Hör auf, deine Kindheit als Ausrede zu nutzen

0:00And look, this isn't going to be easy, right? Building these skills, losing friends, taking bets, taking losses, you might find yourself stuck, and then blaming your previous experiences, which is why, number eight, get over yourself. Everyone's childhood was difficult. Get over it. And if you want to win the award for hardest childhood, congratulations, I'll give it to you. You have the hardest childhood. You win. Feel better? Right. No one cares about what happened to you then, only what you can make happen now. And so, the only person that satisfied with whatever that reason is is you. And the everyone else calls that reason an excuse. And at the end of the day, do you want to get to your life and have everyone be like, "You know what? He wasn't successful, but he had a lot of really good reasons." Wouldn't it be so much more powerful to say, "He had all these reasons he shouldn't have been successful, but was anyways." Like those reasons actually give you even more fuel, because you become a stronger story to everyone else. Like no one cares when the silver spoon kid succeeds, really. And so, all of the reasons that you can normally tell yourself of why you shouldn't do it are sometimes the best reasons of why you should. If you had disadvantages, I agree with you. Like you're right, it's harder to be successful if this thing happened to you, or if you're born with X, or you're in this gender, or this race, or you have this birth deformity, or you speak a different language, or you're born in a different country, or you had abuse, whatever. So, the main point is, despite the disadvantage, you only have one choice. What are you going to do? You can take action anyway, and become proof to other people, like you, your people, who are also born into your situation, whether it was abuse, whether it was your gender, whether it was your your race, whatever, your country, and you can prove to them, or prove to yourself, that you can overcome it, and that they can overcome it, too. Or, you can do what the vast majority of people do, is that they protect their ego, and blame, and complain. And to be clear, this is not a pulpit. You can do what you want. I support your choice. Go you.

1:46But only one of those decisions is going to make you better. And likely, only one of those decisions is going to get you closer to where you want to go. Because at the end of the day, here's the TLDR. Losers define themselves by what has happened to them. Winners define themselves by what they can make happen, despite what's happened to them. And so, where some person sees an excuse, another person sees an origin story. Like you look at every every champion, every hero, every comic book, they all have hard pasts. And so, you having a hard past, whatever that is for you, or some disadvantage, just makes you like every other superhero who ends up, you know, changing their lives. And I actually love this, I heard this from Joe Rogan, so this is not mine. Every single one of us can today wake up like it's the first day of a video game. Like you just like got transported into this body, and you're like, "Okay, look around. I have a wife, I have some kids, I have a job I hate, or I have a business I don't like, or I have some bit that I I have this thing inside of me that I I know I can do more, but I'm not." You have all this stuff that's around you, and now you can choose. Like everything else behind you, you could just have today be your spawn point. And so, when you're in a video game, it's easy to just forsake all that stuff, because you don't have this emotional connection to it. But the thing is is that like the action needs to be taken either way. So, whatever frame of mind you need to be in in order to do it, then do that. Real quick, if you are a business owner, and you are 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 dollar 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 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.