If I Wanted To Become a Millionaire in 2025, This Is What I'd Do [FULL BLUEPRINT]

this is the blueprint to making your first million dollar and I'm going to walk you through it step by step even if you're starting with your first dollar so there's three levels in the blueprint and level one is fundamentals and it starts with who you are and the reason we start with who you are is because you are the foundation of everything that you want to have and so there's a thing of me and the building blocks of who you are are first the knowledge that you have the things you know about second the skills

you know how to do third the motivation to actually do them and fourth the environment to make it easy so the first pillar of this is knowledge in order to become a millionaire the first thing we have to do is know what a millionaire even is to begin with a millionaire means that you have over $1 million in investable assets liquid minus your house so your primary residence is actually excluded from this now I'll give you a fun fact that you probably don't know one out of nine Americans is a millionaire and the thing that

separates the people who are the millionaires from everybody else is what they know exists and if you're like who are you to even say this uh my name is Alex rosi I own acis.com our portfolio of companies deser over $250 million a year and since 2016 every single business I've ever started has gone to over $10 million a year and we have three companies that are worth over $100 million plus so the reason that rich kids for example have an advantage over poor kids kids is because rich kids have parents who tell them about opportunities

that exist that get better Returns on their time if you don't know private Equity exists you sure as hell aren't going to get into it if you don't know that you can become an investment banker and sell companies worth hundreds of million dollars and get percentages of companies that you didn't even found and take on no risk then you're not going to pursue it and so I make these videos so that you can know things that you might not naturally have around you or anyone in your surrounding area who knows that these things exist and

to give you some context I was 22 when I started this journey and ultimately quit my job before I ended up starting my first business when I did go to quit my job I emailed a bunch of different gym owners cuz I figured I wanted to get into fitness cuz it was something I was into and only one of them got back to me and that gym owner was a business owner and he was making money and so I moved out to California I changed my environment so that I could be around this guy and

this guy helped me learn the ropes and taught me about my first business which opening a gym and it was only after learning and paying for Consulting for a gym business that I didn't have that I felt comfortable enough to begin on my own so the second component of knowing who you are are the skills you have these are the things that you do and so what can be really deceiving about this is people say hey I want to be confident I want to be charismatic I want to be good on camera but they make

it seem as though it's a trait so a trait isn't a real thing what it really is is a Bund bundle of skills so let's say if you wanted to learn the skill of sales and so underneath of sales we may have being able to actively listen being able to repeat back what someone says nodding and keeping eye contact being able to shake a hand firmly walking into a room and be able to project your voice being able to have reason to arguments with someone if they have some fallacy that they believe that you can

help them overcome all of these are subskills that if someone exhibits all of them someone say he's a good salesman now if you have this first level skill you can usually become a millionaire literally with just that but then fundamentally if you want to level up you can learn marketing and marketing is basically sales done one to many and so all the things that you learn how to do one-on-one you start projecting to large amounts of people and so this is just sales at scale and so underneath of marketing you would also have to understand

media so like where your communication is happening you'd want to understand headlines uh because that's going to be the first line of communication you'd probably have to learn something about web pages and you'd have to learn conversion right these are all subskills underneath of marketing that would make you a good marketer now if you know sales and marketing then you know acquisition because that means that you can completely acquire customers and so each of these skills stacks on top of one another and makes all of the skills retroactively more valuable so the more you learn

the better you get the better you get the more you get and so the path to becoming the person who can make the first million is predicated on the knowledge you have about the world so that you pursue the right path to get the skills within and so sure it's just as hard to learn how to pack boxes in a warehouse probably as it is to learn how to do sales they take about the same amount of time to learn this one just has significantly higher returns and so this is where the knowledge shows you

where to orient your effort so you get the highest returns back on the skills you learn so now let's talk about motivation my tiny little box of motivation and so motivation fundamentally comes from deprivation it's from what you don't have that creates the action or urgency around acting in general and so for example if I'm sleepy I'm motivated to sleep if I'm hungry I'm motivated to eat and so right now if you're motivated to become a millionaire it's because you lack a million dollars one of the easiest ways to become more motivated in money rather

than physiological stuff like hunger sleep whatever is to surround yourself with people who make significantly more money now immediately you're like wait a second I don't know anybody who's a millionaire of course you don't but you may be able to create a reference group that you compare yourself to who are millionaires and so for me for example when I had my job in Baltimore which is what I left to become an entrepreneur and start my first business most people were just like this is a terrible idea why would you throw away your college Years why

would you throw away this good job that you have that's steady and stable and looks good on paper and sounds good at cocktail parties and it was because I hated it and at some point I realized that basically everyone except for one guy that I kind of knew who we talk about our entrepreneurial dreams together all of them thought this was a bad idea and so at some point this is where High agency or high self-belief has to become more important your belief about yourself has to be more important than what other people say about

you and so this is a perfect segue to my second tiny little box environment and so think about your environment as friction or a lubricant on your goals and so if you want to change someone's Behavior you change their environment so let me give you a really simple example of this I can guarantee you that I can get every single person in a building to take their clothes off how could I do that I could do that by locking the doors that's one change to the environment second putting them all together in one room second

change to the environment third cranking the heat until it's 200° eventually everyone would strip down because it would be so hot in there and so you are that little rat in the experiment and you want to create the Box around you that lubricates the activities that you want to do and so fundamentally what you want to think about is how do I make it as easy as possible to work as hard as I can and then how do I eliminate everything else that distracts me from my goals more specifically how do I eliminate everything that

distracts me from doing the stuff that gets me the skills that takes me towards my goals and so that means that it could be people it could be software it could be alcohol if you just simply put this as your filter thinking does this increase or decrease the likely that to hit my goals cut out everything that decreases the likel that hit your goals cuz sometimes that's easier to see and then all that you'll be left with is nothing and time and the ability to learn and act I've talked about something that I call the

season of know which I've entered multiple times in my career as an entrepreneur which is basically where you're not successful enough to be in the group of friends that you want to be in but you want to have a completely different lifestyle than the people you're currently with and so you basically just have to say no to everything and that means that you're saying no to the social Gatherings because you know none of those people there have the goals that you want and none of them understand what you want to do it's saying no to

the distractions and no to the entertainment that you do normally because you know that that's not going to increase the likelihood that you hit your goal so for me I gave up fantasy football I gave up drinking with the boys I gave up going out I gave up really just like friend gatherings in general and so the only thing that I did was I worked and then I went home at 5:00 and then I worked from 5:00 to 9:00 and so I'd work 5:00 to 9:00 in the morning go to work work 500 to 9

again at night and so I had 8 hours of time that I could work on me and what I wanted to do next and 5 to 9 that I or 9 to 5 that I worked in the middle of the day that was basically how I paid my bills and if you're like wait there was no time yes there was no time I didn't have a girlfriend I wasn't going out to the movies right like it was just 100% focused on removing everything that wasn't getting me Clos to where I wanted to go go and

if you're like wow this makes me a weirdo yes yes it makes you odd and if you expect to be normal and Achieve odd and outlier results good luck so we've just covered who you are and you made a little bit of money the next step is figuring out who to sell to and I want to make this really real for you and so a lot of people think that you got to to make a million dollars you got to sell 10,000 people something for bucks right and that would be $1 million right that's that's

what that equals but it's way easier to just sell a 100 people something that cost $10,000 which also equals 1 million bucks and so believe me finding a 100 people way easier than finding 10,000 and so the real problem that you're solving is what do I have that's worth $10,000 well the thing is is they also don't have to pay you now this can be split over 4 years right which would then be 2500 bucks a year which is now $200 per month and for you to acquire the 100 customers you're talking about two people

per week which is not that hard and if you're reaching out to 100 people per day then you getting two out of 700 people to be willing to spend $200 a month with you all of a sudden this million dollar goal becomes a lot more real if you're trying to figure out who to focus on on for these two people a week that you're selling to that's what I'm going to cover right now you have three basic circles that I've identified from all the entrepreneurs that I've talked to number one is that you help someone

who is like you overcome something that you overcame in the past and so that's typically some sort of painful thing or some sort of problem you figured out a solution to and then you operationalize that for other people the second is something that you're just very passionate about so it's like you're really into this thing and then you help other people get into that thing too the third is some sort of professional skill and that's like oh I used to do accounting or bookkeeping for this business or I used to do building management or I

used to do Property Management like whatever it is you have some sort of skill that you learn in the professional Marketplace that you help other people do and so all of those things those three PS pain passion profession are the three fundamentals that I look at in terms of trying to pick the who so pain passion profession underneath of this if you're like okay where do I want to start the reason that I like helping fewer people rather than more people in the beginning is because you don't have money and you don't have resources and

so if you're going to start a business you might as well start with fewer people that pay you more because it's easier to run that business and so I like to use the uh the old Tesla analogy here which is when Tesla started he wasn't trying to bring in the model 3 into Mass Market he started with the Roadster which was the most expensive version of the car because he knew that the fewest amount of people would be able to afford it the other thing that this does is it actually positions you at the top

of the marketplace then he moved down market and created the model S which was now a $120,000 car then he went and got the model X and then he had the model 3 and then he has the uh the cybertruck which I think is why anyways the point here is that he basically worked his way down and went broader and broader and broader Market as he continued to get resources and be able to redeploy them into broader and broader parts of the marketplace and so for you you're going to probably pick what pain passion or

profession you're going to go to you're going to start with the smallest version of that market that you can the most specific the closest to who you can help the most and so I will give you this third little piece here which is if you're for some reason split between two of these like oh I like this and I also overcame this thing help the person that you can provide the most value to now if you're like okay I can help this poor person go up by $10 and I can help this rich person go

up by $100,000 then in a real way that $100,000 is a representation of how much value you can provide that person meaning go do that one first now once you've identified okay I'm going to start with a niche I'm going to pick one of these three PS then you run them through these filters that I have is that number one you want them to have the problem to solve now all of these things fundamentally are problems right they there's not enough information about about this passion there's not enough information of this pain or there's not

enough information about this profession they want to learn but fundamentally all of those are the problem so you have to have a problem that you're trying to solve and the people you're trying to sell to need to have that problem number two is they have to have the money to spend if they don't have the money to spend but they got the problem then you don't have a business around it you got a nonprofit which is not the point of this video this is about making money underneath of this problem to solve you want them

to have the urgency to solve it now so this can't be something that they're like that would be nice it has to be something that they want to solve right now because this will overcome all of the people who are like ah I going to think about it they keep pushing it off if you have cancer and somebody has a cancer treatment you want it now now on the money side you also want them to have the authority to spend it so you want them to be the one ideally who's the principal who's the one

who makes the decision about the implementation that you're going to help them with and I want to be really clear I use these as thought exercises to help you get started and pick the who that you're going to serve but the end of day if I had to boil all of this down it just comes down to this one truth which is that you want to serve the person that you can provide the most value too I'll tell you that a16z y combinator Etc they have one rule that they learned in years which I will

share with you is that they now only invest in Founders who already have experience with the problem and I again I Define problem very broadly here that you have overcome this sort of difficulty and you've lived with the problem for five plus years if you've lived with it then you intimately understand understand it because that means that you'll also intimately understand the prospect that you want to sell to and so it kind of is like this hack for already knowing what their thoughts and dreams are what the pains that they're experiencing how they talk the

words they use so it's kind of this big time warp of saying oh I already spent the last years of my life living being me if I can sell to people who are just like me then I don't need to do 5 years of studying and figuring this out and so for me I had struggled getting into shape that was my problem I was not jacked enough uh and so then I spent all my time learning about it so that I could become Mor jacked so much though that I annoyed everyone at at work enough

that they were like please quit this and start something Fitness related and so for me that was the perfect first pick now I was between SAT prep and why was that because I had been pretty good at test prep I tested pretty well and I'd gone through a process of improving my own scores and I was like I could probably help other people improve their scores too the other thing that I was considering was frozen yogurt because I actually really liked froo at the time this is before frozen yogurt boomed and so I actually was

you know to Young Alex was actually not a terrible time to get into frozen yogurt and so fundamentally it's like I had two things I was passionate about or pain these are really just equal sides of the same thing right it was a pain and then I became passionate about it when I solved it sat froo JY and so actually all three of these were in this pain/ passion bucket and I chose to start the gym because uh frozen yogurt cost 150 Grand open which I didn't have then it was really just between SAT prep

and fitness and I actually started on the SAT prep path first first and then I was going to partner with someone and then I'll just say it it ended poorly and because of that kind of negative experience and I wasn't emotionally mature enough I said fine I'm not doing that uh I'm just going to do Fitness so it was kind of like a process of elimination I couldn't do yoga CU I didn't have the money I felt like I got uh burned on my SAT prep thing and so then I just ended up with well

I guess I'll just do Fitness and so the only disclaimer that I have about all of this stuff that I just covered so this is my warning right this is my warning call for you is that you want to make sure you're going to be in a market that's at least flat or growing you don't want to get into a market that's shrinking and so if I wanted to get into retirement homes for old folks that's a growing Market that's a good thing and so if you had just recently placed your grandmother and it was

a pain process for you and then you figured out how to do it in a way that was really smart and efficient then you could provide that solution to other people who are in the exact same position as you and it probably urgent and they have the money and authority to do it you just don't want to get into selling print newspapers today so we've covered who you are who to sell to and you've made a little bit more money and now we talk about what to sell so there's four elements that I like to

have in every product that I sell number one is that it's Unique and the reason for that is because I don't want anyone else to be able to sell it the second is that it's expensive because expensive stuff makes you more money per unit third is that I want it to be sticky I want it to be things that people don't just just buy once but keep buying again and again and the fourth is I want it to be air so unique expensive sticky air meaning it's something that doesn't cost me a lot to deliver

and so this is basically the relationship of your gross profit it means it costs you a penny you can sell it for a buck and people keep buying it again and again and no one else can sell it but me so let me show you a product that everyone's heard of that actually matches all four of these Coca-Cola it's Unique in that no one else knows the recipe for Coca-Cola it's expensive Rel relative to how much it costs it might cost a few pennies to put this together really probably the can is the most expensive

part of the product itself and it's sticky in that I mean literally if you spill this on the floor it is sticky but on top of that is that when people start drinking Coke they don't stop drinking Coke products for usually their entire lives imagine introducing someone to a product and then knowing that they would literally always buy a product they'd always go to restaurants and Order what you had when they go home they crack up in your thing when they eat food they drink your products that's a great business so these are all exceptional

things for making your first million dollars now if you want to make a gazillion dollars then you want to add something else to this which is scale so if I just need to have 25 clients like I talked about earlier then I very much I could just do myself give people time give people service give people some skill set and transfer to them that's unique because no one else can do it because it's just me I can charge a lot because it's just my time which is the cost and if I'm good people pay again

and again and again and so these like a normal service business with one really good person meets all four of these things the issue then becomes scale and so what a walk you through is different ways to make any product more scalable I think that people have a massive misunderstanding about what it even means so the first part is that it's not is something scalable or not it's how scalable is it so this is really easy to scale and then this is really hard to scale and so oneon-one with you is harder to scale than

let's say me adding use your own School the software platform and so everything about scalability has to do with something called the incremental cost of adding a customer but all that really means is how much cost do we have to incur as a business to bring on one additional customer the most scalable businesses bring on an additional customer cost almost nothing imagine your cell phone carrier if another person signs on to their network of cell phone usage it doesn't really cost them much at all to add the additional user if another person comes on to

Facebook it's not that much if another person comes onto school it's not that much to add the person and so all of these things are easier to scale now I will tell you one of the things that's very interesting about very scalable businesses is that typically they are more demand constrained meaning it's harder to get people to buy that stuff whereas there are some businesses that are very hard to scale think like a very high service business so like accounting for example is harder to scale because it's hard to find really good accountants and be

able to maintain that quality of service at a high level scaling a law firm really hard because it's all about expertise which means you have to get lots of people in it takes a really long time to get them good enough and you always have the risk of them leaving and so often times very unscalable businesses have partnership structures so that people come in so that they feel like partial owners in that business but if you're the ultimate original owner it can be harder for you to scale again there are massive law firms it doesn't

mean that it's impossible it just means that it's harder congrats you're onethird of the way there and now we move on to level two and this is level two and we start with get them to buy and there's two steps to this Step One is they have to find out about whatever it is that you sell and in fact I wrote an entire book about this thing in $100 million leads which is getting strangers to to want to buy your stuff all right this is advertising the second thing that you do is you get them

to buy so let's start with number one find out so there are eight things that you can do to let people know about your stuff the first four only you can do the second four are things that other people do on your behalf these I call the core four these I call the four lead Getters so these are the only four things that one person can do to let other people know about their stuff so you've got warm Outreach which is letting people who know you know about your stuff cold is letting people who don't

know you know about your stuff then you've got content which is letting people who know you one to many know about your stuff and then you've got paid ads which is letting people who don't know you one to many know about your stuff these are the only four things that you can do to let someone else know to force them to find out about whatever it is you have to sell because they cannot buy it unless they know you exist now if you want to get more leverage because this is about becoming a millionaire then

you can use these four things to get lead Getters now the first type of lead getter is a customer this is the people who you actually get to buy now they can get they can do the core for themselves they can let people they know one-on-one they can let strangers know oneon-one they can be in ads for you or they can make content that's when they make a review or they make a post talking about how great your stuff is that lets more people know about it the next is you've got employees employees do the

same core four as you do on your behalf so they do warm Outreach they do cold out bound they make ads for you they make content on your behalf the next version of this is Affiliates so Affiliates are businesses that already have your customers in their business and so let's say I have a gym if I want to get more people in my gym I can make a deal with a chiropractor and I can say hey I will send you patience when they dings VES uh at my gym and then when you have somebody who

wants to lose weight because that's why they're back hurts you can send them to my gym so that creates a reciprocal relationship between you and another business and every customer they acquire they can send to you and vice versa and the last is agencies so these are other businesses that specialize typically in one of these so you've got content agencies you've got paid ads agencies you've got outbound agencies in all of those you'd still have to start with the core 4 to contact the agency and then they would use the core 4 to actually advertise

so these are the only things any person can do to let other people know and these are the types of people that become the targets of the core 4 that can then do it on your behalf now if you're trying to get 25 customers right like I talked about like you only need 25 people to pay $10,000 a year for four years to become a millionaire okay so the thing that you have and that's assuming no taxes I'm just going to assume this is international video uh the first thing and the easiest is here is

warm out bound you just let people know who already know you that you have this thing for sale and that you're willing to help them one of the easiest offers is hey I'll help you for free so that means I'll put 3 hours or 5 hours of my time to helping you achieve some sort of outcome and at the end if you don't mind I'd love to make you an offer about what it would look to work with me for paid for money in the future very simple offer and the thing is is when you

offer 2 three four 5 hours plus of your time for free a lot of people are willing to do that and so fundamentally just think about it like five sales calls that you do in a row except it's really smooth and you're just providing value and that way it kind of gets the Jitters out for people who've never sold before and when we actually talk about how to close I'll cover that in much more detail but but this is the easiest way for people to start now you can pair this with content because then you

let people know publicly hey I'm doing this thing one to hit me up in fact I'll put my hopefully first post somewhere over here this is the first post I ever made to promote my business and it was something called the free training project and I had already worked with people doing War outbound for a year at that point I think I had 13ish customer something like that and then I published their results and I said hey if you guys want to work with me I got a few spots open and that's what became my

first content post to let people know so they could find out about my stuff now over time I learned how to run PID ads and do cold outbound which is like calls emails DMS to strangers to say hey can I give you this amazing offer and ads work the same way except we call them up bring them in and close them and if you're starting out this can seem like a lot of stuff to do you're like oh I'm going to do all eight until you get to a million dollars you can just do one

of these and if you're going to do two do content and warm outbound this is the easiest way to start it's also the cheapest here you have to have a really good skill set this is also pretty cheap it's just harder to do but if you're going to do cold outbound you might as well start with warm start with people who aren't strangers and then level up to people who are strangers but these ones are the least expensive way of getting customers this is the most expensive but it's scales quickly so once people have found

out about our stuff great so now they know but now we got to get them to give us money so now we got to get them to buy when I started my gym I hated the idea of sales I even some someone say hey you're a Salesman and I was like I was disgusted by the idea I was like I'm an academic and so then I had to pay rent and clearly was like how do I get these strangers to give me money and immediately learned sales now over the last 10 plus years I've done

4,000 plus consults and it wasn't until I had to transfer that skill of sales to other people that had to create a framework that was repeatable for other people to also close I remember the first time I went home for Christmas uh I had an employee closed their first sale without me and I got teary because I realized it was the first time that my business could make money without me and so this is the framework I have which is closer and so this is an acronym and it's very simple and it's easy to remember

and the reason that one's smaller is not because R is less important it's because Amazon Jeffy B decided to only send us five of the right ones instead of the six so the first of the closer framework is clarify why the person is there and so fundamentally the big advantage that we have as a business is that these customers have reached out to us and so we need to clarify why they're even why they even took the time to reach out why did you respond to our ad why did you respond to my email why'

you comment on my post whatever it is if you have't engaged leads which means that they've responded in some way then they've taken the first step and basically every form of advertising this exists and most people aren't cold calling and then immediately closing and so even in that situation you would call them said an appointment and then on the appointment you would then say hey what made you take this appointment what made this worth it for you and then what we're doing here is we're clarifying the problem that leads us to the next letter which

is L which is label them with the problem now that may sound similar but it's actually very different so what we're doing is when we label we say huh so it sounds like you are here you want to get here and this is the thing that's getting in the way does that sound about right and so what we've done is we've said this is your current this is your desired and we've established a gap and sometimes an obstacle that's a monster okay and what we want to do is we want to position ourselves as the

sword that can kill the monster and ultimately get them to their desire to state but we can't sell unless we have a gap and that is why CNL are so important before you get into anything else so for example you're 200 lb you want to be 150 50 lbs is the gap the reason that you're struggling is because you don't know how to work out you don't know how to eat let me see if I can do a spoon here or a fork there you go you don't know how to eat and you have no

one who's holding you accountable to making sure that you do these first two in a B2B setting it's like you're doing 10K a month and you want to make 100K a month and the issue is that you don't have ads that are working or you don't have enough leads that are coming in that brings us to the next thing once we've clarified we're there we've clearly labeled them with a problem you're here you want to be here this is the problem then you overview past pain all right I call this the pain cycle so you

overview past experiences the reason this is so important is that pain is what motivates action and so if you think about motivation in general it's always from deprivation like I said earlier so you being overweight and reminding them of how overweight they are and the cost of being overweight this whole time it basically f further brings them this way it expands the gap between where they are and where they want to go and the further that Gap is the bigger the rubber band is and so remember this is our amount of deprivation which is the

amount of motivation to get someone to buy and so when we do the pain cycle we simply say what have you done before how' that work out for you and then the pieces that they liked you compare you associate with your solution and the pieces they don't like you associate with why it didn't work and why your solution is different this time once you get to the end of okay okay what' you do how'd that work for you oh it's different in this way oh it's similar in this ways what else have you tried you

keep going through that pain cycle to continue to poke on that pain button to keep expanding the gap between where they are and where they want to go and the frustration in the present for not having achieved it and so once we've overviewed the pain now we sell the vacation S A lot of people salesmen this is when salesman blab this is when salesman lose the sale and the reason they lose the sale is because they just do this massive monologue and that doesn't work instead what you want to do is come up with what

I call a three-pillar pitch and each of the pillars is usually one or two statements and Then followed by an analogy or metaphor and so you say hey if you want to create SEO to get more leads then it's kind of like and then we basically make our transition it's kind of like when you get a paycheck and when you have an investment account your paycheck you work and you get paid every single month but you put a little bit of that money towards your investment over time that investment compounds until eventually it makes you

more than what you make in your active and so SEO kind of works the same way now realistically there's really no similarity to getting traffic to a website as there is between paychecks and investment accounts but it Compares something that people understand with something that they don't understand so they can learn and so fundamentally you should come up with three analogies that explain each of the pillars of what differentiates Your solution if I was selling leads which I came up with a script for mortgage brokers it was the leads had to be exclusive they had

to be timely and they had to be qualified and so you just say okay have you ever got on the phone with somebody who doesn't have money and they're just window browsing yeah it's in the ass totally right and so it's like cool you just give an example you give an analogy that explains it if it's something easy to understand examples if it's something hard to understand metaphor and the reason I call it sell the vacation is that you'll notice that I'm not actually explaining much about the product at all and the main reason is

because they care about themselves they don't care about our product they care about their problems not about our product and the only reason they care about our product is if there's a way that they know with high conviction it's going to get them to their goal and so we want to talk about Maui we want to talk about Hawaii we want to talk about where they're going what it's going to be like when they're at 150 what it's going to be like when they're making $100,000 a month not all the steps it's going to take

to get there we're not talking about TSA we're not talking about taking your shoes off and sitting next to somebody who stinks and and getting on the plane and having bad plane food cuz guess what all of that stuff is I just gave you an analogy and so once we've done s we then go to E which is explain away their concerns so at this point after you've overviewed the pain you say hey I think I might have something for you would you like to hear about it they say yes and then you go sell

the vacation once you've sold the vacation you ask you say you're ready to get started does that sound good to you any kind of closing question you want fair enough great now if they then say anything but yes I want to buy you then go to E explain away they're concerns and so the way that you explain away they're concerns is that typically there's three big categories so people blame their circumstances for why they can't do something they blame other people for why they can't do something or they avoid the decision altogether which is basically

blaming themselves they give their power elsewhere and So within that you basically have six categories of questions that fall underneath so one is they say they don't have the time I'm too busy right now now's not a good time the second is they say I don't have the money to do this right now this is too expensive this is outside of my budget number three is they say somebody else has the decision-making Authority all right the fourth is they say I'm not sure this is right for me this is a fit question all right which

is really just means that they have a preference that isn't aligned or that they believe is in aligned with the product that you sell oh I have to follow meal plan I don't want to count Cal five is they blame other people's past experiences with them and so this is one that we overcome with something I call ber you twice but it's other people's products then finally they avoid this is a stall this is sounds similar to this but it's actually very different this is I don't have time this is give me time that covers

the explaining away the concerns there's a hundred other closes I give you but those are the theories behind each of them finally we have to reinforce the decision so now we have somebody who's made the decision they've choosen to given us money which is amazing we love them for that but the thing is is that sometimes people change their minds when they go away especially if you're good at sales and so when you have the r what we're doing is we're reinforcing that they made a good call now this actually Begins the handoff to onboarding

all right so when you onboard a new customer this is what happens in the first 24 48 Hours post purchase and what you want to do is make as many promises as you can in that time period and keep them so that they feel and we're talking like hey this is what's going to happen next in the next 30 minutes this is going to happen right you're going to get an email and then you can click that link and then this is going to happen next and you want as many of those things that you

tell them to have happen to happen and from this we do something called bamfam which is book a meeting from a meeting and when you do bamfam it means that no one ever gets uh left in the cracks no one falls through and so the reason that a lot of customers cancel is because you said someone's going to reach out to them and they thought it was going to take 30 minutes you didn't set the expectations it takes two days and they're like you know what this isn't for me I actually I've changed my mind

right instead you want to always have them it's like a Baton Pass it's like sales passes to onboarding onboarding one passes to onboarding two onboarding two passes the senior engineer or the media buyer or whatever it is that you do to deliver results for people and at that point you've kept them through the process and you've reinforced you know what these guys are on top of it they're legit and if you want to make this extra magic what you do is you you pass on the notes so you never want a customer to repeat themselves

and so the way you do that is that you take notes on every call and so if you get on a sales call for example and the setter had notes then you can start the call being like hey I know you talked to Andrew and you said this this and this and these are the problems you're struggling with they're like wow these guys are on it and when that goes to onboarding and they have their onboarding conversation with Sarah and then Sarah says oh I know you talked to Andrew and you talked to Jeff and

you said these things they're like wow this business is legit very small change massive Improvement in terms of how satisfied customers will be and because this is all about making more money the likelihood that they actually Ascend and buy more in the future yeah and if you're a beginner you're the one taking all of these calls so at the very least take your own notes and remember what you're talking about with these people and if you have multiple customers review the notes before you get back on the call with them close more deals make more

money save the world we got them to buy we got our first customers we've made a little bit of money now we get them to buy even more so now we got to get them to buy more times and specifically this is all the different ways that you can make a customer worth more money to your business and so the idea is that the customers or the businesses that make customers worth the most are the ones that make the most money unsurprising but there are eight specific ways that you can do this with literally any

business so the first way is that you can increase the price so for this example let's say I'm selling gum all right so I'm selling gum and what I can do is instead of charging $5 for this I can charge $6 it costs me the same amount but I've now made more money the second way that I can do this is I can decrease my costs all right so if this thing was originally $5 and it cost me a dollar to make I can buy more inventory I can do advances so that I can get

this down to0 50 Cent so I still make 50 cents more per box that's the second way that we make uh any product more profitable for us the third way we can do this is we can get them to buy more times so right now I say hey you want to buy my gum great but wouldn't it be cool if you got on a gum subscription so you get one of these every single month the fourth way is to get them to buy something else that's new or different all right so right now I'm selling

you this gum but wouldn't it be cool if you got these Nicorette patches as well so wouldn't these patches go great with your gum it doesn't matter what you sell you could have burger with fries you could have an iPhone case with your iPhone there's always something else that pairs or is complimentary to whatever your core offer is and sometimes you make more profit on this thing than you do on the main thing the fourth thing that you can do is get people to buy more quantity all right so this is when the number goes

up so currently you're buying one box what if you bought three boxes of gum and so the difference between this and this is this is how many times they're buying over a period of time this is how we're increasing the quantity all at once so this is think about this as bulk purchases buying more volume the second way that we can do this is increase quality so now we say okay how do we sell you a better version of this so these ones are 2 milligrams of nicotine these ones are 4 mg so if I

have a box of the same size but i s you a 4 migr version then it might be a higher quality or maybe the nicotine in this one comes from a magic plant in the Amazon either way we sawell a higher quality version if I were selling burgers instead of selling mystery meat you could sell sirloin burgers right if you're selling iPhone cases it would go from plastic to Kevlar it would go from uh plastic to metal or wood we have a higher quality version of whatever it is that we sell and if you're selling

services there's a zillion ways you can make more valuable but it's like you have higher uh quality Representatives who are going to be answering your thing you have priority support you get answered first uh you have extended hours so you get more times all of those things are different versions of higher quality the next is that you can do the equal opposite you decrease the quantity you decrease the number that someone buys so instead of buying 160 pieces you just buy 20 so you can have a down sell now the reason that this can make

you more money is that it actually makes you more money per person you talk to not per customer and so with this is you make money here when you take a no and turn into a yes so it's taking a no a small no turning into a small yes and then later you have all these other things to turn into a big yes and then finally we go from something that's higher quality to something that's lower quality so is there a version of your product that could be the the the discount version the economy class

version and with Services it's literally the equal opposite you have Junior reps who answer it you have extended times you don't get calls you only get chat support it's all just thinking what are different ways all the components and features that I have with my service most times if you have a service you just have you haven't even defined all the stand standards you have you just need to think through every single thing what about speed what about quality about who they're talking to what about the medium they're on is it one to many is

it one-on-one is it recorded is it live like all of these things are factors that make something more or less valuable and so with physical products the same idea except it's usually going to be the ingredients and how new it is this is an older model those are all things that decrease the quality and so when you're looking at this these are the eight ways that you can get any customer to be worth more and so if you're a beginner you want to know the easiest one of these to make more money charge more for

the exact same thing and often times when you're a beginner you want to start low so it's okay but what I would recommend doing is what I call the five to five to five model so basically every five you sell you bump it by 20% all right very easy so if we're at $5 for our gum here the first five people if everyone buys no problem we bump it to $6 so $5 goes up 20% it goes to $6 and if the next five buy no problem then we go up to 720 and we keep

going up by 20% and you can keep doing this Forever Until people stop buying and so then you just look at how much gross profit do I have times the conversion rate and that gives you your perfect price and so I'm telling you you might be worried about what if what if I sell fewer people you just have to do the math and you never discount in order to make a sale you can choose to test your price but you have to stick with it for the number that you said you would the second easiest

one of these to do besides obviously raising the prices over time is just getting people to buy more stuff this one requires nothing new from you this one also requires nothing new you're just asking them to buy again next month this one gets them to buy more today and so these ones are among the easiest that you can do as a beginner this one decreasing cost super valuable for you usually takes more time for you to negotiate with vendors get economies of scale things like that but still valuable all these other things are things that

you add to the business which creates more products not say anything wrong with that but it's typically a more advanced move so these three right here are the ones that you want to focus on if you're a beginner and this is a concept that you should understand how to master this is the language of business and so it doesn't matter what we're talking about you should be able to apply all eight of these to anything so if I'm selling whiteboards I say okay I can raise the price of this whiteboard next is I can get

people to buy more whiteboards over an extended period of time wasn't that one great wouldn't it be great if you had more of those for your team or I could get them to buy five whiteboards today one for every room in their office right uh or I could say hey this is a you know flimsy metal uh whiteboard let me get you a wood one it'll look better on camera or I can make it higher quality by saying hey I won't put my logo on yours so that it's not in all your camera shoots the

next is I can decrease how much it costs me to actually manufacture each of these whiteboards this also increases my profit the next thing is I say okay you got these whiteboards but what about your paper right that you know what would go great with your whiteboard rolls of paper the next is okay uh can I decrease the quantity okay so instead of buying five you buy one right and then in terms of quality we go the other direction so instead of buying this wood one you buy this metallic one and if you're starting with

metallic then maybe you should go from this metal one to really flimsy metal or an older model you should be able to apply this to anything you sell and once you've mastered this you can become a master of increasing the lifetime value AKA how much people spend with you imagine this bucket is your business and imagine this is new customers coming in the door if you don't fix this leaky bucket they're never going to be able to stack up and so once you fix it you can flow all as much as you want but now

you're keeping your customers and your Revenue compounded and if you do that for a long enough period of time while we wait for my friend over here to fill up the bucket this is a cyber truck and this is 100 Grand and in the next 30 days September October November December each month in 2024 I'm giving one of these to someone who's watching this video right now and so the way that you win this stuff is by building the largest group on school within the next month and last month's winner just to give you some

context got you about $50,000 per month in recurring revenue and we make it pretty easy so right now one out of two people who starts a community on school that's paid makes at least $1 online and often times it's a lot more than that in fact right now the average is $1,360 per month so no this isn't going to get you on the Forbes list but it can help get you started and so if that sounds at all interesting the best part is you can start your own community on school absolutely free going to school.com

games all right join the community have fun make money save the world and I'll see you on the other side and if you keep doing it over dive you'll have more money than you know what to do it and you'll be overflowing with customers and cash and that's how you create a cash flow explosion and once you got people buy it and people are buying again and again again now you're making a little bit more money but the next thing you need is going to be help and so you're going to have to have other

people help you along the way cuz this is how you scale and these are two mannequins that represent employees so let me share a framework with you that's really expanded my vision in terms of how companies grow and this has taking me years to develop but fundamentally I see the size of a company is always going to be limited by the number of brains or the cumulative knowledge that exists within the company and so that should make some sort of sense like the amount of total knowledge that that exists is going to be the potential

of the business which is why as entrepreneurs you have to learn more because if you make your brain bigger and you make your knowledge base bigger look how much bigger the company can get but the thing is is that you don't realize that you can get three or four or five other people's lives built into the business by saying hey I don't need to learn Finance I'm going to go find somebody who's got 20 years of Finance experience in this industry hey I don't need to learn HR and recruiting Because I'm going to go find

somebody who has that experience because what happens is once you do that the potential of the business you can't even see it because the peak would be all the way up here and so this is the big unlock this is how Steve Jobs built the biggest you know one of the biggest Tech companies in the world it wasn't because he knew how to build the iPhone he knew how to build the team sh that could build the iPhone and so the most valuable skill set fundamentally that you can have as a business owner is the

ability to get other people to do stuff for you and so on one level you have the influence to get them to want to do that thing for you and then everything else after that is enabling them to know how to do the right stuff and so the first is the persuasion side now that I think I covered during the closer stuff that's going to be the values you have what you present and if people really admire you and that's where you have to continue to level up yourself this is the who you are part

in order to attract the best talent but once you have good talent how do you make sure that they know how to do the right stuff and so I call this the Management Diamond all right so it's very simple so I reversed this from if somebody doesn't do what I want them to do why would that be the first reason is they didn't know that you wanted them to do it at all because you hadn't told them or you weren't clear about it now if they know that you wanted them to do it it they

might not have known how to do it because they're like okay I got that you wanted me to do it but I just don't know how the third is that they knew how they knew that and how but they didn't know when you wanted them to do it by so they could have just been totally able they just didn't know that you wanted it right now the next is they knew that how and when but they didn't have any motivation to do it they didn't know why you wanted them to do it and so when

I think about each of these things you can actually solve this so you solve this through Comm so this is through clear communication where you include the deadlines which is here what you saw for this one is that whenever you include what you want someone to do you give them a Time duration and then you ask them how long they expect it's going to take to solve the how what we do is we have the 3DS which is document which is you figuring out a checklist of exactly what you do because often times when you're

a beginner or when you're starting your own business you have to do every single job and so you know how to do the job better than they do the problem is in the beginning you're more unconsciously competent or you do a lot of other things that you don't know that you do which is what makes you successful you're like no one can sell like I can sell what it really means is I don't know how to teach anyone like I can sell and so that means it's a deficit on you not a deficit on them

and so the first thing you do is you document step by step through a checklist what you do to get the result whether it's making a website or it's doing outbound or it's doing sales or making content whatever it is you document step bystep what you do the next is you demonstrate it which means you do it in front of them using the document so you say hey let me show you how I'm following the checklist and then look at what happens so I follow the checklist and look at what happens and they gain trust

in the checklist in the documentation and so after you've documented and you demonstrated in front of them then they duplicate which means they now do it in front of you using the same document and if they get the same outcome as you do using just the document then you have duplicated the skill and now they can do it and so they know how now finally the why is a question of motivation so I'm not going to be able to solve human motivation in one video but what I will say is explaining and leveling up what

this thing does within an organization a lot of people do want to do a good job and they do want to be contributing members of society but a lot of times we haven't explained how what you do here feeds this overall machine which hopefully does some good in the world and so it's simply explaining in simple terms how customer service for example it's like hey you do customer service and you respond to tickets using this process we get happier customers happier customers stay longer pay more and refer their friends and if we want to have

this big mission one we want to make sure we're delivering to the people that we're currently serving but on top of that we want to be able to help more people over time and so you very much are important to our whole business to success and so if every person in the organization knows how they tie what they do directly or indirectly to you being successful as a business then they have a larger motivation for why they should do it and so if you ever have a conversation where you're like why is my employee not

doing anything I would also suggest using this as a framework because then it's not none of these blame them you say hey John I asked you to do this and then you didn't do this and so help me understand was it that you didn't know that I wanted you to do it because I see this message here so was that part unclear is it that you didn't know how to do it was it that you didn't know when to do it by you didn't know why to do it and let me give you the bonus

number five was there something blocking you and so this is actually one of the most common ones of the diamond because what it is is for example hey I could have the best chef in the world and I say hey make me an omelette he understands what baking omet is he knows how to do it and I say make it for me right now he's motivated because he's on live television what's the problem he ain't got no eggs and so the whole point is and I had this I'll give you a real example with my

team I was like Hey guys why are you guys not getting these edits out on time and they were like ah we want to spend more time at home we want to spend it at the headquarters and I was like I built this massive headquarters for you guys like why are you not spending time here and so it turned out they knew how to do it they knew that I wanted it they knew when they needed to buy they were very motivated to do it the problem was the internet at our headquarters wasn't fast enough

they were way faster at home and so we spent 200 Grand to get Google Fiber drilled down into the building so we get a gigabyte a second now and now they all edit here and so the thing is is a lot of times as a as a boss or an owner you have to see what are the things that are blocking because most people do want to do their jobs but this little five five five-part framework this diamond is one of the most valuable tools I have because this actually makes a productive discussion cuz either

you can solve the constraint for them or you find out that you've got somebody who despite all of these thing still chooses not to do it in which case maybe it's not a good fit for them so we had a a new sales rep that came in uh and we were really excited about him and he you know he seemed really sharp really understood what was going on and within three days he was doing all of the stuff but he came to us and was like I really hate this now that's something that I can't

fix if you hate you know talking to new people and talking to customers or talking to prospects all day long then sales is probably not for you now that being said we also want to break down like hey everything's got periods of suck you got to learn skills things like that but if I check every one of these boxes and someone says checks all of them and nothing's stopping them except for themselves then it makes the conversation really easy it's like dude I don't want you to do something you don't want to do no worries

so boom why do I bring a tripod here if you're like what are the three pillars of business these are the three pillars of businesses Alex understands them the first the for the spear is acquisition that's marketing and sales that's letting people know about your stuff and getting them to exchange money in order to get it the second pillar is delivering that stuff so someone advertises someone sells and then someone has to create and deliver the iPhone so once you advertise and you sell now you have to deliver the product you got to give the

person the iPhone so that comes from the design that's product that's distribution that's delivery in service businesses that's customer success that's onboarding that's delivering the service itself that is all the stuff that goes into this delivery it's how you fulfill the promises that acquisition made the third one and this is the one that a lot of people forget and this often limits businesses is operations so this is everything else that's not included in these two but that support these two so think it legal Finance payroll HR recruiting all of that stuff supports these two other

functions these are the core value creators in the business you got a market and sell stuff you got to deliver that stuff but everything else that has to exist in order for these two to continue to function you got to pay taxes you got to pay payroll you got to send people checks right these are all things that must exist but most entrepreneurs are severely lacking and this is sometimes where the biggest outside help can come and help expand the overall business so that the potential of how big the thing is that you want to

build can get so much bigger and then you just keep adding more and more people to this and you keep expanding the stool but the Three core pillars of the business remain unchanged and so if these are the three pillars of the business and you want to take a partner on so let's say that I want to take this partner not necessarily a life partner but I want to take a partner on in my business because this happens a lot really early and usually it's because there's so much work and you have no capital and

you're like well you know what if two of us work at least twice as much stuff will get done the problem is most Partnerships come from two guys or two gals who are buddies and say hey let's get like we have fun hanging out let's and we love talking about business let's do business together but the problem is let's say they both love marketing and sales or they both love product or they both love operational stuff just like people and things like that well then you actually are super uh topheavy and what happens is this

goes like this because you're over over indexed on one and the tripod Falls over and so you want to be balanced in the business so that the business can continue to scale proportionately across all functions and so if somebody is going to partner with you they have to have a skill that you don't have time you don't have or Capital you don't have and from the skill perspective it means they have to have one of the other legs of the stool that you don't have from a capital perspective that might be the thing that flows

into the business that allows these people to work in the beginning when it might not be as profitable or for you to buy inventory for you to buy a machine that you're going to do the equipment with or let's say it's you sending the capital somebody else is going to be running the business on your behalf as an operator or owner now they're putting in time or energy that you don't have because you're doing other stuff congrats you're now done with level two more money and now it's time to go to level three so here

we are on level three and I want to Quick take a quick pause to invite you if you're a business owner doing over a million dollars a year and you'd like to scale to the next level I want to invite you to come out to our workshops here in Vegas to my headquarters to meet with me and my team each of my functional directors who are working with companies in my portfolio doing hundreds of millions of dollars a year to help you have advertising go from 1 to 10 we know what it looks like to

have delivery go from 10 to 30 we know what it like looks like to have Finance go from 30 to 100 and so we can help you DEC constrain those things and help you ultimately scale if that sounds at all interesting I'm sure the URL is around here and we'd love to have you out otherwise keep enjoying the vid let's go to the first level of level three keeping your advantage so things are working people are working for you you're making sales now we want to expand the gap between you and everybody else and if

you're like why is there a big seesaw here I'll explain in a second but the fundamental Crux of all this this is the big word leverage which is let's define it how much you get for what you put in so leverage doesn't mean good or bad it's just how much you get now if I do this many times and let's say I'm pumping something then I'm doing more repetitions and the amount of Leverage I get is proportional to the size of this lever right now if I want to get more for what I put in

then it means I would extend this lever all the way out here and i' would get more for every push if I wanted to have less which why would you I would put my heads here and I have a much smaller lever so it's much harder to do the same amount of work and so how much you get is leverage High Leverage is I get a lot for what I put in low Leverage is I get very little for what I put in and so there's lots of forms of Leverage in a business and the

idea is that you want to have as many working for you at the same time as seemly possible so I'll give you a couple examples so one one that I've built mine on is brand it's reputation so that means that if I have a brand versus is not having a brand the brand gives me leverage in a lot of ways so number one is I have higher click the rates if I run an ad with a trusted figure then more people will click than otherwise would have normally without a brand that means I get more

for what I put in high leverage second I get higher conversion rates and so the people who click also have a higher likelihood of opting in following through and ultimately buying and once people do that then they're able to say yes or they're willing to say yes at higher prices another form of Leverage is people if I can get more for what I put in I only lived one life one lifespan but I can get somebody else's life basically their experience to help Propel my business towards my goal then I get my life plus their

life and so that gives me more leverage so I want to make this real for you so imagine you see an advertisement for this blank t-shirt all right are you inclined to buy it probably not unless you're just in the market for white t-shirts but all of a sudden if you see this one right next to it you might have a much higher likelihood of clicking converting and then buying at a higher price so literally if these are side by side this might be $30 and this might be $5 and you still might be more

likely to buy this one that is the leverage that bring gets you because they for the same ad and the same dollars get more sales for what they put in and you can see leverage everywhere if I write code and I write it one time and then millions of people use it that gives me leverage I did work once people use it millions of times so for example if I write a book then it takes me x amount of time to write the book but once the book's written I don't have to work again for

the book but if people keep telling their friends about the book and saying it's good then it continues to sell copies and spread the word that's leverage I'll give you another one so if I get if I do this in the beginning I'm probably really inefficient at it but if I do this for days and days on end I probably realize I got to put my weight on it you know what I can lock my arm out so I don't have have to use my muscles and I can just lower my weight on this thing

so my skill gets better and so I get more per unit of effort and so skill is also another form of Leverage and so one of the most important relationships to get leverage earlier on in your career is understanding what work is so work which is what you do every day is volume times leverage equals output which means work equals output so it's not about how hard you work it's about how much you get for the work you do and so if I have a lot of Leverage awesome but if I have a lot of

Leverage and I do a lot of repetitions then I get even more output and so the thing is and this is what people don't understand is in the beginning you need to do volume because volume gives you skill skill is leverage and so for example let's say I'm doing cold calls in the beginning of my career if I do 100 cold calls and somebody who's been doing cold calls for 10 years and has an amazing skill set does 100 cold calls he's going to get more appointments booked than I will and so for the same

work same volume he's going to get more output so in a very real way he worked more than I did he got more for what he put in and so there is a reciprocal relationship between volume and leverage because the more you do the better you get and the better you get the more you like it the more you like it the more you do it and so this is The Virtuous cycle of work but you have to get started in the beginning when you have low leverage and so the only thing you can do

is compensate with volume it means you have to do a thousand door knocks a thousand cold calls a thousand cold emails a thousand pieces of content so that you can start getting good and so one of my favorite and least favorite sayings is work smart not hard because the reality of it is that you have to work hard in order to work smart and so now we just finished keeping your advantage so you've made even more money and you're continuing to scale your business and so now we move on to the next part of level

three sticking with it because if everything's going well the only thing that can stop you is you and so I'll give you one of my favorite quotes from Charlie Munger which I'll paraphrase he more or less says compounding is the eighth wonder of the world and the objective of compounding is to never interrupt it and so he talks about this to stop people from day trading and getting people buy in and out of stocks he says you should be willing to buy a company and have the stock market be closed for the next five years

because you bought a share of a company and you believe it's going to go up for a long period of time so that's why you buy high quality businesses but the concept of not interrupting compounding is one of the key philosophies that I have around focus focus is one of the most important things of entrepreneurs and if you talk to the most successful entrepreneurs they talk about ruthlessly focusing for long periods of time and Steve Jobs was famous for grilling his direct reports and asking them when he would start meetings what have you said no

to lately and so I Define focus by the quality and quantity of things you you say no to so if you say yes to many things then you are not focused if you say no hypothetically to literally everything except for one thing you would Define that person as incredibly focused probably obsessive but like imagine a kid for example who did nothing but play video games all day he's incredibly focused on video games he doesn't eat he doesn't sleep I'm saying hypothetically does nothing else he's incredibly focused at some point I'm not saying you do that

but it points out the hypothetical stream of what Focus really is and so some people claim to be focused but it's not are you focused or not it's how focused are you and so if you followed any of my stuff at all I talk about the woman in the red dress and the reason I love this analogy is it's perfect so in The Matrix there's this moment if you haven't seen the movie where Morpheus who's the guide or the teacher in the story is teaching Neo the main character about how the Matrix works and so

they're walking through a crowded City he's talking about something and he says were you looking were you listening to me or are you looking at the women in the red dress and he says 'what and he says 'l again and he says and when he looks again there's a gun pointed at his head and so he says if you're not one of us you're one of them and so these are agents agents basically are the things that disrupt everything in the system and so what appears to be a woman in the red dress what appears

to be this shiny object this amazing thing that catches your attention this big opportunity you think you should leave your current thing for that is often an agent in Disguise meant and sent to kill you and destroy your progress and your focus but let me tell you how deceptive this is and this is what it looks like for entrepreneurs and so there's five stages that I think entrepreneurs go through in the beginning you have uh zero right and then you have uninformed optimism which means that you don't know what you're talking about but it looks

really good this is the grasses greener on the other side then you have informed pessimism which is now that I got into it oh it actually isn't that easy to make money in this thing even though my cousin's doing he's actually been doing it for five years there's all these other things I didn't know about but now you know about it you're like o this is actually a little harder than I thought then if you keep going you have the valley of Despair this is where everyone gives up and everyone stops trying now what happens

most times is they never get to step four what happens again well I'll tell you step four and then I'll tell you what happens to so step four is you get to informed optimism so now remember the optimism here now you're informed about it so you're like okay I get what it takes to make this work and I can see a way for me to win and then finally you get to here which is you achieve the goal right you do what you set out to do to begin with but you have to go through

the valley of the spirit this happens in every single business especially when you're starting out but what happens for most entrepreneurs is dotted line they start it all over again and so they say oh you know what I'm GNA go find my point of uninformed optimism because there's another thing it's not Drop Shipping it's crypto it's not crypto it's wholesaling it's not wholesaling it's insert whatever opportunity you think is quick and easy and I promise you none of them are because think about it this way if something were quick and easy everyone would do it

and already be winning so I want to break this myth in half because I think it's so important because it is the number one thing that destroys most businesses is disrupting compounding and I think part of the reason that this myth is proliferated is because the people who are selling you that myth make money on you buying their solution and so what they is they say oh the average millionaire has seven income streams right and so you think oh millionaires have seven income streams therefore I have that's like saying oh the average billionaire has a

private jet therefore I should fly private to be a billionaire it confuses sequence it's not that you get tall when you play basketball it's that tall people play basketball and so for you in your career most people who make a lot of money Focus all of their eggs in one basket and then once they've achieved all the success then they diversify but after they diversify their returns go down not up Bill Gates for example if he had never sold his Microsoft shares right now would be a trillionaire he'd be worth one and a half trillion

today instead he's worth 100 to 150 billion and the main reason is because he Diversified after he focused all of his wealth building into Microsoft now Steve Balmer his number two man in the very beginning had a much much much smaller share so I think Balmer has like two or three 3% a tiny slice of Microsoft Bill Gates had 49% when they went public so he had half the company and so today Steve Balmer his number two is almost as wealthy as Bill Gates because he has stayed focused this whole time and never liquidated his

shares and continued to grow in Microsoft and so they want to feed you this myth that somehow 17th of you splits between all these things they say try a bunch of stuff see what works the reality is any of these things can work if you concentrate all of your attention into one then see overflows then that is how you get an overflowing opportunity you keep working it you keep doubling down on it and you say no to the woman in the red dress because you know that she's just the value of Despair she's just an

agent in Disguise and if you stick with it you will win and that's the thing that separates the people who win from the people who don't is that they can just keep saying no to everything else they keep saying yep you know what that's an amazing opportunity for someone else that's an amazing opportunity for someone else and let me show you this mathematically so let's say that you're in your third month your third week your third year whatever increment you want of you developing some skill right you continue to get a little bit better every

single year fine now you see this new opportunity that you're a ground zero for and you think man I think I could grow faster by doing this thing and so you have to reason let's say that you're on year four of opportunity number one that instead of saying okay well I'm going to go to you know I'm going to go to my fifth year so you're not you haven't done this yet so this is hypothetical instead you say you know what I'm going to start this new opportunity and new opportunity I'm going to be here

which is higher than where I was before and it's going to be a double the rate okay but now I'm on year two here guess where I'm going to be if I'm on year two past this on this opportunity and so you can't compare year two here to year two here you have to compare year two here to year five here and so this increment I promise you it's significantly easier to take something from $10 million to $15 million than it take from zero to five in a year so you finished keeping your advantage and

sticking with it and you've made even more money we just keep making money we're crazy and so we move on to the last and final step of level three get better and keep getting better and so one of the key skills that I've developed over my career that I want to share with you is the ability to learn but not in the way that you might think traditionally and so what happens is sure in the beginning you want to get from courses and experts and things like that but over time what you want to double

down on is volume because what volume does is it gives you data and then data you can do something called a common factors analysis so let's say that I make 10 pieces of content okay these are my 10 pieces of content hopefully that's 10 all right now that means that within those top 10 pie those 10 pieces of content there's going to be a top one and there's going to be a bottom one and this is going to be the one that did better and this is going to be the one that did the worst

and so what I want to do is see what did the top 10% have that this one didn't have what are the discrepancies between these two and those discrepancies are the golden nuggets that build together to help you acquire skills and so one of the things that people shy away from in the beginning is how low leverage you are you have no Capital you have no friends you have no other people who can help you out so it's just you and when you start you suck but the thing is is that the pain of how

bad it is and how hard it is in the beginning is the thing that forces you to seek out better ways to do it and so you have to go through that pain so that you can seek out these improvements and then all of a sudden you figure out a new way to use that lever that takes on Tenth of the time you figure out how to tweak your email headings to get way more open rates or you tweak your offer to get way more responses or you make your ad hooks better so you get

higher you know people clicking the ad all of those things are skills and so this pain and this volume and this is the poor part getting a feedback loop going is what creates skills so it's not just doing a lot you have to do a lot so that you can see what works so that you can get better fundamentally common factors analysis is how I learn everything because a lot of the skills that I have to learn now are things that no one teaches there's no courses for what I for what I'm trying to learn

now and so I have to just try a lot of things and see huh what are the top 10% have in common and this works for figuring out your customer Avatar you're like hey what are my top 10% of customers what do they have in common in terms of what they did and who they are what are the bottom 10% what did they do and who are they okay well I want less of those and more of these and so this is a continuous loop that you do on your customers the same thing works in

your content what are the top 10 pieces and the bottom 10 pieces what are the top 10 ads and the bottom 10 ads what are the top 10 uh perfect sales scripts in terms of recordings what do we say differently on those calls than we said on these calls it literally applies to everything and that continuous loop of progress and feedback is how you get better and that is the core of Leverage from a skills perspective and so right now if you're watching this video maybe a million dollars is your goal and if it is

your goal then you have to deconstruct it to what you need to do remember from the very beginning and what are the actions that I have to take and you take these actions so that you can look at what worked and what didn't so that you can get better and so this is fundamentally how you create goals and know this isn't your mama's goal video because you've already seen that this isn't about smart goals this is about your relationship with your goals and this is something that I don't see people talk about but you have

a relationship with your goals it is something that you're willing to sacrifice in order to keep and so when I think about this for myself I had a conversation with Lea for example where I said you know what I Define love as what you're willing to give up in order to keep something and so you say hey man that guy Rod he must love that car because he's he continues to keep working on it over and over again it still doesn't work he must love that thing because of what he's willing to put up in

order to keep it and so if we think about that as the measuring stick of how much not do I love something or not but how much do I love something then you can see in a very real way how much do you really love your goals are you willing to lose a friend over it are you willing to give that up in order to keep your goals are you willing to give up a girlfriend for it in order to keep your goals are you willing to give up a wife or a spouse for it

in order to keep your goals for me the answer is honestly yes and the reason that I have such an intimate relationship with my goals sounds kind of weird is because my goals have fed me more than anything in my life they have helped me become the person that I want to be because they have oriented my behavior to help me do the activities that create the character traits that create the outcomes and so I use that as my filter for the people who are in my world so if someone comes in my world and

I think do I need to sacrifice my goals in order to keep you now a lot of times it's not an allout sacrifice sometimes I just ask the question is my goal achievement more or less likely with this person in my life and often times it's just neutral which then for me is okay well then you're going to drain me of resources that don't get me to my goals that I could otherwise those marbles that I could otherwise keep focused on the main thing which means I have to say no to this because I choose

my goals over that now this may sound extreme and that's because it is but you can't want to be exceptional and not be willing to be the exception it is normal to be not normal to have not normal outcomes if you can't expect this is a preference thing from the closes you can't want my outcomes but want it your way if you change the variables you change the outcome and what I can tell you universally is that the people who achieve outsized returns are the ones who did outsized work and more specifically made outsized sacrifices

in order to continue to be able to pour in to that which mattered most and so I'll I'll be real with you for a second I've hit my million dollar goal I hit my $100 million goal and now I've been pretty public I'm trying to document everything that I do to hit a billion and Beyond and at the same time the billion dollar goal matters a ton to me and at the same time not at all because the billion dollar goal is not because I want to hit a billion dollars for some reason I can't

buy there's nothing I can buy at a billion that I can't really buy now that would that I can consume as an individual sure maybe I buy companies or buy big buildings or something like that but it doesn't actually change my day-to-day living but the reason that I hold on to that billion dollar goal is because I would like to meet the man who I would become who's able to achieve that and so for me the quantitative measure of what my business has grown has been an indicator of my personal growth and so I have

a belief that either your business is growing or you are and so when your business is grow is going down guess what you're usually growing a ton because it's painful and that's why they call it Growing Pains not growing Joys it's not fun but the thing is is that most things in life aren't fun decline is painful stagnation is painful growth is painful the question is which of those pains get you closer to where you want to go follow the steps in this video and hit your million but you should want to make as soon

as you hit the million set it for 10 and as soon as you had 10 10 set it for 100 not because you need the money because but because you want to meet the man or woman who's capable of making that a reality the biggest gains in life the best players in life play Infinite games because the objective isn't to win you're not going to win at business like take it to the Natural extreme let's say you become the richest man in the world let's say historically at the richest men none of them was the

richest man for their entire lives they touch the top for a brief second for a year for two years and then they disapp appear or they die so it's this whole idea that's not even true you don't win the point of business is to stay in business that is why it's an infinite game the point of marriage is not to get married it's to stay married the point of fitness and health isn't to get fit or get healthy it's to stay healthy and so most of the games worth playing in life are not finite games

they're infinite and so if you can adopt this learning mentality then there is no end because you are the asset you are the outcome and so by saying that you are finished playing means that you are finished becoming and for me I don't want to stop getting better until the day I die so we started your journey to your first Million by figuring out what skills you needed to have what knowledge you needed to know to get started then figured out who you were going to sell to then what you were going to sell them

then figuring how to advertise and close in order to get them to buy then from there we increased how much they were worth by getting them to buy more times then we recruited the people who need to be our team to help us along along the way and scale then we keep and expand our advantage through leverage and we stick with it to unlock compound and growth within the business and ourselves and then finally we get better through a continuous learning Loop and that is how you get to your first money and if you enjoyed

this click the next video which is 13 years of brutally honest business advice because at this point hopefully you'll have your first million or be on the way to it and then I'm going to get you with some harsh truths of getting from 1 to 10 and Beyond