# The Truth About Retiring At Age 31 ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Alex Hormozi - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY - **Дата:** 06.12.2021 - **Длительность:** 13:30 - **Просмотры:** 73,551 ## Описание Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yta163 The easiest business I can help you start (free trial): https://www.skool.com/hormozi Business owners: Want to scale faster? We provide in-person advisory for companies doing at least $1M per year: https://www.acquisition.com/workshop-yta163 If you're new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I'm the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It's a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I'll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we're all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2025. ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY) Intro At this point in my life, I have enough passive investments that I make multiple million dollars a year uh without doing much. And over the last nine months, I struggled mightily with this fact. And it was because I had completely removed from the portfolio of businesses that we own, which do about $85 million a year uh in revenue. What I want to talk about today is kind of what that 9 to 12 month journey was for me kind of living in pseudo retirement and the single thing that has gotten me out of it because I was candidly you know pretty depressed and I couldn't find a way out because I kept looking for the next goalpost right the second championship ring because the desire was that ring would somehow make the first one more valuable you know at the time of this making you know we've now crossed about a nine figure net Earth. I'm 32. My wife's 29. And it's hard for people to to conceptualize this, but like I really don't need anything. Like I need nothing. As much as that has been the goal for a long time, which to need nothing, it also introduces a new variable of needing nothing, which means that there is nothing for me to do. What I want to walk through is the kind of single phrase that I've been repeating to myself over and over again, and it has become the chorus in my mental dialogue to myself. It's around work. And so what I realized after pseudo retiring um and not really being involved in the businesses and having them continue to grow and continue to pump out cash flow is that you know the ### [1:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=90s) The first thing God gave Adam first thing that God gave Adam and I'm not religious but I think that there's power in this story. The first thing that God gave Adam was not Eve it was a job. It was work to do. And as humans, we wither without adequate challenge. We are formed against something else. Right? The hotter the fire, the harder the steel. As a person who desires to continually grow, I had removed the challenges in my life and felt stagnated or stagnant as a result of no challenge. I had to reexamine a lot of different pieces of my life, which is why do I work? And up to this point, the reason that I worked was for the outcome. It was for me to build up my net worth, to create financial freedom, to be able to have all the time to do the things I wanted to do. But in so doing, I removed the things that I actually wanted to do, which was challenges, which was work that I found meaningful with stakes that are real. The single chorus that I continue to revert back to, and I'll show you the background on my phone, is hard work. ### [2:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=160s) Our work works on us That's it. And I love this proverb in the Bible. I can't remember which one it is. I think it's I can't remember. I want to say 14:3. Our work works on us more than we work on it. That's a loose paraphrasing, but that's how I like saying it. Is that your works on you more than you work on it? And so if I have the desire to grow, I must work. And the goal cannot be to stop working. That is what most people say. And I think it's because the word work still is has terrible connotations in society. The amount of people who are like, "Man, you won't have to work ever again. " Like, dear God, that sounds horrible. I just lived it. I never want to do it again. But hard work is work worth doing. The fact that it's hard makes it worth it. When you look back and when I look back at the times that I enjoyed most in our entrepreneurial journey was the struggle was the times of lacking was the times where the stakes were high and we had to perform anyways not because of the outside circumstances because of what it told me about myself. We do not have values until they are tested. You cannot say you are loyal until you have a way to cheat on your spouse and know that no one will catch you. You cannot be honest until you have the ability to steal money and know that you will not be caught and then choose not to do it anyways. And so to the same degree, I cannot grow unless I have something to match the ability to conquer that I have now. I can't hang up my suit, right? My arms, uh my weapons just yet. And so what's interesting is that as I've shifted my course to this thing, what a lot of people when I share it say, "Oh yeah, because if you work hard, all the other things will follow. " I'm like, "No, no, no, no. You're missing it. " And I had to correct this in my own head. Cuz that's how I started it. If I do the hard work, the things will follow. And that's the common thing. Like it's all about the process, not perfection. It's not about the outcome. It's about the journey. Like everyone says this [ __ ] but deep down they still want the outcome. And I'm telling you, removing ### [4:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=285s) The work is the goal the outcome truly has [clears throat] been the most liberating thing I've ever done. And I can't begin to tell you the joy that I am feeling in being truly present because the work is the goal. Doing a good job is the goal. And so when I find myself at the gym, sometimes I would write, you know, I did eight reps when it was really seven and a half. And I'm like, why? The hard work is the goal. If I went up or I went down from last week, it's irrelevant how hard I chose to work is the goal. When I'm editing a paragraph for my next book, I'm like, "Oh, that's pretty good. " And I'm like, you know, it can be better. And then I remember [snorts] hard work is the goal. And so then I dive back in when I'm tired and I don't really feel like giving Leila the emotional energy to be the husband that I know I should be or that rather I would like to be. I remember the chorus. hard work is the goal. And so it gives me this renewed energy to not only be better, but to be present. And so I have the opportunity to work hard. And that's really the thing is that now I'm seeking opportunities to work hard because the work is the goal. Right now everyone's trying to shy away. Societyy's trying to tell us you shouldn't work. It's all about passive. It's blah blah blah. But work is the goal. And when you make work the goal, it allows the process itself to be meditative. to get you into flow. And for most of us, flow is some of the best feelings that we can have in our experience because we truly are in the moment. And so we do not work or try our best so that we do not work hard so that we work hard period. Because hard work is who we are. And this has been a credo that I have I'm just beginning to internalize and it has it is giving me more presence than I've ever had. And it's amazing. And I know that I will fall short of hard work, but I will be damned if I do not try in the present moment to work hard. And when I die, if all anyone says is that [ __ ] worked hard ### [7:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=435s) The outcome is irrelevant I don't know what else I would want anyone to say because the outcome is irrelevant. There's luck. There's outside circumstances, right? There's plenty of things that can affect how well you do. But if we can appraise our success based on how hard we worked and the work itself and only you know if you could have done better and if you chose not to. And I'm telling you the more times I recite this chorus in the present moment where I have the opportunity to not to finish and know that based on the standards of others it's excellent but not on my own. It gives you this, it takes the power back from the world and brings it in because I'm not allowing them to tell me how well I did. I'm not allowing chance or luck or chaos or circumstance or outcome to dictate how well I did. I know because the thing is that stuff is irrelevant. The only actual thing that we can control is the work we do now. The hard work, the work that we know that energy, by the way, side note, your ability to work itself is improvable. You can increase your capacity to work and to work hard and to work well by working hard and working well. And so the more work I do, become capable of. And it's [ __ ] awesome. And so I'm telling you that I was so driven by first the outcomes that others that that I wanted to have to impress other people. And then I would say the second kind of phase or season of my life was creating outcomes that would impress me. And I feel like the thing that I'm transitioning towards, which is last 12 months, has helped me make this transition. And I'm sharing this with you because I've been to what most people consider the mountaintop, right? We crossed a 9 figureure net worth. Mind you, I'm 2,000 times poorer than Jeff Bezos, but I'm still probably wealthier than the guys on Instagram who are flexing, right? I've been to the mountaintop and I can tell you that there's nothing there. Nothing. [clears throat] You feel nothing. So, the same way you ### [9:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=570s) Hard work is the goal feel right now truly about the amount of money or the amount of outcomes that you have supposedly achieved up to this point, everybody's achieved something. These things will be no more meaningful to you. The second ring does not somehow make the first more meaningful. Moving the goalpost does not make the thing more meaningful, which transitions me to the third chapter, right? The third season for me, which is that the hard work itself is the goal and that's it. And when I look at my wife and I think, h I'm just going to say hi rather than saying, "Hey sweetie, what's going on? How can I help? " Right? of just like it doesn't like it's just mental energy of just trying harder just and then once I try hard over and over again that will become the new baseline and then I will be able to try harder still and so it's been this repeated chorus in my mind when I'm at the gym when I'm talking to Ila when I'm working on a project when I'm making these videos try and work hard work is the goal and it feels amazing because there's nothing else because at the end of my life at least if I look back and I had two lives one life where I achieved everything that everybody thought I would know that I would feel the same way I do now which is not empty but just nothing. I feel the same as I did when I had $10 million. Same as I felt when I had $1 million, $100,000. I felt the same. But if I ### [11:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahslH-8qoFY&t=670s) You only have the value had $100,000. I felt the same. But if I look back and I can see that consistently over time, I worked to the limit of my capacity to work true and honest to myself. And so, like I said at the very beginning of this, you only have the value if you have the opportunity to not exercise it and do it anyways. So you cannot be loyal unless you have the opportunity to cheat and not get caught and then you don't do it. That is when you have the gift of knowing and having evidence that you have loyalty. And so if I desire the character trait of hard work and work ethic, then the only way that I will be able to have that is to do work and know that I could work and stop and everyone else would be satisfied and I would have no negative status ramifications because most of us work to the point where we would have we reverse the negative status ramifications that the outcome of the work delivers. All right? So, you do stuff just enough that your boss says it's good. You do stuff just good enough that your clients think it's good. But that means that you have the opportunity to work harder, to work better, to make it for its own sake, for the sake of the work, and chose not to. And so therefore, you cannot say or claim that you know how to work hard. You work just enough to escape the social negative consequences. You are just loyal enough to not cheat on your wife because you know you get caught and the negative consequences outweigh it. You are just honest enough that you won't steal because you don't want to get caught. And if you are only truly motivated by the negative consequence, then you do not have the value. And so the value that I am trying to grow in myself is the ability to work. And the beautiful thing about this is that I get to test this every [ __ ] day. Is that I can have work that is good enough that people will see it and think that's good stuff and I would know that it wasn't as good as I could have made it. But I get that opportunity again tomorrow to try and raise the bar. And that is what I am focused on in this season. And so I love you all Mosy Nation. Appreciate you. Um keep being amazing and I'll see you guys in the next videos. Back. --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/16590*