You don’t need to dedicate your life to finding your first deal

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There’s one huge mental block I often see in people who are serious about acquisitions but haven’t started yet:

They’re waiting until they have enough time.

And in the meantime, nothing happens.

What separates the buyers who close in six months from those who are still searching two years later usually isn’t talent, capital, or connections…

But rather, consistently putting in a small amount of effort over time.

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Small blocks of focused time compound

Most of the members inside Acquisition Ace who close their first deal within six to nine months are working full-time jobs, many with families and additional side projects.

And they’re not dedicating entire weekends to deal flow!

Instead, they’re carving out roughly an hour a day, sometimes less, and using it with intention to:

• Screen deals

• Reach out to brokers

• Review financials

• Build their search criteria

An hour a day, done consistently over several months, is enough to build the pipeline, develop the skills, and find the right deal.

What this looks like in practice

Two examples from people who’ve done it:

Chris worked at Chevron and bought an oil pump maintenance company near Los Angeles in five months without leaving his job. He used his industry background to move quickly on a deal that made sense to him immediately.

Zack is a software engineer who bought a 6,000-client accounting firm in Virginia, remotely from California, in five months, and he’d never worked in accounting a day in his life.

Neither of them had extra time.

They just used the time they had in a focused, repeatable way.

(Inside Acquisition Ace, members get a structured framework for exactly how to spend their time during the deal hunting phase, so none of it gets wasted. If you’re curious about joining our community and learning how to evaluate deals for yourself, book a call with our team here to see if it's a good fit.)

The thing most people get wrong

Acquisition search may feel like the kind of thing that should require a dramatic life change where you quit your job and go all-in.

But that framing actually makes it harder to start because most people can’t do that.

The truth is that steady, low-intensity effort over a sustained period outperforms scattered bursts of intensity every time.

You learn more, build better habits, and don’t burn out before the right deal appears.

If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll start when things slow down, that moment probably isn’t coming.

But the time you already have might be exactly enough.

If you’d like a proven structure for how to run your search alongside everything else you have going on, that’s exactly what the Acquisition Ace community is built for, and where 2,000+ members are doing this work right now, one focused hour at a time.

👉 Book a call with my team here to see if it’s a good fit.