Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

Negative Addiction (Making $2M to EARN a Girlfriend) 💅🏼 #businessturnaround #mikeandes

25 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube conversation (host Mike Andes plus speakers) about personal goals, relationships, and work habits. A speaker describes committing at age 8 to being the only person they'd date/marry, then using work as a substitute—calling it a 'negative addiction.' Another speaker cites a numeric goal ("grow to 100,000") and an income challenge ("you couldn't make 2 million" leading to a goal of 2.2M). Mike Andes cautions against letting resentment or a chip on the shoulder drive irrational behavior.

I told someone that I wanted to grow to 100,000, and they said in order to do that, you'd have to be the smartest or the hardest working person that I know, and you're neither.
Dude, who is this person?
Kick them to the curb, dude. I committed when I was 8 to myself that I would be the only person that I would ever date or potentially marry. And so if they're not really interested in having a relationship, all I would really have left is work. And so I think it almost turned into a negative addiction of working just because I had nothing else to do.
I was kind of asking who it would like, what it would take to impress them. Like, you couldn't make 2 million, and so that's how I got that number. And so it's like, I'm gonna go to 2.2.
Hey, if you have a chip on your shoulder, don't feed it. That's fine. It'll only take you so far, though. And what you want to be careful is it makes you irrational.