I was grinding every single day. And every single day, I had nothing to show for it.

Busy is not the same as building. And I had to learn that the hard way.

In Episode 69 of First in Market, Jay Awal breaks down why staying busy can actually keep you stuck, and what the difference looks like between activity that disappears and work that stacks.

There is a trap that catches a lot of people early in their business. It feels like discipline. It looks like effort. You are up early, you are posting, you are in your inbox, you are responding, you are doing things. But at the end of the week, you cannot point to anything that will still be working for you six months from now. The busy feeling is real. The build is missing.

This episode names that trap directly. Jay walks through a simple way to test whether what you are doing to ...