Life Can Change Fast

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

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[trey]

Been stone sober for almost 8 months and life is way better

[michaelburrell]

Moving cities is not zero cost, but I do understand how it can change your life. Alex has talked at length about changing your environment. I’ve done it myself. But it’s not zero cost.

[ForeignFreedom]

That’s so real. 1 year ago was a completely different time for me. Never thought idd be where I am now then.

[jsheav]

The advice to stick to something to a year is way kore helpful than most realize. Just the disciple to do so life changing.

[marceliszelag]

going to sleep at 9pm daily changed my life! I work till 11pm.

[AdamNeo-sm]

I started all those things 3 years ago and it took me 2 years to break all my bad habits and really put me on track for my best life. Your advice is spot on.

[Andrew_Schaefer]

Alex, I just want to compliment you man. I’m not even an entrepreneur, but I think even in the so-called “self-help” space, you dominate at including bite-sized amounts of pure value that is easily implementable and often it’s embarrassing that I haven’t seen it so clearly as you have.

Keep up the great work man, and thank you .

[FernandFounia]

i thaught updating was crazy-now Upgrading

[drucexx]

My relationship with God has improved my life more than anything

[GraceTylrrr]

Three things that changed my life:

1. started taking action immediately.
2. Reading The Black Book of Riches by Christopher Voss.
3. Learning how to think for success.

[sparkster]

I’ve been hard on myself but I’ve actually done 4 of these lately: quit gambling for an entire year, 9pm daily bedtime, moved out of NC back to Los Angeles where I was able to get a way better job and GF, and found the love of my life, all in the last year. Life is so much better it’s actually hard to believe

[DanteLive]

Try one, try all I'm changing and becoming better this year

[CuriousTravel]

mozi dropping crazy knowledge as usual

[mooh]

Yes yes yes yes the problem is no one will stick to at least one

[AaaBbb-pglj]

“Upgrading.” Very revealing comment on his thinking.

[ricomiddlebrookliveslife]

Moving cities isn’t zero cost, but it can change your life

[ramosdiaz]

Great advice! It's just that sometimes we are not old enough to understand it.

[AKamal-MD]

Costless life changing decisions:

Sticking to anything for an entire year
Upgrading romantic partners
Moving to another city
Eliminating vices (smoking, drinking)
Saying no to shiny objects
Going to bed at 9PM daily

If implemented, life can change fast.

[ericschatz]

Its SUPER debatable if any of these even have zero monetary cost, much less actually zero cost

[Battery-Powered]

I’ve been trying to go to sleep for over a year now at 9pm but my boss always shouts at me and says to go back to work 😢