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How Embracing Your Dark Side Leads to Better Decisions

Like many entrepreneurs, I spent years stressed out, making decisions that led me nowhere. It wasn’t until I discovered Carl Jung’s principles that everything began to change. His insights on embracing your "dark side" helped me find the clarity and direction I had been missing.

The Turning Point: Embracing Your Dark Side

Carl Jung's work on the shadow self—the part of us that holds our repressed emotions and instincts—reveals that by acknowledging and integrating these darker aspects of ourselves, we can unlock hidden potential. For entrepreneurs, this means facing the parts of ourselves that we usually ignore or deny.

Research shows that people who acknowledge their negative emotions and traits are better equipped to make clear, rational decisions. By understanding and accepting your flaws, you gain insight into your true desires and motivations, allowing you to make decisions that align with your authentic self.

How to Apply Jung's Laws to Your Entrepreneurial Journey

1. Acknowledge Your Flaws: Recognize the parts of yourself you’ve been avoiding. Whether it’s fear, anger, or self-doubt, bringing these emotions to the surface allows you to deal with them head-on.

2. Turn Weaknesses into Strengths: Once you’ve acknowledged your dark side, use it as a tool for growth. For example, if fear has held you back, let it push you to take calculated risks that you would have otherwise avoided.

3. Make Aligned Decisions: With a clearer understanding of your inner world, you can make decisions that are truly aligned with your values and long-term goals, rather than decisions driven by stress or external pressures.

The Result: A More Purposeful Entrepreneurial Path

By applying these principles, I transformed my approach to entrepreneurship. Instead of letting stress and unresolved emotions dictate my decisions, I now make choices that align with my true purpose and potential. This shift has not only led to better business outcomes but has also brought a deeper sense of fulfillment to my work.

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The quickest way to learn what works is to sell your product face-to-face. Whether it's at a local fair, a conference, or your own event, those in-person interactions provide invaluable insights. In just a couple of hours of live selling, you can gain knowledge and feedback that might take you six months to gather while sitting behind a desk. Get out, thats the only way to separate the signals from the noise.

And this approach isn’t limited to just e-commerce products or services, every time I talk to founders, I tell them to get out there and engage directly with their customers, that is the key to refining their product and scaling their business. Every thing else is just a hypothesis.

Bonus! Thought of the week

"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty." - Tim Ferriss

As entrepreneurs, we’re often faced with difficult decisions. One of the hardest is knowing when to let go of a venture that isn’t working. Tim Ferriss’s quote hits home because it highlights a truth many founders struggle with: the fear of the unknown can keep us stuck in situations that no longer serve us.

Choosing the comfort of familiarity, even when it leads to unhappiness, can be a dangerous trap. It’s easy to convince ourselves that sticking it out will eventually lead to success. But the reality is, holding on to a failing idea or business can drain your energy, resources, and morale. As you start some thing new, dial this in to you thinking. When in doubt, do not over index on unhappiness.

*To my most loyal readers…Thank you. I know this weeks edition is late but after receiving over 2 dozen emails asking “what happened”, proved inspiring even with a compressed schedule. You guys rock!