00:00a year ago today I jumped for making
00:02four to six figures a month quite
00:04luckily and you'd expect the rest of my
00:05life to be solved right Iced Out chains
00:07Lambos and maybe even a couple old money
00:09fits but it was far from it because I
00:12actually fell into a darker place than
00:14I'd ever been before but once I figured
00:16out that it was because of these five
00:18reasons I was actually able to do
00:20something about it first one being the
00:22pressure of not wanting to lose at all
00:24after the first month on Snapchat we had
00:26generated over 600k and profited well
00:28over 200 but it came with many downsides
00:31imagine you're playing a game of
00:32fortnite you have 15 kills you're about
00:35to win the game you feel like an
00:36absolute G and then the pressure hits
00:38you you're like I can't lose all of this
00:40I've worked so hard to get here and
00:42that's exactly what it felt like for me
00:44mind you before January I had never made
00:46any serious money before so this was my
00:48first piece of the pie and I felt like
00:51if I were to lose this I'd go back to
00:52nothing and how can I go back to nothing
00:54after making that much money for the
00:56first time ever and that wasn't even all
00:58I was now 15 at the time making that
01:00type of money every single month and
01:02everyone around me was just a normal kid
01:04like I had been a month prior it didn't
01:07feel real because at the beginning I
01:08didn't tell anybody what I was doing so
01:10I had to hide what I was doing from
01:11everyone around me and whenever we'd go
01:13out or have parties or go to my house I
01:15just be stressing and thinking about
01:17what's going on with work whilst
01:18everyone would be having fun it was
01:20insane I was barely wanting to go out
01:22for 2 3 hours a week anymore because all
01:24I could think about is what I could
01:25possibly Miss if I wasn't at home
01:27working and picture yourself spawning in
01:29as a teenager in front of all these
01:31adults around you who are so much more
01:33experienced I felt like I didn't know
01:34nothing and I was being judged by these
01:36people at all times because I was a
01:37youngest in the room in every situation
01:39for a while and even to this day I'm one
01:41of the youngest people in the space and
01:43there's a lot of pressure to try to live
01:44up to these people who are 18 19 even 20
01:47years old but because I have three four
01:49years less experience to them it's so
01:51hard and imagine you going to school
01:53every single day for 6 hours coming home
01:55and having a routine going to the gym
01:57and then that all gets snapped away from
01:58you because you now have to Fus Focus
02:00for hours a day on the business there
02:01were times where partner and I would
02:03stay up until 6:00 7: a.m. just to work
02:05and finish videos to post the next day
02:07and I would just miss school entirely
02:09eventually it led to me having to kind
02:11of drop out of high school in a sense
02:13because I didn't have time for it and it
02:14made more sense to do what I was doing
02:16now and moving on to the second reason I
02:18want you to picture yourself being super
02:21successful in business at one point in
02:22time do you think you'd be hanging out
02:24with the same people before as you were
02:26after if they didn't mature with you or
02:28would want to improve them as well well
02:30this kind of happened to me with a lot
02:32of people after I hit my big break with
02:34business a lot of the people that I was
02:35friends with before didn't really
02:37understand it the amount of hours I was
02:39putting in the fact that I wasn't able
02:40to go out as much and this in turn kind
02:42of separated a lot of us this basically
02:44made me only talk to people who were in
02:46the business space as we had the same
02:48exact beliefs and the same interests as
02:50well now you think that's fine and all
02:51why would you not want to be friends
02:53with people that are super smart but in
02:54reality it gets kind of annoying cuz you
02:56also want to have those fun times relax
02:58and not think too much about the stress
02:59that come with business but that after a
03:01while was just not possible so I had to
03:03decide am I going to surround myself
03:05with people who can't have good
03:06conversations with me who don't want to
03:07do anything with their lives or do I
03:09stick to people who have the same
03:10beliefs interests and also want to go
03:12far and I guess you could come up with
03:14that answer yourself so after a while of
03:16sticking to that and only really talking
03:17to people in the business space or
03:19people who are generally more
03:20close-minded to me it gets kind of
03:22boring I'm not going to lie but I guess
03:24that's the price you pay if you even
03:26want to call it that for being
03:27successful in business a lot of people
03:29you work friends with before also just
03:31won't want to be friends with you
03:32anymore because you don't match their
03:33Vibe and you don't relate to them and
03:35also due to the fact that I just
03:36couldn't go out because I was so stuck
03:38on work and getting things done in that
03:39aspect I missed out on so much which
03:42meant that the inside jokes or the
03:43things that came up that were new I had
03:45no idea about I was in my room with the
03:47blinds closed working every day not
03:49having any of these fun experiences for
03:51months but all that doesn't even come
03:53close to the third reason which is being
03:55the smallest fish in the biggest pond
03:57picture a massive Lake and you're tiny
04:00fish swimming in it amongst massive
04:01other ones that's what it feels like to
04:03make more and more money because as you
04:05hit those 5 10 50 $100,000 Milestones
04:09you start to get surrounded by people
04:10who are doing three 4 even 500k a month
04:13and that sounds outrageous to say but
04:15it's true so you're always comparing
04:17yourself to people above you and so you
04:19never actually appreciate what you have
04:21and I know for myself as well as all of
04:23you you're thinking right now and
04:24wishing for when I hit that $10,000 a
04:26month Milestone I'm going to be so happy
04:28no stress no problem problems I promise
04:30you once you hit 10K a month all you're
04:32going to want to do is hit 20 30 and
04:34then eventually 50 and once you hit that
04:36you're going to see the guy doing a 100
04:37and you're going to think to yourself
04:39why am I not there yet what am I doing
04:40wrong it's just a constant cycle of
04:42wanting to one up yourself which is
04:44absolutely amazing for business but can
04:46really mess with your brain you got to
04:48have the mindset going in that you're
04:50just going to work as hard as you
04:51physically can and that you're going to
04:52hit each Milestone as it comes a big
04:54positive however to being the smaller
04:56one amongst a bigger group of people is
04:58that they can give you a lot of advice
04:59and life experience that you just don't
05:01have and the only way to obtain these
05:03things is by hitting those bigger
05:04Pinnacles in business that they've been
05:06through but at the beginning looking at
05:07them I thought yo these guys are going
05:09to gatekeep everything they have they're
05:10not going to help me at all what am I
05:11going to do alone here but it was
05:13actually entirely the opposite a lot of
05:15these people who are making so much more
05:17money than me were helping me out
05:19incredible amounts in terms of how to
05:21optimize my business how to invest my
05:22money and how to even make more money
05:24and all of you should reach out to
05:26someone making a tiny bit more money
05:27than you at whatever scale you're on
05:29because I can guarantee you that they
05:30will help you and it will give you an
05:32insane amount of value even if they're
05:34only making 5 to 10K more than you a
05:36month the amount of experience they can
05:37give you to get to that level is insane
05:39and you can use that knowledge and
05:40experience to get even further than them
05:42it's just a rotating cycle so after a
05:44while of feeling smaller than ever I
05:45kind of got used to it and shifted my
05:47mindset from being mad at myself to
05:49trying to get better than all the people
05:50above me and that's how you should do it
05:52too and the second to last reason here
05:53will hit all of you really deep because
05:55one thing that I can assure you is as
05:57you make more and more money even if
05:58it's from one to to $3,000 your maturity
06:01level changes a lot imagine having more
06:03weight on your shoulders every single
06:05month AKA making more money you're
06:07inclined to be a lot more mature because
06:09you know you have a lot more to lose and
06:11that's what happened after my first
06:12month that leads to you not being able
06:14to relate to everyone around you who
06:16isn't taking a similar path and this has
06:18nothing to do with ego it's not like you
06:20can't talk to people because you're
06:22smarter than them or make more money
06:23than them it's simply that they get
06:25interested in completely different
06:26things if someone's talking to you about
06:28a girl and you're over here you're
06:29thinking how am I going to increase my
06:31monthly income by $110,000 next month
06:33I'm sure there isn't going to be too
06:34much of a connect between you and that
06:36person and that's what tends to happen
06:37when you start this business Journey you
06:39would have probably thought you'd have
06:40more friends and all that good stuff
06:42once you make more money but it actually
06:44decreases because you can't trust
06:45everyone so you don't want to keep that
06:47many people in your circle so now you
06:49don't have as many people to talk to and
06:50then third you're scared that people
06:52might want to use you for your money
06:53which is a pretty common story I've
06:55heard from a lot of the friends I know
06:56in the business space these three things
06:58put together kind of of make you Shield
07:00off from everybody else and kind of stay
07:02in your own lane alone and apart from
07:04the people you work with on a day-to-day
07:06basis like your business partners
07:07employees or advisers there's no point
07:09to talk to anyone else unless you've
07:11made it and in my opinion making it
07:13isn't really a number goal you're not
07:15going to hit a million dollars and think
07:17that you've made it it compromises of
07:18five things doing what you want when you
07:20want how you want it wherever you want
07:22with whoever you want that probably
07:24sounded confusing but if you think about
07:26it that is what true freedom is so
07:28unless you can get to that point you
07:29don't really want any distractions in
07:31your way and the last and biggest reason
07:33for all of this was the fact that I now
07:35had so much more responsibility I was
07:37now in charge of multiple employees and
07:40some of them were actually living alone
07:41paying rent so if I as a 15 to 16year
07:44Old little kid messed up in some aspect
07:46they were technically out of a job
07:47entirely and that put some insane
07:49pressure on myself because I wasn't in a
07:51playground anymore having fun I was now
07:53in charge of people's livelihoods and
07:55that made me work with so much more
07:56caution and didn't feel like I could
07:58take as many risks risks now obviously I
08:00didn't close myself off to cool
08:02opportunities to expand the business but
08:03at the same time I had to think very
08:05deeply about every big important
08:07decision that was made because it
08:08involved other people not just myself
08:10and at times that pressure was so much
08:13because if Revenue was down 1 month or
08:15up another things became so volatile and
08:17you started to have doubts in your mind
08:19like can we keep this up are these
08:20people still going to have a job are we
08:21going to have to fire a certain amount
08:22of people and sometimes we did we had to
08:24fire some employees for not doing well
08:26but knowing in the back of my head that
08:28that ruined their income
08:29just sucked but at the end of the day
08:31all of these five things put together
08:33have made me mature so much quicker than
08:34an average 15 or 16-year-old and now
08:37looking back I'm super happy to have
08:38went through all of those experiences I
08:40know a lot of you watching are teenagers
08:42are very very young adults and if you
08:44want to get more clarity on the business
08:46model you should start and the blueprint
08:47to start making some money I made a
08:49video going over all of that so you
08:51should watch it right here
