One hack that has made me the most productive..

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[ChrisAthanas]

I’m a software developer. We don’t have any idea how long things will take because what we do depends on so many things that we don’t control. If I just did the exact same thing last week, I Can time box it. But if I have never done it before, and I quit after a predetermined period of time, the task will not be complete or completed in a way that will cause even more problems later. I think in many parts of business that have already been optimized, Alex’s advice works, but in the area of engineering new things it’s a recipe for disaster .

[micahsaunders]

This what got me through my crazy last year of college

[lukaellegaardjensen]

If you give yourself a week to clean your house, it will take a week. If you give yourself 3 hours, it will take 3 hours!

[kevinkemble]

“….line you have to stop.” Exactly! It works 100%

[marandamurphy]

This didn't make sense. Can you explain again?

[redpraxiscircle]

Awesome tip. Sounds like time blocking.

[joecarter]

Placing time constraints on the schedule tomorrow… Achieving Hormozi levels of mental capacity 😤

[dannyrayner]

I like your hand gestures over Gary vees

[EvilTwinTT]

No one is going to give themselves 30 days to complete just one task. Your not 30x’ing anything. Your just applying simple time management to a non-existent problem