Throwback: Most Business Owners Have a Focus Problem | Ep 717

The biggest mistake that I have done in my entrepreneurial career, I'm going to walk through and then I'll explain kind of the the the meta concept that I think is why we are doing better now than we've ever done before. The very beginning of my business, I started an online fitness coaching business called the Free Training Project, which then flipped to for-profit. I then started a gym. Now I did a smart move and said I'm going to focus on only one of them, which was the gym. and the gym grow.

I kept doing this gym thing because that kept working. And then all of a sudden as I kept opening locations, I was like, man, I'm pretty good at this marketing and sales stuff. Then all these people started being like, hey, can I give you money to do other stuff? And I was like, well, I accept money and I can do other things. So that sounds great.

Within the next 12 months, I had a dental agency, a chiro agency, and a business that was the turnaround business, which was me flying out to gyms. And so I tried to grow four businesses at the same time where I was CEO of all of them. It took me getting into a head-on collision in a DUI where I had a mentor of mine, whatever you want to call it, who was like, your lack of ability to make decisions will kill you. After that, over the next seven days, I broke up with, it's probably the best term because some of you guys are in terrible partnerships and won't admit it, I broke up with my partner. um that I had with a couple of gyms, not all of them, but a couple of them.

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