A short YouTube monologue (by Mark Evans DM) arguing that entrepreneurs often suffer from "shiny object syndrome"—trying to start multiple businesses at once—rather than focusing on one venture. The speaker contends that attempting to build several million-dollar businesses before succeeding at one is unrealistic, disrespectful to the deal and family, and causes overwhelm and frustration.
Most of you have shiny object syndrome because you don't really know what you want to do. Yesterday I was talking to a great guy, him and his brother and they're doing wholesale real estate investing and then they want to acquire 100 units and then they're going in multiple markets and all this stuff again. I love all of that, but I need to focus on one. See, you can't go build a million dollar business by trying to create $4 million businesses. It just does not work. It's too much going on. And not only that, how disrespectful are you to the deal, to yourself, to your family? It' very disrespectful thinking that it's super easy to make a million dollars in four different businesses before you've ever made a million dollars in one. Like, it's very delusional. This is why you feel crazy. This is why you feel overwhelmed. This is why you get frustrated. It's because you're taking for granted what it takes to be successful.
