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Hey, what's going on?

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Everyone over you guys are having a, uh, sexy Saturday, um, anyway, so, uh, it is 6.22

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a.m.

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Saturday here in Austin and, um, I don't know, it's, uh, I feel like the, the content

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inspiration, this, uh, wax and wane and I, like a couple of weeks have not really

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made anything and then probably like four pieces in the last two days.

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So, um, this one, um, it's something that has just been, I don't know, it's been on

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the back of my mind and so for those of you, this one is not going to be a tactical

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one in terms of how to make more money with your gym, but it may be something, um, that

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just might make you, I don't know, feel less alone.

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So, um, I thought of this, can you be a happy CEO, um, and I wanted, I think I'm half

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making this for me, um, because I, I guess when I started out like my first gym, I thought

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that if I hit X, I wouldn't be, I would, I would, it would finally like be over.

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You know what I mean?

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The stress that I would have, the anxiety levels that I would have about running a business

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would be over.

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Once I made X revenue, once it just had another 50 customers, um, and then what's interesting

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is that I feel like whenever you look at these milestones and maybe you remember this

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when you started working out, like, it might have been a deadlift, like, man, when I did

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lift 315, when I did lift 405, when I did lift 495, whatever it is, it's like, that's

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then I'll be there, right?

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And what's interesting is that as you approach those things, then the actual goal that you

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previously set, once you get close to 405 and you actually did lift 395, 405 actually

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doesn't seem that, um, sexy anymore, you know what I mean, it just seems like, well,

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it makes sense that I'd hit it because, you know, we're already here, right?

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And so, I, uh, I was having a conversation with Sean Finter, um, who had a restaurant

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group that did, I think they did 50 millions and something like that.

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And now he helps restaurants.

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Um, you know, basically do what we do with Jim Lunchfield, he does that with restaurants.

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And he was talking, we were having a really deep conversation, um, and he's had some

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unbelievably hard things that have happened to him in his life, like things that I wouldn't

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wish on to anyone.

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And he was saying, I think that entrepreneurs, a lot of them tend to have come from stressful

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pasts.

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And so we tend to be some of the only people who can deal with the stress and the

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consistent anxiety that comes with running a business, right?

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Because most people don't, can't handle it, right?

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It's just don't, or don't want to, you know what I mean?

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And there's, there's both sides of that.

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And I think that like, for us on the entrepreneurial journey, like, I just want everyone to know

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it like it doesn't end.

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And so I guess the prerequisite for this is that if you desire to grow,

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the discomfort does not stop.

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I am more uncomfortable now than I've probably been,

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in a really long time.

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Like, my problem, my stress levels now are probably like second highest.

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I would say they're not as high as when I opened the first facility.

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But they are, they are almost as high.

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And it comes from an entirely different set of problems.

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And so if you desire the continual growth, which most of us do as entrepreneurs,

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then I think that we have to get out of this.

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And I'm half saying this to myself to like remind myself of it.

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But like, we have to get out of this like, once I hit X, it'll be okay.

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Once I hit Y, it's going to be okay.

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And like, I spelled out the math on one of the, one of the videos that I made about how like,

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once you hit X, I'm like, you know, so we were like, if I just hit a million dollars in my gym,

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then it'll be okay.

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But the thing is, is that if you run a business that has a 20% margin or 30% margin,

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or whatever it is, in order for you to hit the million dollars,

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you have 700,000 dollars of liabilities.

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And if you netted $250,000, then you know that if something went wrong within

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four months, everything that you worked for the last years gone is depleted.

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And the thing is, is that that level just continues.

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You know what I mean?

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If you make $10 million, you can take home $3 million,

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then you have $7 million of liability, which means that in five, six months,

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like everything that you could have worked for could be gone.

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And so, you know what I mean?

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And so like, that anxiety doesn't end.

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And so, I mean, it's one of the things I'm working on is, you know,

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as we continue to go up, it's like learning to try and,

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try and quiet your mind, you know what I mean?

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And so like, can you be a happy CEO?

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I think what happens is like, at least for me, I oscillate between

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being bored because the team needs to move forward, scale, et cetera,

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in order to execute the next thing.

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Or there's a crisis, right?

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And so I think, I think Rob Brupany who's out here said,

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is like, business is problems every day,

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punctuated by moments of crisis.

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And so, which in some ways, it's really morbid when you think about it.

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But I think that that's, and so what happens is like,

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if we actually do get to a point where we're like, I don't know what to do,

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we usually thrust ourselves into a,

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either a new project, a shiny object, right?

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Or B, we go and embrace it, you know what I mean?

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And that's because a lot of times, a lot of us came from adversity

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when we, you know, started out in life.

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And in a weird way, we're comfortable in chaos.

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And I think it's one of the things that makes, you know, entrepreneurs unique,

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but also it can be our downfall, is that like, sometimes we just,

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we shape things up and sometimes things don't need to be shook up.

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And so, like, can you be a happy CEO?

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I don't have the recipe.

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And I just want everyone to know that like, I don't, I don't have a figured out.

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I get stressed all the time.

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I get anxiety all the time.

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When I read a comment that someone posts that's negative,

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it'll ruin my debt.

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I get, well, you know, I try to say that it doesn't,

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and I try to coach myself through like, why?

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Like, you know, I go through the same things I tell everyone like,

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law of large numbers, if you have a thousand clients,

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if you have two percent that are asked holes,

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or two percent that are having a bad day,

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whatever you want to say, like, that's 40 people,

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you know what I mean?

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Or 20 people or 30 people that would say something negative,

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just 3% of people are having a bad day.

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And, but the thing is, as the business grows,

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like, that percentage is a lot of thing.

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You know, it's a lot of words, a lot of things to take,

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you know what I mean to hit.

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And so, it's this balance that, like, at least for me,

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I continually try and strike between rationalizing the big numbers

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of understanding that when you have a bigger business,

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there's going to be statistically, you know what I mean?

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Like, I feel like Elon Musk is like the coolest guy in the world

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is trying to save everyone, you know what I mean?

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Like, being a good dude,

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and he's like, and I listen to him on his Joe Rogan podcast,

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and he just looked, he seemed so stressed.

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And I'm like, man, this guy's just trying to save humanity

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and, like, make a green planet and get us to Mars

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and, like, have electric cars and solar panels.

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You know what I mean?

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And, like, he's so stressed, he'd be like,

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you're in his breath, you know what I mean?

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And he's like, no one would want to be me.

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And I, like, I felt this absolute connection to the fact,

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I'm like, I get that, you know what I mean?

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Like, it's stressful.

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And so, I just, I think part of me is saying,

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like, if any of you are like stressed and you're like, man,

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like, when does this stress end?

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I can tell you that it doesn't end when you make more money.

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I mean, I'm just telling you from my, just from where I'm at now,

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I can tell you that it does not end when you make more money.

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I can tell you that shit gets harder,

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and you have to get better.

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And so, the level of discomfort that you're going,

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as long as you, this is assuming the stuff,

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like, taking on the assumption that you want to grow up

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and growth is your, you know, primary thing as a person.

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But, like, you were going to constantly put yourself

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into these situations that you're not comfortable in

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because you're not good enough, right?

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What is required is higher than what you're best is,

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which means that you need to improve your best, right?

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And so, back to what I was saying before about,

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like, having to balance understanding that law of large numbers

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is that there's going to be a certain amount of people

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no matter what you do that will be, you know, unhappy.

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Just like, if you have, like, I say, if you have a thousand customers,

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I mean, it's almost virtually impossible

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to get a thousand happy days, you know what I mean?

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But on the flip side, still taking absolute responsibility

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for anything that is negative that comes your way.

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And so, it's, it's this balance of, like,

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always wanting to maintain the open heart

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so you can receive these hits, you know what I mean?

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Because, like, in some ways, I feel like I have to feel the hit,

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I have to feel sad, I have to feel angry.

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I'm like, angry at myself, not angry at anyone else,

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but, like, angry about something that didn't go well.

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That someone said, and balanced that need to feel those emotions

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so that I can take action on it versus understanding

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that I can't always be upset, you know what I mean?

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That things aren't going fast enough.

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That things aren't going.

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And the things is, like, the problems that you experience

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when we go up, so I'll tell you some of the things

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that I'm dealing with right now.

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So, I'm super excited.

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We're going to, we're going to be opening up the,

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so the gym wash portal has been 100% redone.

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I actually finished it six weeks ago.

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But I had to go through compliance.

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So, when you get bigger, like, all of the things

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that I do now have to go through a legal team.

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And then they send everything back with edits.

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And then I have to redo everything again.

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And then eventually, it's like, okay,

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I'm willing to take on an XMR risk to, you know, and I'll post it.

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And it's, it's exhausting.

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It's soul crushing.

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I'm not going to allow you, like, it's fucking soul crushing.

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it kills me.

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And, and, you know, on the flip side,

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if I want to paint the picture of, like,

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what is coming out next, right?

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Like, I so desperately want to tell everyone,

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like, the problems that you are experiencing

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are things that we are working on.

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But whenever I give specifics,

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my customer service director comes,

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means she's, and she's like, dude,

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like, all of our customer service is getting blown up

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every single day since you made that thing.

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Like, what is it happening?

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What is it happening?

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What is it happening?

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And as she's like, it's killing my team's morale.

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And so, it's like, I have, you know what I mean?

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Like, it's, I think Ben Horowitz wrote the book.

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The hard thing about hard things is that, like,

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a lot of the decisions that we have,

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like, they're not, there's, like, no right answer.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, there's, there's no right answer.

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And so, and, and basically, the discrepancy

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between, like, hard thing one and hard thing two,

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is, like, you just feel stress.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, you feel, like, you take the slack

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between the decisions on his anxiety.

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And I'm, I'm, I'm trying not to do that, you know what I mean?

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But I guess part of me is just making this to say that, like,

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like, it literally, it does not end, you know what I mean?

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Like, it doesn't end, like, making more money

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doesn't change anything.

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The growing your business, I mean, and there's some gyms in here

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who know because they went from a solo operator

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to a seven person team, you know what I mean?

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They're like, man, sometimes I feel more stressed now.

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And I'm like, believe me, I get it.

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We have 120 employees.

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I get it, you know, and, but that's part of the,

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it's, it's, it's just like, you ask yourself the question,

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do I want to grow up?

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And if the answer is yes, then it means like,

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then this is my path, you know what I mean?

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And this is the path that I'm going to take

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because me being uncomfortable is the thing

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that's going to shape me into the person that I want to be,

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which is better than I was yesterday, right?

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I'm just, I'm just making this to say that if anyone

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Like, there's a reason that most people

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don't get into business.

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I think David Goggins was saying, so I wanted to,

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so I was at the Arnold because we were the title sponsor

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for the charity.

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where they did this award ceremony for the Hall of Fame.

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and like, four other, like, unbelievable champions

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that I should remember the names of

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because they were all like super duper people.

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But anyway, Steve Goggins had up there

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and spoke and he was like, you know,

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like 80% of the people who drop out

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who signed up to become a Navy SEAL

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dropped out on their own election.

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They choose to leave.

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And so they don't get kicked out.

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They choose to leave.

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you know, of the guys who choose to leave.

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And I just like, I remember that.

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And I'm speaking with Joe Huber yesterday

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because he was at our three-day quarterly

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in the PNI, that'll one day afterwards

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because we're planning on all the stuff

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that's coming out for the gym, which is really, really cool.

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how much can you endure?

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but it's like, it's in some ways,

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it's like, you kind of have to see yourself

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as the boxer we look either.

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You can say like, the one who gets knocked down

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and continues to get back up over and over

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and over, you're like, Rocky in the movie.

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Like, trudging through the snow of like, this journey.

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I mean, they call it growing pains for a reason.

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Like, it's like, growing is not fun.

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Moisture Nation, real quick.

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If you are a business owner that has a big, old business

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and wants to get to a much bigger business,

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going to $50, $100,000 plus, we would love to talk to you.

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And if you like that,

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and would like to hear more about it, go to acquisition.com

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and you can plan anywhere on the page

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and talk to one of our team and see

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if we can help you get there.

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like, I want to grow.

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when it's painful, right?

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I, you know, we want to grow.

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We have this desire to change things.

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And in order to change things, we need to change who we are.

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And it's not comfortable.

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we take it out on our spouses.

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We take it out on our employees.

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We take it out on.

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the things that we said or the things that we did

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or how we said them or how we did them.

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And then we feel worse, you know what I mean?

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why am I messing this up so much?

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Like, you know, I'm like, I asked for this, you know?

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And so, I wish I could say, like, I have this,

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this great solution.

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And here's my four-step plan to how you can be

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happy to see you out.

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to be like, I don't have that solution.

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I can just tell you that it's hard.

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you're not alone.

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And then all that happens is that the hard changes.

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One of the hard things that I have now,

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just in the current season, is that like,

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we are so big that I cannot, I cannot,

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I cannot take the team of my back.

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And so, we have a smaller business,

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you can go and do everything.

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there is an amount of work

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that human capacity, like you cannot do it,

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right, is impossible.

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And so, you have to watch things burn

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and have to fix it from afar by pulling levers

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by influencing people and doing it in a way

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that allows them to take ownership of those things

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and communicate those things without being stressed,

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without being short, without being

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what you don't want to be, you know what I mean,

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to those people.

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And it's hard.

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It's super hard, you know.

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hearing just anything, you know,

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that negative that happens

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in the group and having to be like,

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we're working on it,

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but I can't tell you that we're working on it

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because then people,

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because my customer service blows up,

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you know what I mean?

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And working on something and having it perfect

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and then sending it to compliance,

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you know what I mean?

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And having it torn apart and having to start again,

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you know what I mean?

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it feels like, um,

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sister-fist who rolls up the,

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the older on the hill only gets the top

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and have it rolled down again.

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And that's what he was banished for,

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it's great mythology.

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But it's like, it feels sometimes like you're just rolling

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this ball up the hill to have it rolled back down again.

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there's nothing we can do about it.

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It's not circumstance.

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It's us, you know what I mean?

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It's me.

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Like, I have to be better.

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And so, anyways,

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I'm only making this to partially document,

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I guess the season that I'm in right now.

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You know, we're rolling out some really amazing things

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for legacy, like some really, really amazing things.

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In the next eight weeks,

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that are going to really, really make a big difference.

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And, um,

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but it just, it takes a lot of work

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and it takes a lot of people,

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a lot of moving carts, a lot of logistics, a lot of, you know what I mean?

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Like, everyone gets involved.

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And, um, right now, I just posted on Instagram

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that, uh, like, I have basically one month

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to do every, like, four massive projects.

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And so, for me, it's more time, um,

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it's like, I have to get all this stuff done

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and this has to happen.

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And so, if you guys want to join me on 30 days

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of just crushing life,

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at least crushing work,

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and then trying to manage life like a pressure work,

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um, then you're welcome to join me.

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But, uh, anyway, just say I love you guys.

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I mess up all the time.

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Like, I, I'm constantly inadequate

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for the needs of our customers for you guys.

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Um, and, you know, balancing the understanding

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and this is kind of for everyone

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that the nature of humanity is that we're never satisfied.

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And so, that comes from us, the entrepreneur,

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but also from your customers.

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You know, like, I remember when, like, I just used

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the Amazon example because it's easy.

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But like, when Amazon started to join,

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you know, prime shipping,

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it was like, oh my god,

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two days shipping is amazing, right?

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And then,

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what happened after that was, uh,

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one day shipping happened.

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And then when you get two days shipping,

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you're like, what the hell, Jeff?

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Like, where's my package?

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And then same day shipping happened, right?

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And two days feels like an attorney.

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And so, you know, can you imagine, you know,

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when they started this,

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they're like, two days shipping.

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We're done.

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You know, like, let's just,

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let's just call it a debt.

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Like, we crushed it.

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Like, we're amazing.

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We're Amazon, right?

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And then within six months,

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that just becomes the status quo.

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that we have to get better is because

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human beings are never satisfied.

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And so, what used to be amazing is now status quo.

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And so, you have to deal with

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the negativity that comes with that,

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that before, like, you can't wish, like,

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why is, why am I getting this reaction now?

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And I didn't get it six months ago.

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And it's because people adapt.

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People adapt.

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People who used to think.

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And so, what used to be,

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and so, like, your best is no longer good enough,

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because what is required is better than what you are.

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And so, I'm just trying to continue to remember that.

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And just continue to remember that it's about growth

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and that growth is painful.

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And that we asked for this or at least I did.

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So, anyways, guys, hope you guys have a sexy Saturday,

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a super productive Saturday.

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And or maybe a super restful Saturday.

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Depends on where you're at.

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But I'm going to be,

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this is going to be team no days off the next 30 days.

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I have so many things that I need to get done

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in order to watch these four projects.

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But I guarantee that gym community

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won't be much better off as well.

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So, anyways, keep being awesome.

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Thank you for tuning in for a like or a comment

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if any of this makes sense to you.

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And tag a friend if you want.

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Let's go.

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Bye!