Cody Alt
@CodyAlt

Co-Founder @tryskymd | Generated $225M+ in DTC sales. Exited @purekanapremium for 9 Figures. I help people change their Identities thru 91-Day Protocols.

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The reason you're still broke is NOT: • Taxes • Alcohol • Your friends After eliminating it, I grew my company to $40M in 30 months. Here's how I built generational wealth by removing ONE bad morning habit:
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Your comfort zone isn't comfortable. It's predictable. The brain picks familiar because it can predict the outcome — not because it feels good. Uncertainty reads as threat even when the uncertain thing is exactly what you want. A known ceiling, not a safe floor.
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Your first 10 product reviews lift conversion by 20-30%. After that, it flattens. Most brands buy more traffic into a page that isn't converting yet. Email your last 50 buyers. Ask how it was. Ask for a review. That's worth more than your next ad spend. Start there.
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You've slept 8 hours and still drag by afternoon. I tried everything — timing, recovery, caffeine. My ferritin was low. Iron deficiency hits energy and focus long before you're technically anemic. Get a ferritin panel. Under 50 ng/mL is a problem. Most labs call it fine at 12.
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Expectations need motivation to stay alive. Standards don't. You expect to work out. You hope to stay consistent. But once you treat something as a standard — not an option, just what you do — the mood stops mattering. One thing this week. Not an expectation. A standard.
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I don't run AI as a writing tool. I built an OS: agents handle content, monitoring, and deal flow while I sleep. I wake up to decisions, not tasks. Figure out where your judgment is irreplaceable. Build systems for everything else.
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Four sauna sessions a week is one of the strongest longevity predictors in 20 years of Finnish research. 15-20 minutes. High heat. Cardiovascular adaptation, stress clearance, deeper sleep. Most gyms have one. Most people skip it. Use it three times this week.
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Most people show up harder when someone's watching. A few show up the same when no one is. No talent in that gap. Just a decision, made on ordinary days, repeated until it becomes who you are. You can build it. But only on the days it costs something to show up.
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What's your content built for — followers or strangers? Follower count doesn't drive reach anymore. The algorithm tests strangers first. Your existing audience is noise in that test. Create for someone who's never heard of you and stays for 30 seconds. That's the game now.
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A 20-minute nap beats caffeine for restoring focus. I dismissed them for years — they felt like quitting. Adenosine clears in 20 minutes without touching your sleep drive. Caffeine masks the signal. The nap actually clears it. Set a timer. Stay under 20.
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Most people show up hardest when something's on the line. A few put in the same work when nothing is. That second group isn't wired differently. They just stopped waiting for stakes to show up before they started.
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Hourly pricing gets you compared to a number. Flat-rate pricing moves the conversation to outcomes — and outcomes don't have a standard market rate. The same work, different frame, a completely different negotiation. Same work. Different frame. One earns more.
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You're staring at a screen until 10pm and wondering why your brain won't quiet down. Stress gets the blame. Usually it's the light. Blue light delays melatonin by 2-3 hours. I blamed my mind for years before I fixed the room. Phone away 90 minutes before bed. That's it.
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Waiting for permission to start is the job of the old version of you. The brain that stalls until validated isn't protecting you. It's protecting the excuse. Work runs the same with or without an audience. Do it before the feeling catches up.
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What's the vision you've sold your best people? Most founders pitch a destination. Destinations create arrival. Arrival kills drive. The ones who stay aren't working toward an end. They're climbing something that doesn't have one. Show them Level 2.
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Cold plunging after strength training reduces muscle growth signals by 20-30%. I was doing it after every session for a year. The inflammation you're icing is part of how muscles actually grow. Cold on rest days. Not right after you lift.
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Strong reactions to other people are usually self-reports. The brain pattern-matches everyone against your own history. The ones that hit hardest tend to mirror something unexamined in you. Turn the lens around. That's where the data is.
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Most brands optimize for ROAS. The actual variable is thumb-stop rate — the % of impressions that become stops. Average is 3%. Scalable is 5%+. Run three hooks on the same creative. The winner gets the budget. Start there before you change your offer or your targeting.
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Knowing isn't the gap. Doing is. Your brain gives partial credit for reading about a thing. The idea of starting fires the same circuits as actually starting. So you keep consuming. The library grows. The work doesn't. Information was never the problem.
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Less than 6 hours of sleep cuts strength output by 20%. I ran on 5 hours for two years and couldn't figure out why I wasn't progressing. Your sessions aren't wasted by bad form or bad programming. They're wasted when you skip the rep that matters most. Sleep is training.
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I don't use AI to write. I built an OS that monitors three companies, flags what's breaking, and surfaces the one decision that needs me — before it becomes expensive. The move people skip: figuring out which problems actually need a human. Most don't. Protect the ones that do.
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