I Had No Choice…

Summary

• It's incredible what you can achieve when your back is against the wall and you eliminate all other options.
• For me, the thought of returning to a white-collar job felt worse than facing potential failure in my own ventures.
• Leaving my white-collar job was driven by a profound sense of despair, feeling as if I didn't want to live that life anymore.
• Understanding the depth of my previous unhappiness, I chose the uncertainty of entrepreneurship over the certainty of misery.
• I committed to my path with the full intensity, knowing the alternative was a life that I found unbearable.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest looking at what you don't want for your life, just like I did. Sometimes you don't want to go back to an old job or live a certain way. Understand how much you don't want that. Use this feeling to push you to try something new, like starting your own business. When leaving something behind, commit to your new path. Do it with all your energy and focus. Think of it like, "I have no other choice."

A good way of doing this is to start with small steps:

• Take some time to think about what makes you unhappy right now. Write it down.
• Ask yourself, "What would I rather have instead?" Note down all the ideas that come to mind.
• Choose one thing you can start changing right away. Start with something that won't cost a lot of money or take a lot of time.
• Every day, work on it a little. It could be learning a new skill, making calls for your business, or meeting new people.
• Remember how you felt when you were stuck. Use that to keep going, even if things are tough.

You don't need a lot of money to start changing your life. Just use the unhappiness from before as fuel to move forward. Commit fully to what you want now. It's not about big, expensive steps. It's about small, daily actions that get you away from what you don't want, and closer to what you do want. Focus on doing things that feel better than where you were before. Keep going, and don't look back!

Quotes by Alex Hormozi

"It's amazing what you can accomplish when you have no choice"

– Alex Hormozi

"Going back to the white collar job was never an option on the board"

– Alex Hormozi

"To me, I would rather have died and I mean that genuinely"

– Alex Hormozi

"I didn't feel like being alive anymore"

– Alex Hormozi

"I know what that road looked like and I know where it LED"

– Alex Hormozi

Full Transcript

it's amazing what you can accomplish when you have no choice and so to me going back to the white collar job was never an option on the board because to me I would rather have died and I mean that genuinely because when I left my white collar job it was because I didn't feel like being alive anymore and so I know what that road looked like and I know where it LED and I didn't want to go there more than I felt the pain of the failure in the short term