Seine Regel nach 10 Selbsthilfebüchern

0:00Yeah, when I was getting started in my entrepreneurial journey and I would say this is like pre This is when I was a wantrepreneur, right? Like I hadn't quit my job yet. I started reading all these self-help books. And I remember reading like I was probably like my 10th book in a row, and I realized that the words in that book contradicted like the second self-help book that I You know, one was like, "It's all about goals." The other one's like, "It's all about taking, you know, steps." Or whatever it was, right? And I And I all of a sudden I was like, "You know, my life is the same."

0:26I've read all these books, but my I I still literally live in the exact same condo in Baltimore doing job. Like nothing has changed. And so, I just made the commitment that whatever the next book that I was going to read, I would just not read another book until I'd done everything in that book. Um and I That's when I quit my job and I did a whole bunch of other things. And um I've actually more or less stuck with that in terms of like when I read books or even listen to podcasts, I usually do it an intention to get something out of it. And um I usually have notes up. And so, that's So, my intake on information cuz I cuz I'll I get asked a lot, I'm sure you do. Like I actually don't read that much. Um I definitely don't read non-fiction. I read like fantasy. I don't know. Red Rising, baby.

1:05>> That's right. Um but it's because usually I get overwhelmed with the amount of things I would have to do. And so, I'm like, "I don't need more information. I'm good like I'm good like I could read a chapter and be like, "All right, that's it. I Like it'll take me 2 weeks to do this." And so, then like the rest of the time is doing that. And so, >> How do you ensure that the things that you're reading giving you good advice? Because if you didn't move on before you took 2 weeks to go and do the thing, but the thing was dog [ __ ] you've spent 2 weeks going backward.

1:31So, I would probably I would make the argument that I wouldn't have gone backwards cuz I would have gained the experience. And so, I would have more context to know what the second thing was going to be. And that's just kind of like the trial by fire, learning through iteration. And I think I tend to do more of that. Um sort of a win or learn philosophy. Yeah. And I I would say that like there there are entrepreneurs who are definitely like super super duper planners. And there are entrepreneurs who are more like, "Let's just move and break [ __ ] and we'll figure it out. I tend to be really this on the micro in terms of like move [ __ ] and break, you know, like we'll figure it out as we go. And I just tend to be a planner only in the big like very grand like what do I really want to do in 10 years? But the majority of the time it's like let's see.

2:11And we'll we'll we'll learn I've learned so much like so much of the content that I have comes from just [ __ ] up >> [laughter] >> in business. And people are like, "This is such original content." I was like, "This is just cuz that's what my life was." I just like I made this mistake and it didn't work. But I said this one thing one time and then all these people bought and I was like, "Ooh, how do I do that again?" And so like it was always through iteration and I I I read all these books but there's just the knowing how or so knowing that and knowing how. Like knowing that maybe this works maybe. But once you do it it's a different type of learning where at least for me it's about been that way. If you could read you could read a hundred books on sales but when you take your first cold call all of that goes out the window because you actually have to you actually have to sell. Real quick, if you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you would 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.