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According to Arthur C. Clarke's third law, any technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
Lately I’ve been more active on the PM side than the general forum. Questions kept coming from members and I am so humbled to receive them. Why me?
At the same time, I wish they were public questions. Why? Because then they become useful to those who are even more hesitant to reach out for help but probably need it more than you.
With that in mind, I want to share that I believe in magic, and so should you!
Business is just an advanced form of “technology” and for those starting out, looking at those who’ve been there may look just like magic.
- When did you start your business? Oh wow.
- I am so confused, I don’t know what to do! What book should I read?
- What is the most important mindset to succeed in business?
- Getting a job, will I get sucked in forever? What should be my attitude? Work hard or just enough to keep the job?
- I want so many things! How do I choose? Do I try do to them all? Just David Goggins it or how else can I choose?
The list goes on… the pattern, however is all the same.
“What should I do? And I want to know what you know.“
As if what I did so far was a form of magic. Well, if it was, then I truly believe in it. I believe in this magic and so should you.
How did this magic work for me so far?
Well… it started exactly 20 years ago, when I started my first company out of my dorm. We took it public and I hit Forbes 500 list as a young prodigy. I didn’t buy a Lambo, I bought 10, same colour. My fame got me a supermodel girl and all of her friends on our yacht with a helipad, where we partied non-stop. We flew our private jet from Miami to Sydney and back to celebrate New Years 2x in one year. Why? Because we could. Life has been a dream since. I’ve won boxing and MMA events, surfed with the dolphins and wrestled grizzly bears. In short, it’s been “MAGICAL”… and also totally a lie.
Truth is I failed my first attempt at business, and second … and you guessed it my 5th too. I was broke and had very shitty jobs. I was abused by my “managers” and all the while I was getting my degree(s).
The problem was (and is for anyone new and just starting) that I didn’t know enough. I needed to consume more content, read more books. If I had done that sooner, I’d have the “rules” to that “magic” of business. So you see, when I finally read 52 books a year, meditated 40 min/day, journaled, worked out 2 hours/day I finally built my first successful business, make 9 figures a year, got that jet plane and … once agin, thats also a lie.
Truth is, I did at one time do all of those things, like read 52 books in a year. Another time I did meditate 2x day 20 min each. I did all of those “life improvement hacks” just not all at the same time. I needed to re-wire my brain and thinking patterns because what I was doing… it wasn’t working.
You can achieve everything you want in life, just not all at the exact same time.
So you see, the real problem was that I didn’t have clear enough goals. Once I’ve set my goals, I never let up and like magic, my first successful business yielded 8 figure profit in year 1.
Nope. Lie again. Goals are indeed extremely important, are key to success but just having goals doesn’t guarantee success in business. In fact, my first business that is a success today started out as one my most spectacular failures. We almost went bankrupt and I was bankrolling it with my salary income. A story for another time…
Truth is - there is no magic. Truth is that after my own experiences, when I read Unscripted by @MJ DeMarco book, I saw in it what many people who are just starting out won’t see. It is there, but we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. This means that having been through enough “fail…“ correction… experiences, I could relate on a deeper level. It wasn’t something theoretical, it felt like “ahh… shit, this is where I screw up that business and oh that is how I screwed up that business“.
The sooner you get going on this path, the sooner you’ll have the opportunity to learn what you need to become who you need to become to succeed.
You see, I am not a genius. I wasn’t born with a gift of natural gift of entrepreneurship. But one thing I did right that’s paying me dividends to this day… I inherited money. Just kidding… no I didn’t. The thing I did right was to focus on incremental improvements. Always getting better, just as little or as much as possible in any given day/week/month/year.
Do that and you’ll find your way in entrepreneurial journey too.
It’s not magic. It’s tinkering, experimenting, becoming a better leader, better inventor, better negotiator, accountant, lawyer, marketer, janitor, salesman and so on. That’s the big secret that eventually looks like magic. As you get better, so will the opportunities that come your way. And they come more often too.
Some of you will find this frustrating to read and blame me for not proving the exact steps to success. If you are one of those readers, you’ve missed the point entirely and I cannot help you.
It is getting late here, and I was inspired to write this post by looking out my window and seeing beautiful clouds pushed by gentle winds before sunset. How often do you look up into the sky? How often do you pause to just think, ponder things? How often are you inspired?
Lately I’ve been more active on the PM side than the general forum. Questions kept coming from members and I am so humbled to receive them. Why me?
At the same time, I wish they were public questions. Why? Because then they become useful to those who are even more hesitant to reach out for help but probably need it more than you.
With that in mind, I want to share that I believe in magic, and so should you!
Business is just an advanced form of “technology” and for those starting out, looking at those who’ve been there may look just like magic.
- When did you start your business? Oh wow.
- I am so confused, I don’t know what to do! What book should I read?
- What is the most important mindset to succeed in business?
- Getting a job, will I get sucked in forever? What should be my attitude? Work hard or just enough to keep the job?
- I want so many things! How do I choose? Do I try do to them all? Just David Goggins it or how else can I choose?
The list goes on… the pattern, however is all the same.
“What should I do? And I want to know what you know.“
As if what I did so far was a form of magic. Well, if it was, then I truly believe in it. I believe in this magic and so should you.
How did this magic work for me so far?
Well… it started exactly 20 years ago, when I started my first company out of my dorm. We took it public and I hit Forbes 500 list as a young prodigy. I didn’t buy a Lambo, I bought 10, same colour. My fame got me a supermodel girl and all of her friends on our yacht with a helipad, where we partied non-stop. We flew our private jet from Miami to Sydney and back to celebrate New Years 2x in one year. Why? Because we could. Life has been a dream since. I’ve won boxing and MMA events, surfed with the dolphins and wrestled grizzly bears. In short, it’s been “MAGICAL”… and also totally a lie.
Truth is I failed my first attempt at business, and second … and you guessed it my 5th too. I was broke and had very shitty jobs. I was abused by my “managers” and all the while I was getting my degree(s).
The problem was (and is for anyone new and just starting) that I didn’t know enough. I needed to consume more content, read more books. If I had done that sooner, I’d have the “rules” to that “magic” of business. So you see, when I finally read 52 books a year, meditated 40 min/day, journaled, worked out 2 hours/day I finally built my first successful business, make 9 figures a year, got that jet plane and … once agin, thats also a lie.
Truth is, I did at one time do all of those things, like read 52 books in a year. Another time I did meditate 2x day 20 min each. I did all of those “life improvement hacks” just not all at the same time. I needed to re-wire my brain and thinking patterns because what I was doing… it wasn’t working.
You can achieve everything you want in life, just not all at the exact same time.
So you see, the real problem was that I didn’t have clear enough goals. Once I’ve set my goals, I never let up and like magic, my first successful business yielded 8 figure profit in year 1.
Nope. Lie again. Goals are indeed extremely important, are key to success but just having goals doesn’t guarantee success in business. In fact, my first business that is a success today started out as one my most spectacular failures. We almost went bankrupt and I was bankrolling it with my salary income. A story for another time…
Truth is - there is no magic. Truth is that after my own experiences, when I read Unscripted by @MJ DeMarco book, I saw in it what many people who are just starting out won’t see. It is there, but we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. This means that having been through enough “fail…“ correction… experiences, I could relate on a deeper level. It wasn’t something theoretical, it felt like “ahh… shit, this is where I screw up that business and oh that is how I screwed up that business“.
The sooner you get going on this path, the sooner you’ll have the opportunity to learn what you need to become who you need to become to succeed.
You see, I am not a genius. I wasn’t born with a gift of natural gift of entrepreneurship. But one thing I did right that’s paying me dividends to this day… I inherited money. Just kidding… no I didn’t. The thing I did right was to focus on incremental improvements. Always getting better, just as little or as much as possible in any given day/week/month/year.
Do that and you’ll find your way in entrepreneurial journey too.
It’s not magic. It’s tinkering, experimenting, becoming a better leader, better inventor, better negotiator, accountant, lawyer, marketer, janitor, salesman and so on. That’s the big secret that eventually looks like magic. As you get better, so will the opportunities that come your way. And they come more often too.
Some of you will find this frustrating to read and blame me for not proving the exact steps to success. If you are one of those readers, you’ve missed the point entirely and I cannot help you.
It is getting late here, and I was inspired to write this post by looking out my window and seeing beautiful clouds pushed by gentle winds before sunset. How often do you look up into the sky? How often do you pause to just think, ponder things? How often are you inspired?
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