I will tell you a story and I don't really tell this story that much anymore but when I was a 14 15 16 kind of around that period I used to meditate in my school bathrooms alone pretty much every single lunch and the reason I meditated was because I was in that awkward phase of getting 3 4 hours of sleep every single night and I had to basically manage both school as well as starting my first entrepreneurial venture at that time I'd had a know a few Ventures I was flipping Instagram accounts and then I
started uh personal training my friend's parents and I started picking up a a video camera and and learning how to make videos and photos for companies and doing that freelance so I was getting like 3 4 hours sleep at night so school that sort of lunch period was the best time that I could meditate without falling asleep and to be honest I think that was really the excuse I gave to myself that was the logical explanation you know pretty much like everything in life same reason why people buy people buy with emotion and then justify
with logic I feel like you know that was my logical justification for why I did it I think the more emotional justification was I just didn't really want to be around anyone and I think that's what I wanted to talk about in today's video because if you're watching this and you're kind of at that weird Purgatory where you know you want to be successful but you're not successful yet and you're in this weird stage where like you know what your life is going to be it's just reality hasn't caught up yet and that was really
my entire life my entire life was I know that this is going to happen life just hasn't caught up to that intention yet and I think a big struggle being in that place is the social aspect effect of it and the reason I bring up that meditation story is because I think for me I just want to be alone because and I don't know if you guys are currently experiencing any of this I was getting a lot of the oh you think you're better than us sort of accusations because I was in school and I
was trying to build my business and I built you know I really can't call it a business I made you know $10,000 flipping Instagram accounts and you know I was making few $0000 a month maybe sometimes $1,000 a month doing like spare Services as I said you know shoot uh photo video for different uh uh companies uh just doing freelance content creation uh personal training my friends parents and convincing them that uh as a 15-year-old I was I was the you know adequate personal trainer and for me socially it was just very difficult and I
guess I wanted to bring up this story first of all to say two things first things first is that it's okay you're going to experience that and just understand that there may be one two three four 5 years where you're just kind of like lonely and then all of a sudden it changes and it actually changed for me one day after I finished up meditating I come out and I had this water ball at the time and it had like a YouTube sticker on it and this is just as I had gone into high school
you know I managed to make it 7 months into high school and then I dropped out of school obviously at that point for some of you guys that know the story my business took off I was making $115,000 a month uh at the point in which I dropped out of high school with my uh social media marketing agency which at the time by the way I didn't it wasn't like this is back in 2017 it wasn't really like smma it it was just like oh I have these businesses that want these services and they're willing
to commit to a fixed term and as I'm finishing up with one of these meditation sessions I've got like my uh a water bottle right there and there was a a new kid that had joined the high school just a couple weeks prior and he was like oh you do YouTube and that kid is my best friend to this day and he was the first person to except for my mom obviously to really make me think that wow what you're doing is cool like even when I had no success or I was still at that
time I was still trying to work my way through things and I'm still trying to you know really build something tangible like something sizable and he was really the first person to validate that hey what you say you're going to do I believe you're going to do it and I believe it's just a matter of time I think sometimes all it takes in life is just one person like all it takes is just one person to be like yo I see the vision and I'm I'm with you on this and all that to say that
for you it might take a few months it might take a year two years three years for you to find that person number one and number two for your reality to catch up to all the things that you're saying because if you're anything like I was you know you're probably writing this [ __ ] down every single day you're writing down exactly what you want to do in life maybe you're even telling your parents and maybe as much as they love you it's kind of hard for them to wrap their heads around your vision and
what you want to do in life cuz also bear in mind they come from very different time so that doesn't mean that they don't believe in you that doesn't mean that they don't want to see you win a lot of times it's just they come from a different environment so the way that they know success does not apply to you and by the way it's going to be quite funny for you to grow up and have your own kids and realize that the way that you knew it to be probably in 10 20 30 years
time whenever you end up having kids that probably won't be the best way to succeed then so times are always changing and it can be hard sometimes when you know you uh tell the people around you and and maybe they don't see it so I think they making your first $1,000 making your first $10,000 I don't know if that's the most complicated in the world with it today's day and age you know even for me when I started my first entrepreneurial venture 10 years ago it's very different there's a lot of roadblocks even things like
getting Payment Processing you know as a 16 17year old kid getting Payment Processing back then aka a way to actually charge clients a way to build clients outside of just regular wire transfer it was a lot more complicated back then than than it is uh these days you know these days there's a lot more payment processes there's a lot more these days it's a lot more accommodating to kids who have a dream teenagers who have a dream basically anyone who has a dream and wants to make something work online it's very accommodating even to how
it was 10 years ago and I don't even want to know what it's going to be like in 10 years and that's why it's so funny I made my first million dolls at 18 and that was like back in 2018 that was kind of a big deal [ __ ] man I see kids these days you know 15-year-old millionaire this that at some point one of these kids is going to start making their first million in the womb it's crazy it's uh the world we live in is just there's so much opportunity out there so
all that to say that I don't know if it's necessarily the most complicated thing or the most difficult thing to wrap your head around how to actually make your first ,000 online or even your first $10,000 online I'd say the most difficult aspect of it is getting to that really [ __ ] and frustrating phase where you know what you can do but it just hasn't come into fruition yet and the thing that makes it quite difficult a lot of times is the social aspect of it the thing that makes it quite difficult a lot
of times is the fact that as I said you're writing this down every single day maybe you're telling your friends maybe your friends don't see it maybe you're telling your parents and your parents don't quite see where you're trying to get to or they can't wrap their head around it and I just want to implore you to keep pushing like just disregarded you know I always say just put one foot forward in front of the other put your head down focus on the pavement focus on the road one foot forward in front of the other
just left right left right and you do that for years and then you look back and you're like [ __ ] I can't believe how far I've come I get that a lot a lot of times people go can you believe where you've ended up in life and I go 100% how the [ __ ] can I not believe where I ended up in life when I took the steps I followed my own advice I went left right left right I've taken thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands singular steps I can remember every single
[ __ ] step I took and what you're surprised you're surprised that I'm not surprised of where I got to and that's you know that's the real name of the game here especially when you're first starting it just putting one foot forward in front of the other and don't worry about your progress I see so many people they get so worked up oh it's been a month it's been 6 months it's been uh 9 months and I haven't gone my first win with my online business or you know my first online uh Venture don't focus
on that I told you put your head down for years because I've seen many many many examples where someone has no success for 18 months and then a month later they're making $10,000 a month I I mean [ __ ] I haven't had a similar situation I from the point in which I signed my first social media marketing client in summer of 2016 it was 7 months 200 plus days something like that until I signed my second client but I didn't give a [ __ ] I was just putting one foot forward in front of
another and that's what you need to do as well so all that to say you know I didn't really have time to script out anything or put my thoughts onto paper or write some bullet points you know today in the shower I guess I was just uh reflecting as I do quite often on on the journey and you know how we've got in here and I was thinking about those times in school where I was like why why why did I hide away a law and as I said for me I think it it was
just socially it was easier just to hide away cuz I it was one of those like damned if you do damned if you don't I didn't want to hang out and talk to people who just wanted to talk about video games and Mindless pointless [ __ ] and then if I didn't hang out with them then apparently I'm thought that I was better than them or you know I was a a caulier of myself so I was in a situation where I was damned if I do did Dam if I didn't and you know that
reflection kind of uh SP me on to make this video and just remind you that I guess uh it's going to suck for a while and that's fine and really to remind you that I don't think it's really complicated to make your first th000 online there's so many ways to do it these days but the social aspect and the mental torment of knowing where you want to get to and even verbalizing it and having it not manifest into reality that's the thing that you're going to really need to be on top of things with and
with that being said as always I'm watching you from afar and I'm rooting for you
