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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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In this episode, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) breaks down why motivation and goal-setting aren’t enough and how building repeatable systems is the real driver of success. Drawing from her own journey of losing 85 pounds, scaling companies to nine figures, and building a $500M portfolio, Leila shares the exact formula for creating systems that are simple, scalable, and friction-free.
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| 0:00.0 | If you feel like you're constantly working, but you're not making the progress that you want, you do not need a new goal. |
| 0:06.6 | You need better systems. I have started and sold a multi-million dollar companies and I'm now the CEO of Acquisition.com. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm not here because I'm smarter or more talented than you. I'm here because I have built daily fail-proof systems that deliver actual results in my life. |
| 0:21.3 | Here's how I build systems that work harder than I could ever work. |
| 0:24.5 | Many people come and they say, I just can't get the motivation. |
| 0:27.6 | But what they don't realize is that most people don't have a motivation problem. |
| 0:32.3 | They have a systems problem. |
| 0:34.1 | You don't rise to the level of your goals. |
| 0:36.6 | You actually are going to fall to the level of the |
| 0:38.3 | systems you put in place. What if the secret to success is literally as simple as having a checklist? |
| 0:44.3 | And so if you're watching this video, what I want you to do is this. Write down your biggest goal. It can be anything. It can be getting the body you've always wanted, paying off debt, starting your own business, building a |
| 0:54.1 | social media following. Goals are so limiting. Goals are usually emotionally driven. We think we have a |
| 0:59.2 | feeling and then we say, I've got this goal, whereas systems are execution driven. And so I think of it |
| 1:03.9 | like this. Goals are like a compass. Systems are the car, the plane, or the yacht that are going to get you to the destination. |
| 1:11.8 | I think one of the best things that I ever did for myself was decide that I wanted to lose |
| 1:15.7 | 85 pounds. |
| 1:16.6 | Because in doing the process, in going through the process of losing 85 pounds, what I |
| 1:21.0 | realized was that it wasn't about how badly I wanted to lose 85 pounds. |
| 1:25.8 | Me wanting to lose 85 pounds when I was 18, |
| 1:28.9 | when I still weighed 225 pounds, |
| 1:30.9 | versus when I was 19, |
| 1:32.1 | and I actually started losing the weight. |
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