Unter 30: Geh All-in auf deine Ziele

0:00If you're under 30, you have no reason not to go 100% all in on your goals. The downside is nothing and the upside is everything. If you think about life as giving you kind of lottery tickets, right? You can scratch off a ticket and if you don't win, then what did you lose? The scratch off ticket. But the thing is is that when you have nothing to lose, you have nothing to lose and you only have things to gain. And so the objective when you have as little as you can is to take as many shots as possible because your downside is zero, right?

0:31And so it's the only time in your career where you can take more shots than anyone else. And so the reason or the fact that people don't take shots and myself included when I was younger I was so afraid to take a shot, but the only reason that was holding me back was the belief that other people, who I don't even talk to anymore, would somehow judge me as a quote failure. You never actually start from scratch ever again because every time after the first time you start from scratch, you start with an experience. So you still always net a positive. And so that's the beautiful thing about taking shots is that you either get the big win or more likely you learn something and then that learning compounds. And so the thing is is that I had a misunderstanding of how success worked, which is that it's far more stacking many things on top of each other than it is nothing nothing nothing and then something works, right? And so if you imagine success like a bridge, right? So you're over here and you've got this chasm that you have to get across, right? This is let's say there's alligators here and lava and all sorts of stuff, right? And then there's you over here who's got, you know, your big smiley face and you're happy and you're doing all the stuff you want. The thing is is that I thought that I just kept wanting to jump over this gap over and over again and think like if I just jumped hard enough or if I had the right opportunity, that's what would do it.

1:47But more likely than not, it's really like you install these these bricks on the path and you keep you keep walking and say, "Okay, well I fall here. Okay, well I'll fix this one later." And then you take a whole And then you you start again and then you fall here and then you fix this and you keep going and then you fall here and then you fix this and then all of a sudden you make it all the way across. And that's what it looks like or what the experience of kind of becoming the overnight success is and that's why so many people talk about it where it doesn't happen at all and then it happens all at once. It's not that it happens all at once. The actual outcome of getting a system to work all the way through, that is binary. But the process of building the system is actually very linear. I'm also not saying this from a position of like even though I I you know, I saw some success early in my career, I also started pretty early. And so I had nine failed businesses, nine, before I had one that really worked. And so I bring this up to say that like I don't know what failure you're on right now. Maybe you're on zero failures, you're on one failure, or two failures. But you have way more failures in you. At the end of the day like one of the big realizations I had is that since life is an infinite game. And what that means is that there are there are games where you have a defined time period and at the end you count the score, right? And then there's infinite games where the only point of the game is to keep playing the game.

3:05And so like at the point of marriage is not to get married, it's to stay married. The point of health is not to get healthy, it's to stay healthy. And the point of business is not to get into business, but to stay in business. And so basically the only thing that you have to do to stay in business is to choose to continue to fight. And so once you realize that, then you realize that you become a success the moment you decide you are because being successful is far more about being in the game, about being in the arena. And so when you're in your 20s, what you lack in experience you have to make up for in effort and hours. And believing otherwise leads to a life of honestly well-deserved mediocrity. Real quick, if you're 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 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 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.