Road to $1M ARR day 41/60: bite off more than you can chew

then figure out how to chew it.

Day 41 of the $1M ARR sprint.

Velocity is insane and i’m starting to understand what REAL momentum actually feels like.

Multiple qualified leads hitting my inbox daily. Not tire kickers. Not “let’s chat sometime.” Real conversations with real budget holders who need what we build.

The storytelling angle is working better than any marketing campaign we’ve ever run.

Sharing the goal publicly, committing to it, then showing the actual growth in real-time? People see exactly how we operate.

The knowledge. The systems. The intelligence that glues everything together.

This challenge as a marketing investment is a genius move (throwing flowers at myself). No spray and pray. No fancy funnels.

Just radical transparency about the journey.

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Sent a new proposal today. Validation coming tomorrow. Plus three other deals that’ll either validate or die this week.

Two proposals per day is my baseline this week.

That new campaign i mentioned yesterday already generated two conversations that will eventually turn into calls with qualified leads.

The signal-based targeting is working exactly as designed.

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This challenge taught me something about how to create success that i couldn’t have learned any other way.

Bite off more than you can chew, then figure out how to chew it.

That’s literally this entire 60 days. Set an absurd goal. Commit publicly. Then reverse-engineer the systems to make it inevitable.

Most founders would call this reckless. i call it necessary. You don’t know your actual capacity until you push past what feels comfortable.

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i’m doubling down on LinkedIn updates about the challenge progress. Every post, every metric shared, every win and loss documented. it all becomes social proof.

Prospects see the hustle. They see the systems working. They see results happening in real-time. Then they want that same energy applied to their business.

People get a peek behind the curtain at how we actually operate. The frameworks. The obsession with process. The way we connect dots others miss.

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This game is changing me. Not just as an entrepreneur but as a person. The intensity, the public accountability, the daily execution.

I’ll never operate the same way after this.

When you taste what real velocity feels like, everything else feels slow. When you experience what compounding momentum actually does to a business, you can’t go back to linear thinking.

i love this game. The pressure. The speed. The fact that every decision compounds or kills momentum.

ARR: $765K → Target: $1M | Days remaining: 19

See you tomorrow 👊

O.

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