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0:00The good thing about bad times is that they end and the bad thing about good times is that they also end. And so, whenever you're going through a good season, it's also a good reminder that this too shall pass. And so, what ends up happening is that when you're in the hard time, that can give you that necessary respite. It can give you the end of the the tunnel that you can look forward to. There's only three outcomes. You either quit, it gets easier, or you get harder. So, think about that. Because no matter what, it always ends, but you only lose when you quit before you see it through. Because two out of the three outcomes get easier. Either it relents, the outside circumstance gets easier like the hard thing moves, or you become harder and then by extension it no longer feels hard for you. Which I'll make this real for you. Right now, think about the problems that you were stressed about five years ago in your business. Right? Think about the things that you were dealing with, what you were stressed about. Now, think about you trying to solve those problems today. It's probably a joke to you now.

0:52You'd be like, "Well, yeah, obviously." It's not that those things became less hard, you became better. But, here's where this gets really interesting for me. It just means that nothing is inherently hard to begin with anyways. We are just always inadequate. For me, I remember when I had five employees and I was like, "Man, it's so many people to manage." Or, you know, I was like, "Where am I going to, you know, I have to manage cash flow. How do I do that?" Or like, "How am I going to get new customers?" Like, "How do I How do I sell I can't sell really expensive stuff. Like, what if someone gets upset, you know, if I if I charge more?" Right?

1:19"What if What if someone finds out I charged this much?" As though it's like something wrong. Like, all of these things are just just irrelevant to me now. Just so silly. Though for me at the time they were difficult. And I can only imagine how inconsequential the problems that I deal with growing hopefully three billion-dollar companies right now within the portfolio compared to what Elon deals with having six multiple hundred-billion-dollar companies. And I I compare myself to that so I can always feel like I have a long way to go. If you are a business owner and you're making, you know, you've got a legitimate business, you've got employees, revenue, profit, et cetera. And you'd like to see how we grow companies.

2:01Every month at acquisition.com in person at my headquarters, we hold basically two-day workshops where my team, my actual, you know, director of marketing, director of sales, director of media, all of all of my team basically works with businesses to just help them grow. And it's a cool way for us to meet new companies. That kind of builds our pipeline on the investment side, but it also just provides value to you guys. And so it's kind of a cool win-win. You know, the reviews are exceptional. So the link is acq, acq the letters,.com/vegas.

2:31You can go there and you grab a time with my team. They'll just ask you a couple questions, make sure the business makes sense that we can help you out. And if so, then we'll invite you out here to Vegas and have a have a party. Not really, it'll just be almost all entirely business and I would encourage you not to party. At least not afterwards. Uh but beyond that, let's get back to it. But let me give you one thing that that'll also give you a little bit of hope about these these hard times is that these hard times are also your best times.

3:02But only in reverse. And so let me explain what I mean by that. Think about the times when you were younger and you were in love and you were poor and you're like, man, those were the good old days. The thing is is that when you were in that moment, it was stressful. You didn't know how you're going to make ends meet, how you're going to make rent, where you're going to get food, whatever it is. You have these these hard times, the hard times that you go through today, but these hard times become the good old days. And so we only see the truth when we look back. You have to go through them to get the perspective. And it's something that I try and like remember on a regular basis that like I'm going through the good old days. And if they're the good old days in the future, they might as well be the good old days today.

3:36So let me tell you a little bit about what it feels like throughout this entire process. Because if you are consistently growing, you are consistently in pain. That's why they're called growing pains, not growing joys. And if you have stress from growth, remember the alternative is that you can have stress from stagnation and you can have stress from decline, which fundamentally means that hardness and stress is a fact of life. You will always have stress, you will always have problems, and the largest problem of all, the largest stressor of all, is determining that having problems is a problem. Is that being stressed means there's something wrong with you. But being stressed just means you're alive.

4:16Having problems just means that you are actually doing something. 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 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 in 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 acquisitions.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.