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Everything in my life from the outside in looked amazing. My friends, family, and colleagues in the industry thought I was an example of “success.”  I owned 3 separate companies, the world’s best family, amazing business partners in 2 of my businesses, and great customers, and felt I could do anything I set my mind to. The only problem was… I was overwhelmed and unhappy. In this blog post, I’m going to walk through how I fell into the “too many great opportunities” trap, how it nearly crushed my entrepreneurial and life dreams, and how the advice of a pumpkin farmer changed my perspective on business and life. Why am I opening up and writing this right now? First, I wrote this post a few years ago, and a lot has happened since then. Good stuff. We’ve grown Carrot to over 8,000 active members and multiple 7 figures in revenue… and I’ve had to use this process multiple times this past year to clear out the “distraction” and focus on the “big pumpkin.” So just know… this process I went through a few years ago is one I still use to this day… that’s how much it’s changed my life. Also… Now is the perfect time of the year to make some mindset adjustments so you can hit next year hard and make it your best year yet. Also, this one shift in my business has made the single most dramatic impact on my income, fulfillment, and impact on the world of anything I’ve ever done. This article is for you if you…  If you’re feeling any of those, you’re not alone. That Was My Life For 2 Years. Busy. Long Hours. Unfocused. Less Happy. Less Fulfilled. The frustration that I felt like I was doing all of the right things and I was “successful” in many people’s eyes… but I just never felt that I could crack through to my potential. It seemed like I’d start a bagillion projects because they all had “promise”, but I would rarely take the important things through the finish line. I’d always have a backlog of “to-do’s” and always seemed to carry the important “to-do’s” over to the next day for weeks and months on end. I’d get to the end of the day and feel totally wiped out because I was really “busy,”… but I’d look back on the day and always felt like I couldn’t pinpoint what important project I actually pushed forward in a measurable way that day. Vision… most of the time, I really couldn’t clearly articulate what I wanted in life and what impact I felt that I was made to make on the world… because I was torn by making a vision too specific that it would alienate some of the “important” projects and businesses I’d already committed my time to… but that didn’t jive with what in my heart I knew i loved to do. And worse, I felt that the more I took on and the more things I had going in my business and life, the better off I was. In that life, being “busy” was a good thing, and when people asked how I’ve been my default answer was always… “Really busy as always!” … almost like it was a badge of honor to be “busy.” I Hit A Breaking Point, And Things Had To Change. So Here’s What I Did… I couldn’t do things like this anymore. You can maybe relate. If I wanted to live the life I knew I was made to live and to make the impact in life I knew I could make, I had to … Continued