Rhys Livingstone

Post on business, scale and fail.
I’ve built a multi 7 figure business by playing the game on hard mode. Hoping to save you time with some cheat codes.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

3. Not every dollar leaving your account is a loss.

If it helps you learn, change or grow, it’s an investment.

Judge the spend by what it produces, and not just in revenue. How uncomfortable it feels has little to do with the true return when measured over a long enough time.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

I’ve spent over $500K on mentorship and development in the last 12 months.

Here’s what I learned:

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

2. Most people want more tactics.

The biggest leverage is often 2–3 things done better, for longer.

You don’t always need more things to try.
You need more time doing what works.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

1. Value and time are divorced.

If someone can help me double my business in 10 minutes, I don’t want 10 hours.

I’m paying for the result, not the duration.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Before you chase something new, ask yourself:
Have I exhausted this strategy, or just my patience? More of the same, done better, deserves a chance before you start over.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

People say they’ll do anything to grow, until it requires months of work with no visible return. Then they chase something new instead of doing the same thing better.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

A slow month doesn’t always mean your strategy is broken.
Often your timeline is.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Instagram makes growth look linear.

It is not.

Real businesses have bad weeks and down months.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Stop expecting results in weeks from a game measured in years.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Before you expect results:

Money buys access, not results. You owe the work and the time.

You can do the right thing and quit too soon. Often the problem isn’t skill. It’s patience.

Buying a plan doesn’t buy the outcome. Apply it. Give it time. Don’t mistake not yet for never.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

The easier AI makes building things, the more valuable selling becomes.

Products are becoming abundant.

Customers aren’t.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Most people who say they want a lifestyle business just found a nicer way to say they don’t want to work that hard.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Running a business is paying reality to prove some of your ideas aren’t dumb as fuck.

(Most of them are)

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

If you want to make more money, bet on variables you control.

Skill.
Effort.
Volume.
Speed.

Not luck.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

The Sword of Gryffindor only absorbs what makes it stronger.

So should you.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Underrated business hack:

Not journaling.

You don’t need a morning routine with 14 steps to build a business.

Sometimes the answer isn’t to reflect more.

It’s to do the thing you already know you need to do.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Underrated business hack:

Showering with no lights.

No phone.
No music.
No podcast.
No input.

Turns out your brain occasionally comes up with useful shit when you stop feeding it everyone else’s.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Underrated business hack:

Working past 11pm or before 6am.

Not because sleep doesn’t matter.

Because sometimes you need hours where nobody can call you, message you, schedule you, or interrupt you.

The world being asleep is a competitive advantage.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Underrated business hack:

Hiring very slow.

A vacant seat hurts.

The wrong person in the seat hurts everyone.

Desperation makes mediocre candidates look exceptional.

Wait until it’s an obvious yes.

[Rhys Livingstone @RJLivingstone_]

Underrated business hack:

Buy once. Cry once.

Cheap things make you pay repeatedly.

In replacements.
In frustration.
In wasted time.
In mental bandwidth.

If you know you’ll use it for years, get the best one and move on.