Founder of Carrot Trevor Mauch shares advice he would give his 20-year-old self.
Trevor shares wisdom and lessons learned from his experience to help you avoid the mistakes.
Transcripts:
Chris BoundsĀ 00:00
If you can give your 20 year old advice, and we’re both young here, so it’s not too long ago, but your 20 year old advice, self advice, what would it be?
Trevor Mauch 00:09
Yeah, I think the biggest thing, man is like, don’t get so focused on the outcome, but like, really enjoyed the journey because as, as I’ve grown as, as an entrepreneur, it’s very, very easy to get focused in on the goal, right. And you guys have probably heard this before I was in Costa Rica is 2010. And I had a chance to watch a guy named Shri Krishna Kumar or something like that talk.
And he talks about something called the if then complex. And he said, so many of us gets get stuck in this gap mentally, where we go, if this happens, then I’ll finally be x if this happens, and then we’ll finally be happy. If this happens, then we’ll finally be fulfilled. And I can tell you that anytime of hitting those financial goals thinking that the clouds are gonna park the angels, we’re gonna sing at the million dollar mark, or a year or the million dollar a month mark, I’ve had both life didn’t change at all, like life did not change at all.
And I didn’t become magically happier because of that. And I think sometimes I’ve gotten stuck in the outcome and not enjoyed the journey as much. So enjoy the enjoy the journey and outcomes there for motivation, but not for validation.
Chris Bounds 01:19
Yeah, it’s funny, that micro comes on there. It’s like, just learned a lot of the process. Gary Vee talks a lot about that, too. And then everything becomes a lot easier. Yep. What book or books have greatly influenced your life.
Trevor Mauch 01:35
At different phases in my life, I’ve had different books. So you know, as I’ve grown as an entrepreneur, you have to learn different things. In the early days, it was all marketing and psychology stuff, right? And then it was like branding in that kind of stuff. And now it’s leadership stuff and team building.
So if I were to go all the way back, though, I had a chance to have this author Bob Berg, he was on and it was the Go Giver, I absolutely love the Go Giver book. It’s simple. I think it should be like required reading for every human being or every kid in high school or college.
And it’s such a simple concept that changed my life early on, because I was so focused on getting mine, you know, when I got out of college, and I gave myself a year to become an entrepreneur, I was trying to get mine, I was trying to, like, get enough money to pay my bills, not have to go get a job after the year, where things changed when I heard that book.
And I’m like, you know, it’s already not working, trying to get mine like I’m trying to, I’m not making any money, what advice go out there and just offer my services for free, and just help other people and learn. And then maybe I’ll make some money, dude, as soon as I just became a Go Giver, everything change?
Chris Bounds 02:44
I’ve heard that book a lot. I’m yet to read it. But I think after this call, I’ll put that on the audible list.
Trevor Mauch 02:50
Yeah, it’s, it’s simple. I’ll give you one more too. I mean, there’s a lot of them out there. This is very tactical, I’m not gonna say it’s probably not as applicable to most people on here. But it was really impactful for me. But it’s called the great CEO within it’s by a tech, a tech entrepreneur guy. It’s not a popular book, but it’s amazing. It’s like so tactical. I mean, it’s like, literally three sentences of you should do this in this situation. So the great CEO within and then the third one, this one goes back to 2010 or 11.
For me, and I had a chance to have Mike McCalla wits on our podcast a couple of times, the Pumpkin Plan. And I think a lot of us can relate to this. You have multiple opportunities going on multiple pans in the fire. You think you’re doing all these great things because you have all these awesome things going on. And in the end of the day, you’re not doing any of them great. They’re all mediocre.
And that happened to me in 2011 12 had way too many things going on. They’re all mediocre. I was burnout. And the Pumpkin Plan changed the way I looked at everything and help me trim down to one thing, that one thing became carrot. And still today, I just focus on one thing. I don’t have multiple businesses that I’m actively working in or anything I want other businesses I do nothing in them. Yeah. One pumpkin plans. Amazing.
Chris Bounds 04:10
Yeah, yeah. And that author, he’s young, he’s got some great books. What new belief behavior or habit is most improved your life? Maybe you just answered that. But
Trevor Mauch 04:20
um, yeah, I’m gonna go back to the the thing I said in the first one. I think as a high achieving entrepreneur, it’s very easy to be in, in the gap. A book I read called the gap and the game recently by Dan Sullivan. really talks about that. And so this has helped me a lot. Anytime I feel like I’m in this weird like mental funk. Anytime I feel like I’m driving, I’m driving to the office. It’s a beautiful day and your family is great. And I’m like, Why do I feel like this? We have an amazing business. I’m making insane amounts of money. My family’s healthy.
Why do I feel down and defeated or Right now, because we missed a goal back here, right? And and when I recognize that I recognize them in the gap. And so the mindset is recognizing that when you’re in the gap, and then how do you change is focusing on the game? You say, Okay, rather than me being in the gap, let me focus on how far have I come? How far have we come? Where was I a year ago? Where were we five years ago? Oh, my God. I’m in like a dream situation right now. Why the heck am I right? Yeah. Do why like my feeling this way.
So I’ll pull from that daily. Like, literally, that’s a, that’s a daily thing where I get it, it could be a five minute moment. Or it could be like an all day thing. Go, what the heck? Like, why am I feeling this? It’s a manufactured, fake feeling that I have. It’s a real feeling. But it’s a fake thing that I created, where I have this pressure to hit this goal, I made the darn goal up and to go that even matter, right, it’s like gapping. Well,
Chris Bounds 05:55
I think that’s very insightful for people to hear you say that. Because if any, anyone that has followed you, you’re obviously very successful going to your company. But they see you where you are now not where you’ve where you’ve the journey you’ve been on, but you’re like invincible now. Just like people would look at a maybe a an Elon Musk, or Grant Cardone, or any of the great entrepreneurs or athletes or whatever their day. But yeah, they’re all humans.
Yep, they just happen to be really, really good at their craft, but they all have normal human traits, they all have funks that they go through. Now, if they’re celebrities, it may get broadcasted. But not everybody’s like that. You know, I never want to be like that. But in any case, we all had that thing. And so I relate to that, like, yeah, I get in that funk, and having to go back in perspective and seeing like, where I’ve come where I’m going, and worst case scenario, it’s like, man, there’s like a billion people who don’t even have running water in their house.
Trevor Mauch 07:05
That’s, that’s the thing, man, like, kind of what I’ve, what I’ve gotten, what I’ve gotten to, and I’ve learned this from people over the years, is as long as you’re as long as you’re wanting to grow, right, as long as you’re wanting to grow in whatever area it could be financially could be physical fitness, it could be relationally, spiritually, whatever it is, as long as you’re wanting to grow, you are naturally creating a gap. You’re saying, I am not where I want to be in this area of my life, right?
And so we can immediately solve, being, you know, feeling down about ourselves if we just stop wanting to grow, right? It’s like, if you just if we have no ambitions to grow financially, the gap is gone. Right? All of a sudden, like peace comes to you everything is all right. And everything is how it should be. If you don’t want to improve your health, which everyone should, but then the gap is gone. Right? I’m not saying that’s
Chris Bounds 07:58
not Yang, right? The ambition with contentment.
Trevor Mauch 08:03
Exactly. And it’s healthy to have both. That’s the thing is, I don’t I don’t feel humans were put on earth to just be I think we were here to create, we are here to create and connect with people and add value and not just subtract the value. So I think it’s a healthy thing. When we get in the gap. It’s not a healthy thing to stay in the gap. And that’s where I think we have a lot of entrepreneurs burning out or wondering if the entrepreneur dream is real, is we’re not going back and having the gratitude to think of oh, shoot, look at this position I’m in and let me be grateful for it.
One last thought in this Chris is you’d kind of mentioned well shoot, you know where you are, Trevor are word guys way ahead of my of I Am. There, they all feel it. The difference between an entrepreneur making 300,000 a year and an entrepreneur making, you know, let’s say 30 million a year, or whatever the number is, is there might be some skill sets, they learned along the way, like hard skills, but mostly it’s they learn how to deal mentally, you know, they learn how to learn the right next set of skills at every three and 10 things break.
At $100,000, there’s a different set of skill sets, you have to learn to get to 300,000, or $300,000 is a different set of skill sets to get to a million. And then you have to delegate different things at a million to three, three to 10. It’s different skill set, and then you delegate different things at each level.
And so as long as you can see that map and know that threes and 10s You’re gonna have to grow, then you can then you can then start to kind of feel like you kind of you figured that you haven’t figured the game out but you at least know the game boards in front of you say okay, I know the game now. Now I just have to figure out how to get through this moment.
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