Month: October 2015

What would having an additional one million dollars change for you right now? Since my site isn’t frequented by bankers and the wealthy elite, I’m going to assume your answer is, “a lot.”

What about $100,000? $10,000? Every dollar counts when you’re building a company like I am. But what matters most, it seems, is how we conduct ourselves in the absence of the thing we think we need.

When someone wires me the cash for my first million-dollar deal, I’m not going to pack up for the day and buy a Ferrari—I’m going to double down and ensure that I don’t have to wait as long for the next million and then the next.

No sense in holding back the million-dollar work ethic on this side of the cash. The work is still (and will always be) the work.

I’d like to see more black and brown folks in the January altMBA session.

The first two sessions have, to be candid, exceeded the team’s expectations. Seth and Winnie worked on this every day for more than six months before I even signed on to help build it, and it was months still before the project was launched.

People are being transformed and unlocked by the experience, and we recently launched a few things in preparation for the January session:

1. Find out more about altMBA: this is an email drip campaign to let you know what to expect. Sign up.
2. welcome.altmba.com: an information site to show you some of the results our alumni have seen.
3. info.altmba.com: full program details on a single page.

If you have any questions for me, drop me a note. If you have any questions about the program itself, email hello@altmba.com.

I hope you’ll apply. Tick-tock.

Creating things to share with the world—especially things that matter, and things that might not work—isn’t easy. At times, it’s tempting to throw in the towel or wish for better circumstances.

But in the same way that language is insufficient in captivating the emotions like music can, so too is a lot of business advice in underscoring the importance of not quitting.

Sometimes it’s not a tailwind that changes things, it’s your own momentum that sustains you. Keep pushing.