Name: The day I hit reset on my life
Uploaded: 2024-12-29T13:18:25.000Z
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This was the question I asked myself one summer for probably the 39th time.

Past simple

It was a Sunday and I was about to get on a flight across the country.

I'd just spent the weekend drinking into oblivion with my friends.

The whole weekend felt like a blur I was so hungover.

And like with every other hangover, I began to ponder my life.

I couldn't stop thinking about how much I didn't want this.

Living for the weekends, dreading Mondays, a life full of comfort yet devoid of any freedom.

I was nearly 30 years old, already many years into my so-called career, successful by society's standards, but something just didn't feel right.

You see, as a kid, I always had dreams I'd be different.

But as life went on, those dreams, they faded away.

And I found myself stuck behind a desk, all thanks to a series of decisions I thought were my best interest.

And whenever I found myself alone in the airport hungover like this, these dreams would come back.

It was at this moment I found myself wondering, what if I just went for it?

What would happen if I chased my dreams for 365 days?

In that moment, I reached into my suitcase and pulled out the book I've been struggling to get through.

This book would eventually rewire my brain for success.

But for now, I flip to my bookmark and read this.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A simple quote, but I read it over and over and over.

If you want to change, you must believe in that change.

I wanted to be free of my student loan and credit card debt.

I wanted to work on things I was passionate about.

You must create a detailed plan of action to achieve your goal.

I'll dedicate nights and weekends to building my future.

I wrote all this down on a tiny little note card.

Exactly what I want and exactly how I'll get there.

When I got home, I nailed this little note card right above my bed.

Every night and every evening until it was etched in my memory.

And how can I actually make money from it?

They prevented me from ever actually getting started.

And that's when I realized I was obsessed with control.

I was obsessed with the idea of having it all figured out.

And this made me scared of committing to anything.

But this manifesto, this little piece of paper right here, it did one thing.

And getting started, even in the tiniest way, taught me something that would change everything.

When I finally gave myself permission to fail, it unlocked the answer.

I knew I wanted to build a business, but what do I work on?

Getting started was the first part, but I quickly found myself trying to build things I had no business doing.

My first business idea lasted about three weeks, until I realized I was building something because someone told me it could make money online.

I had no passion for the idea and no skills that would help me build it.

And that's when I went back to the drawing board and looked for an idea that only I could build.

Something that aligned perfectly with my skills, my passions, and of course, something that could actually make money.

Within days, I came up with the idea for StarterStore, a platform where you could see how regular people like you and me built businesses that changed their lives.

Exactly how they found their ideas, exactly how they launched, and exactly how they got customers.

This was the product that I needed, and this was the product that only I could build.

I purchased the domain name, I put together a plan, I started building, and everything started to click.

I realized that this idea, it had been living in my head all along.

But my obsession with control, my fear of failure, prevented me from ever getting started on it.

I believe that everybody has a business idea just like this.

Something that aligns perfectly with your skills, your passions, and of course, something that can actually make money.

To prove it to you, I'm running a free workshop to show you exactly how you can do this too.

We'll hang out and talk about how to overcome that self-doubt, how to find your million-dollar business idea, and exactly how to execute on that idea on just two hours a day.

Just head to the first link in the description to save your seat.

Spots are limited, I'll see you in there.

Ever heard the phrase, people never change?

Well, I believe this is mostly true, with one exception.

People do change when they change their environment.

It's the reason people change when they leave their hometown for the big city.

I was trying to become this new person, trying to actually build something.

But the problem was, I was stuck in my old apartment, in my old ways.

And that's when I realized that was my problem.

So I went looking for a new place, a new environment where I could have a new start.

And I know it sounds so simple, but that place was the Starbucks down the street.

This was the place where I transformed from someone who never did anything to someone who actually got shit done.

I started waking up every day at 6am, and every day I walked into that Starbucks, I became a new person.

This is when things really started to change.

I basically stopped drinking and spending all my money on the weekends.

I stopped spending every Sunday watching 12 hours of football.

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