Reflect, Lessons Learned, Aim for Success in 2020

So – I haven’t touched this blog since April and I wish I did! Between March, making a cool $5920 till now doing $13213. So much has changed, yet I still struggle daily. In fact, I hit one of my biggest lows about 2 weeks ago and went around smashing all my office furniture.

I was a fucking mess.

The day ended with me slipping on an ironing board after a karate kicked it.

Then my wife and I hashed it out because that was the biggest problem. After having the twins – my time to work had been diminished. I see why many entrepreneurs don’t have kids.

It’s a lot of fucking time. I’m sleeper too, I’m no Arnold Schwartzwhatever who can sleep 6 hours a night and fully recover. I’m a 8 hours every night or I’m fucking kind of guy. —luckily, Bill Gates had the same problem.

With that being said, I don’t at all regret having kids. It’s the best thing on earth. It’s just very very hard when you don’t have the time you did just a week ago.

So 2019 –

I went from $4811 with a cash flow of Negative $734 to doing $13,213 a month with a cash flow of Positive $6000.
Bought a house which actually is saving me about $500 /month
Had twins which is costing $2000 /month starting Feb
Leased a tank (ford expedition max) for $900 /month
My office is now located in fucking basement. It’s freezing down here non-stop.

and I’ll be taking a hit in Jan 2020 as I put serious money back into the business. I’ll still be over 10K though.

So what changed in ME that I was able to get this done?

That’s the big question.

I want to know as much as anyone reading this does. Because I could really use that right now – it’s been a hard couple months. (As it should – two new babies isn’t supposed to be easy)

My next obstacle is that my wife isn’t going back to work so I’m going to be fully supporting the family on my income.

Change #1: Snowboarding & Mountain Biking Every CHANCE I GOT

My business partner hates it… but fucking A – I read a guy name Chance’s training called Millionaire Middleman and it was about mindset. He said that he had the biggest shift when he went surfing as much as he could.

Last winter, I snowboarded as much as I could. This summer I went mountain biking as much as I could – almost daily.

My business partner calls it a waste of time. I call it #salesfuel

I went to 5 concerts this summer. 4 of them by myself. I’m doing so much stuff by myself, it kind of makes me feel like a loser, but at the same time… my friends don’t have time for it.

and my friends that do have time for it… are just there to get smashed or pick up girls.

Change #2: My whiteboard

This was definitely one of the game changers. I had another one where I put daily actions probably 10% of the time, but that got smashed in my freak-out.

You can see that October was fucking hard. It was good, I’ve got a baby boy and a beautiful baby girl. Family of 5 – it’s fucking insane.

Honestly, I can’t wait to be past the crying for no reason phase though. I just keep reminding myself… “it’s only going to be a couple months”.

Change #3 Focus

These journal entries always fucking work. That’s what has been missing for the last 3 months – my focus. I was gung-ho on my focus earlier this past year. Then I got on my high horse and retracted.

I need to get my focus back.

Change #4 Ditched the Hopeium

Hopeium was my biggest mistake in 2018. 2019 was put your money where your mouth is or I don’t want to work with you. I didn’t fall into that trap.

Change #5 Uninterrupted Time with Family on the Weekends

I did this for most of 2019, although it has sloped off significantly in the last couple months. It was awesome!!! We did fairs, we went to the park a ton and I even took a day off monthly to hang out with my daughter.

I need to get back to that.

Changes I tried to implement:

Morning Ritual – I’ve got a Impact Theory journal that I fill out about 20% of the time.
Working out more – I failed hard at this. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’m naturally muscular – I’d look like a fat fucking dude
Scheduling my time – I actually did this 80% of the time, but followed it much less.

Setting up for 2020 & 20K /month:

6:00am workout every single day. Minus the day the before I snowboard.
Fast 16 hours Monday – Friday unless I’m snowboarding
Do a fucking morning ritual
Do a weekly journal entry right here
Use that damn Impact Theory journal
Get to Bed @9 PM (nothing important takes place after 9PM)
Keep your changes from 2019
1. Snowboard/Mountain Bike/Concerts
2. My Whiteboard
3. Focus on the shit that matters
4. Lay off the hopeium (I keep wanting to come out with a course)
5. Uninterrupted Family Time [schedule it]
Schedule my time and keep to it.

I think that’s it.

Consistency is so key.

There’s a lot I want to add, but it’d be crazy. Here it is:

Stop watching TV
Stop drinking alcohol
Stop eating shit – go 100% clean
Get 100K in the Bank.
Bootstrap and save some fucking money

Month: December 2019

2019 Year in Review