What a Yacht in Monaco Taught Me About Business

So last week, I found myself at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Now, I’m not a massive Formula One fan—but my partner Morgan is obsessed, and this trip has been on her bucket list for forever. So we made it happen (photos at the end).

And thanks to a few generous friends, let’s just say… we found ourselves in a few unlikely scenarios.

Like — on a yacht, for example.

And when I say yacht, I’m not talking about the kind you rent for memorial day weekend in Miami. I'm talking about multi-hundred-million-dollar, Hercule-Bay-anchored, literal-floating-mansion type of yacht.

And as a by-product of said yacht, we spent most of the weekend surrounded by people whose net worths started with a B.

So naturally, I began asking questions.

Where they started. How they think. What decisions changed everything.

It was a fantastic weekend filled with some once in a lifetime experiences, but as we made our long trip back home over the Atlantic, I wasn't thinking about the million dollar cars, or the fancy watches or the beautiful people...

I was thinking about those conversations. I was thinking about their mindsets. The perspectives from which these extremely wealthy people operate.

It became crystal clear to me that these people are playing a completely different game than I am, and operating from an entirely different perspective.

I know, shocker, right? Billionaires don't live like we do 🤷.

But what I mean is, they aren’t sweating the details.

They aren’t grinding through busywork.

They’re thinking in BIG bets. They’re acting on leverage.

They don’t ask, “How can I get more efficient at this task?”

They ask, “Why am I doing this task at all?”

They see opportunities at scale—and they have teams, capital, and the mental space to go after them.

And look, I’m not saying that we should all be emulating the behavior of billionaires — nor is that even realistic.

But... as someone who’s always been a bootstrapper, someone who wasn't around a lot of wealth growing up, someone how was entrenched in scarcity thinking at a young age...

...I found this perspective incredibly valuable to witness first hand.

Because when you spend your life living in the weeds, you sorta forget there’s a sky.

But what this little trip reminded me of is that there is so much opportunity out there. So much money to be had. So much success to be earned.

And I don't know about you, but I desperately need that reminder sometimes.

That when we spend time on low-value tasks, it’s not just about being inefficient.

It’s about what we’re not doing, instead. What opportunities we're not seizing.

So here’s the takeaway I came home with:

You don’t need to act like a billionaire.

But it’s worth asking:

→ Where am I operating like a technician when I should be acting like a visionary?

→ What am I doing out of habit that’s keeping me small?

→ What would this look like if I thought 10x bigger or if I was worth 10x more?

When you look at things through that lens, suddenly many tasks become MUCH less important. Suddenly you're able to delegate quicker, or make decisions faster. Because not everything is a life or death. You have bigger fish to fry.

You got an angry email from a client? Okay, fix it and move on.

You've been debating testing out a new service? Stop fussing and launch it next week.

You've been meaning to hire a manager so you can finally focus on more important tasks? So do it and if they suck find a new one.

Here's the thing, if you believe in yourself and have big ambitions, you have bigger and better things to do it. Even if you don't know what they are right now.

There’s no shortage of money.

No shortage of opportunity.

Only a shortage of time—and how we choose to spend it.

Just something to think about.

— Shane

PS - a few photos from our trip.