If you are consistently working 60+ hour weeks you have one of three problems: 1) You are a poor delegator.

This is the most likely scenario (95%)

Most people are terrible at delegation.

They want to do everything themselves and micromanage every decision.

These folks RARELY get rich and NEVER have a good work life balance while they're at it.

Normal people eating 150-200 grams of protein daily will go down as as big of a disaster as the lead pipes that took down the Roman Empire. I have 150+ lbs of lean mass on my 200 lb frame without ever supplementing protein and getting 60% of my calories from carbs.

It’s a scam.

And I am predicting that the data will come out over the next few years that it increases aging speed / cancer risk / etc.

I've been micro-dosing psychedelic mushrooms for about 2 months now.

Haven't felt anything.

Except better mood, more excited and playful with my kids, more improvements in golf game, clearer head.

I recommend it. Why?

Tons of research on neuroplasticity. Opens your mind and helps you break habits, learn things, keeps you from getting set in your ways.

More present and aware of your surroundings and nature and place in it all.

I am convinced it is good for the brain.

The best advice I can give:

Do not marry somebody who comes from a messed up, disfunctional family.

They break the cycle maybe once or twice in ten.

Do not play those odds.

Because nothing will ruin your life faster than a mentally unstable spouse. You might think you can change them.

You can’t.

People learn how to behave and how to act based on the behavior and actions of their parents.

And they can hide all the madness for months or even years.

But it comes out and you can’t do anything about it when it happens.

How to figure out if your business idea is any good in 5 minutes or less: A while back I had friend in Athens tell me that he wanted to start a house painting business.

We were sitting on my back deck drinking a Keystone light on a random Saturday at about 4pm.

He asked me what I thought.

I went to work.

How to get rich without getting lucky: Find a way to make $100/hour doing something simple IN YOUR TOWN.

Do it until you have $10K+ in the bank & you’re too busy to sell new customers.

Hire employees for $20/hr to do what you do so you can sell new customers.

The life of an entrepreneur can be brutally difficult.

But nobody talks about it.

Time for a stiff drink and a few words on some of the most stressful periods in my life. The thing about being an entrepreneur is that there is nobody you can ask for help.

There is no boss you can call and dish off the really hard problems to.

There are a lot of underrated skills in this world.

Attributes that aren’t openly discussed but are widely shared by the most successful among us.

Here's how you can increase your chances. Knowing what advice to take (and what to ignore) is a superpower.

My method:

Take it from anyone.

Weigh it according to how happy / successful the giver is.

Put it through my bullshit meter.

Do the work to apply it to my life.

Ignore 75% of it.

Cherish the rest.

A mindset shift that really changed my life: Walk into every single interaction with the goal of adding as much value as humanly possible.

Don't think about charging money, withholding info, etc.

Prove you know your stuff.

Help in a massive way.

Gain trust. Profit later.

In 2021, I worked on a career-defining $75M self storage deal that could have generated tens of millions in enterprise value for my company Bolt Storage.

But we lost it to a competitor...

It hurt!

Here's what happened: The deal was for a 20 property portfolio (750K sq ft.)

The owner's brother-in-law follows me on X.

They wanted to sell their portfolio, so he called me to visit the properties to discuss buying them.

I went & loved the properties. I spent 4 hrs discussing the deal.

Why?

What successful people understood before they were successful.

A short thread. Mentorship isn’t about finding a great mentor.

It’s about becoming a person great mentors WANT to help.

5 counterintuitive things about running a company: #1:

If you love doing the work itself you’ll be disappointed.

Running any company at a high level has nothing to do with the actual service your company provides.

It involves hiring, delegation, recruiting, sales and performance management.

And solving problems all day.

People think hiring overseas is for virtual assistants.

THEY COULDN’T BE MORE WRONG.

I’ve rebuilt the sales teams at 4 of my companies from all over the world.

And they cost 80% less than US equivalents - as low as $6 per hr.

Here is a look at the TALENT: Paul - South Africa - $33,600 per year ALL IN

Experience as a manager, business owner and as a sales person.

Available for hire today. Send me a DM if you'd like to interview him or somebody like him!

A friend of mine makes about $500k a year and controls his own schedule.

3 kids. Travels a lot. Has hobbies. Works 30-40 hrs a week.

Here is the career path: Limped through college with below average grades.

Starbucks barista for 2 years making $12 an hour.

Got married at 24.

Took a job for $30k a year as an assistant at a bank.

There is always a bottleneck in every single business.

Here are the stages: 1. First it is customers.

If you already have the ability to provide the service yourself, you just need a customer or two to get the ball rolling.

As soon as you get those first few customers, you have a business and you are off to the races.

How to figure out if your business idea is any good in 5 minutes or less: My friend in Athens told me recently that he wanted to start a house painting business.

We were sitting on my back deck drinking a Keystone light on Saturday at about 4pm.

He asked me what I thought.

I went to work.

10 important things I've learned about hiring: #1: A unicorn isn't just going to walk in the door.

If you're looking for someone who cares about your business as much as you do, you'll never find them because they don't exist.

To succeed you have to build a business with systems where normal folks can thrive.

How to get rich without getting lucky: Find a way to make $100/hour doing something simple IN YOUR TOWN.

Do it until you have $10K+ in the bank & you’re too busy to sell new customers.

Hire employees for $20/hr to do what you do so you can sell new customers.

A funny thing:

Small businesses will spend $75k on a truck or $500k on a building or $10,000 a month in rent…

But they’ll run their multi-million dollar business with a $500 website that isn’t optimized. Hire a good web development agency and invest in a simple website that converts visitors into customers.

It is the way over half your customers will find you - get it right!

What successful people understood before they were successful: Mentorship isn’t about finding a great mentor.

It’s about becoming a person great mentors WANT to help.

How to grow a business the old fashioned way, a thread: Don't be afraid to do things that don't scale.

A friend of mine runs a landscaping company.

He gets most of his customers with yard signs and gets most of his employees with flyers taped up at gas pumps.

Doesn't have a website and he clears $250k + per year.