Your business is probably not struggling because you don’t ‘network’ enough.
Or because you haven’t gotten into a mastermind that’ll solve all your problems.
Or because you don’t have the right connections.
Your business is a math problem.
Most likely, you just don’t have enough customers.
That’s what you need. You need more customers, not more friends.
Not more handshakes, more investors, more buddies, more connections, more information, more audiobooks, more friends.
Somebody’s got your money, and it’s your customers.
You need to go get them.
If you’re smart and creative it’s so easy to take a million different complicated actions that theoretically improve things but don’t actually improve your business all that much.
What you need at the end of the day, is just more F*cking people paying you money.
Sometimes the best thing you can do for a period is the following:
Dump your girl
Stop calling people, stop taking their calls
Stop going out
Stop your bullshit hobbies for a while
Automate every dumb thing
Get your food ordered and delivered
Stop being fancy
And just roll up your sleeves and brute force some growth.
That way when you wake up, you are getting after it, all the way until you go to bed.
I’m so, so guilty of being too fancy, being lazy, filling my life full of bullshit.
It’s no wonder why there was mediocre progress.
It’s a no brainer, but there’s only really ever progress when you only give one solitary F*ck, and it’s about ONE thing.
That’s when things really get done.
You have to disappear for a bit. You turn into a crackhead but your crack is just getting shit done.
I think about that quote from Eric Thomas:
I don't know how many of you all got asthma here today?
If you ever had an asthma attack before, you’re short of breath, the only thing you trying to do is get some air.
You don't care about no basketball game, you don't care about what's on T.V., you don't care about nobody calling you, you don't care about a party.
The only thing you care about when you trying to breathe is to get some fresh air.
That's it!
And when you get to the point where all you wanna do is be is successful as bad as you wanna breathe then you will be successful.
I used to feel bad because I never only ever wanted one thing. I always wanted a bunch of things and I thought it would be painful and I couldn’t force myself to just want one thing.
What I didn’t realize is that when it’s time, you just won’t care about anything else. You won’t force anything. You just truly won’t give a shit about any other thing. There’s nothing to give up. I don’t want to see anyone. I don’t want to go out. I don’t want to sleep in. I would just as much want to eat a slug. I don’t care for it. And I’m happy.
Now, does the market care how hard we work? Of course not. That’s solipsistic. Nobody cares.
But it just SEEMS, like the only time anything really changes for me, is when I’m all in. It’s just what I’ve noticed. I can only speak from experience.
So if you’re on the fence, and things are stagnant, and you are not seeing big results, and there’s a voice whispering to you that you know what you need to do…
There’s nothing wrong with just going balls to the wall, not responding to anyone, taking 1000% ownership of everything, making 0 excuses and giving your actual 100%.
When you ACTUALLY give 100%, it’s absolutely insane.
Or because you haven’t gotten into a mastermind that’ll solve all your problems.
Or because you don’t have the right connections.
Your business is a math problem.
Most likely, you just don’t have enough customers.
That’s what you need. You need more customers, not more friends.
Not more handshakes, more investors, more buddies, more connections, more information, more audiobooks, more friends.
Somebody’s got your money, and it’s your customers.
You need to go get them.
If you’re smart and creative it’s so easy to take a million different complicated actions that theoretically improve things but don’t actually improve your business all that much.
What you need at the end of the day, is just more F*cking people paying you money.
Sometimes the best thing you can do for a period is the following:
Dump your girl
Stop calling people, stop taking their calls
Stop going out
Stop your bullshit hobbies for a while
Automate every dumb thing
Get your food ordered and delivered
Stop being fancy
And just roll up your sleeves and brute force some growth.
That way when you wake up, you are getting after it, all the way until you go to bed.
I’m so, so guilty of being too fancy, being lazy, filling my life full of bullshit.
It’s no wonder why there was mediocre progress.
It’s a no brainer, but there’s only really ever progress when you only give one solitary F*ck, and it’s about ONE thing.
That’s when things really get done.
You have to disappear for a bit. You turn into a crackhead but your crack is just getting shit done.
I think about that quote from Eric Thomas:
I don't know how many of you all got asthma here today?
If you ever had an asthma attack before, you’re short of breath, the only thing you trying to do is get some air.
You don't care about no basketball game, you don't care about what's on T.V., you don't care about nobody calling you, you don't care about a party.
The only thing you care about when you trying to breathe is to get some fresh air.
That's it!
And when you get to the point where all you wanna do is be is successful as bad as you wanna breathe then you will be successful.
I used to feel bad because I never only ever wanted one thing. I always wanted a bunch of things and I thought it would be painful and I couldn’t force myself to just want one thing.
What I didn’t realize is that when it’s time, you just won’t care about anything else. You won’t force anything. You just truly won’t give a shit about any other thing. There’s nothing to give up. I don’t want to see anyone. I don’t want to go out. I don’t want to sleep in. I would just as much want to eat a slug. I don’t care for it. And I’m happy.
Now, does the market care how hard we work? Of course not. That’s solipsistic. Nobody cares.
But it just SEEMS, like the only time anything really changes for me, is when I’m all in. It’s just what I’ve noticed. I can only speak from experience.
So if you’re on the fence, and things are stagnant, and you are not seeing big results, and there’s a voice whispering to you that you know what you need to do…
There’s nothing wrong with just going balls to the wall, not responding to anyone, taking 1000% ownership of everything, making 0 excuses and giving your actual 100%.
When you ACTUALLY give 100%, it’s absolutely insane.
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