Why I Don’t Go Home for the Holidays | Ep 648

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

“Are you really sad you're missing it? You choosing not to go has no downside.” Today, Alex (@Alexhormozi) talks about the importance of surrounding oneself with positive influences, and the dangers of falling back into old habits for the sake of tradition or social expectation. He also discusses managing relationships with family and friends who might not be conducive to personal growth are also offered, emphasizing the significance of standing firm on one's decisions and goals, and not being swayed by the criticisms or judgments of others.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(1:02) - The fear of not going home

(2:56) - The importance of asserting your identity

(5:23) - Evaluating the impact of your environment on your goals

(7:10) - Understanding the trade-offs of going home

(10:34) - The power of telling the truth

(12:21) - The importance of leisure time

(15:25) - Dealing with backlash and criticism

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0:00.0	If you're spending all this time working on the person and the character that you're trying to build,
0:04.5	and then you just dilute it with crap around you, it's very tough to get back to that,
0:08.7	which is why you feel like you have to take one or two weeks to shed the bad behaviors and the bad habits that you picked right back up
0:15.2	when you went back home.
0:18.6	The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.
0:20.8	This podcast, The Game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned
0:23.7	on my way to building acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. My hope is that you use
0:27.6	the lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon partner with us to get to
0:30.4	$100 million and beyond. I hope you share and enjoy.
0:33.0	I don't go home for the holidays and that surprises a lot of people and I don't do it because I don't like what going back home does for me.
0:46.7	And that's not just family, that's friends, environments, places I go to, people I speak with, anything.
0:53.0	For me, I left home because I wanted to be a different person.
0:58.0	I wanted to change my environment and I wanted to start clean and move in the direction of the person I wanted to be.
1:03.0	I think the main reason that I want to make this is because there's probably a younger
1:07.2	version of me out there that is terrified of the idea of not listening to their
1:11.7	parents and going home for the holidays.
1:13.6	Listen, if you love your family and it's like the highlight a year, then
1:17.2	fucking go.
1:18.2	If I'm talking to young Mozy, the biggest fear that I had was what people would think about me if I didn't go out with them when I was back home because it's like well I'm back home for a week.
1:28.2	They're like, yo, you're back home, let's whatever.
1:30.4	And I would feel obligated because I'm back home and I'm only back home a couple times a year.
1:36.0	But the reason that I haven't been in touch with that person when I'm not back home is because they try and meet me in my past and treat me in a way that I used to accept them treating me.
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