Luke Kemeys, Director at nextAdvisory, Talks Dreams
What advice would you give your 20 year-old self?
Back yourself and start sooner, you are going to anyway.
How do you stay motivated?
Working on projects that are meaningful. Removing tasks / work / people that drain energy. Also, setting big purposeful goals.
If you didn’t need money, what would you do?
To be fair, more of what I do now but have more people doing some of the work that would help me go further, faster.
What is the worst mistake you’ve made and how did you fix it?
Thinking it ‘would just happen’ but mostly underestimating how hard starting a business was and wasting time networking with the wrong people. To fix it, I started binge learning, REAL QUICK.
What is your advice for people to fund their dream?
To fund your dream, get up at 5am and work on yourself/your dream from 5-8.30am. Then go to your job 9am-5pm. Then home to work on yourself/your dream 5.30pm to 9pm. Magic – you’ve got two jobs! Slowly transition to your dream.
To find your dream – try heaps of sh*t and listen to your mind, it’s already trying to tell you what to do.
What is the best bit of advice, or quote, that resonates with you?
Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard. That got me so many football starts (as did the lack of players available).
Recently, a mentor challenged me on why I would want to invest in NZ companies when I could return 10x their returns in different ventures or myself. This really highlights the importance of investing in yourself.
What’s your favourite restaurant?
Renkon for speed or Oyster & Chop for a celebration.
How do you keep up to date with current affairs?
I gave up reading the news. I find that if it is important enough, it finds me via socials or friends. Often I’ll ask my parents what’s really gone on.
What makes you feel alive?
Having 450 people come to your event & making the news for having a $96,000 bet on a horse for your 1,400 person punters club certainly tests the heart out.
I was pretty dead by the end of that weekend to be fair.
