Sean: But before I let you go, I want to ask you one last question. And that is for those entrepreneurs or employees who have a side business or are thinking of jumping ship and starting their own thing. What would be your one big advice?

Josef: One advice is extremely difficult for this question, but let's give it a shot. But I think if there's anything to prioritize and purely speaking from experience because I don't believe that I am anyone to preach to anyone. Right. I'm just like everybody else. Who's just trying stuff and making mistakes and just doing our best, moving one step at a time.

So, but what I personally went through is what I'm going to recommend, which is a personal amount of attention, which is really looking after yourself and starting right there.

It doesn't matter how brilliant the idea is or how magnificent the team is. If you are not in the right state of mind and in the right point of your life, to be able to actually really give it what it takes to make something like this work. I'll give you, I mean, my own personal journey was, you know, you were saying earlier about this guy with no vices and a hundred percent vegan.

Like it didn't start that way for sure, and there's a reason behind that. And I think there's a reason why most people who you meet with those kinds of extreme things because they really probably went through something. And I was one of those guys and I definitely did not have everything in line and I did not like myself whatsoever before those changes, I really didn't.

And it was of course holding me back in business because I just didn't feel like I was the right kind of person to drive anything like this, less alone make an impact or inspire people. So I quit drinking completely. I quit smoking completely and yes I took on meditation, became vegan it sounds ludicrous.

Like I am one step shorter of spending time in a monastery, you know, but jokes aside. This acted as the catalyst to actually teach me the most important life lesson, which I think is the thing, which I live by the most, which is discipline. And let's be careful here to distinguish discipline from burnout or overworking, cause they're very different things.

So discipline is literally in my eyes, the most important word when it comes to building a startup, doing well in school, becoming a professor like literally anything that you want to achieve starts with that standard that you hold for yourself and how you apply that. And again, it does not mean overwork. It means the opposite. It means imparting correct discipline and balance on yourself.

It's just astronomically important because it acts as the catalyst for everything else. When you find that you can do those little things every day, with discipline, even starting with making your bed, you know, little things like that and spirit on for health, then starting a business just becomes one of those other routine things that discipline allows you to actually embark on.

Everything else, then we'll just grow and we'll just become the catalyst because if your personality already starts getting used to that, then having the discipline to really run it a business is just another thing. It's just another run that day. Right?

So rather than obsessing over the idea, or obsessing over whether the timing is right, or whether you have enough money to start a business, that's the most common one, I think. Forget all of that stuff, and first look at, am I right? Am I ready in my personal life to be able to actually go on something like this? Because if you are, everything else will follow.

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