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And then it went to the next slide and it said, no, a sociopath. Right. And so like for, for us as entrepreneurs, we kind of have to be wired differently in order to pursue, um, you know, that, that direction in our careers. But one of the things that I found is, is that happiness is, And success is a moving target, man.
Whereas like when I, when I started, it was like, man, if only I could make $250,000 a year. Right. And then I made two 50 and then all of a sudden it was like, well, now I got to make 500. Then I had to make a million. And then when I was making a million dollars a year, it was like, oh, now I got to have 20 employees. I got to have 30, 40 employees.
And so now you fast forward 15 years and it's like, we're doing a million dollars a month in revenue. And I've got my team sending out six-figure invoices and it really doesn't bring me a tremendous amount of joy or happiness because it's almost kind of the status quo now, right?
So I would say I had way more fun and it was a lot happier those early years when that $20,000 direct deposit from the client hit the bank account and it fucking meant something, man. And I think we rob ourselves of that joy whenever we're super early career because we're always hustling and grinding, wanting more, you know?
And so I want to kind of pivot and give you two experience shares from, from a couple of things that you just shared. Number one, I think early Jeremy, you know, I chased money, right? And then I got money and I went through a divorce and I cut my money in half and I woke up the next day and was like, oh wow, like that didn't really hurt that bad, right? I still have a very successful business.
I have my health, I have my children's health. And then I channeled that energy and then I chased power, right? And so like, well, you know, what is power? Okay, headcount, right? The more people that I can lead, more soldiers that I can develop, right? And I built this company and that, you know, you introduce more people in your business, there's going to be more headaches, right?
They're very unpredictable variables, right? Yeah. And then over the last few years, I kind of chased influence, right? And I kind of hyper-focused a lot of my direct marketing strategies that I utilize on LinkedIn. And I channeled that onto Instagram after I created an Instagram in 2019 and created some notoriety. I started a dating podcast. I had a different path to success podcast.
And again, all of that kind of left me unfulfilled because Until I went to a legacy planning seminar in February that was facilitated by a group called Petra Coach. And I realized that all of that didn't mean shit if I didn't have purpose. There you go. Because they say that a man who doesn't have purpose will seek pleasure. And I think we all know that pleasure is fleeting, right?
That doesn't really bring true happiness. I think true happiness as men is really bred in moments of achievement, right? When we're achieving. And it's really easy to hit these milestones when you're in your 20s, right? The first time you buy a house, the first time you set up your investment accounts, you buy that dream car that you wanted, right?
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