I’m curious, millionaire entrepreneurs, did you have to cut off people that were bad influences to get to where you are now? Was it hard to make those decisions, and how did it impact your journey to success?
Millionaire entrepreneurs, did you have to cut off people that were bad influences to get to where you are now?
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I had the ultimate cutoff; I had to divorce my first wife because of the toxic negativity and scarcity mindset. It absolutely worked though.
“You are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” -Jim Roan (Or something like that, I’m doing it from memory…)
Had to let go of toxic friends, best business decision I ever made.
Yes. In fact I had to completely change my environment as well. Leaving people behind gets easier with time and you’ll make up for it by gathering new friends with the same mind set along the way. I used to reach out and check up with folks but that became less and less as I found we had almost nothing in common.
Don’t forget family. Your supposed to be biggest supporters can sometimes be your worst enemies when it comes to chasing your dreams.
I’m not a millionaire or anything, but I think pretty much every healthy adult has to do this sometimes. There are some people who are super toxic and simply will not respect your boundaries, and you have to choose between standing up for yourself, or having that person around. You also don’t always know when you first meet someone like this because they will often be very nice early on, and they seem cool right up until the first time they don’t get their way, and then everything changes.
I do see a lot of bad advice about this in entrepreneur spaces though, where they will say to cut off anyone who isn’t “success minded” and that is a surefire way to become isolated and miserable. While you do need people around you who share your vision and work ethic, not everyone in your life needs to be so ambitious. If your friends are kind, respectful, and encouraging, then they are good friends to have, even if they never aspire to lofty careers.
100% part of the journey. The people who are there are the beginning are more likely than not gonna be there at the end. That goes for staff, friends and anyone who gets jealous or tries to hold you back.
I feel like you’re asking someone to confirm a bias for you here.
I didn’t cut anyone out of my life, but you have to be really careful who you listen to. Some of the worst business advice came from people closest to me who have never run a business.
Not at all, to the point I find the fact that so many entrepreneurs here and elsewhere report needing to do away with so many haters to succeed somewhat baffling. I guess I got lucky that my family is pretty supportive of my career aspirations. But then I have like 6 friends from different areas + a couple different GFs over the run.
They’ve all constantly been on my side and wanted me to succeed. Cause why the hell not? For all those who had others try to get in the way of your success, how did they do so and why did they care so much about your life?
More than anything, I’ve found that “being supportive” of other’s goals is honestly the path of least resistance. I don’t feel like any of my friends/family actively worked to help me on my journey—nor did I ask. But over and over I told people all the big ideas I was working on, and they seemed supportive, if a bit confused and bored by all my rambling. Then they went back to dealing with their own lives.
I feel like…I feel like that’s how most family and certainly friends would act. Being a hindrance is kinda more work. I mean some people are just hateful dicks, but why would you befriend someone like that in the first place?
This isn’t meant to be a mocking or hypothetical post. I literally do not get how/why so many entrepreneurs report proving the doubters wrong when I don’t get why there are so many doubters in the first place.
Honestly, you kind of cut off everyone and everything for a specific period of time.
Your business/work consumes your time 70-100 hours a week for a few years.
No, but 99% of people are employees and i find my friends tend to project their own fears in trying to help you navigate risks.
Over time I start seeing adults as children needing to have someone to give them a job for a livelihood, just not for me. I can provide this for others.
Not a millionaire yet but it’s possible within the next few years of hard work.
I lost every single friend over this, it hurt at first but it’s unfortunately been the best thing for me.
Yes- you have to less than three the h8rs and cut off the lames. They’re bringing u down bro, as soon as you cut them out, they won’t bother you about ~~buying that $20k maserati off the buy here pay here~~ being a millionaire.
I never really became friends with toxic people to begin with. Those aren’t the type of people I’d give my number to. I made time to go out and have fun, but I busted ass on work every day. 16/4/4 was a very common day of work/fun/sleep balance and I always stayed the course regardless of who was around. I did get to a point where I stopped initiating conversations with people that never initiated back, but if any of them called today I’d probably still take the call.
In my opinion cutting down toxic friends is the best decision. Because they give you the bad influence as well as make your confidence level down.
So cut them all. And make a good relationship with your family because only Thay can give you the pure support.
I have moved away from people who have low standards.