Most of the nation real quick, if you are a business owner that has a big old business and wants to get to a much bigger business going to $50 $100 million plus we would love to talk to you and if you like that or would like to hear more about it go to acquisition.com and you can plan anywhere on the page and talk to one of our team and see if we can help you get there.

And so if you give someone who's not prepared for a gob of potential energy that they did not earn or learn how to wield it will ultimately burn them up and consume it.

Welcome to the game where we talk about how to sell more stuff to more people in more ways and build businesses worth owning.

I'm trying to build a billion dollar thing with acquisition.com. I always wish basas musk and buffet had documented their journey so I'm doing it for the rest of us.

Please share and enjoy.

No one will remember you and that's a statement that bothers a lot of people and if that does bug you then you probably should look away from the rest of this.

And my team was going back and forth on even posting this because they're like dude there's so many people that are going to disagree with this.

And I'm okay with that and this is not me in any way saying that my beliefs should be your beliefs or that your beliefs are wrong.

I am simply explaining my beliefs and the reason I'm doing that is because I think one of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is managing emotions and managing anxiety and managing stress so that you can make higher quality decisions.

And high quality decisions are one of those things that compound over a long period of time because we make hundreds and hundreds of decisions every single day every single week for our business and it's many small microbes that can go all the way up.

One percent better every day compounded for 365 days is 37X what you started and you know 10% or 1.1% worse goes down to zero at the end of the year.

And so managing my mental state has been a continuous learning experience for me.

And the set of beliefs that sits at the core of that is what I would consider optimistic nihilism.

And to be clear here there's a lot of people who feel like nihilism is a really negative thing.

And that's because they ascribe some sort of meaning to the word but it really is just that you don't think that things have inherent meaning.

It doesn't mean that there isn't any meaning in the world. It doesn't mean that there is a global meaning that we all have to agree to.

As a result of that there are downstream implications that affect my behavior and I think have positioned me to be less stressed about things that come up and as a result pick better business decisions.

And so this is why I should this and if only some of these things make sense for you.

Awesome. None of it makes sense for you. Awesome. If it all makes sense for you. Awesome.

So the big picture for me was a lot of people take a lot of work and stress a lot about what other people think about them.

And I'm not going to say that I'm here like I don't care what anyone else thinks that's not true at all.

I think I use these frameworks to try and remind myself that other people's opinions don't matter as much as I think they do.

...