Der knallharte Fokus zur ersten Million

0:00I remember in a lot of excruciating detail what it took me to get here. Um but I will say that I had a ruthless focus on dollars per hour. And so and I'm just giving tactical advice right now. But everything that I could trade away for more time doing the thing that made me money was what I did. And so I remember the first time I made a $500 sale.

0:28And it took me 30 minutes. And I was like every hour of every day, this is what I'm going to do. And anything that is not talking to someone in exchange for them giving me a credit card so that I can charge it and make $500. Anything that makes me less than $250 per hour or per per 30 minutes, I'm giving to somebody else. And so after that first sale, I was like, I'm never cooking again. I'm never going grocery shopping again. I'm not cleaning again. Cuz I knew that in one sale, I could pay for that person for the month.

0:59And so like like the ruthless focus on what can I do that creates an input to output being money equation? And me at least for me, it was pouring everything I possibly could into the input and eliminating everything else. I made this video on Facebook before I was quote Alex Hormozi years ago when I still had six gyms before I even did the turnarounds. And I I made this video almost as documentation, but I said so I want to open up my seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th location and I have the spots picked out. And I'm already working all of the hours that I'm awake.

1:36And I've already given up Saturdays. So the only thing that I have left is like Sundays and evenings. And so I am no longer going to be watching any football and I'm no longer going to have Netflix at all. And that is what I'm giving up for seven, eight, nine, and 10. And I remember just making this video of like that's what I'm sacrificing. And I think a lot of people create these to-do lists when it in my experience it's been so much more useful to write down all the things that I'm willing to sacrifice because if you sacrifice everything there's nothing left than to do the one thing that matters. And I think Jerry Seinfeld talks about this from a writing perspective. He says that every day, no matter what, he sits down and he writes for 2 hours. Now, he doesn't have to write but he's not allowed to do anything else. And so he can sit there but there's nothing else to do except for write jokes.

2:32And so I think a lot about that from the climb perspective which is like most of everyone who's listening to this who isn't achieving what they want is [ __ ] with their time. They think that they're spending all their time working, but your output like you don't even know how to work. I'm being really real with you. Like you think you know how to work. You don't know how to work. Like the amount of output like and I will I'll measure this by like what is your output? It's probably not as high as you think. And so rather than trying to learn all these productivity hacks, the ultimate productivity hack is no.

3:01N O is you stop doing [ __ ] And then when you create space then you can fill it with the thing that matters. But trying to add on more to your schedule of all the things that you're not willing to sacrifice is the very reason that you're not doing what you need to do. 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 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 de constrain 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.