What's up , ladies and gentlemen ? welcome back to another episode of the action to campaign podcast , the show that helps you get rich , happy , successful and free with the capital F in your life and business . Happy Monday , happy whatever day you guys are listening to this . Welcome back to another week of the podcast . If you are brand new to the show and listen into the sound of my voice for the first time , welcome to the action to campaign podcast . We do five episodes per week . Every single day that ends in Y . Tuesdays and Thursdays are multimillionaire guest interviews . Each and every week . Monday , wednesdays and Fridays are shorter , quick , hitter episodes that are delivering one specific topic or a piece of advice or philosophy for you to implement that day . So today is one of those episodes And , as always , ladies and gentlemen , information was never the answer .
Speaker 1Implementation is if you want to be held accountable , if you want your tail kicked , if you want to be around peers , partners and mentors that are doing what you want to do , which is hit financial freedom through real estate and business acquisition . Go , check out the link in the show description and click to book a 15 minute call to learn more about our action Academy community . Get it , got it Good , let's get to work , baby . A whole bunch of people in this world are unhappy . A whole lot of people in this world are unhappy . Entrepreneurs , i think , make up a big majority of them . It's kind of funny how the pendulum swings on each side of the bell curve You have people that are completely hopeless and have no job , and then you have the other people on the other end of the spectrum that are killing it , run big businesses still miserable . Super rich still miserable . Super successful still miserable . Why is this Sounds like a great question to build a Monday podcast episode around right ? You absolutely hit the nail on the head , my friend . I wholeheartedly believe that the reason the majority of the world is stressed out , pissed off and miserable is because we're choosing to celebrate the wrong events in our lives In type A heat-sicking missiles of entrepreneurs . The doers , the shakers , the action takers are one of the main personality archetypes that fall victim to this .
Speaker 1Now I wrote a newsletter article last Thursday titled Why Overnight Success is Bullshit , and today I want to use this example that I shared in that newsletter to expand on my positioning here . In this newsletter , i shared two pictures of the same experience , and this experience was me hiking Quandary Peak in Colorado back in , i believe , 2019 with my Go-Bundance brothers . Quandary Peak is a mountain in Colorado that towers over 14,000 foot . There's a handful of them in the United States And this is why the Coloradans is that how you say it , coloradans ? I don't know what you guys call yourselves , but those people call a 14er . Is there anything mountain that's above 14,000 foot at its peak ? It's called a 14er . So I summited a 14er from the base to summit in 10 and a half hours , so 10.5 hours . So picture one is me standing at the summit , at the peak of the mountain , with a sign the carports on the says I summited Quandary Peak , 14,627 feet , and you see this mountain range in the background . You can see the mountain peaks in the back in the distance And I'm smiling And this is an Instagrammable moment .
Speaker 1You know this is one of the celebrations . I made it . Congratulations , i did it .
Speaker 1What I also refer to lovingly , pun intended halfway as a mountain top moment of life . Now , we all have these mountain top moments , but they're scattered few and far between . These mountain top moments could look like getting that promotion at work , hitting financial freedom in leaving your work , hitting a millionaire status , opening your first business , running your first marathon , having your first child . Mountaintop moments are essentially the accomplishment of a massive , massive goal . The hard stuff is what makes the mountain top moment worth it , because if I had taken a helicopter up to the top of the mountain , it wouldn't have been worth posting on Instagram . If you wrote a scooter through the Boston Marathon , it wouldn't be worth posting on Instagram . If you just inherited millions of dollars of assets and suddenly became a millionaire overnight , that's not something you'd post on Instagram because you didn't do the hard stuff to get there right . So we can now all agree sitting here that the hard work in the grit is what makes the mountain top moment worth it To climb up the mountain .
Speaker 1Now , why is this important ? Because the second picture that I posted in my newsletter was a picture of me climbing the mountain with the sun rising behind me at 527 am . It was one of my favorite pictures ever taken of me . Now , remember , this isn't a hiking podcast . This is a podcast episode discussing happiness . So let's land the plane and discuss why these pictures are important .
Speaker 1So , like I said before , this entire experience , from beginning to end , from start to completion , was 10 and a half hours of effort . That's 630 minutes . Now the picture won at the top of the summit . That's the one that everyone sees , right ? That's the stuff that we post , that's the stuff that we celebrate . Those are the moments that we allow ourselves to feel happiness , to feel happy , to feel happy , to feel pride in our accomplishment . And here's the kicker That picture lasted all of two and a half minutes , that's it . When you make it to the summit , there's got like 40 mile per hour winds coming , it's freezing cold , the sun's beaten down on you . You just pause , you take a picture , you smile , you turn around and you head back down the mountain . It's two and a half minutes , that's it . And now compare that with picture two hiking up the mountain . That was 627 minutes and 30 seconds of the journey . Of the 630 minutes , 627 and 30 seconds was the climb .
Speaker 1Yet we don't post the climb , we post the mountaintop . If we were to break this down to our percentage point of total time celebrated compared to the total amount of the experience , it would be 0.004 percent And spread out over a lifetime of 78 years . On average , that would be three calendar months out of your entire life that you truly feel happy , you truly feel success , you truly feel pride . And that , ladies and gentlemen , is the problem with today's society . And so , now that we know the problem , the solution is apparent . It's staring us right in the face . It's always been there . It's simply changing what we celebrate . It's celebrating the climb , it's celebrating the journey , it's celebrating every single step that you take up that mountain on the way up , and really learning to love and appreciate every single minute that you spend climbing .
Speaker 1Alex Ramosy had a really great quote that I want to read for all of you guys The best games in life cannot be won , only played . You don't win at marriage The point is to keep the marriage going . You don't win at health The point is to stay healthy . You don't win at business The point is to stay in business . So now that we know this , we know that the games worth playing , we're going to play for the entirety of our lives , which would literally mean that the secret to happiness overall is to learn to love , to play the game . That's it . It's always been that simple .
Speaker 1So stop waiting for those mountaintop moments , stop waiting for those Instagramable moments for you to feel happy . Feel happy in the pursuit . The pursuit is 99% of our lives , and here's the secret We're always going to do hard things . That's how we're wired . That's why you're willingly listening to this podcast instead of listening to Lil Baby on the radio . You know what I mean . Like this is why we are always going to do hard things over and over and over again . This doesn't stop . This doesn't turn off . You hit financial freedom . You're going to start your own company . You're going to start your own business to do something hard again . So let's not find happiness in the picture that we post with the abs . Let's find happiness doing the crunches and doing the cardio and doing the diets . Each and every day , we say , man , i killed it . Today . Let's not celebrate hitting millionaire status . Let's celebrate the broker dials . The deal is under written , the letters of intent sent , the offer is accepted , like that's the stuff that we celebrate The cold calls , every single day , that I release a podcast episode in two videos on Instagram .
Speaker 1I win , i won the game , congratulations . Then I get to wake up on Tuesday and do it all over again . I'm on freaking fire every single day because this is how I win . I don't compare my scorecard to anybody else's . I don't compare my net worth to anyone else's . I don't compare my income to anyone else's . I'm playing my own game , i'm in my lane , i'm doing my one thing and I keep it my one thing , and I hope all of you can do that . That's what I want for all
of you .
Speaker 1So , in closing , if you want to be around a group of people that are not only supporting you , encouraging you , but they're guiding you on these lead measure metrics , the cold calls , the broker dials , the deals underwritten , the capital partners , talk to the local real estate meetups that you're going to . If you want to be held accountable to that each and every week and celebrated for the 99% actions of life that make you an overnight success out of nowhere , five years in the future , scroll down in the show description and apply for the action Academy community will hop on the phone for 15 minutes , see if it's a fit for you . This is what we celebrate , guys . This is what winning looks like . So we're a happy group , or a happy bunch , because we're winning each and every week . Now , in closing , remember , guys , if you are enjoying this podcast and you got value from it , please share this episode with one person that you think would get value from it as well . Pay it forward for , for , thank you so much . Talk tomorrow .