My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom

So, I left my day job when I was 24 and I have a lot of conversations with people who want to reach financial freedom in their 20s or in the next 7 to 10 years kind of like I've done. And so, in this video, I wanted to kind of give a road map of some proven steps that have worked for me and also worked for a bunch of other people along with like kind of some case studies uh and proof that reaching financial freedom and in roughly 7 years is not only possible, but it's actually pretty attainable for a lot of people. Obviously, depending on where you start and how extreme you're willing to go.

So I want to preface that it's not easy u but it is relatively um simple and this is where I started and I think you really need to start it is just believing that it is possible. When I first read my first financial book which was rich dad poor dad I started getting into the fire movement and learning about all of these people who had retired in you know 10 to 20 years which is generally like the fire movement. I was like okay this whole strategy is actually possible.

There are people who don't work till they're 65 to have no money at a job that they hate and give the best parts of every week of their life to make somebody else's dreams come true. There are people who change it up, who live very differently than everybody, which is something I'm a big fan of, and who are actually able to achieve this stuff. I saw story after story of these people who had reached freedom uh generally in their 30s.

And even though for me I ended up um kind of go going away from the fire movement a little bit and kind of making uh a newer path that a lot more people are doing now. But we'll kind of get to that in a second. I think the first step for most people is to brainwash yourself into believing that you can accomplish this.

Cuz if you don't think that you're actually going to lose weight, for example, if you maybe diet for a little bit but you're like I'm just a fat person. I'm just always I'm big boned and whatever. I can't stick with the diet.

If you just tell yourself that you're not one of those people who are able to do whatever the thing is, then you're probably not going to do it. You're going to quit after a week or a month or a year, but you're just never going to get there. And so, if you believe that it is totally possible for this to happen, that makes everything a lot easier.

That makes the sacrifices easier. It makes self-discipline a lot easier. It makes waking up early easier.

It makes um you know doing whatever it takes in order to get to that goal easier if you believe you can actually get to that goal and not get there in 20 years but get there in like 3 years or 5 years or 10 years. If you think you're that close, everything else in this entire video is way way easier. And how I did that personally, I think I was doing like a book a week and like a podcast a day um pretty much strictly of learning about money and all these other stories of people who had done it before me.

And that way after doing this, you know, that was the drive to and from work. It was while I was at work. It was at night.

It was everything focused around learning about this stuff until suddenly like having good finances and reaching financial independence early was a thing that was normal to me. It was literally insane to me that you would go and spend 40 to 60 hours per week at a job that has very little upside and is, you know, making somebody else rich. that seems kind of crazy because I brainwashed myself pretty much into believing that this was possible and doable for almost everybody.

So that is going to be the first step. But it's also important to ask yourself why are you going to do this? Um because it is going to be hard and this is not something that you, you know, you do in a couple weeks or a couple months or even a couple years.

This is like a lifestyle change that you're going to have to make some solid changes for a long time in order to see progress. There's no get-rich quick. There's none of that type of stuff.

It's just different choices than everybody else for like 5 10 years and then you're different than everybody else after that. So, but in like year 1, year three, you're going to be like, man, this kind of sucks. Um, this is hard.

Why bother this? You know, work's not all that bad. Um, you know, it's safe.

You know, they give me insurance. It's it's, you know, it's not terrible. I don't hate my boss.

Like, this one's better than the last one. You're going to get there at some point. And so if you don't have a strong why of like, yes, that might be true, but I want to spend every afternoon with my kids.

I never want to miss a soccer game. I don't want to have to stress about work. I want to enjoy what I do every single day.

And I don't really like what I do that much right now. I want to be able to travel. Um, you know, we we generally take one month a year and travel and then travel almost every um month besides that.

Um, and that's like something that you just can't do when you have a day job. So that why for everybody is going to be different. I'll give you, you know, a couple of mine just for example.

So hopefully this can that can help you out. But you really have to come up with these yourself and that's going to be the thing that gets you through all the hard parts which are going to happen. But for me it was yeah having time with my kids.

I didn't have kids at that point but I was like you know when I do have kids I want to be around and I want to have freedom to hang out with them as much as I want. Um and actually the other one was kind of a reverse point which is like I don't like what I'm doing for work right now cleaning office buildings. So I was never making a lot of money during this whole thing.

But like I don't like this and I cannot keep doing this for the next 40 years. I just can't. So that's not an option.

Staying at job not option. Another job like this not option. And so desire towards one thing and running away from something else was what really gave me that drive to get through all the hard parts because it was like you know not buying coffee, not going out to dinner, not traveling, not doing whatever.

That's so easy when it means that yes, I can spend time with my kids and no, I don't have to do something I hate 8 hours a day. It's no-brainer. So, you really need to have clarity there.

So, just take some time and find out what is it that you want to do like lifestyle-wise and what is it that you don't want to do lifestyle-wise. And those are going to be some of your wise. Uh along with believing that it's possible, you're also going to have a reason why you're doing this.

The next thing is what I think is kind of the most exciting and this will give you a little bit of fire is to find your freedom number. Now if you think of like the fire movement which is extreme for a lot of people most people work 40 years to have no money at the end. Average American very not fun.

It's great for some people not my cup of tea. Next up we have the fire movement. So the fire movement says that if you can save up 25 times your annual expenses then you can live off the interest of that money forever.

So, if you need $40,000 a year to survive, it's like a million or 1. 2 million or something like that. And then that money will make you $40,000 a year and you can withdraw that every year and you'll never run out of money.

That's what the fire movement says. Now, I didn't make any money. I was like median income.

So, I was like, okay, for being early 20s, but never a lot of money, never six figures, nothing like that during this entire process. It was before YouTube ever took off any of that. And so I was like, "Okay, well, I know that even if I save like 100% of my income, I'm going to be like 20 years before I save up a million dollars.

So that's just not going to happen. " If my goal is to not do something that I hate and then also have a bunch of freedom now. Spending 20 years is just as insane as spending 40 years to be able to enjoy your life.

So after that kind of fire movement out the window, that's just not going to work for me. So while it's twice as good as working 40 years, it's twice as bad as what I'm about to share. So that's why you got to find your freedom number.

So freedom number is shifting the whole idea of finances a little bit. So both regular retirement which is kind of like the slow lane if you think of the millionaire fast lane if you haven't read that book it's really good or if you think of the fire movement they all have this destination that once you get here then you enjoy your life then you have freedom then you retire then you go you know walk on the beach and live in the sunset whatever even though there's statistics about people who reach you know retirement much more likely to die you don't want to retire it's a horrible idea anyways side note I've actually uh reached semi-retirement and I learned this the hard way I took some time off ended up just playing video games got super depressed um and I started doing things that I like and that's why I make YouTube videos. So, if retirement is no longer the goal, that actually makes reaching freedom an insane amount easier.

Insane amount. And now, let me explain why. So, the goal now is not to have no work.

That's never going to be a goal of yours. You might think it's a goal. You might say, "Yeah, I would live on that beach.

I would drink panina coladas all the time. " I've known tons of people. The people who are driven enough in order to get there at an early age get super depressed once they get there.

I know somebody who literally sold his company for over $und00 million within a couple months. He's looking for something else to do. He never needs money again for the rest of his life, but he needs to feel like he's creating something and building something.

So, no matter what you think that is, it's just if you're a driven person, it's not going to make you happy. So, if that is the case and we're no longer looking for the $1. 2 $2 million, the ultimate amount of uh, you know, freedom to never work a day again.

Then we get to move the goalpost from 20 years down to like 5 years or 3 years. Pretty fun. And the way we do this is by saying, I'm going to earn a little bit of money going forward.

I'm going to start some type of business. And I'll break down the the the kind of steps to get there. So, first off, find out your freedom number.

So, your freedom number, which I actually made a calculator for. You can check it out down below. It's totally free.

It's pretty sweet. So, your freedom number is just calculating what is your monthly active income that you have coming in. So, you go to your day job, you have that.

What is your monthly passive income or semi-passive? This is the stuff that you can work just a few hours a week to keep it running or it's like actually passive um which is very few things. So, I'm going to say it's the things that don't take a lot of work to keep the income coming in.

And then you have your expenses. So, let's say you spend $5,000 a month. That is a clear tangible goal that now if you can find something that you enjoy doing or multiple different streams of income that make $5,000 a month, instead of needing 1.

2 2 million to leave your job. You can now build over the next couple years things that will give you freedom with that freedom number. Now, most of us might be like, "Okay, that's that's great, but I have no way of making $5,000 a month, and I don't have any skills besides the ones that I use at my main job, and that's just not even possible.

" Like, just okay, thanks, but it doesn't help. Well, this is why one, you need to lower your expenses as much as possible. And then two, you need to start something scalable.

So, starting off with lowering the expenses, this freedom number should really only calculate your housing, transportation, food, maybe insurance, like the very basics you need to be alive. You don't need Starbucks to be alive. You don't need stuff on Amazon to be alive.

You don't need travel to be alive. Like, what are the actual basic essentials? And if you can start cutting a lot of those, which might take some time to do, then if you go from, you know, $8,000 a month down to $4,000 a month, the amount of time that it'll take to start building up income streams to reach, you know, $4,000 versus 8,000 is like years difference of your life.

So that's why like this freedom number and getting as low as possible, super super important, you know, and before we get to the making money side and all of these kind of happen at the exact same time. So it's not like step one, step two, step three, step four. It's like these all take years to actually start seeing the results on.

It's kind of like compound interest where you like put in a lot of work, a lot of work, a lot of work, a lot of work and then like bam, you start seeing results instantly or not instantly, but like it was kind of like that for me where the first three years of YouTube, for example, I lost money and then I started making money and then it started compounding faster. And the same thing with um real estate. So the first four years I was literally just working full-time, saving every dollar that I could and then I got that first rental and then a huge change happened in my life.

All right, so let's just talk about saving money for a second, which lowers that freedom number, which makes everything in your life way easier. I got a rental when I was 22. It was a three-unit multif family.

I was able to get in for 3 and 12% down FHA loan, which anybody in the US can do if it's if you're living in that house and you're a first-time home buyer, even though I was able to do that twice. Uh, actually, it's a little more complicated. Anyways, that allowed me to live in one unit, rent the other two out, and I lived completely for free.

So now, most people spend 30% of their budget on their housing. I have 0% on my housing. I'm actually living completely for free.

And when I was able to do that again, I was actually getting paid to live in my house. Maybe it wasn't the best. Maybe there was bullet holes in my garbage can.

Kind of scared to walk outside by myself, you know, whatever. But the cool thing about that is is I knew that I was not there for long. I knew that I was in those kind of sketchy houses where I was renovating.

I was trying to make it nice for the tenants to live in. I was making it nice for myself to live in. working every night and every weekend fixing the place up.

But I knew that that was only for like 3 years before I would be able to take the income from those and actually get myself my dream home, which is kind of like what what we're at now. So, it's important to remember that the sacrifices you're going to make, especially at the beginning here, they're not for long. They're for like 3 to 5 years and then you can take your foot off gas a little bit and enjoy your life more and travel more and do all this stuff more.

But if you're willing to kind of stack up all of the sacrifices and frontload them, then you're able to have enough money and freedom that you can make real progress in your life as opposed to the people who are never willing to sacrifice, live in the crappy apartment, you know, renovate it, take big risks, and do kind of the things we're going to talk about. Those people end up staying at a more comfortable level, but they stay there forever for 40 years as opposed to extreme discomfort and then extreme freedom. Um, is kind of the thing.

And you don't need to go as extreme as I did, but um, it does help. So staying on the saving money part for a second. Housing is most people's biggest expense.

So I would start looking into ways to lower that. Whether that's moving. Obviously this is going to be harder if you have a family and a house.

But if you're really serious about being around for your family, then maybe you sell the house and you move to something smaller, something cheaper because you again realize it's for a few years that you can make big changes. Maybe you get rid of a a newer car and drive an old beater $5,000 Honda CRV like I did. Honda Civic like I did, even though I couldn't sit up straight in it.

You don't go out to dinner. You batch cook meals at home. Um, it's actually one of the reasons I don't eat chicken anymore is because for like three years, we ate chicken breasts, which is like the cheapest form of protein you could get every single day.

That was all I all we ate. Like would never buy red meat, never buy fish. It was everything was the cheapest ever.

And now I like have a hard time eating chicken. That being said, we saved so much money on our food that our freedom number was incredibly low. So that's how I was able to leave my job again at 24 with under $50,000 in savings because I made a lot of these sacrifices that made that number so low that I only needed to earn like $20,000 a year to survive and I had a few skills that were able to do that while working 10 20 hours a week and again even that was just temporary.

No, I do think it's really important here to touch on the fact that you can generally have comfort or you can have freedom, but it's very very hard to have both. And so that's why you should really be again committed to learning and really just seeing how close you are and how close you can get to freedom. So this entire time you start off with making sure you believe it's possible.

You're learning everything you can about finances. You start lowering your expenses. For me, it took like 4 years to be able to get that first rental.

I had a fixed goal in mind that once I did this, now I'll have a 30% savings rate. It'll like change my life, which it did. You start making progress on all that stuff and learning.

And at the same time, you're also thinking about a side hustle. Now, this is not your average side hustle. You're probably not going to make money at the beginning, which is probably not what you want to hear, but there are two different types of side hustles.

You're going to have one uh we look at like Uber Eats where you go out, you deliver some food or whatever they do on Uber Eats and you get paid 20 bucks. You get paid money instantly. You go, you render a service and you get paid money.

Now, the problem with any type of side hustle, second job, anything like that, is that you will only be able to get more money when you go and trade your time for money. And you will never be able to make more money than that $20. It's not like if you do that for a year or 2 years, well, now you get $100 every time uh that you do that cuz you're so good at driving.

It's just never going to work. So, that should be kind of taken off the table as an option unless you need to do that, you know, for the next 6 months. You can save up money to, you know, get a rental, to pay off your car, to do whatever to lower that freedom number, but that should never be the goal and also shouldn't be the goal when it comes to starting a business or a side hustle or anything like that.

It should never be something that has a cap on it or requires you to constantly trade time for money. Even though most things are going to a degree, but I hope you understand what I'm saying. So, what you should be focusing on is something that is scalable.

This was kind of eye opening for me when I first realized this that the whole compound interest effect also applies to work. Generally, you're trying to find something that you will enjoy doing because again, you're going to try to find something that one you enjoy doing because you're going to have to do something for the rest of your life again just to like not be depressed and not have a high chance of death. You're going to want to find something that is scalable and you enjoy doing.

And I'm going to give a list of a couple different uh examples of people who have done this and also um jobs that are kind of like this, but you want something where you can maybe work for a couple years or a year, hopefully as shorter time as possible, earning zero dollars. You're learning a skill online, probably for free, maybe paying for a course or something like that, but you're learning valuable skills that you're not getting paid for. And then eventually you start getting paid for those skills.

But there's literally no upside to how much you can get paid for those skills. Now, to give a couple of real world examples, I have a friend who started a YouTube channel. She didn't make any money for a couple years.

Um, but was really just having fun making YouTube videos and, you know, working on it and doing a lot of this other stuff at the same time. Wasn't really making any money. But then she kind of started to take it seriously, treat it like a business.

And when she learned more monetization strategies cuz she studied this skill for years, she started actually making money. And actually last month she made $2,500 in sponsorships and $1,300 in commission from making $0 last year. So it was a ton of work up front and then suddenly her income started to explode.

So that's $3,800 total. And now with some additional skills that she is learning, she's actually close to $5 to $6,000 for this month. And I'm really trying to help her grow and find different ways to monetize.

And I think she'll be at about 10K by the end of the year from zero last year. And that's kind of that whole idea of like work learning a valuable skill for multiple years not getting paid any money and then eventually if you continue to actually work on that same skill and get very good at it, you'll start to earn money if it is a scalable thing. Now I also know people who do things like copywriting where they took a couple courses or they just did it a bunch for years.

They're really interested in it. They enjoy doing it. They read a bunch of books and they started making a few thousand a month doing that again after years of making nothing.

And with something like copywriting, you can earn $3 to $5,000 per person that you write emails for. And you might think that's, you know, kind of crazy, but if you can, you know, write emails or sales pages or whatever or social media posts for people who can just double or triple the amount of money that they pay you, then it doesn't make any sense for them not to pay you that. So, if you have a couple people paying you, you know, $3,000 a month, now you have freedom working, you know, 20 hours a week doing something that you enjoy doing because you work 20 hours a week for 2 years doing something you enjoy doing for free.

So, you're first of all, you're asking yourself, what do you enjoy doing? What would you want to do for the next 3, 5, 10, 20 years that you would feel like makes an impact? It makes you fulfilled and happy.

It's, you know, kind of challenging. There's room to grow. And then also, it is scalable.

So that means you get paid um by kind of your skill level, by your output. It's not go somewhere and get money. It's create a thing.

And if you get really valuable at that thing, then you can get more and more and more money for doing the exact same amount of work. And then also another one that I personally would put in because of my goals, which was, you know, freedom and travel and being home and all that type of stuff is something that you can do from a laptop. So, this might exclude a lot of other businesses and it really depends on the type of person that you are.

But I had another friend who wanted to reach freedom soon and do a lot of the things that I'm talking about, but he cuts hair and he wanted that to be his thing. Now, the problem is with that is that while you can make a lot of money cutting hair, you can't really outsource that skill. So, what I mean is that he can go work 8 hours a day and get paid $500 or whatever it is, which is amazing.

However, the only way he can make money is going and cutting people's hair. And if he starts to outsource it and hire more people, well, now he's managing other people and he's not doing the thing that the skill that he likes anymore, which is a problem a lot of business owners have, is they actually they end up outsourcing and growing and they're no longer doing the thing that they like and then they start hating what they do and it turns back into the whole job situation where you're hating cuz you're stressed out cuz you're not doing the thing you enjoy and makes you fulfilled and that you're great at and your main skill. You're managing a bunch of people which is not what you want to do unless that's what you want to do in which case more power to you.

something like haircuting you also can't do while you're traveling. So like we took a month a little bit ago and traveled Europe and I was able to work you know a couple hours a day doing something feeling like I was productive making some videos reading learning studying all that type of stuff and I was having a great time. Got to have time for work where I could have quiet and be alone and and do all that and then also had time where we can go travel and do whatever and I could still make money and we come back with more money than we left with.

Amazing. You can't do that when you're cutting hair, when you're doing lawns, when you're doing things that physically require your presence. You know, maybe it would be good for me to actually like take a trip without thinking about work, but again, it's something that I love to do.

So, I want to do that. I don't want to take a month and have nothing to do. I want to do something every day.

It's what makes me happy. So, again, trying to maybe find something that you can do from a laptop or at least remotely. And then something that emphasizes your strengths and avoids your weaknesses.

This is actually something that I learned from the 4-hour work week, which is we all suck at certain things and we're all pretty good at certain things. So, if you can find something that really emphasizes those things that you're good at, like I'm good at creating, I'm good at having, you know, multiple things going on at once. I'm very bad at managing people, very bad at structure, anything to do with numbers.

I'm bad at a lot of things, but I just avoid like the plague, the things that I am bad at and kind of outsource some of those things. And everything that I'm good at is what I try to focus on because that is the easiest path forward. So again, take some time and think about not only what are those dream things that you would like to do, but what are you naturally um good at?

Like if you're naturally good at working with people and a leader, then maybe something that is like a soloreneure is not going to be great for you because eventually you're going to get really lonely and bored or whatever, something like that. So just something to think about. And now before we get to a list of some ideas of what you could do, I also think it's important to talk about what you shouldn't do.

Um so for those three years, I got rid of my TV. Um we didn't watch TV. Uh I got rid of my video games.

I I stopped listening to music. Uh I didn't watch any TV shows. I I didn't really spend any time on my phone besides like listening to Audible podcasts.

I worked all day. I would wake up. I would do YouTube in the morning and then I would go to my day job uh in the afternoon evening and then nights and weekends or just whenever I could.

I would also work on, you know, renovating the apartment that I was in. And so pretty much I I sacrificed almost everything for 3 years. And honestly, it was a bit of a grind, but I kind of miss it because I was so excited and I knew I was so close to freedom if I could just keep, you know, kind of making those sacrifices and really keep grinding.

I think there was like a a year where me and my wife maybe went out to dinner like once or twice that we actually paid for and somebody else didn't pay for. It was pretty extreme when it came to pretty much everything. Like I said, don't eat chicken anymore.

But for me, there was no real middle ground. It was hard to find balance. It was much easier for me to find extreme.

I'm chasing this with everything I possibly have for the next 3 to 5 years. And that's what allowed me to go that way. It was harder for me to like take my foot off the gas and like I'll just do it in a slow controlled way and maybe it'll take 10 years instead of 5 years, but I'll still get there.

And if you can do that, that's awesome. But for me, it was much easier to just sell out kind of for this. And even when it comes to earning, you know, money like this, I tried probably like 10 plus jobs before I found, you know, YouTube the thing that I actually enjoyed doing cuz I didn't know what I enjoyed doing.

So, I just did stuff. I tried a blog. I hate writing.

I didn't know that till I started writing. Tried a podcast. Uh that didn't work.

I tried tried being a personal trainer, but then you had to like talk to people and um be in a physical location. That didn't work. I got my real estate license.

I was a real estate agent for 7 years, maybe 8 years. You have to talk to people uh to be a real estate agent, and I hate that. So, um I was not a good one.

I was like, "No, you want a rental. " And they're like, "No, we want a single family. " I'm like, "But you can have freedom so much sooner.

" Um I was like holding myself back from saying that, but it wasn't for me. I tried so many different things before I found the thing that works. But a lot of people like they look for that perfect thing and they never take action on anything else and I would just wholly recommend trying something for three to six months.

If you hate it, that's fine, but at least you tried and now you know that's not it. I'm trying something else. And you just keep moving through the steps until you find something that you enjoy doing.

And also I would say a lot of these skills are stackable. So this is something that I learned from Rich Dad Poor Dad that like you know his book for instance, he's not the best author. He probably didn't even write the book.

It might be a scam. Who even knows? But something that really struck me in that is it doesn't say best author.

It's bestselling author. So, if you can find skills that are valuable, they translate. Like the the skill of sales that he learned somewhere else, he can translate into the book.

He can translate into uh board games. He can translate into podcasts, into YouTube videos, into like whatever he does, he has the skill of sales that he learned at Xerox or whatever it was selling printers. So, like there are certain skills that once you learn them, they apply to almost everything.

right now. This year is the year uh of sales and marketing and funnels for me. I've never learned about any of this stuff before.

Like last year, I didn't know what a funnel was. If you don't know what it is, it's totally fine. But for me, I take like a year to two years and I learn a new skills.

And that's how I not only keep growing as a person and having fun, but I also don't realize how these skills are going to correlate. Like I did acting for a while, um, and that actually helped me be able to host a show for Rocket Mortgage when like a random opportunity came up. I had the skills now to do that because I had the skills from my own YouTube channel and from acting that went together and they went to that.

And now because I have those skills, I'm actually good at teaching other people um how to do that. So I helped some different people with their YouTube channels and stuff. And that's because that's the skills that I've learned and they've become more and more valuable as I've gotten better and better at them because other people just haven't been doing it for, you know, seven years or whatever I've been doing it for.

So there are skills that are very translatable into multiple different things where even if you fail at copywriting for instance, it might really help you out when you find your blog or your Instagram or your whatever because you understood some basic fundamentals that helped with a lot of other things. So also working to learn and not working to earn right off the bat super super valuable. So highly recommend that.

All right, so let's go over some ideas of of what you could do. Obviously there's like a billion things you can do. Just again make sure it's scalable.

Script writing uh is something that I know multiple people who their full-time thing is to do script writing so you understand one very small niche. You can write for blogs. You can um do a bunch of different types of writing, but if you're good at it, just keep learning a ton of things about it.

Um and almost every big creator that I know hires script writers. Um and a lot of those people make six figures plus. Uh, another idea would be again copywriting because I know people personally who make six figures plus doing this that learned it like within the last two years.

They just hyper obsessed learning that uh, and now they make a lot of money. Helping creators. Um, so there's things like channel managers that make six figures plus just because they understand social media, social media managers.

Now, of course, there's things like building your own personal brand, which could which is probably going to take a couple years to start making money. I know people who are some of the bigger creators, which are obviously outliers, that make $20,000 a day. They make more than NFL players.

Most people aren't going to do that. 99% of people aren't going to do that. But still, you can make uh you know, we're not trying to do that.

We're trying to make $5 to $10,000 per month or whatever your freedom number is. So, you don't need to do that. I know I'm sticking YouTube related, but I only like to talk about things that I know.

Uh editors. I know somebody who edited for two years and then got offered $100,000 to edit for a big creator and he turned it down and now he makes I think he made 30 something,000 last month from making zero dollars uh about a year and a half ago. So that being said, he worked for like a year to two years before that and now has been able to scale.

So that's the personal brand and the editor uh as one person in the same example and I met him when he had 2,000 subscribers and he just kept grinding. If you want like a full list of different I'm not going to call them side hustles, more of like future careers that have a lot of scale, but also you can work whatever hours you choose to work and find that balance for you. I'll leave a link down below so this doesn't just turn into a side hustle video.

So, take action on that. And I will also say most people watching this video, uh, you might hate your job, you might not want to do something, you might want to change. Most of you are not going to take action.

You're not going to do anything. I can't stress enough how normal of a person um I am that I was able to do this and everybody else that I've met that kind of followed this this kind of same path that kind of did it as well. They mostly just took action where other people talk about it or think about it, watch YouTube videos or get stuck in the the loop of just learning and learning learning and never never implementing it.

I dropped out of high school. I can't read super well. I have, you know, different problems.

Uh I'm not good at talking to people. I'm super introverted. I don't have a lot of tangible skills.

That being said, I've kind of filled the cracks is what I like to call it. I should rename that, but um like every waking hour, I'm pretty much trying to learn something. And so I went from extremely uneducated to I I know a lot of things cuz I've read hundreds of books now and podcasts and everything else, but I didn't have a predisposition to this.

I I was homeschooled and then dropped out of that. So like very very bad. Not very smart.

I cannot read very well, especially out loud. So everything I learn is audible. again leaning into things that uh go with my strengths instead of working on my weaknesses.

And yet so many people look at those weaknesses and they will use that as an excuse to never take that first step like I don't have any skills. I don't know what to do. Well, do something, learn something from that you can carry to something else.

Be okay if it fails and try something else because the first two to three years you're probably not going to make money but you'll be learning skills, learning what you like and eventually if you try 10 things probably one of them will stick. If you try zero things or one thing, you'll probably not find it and you won't this, you know, will be a waste of time for you. So, I guess that's where I'll leave it.

And my daughter's screaming downstairs, so I'm going to go see what's going on.