Yo, what is up guys? Welcome back to the Flow State of Mind podcast. Just Jordan here today because Aaron's not feeling real well. We've been running pretty hard. I don't know if she'll mind me sharing this, but she's also like on her cycle. And we've been, she's been grinding and working really hard trying to prepare for this next IFCA launch. And so she, you know, I offered to just go ahead and record this one by myself. So you guys are with me today. But I've got a lot of really, really fun shit to share with you today that I think is going to be massively insightful. And it's the idea of like what I've learned personally over the past year

in scaling a business from over the past year alone, we've scaled from like 650K to about 1.3 million. Prior to that in the last year and a half, it was from about 350k to 1.3.

And there's a lot of things that I've learned through this process. It's been a grind.

And it's been a lot of fun and very fulfilling. But I wanted to kind of like sit down and journal and share with you guys some of my takeaways. Right. Yeah, just share with you some of my takeaways. So they're like five key lessons that I was able to sit down and kind of write down and decide, you know what? These are, these are things that I think are massively

important and contributory to the shifts that I've had to make personally in order to like reach

this level of success. Now, the idea of success and fulfillment are really two different things.

And this is a conversation for another podcast episode. Am I fulfilled? Yeah, definitely. But now that we are at this like higher

level of success, I want to shift my focus a little bit more towards fulfillment, right? And making

sure that we're doing things that are in alignment with our values and things that we want to do that

we actually enjoy. So we're not like in a business which is draining and soul sucking. That's

the last thing that you ever want to do. And the last thing that you ever want to create is something that works not for you, but against you. You know, you want something

that actually serves you in the right way. Tony Robbins has a quote that I love that success without

fulfillment is really the ultimate failure. So I also want to preface this episode by saying this,

look, this episode is for those who want to do the thing, right? They want to do the big thing. They want to

grow a business. And look, that's all relative to whatever your goal is. Maybe it's a $10,000 a

month business. Maybe it's a $5,000 a month side hustle. Maybe it's a $100,000 a month company with

multiple employees. Whatever that is, that's fine. But you're making the decision to make an impact and to do your part in changing the

world and helping others and being the entrepreneur as compared to just kind of, you know, being in

the hamster wheel, working for the man. And if that's not you, that is absolutely okay. So I want to

share a Ray Dalio quote. For those of you guys who listen to this, you know I love Ray Dalio.

A book that I always recommend is called principles. But he says this, I cannot say

having an intense life filled with accomplishments is better than having a relaxed life filled with

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