Does being an entrepreneur suck?

Entrepreneurship, when pursued correctly, will apply pressure and discomfort to every part of who you are.

You’ll either survive it and become the best version of yourself imaginable.

Or, you won’t.

Next week, I’ll finish out the series on landing pages and ads. But, after a few responses to “what do you want to see” from last week’s email, I feel today’s message is most important.

The two most significant impacts on my life have been fitness and entrepreneurship.

Fitness taught me self-discipline, which is instrumental to any success.

Entrepreneurship taught me self-mastery, which was life-changing.

The entrepreneurship journey is long, and it is hard.

So come back to this note when you are struggling.

What I want for YOU…

I want you to know I TRULY want YOU to be successful. As deep down as I can feel, I want YOU to be successful.

If no one is rooting for you, I am.

If no one understands you, I do.

You’re right if you feel like your friends can no longer relate. They can’t. But I can, and I want to urge you to keep going.

I want you to achieve every financial goal you can imagine. I want you to have a profession that you love and a level of personal freedom you never thought possible.

But you can’t just want it. You have to make the hard choices. You have to do the hard things.

Break free from the status quo and put in the work, so you never go back.

I want this for everyone. You become a much better version of yourself when you remove fear, anxiety, and scarcity from your life and replace it with confidence and abundance.

You become the version of yourself people want to be around. Your ambition is electric. Your drive attracts. Your mission inspires those around you. This is who I want you to be.

But getting there is not easy. There are many ups and downs, and there always will be. So, if you are struggling, I have some painfully simple advice.

Three things to start doing (or restart).

Three Things to Start Doing

Write Down Your Goals & Create a Plan for Their Achievement
Take immediate action On the Plan Above
Lastly, Stop things that don’t serve you

I’ve now had the opportunity to work closely with two different people who have sold their businesses for over $100 million.

Do you know what they both had me do?

Develop goals. Write them down. Make a plan. You never outgrow this.

Next, take immediate action. A plan is great, but it also kind of sucks when you start tomorrow, next week, or next quarter.

Take action today. No matter how small.

Lastly, I am asking you to start stopping. You read that right.

If you want success, it takes a lot of focus. You can’t just keep doing everything you’ve always done. So it’s OK to stop doing things.

Say no. Quit something. Don’t reply.

None of the above is groundbreaking. And guess what… SUCCESS DOES NOT COME FROM SOME BREAKTHROUGH SECRET.

It comes from doing the boring stuff you know you need to do, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Now, what to stop doing.

Three Things to Stop Doing

Listening to the wrong people
Making Excuses
Complaining

Don’t listen to people who don’t know. Unfortunately, your brother, who is NOT an entrepreneur, cannot help you make the right decisions.

Your broke friends cannot give you sound investment advice.

Stop listening to the wrong people. Block it all out.

Same with your goals. I don’t care if you want a $10 million house on a glacier in Alaska, don’t listen to a soul who tells you it’s a bad idea. Instead, find an architect and engineer to help you create the plans.

Next, stop making excuses and stop complaining.

If you never made an excuse or complained out loud ever again in your life, you’d easily 10x your life just from that singular habit.

Can’t figure something out? Find a way. Oh, that way didn’t work; fantastic, find another way.

And in that process, don’t complain about the ways that didn’t work.

And I think I’ll finish this out from a very applicable excerpt from my book, Killing Comfort:

In the end, it’s not what you do today. It’s what you do every SINGLE day.

You have to know it is 100% possible to achieve your goals.

Everything else is useless if you don’t think you can achieve it.

You can do this.

It doesn’t matter what you say or why you think you can’t. Say it to me, and my response will always be the same. You can do this.

“Jerred, you don’t know how many times I have tried…”

You can do this.

“Jerred, I can’t stay motivated. It works for a little while, but then everything falls apart…”

You can do this.

“Jerred, you don’t know my schedule, my life, or what I face on a daily basis…”

You can do this.

You can change little by little, just one thing at a time. It will feel forced and awkward, and you may even hate it. But it will start to work. Making a change won’t be fun. You may not enjoy pushing yourself and trying to find the time to fit new things into your schedule, but the results will start to show.

What you can’t do, is sit around and twiddle your thumbs.

You have to do something!

Don’t feel sorry for yourself or think about how you will never achieve your goals. You have to do something!

Believe in yourself. Believe in your ability to achieve your goal. It’s that simple.

My entrepreneurship journey started while recovering from an injury that would eventually remove me from Air Force aviation. While I was laid up, I started a blog.

As my dream of being a fighter pilot melted away, a new opportunity didn’t come along. I made the new opportunity.

Now, you go and make yours.

Quit waiting for something to happen.

Make it happen.

Try harder.