My biggest mistake in business— watch your friends

Who you’re around is the biggest dictator of you being a success or being a loser.

If you’re around people who are doing drugs, playing games, who have low goals, or just are wasting their lives, you will too. Even if you have both groups around you, you will fail.

And those who wanna win will NOT do anything the other group of friends are doing. And if you’re around the losers, it’s because you want some life aspects as them, and those are not the winning traits.

And this is how I was in the beginning and I regret it, because if I didn’t hang around them or do what they did, I know for a fact I would have made 6 figures my first year.

The biggest mistake was my first hire, my best friend (at the time.) A lot of people have dreams of going into business with their best friends, and that could be either the best decision or the worst you could make. Based on you and the other person…

My biggest mistake was going into business with my best friend. We’ve known each other since literally babies, and you’d expect the ones you’re closest too to be the best to work with with but that’s rarely the case.

The main reason that friendships don’t work in business is because of money. Someone is gonna be upset based on how the money is divided. Whether it’s you who sees a salesman making more than you, or your friend seeing you make more because you are doing more, someone is gonna be more upset and that’s the first thing that ruins everything, money, and I have a way of getting around it and making both happy, which is a later point, but most people can’t stand others a round them making more.

And hopefully it isn’t you, because that’s low iq and envious type behaviour. And the way to get around this is by honestly changing your view on life.

You need to be long term thinking as well as understanding. Some people make more than others because they provide more value than others, and that’s ok. You need to able to let somethings go, like someone making more money than you, whether it’s your friend, a worker or just a random.

Because the thing is, there’s enough money to go around for everyone, and see it as a good thing. Someone is making more for a reason, whether it’s because their commission is more, they’re working more or whatever, there is a reason they’re making more. And try to learn from them.

The second reason me and my friend didn’t work in business is because the other person isn’t doing as much as you, and if that’s the case, you gotta talk to them. Everyone wants an SVJ, an M5, millions in the bank etc, but the reason the people who have that is because they work balls to the wall. And if your friend isn’t doing it, you need to first talk to them. That’s the first thing you need to do for anyone, even outside of business.

And the thing is, in business it’s productive to argue, because that lets everyone let everyone else know what they want and the business owner or leader gets to find a middle ground and give everyone else what they want. Because if someone doesn’t get what they want they’re gonna stop working.

So as much as you can, have arguments and talk. Me and my friend, we’ll call him K. We did not talk about the why. He only talked about money and how he wants more but he never gave a why reasoning and ultimately that’s why we didn’t work out.

So make it clear to everyone you’re working with that talking with each other about the hard things is Very productive, because it is.

Another thing is what you do outside of work. Because there is no one who is on the come up, making loads of progress with work and business who is jerking off, doing drugs, and doing nothing in their free time. Everyone who wants to achieve loads is doing the a lot of work, especially compared to those who aren’t looking to achieve anywhere near as much as you.

And what I’m doing now is working with people with similar goals, work ethic and mindset as me. Because those who want the same things as you, and the same work ethic as you are the one’s you and them will be the most loyal too.

And the thing is you all need a very longterm thought process, because some will make more than others throughout this period but the goal is to set all you up to make multi millions within the next years.

And going back the main thing I’d have done is just drop the people who don’t want the same things as me, or who aren’t willing to do the same inputs as me. And I have a few videos on how to drop friends if you wanna check it out.

So quick recap,

• Watch who you’re around

• Be fine with talking/arguing

• Be ok with others winning

• Have a longterm thinking

• Drop the bums

And that was my first big mistake in business as well as how I’ve know fixed it.

Hopefully you got something out of it.

Thank you for reading and enjot your day:)