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5 years from now, today won't matter

2026-02-11 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:31 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His own products discussed

In a Short, Ali tells business students who feel behind that everyone runs their own race over ten or more years and starts from different points, so being weeks behind does not matter; comparison helps only as motivation and learning, not when it makes you feel you suck.

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00:00:00 — Everyone's running their own race

  • ★ At a recent workshop for students of his online business school, Ali heard several of them say they felt behind others who were making progress and money faster. — 00:00:00 · Lifestyle Business Academy
  • ★★★ Ali tells business students who feel behind that everyone is running their own race and will be in the game for ten or more years, so being three, four or five weeks behind someone else does not really matter. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says people start building a business from different points: someone with a personal brand and a following, or with expertise, skills and credibility in their niche, will make money faster than someone starting from scratch. — 00:00:29 · personal brand
  • ★★ Ali says comparison is fine when it motivates you and you learn from someone ahead of you, but often it demotivates instead, leaving you thinking you suck and will suck forever, and then it is not helpful. — 00:00:58

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