talked to people telling them how great they were, how much power they did have, I also wrote an entire book on the subject of self improvement.

But the real inspiration comes when people look at your life and think “ok, they’re doing something different, and I like it”.

This has happened recently since I moved from a 9/5 job, to a part-time job to have more free time. A dear friend decided to work less, which is astounding given the society we’re in.

This is the real inspiration, this is the real change.

can we fix money? Is there a way money can become again a source of happiness and not of worry?

There is such a thing like hypnotic marketing, they sell it like this, and it’s truly hypnotic.

But I don’t like the idea. I like honest proposal, honest information, and I want to prove that there’s a way to that. That we can scale slowly and in control, that a business isn’t only defined by its exponential growth.

We have been accustomed to the example of startups. Companies that grows by 100x in one month.
That’s everyone’s dream. But after that growth you grow the company, and the growth is unmatched.
The decline begins.
You hustle to find another source for a 100x multiplier, and you may or may not find it.

If not, you’re probably paying too many people and you need to fire some of them. People you were close to.
You say goodbye, and maybe you find a good dimension for your company, maybe you find a niche to fit in, a niche that does respect your work and love your ideals.

Can we skip the 100x multiplier please? Thanks.