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studies show that an adults brain crystallizes around the age of 25 unless they adopt personal development work as a part of their life (most people don’t, it’s not hard to see that). This partially explains why many 16-25-year-olds are making baffling amounts of money on the internet because they don’t have beliefs that limit them from doing the work.
the 3 forms of leverage.
The first is labor.
The second is capital.
The third is products with no marginal cost of replication.
if you only have 1 hour a day, that becomes even more important. You need to know exactly what to work on, who to work with, and how both fit into the puzzle piece of a digital world overflowing with opportunity.
Success is about entropy management.
Wake up an hour earlier.
Focus on 1-3 lever-moving tasks toward a goal that you set for yourself.
You make money by starting a business.
You make money by distributing a product with a price tag on it so people can pay you for it.
once you have a minimum of $20,000 to $50,000 a month should you think about investing capital as leverage to make more money from it. This is not a hard rule, but it’s wise to treat it as one so you maintain some sense of order in your mind in this journey. Don’t get distracted.
Cash. Flow. First.
The mind craves order.
Order comes from the alignment of identity, beliefs, goals, routines, habits, and feedback that you are progressing toward your goals.
This is human nature.
The problem is when we do not create who we are.
Focus on 1-3 lever-moving tasks toward a goal that you set for yourself.
During my work blocks, I don’t procrastinate. I get straight into my writing
During my creativity blocks, I generate ideas for my current and future work blocks. Every single thing I do in my day is focused toward the goal of my work
You have two priorities:
Audience – building an audience of people to remove your dependency on your employer, government, and any other centralized entity that controls most aspects of your life.
Product – building a product so people can give you money in exchange for something that benefits their lives. This is the only way to take control of your income and stop relying on anyone else to make you money
you need to attract people toward the vision of the future you are leading people towards. Your content and product help them achieve goals in their life in alignment with that vision.
You must educate them on the skill set and mindset necessary to achieve it.
Choose 2-3 broad interests you would want to create media (content on social media) around and monetize via a digital product.
Break those down into sub-topics so you are able to research them more effectively for idea generation.
Break those down further into post, newsletter, podcast, and other media ideas.
Then, start writing to attract an audience.
If you only have one hour a day, you must learn and build in unison. Educate yourself for a bit, but don’t hesitate to start writing and building your brand.
You don’t need experience to sell a product.
A product is what helps you gain experience.
And no, you don’t need to create exaggerated promises that turn you into an unethical scammer.
Creating a digital product is no different from creating a physical product or providing a freelance service.
Let’s say you want to sell a planner.
Do you need experience selling planners in order to sell a planner? No, that’s impossible.
Instead, you:
Buy a few planners and start using them to see which methods get the best results for you.
Start taking the best parts of each to create a new method for better results.
Test and iterate for a bit on yourself until you’ve solved a problem in your life.
Manufacture, sell, and distribute to the audience you’ve built with content.
Get results for your customers and continue iterating on the product until it pulls in the revenue you want it to.
This doesn’t change with a digital product. You can sell a printable planner, a Notion template for a planner, or just an ebook or course that walks people through how to use your system.
You aren’t as skilled or successful as you think you are because you haven’t started selling a product. You’re afraid to sell a product because you have imposter syndrome. You don’t realize that selling a product is how you overcome that imposter syndrome and get results for other people.
My advice:
Build the product you want to see in the world.
Solve a problem in your life and sell the solution.
Take inventory of products that have changed your life, shaped who you are, and influenced your behavior. (I’m guessing these will fall in line with what you are already writing about to build an audience).
Make those problems better by creating your own system and selling it under the most unique brand you can find: yourself.
Start with information products to build cash flow.