5 Years of Advice in 3 Minutes

I was recently having a discussion with a friend and he was asking me about some of the core reasons I believe I’m “relatively” successful

and I had to think about it for a while, and it really made me think back to when I was college and I was truly in the ruts of it all trying to figure it all out

1) I was a literal sponge

I could not get enough information, I was reading books, I was listening to podcasts, I was watching youtube videos

because how dare you possibly think you don’t need to do those things, people more successful than you either know something you don’t or do something you don’t

how ignorant is it to not succeed because you’re not willing to spend a few days/weeks reading books from some of the greatest minds to ever live and download their findings into your brain

I didn’t go to Harvard, or Standard, or MIT, but guess what? All of their alumni speaches and tons of guest lectures from some of the greatest minds are all available on youtube

and they may not be the flashy video with a bright thumbnail, edited and with 1 million views, but they’re out there and incredibly valuable

it would be wise to go watch some of those…

2) I took action like crazy

like I said, people either know something you don’t or do something you don’t

reading and watching youtube videos can fix not knowing what others know, but then you have to DO it, you have to IMPLEMENT what you learn

I didn’t waste any time, it always seemed like literal life or death to get out of college, a fight against the clock, four years till a shitty corporate job I’ll hate and won’t ever be rich till I’m in my 40’s

you need something URGENT that lights a fire underneath you, but even deeper than that, you need to build discipline, because eventually, that fire will go out, and you’ll escape whatever was scaring you, and if you can’t fall back on discipline then you’ll crumble

3) Not Afraid to Fail

I have failed at numerous things, I went 6 months trying drop shipping without getting ONE sale

80% of people quit after one major setback, 90% of people quit after two major setbacks, if you can literally just learn to embrace failure and reframe it as getting closer to hitting your big win, you can easily run laps around everyone

I mean seriously, think about how many people give up on something as easy as a commitment to go to the gym?

or to quit smoking? or to eat healthier?

let alone when they have a business fail, get snaked by a friend, get sued, whatever it may be

learn to push through failures and you’ll run laps around everyone know

4) Humility / be humble

I often go to people ahead of me for help, I know that I don’t know what I don’t know and I often need to be humble enough to accept help from people

I don’t know when or why it became cool to reject help, but there’s a lot of good people out there that would love to help you if you’re just humble enough to politely ask and if you’re in a position to where you can make that ask

this doesn’t mean DM’ing people and saying “please help me for free”

just don’t think you know it all and always be willing to learn and hear others perspectives no matter how high you climb

and honestly just learn to love life every single day - one of my friends used to always tell me “if you didn’t lose a loved one today or nothing really bad happened, it’s a damn good day”

and that really stuck with me - my “problems” that I face are so laughable compared to so many others - so I’m grateful

Happy Wednesday

Alex