2 Productivity Hacks I Still Do Today

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.

[MarketingHarry]

I prefer to work in the early morning too because I have more mental energy and then I have time for all other things. Work-life balance is very important!

[jimmyly_]

🔥 as always. I’m definitely more productive in the evening so I do the opposite, I work late into the night and wake up at 8:30am.

[phredbookley]

You know. That does sound pretty awesome. Though now I'm wondering when your work day ends. Hmm

[BitBard]

Wonderful piece you've created. A book I read on the subject was equally wonderful. "Dominating Your Clock: Strategies for Professional and Personal Success" by Anthony Rivers

[lucasbuiatti]

What time do you hit the gym at ? Or do you not workout as much anymore ?

[LluisZardoyaClips]

I wonder what he does during those 45 mins

[finhula]

But Alex you said you go to bed when u feel like and wake up the same way and now you say I wake up early so Im bit confused brother because you kinda laughed at those wannabe motivational speakers telling you: "OMG YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 1:00AM GO 30m meditate, cold shower...". Sorry for my english

[eaglezone]

My question is how do you keep the machine going without finding yourself idle looking for other things to do during work time.

[dr.juliarodriguez]

*<It is no longer a story that the world is experiencing a global economic downturn, I’m so happy that I’ve been receiving $45, 000 from my $10, 000 investment every 10 days.*