Alexander Moiseyev Story

Alexander Moiseyev Story

I’m Alexander Moiseyev. I’ll fully introduce myself in just a moment.

But right now, I want to share with you what happened to me that shook me out of my comfort zone forever.

I remember it as if it were yesterday…

My eyes struggled to open.

It was as if weights were holding them down.

My tubes hurt my mouth.

The beep, beep, beep of the heart monitor.

My wife stared at my eyes as wide as dinner plates.

“I thought you were dead.” She said.

My throat closed.

I catch myself not breathing.

Like a knife had been buried in my heart.

The doctor spoke.

“You’ve had a stroke.”

“Is this the end?” I asked.

“You’ll make it, but you can’t keep doing what you’ve been doing.”

My stomach tightened.

My heart began to race as I remembered it was another tense 12-hour day making someone else rich.

I knew I didn’t want to do this anymore.

70-hour weeks.

Lunch on the fly.

Home at 8 in the evening.

Weekends away working.

And for what?

I knew my wife had had enough.

Okay, I made it.

I am the youngest executive in the company now making six figures a year.

But I didn’t want this.

I wanted more from life.

That night I came home exhausted and stressed.

My wife pushed my first glass of wine toward me at the dinner table.

A quick hello as I sat down to eat.

“How was your day?”

“You don’t want to know.”

We didn’t speak another word at the table.

She switched the TV on, and I sat there staring blankly at the screen.

I’m used to the headaches but this time it’s hurting more than usual,

Head pounding, my left hand begins shaking,

Now my left foot…

The next thing I know I wake up in the emergency room.

Tubes sticking out of my mouth.

The nagging beeping of the heart monitor.

A confused look from my wife.

All my muscles stiffened up.

“What day is it?”

“Tuesday. You’ve been out 36 hours. You’ve had a stroke,” the doctor replied.

What? I said to myself. I thought I was doing all the right things.

Working hard.

Driving sales up.

Yet here I am unable to move.

Has my life been bullshit up until now?

It was late when my wife went home.

The doctor finished his shift.

As I lay there in my hospital bed running my hands through my hair wondering

what the hell should I do now?

Drawing in slow, steady breaths thinking…

…have I been climbing the ladder of success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall?

I felt like a fraud even though I’d been making over $200k a year in 1995,

At the age of 26.

Nice life, you’d think…

But I’m in intensive care feeling embarrassed, even ashamed of myself.

My mind raced to search for options.

Should I go back to the job I was doing that pays the bills but almost killed me?

And die from another stroke or heart attack before I’m 40.

I could always get another job as a sales manager somewhere.

And take a pay cut, yet still work insane hours.

What do I tell my wife?

Or is my best option to up and move to a big city with more opportunities?

Maybe even start my own business?

I always believed I could do more with my life.

Having my own business has to be a lot less stressful than being surrounded by idiots.

People who can’t do their job and rely on me to bail them out all the time.

In the end, there was no other choice.

I’m going to take control of my life once and for all.

Be my boss and hire good people who are worth my time and money.

Finally, I get to call the shots.

I’ll figure out exactly how along the way.

There are so many options online.

All those make money in your-underwear “opportunities.”

“Get rich while you sleep.”

Yeah right.

No, I wasn’t falling for any of that.

I went with the biggest name in the motivational business.

You’ve got to be able to trust the GURU himself when you’re paying $100,000 for a three-month coaching.

I mean, this has got to be good right?

Wrong!

Ended up worse off than before.

I was even more confused than when I started and now I’m down 20 grand.

Okay, time to try a different approach.

Went to a weekend sales and marketing seminar.

$10k should get me what I want.

Went there.

Turns out I’m surrounded by total idiots.

Listening to some BS that I could have gotten for free online.

The seminar leader was worse than useless.

So much for well-known internet experts.

Next, I hired a couple of consultants only to realize a few thousand dollars later that—if they have never met payroll, they know nothing about building a business.

Most of them sell you information they bought for $37 and charge out thousands to unsuspecting fools like I was back then.

Then the surprise.

After trying everything to find success, I discovered that even when I achieved it, an emptiness lingered within me.

In my pursuit of fulfillment, I found myself in a Zen Monastery, seeking answers beyond conventional success.

The experience transformed the way I viewed the business world, offering a new perspective on meaning and purpose.

From that moment on, my journey shifted towards a balance between success and inner peace.

The missing piece of the puzzle for me was the spiritual approach to starting and scaling a business.

The Zen Monastery taught me how to increase and focus attention and energy in various ways and to minimize daydreaming and absent-mindedness.

This inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further process of change, whose aim is to transform man into "what he ought to be."

That opened up a doorway for me that once I went through I could never go back.

At age 29 I sold my first big-money business for 9 figures.

A few years later I got bored and started my trade school.

I got it to $1,000,000 a month in profits within 18 months.

Then I sold that.

I was busy looking around for other opportunities when a friend called me out of the blue.

He loved going to all the trade shows.

At the time I lived in Silicon Valley and going to those shows could allow me to meet other CEOs.

I frequently receive inquiries from entrepreneurs seeking advice on programs

to help them transform experience and talents into lucrative enterprises.

Unfortunately, I haven't found any recommendations that meet my standards.

In the current landscape, self-proclaimed gurus often sell information at exorbitant prices, information available for free on ChatGPT.

True expertise comes from hands-on experience in generating substantial business success.

Many individuals in the industry make money solely by teaching,

without the practical know-how to navigate the challenges of actual business operations.

Today, I’m in business helping cancer patients survive the horror they’re enduring.

If you’re interested in being part of this journey, DM me.

Otherwise, if our paths never cross, good luck, and God bless.


Donna Martin

Coaching High-Level Individuals & Leaders | Specialising In Identity Shifts | Speaker

1 å¹´

Thanks for this open and honest share Alex. We are all doing what we do, with the current self-awareness that we have. Well done for paying attention and listening to your internal voice, and for sharing this with others. The spiritual side of life, isn't acknowledged as much as I think it should be, especially for business owners, and I think it should be. It's essential that we understand and know ourselves, in order to live in alignment with the service and life we live. Thanks for sharing a part of your journey ??

Hannes Jordaan

The AI Business Playbook - Coming Soon!

2 å¹´

Great story Alex, I enjoyed reading it.

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