Category: Entrepreneur

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In a recent video on his YouTube channel, doctor-turned-startup founder Ali Abdaal shares everything he has learned as an employer who has read more than 2,000 job applications over the last few years. “If you do want to apply or get your dream job, then to be honest, the work starts way before you actually apply,” he says. “You want to build a portfolio of skills and assets that will convince your employer to take you on rather than someone else who’s applied for the job.”

One of the best pieces of advice he has to offer when writing your resume is to keep it short and sweet. While your first impulse might be to include every piece of information about your entire working life in order to make the best case for your skills and experience, the last thing any prospective employer wants to do is read six pages. The fact is, they simply won’t. A one-pager, on the other hand, is that much likelier to help you get an interview.

“If you do have tons of experience, there’s no harm in tailoring your CV to the specific job that you want to apply for,” says Abdaal. “The mistake people make here is that they take a scattergun approach, but you’re not going to land your dream job if you apply for 5,000 jobs with the same CV. Figure out what are the jobs you actually want… and figure out ways to adjust your CV so it fits onto one page, maybe two at the absolute max, but you get rid of all the stuff that is not

Entrepreneurs of every type and in every industry have the ability to make positive change in the world. However, organizing their work and life to maximize output and make the biggest impact takes intentionality, and if left to chance can lead to frustration and giving up. This is especially true of “catalyst” entrepreneurs. Catalysts are people who take in lots of information, see infinite possibility and can’t stop themselves from moving into action.

Tracey Lovejoy and Shannon Lucas believe that catalyst entrepreneurs require an entirely different method of energy management. They are the co-authors of the best-selling book Move Fast. Break Sh*t. Burnout. and co-founders of Catalyst Constellations and their clients include industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, Adobe, Amazon and Kaiser Permanente.

Lovejoy and Lucas are familiar with catalysts and their energy needs, being in that category themselves. “Catalysts move fast and burn bright, but if they don’t take crucial steps to manage their energy appropriately, they run the risk of burning out,” Lucas explained.

The danger of “hustle”

Entrepreneurs, particularly catalyst entrepreneurs, are constantly in motion. While Lucas and Lovejoy acknowledged that it is necessary for entrepreneurs to go hard, particularly in the early days of starting a business, they explained that doing so can lead to burnout if it isn’t managed properly. “The notion of hustle is very real for entrepreneurs, so we can easily talk ourselves out of taking down time,” Lovejoy said.

Lucas and Lovejoy noted that many entrepreneurs aren’t entirely sure what the right steps to building their business are, so they are hustling in a lot of different directions. “This creates an extra energy drain, and entrepreneurs can feel like some of it