My Experience With Meditation: 5 Ways In Which Meditation Will Improve Your Productivity As A SaaS Founder
To be a successful SaaS founder, you will need a handful of habits. The habit that had the most ROI for me was meditation.
Last year, I built my first ever SaaS: Designvote. In the previous six months of making it, I meditated every day for 2x20 minutes. During these 6 months, my productivity skyrocketed; I was less prone to procrastination and talked to twice as many clients every day.
Here are five ways in which meditation helped me as a SaaS founder:
#1 It reduces the “Shiny Object” syndrome
There is always new tech out there, and if you come from software development, you will waste time exploring it.
While meditating, I could see myself getting distracted exploring new tech, and I was able to stop myself and focus on what was important: getting clients and shipping requested features.
#2 It improves focus
If you are doing marketing or if you are coding your SaaS, there are many ways in which you can get distracted.
The simplest form of meditation is the practice of focusing on your breath and getting your mind back to focus on it when it drifts away. It is similar to going to the gym for your mind.
#3 It helps you handle rejection
If you are a SaaS founder, you will have to get clients, and many times, potential clients will say no.
This would affect me pretty hard initially, but after I started meditating, I realized that these rejections are part of life and that those clients had other interests. It was not in my control to make them use my SaaS; what was in my control was the action of presenting it to them and letting them make the decision.
#4 It makes you less reactive to outside events
Whether a new competitor emerged in your space or ten clients left, you will be calmer and react from a place of action and not anger or fear.
For me, this was like discovering I have a superpower.
#5 It makes you more adaptable
You will have pre-conceived notions about your product and where you want to take it, even if your clients see another path.
Meditation helps you see everything at face value, discarding all the effort you put in the past and how much you sacrificed. The present situation is: your clients want something you are not offering, which means you need to adapt and cater to those needs if you want to succeed.
I hope at least this made you curious about meditation, and I also hope you give it a shot! Feel free to contact me with any other questions! Thank you for reading!
This post was created with Typeshare
