Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts and speeches with Alex Hormozi.

If you don’t know who he is, Alex is the owner of Acquisition; a business that he founded as a way to invest his $200M net worth into other companies.

Alongside his investments, he’s big role model in the entrepreneur community as he gives out loads of free information on what it takes to succeed in the business space.

But what I really like about him is his story.

Before Acquisition, Alex had owned six gyms and ended up selling each and every one of them because a partner stole every dime of profit they had made.

Leading up to this, his mother got in a near fatal accident and he had totaled his own car earning himself a DUI in the process.

From millionaire-to-broke in a matter of a month, Alex was now sleeping on the floor in his girlfriends parents house.

No friends.

No family members to help him out.

Just his girlfriend who he knew was getting tired of his shit and himself.

He was now in the ‘lonely chapter.’

And in a recent podcast with Chris Williamson on Modern Wisdom, Alex breaks down what this ‘lonely chapter’ is:

There’s going to be a period in your life where your friends aren’t going to relate to you.

There’s going to be a period in your life where your family members might not recognize you.

But that’s the point.

Everyone who has ever made a name for themself has experienced it.

But for a lot of people, the criticism, the hate, and the loneliness is just too much to bear, so they go back on their dreams just so they can be around the people who didn’t believe in them in the first place.

As humans, we crave attention.

We crave acceptance.

And when we begin to see those around us turn away just because ‘you’ve changed,’ we start to question ourselves.

Don’t go through your life trying to live it by someone else’s standards.

And don’t be afraid of the ‘lonely chapter’ because it’s only temporary.

Remember, it’s just a chapter out of your entire story.

Use this time in your life to weed out the friends that don’t believe in you.

And next time you hear your friends or family members say, “You’ve changed,” remember it’s only because they don’t know how to say, “You’ve grown.”

Until next time,
Isaiah Taylor

Dive Deeper

What I’m Currently Reading - I’m still in the middle of reading David Herbert’s biography of Abraham Lincoln titled Lincoln. An in-depth analysis of his early life leading up into his presidency.

Quote Of The Week - “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” — Mario Andretti