If I could go back and do one thing differently in my business, and in my life as a whole, it would be to stop thinking and start taking more action.
A lot of the time we fear that we might make the “wrong decision”, and so we think and think and think and try to figure it all out and plan everything out down to the very last tiny little detail –
And for what?
So we can feel “confident”?
So that we have a step-by-step strategy in place?
Fuck that. That shit RARELY ever happens.
Because life changes, situations change, people change, ideas change, YOU change. And you can’t change the PLAN or else the plan might fail, right? So –
Back when I first got into business for myself when I was 18, I did it for FUN. I didn’t do it for the money, it was because I actually enjoyed what I was doing. So I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a strategy. I just showed up every day and said and did whatever I want.
And what do you know?
I made REALLY good money.
I didn’t have to follow anyone’s rules, except my own (and I would often break my own rules if I felt like it!). I didn’t have anyone telling me what I SHOULD be doing, I just did what felt good to me in the moment, and fucking hell did it ever pay off.
At 18 years old, I was making thousands of dollars a month being myself, which was A LOT for someone who didn’t have many responsibilities and expenses. I was getting paid to be ME. To say what I want, to do what I want, to BE who I want..
And it was fun until I decided to make it into more “traditional” business. When I started trying to plan everything out. When I started listening to other people who said I needed to do this and do that.
In short –
I fucked it all up.
Eventually, this small little business that I had unknowingly built into something that made enough money for me to move out and into my own place, to buy what I wanted, when I wanted it, to spend my days speaking and connecting with my audience and just completely being myself and getting paid to be me –
Eventually, it all came crashing down.
Because I couldn’t fucking accept that it could really be that easy. That I really could make A LOT of money to just be myself. A lot of self-sabotage started to happen and I just couldn’t hold on.
Being an entrepreneur, I didn’t give up and quit on my dreams of that VIP lifestyle and on my mission to change the world with my words. So I started another business. As much as I loved the concept for this business (baking cupcakes for fancy events) I didn’t realize how much I would HATE the physical work involved. So that didn’t last long.
I had multiple businesses after this, testing and tweaking, and learning, and growing –
And I had some wins –
Even more failures –
And LOTS of lessons learned.
I took my last business from $0 to over $100,000 a year in revenue, talking about a subject I was passionate about, sharing things that made me happy, helping people with something I was really into and really good at.
And I loved it for 7 years before my life changed drastically and it no longer fit my big vision for my life and the impact I want to make in the world.
I found my big why a few years ago –
And that’s why I’m here today. That’s why you’re reading this right now.
Because what I realized after 13 years in business is that what I was born to do is get paid to share my message with the world. To be WHO I AM and no one else. To share my gifts with those who need them. To give value to the lives of millions.
It all started with that very first business that taught me all about happiness and fulfillment. What proved to me that you don’t have to do work you hate; in fact, you can make even MORE money and have even MORE fun doing what you actually LOVE to do.
I now spend every day of my life doing what I want.
Saying what I want.
Being who I truly am.
I get to travel the world.
I get to support others build their dream life.
I get to financially support my favourite charities.
I get to spend more time with my loved ones.
I get to spend my days speaking, writing and being ME.
And I make a lot of money being me.
I change a lot of lives being me.
I’m not saying this to brag or to put it out there that I’m some egotistical twat. I’m saying this to show you that I started from nothing. I didn’t have experience, I didn’t have money, I didn’t have connections, I didn’t have help.
I figured this shit out on my own.
It took over 13 years to do it (and I’m STILL learning every day, and I will until the day I die, as should you).
I have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars learning everything I know.
I have failed many more times than I have succeeded.
And I have continued to get back up again, continued to fight, continued to hustle my ass off, doing what I know I was put on this earth to do, which is to show you –
To show everyone –
That you really can be, do and have EVERYTHING you want. You just need to step up and take action NOW.
No more thinking
No more trying to “figure it out first”
No more planning
Just decide. And then just DO. Figure out the rest later. (And in all honesty, you’ll find that once you’ve finally made that decision, everything tends to fall into place just as it should.)
And that’s what I want you to know and understand –
What you want is possible for you the second you decide that you’re done sitting on the sidelines.