Fünf Schritte zum Leben, das du willst

0:00Figure out what you want. Ignore the opinions of others. Do so much work it would be unreasonable that you fail. Realize it never mattered to begin with. Help others once you get there. You've already achieved the things you said would make you successful. Yeah. The first five steps there is my um is basically my my master life plan. [laughter] um figure out what you want, which my first boss um I had I I had a pretty terrible first out of college experience of work. Um but from that I learned some of the most important life lessons that I still take to this day. And uh that boss particularly said one thing to me one day. She said um figuring out what you want is 99% of it. She said once you know what you want, getting it's the easy part. And I I kind of adopted that as a worldview because it's like once you're really clear like this is what I want that everything that's not that is what I'm willing to give up to get it.

1:01Now that thing can change. And I think that's the part that people miss is that like once you learn how to get stuff then it's like okay well he said he was willing to do. It's like yeah well the thing I wanted changed is do I have your permission to change what I want? And I think we should all have permission to change what we want in any given moment. And not having basically sunk life bias of like I put 10 years into this thing and that's okay and that's what I needed to do at that time and today I'm willing to I'm going to change everything. And what's really interesting about if you look at like addicts and alcohol people who need to you know quit you know uh whatever bad habit they have there's a really strong frame Ed Mlet talks about it which is basically one more and it's been super helpful for me to not think of my changes as permanent because it's been it's allowed me to make such dramatic changes in my in my life or my business much faster than I think most people have been willing to because there's this this weight of forever on top of everything. Like we extrapolate like you're in a relationship. She told me to pick up my socks. She's going to nag at me forever the rest of my life.

2:12We need to break up, right? Or I can do this for today and tomorrow if it still works, I will do it for tomorrow. And if 5 days from now or 25 days from now, if I work this way, I then say, you know what I need today? People like, oh, he's burned out. It's like I took a day because that's what I needed that day. And I think giving myself permission to have that freedom has allowed me to take significantly faster action in what apparently looks like higher risk scenarios because who am I apologizing to?

2:47>> Realize it never mattered to begin with. What's that? [laughter] >> Cosmic irrelevance. So like we're willing to sacrifice everything that we have for the thing that we want. And then once we get the thing that we want, we want back the things that we sacrificed, which really just goes to the heart of the human condition, which is we want it all and we're not willing to make trades. And so one of the reasons that I've actually, I would say, largely tossed out the deathbed regrets of most people is that what they do typically is they will have the bias of wanting the other path they could have taken without considering the cost of that path. So they say, "Hey, I was really successful and I did all these things, but you know, I I would give it all up today to have my family." It's like, well, yeah, but you didn't because you actually chose the path that you're on and you weren't willing to do that. But what you are saying right now is that you want it all. Sure. So does everyone. And so, um, I've had a, you know, a few moments of clarity over the last, you know, year or so, but if you want it all, life will give you nothing.

3:55And that has been helpful for me because in pursuit of we want everything without the cost and everything has a price and you will never be able to get the sufficient price tag paid on everything to reach critical mass to achieve a mod of success in any domain unless you are willing to trade from another. And I think that that has significantly minimized my regret. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10-stage road map from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish.

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