THINKDROP 12: Now Is the Strategy
- Pierre Stanghellini
- 6 days ago
- 4 min read
Why showing up today beats obsessing about tomorrow!
🎤 From Me to You
Entrepreneurs are taught to live in the future.
Forecast. Scale. Disrupt. Exit. Repeat. But somewhere along the way, we lose the present—the only time anything actually happens.
I’ve lived this lesson firsthand. Building across markets, chasing plans that took months to take form (or never did), I found myself constantly one quarter ahead of reality. But growth doesn’t happen in Q3 or “someday.” It happens on the Tuesday when you showed up, made the call, made the tradeoff.
This edition of Thinkdrop is a pushback against over-planning.
It’s a case for urgency without panic, ambition without delay, and discipline without burnout. It’s about today, not someday.
As the saying goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” And I believe: that step must be today, and every day after, until you reach your destination.
Entrepreneurship is not a sprint. It’s a lonely marathon in the desert in autonomy!
Pierre Stanghellini.
HARi.wtf founder.
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1. The Illusion of Later
Tomorrow is where procrastination hides.
Long-term plans can mask short-term fear. We imagine momentum in the future to feel safe today. But risk doesn’t disappear with distance—it just festers.
Great companies aren’t built on blueprints. They’re built on bricks, laid today. You don’t scale in theory. You scale in practice.
Stop idolizing “someday.” Start honoring what you can do right now. Momentum is a decision, not a calendar entry.
TRY THIS: Take one item you keep deferring and ask: what’s the smallest version I can act on today?
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2. Momentum Lives in the Micro
Your calendar is your strategy.
Big vision? Show me your habits.
The real power lies in micro-consistency: a repeatable rhythm that compounds into momentum. Entrepreneurs undervalue today’s wins because they don’t look like tomorrow’s goals.
The present is where you prove your priorities. One small repeatable win beats ten distant ideas.
Daily effort isn't glamorous. But the right 30 minutes, repeated, outcompetes a flashy 10-hour sprint done once.
TRY THIS: Audit your calendar. How much of it reflects what you say you care about?
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3. The Myth of Readiness
You’re never ready. Start anyway.
Waiting to be ready is a lie we tell ourselves.
Every launch, pitch, or pivot carries uncertainty. Most people just hide behind “more research.” But feedback only follows action.
Start before you're confident. Act before you’re certain. You don’t learn by planning—you learn by doing.
Done creates data. Shipped makes it real. Imperfect progress beats perfect theory.
TRY THIS: Commit to a launch—even a messy one—before you feel ready.
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4. Focus Is the New Forecast
Thinking 10 years ahead is useless if you can’t focus for 10 minutes.
Everyone’s got a 5-year plan. Few can do focused work for 45 minutes without distraction. Focus is the compound interest of productivity—and the truest sign of strategic intent.
Distraction is the enemy of direction. The people who build empires are the ones who master minutes.
Presence isn’t passive. It’s active attention. The real future is built in flow.
TRY THIS: Block 60 minutes today for unbroken focus on one thing that moves the needle.
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5. Urgency Without Panic
Present awareness doesn’t mean chaos. It means clarity.
Entrepreneurs confuse hustle with presence. But being fully here, choosing your next best move calmly, is a superpower.
Panic makes noise. Urgency makes progress. Learn to feel the difference.
Real urgency is not a race—it’s a rhythm. It’s not speed, it’s clarity.
This is the edge of the present.
TRY THIS: Ask yourself: where are you operating from panic, and where from clarity?
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💬 Conclusion
This isn’t anti-strategy. It’s real strategy: grounded, daily, lived.
You don’t need a 10-year vision to start. You need 10 minutes of clarity. You don’t scale through planning. You scale through presence.
Progress lives in the now.
Not next week, not post-launch, not “after the raise.”
Let’s stop outsourcing progress to the future.
Let’s stop hiding in potential.
Let’s make now the strategy.
→ Let’s connect at www.hari.wtf or drop me a line directly at pierre@hari.wtf .
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About the Creator
Pierre Stanghellini is a creative strategist, systems thinker, and curator of mental rabbit holes. He created Thinkdrop Weekly to feed the brains that don’t want the same old Business advice. If you’re building something bold, beautiful, or strange—this is your corner of the internet.
Connect on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/pierrestanghellini
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About HARi.wtf
HARi.wtf is a creative strategy studio for businesses that hate business-as-usual.
Born in Hong Kong in 2017, we work with restless founders, operators, and teams who’d rather break things thoughtfully than grow them blandly. We don’t do generic decks or bloated strategies—we build clarity, guts, and traction.
From street-level restaurants to global brands, from Asia to Europe, we help shape ideas that move fast when it matters, and slow when it counts.
→ Explore more at hari.wtf
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