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0:00Fear exists in the vague. And so, if you're afraid to take the risk, write it down in excruciating detail what you're actually afraid of having happen. Like, really step-by-step what happens next when you fail. You'll often find it's not that bad when you spell it out because it only exists when it's hazy, not when it's crisp. Because when you actually play it out, okay, maybe you do go back home. And what is going back home really mean? It means that you go back to your old room or maybe you sleep on the couch or maybe you sleep on a friend's couch. And so, besides the rules that you believe other people have on your life that you think you're breaking, that is all made up cuz they don't really care that much because nobody cares that much about anyone besides themselves. It's all make-believe. And I think that when you get as specific as humanly possible about like, "Oh, no, I don't want to I don't want to post this content." What?

0:49Because you're afraid that some unnamed account or some named account will write words on a screen that will you read that you'll read that will make your your feelings go away? Like, that's that is what will stop you from achieving your goal? Having a stranger tell you to [ __ ] off because you reached out is is the reason? That's it. Like, you're like, "I didn't achieve my goals because I was afraid that somebody I don't know would tell me that I suck." When you say it like that, you're like, "Shit." Now, let's see a different version.

1:15I didn't achieve my potential. I never pursued any of my goals because someone I know I was afraid that they would say that they didn't approve of my behavior anymore. Maybe you shouldn't A, care what they think or B, have them in your life. And so, when I decided to launch this book, 100 Million Dollar Money Models, the goal was to 100 million dollars in the weekend. And I made that goal public within the company so everybody knew. And one of the people on my team said, "Well, what if we don't hit it?" And I remember almost being like disgusted. Like, that was like my my physical reaction to to when that person said that. And I remember just looking at him and I was like, "Dare greatly, [ __ ] Like, what's the point? Like, if we if we [ __ ] up, we die trying.

1:58You know what I mean? Like, so what? But like, we're going to still fight like hell to try and make it happen. And so, the fact that he asked that really just made me think like, what does he think I'm afraid of? If I if I said, "Hey guys, we're going to hit we're going to try and hit 100 million, we hit 80, or we hit 70, whatever." I'm like, "Okay, boohoo. We made a bunch of money, we got a ton of people books in their hands that can help them. What are we going to do? We'll try again next year." Like, "Well, well, what if what if people don't take you seriously?" I don't think people are going to not take me seriously.

2:27Because people will take you as serious as you take yourself. And if you were serious about your goals and your commitment to those goals, people can visibly observe. There is no one that will fault you for daring greatly. Period. And anyone who does doesn't matter. And one of my favorite quotes, like, man, it's probably like a top 10 quote for me all time, which I have a lot of quotes, is from Marcus Aurelius. He said, "What are you so afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you?" And so, it's like, we're here on borrowed time to acquire borrowed assets and borrowed resources. And at the end of the game, you're just going to push your chips to the middle and somebody else is going to take your chair. That's it. Out of points. And so, it's like, we're just we're just in the game.

3:10Like, we're just here we're we're renting. We're leasers, right? None of this is permanent. And so, the idea that we'd fear some permanent outcome from an impermanent existence, the longer I've been in the game, the more disgusted I am by that feeling. And by someone questioning that. And so, I share that with you because when that when that uh young man said that to me, it was just a great reminder of like, we ended up hitting the 100 mark. We did 106. But like, you have to you have to you have to believe on some level that you can hit it.

3:43And you also have to believe even more that you will die trying. And I think that your commitment has to be to the effort that you're willing to put forth and completely divorced of the outcome. I believed that we could hit it because all the math made sense. But, could I ultimately control whether ads got delivered, or you know, an account get shut down, or or you know, the the internet doesn't work, or there's a storm that day, and the all the power generator Of course, there's things that could happen. So, in no way I just want to make sure that I put 100% effort on all the things that I can control. And then after that, you roll the [ __ ] dice.

4:16And you stack as many chips as you can in your favor. And then after that, you let the cards fall where they will. And so, that was a very big reminder for me this year. Was that like nothing great was ever accomplished by someone who was afraid to try because of what they thought other people would think or say about them. 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 million 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 deconstruct the business, and you're trying to scale, we'd love to help you out. On the thank you page, you can 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, and we'll do this in person, live.