Dominate The Year: Your Net Worth Will Never Exceed Your Level of Personal Development
Jack Hopkins is this young hard charger I found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JackhopkinsCEO. An English businessman on the make, with several online businesses and a growing media empire. He is also a pretty damn good Muay Thai kickboxer to boot. He represents the new generation of entrepreneurs. Jack is really hardcore as a young twenty something, so he can be crass at times and his content is not for everyone.
But some of the themes of his content that I like: Personal excellence. Self discipline. Financial success. Physical fitness. Fighting spirit, literal fighting spirit. Crazy work ethic and showing receipts. An example for young men. Heck, he is an example for me, a relatively older guy too.
He said something that stuck with me. “Your net worth will never exceed your level of personal development.” I really did not start making real money until 2020. I had done well in my prior career as tech exec and venture capitalist, I had a pretty good life. But I did not understand money or how the world works.
More fatally, I did not really understand myself or trust myself. I lacked courage. And I got rekt in 2013 after making good money at Yahoo! And once again in 2020 due to the covid disaster which I wrote about earlier and don’t need to recount. I thought I had spent time and money in personal development but it was clear most of it did not really take. Or I guess I did not really understand at that time. 2020 was the wake up call that jarred me out of my self-inflicted blindness and weakness. So I implore many of you to learn from this and learn from Jack Hopkins.
Hopkins talks about routines and its importance to doing well in life. Embracing challenges and doing the hard stuff. Waking up early, doing cardio exercises to get oxygen to the brain and making sure he is reading regular self development books whether business, investing, psychology, marketing and self help. Pushing yourself mentally and physically. That and have daily non-negotiables you need to do everyday: whether it’s creating content, prospecting for new clients or whatever.
You have to have a clear vision of your future. Of all aspects of your life: Your health & physique, Your money/business & belongings, Your personality and relationships. To be the best version of yourself.
To do so: you have to have personal ownership of everything. Have consistent habits in exercise, in posting media, in marketing and in investing. Do it when you are comfortable. And more importantly do it when you are uncomfortable.
It’s about becoming a character of who you want to be and you can’t break character. And it also means you fully commit and never break promises to yourself. Be the guy who turns up every single day. If you do this, your life will absolutely be better on all fronts.