Champions See Their Past as Their Origin Story

0:01Victims see their past as their fate. Champions see their past as their origin story. And so, a lot of people are living through their origin story right now, or they're living through the very reason that they'll never be successful, but it could be the exact same situation. And the only difference between either character is the actions they choose to take, which means that if you're using Joe Rogan's frame, waking up in your main player character today in this moment, as weird of a construct as this is, the past doesn't exist.

0:38Just gone. It's not anywhere. And so, the only thing that we absolutely have control over is the actions that we take right now, and it's a weird eraser of time to when you really start thinking that like it it's only exists in chemicals in my brain, but it doesn't exist right now to think about the past that way, but in some ways it's also very freeing because it means that I get to start with no baggage. And in some ways for me it makes the present feel light.

1:05Because you're not carrying anything into it. Have you seen that Tim Urban illustration of the tree of time, these sort of branches? So, it starts off with life, and there's only one black branch that is the particular path that you took, and there's all of these green ones that you haven't taken. And then it gets to now, there's a line where it's now, and then it turns to every branch is potential, right? So, you had lots that could have been, only one that was, and now you have lots that could be, and an unlimited number that may be all together.

1:37And that's it is it you're right, it's light when you think about that frame. It makes the present moment feel Oh, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter matter what happened when I was a kid. It doesn't matter. It only matters if you make it matter. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you're not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So, my team and I put together the $100 scaling roadmap, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it. And so we broke it into these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information, it'll tell you where you're at and the most important part for you, what to do for each of functions of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources and finance. And so, no matter what you're struggling with, someone else has already struggled with it and solved it. And so I'd like to give you this thing absolutely free. You can go to acquisition.com/roadmap, plug in your business information and if you want us to actually help you de-constrain the business and you're trying to scale, we'd love to help you out. On the thank you page you can just book a call with my team and we will look at your business, see if we can help and if we can, we'll invite you out to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.