Ryan Sipes

Tired of the BS Corporate life now figuring it out | 8 yrs @ 7 SaaS startups & post-IPO companies | Investor in Real Estate, Litflask, and Private Lending

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@jamesonhaslam the best Christmas sunset is a San Diego sunset... specifically an OB sunset 😉

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@jamesonhaslam This is a classic "steal this sales framework" information. Reality it just means your line of questioning needs a reframe.... or the tone can be changed.

What do you think @jamesonhaslam?

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

The latter: do when you’re broke and you have no emergency savings.

The former: I wish I would’ve learned at the same time I was building that eSavings lol

Making more money requires spending the money you’ve made + more risk taking (risk taking is cut in many different forms).

Huge miss for me until that clicked

[Nik Atanackovic @victorywithnik]

@ramit Figuring out ways to make more money >>> living below your means to save as much money as possible

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

Your reaction "that's too extreme" to powerful advice is precisely why you're missing your greatest unlock. We all see thousands of these reactions daily.

If you haven't, go look at posts from Hormozi or Goggins such as:

"Grind 8 hours straight with no distractions."

"Do 10x your weekly volume in one day."

"Don't stop when tired, stop when done."

Thousands of comments like "that's too extreme" or "this is how you ruin your life".

Implementing just 25% of what they prescribe could transform your results.

Instead of attempting Hormozi's full 8-hour distraction-free grind, start with a focused 30-minute session. Think about doing 10% (or 48 minutes) of distraction-free work.

Build the focus muscle properly.

Even this partial implementation delivers disproportionate results compared to scattered attention.

My take (which seems obvious so maybe not a take) is these experts aren't demanding you copy everything.

People kept taking them so literally they’ve had to say “I’m not telling you to live or work like me” haha.

They're showing the upper limit so average performers can execute a fraction and still dominate their current results.

If we stop dismissing labeling advice to be “extreme” - find that 20% that delivers 80% of your next potential breakthrough.

That small portion may multiply the future impact in your day.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

The amount of discrediting based on age is disgusting.
Honestly, for the older generations it is becoming embarrassing.

We see teenagers (I've met with multiple of them personally) building wealth and freedom in 3 years that corporate veterans with 25+ years of experience still claim they need until their 60s to achieve.

We're talking Gen Z and beyond.

The worst part is when you're in these corporate entry level roles -

I've never felt the sense that these leaders ever saw us on alevel playing field. It is solely due to "their experience".

Wake up.

The younger generations possess a digital intuition and innovative thinking that many established leaders are still struggling to comprehend.

This isn't opinion - it's observable reality across any corporation at this point.

The actuality of talent waiting decades of ladder-climbing has increasingly slimmed down.

Leaders and companies fueling people to cling to age as a "flex" as a hierarchy isn't just discriminatory.

They're signing their own death warrants.

Ignore youth at your peril.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@cliftonsellers Whenever they're not going to do more with more money.

Stealing from @AlexHormozi

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@cliftonsellers Had a client tried to “push me” by leveraging another ghostwriter against me.

The ghostwriter was telling him that he needs to “be famous” first.

Second “become known for what you do”.

Thoughts on what we should do? We kept him as a client, but curious what you think on this

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

The reminder to pivot, take a leap and bet on yourself now rather than tomorrow continues to climb.

The inexplicable layoffs - realizations like this - the amount of already uncontrollable variables on earth -

What else do we need to understand this?

Per usual, thanks @gregisenberg

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

From Sam Altman: "Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24. Don't waste time."

I'm 36 and this hits different because it's mathematically true.

When you're 5, one year is 20% of your entire existence.

When you're 50, it's 2%. That's why childhood summers felt endless and last year feels like it happened yesterday.

I can barely remember last month. But I can still taste the Kool-Aid from summer camp when I was 8.

Your brain literally experiences time differently as you age. The novelty fades. The patterns repeat. The days blur together.

Which means every year after 25 feels exponentially shorter than the year before.

Most people realize this too late. They spend their 20s "figuring things out" and their 30s climbing someone else's ladder, only to wake up at 40 wondering where the time went.

"it went by in a blink"

If you're under 25, you have more subjective time left than you'll ever have again.

If you're over 25, you have less time than you think.

Either way, the math is brutal and the message is clear:

Time is sacred. Relentlessly your ideas. Seize the day.

I look at it as a fire underneath me. As a good thing.

Time keeps us honest.

Happy building, I'm rooting for you.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

If you've been grinding for months (or years) on something that's not clicking, being real with yourself about when to pivot isn't quitting.

It's having the confidence to turn the page.

The hardest part isn't the work. It's admitting when the work isn't working.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@R_Sipes @cliftonsellers I did a project on you when I was like 7 years old. It is awesome that you're still around doing big shit!!

p.s. I'm almost 31 now hahaha

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@IAm_RyanSipes @cliftonsellers 😂😂 I guess so!

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@thevaluedragon 100% agree with you, my man

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

Your “personal growth” is a fucking lie.

While you collect wisdom crap and hoard courses, people with half your knowledge succeeded yesterday.

You don’t need another book, podcast, or guru.

You need to admit you’re hiding behind “learning” because execution terrifies you.

The real growth hack? I learned this in 8 years when it can be learned in 2 minutes.

Delete your bookmarks, cancel your subscriptions, and build something so bad it embarrasses you.

You're going to feel embarrassed no matter how much you consumer.

That leap of faith the only education that matters.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

@thedankoe moving into something that is 2x what you can afford - do you feel you ever had to silent the voice of panic? If so, what's your strategy to silent it? or did you not have it all together?

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@cliftonsellers do you think adding that you need to be adding something of substance is the route? or just commenting whatever is okay?

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

Here's why taking on too many new things at once can screw you:

- You're splitting energy between multiple starting lines

- Divided focus Is not be beneficial for any results

- You're pretending you can give 100% to competing priorities

- You'd be in the beginning phase of both projects which are the hardest steps to take

- You're compromising the one thing that deserves your full attention

- You need to fully give it my all to one thing otherwise both will fail

We are conditioned to move fast rather than move in the right direction.

"just do more, chase more, therefore you'll make more money". To add rather than subtract.

Knowing what to refuse is harder than knowing what to pursue. A good muscle that needs to be activated.

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

writing to talk shit or post memes doesn't count ;)

[Ryan Sipes @IAm_RyanSipes]

If you're interested in building a real brand and connecting with people you admire on socials - waiting to write until your audience is "bigger" is the worst advice to follow.

What you're really doing is feeding the fear in your mind that you can't do anything and you aren't going anywhere.

The creators you admire started publishing BEFORE they had an audience. That's how they built one.

Your first 50 posts aren't about audience growth - they're about finding your voice. Your next 50 are about refining your message.

Start now. The only invisible personal brand is the one you haven't built yet