Ryan Hanley

I think it's very smart advice, guys, for those of you listening at home, that I think we're all going to be pushed and it's going to be kind of shiny object syndrome for a while with AI, certainly.

It may even be in, like, the first inning of shiny object syndrome.

But...

I think more than ever, and correct me if I'm wrong here, we need to be very protective of our mental energy, attention, focus, because AI in particular seems to, I mean, you can go down some rabbit holes and not come up for days.

And that's a lot of lost time if you're not kind of protecting your work hours and protecting your focus.

Yeah.

So, okay.

You wrote the book nine steps to a billion.

Um, my first question was, is a billion, like, should we be shooting for a billion is like, what's like, I guess it may take this question, however you were, uh, however you want.

When I sit down and I'm looking to grow, let's say I have a business, but I want to grow.

I'm ambitious.

Maybe I'm early 30s and I want to, you know, I know I got 30, 40 years of good business in front of me and I want to grow something substantial, build a legacy.

How do I pick the target?

Like,

do I go a billion dollars in revenue?

Do I go 10 million?

Do I go just, Hey, let's just not have a goal focus on systems.

Like, like how do we pick that initial target?

Cause, and I'm asking this almost very selfishly.

I have always struggled with goal setting because, and I'll do last piece of context and then I'll let you answer.