A mentor had the speaker and his colleague Alex write down every personal problem, then solve them before building a business together. After clearing those issues, they found mental clarity and space to focus. Success doesn't fix your problems; fixing your problems lets you succeed.
Success will solve all your problems. And nobody would say this out loud, but everybody has a vision in their head, which is, once I have enough money, I'll be able to figure everything out. You'll be able to solve all your problems and everything will resolve itself. Well, you can have all the money in the world and somebody that you love can still die, and you can still get sick, and you are not immune to cancer. Success is not going to solve all your problems. Your problems have to be solved regardless of your success. There was a time when Alex and I had a mentor, and he told each of us to write down every single thing that was a, quote, problem or anything bothering We wrote it down and then he's like, cool, before you try to build these businesses together, go handle every problem. And we did. And you know what you feel when you've handled all your problems? Absolute space and clarity to attack whatever is next. Now I have all of my attention to put towards that. Before it was like attention here, attention there, attention there. And a lot of people think, oh, if I want to get all that attention back, I've got to succeed in order to get it. Reality is that you have to go collect your attention so that you can put it towards that success that you want. And that is why success will not solve all your problems. But if you solve your problems, you are more likely to succeed.
