Habits and mindset//85s
Get rich slow: my first five years in this business.
Early mornings, late calls, and small wins that added up over my first five years. The opposite of the overnight-success stories in your feed.
Transcript
You see social media and it is get rich quick everywhere, but it is so far from the truth. I am a living example of how long it takes to finally get your footing in a business like finance. It took me five years to turn the corner. My first five years were brutal. Waking up early, leaving late, not seeing my friends, making calls at seven or eight at night just to hear people say no, and some days regretting going to the office because I did not see the success right away.
Over time the wins started to come. Small wins. A case here, assets there. Momentum. People started to trust me more because I had more experience and I was starting to communicate well.
Now there is always some new method. AI is the new one. Everybody has an AI services business scaling to one hundred million, and it is so far from the truth. You do not see the years those people put in, if they put in any, because they are trying to sell you something. There are years of work before you see results. Before you believe there is a method that makes it happen overnight, I am a working example of the opposite.
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