Don’t Have It all Figured Out Yet, Awesome!!

Hey, guys, what's up? It's Luke Wendlandt. It is Saturday evening. Hope everybody's doing well. What a great day. We are coming to live from my late night or late evening little coffee shop here in Minnesota. Hope everybody's doing well. It's always a beautiful day here, right in White Bear Lake. It's a. The lake is right here. It's gorgeous. But just wanted to let you know that if you don't have it all together, that's okay. And I'm going to give you a few examples of that today that I just want you to keep in mind when you think about things in comparing yourself with success or otherwise.

So it's going to give one quick second. Got my cup of coffee here. Like I said, hope everybody's doing well. But I just have a few things I want to share today. All right, everybody else having a great day. Like I said, happy Saturday to you and yours. So, no, I just wanted to share just a couple interesting little tidbits for you. All that I think is really important. Number one, if you, if you don't have it all together, you think you don't have to at all together. That's okay. All right. It is just fine.

I'm gonna share like three examples with you real quick. Number one, I just got out of the pool a little bit ago here today. There was a friend of mine that I ran into. He just raised $18 million over the last X amount of years in building his business. And on paper it looks like they're successful. All these things that are happening. And the reality is they're trying to figure out another way to raise more cash and more money immediately because the business is running out of money. So an example, right?

On paper, it looks like you raised $18 million and blah, blah, blah, blah. But he came up to me, he's like, what do you think I should do? You know, do you have any advice or words of wisdom? Right, so just an example, you know, things that look great on paper. They have an article just in the Star Tribune about, you know, the build up and the growth of this business. That's just number one. Okay. Number two, dear friend of mine is close to a billionaire family. Yes, you heard this true, right? Dear friend of mine is very close to a billionaire family.

She sold her company like two and a half, three years ago and she's building something else right now. But long story short, she really struggled with alcohol over the last, like three to five years of coming to the end of the finish line with this organization. So here's somebody who's, like I said, a billionaire, built this thing, built this identity, and at the end of the day is really trying to find herself now on, you know, what's next, what's next in her life, what's most important. So again, you think people have it all together.

Not necessarily the case. Okay, last but not least, there's another friend of mine right here, local, Minnesota, all the things currently right now runs an organization. The organization's doing quite well, but they're going through a legal dispute with the three owners. So the three owners are trying to find a way out. This is a local company in the tech space, right? So there's three individuals, three men, founders, and they're working together to try to find their way out. And things are getting very difficult for them.

So here's again, yet again, like on paper it looks like everything is good, peaches and cream. Building a business, building a company, Life should be good, right? But all three of them are basically miserable. One of my dear friends is like, this is the hardest stretch I've ever had to go through, you name it. But on paper it looks like they have a bunch of zeros in their bank account and they can't stand one another. One individual's in, not saying mental health crisis, but is looking for support and finding their ways through.

So just always remember that like comparison is the thief of joy. And if you're starting to compare yourself with individuals who are you have on pedestals, take them off the pedestals. They're dealing with a lot of stuff. They have a lot of things going on. They're humans, just like us. And being human can be very hard and can be very complicated. So I would encourage you to start thinking about, like, you know, what really makes me happy. Is it spending time with your family, is it going on vacation?

Is it doing things that like really drive you joy and love? Because at the end of the day, here's three cases that you're talking about. An eight digit company, a nine digit company, and in this case a ten digit company. And a lot of these individuals are absolutely utterly miserable. So I really want you to think about this and ask yourself like, what really brings me joy? What brings me happiness? Because even if you have a lot and a lot and a lot and abundance of stuff,