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0:00Donald Miller has one of the most powerful frames of heroes and villains I've [music] ever heard of. Heroes and villains always have the same backstory. It's pain. They're always an [music] orphan, right? Or the the villain has some sort of disfigurement to show that they went [music] through hard times. The difference is what the character chooses to do about it. >> [music] >> Villains say, "The world hurt me. I'm going to hurt it back." Heroes say, "The world hurt me. I'm not going to [music] let anyone else hurt this way." So, heroes use pain. Villains are used by it. [music] And so, I think all of us have the choice to become our own heroes or our own villains in our own life simply by how we choose to deal with the pain that we all inevitably experience.

0:36So, pain is a constant. The choice about how we react to it [music] is the thing that dictates the path of our lives. You know, there there are certain rules of playing the game that have served me really well. One of them is, [music] "And that's okay." And I probably use that frame more [music] than anything else, which is, "I'm not close with XYZ relative, [music] your parent, your mom, your sister, your brother.

1:02And that's okay." I spent a lot of my mental effort trying to untangle stories [music] that I told in the past about things that weren't my fault or were a problem. And the easiest way that I found to solve problems is to decide they're not problems to begin with. I have a handful of pictures [music] that I took for the first five years of sucking during business, and I use those pictures all the time every day. >> [music] >> And the zillions of pictures after I became successful, I barely use any of them. The time to document your life is when it sucks, not when [music] it's great. Because those are the stories that you're going to tell. And those are going to be the reminders that you use in the present day of things that you have been through and prove as to who you really are. Cuz my favorite line in The Matrix [music] is in the second or third Matrix when Morpheus is standing on the hill and he's looking out towards everyone. He said, "I stand here truthfully unafraid.

1:53>> [music] >> Not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me. And so, the struggle period that you may be in right now is the path behind your future self that you are building so that that man or that woman can stand on the pulpit and look at you straight dead in the eyes in the mirror and say, "I'm confident [music] and I stand truthfully here unafraid not because of what I said my goal is going to be, but because [music] what I've been through to get here." And so, here's my advice to my younger self.

2:20Document your life [music] more. Otherwise, you'll forget the details and the details are what make it worth remembering. [music] It's the times you're sleeping on the floor. It's the time the person walks out and you miss the seventh sale that day. It's the time when your bank account is at its absolute lowest. [music] It's when your car breaks down on the side of the road and you're like, "What am I going to do now? I can barely afford this." Right? Those are the moments, the ones that you want to ignore, the ones that you want to look away from, that are the ones that you need to capture because those are the moments [music] that you will tell in the future of things you got through because no heroes are heroes without epic monsters. And the bigger the monster, the greater the hero. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you're not growing as fast as you 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 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 and we'll do this in person live.