But it wasn’t just a good read that I put down and forgot about—it became my blueprint for living and taught me the most valuable lesson I’ve ever learned.

When I finished that book, I realized I needed to change just about everything, not just a few things. The transformation was immediate and radical, but more importantly, it taught me how to filter the world around me in a completely new way.

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The Great Purge

One of the first major changes was becoming a minimalist. I was living in an apartment and ended up taking three loads to the thrift store, then one load to the dump, and I still sold a bunch of stuff on Facebook Marketplace. It was incredible how much unnecessary stuff I had accumulated.

But this wasn’t just about decluttering my physical space—it was about decluttering my entire approach to life. I wanted freedom, and all that stuff was just weighing me down.

This process taught me something crucial: just because something looks valuable or everyone else has it doesn’t mean it’s right for me.

Questioning Everything I “Knew”

Before reading the book, I had never really taken computer work seriously. I was convinced I was a physical person who wanted to do physical things for work. I didn’t want to sit around behind a desk all day.

But then I realized the power of working from a laptop—the power of the internet and being able to scale things and really reduce your hourly workweek.

I thought, “Oh wow, I guess I do need to work from a computer.” I needed to get better at computer skills, even though I was already decent from school.

The biggest pivot was going from working for someone else to working for myself. That’s a huge shift when you’re 19 and still figuring out life. But this career transformation taught me something even more valuable than entrepreneurship—conventional wisdom isn’t always wise.

Living the Change

At 19, I knew I wanted to finish college, and I was pretty tied down financially. I just needed to keep making money and had a job that would make me enough to get through school, so I needed to finish all that first.

I spent the whole summer in 2019 living out of my car, actually. That’s when I landed my first client as a freelance copywriter and started my business writing copy for clients—mostly email marketing and SEO work.

Living in my car while building my first business was humbling, but it clarified something crucial for me. I was surrounded by people giving me advice about how to live my life, but I started noticing a pattern: the people telling me to “be practical” and “get a real job” weren’t living lives I wanted.

Life-Changing Realization

Through this journey, I developed what became my core life principle: only take advice from people you want to be like. This simple filter has guided every major decision I’ve made since.

The Wrong Advice

There are plenty of successful people you encounter in life, and I had several around me in college—professors, friends, mentors. But here’s what I realized: there’s a difference between conventional success and the kind of life you actually want to live.

I’d meet people who had conventional success, and when I looked at their lives, I’d think: “Man, I’d take one-tenth of their income if I could just live in a van, be free, ski all the time, and pursue my passions.”

That lifestyle is totally possible, but to reach that level of freedom where you work for yourself, taking advice from someone who’s been a lawyer or ski resort executive their entire career doesn’t make sense.

It’s hard to listen to them about entrepreneurship because they’ve never actually done it—even though some of their wisdom could be valuable.

This is where it gets tricky: some people have solid advice in certain areas but terrible advice in others. And it’s always challenging to figure out who’s who.

For example, I had professors who were 60 or 70 and incredibly fit. When they shared advice on living well, I’d think: if you’re that age, in great shape, and genuinely happy, some of your guidance definitely applies to me. But not all of it—especially if I want a completely different career path.

Applying This Filter Today

The key is identifying people who’ve built the kind of life you actually want—not just the kind that looks successful on paper. If you want freedom, find people who’ve created real freedom for themselves. If you want to be an entrepreneur, learn from people who’ve successfully built businesses.

If you want work-life balance, don’t take advice from someone grinding 80-hour weeks, even if they’re financially successful.

This philosophy has guided me through multiple business ventures—from freelance copywriting to running SLC Events for 26 months, to my Christmas lights business, and now my custom wedding guest book company.

I've written more about lessons from the road in 1,000+ Days Of Travel.

With every major decision, I ask myself: “Who am I getting this advice from, and do I actually want the life they have?”

It’s helped me stay true to my vision of freedom and unconventional success, even when that path looked risky or impractical to others.

Conclusion

The Four-Hour WorkWeek didn’t just change my work habits—it taught me how to think critically about the advice and influences around me. It showed me that questioning conventional wisdom isn’t rebellious; it’s necessary if you want to build something different.

Eight years later, I’m living proof that you can build the life you actually want, not just the one you’re supposed to want. I’m not saying everyone should live in a van or become an entrepreneur, but you should be intentional about whose blueprint you’re following.

The most valuable lesson wasn’t about working four hours a week—it was about being selective with whose vision of success you adopt. Because at the end of the day, the question isn’t whether you’re successful. The question is: whose advice are you taking, and do you want their life?

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While Instagram shows the breathtaking mountain vistas and perfectly styled van interiors, there’s much more to van life than the carefully filtered squares suggest.

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The Truth About “Instagram-Perfect” Vans

One thing I’ve noticed during my years on the road: the nicer the van is, the less people actually sleep in it.

Those stunning $100,000+ builds you see online? Many owners rarely use them for actual travel.

Why?

Because people who invest in ultra-luxury vans often care more about status than adventure, or they’ve spent so much on their vehicles that they have to keep working regular jobs to afford them.

The irony is that the people in simpler, more affordable setups often travel more extensively because their lower overhead gives them the financial freedom to actually be on the road.

Real Challenges of Van Life

In my pursuit of skiing and adventure, I’ve faced countless challenges that never make it to social media.

When you’re chasing snow, everything gets complicated: roads close frequently, daylight is limited, and when something breaks (which it will), you’re dealing with repairs in freezing, wet conditions.

I remember nights when my heater failed in 15-degree weather, facing the impossible choice between venturing into the freezing darkness to attempt repairs or letting my pipes freeze inside.

These moments test your resolve but also build the problem-solving skills that transfer to every area of life.

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Building a Van: Expectations vs. Reality

When I decided to build out my Sprinter van, I fully believed it would take three months. Seven months later, I was still working on it.

And truthfully, the best decision I made was to get it about 70-80% complete before hitting the road.

Living in it while finishing the build allowed me to discover what I actually needed versus what I thought I would want.

Many of my initial ideas about showers, overhead cabinets, and other features changed completely once I experienced life on the road.

If you’re considering this lifestyle, remember that YouTube and forums are invaluable resources.

As I like to say, I “attended the prestigious university of YouTube” to learn everything from construction techniques to emergency repairs.

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Storage section

The Van Life Safety Question

One of the most common concerns people have about van life is safety.

In my experience, it’s largely overblown. In almost six years of constant travel, I’ve only been asked to move my van three times.

My safety strategy is simple: I avoid both the top 10% wealthiest areas (where residents might report you for no reason) and the bottom 10% highest-crime areas.

The vast middle ground has been perfectly safe for me with nothing more than locked doors and bear spray (which I’ve never needed to use).

You don’t need elaborate security systems or stealth features—most people simply don’t care about a parked van, especially if you’re not causing problems.

Kitchen, bedroom, and dining room all in one

The Essentials of Van Life

If I were to build another van today, my non-negotiables would be:

1. Standing room: I couldn’t live in a space where I couldn’t stand up.
2. Sheep’s wool insulation: It’s performed exceptionally well in all conditions.
3. Diesel heater: Essential for winter conditions and cold climates.
4. Hyper-organization: Everything needs a secure, designated place.
5. Self-driving capability: This would be new for my next build, allowing me to work while traveling (though the technology has only recently become available).

Details matter tremendously in a small space.

Magnetic closures, child locks on cabinets, and creative storage solutions make daily life much easier when your entire home is constantly in motion.

The Community Aspect of Van Life

After four years of continuous travel, I ultimately decided to establish a more permanent base in Salt Lake City.

The biggest factor? A desire for community.

While I never felt lonely during my travels (I’m extremely extroverted), maintaining relationships and building a business became challenging without a consistent home base.

Dating was particularly difficult while constantly on the move.

That said, I found ways to build community on the road. Pursuing activities I loved—skiing, mountain biking, trail running—naturally connected me with like-minded people.

I learned to prioritize socializing over squeezing in extra ski runs or miles on the trail.

Cooking dinner for new friends (even if it’s in a van in a parking lot) goes a long way toward building connections.

I reflect on what I learned from years on the road in 1,000+ Days Of Travel.

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Is Van Life Right for You?

Van life isn’t for everyone, and that’s okay.

It requires comfort with uncertainty, mechanical problem-solving skills, and a willingness to occasionally be uncomfortable.

It means embracing minimalism not just as a design aesthetic but as a fundamental lifestyle choice.

But for those seeking freedom, adventure, and a different relationship with possessions and place, it offers unparalleled rewards.

The perspective gained from living with less, the confidence built through self-reliance, and the experiences gathered across thousands of miles are invaluable.

Conclusion

If you’re considering this lifestyle, start simple. Don’t think you need the perfect build before hitting the road.

Get the essentials in place, then adapt as you go. The journey itself will teach you what you need—and what you don’t.

Remember, the goal isn’t to create the most Instagram-worthy van, but to create the most life-enriching experience.

Focus on the journey, not just how it looks online.

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I turned around and looked my friend in the eyes, “Oh shit, are you serious?!”

He was dead serious, and to a 29-year-old Muslim man and their family, having the groom leave at 7 am before the wedding was a VERY serious situation.

And first, let me take a step back and explain this more.

As any good digital nomad travel story starts…..

I was staying in a hostel/coworking space in Bali. Here I met many people and would spend my time exploring, surfing, and hiking around the island with them.

(For the sake of how personal this story is, let’s just call my Muslim friend “Ryan”)

And one of my favorite adventures was when Ryan asked me to go to a waterfall about 30 mins away, then right after we started the drive we made the impulse decision to drive 2.5 hours away to Mt Batur to go explore the north part of the island.

Lucky for me, Ryan was from East Java and considered a local to the Balinese people.

This was great because he knew how to drive a motorbike in the hectic traffic environment of Indonesia. Not to mention, every time we would go to a super remote part of the island, the locals would charge me extra money for being white 🤦‍♂️. But thanks to Ryan, we had some local clout.

After a few weeks of traveling around Bali with Ryan in my spare time, he headed back to a small remote village in East Java where he grew up. (and no, he hadn’t seen his family in person since he ran away from his arranged marriage)

He kept telling me to come to visit him in his hometown, but it was a 12-hour drive each way through a country I did not speak the local language. Not only that, the flow of the road is a very dangerous and unique thing here in Asia. Plus where I was going to sleep to break up the 6-hour drive?!

After some convincing, I knew I had to make the journey out to East Java.

My god I had no idea what 12 hours of driving on the motorbike was going to do to my back and butt.

After showing up at the wrong house, I met up with Ryan and went back to his place.

One thing became abundantly clear to me…..

I was perceived as an 800 lbs albino gorilla here.

They had never seen a foreign person in their village. And they definitely had never seen a 6’ 1” white person with blonde dreads. I towered over everyone.

In the 4 days I was there I had at least 150 people walk up to me excited and nervous to talk to me. I was surprised by how nice and friendly these people are.

To my astonishment, Ryan’s entire extended family of about 25 people all lived in 3 buildings right next to each other.

As a westerner, I was very shocked by how many family members lived in close proximity.

Just about everything was self-sufficient within their own community, which made for amazing food.

The locals of this village were so nice I was taken aback by their friendliness.

I even got to experience Eid Al Adha, a Muslim holiday where they sacrifice cows and goats.

I was fortunate enough to have people show me around the village so I could check out beautiful areas like this waterfall.

After being told by just about everyone that I needed to stay, I felt super welcomed and a little guilty that I was going to leave after 1 week.

I was still confused about why I was so important to these people. Why did they feel this way? The only thing I did was show up and have a good time.

While in this village, I spent a fair bit of time thinking about how I could help them by teaching them the ways of technology and processes we have in the western part of this world. Wouldn’t I be able to make such an impact in their life?!

Then it hit me……..

What did they teach me? What did I learn from a village of people who grew all their own food and 99% of the citizens had never traveled more than 2 hours away?

I learned that:

• Surrounding yourself with an excellent community is crucial
• If you value the simple things in life, you’ll be much more joyful
• Take action on unique opportunities, regardless if they are not directly related to your goals
• Generally speaking, most people in this world are incredibly nice and mean well, so don’t be intimidated by a completely different culture

I want to leave you with one question to answer:

What do you fear in your life that is holding you back from adventuring? From chasing your goals? From building a business? Or anything that you would love to do or have?

Acknowledging your fears is the first step to overcoming them.

And the best cure to fear is action.

Taking that leap taught me lessons about following unconventional paths. I explore this mindset in How The Four-Hour WorkWeek Changed Everything.

So think of the simplest action step you can take towards your goals, and do it right now!

What a great idea!

Except that none of us were in running shape………………………

I had an even better idea: Let’s run a marathon next month for my birthday.

Cole hated this idea, mostly because he hates running.

But I was in love with this idea 😄

I moved to Salt Lake City on August 11th, and on this first night in town my friend Cole told me that we should run a 100-mile race before we die.

So the very next day I ran half a marathon to see if I was even close to being in shape for a full marathon.

And sure enough, I ran 13.5 miles without stopping! It was a little painful, but I was still able to go to the gym the next day.

Trying to Convince Friends to Run With Me

After the test run, I was all in. I knew I could go run a marathon.

I knew the most fun way would be to get a bunch of my friends to go run with me.

That way we could all do it together. I love some good ol ‘comradery.

4 Days of Training

I really didn’t care what time I would get, I just wanted to complete a marathon in the mountains.

So for 4 weeks, I went on 1 big trail run per week, and spent all of my other time doing crossfit, biking and working.

I was desperately trying to convince people to go run with me, but no one was down! Not a single person was willing to come do this with me.

Then it hit me: Why wait for an official marathon race? I could just go do it next week.

Planning out the Marathon the Night Before

Welp, at the end of August, I did an 18-mile run, and realized there was no reason to keep waiting.

So I made the decision to go run a mountain marathon by myself on 9/2/23.

The day before, I was over at AJ’s house, and started to plan out my run.

The idea of running to 3 different ski resorts made me excited. So I planned out my run to start at Mill D, then go up to Canyons, then up Brighton, then down Alta and up Cardiff pass back to Mill D.

Water was a big concern, fortunately AJ lent me his water filter, and packed a ton of carby snacks.

No Drinking Water

About 6 miles into the run, I drank all of my 2-liter Camelbak, so I stopped at a lake to fill up on water.

But for the life of me, I couldn’t get the water filter to work.

It felt clogged, and since I was borrowing it, I did not want to squeeze it too hard and break it.

So I needed to come up with another solution to quench my thirst.

The closest ski resort was Brighton, and I thought that if the general store was open (even though it was summer, when ski resorts are closed) I could go buy water there.

Fortunately it was open!

So I took a massive detour to go grab some more water.

Then I climbed up Albion Basin, and ran down into Alta.

6.5k Feet of Vertical

As I was climbing up Cardiff pass, I checked Strava and saw that I was at 6,500 feet of vertical climb.

Dang.

Since I had changed my route last minute, I didn’t know how much vert I was going to complete.

But 6.5k sounds like a lot, so I was stoked!

Racing Day Light

I started making my way down Cardiff pass, and a new problem arose.

The sun.

It was dusk, and I did not have much daylight left, but I had about 4 miles left to go.

I was trying my absolute hardest to pick up the pace and get back to my van at a reasonable time.

But sure enough, as I rounded a corner not but 2 miles away from my van, a massive Moose was standing in the trail.

Aww shit.

I thought about barking at him to scare him off – but I decided it was best to save my breath.

The good news was that there was a creek bed just up the trail a bit.

I ran back up to the creek bed, and started running down it.

Lone and behold, the moose moved closer to the creek bed than the trail! Looks like I should have waited for him to pass in the first place.

But I kept moving forward, and passed him with no issue.

Burrito and 5 Scoops of Ice Cream

The second I made it back to my van I was ecstatic!

Holy shit!

I just ran my first marathon, and it had 6.5k feet of vert.

A screenshot of my trail run

Boy was I dirty!

Dirty feet

At the end of the day, the only logical thing to do next was to go smack down a massive chicken burrito from Lone Star, and eat 5 scoops of homemade ice cream.

And honestly, that wasn’t even close to enough calories for me to consume. My Fitbit said I had just burned 7,751 calories on this run.

You better believe I enjoyed the absolute fuck out of that post-marathon meal =D

Your Turn!

You should run a marathon.

Seriously!

Or honestly, you should do whatever the fuck you have been thinking about doing.

You know what it is, and I have no idea what it is.

But it doesn’t matter. It just matters that you go outside of your comfort zone and try something new.

So stop whatever you are doing, and take 1 action step

This is the same approach I took when starting my freelance writing career. I share that journey in Where I Started.

It might be texting a friend that you want to do this thing. It might be going outside and running your first mile.

It doesn’t matter what it is, it just matters that you go do it.

And shoot me an email once you finish this first little action step – I’ll help keep you accountable.

That was my biggest childhood dream no doubt. And when I started creating this lifestyle for myself, I had never met anyone who had done it before. This made it terrifying.

I was afraid that I would not be able to figure out how to work for myself online. That I wasn’t going to be able to build my van. I was so scared that I would waste all of my time and money just to be forced to take the normal path of society.

And the thing that scared me the most was I thought I was going to be judged for making the decisions that I did.

After more than 1,000 consecutive days of traveling and working for myself, I couldn’t be happier with my decision =)

That said, I did learn a few things along the way.

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#1 Who I am with matters far more than what I am doing

I’ve been in some pretty horrible conditions, namely winter weather.

And sometimes it sucks. I’ll just work or read instead of doing something fun like skiing. Over the years I realized that what’s far more important than the conditions outside, is who I am with.

Surrounding yourself with joyful friends who constantly make the best out of any situation is a huge step in being joyful yourself.

Not only that, but sometimes I find myself in a poor and less fortunate part of the world. But the people there are so insanely nice that it became one of my best memories.

And being in many different parts of this world has shown me time and time again, that your physical location does not mean much of anything. But the people I surround myself with mean everything.

Pretty similar to what Jim Rohn once said, you are a reflection of the people you spend the most time with.

#2 Only take advice from people you want to be like

Most Americans are quick to give advice. But they are slow to listen to a person’s desires and goals.

Our society mostly pushes people to go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house and start pumping out children.

And for some people this is great. For other people, this is a nightmare.

When I was graduating from College in 2019, most of my professors thought I was crazy for wanting to live the digital nomadic life that I am currently living. And it’s difficult for these baby boomers to understand how possible this is because they lived in an era that is so different from today.

Making it hard for some people to give me realistic advice.

Which made me realize that I should only take advice from people who I wanted to be like. Because if I listened to people who lived a lifestyle that I was not interested in, I would end up becoming like them.

#3 Creating consistency and routine amid “chaos”

When traveling full-time, I had a 30-minute morning routine to start my day. After it, every single day was completely different.

This is super fun and perfect for traveling! But every now and again not having a structured life becomes irritating and makes me feel unproductive.

To be honest, I never fully created a solution to this problem, but what helped to change my mindset the quickest was to do some sort of fitness. If I don’t have much time, 50 pushups are perfect. If I have time, a 1-hour long workout is great.

Coming to peace with the fact that every single day is completely different is a huge step forward in vagabonding.

If you are thinking about traveling full time…….

And leaving your past life behind you, I highly recommend it!! You learn so much about yourself and experience things you’ll never forget.

I frequently meet other travelers who say things like, “I’ve lived more in the last 3 months of traveling than the last 10 years”

And I couldn’t agree more. Go out into the unknown and make your dreams come true.

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Here's a recap of my favorite event. (10th one I hosted)

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@colealyon and I built a profitable Christmas light business from scratch at the end of 2024:

💡 The Numbers That Lit Up Our Season (Oct 8 - Dec 11):

• $52.5K Revenue
• $27.3K Profit
• 43 Properties Decorated
• 169 Leads (25.4% close rate!)
• 1,125 total hours

🤯 The Sprint: $49,106.47 revenue in just 30 days (Nov 11 - Dec 11)

• Working 75-95 hours/week.
• Absolutely exhausted
• Genuinely fun and 100% worth it

🎯 Most Surprising Discovery:

Our best lead source? Not SEO. Not social media. Simple yard signs! Or as we like to call them, money bushes.

💰 Behind The Scenes:

• $17.5K - Materials
• $4.8K - Marketing (lesson learned: could cut $3K next year)
• $1.8K - Transaction fees (Hopefully we pay less than 2.9% next year)
• $1.1K - Misc expenses

🔁 Next Season's Game Plan:

• Hiring team members
• Streamlining SOP for team members
• Place 3-5x more yard signs
• Work van and storage unit

We're just getting started. With systems in place and lessons learned, next season is going to be HUGE.

Man, what the hell does he mean!?

Does he really think exactly like Superman now?

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So here’s the thing.

If you can ask the same questions as your hero. You can develop their thought process and apply it to your life.

In this post, I am going to show you how I learned to write and think like my heros! And you can do it too!

Selecting A Hero

First things first.

Who do you ideal the most? Or think of it this way, who could you learn the most from?

We have all had coaches and managers who can give us useful information. But understanding the thought process of the highest performers in history? Now that is something you can greatly benefit from.

When I was suffering financially from COVID-19, I decided it was time to follow the career path I ACTUALLY wanted to take.

So I set out to become a freelance copywriter.

What I did was find the legendary copywriters and their best work. I assembled a list of the best copywriters in history like Gary Halbert, Claude Hopkins, and Joe Karbo.

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Now that I had their work, I could go ahead and study them to learn all I could. Pretty standard right?

But here is where things took a turn...

I took each advertisement and rewrote every single sentence by hand. Yes, this took HOURS!

Oh but the knowledge I gained! The realizations I had… (more on this later)

How could I have not known these things before?

Copying Their Best Work By Hand

Once you have found one of your hero’s absolute best pieces of work.

Like one of Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters.

Or Gary Halbert’s Coat of Arms.

Or Joe Karbo's "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches".

Take that piece of writing, and...

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Hand Written

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Do this to think like anyone:

1. Rewrite their work by hand (anywhere from 1 sentence to 7 pages)
2. Look for repeating patterns in their process. (like complex ideas explained in simple examples)
3. Think about why they would have put each and every word where they did.

Bonus tip: Find an audio recording of them explaining what they are thinking as they write it. This will give away large clues as to why they write as they do.

And if you can write like them, you can think and act like them. And if you can think and act like Warren Buffett or Ray Dalio…

You might just be the next richest person in the world!

Handwrite Their Work In The Most Time-effective Way

So here’s the thing.

After I rewrote Gary Halberts Coat of Arms, I realized that he writes at a 3rd-grade level, every single sentence teases the next sentence, and he LOVES the AIDA formula.

Great! Now it was time to handwrite other legendary advertisements to fully understand how they write.

So I took Joe Karbo’s “Lazy Man’s Way to Riches”, and handwrote that. This time around, I learned that people are captivated by the most interesting and impressive facts first. Also, testimonials are a key factor in persuading someone to take action.

You see, it can take hours to handwrite some of these longer articles. So I had to focus my time to make sure I was doing the most effective things.

What I realized, is that handwriting the absolute best piece of work once is the best usage time. This way you can move on and understand the next great person on your list.

From time to time, I come back to read what I wrote by hand. This helps me remember the main takeaways from their work.

Fun Fact: This is a perfect time to learn how to write with your left hand to become ambidextrous.

Great Heros Work to Rewrite

After learning MASSIVE amounts about how to write copy, I quickly realized that I could learn tons from high achievers in other areas of life. So I wrote this down:

Great people to learn from:

• High performers in your career field
• Philanthropists
• Investors
• Entrepreneurs

These people came to my mind:

• Warren Buffett
• Jay Abraham
• Ray Dalio

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And set out to find more people to learn all I could from.

It is really up to you to determine who you can benefit the most from.

Studying mentors and filtering advice became a core principle in my life. I explore this idea further in How Reading The Four-Hour WorkWeek Changed Everything.

As tedious and ridiculous as this sounds…

I highly recommend you handwrite some people’s work to truly propel you towards greatness!

Who will you study first? Let me know in the comments below!

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Forever? Yep! This is actually a post on how I beat mortality............

Na Jk, but this post will help all you oxygen-consuming mortals (like myself) to healthily ski for a looonngg time.

From smashing my teeth through my bottom lip, to knocking myself out and waking up in a different state, to 7 screws and a plate on my collarbone, to surgery on my foot. I’ve learned a thing or two about staying healthy and skiing hard.

As bad as these injuries sound, they have propelled me to take my health more seriously and to focus my habits around how to live until I am 120.

How to ski forever

The first part about learning how to ski forever is to understand the 8 main parts.

Skiing healthily can be broken down into the following categories:

Body Gear
Workout Routine
Stretching
Eating
Drinking And Skiing
Don’t Party That Hard
Pick Which Days To Send
How To Fall

Well, you’re here to learn how to ski forever, so I know you don’t have much time. I won’t keep you waiting!

1. Body Gear

Our bodies can only take so much, and giving your body the most protection is a crucial first step.

The good news is that helmets are now considered cool by the culture of most sports. This is awesome. It wasn’t too long ago that athletes of all sports never bothered to wear a helmet.

Hell, even today some sports like skateboarding have cultures that inspire people not to wear a helmet.

What it all boils down to: I would be dead if I didn’t been wearing my helmet every day I go skiing.

I knocked myself out and woke up in a different state. I woke up inside of Renown hospital in Reno NV, and this was the 3rd medical facility I had been brought to that day.

If we are being honest, I don’t remember anything other than waking up in Renown, this story is pieced together from what my friends have told me.

Earlier in the day on 4/17/2017 I was skiing at Northstar, although I have no recollection.

Like any bluebird spring day in April, I was feeling good……..

A little too good.

While hitting a cannon rail I tried a front 630 out. (for all you non-skier uncultured swine, that is a lot of spinning)

I under-rotated and did a perfect 540. I caught my edges and was whipped straight to my head, cracking my helmet and blacking out instantly.

Thank god my group of friends were right there to stop me from sliding down the mountain and to call ski patrol.

Knocked myself out, watch more here

After making it to the bottom of the mountain in the ski patrol wagon (above pic), they realized I couldn’t remember anything and needed to be brought to the Incline Village hospital. Here my condition worsened.

But it wasn’t until I passed out unconscious and starting vomiting in the Incline Village hospital that I was brought to the nearest trauma center, Renown in Reno NV.

I was insanely fortunate and recovered completely after spending a few hours in Renown, and have been fine ever since.

Fun fact: the only other time I have ever been to Renown, was when I was 4 years old and was life-flighted there because I had a traumatic brain injury. (This head injury was worse than the skiing one because I didn’t have a helmet on.)

The only reason I am alive today is that I was wearing a helmet!

Staying healthy on the road is essential for any adventurous lifestyle. I share more about living that life in Van Life Reality.

As I was saying, a helmet is a great start but there is a lot more that can be done to protect our bodies.

What most people don’t know, is that concussions can be caused by impacting the bottom of your jaw.

A mouthguard is your best bet to prevent this. Not only that, but coming from the guy who has broken 5 different teeth, and some of those teeth up to 4 times……..

Mouthguards are one of the most underrated pieces of safety equipment.

I’ll spare you another long story, but I hit my face on a rail and broke my 2 front teeth through my bottom lip. 25 stitches and 2 fake teeth later…

I now wear a mouthguard every time I go skiing. It has saved me numerous concussions and broken teeth.

Back protector

Save yourself from life long back pain. You’re gonna fall if you enjoy skiing hard.

A back protector is a must if you plan to hit jumps. The safest way to fall is to take the impact as controlled as possible to your hip, shoulder, or back (more on this later).

Although back protectors are known to be a little bulky. To compensate for this I always wear my back protector so I feel the same every day, regardless if I am skiing small early-season jibs or massive jumps in the springtime.

Butt pads

I love my butt. So much in fact, that I wear butt pads, they save me from all of the small but consistent crashes that happen while skiing. Especially hitting rails. All too frequently I find my friends and I taking mini crashes and falling on our hips or tail bones.

Butt pads will prevent all of the irritating bruises you receive from every miniature fall you make when skiing.

Ok but what else can I do to protect myself?

One thing I get asked about frequently is about wearing a full-face helmet.

Yes, full-face helmets are safe and reduce injury, but they can actually decrease your skiing ability from lack of movement and eyesight.

And if your head cannot move as far, nor as fast in all directions…..

Then you are more likely to hit something you could have avoided. Making full-face helmets more dangerous than regular helmets.

Who?

If yo mama’s advice about wearing a helmet isn’t enough, take it from me! Helmets are cool, they do save lives, and they are a necessary piece of equipment.

If not for yourself, wear a helmet for your family so you can come home alive for the next holidays.

2. Workout Routine

Think about it this way, if we break skiing down into its simplest form, it is really just a few fundamental physical movements.

So get this, while skiing how often do you do a movement that is comparable to a 1 rep max back squat? Hopefully never! But maybe once a season. Now, while skiing how often do you do movements that are comparable to lunges and squats at light to medium weight? ALL the time! You could easily do 50 in a single run.

Movements of skiing:

• Squat
• Lunge
• Jump
• Clean

And of course, all of these movements should be done in all directions (eg. forward, backward, lateral, straight up and down)

To become better at skiing, work the physical fundamentals over and over again.

For each exercise, it is very important to break it up even further. For squats, do them as air squats, jumping squats, front squats, back squats, squat cleans, one-legged squats. Do a variety of high reps low weight, low reps high weight, and everything in between.

What it all boils down to: do exercise movements that are most comparable to what you actually do while skiing.

Nick from Ski PT wrote a great article about the nitty-gritty of training for skiing.

A 1 rep max back squat might look cool, but will likely just abuse your ligaments and make them more likely to tear. Not Good!

Speaking of tight muscles.

3. Stretching

You have to stretch. This is what holds back most people.

Yes it is irritating to stretch each and every day. Yes it is painful. Yes it is time-consuming. YES it is beneficial!

Honestly a nice warmup stretch for 5-10 mins before you ski, and a deep stretch focused on your skiing muscles for 10 mins will get you super far!!

My two favorite torture devices stretching tools are a spiked roller and a rubber workout band.

I’ll spare you the pictures of me stretching in every which way possible. But here are the two best stretching guides I know of:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2405840/best-stretches-after-skiing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9SbSrizSps&ab_channel=PutneyChiropractic

Making a habit out of yoga is also a great way to stay flexible.

4. Eating

You are what you eat.

And unfortunately for us all, most of the time the good tasting food is terrible for our bodies.

But the food your mother always forced you to eat as a kid? Yep, that’s the good stuff that will allow you to continue to ski hard for the rest of your life.

You’ll want to find what sort of food works the best for your body.

That said: It’s probably not the most trending diet right now.

In fact, the most important part of what you eat is that it is something that you can eat consistently.

Kale smoothies with 18 servings of supplements? If you’re a human, you’ll hate that so much that it influences you to go to McDonald’s just to dip some french fries in your ice cream.

But eating non processed foods with a cheat meal once or twice a week? Now that’s more like it.

Not only is your diet going to be healthy 90% of the time, but you will be able to consistently stick to it. Making a large impact in the long run.

If you are serious about your diet, NerdFitness has a great food guide.

Building sustainable habits is key to longevity in any pursuit. I discuss this mindset in How Reading The Four-Hour WorkWeek Changed Everything.

5. Drinking And Skiing

We all know the shredders who love crackin open a beer and smokin a bowl every few lift rides. Before you know it, they are a 6-pack deep and become confident, relaxed, and start sending it.

At first, it looks beneficial! Being more confident and relaxed? Who wouldn’t want that?!

Well, the truth of the matter is that there is not a fine line between a little buzz and putting yourself and others at serious risk.

Obviously, recreational substances of any kind don’t help you live to be 120 years old, but I won’t dive into that here.

What I will dive into is how much longer and better you will ski if you stay sober while skiing.

In the short run, each and every day you drink you will have to stop skiing earlier because you will fatigue sooner and become exhausted.

In the long run, you won’t be able to ski like yourself without alcohol. Or you might become an alcoholic. 🥴😬

6. Don’t Party That Hard

Alright, now that you plan to ski without drinking (I hope), the next part is partying after skiing.

All ski towns have their fair share of parties.

Everyone and their grandma loves a nice cold beer after a long day of hard skiing.

Being an extrovert myself, I love partying! -- as in socializing, making new friends, and playing games. But I realized that I am so much better of a skier when I don’t drink a ton the night before (go figure!).

So the move is to be one of the more sober people at the party, so you can ski hard the next day, or better yet be highly productive at work.

But there’s a line between hanging out with the boys (or girls) and partying a harmful amount.

When you start to slow down at work or on the mtn, you are long past the point of how often you should party.

Anyway, this one is a tricky one because we all have different perspectives and desires in life. But I recommend limiting your drinking before skiing the next day.

7. Pick Which Days To Send, And Which To Chill

Not every day is going to be the most successful and outrageous time on the mountain. In fact, somedays could be pretty awful.

And if you find yourself skiing in terrible conditions outside, make sure to take it easy!

Whether it is flat light, raining, or just not enough snow, there is no reason to learn how to do a gnarly new trick.

So instead of sending that double backflip off the knuckle because the jump is closed, why not try something a little more chill, like a nosebutta 3?

Pushing limits while staying smart is something I think about a lot. I wrote about running a marathon in the mountains with minimal training in Trail Running a Marathon With 4 Days of Training.

8. How To Fall

Face it, if you want to push yourself to become the best you can at anything, you are going to fall. Now, these falls can be either fatal or minor.

But here’s the catch, the first part about how to fall is to focus on not falling altogether. Think about minimizing your risk while still pushing yourself.

So the next time you feel like jumping off a 40ft cliff onto a sheet of ice, DON’T.

But waiting for a deep powder day and jumping off that same cliff? Now that has significantly less risk.

Now the truth of the matter is that all of the preparation and actions taken to minimize risks are still not enough to never get hurt.

What will further help you not to get hurt is the process of how smoothly you can fall. Being able to absorb an impact and roll out of it will save you time and time again.

In a nutshell, it is best to keep your limps in, and land on your side, back, hip, or front in a way that allows you to roll in a controlled manner.

If you’re looking for an in-depth tutorial on falling, New To Ski has the best crashing guide around. (complete with hilarious crashing videos!)

That’s a wrap!

If you love the exhilarating and liberating feeling of skiing as much as I do, you’ve probably considered some of the things I mentioned above.

Pursuing your passion takes dedication. I share how I built a career around that freedom in Where I Started.

Anyway, I sure hope you can ski until you’re 120! It’s no easy task, but definitely a great goal to strive for. Soon enough I'll be looking like this!

Not your everyday snake oil salesman can go down in history as one of the most accomplished con men. Snake oil is petty compared to what George C Parker could sell you.

Nowadays we hear about the phrase, “If you’d believe that, you should buy this bridge!” It all started with a little boy being born into a middle-class New York family that immigrated to the US from Ireland in pursuit of the American dream. but George had a different dream than most other Americans…

How He Sold The Brooklyn Bridge

After arresting the 3rd crazy person who was convinced they owned the Brooklyn bridge, the police started to believe these insane immigrants attempting to set up a toll booth to cross a government bridge.

Because of this, George C Parker has gone down in history as one of the most notorious scam artists.

How did he do it?

Dressing up in fancy attire, studying the police schedule, and learning which new immigrants had money he could swindle from them were all part of his cruel ploy.

The immigrants who would come to Ellis Island by boat and could see the Brooklyn Bridge as one of their first impressions of the US. Being a large and impressive sight, many of them would walk out to the Brooklyn Bridge to see it closer in person.

George would approach obvious immigrants in a friendly manner.

The art of persuasion is timeless. I share how I studied master persuaders to improve my own skills in How I Learned To Think Exactly Like My Hero.

At first, he would start by telling them how he is looking for someone to work in the toll booth he was soon to erect at the beginning of the bridge. Seeing that the person was an immigrant, he would tell them how hard working they must be if they left their home country to come to America.

Since they were clearly hard-working people, he would offer them a job as the new toll booth attendant. This would transition into George telling the immigrant about how lucrative owning the bridge was about to be for himself.

After building up desire in the mind of the unsuspecting immigrant, he would then transition into giving the immigrant a unique and lucrative opportunity of becoming a business partner and owning some of the bridge.

Along the way, he would take them to his nice (and fake) office just around the corner. Here, George would present his wonderful looking forged documents to the buyer.

Since these events were in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they were not documented great. But there have been reports of him selling it for as much as $50K. (About $1.3M in today’s money)

So here’s the thing, not only did he sell it to people as a partial ownership, but also as far as a complete owner. He would frame the question around each individual person’s perceived net worth.

He was quite the smooth talker so he would negotiate to take whatever they had. If they couldn’t afford the full price of the bridge, he would sell just part of the bridge to his victim and take whatever cash they had available.

This sort of brilliant action caught some attention...

Other ‘Genius’s’ Followed Suit

Some other genius con men decided to replicate his idea. William McCoundy (often referred to as I.O.U. O’Brien) sold the bridge a handful of times also.

But here’s the thing. William was convicted of grand larceny in 1901 and served two and a half years in Sing Sing prison. Not a glamorous life for the “owner of the countries largest bridge”.

It took a while for the police to catch on...

The first handful of victims proceeded to set up a toll booth on the bridge while the traffic was in full force. The police were quickly notified of these events and came to stop each and every lunatic that started charging people to use government land.

Each and every “owner” of the bridge was dragged off, considered a lunatic, and sentenced to prison.

But get this, the police did not realize these crazy people were actual victims of George’s cruel ploy. The poor immigrants were set up in his trap and did not know any better.

It wasn’t until after the 3rd person told the police the exact same story. Each time they would bring the police to an office space that was empty, and show them the forged documents. This is when the police finally caught on.

What Really Took The Bridge Off Of The Market?

The selling of the Brooklyn bridge quickly ended when the police put up numerous signs around the bridge saying it is “Government Land” and was “Not For Sale”.

What was George going to do if he couldn’t sell his beloved bridge anymore?!

There was only one thing to do next...

Sell the Madison Square Garden! And the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and even Grant’s tomb.

This guy was here to push the limits of what people could believe!!

He successfully sold these other national landmarks with the same tactic as the bridge.

With the help of his fake office, George was able to poss as the general’s grandson to convince his victims that he owned it.

Selling National Landmarks Wasn’t Enough

In 1928, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote about how George pleaded guilty for grand larceny of the second degree in 1908 and was sentenced to Raymond Street Jail.

On New Year’s Eve, Sheriff Flaherty was appointed the new Sheriff Raymond Street Jail.

On his first day, Sheriff Flaherty set down his hat and coat to greet the workers and prisoners.

George literally put on the hat and overcoat, and walked out the front door without anyone raising an eyebrow…

So get this, on his way out, he was even salaamed by a guard who wished him to have “a Happy New Year”.

Sure enough, he was a free man again and ready to sell yet another national landmark.

But This Story Has To Come To A Tragic Ending

After his 3rd conviction, he was sentenced to life in prison in 1928 and died in the Sing Sing prison in 1936.

At least the inmates loved to listen to his stories of how he could convince people to buy all of the different national landmarks. The legends say he was quite the popular man in prison.

Thanks to George C. Parker, we can now repeat the phrase “I have a bridge to sell you” to our gullible friends.

Understanding how unconventional thinkers operate has shaped my own approach to life. I dive deeper into this in How Reading The Four-Hour WorkWeek Changed Everything.

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Here is my 1st event! It was free and I had 22 great guests attend.

I have hosted a few events before, but I am considering this as my 1st.

I moved to Salt Lake City 1.5 months ago, and I primarily got people interested in this event from this post on meetup.com.

Also, I invited a handful of my friends who live in the area.

I work in a co-working space called Maven, and they were kind enough to give me a free venue space for this event. I moved all of the furniture to the sides to require everyone to stand. This was a great decision. Standing people are way easier to go up to and start a conversation than sitting people.

During the event, I ran multiple rounds of icebreakers. For the 1st round, I asked these 3 questions:

• What is your name?
• What keeps you busy?
• What is one of your favorite breakfast foods?

Simple, but allows people to casually share a few things about themselves making it easier to meet new people.

1st round of icebreakers

Later in the night, I did more icebreakers by breaking up the crowd into groups of 4-5, and had each group pass around a piece of paper with these questions for them to answer.

1. What is your name?
2. What keeps you busy?
3. If you could be guaranteed one thing in life besides money, what would it be?
4. What’s something you want to do in the next few years that you’ve never done?

The event was 1.5 hours long, but a few of us stayed later to keep chatting.

The biggest concern that I had was having a ton of random people from the internet (meetup.com) come to my event. I was afraid some of them were going to be uncivilized and dramatically bring down the quality of the event.

I couldn’t have been more wrong, every single person who heard about this on the internet (all of whom I had never met before) was a great guest that I would invite back to any of my future events.

I heard from other event hosts that your RSVP count will always be a lot higher than the actual number of people who show up. For this event about 50% of the people who RSVP’d did not show up.

I’ll be hosting my next event in 2-4 weeks from now, YOU SHOULD COME! Send me an email and I’ll invite you to my next event.

So I took a job working for an IT consulting company and I was able to work online. What a blast! This was the first time I was able to work completely remote and be in charge of my own schedule.

While working for this company I built my van, and then I lived in my van full time and traveled the Western states of the US. After a few months of this, I became bored with my job and knew that I had to move on soon. I had been reading some blog posts on freelance writing and it sounded interesting, but I did not know where to begin.

Nor did I have any previous professional writing experience when I decided to start freelance writing. Sure I had written plenty of papers in college, but that is completely different than writing blog posts or landing pages.

Why I Decided To Start Freelance Writing

I became bored with IT consulting after about 6 months and knew I was going to have to do something else for work soon enough. Location Rebel and some other blogs portrayed freelance writing as an amazing lifestyle and experience. It absolutely is! After you get your business off of the ground.

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My goal is to become a serial entrepreneur with the availability to start whatever venture I find most interesting at the time. Not only will this be enjoyable and fulfilling, but it will also lead me towards financial freedom, location independence, and time independence.

So here’s the thing, instead of diving headfirst with zero relevant experience into an affiliate-based blog business, I figured building skillsets and relationships on a smaller venture would be beneficial. This way I could have a skill that I provide to other businesses that pays me well. A bridge business to cross the gap between where I was, and starting an affiliate-based blog.

This is why freelance writing seemed like a great turn in my career to take. My path to accomplish my goals looks like this:

The problem that I saw with starting a product or service-based business at this time is that I did not have the skill sets and relationships to do so. After freelance copywriting, my goal is to build an affiliate blog, then an event business and/or a product-based business. I knew that if I dove into creating one of these larger scale businesses before I could consistently acquire and satisfy clients with a writing service, the road to success would be long and bumpy!

So the first step was for me to start freelance copywriting to get experience running my own solopreneur business. Not to mention, my emergency savings were soon to run out. I needed more money to be able to live. Freelance writing would not only generate me money to live on but set a nice foundation of skillsets and relationships needed to become an entrepreneur.

Now naturally with my current set of goals, freelance copywriting will lead me towards running an affiliate based blog. From here, I will move into a larger and more scalable business model, preferably around a series of events or selling physical products.

On the other side of things, I wanted to live a remote working lifestyle to be able to travel and control my own schedule. I am more of a morning person and prefer to start working around 6:30 am, instead of 9. Plus I have a very serious skiing problem hobby that pushes me to travel around the US.

How I Lost My IT Consulting Job

Even though I was bored and over my previous job, I still was afraid of moving on to the next step in my journey. I knew IT consulting wasn’t for me, but I still was scared to make the jump of going headfirst into freelance writing.

After setting up a website and writing a few example articles, I knew I was going to have to quit my current job to be able to go full time with freelance writing. I am an all or nothing kind of guy.

Basically, I was freelance writing part-time and was not getting very far.

Then out of nowhere, the least expecting blessing in disguise came to my rescue.…..

COVID!

Leaving my friend’s place in Seattle after a fun weekend, I heard the news of the government mandating closures to all in-person non-essential businesses.

If we are being honest, 2 hours went by on the morning of 3/16/2020 before I fully understood what this actually meant. No gyms, no ski resorts, no restaurants, no nothing. Instead of my plans to go skiing that day, I finished up my current IT project and sent it in. Then I asked my boss about the next project.

To my disbelieve, he told me there wasn’t going to be any work for a while due to the pandemic, and that I should probably look for something else in the meantime.

At first this was terrible news to me. After some thought about what my next steps should be, I realized that I could:

• A, Get another job I didn’t want
• B, Create a freelance writing business

The answer became obvious, I needed to go full time with freelance writing!

What Has Worked So Far For Me

When I started out, I knew nothing.

Reading blog post after blog post on how to get started gave me some wonderful direction. I realized that I should write a few example articles around topics that I was passionate about.

Writing posts around hiking and camping were the first steps I made. But I was lost on how to actually acquire new clients, and get paid for my work.

I started applying to gigs off of ProBlogger and got nowhere. I knew I needed feedback and to surround myself with people who are on a similar journey. When listening to the ‘My First Million’ Podcast, Sam Parr recommended Nevilles Kopywriting Kourse, so I joined.

Inside the course, I was given direction and feedback on what I should do. And soon enough I got my first freelance writing gig!

Even though it was only $10, it got the ball rolling. Soon after I had a $30 blog post-gig. Shortly after that, I had a few consistent weekly gigs coming in at $80-$120 each for a gardening site.

These gigs were all from ProBlogger. After these successful gigs, I learned that it was time for me to start cold emailing local marketing agencies about overflow work.

Cold emailing local agencies have been the most successful tactic to date for me! After I exhausted the local agencies, I started to reach out to agencies in all of the places that I love to ski. There are plenty of agencies throughout Oregon, Washington, and Utah.

In the near future, I plan to narrow down what type of content and industries I write about. Then to go straight for the businesses themselves. Niching down is the common phrase for this action. But doing this too soon can close opportunities for me (and anyone).

For now, I have been working with different agencies, writing about Tahoe beaches, custom home buildings, and a few other topics.

I recently sent out my biggest invoice to date. $650 for rewriting the copy of a custom home builders website based out of Bend Oregon. Making my total revenue in my business over $1,000 =). A small but worthwhile milestone!

This milestone was a direct result of following unconventional advice. I share the book that changed my perspective in How Reading The Four-Hour WorkWeek Changed Everything.

This did take me about 4 months to accomplish and I completely exhausted my emergency savings. I was selling things on craigslist and doing way too much yard work in the meantime to get by.

My Strategic Approach Vs My Make Some Money Approach

One of the biggest changes I experience in my business was during the 2nd month of Nevilles Kopywriting Kourse. In the 1st month, I started out with a strategy we called ‘TTGMISP’ (time to get money in Shaggy’s pocket). This basically meant “how do I make money as quickly as possible to avoid going broke”. It worked in the short run and forced me to do the things I didn’t want to do. Like outbound sales, making images, cold emails, and some other necessary things that I had never done before.

I shifted to a more strategic approach, one where I divided my time between “Work For Clients”, “Outreach To New Clients” and “Writing For Myself”. This allowed me to spend my time a lot more methodically.

I also organized everything that I should be doing in a command center. These two actions gave me a clear direction on what I should be doing, and how much time I should spend doing what.

Once I started reviewing where my time went, and what was driving revenue, it all changed for me.

Advice For Other Beginner Freelance Writers

1. Pursue clients that will give you consistent work.

This is the biggest piece of advice I can give. Spending a lot of time acquiring clients, and less time actually completing work will dramatically affect your bottom line. (It sure did for me!)

Even if they are lower-paying at first, having a consistent flow of work coming into your schedule will generate you more revenue. Also, it will ease the pressure of getting your business off the ground. Not to mention you will gain more and more experience with the process of receiving work and completing it while communicating and negotiating with clients.

1. Get feedback from people who have done it before.

Surround your self with people who have done it before, or are doing it currently. I cannot emphasize this enough! Immersing oneself in an environment where the norm is what your goals are is crucial (James Clear anyone!?). You’ll have people to support you, you’ll get answers to questions you didn’t even know to ask, and you can get feedback.

1. Never stop writing and reading!

This is where your skills become refined and how you can create new ideas. Listening to podcasts is another great use of your time.

Advice For Any High Achiever Out There

• Map out your goals in detail to understand them fully. Once you know WHY you are doing something, you will have far more direction in life. Also, you will have more motivation to continue forward when things become hard.

And That’s It!

Glad you read this far! Are you considering freelance writing or currently freelance writing?

Either way, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below!

P.S. You’re goals are never too big, only your work ethic and imagination are too small.

P.P.S. If it were easy, it would be boring. ;)

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