09-2024: Monthly Summary

Hi Everyone,

You’re gonna lose sleep.
You’ll doubt whether it’ll work.
You’ll stress to make ends meet.
You won’t finish your to do list.
You’ll wonder if you made the right call - and have no way to know for years.

This is what ‘hard’ feels like.
- Alex Hormozi

I've been working a lot on Major Marketing & Management, have a domain, can't afford a website host for a year yet, but I'm still waiting on my invoice to be paid then I'll make the website. Thing I'm finding too the water business I was talking about, I have a meeting with them on Thursday to discuss the terms of the contract right, I'm going to essentially be doing affiliate marketing where we'll do marketing, sales everything except logistics. After the contract has been signed I want to have everything set-up so we can start selling these filters and closing people and making money and I can learn how to effectively market and manage a marketing business for a specific high-ticket product. Then build recurring revenue through the customer journey, if there's questions or concerns then they can voice them with us and we can work with people a solution instead and make people want to be with us and have a relationship with the company. So hoping that goes well, thing I realised too if I turn MMM into a company then i can create a water business underneath it and have MMM have equity in it so if the water company gets sold in the future then I can have personal equity but MMM gets equity too and gets either dividends/profit shares or a payout to grow it.

Once I can build something like that I can build a replicable model to build another business, which leads me to talk about network marketing something I've been looking at for the past 4-5 weeks. Obviously, I had some concerns about it throughout but I've also realised with the way this company works I can figure out how to make a business underneath the core business and get other people to partner on a replicatable business model and I can make money off the top. My concern is that it appears that the guys I was speaking to weren't super onboard with the idea of really trying to sell the product, don't get me wrong it is Amway products, but I think anything can be sold and as long as you're not making it obvious the background of the business all the logistics, as long as you're just promoting it like any other sports brand it will succeed. I see a lot of value in being able to have a replicatable product based business, but I don't know if the people in the MLM see that value, they said definently do it, but it also might be easier to help other peoplt on board and mentor them, but it feels like an oxymoron. at that point from the sounds of it, all I'm doing is mentoring people on how to get more people on board, which I don't care about, what's the point of getting more people on board to be "mentored" if there's nothing to mentor them on? I have a follow up meeting next wednesday where I'm sure I'll get a better understanding but that's just what's in my mind right now about it. I think as long as they let me build a consumer-based brand and can mentor me to be successful at it and I can teach other people how to build a solid consumer based brand then I won't have to worry, but if I'm not allowed to do that, I'll probably pull the plug altogether because what am I mentoring people on if I can't do that?

So right now I'm going to go on the assumption that I'm going to be helping with Water, BFF, MLM and Hounds & Humans as my 4 clients that I want to be doing work on and build them to huge levels, make 10k/mo in monthly rev to MMM hopefully by this time next year, we'll see if that happens obviously would be great but no guarantees. Then once I have these 4 solved and working without my involvement and I have solid revenue coming in, then I focus on having contracts and digital marketing and everything to build the actual business itself.

Anyway on to better news, with gym I've been pretty consistent so far, going at least 4 days/week usually doing upper and lower. My chest is atrocious I'm sad how I have to build back up on but, that's what I get for not going to the gym. but my arms feel giant, It's been a while since they've felt this big it's great I love it. I still want abs and I'm around 85kg around and I know I wouldn't get them till around like 75-70kg but I'm not sure if I'm ready to starve myself that much yet, also I've starved myself to 78kg before and I was still skinny fat at the time so I'm a little afraid of starving myself to 70kg and I still won't have abs it's terrifying. Cardio wise, terrible, I haven't done anything for it, I think right now I'm just sticking to doing business and gym, then once both of those have a bit more consistency and I'm not so stressed about life and finances I'll be fine to start doing things like fighting or sports but I just need to put work as my no. 1 priority, Karen, Gym then everything else.

It's stressful and sometimes honestly I don't know if I'm gonna make it, I'm broke constantly, I'm tired constantly and I'm just faced with mounting pressure of getting a full-time job so I can just rest on a barely 6 figure salary, I refer to 2 things though, if I did that 1 "would you be able to be rest?" and, "This is what hard feels like. Ultimately I wanted hard things to do for my life and I need to be able to overcome these things, it feels hard but if I can't do them, well I don't have a choice I have to do them. The hardest part is when your own family doesn't believe in you, like to an extent my mum believes in me, but everybody else sees this as me failing, maybe they're right but if I stopped now, I know for the rest of my life all I would think is, what if I had just kept at it for a few more months, I went through a little more pain, I would always think about what if. The problem is if I pulled out now, there'd be no way I could get back into it in the future, I know how tough this is, how much it sucks and how much fear and anxiety I have over if this is worth it at all or if it's even gonna work. but I just think fuck I have to figure it out somehow, there's no other way. I don't want to wait to the end of my life and think, "I could've been great" but I gave up, I'm doing this for my future self because I'll never become him if I don't keep trying putting 1 step in front of the other. This is where it all starts I have to see it through, there's no other way. I either die trying or I die.

- Mariano