09/21/2026
You are not behind. You are on a different scorecard.
Someone else inherited the accountant, the attorney, the conversation about money at dinner, the house that made the down payment on the next house possible.
You inherited work ethic and the instruction to be careful.
So you started later, with less margin, learning the money conversation while also trying to have it.
Of course your timeline looks different. You are building the infrastructure and the business at the same time.
That Sep 11 post said it plainly: stop measuring your beginning against somebody else's third generation.
Your job isn't to catch up to their results. Your job is to become the first set of results someone else gets to measure from.
What would change if you stopped grading yourself on a scorecard you didn't inherit?