"Are You Wasting Your Life by Working So Much?"

0:00I'm wondering because you spend a lot of your time working and it seems like you have this routine every single day is somewhat similar. Are you concerned that you're spending some period of time in your life that a lot of people would deem like the golden years doing the same thing over and over again rather than like openness to experience and maybe trying traveling or trying and going this doing this new hobby like this ping pong thing, right? Doing a new thing and experiencing it and then what if it's like 10 times better than whatever you had? What if you allocate a certain percentage of your time on a weekly basis to try out something new?

0:27Well, one I wouldn't know if there was something that was better. Mhm. And so that doesn't bother me very much. Like there could be something I'm sure there's something that could be hypothetically better, but I also would hedonistically adapt to it anyways and probably return right back to my baseline. I mean, there are people who live in Africa who never leave the tribe and are happier than we are. And so like I don't think finding out more things is the is like the path. Um but uh for me to somebody who would criticize my quote way of living, um I do exactly what I want as much a highest percentage of my day as I humanly can with the people that I want to do it with. And so like I would say, you know, cuz I I I get uh criticized from family still to a degree that I quote work too much. But that's because like their projection of what work means to them is just so negative.

1:15And if I said all I do is play video games all day, then they would say that I'm not working enough. But what if I my job was to play video games all day? Then I'd be working too much. It's just like it's simply just their projections of how they would prefer I live my life. Their statement is I would prefer you live your life the way I want you to live your life. To which I say no. So I live my life the way I want to live it. And that is enough. Real quick, if you were a business owner and you were 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 road map, 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 deconstruct 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 the business, see if we can help, and if we can, we'll invite you out to Vegas. We'll do this in person live.