addictedtolearning
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Hey everyone! 
So, I recently started a thread about $50,000 by the end of the year using multiple methods (pod, affiliate sales, Youtube, etc). There was absolutely nothing wrong with this journey, but after I had a long meeting with my partner (we hadn't spoken in a while because life has been crazy), we decided we need to be deeply immersed in our roots, and building our own brands. We had a great talk and discussed what we want out of life. In my last thread, I had mentioned I always wanted to do Youtube, so that will still be on the table. I will still be doing all of the same things I would be doing in that thread, but instead of me doing content that's trending, I will be doing content for the two brands we will be building. Don't worry, there shouldn't be another "my journey" thread after this one This is basically the same thing as the 50k journey, but I will be focusing on my brands instead of other crap. I have also decided to change the income goal, as I want this to shape the rest of my life. I want the success of this journey to pave the way for absolute freedom for me and my family.
Quick Background
I'm Joseph! I'm 32 and am an organic produce farmer living in upstate New York. My journey with IM started a couple of years ago (before I knew places like this existed) as a social media marketer and manager. I wanted a side income to farming since we make next to nothing (I make 23k a year absolutely busting my ass), and I knew how to use social media pretty well. So, I started reaching out to people and charging $50 a month to help them grow their social channels. This was a nice side income, and I currently charge $250/month and just stick with a few clients that I actually enjoy working with. I could never scale this, as I don't necessarily enjoy the work of helping people grow their dreams while I have none to cultivate - I think this is why I made the switch from the 50k thread to growing my own brands. I need to grow my own baby now. Also, I can't imagine having like 20+ clients at a time, but I guess that's where you just own and manage the business and hire people to do the annoying work for you...maybe this will be implemented into this journey at some point.
I have a gf of 7 years and she has two kids. Their dad died in a car accident when the daughter was 3 and the son was in the oven. They're now 15 and 12 and are amazing kids that I love dearly. Part of my drive for success is to be able to travel the world with them and give them things they never thought imaginable. Don't worry - I'm not materialistic at all and am teaching them to enjoy moments and memories instead of things, but you need money to travel the world (and experience those moments and make those memories). I'm teaching them money shouldn't be their sole goal in life, but at the same time, it's okay to strive to make a lot of it, as long as your intentions are pure and aren't coming from a place of greed and power/control hunger. Put happiness first
I will be working with two other people. They're a couple of digital nomads currently residing in Costa Rica. One is a graphic designer who is just amazing, and the other is a VA and an (almost) holistic life coach. We make quite a great team with the skillsets we can pull together. Okay, enough about me.
Macro Goal
-Start two brands and scale them to a minimum of 6 figures per year in revenue
-When I have $100,000 in disposable income I will begin my career of swing trading
-Get to $2,500,000 liquid asset value by age 40 and never have to work again
-Improve as a human every single day in every aspect of my life every day until I'm dead
I turned 32 years old on February 3rd. The goal is simple: have $2,500,000 to my name by the time I'm 40, and then do no "work" for the rest of my life. I will live off of market interest, and hopefully the brands I'm building will just bring in passive income at that point with their established traffic. (Why 2.5 million? I guess that just seems like a good number to me to be able to live an amazing life off of the interest in the markets.) I will achieve my 2.5 million by building two brands to 6 figures annually (per brand) and then trading stocks (including Crypto). I have been getting really into trading, and thankfully I have a mentor who has been trading professionally for 15 years. I have been learning at a very fast rate thanks to him, including techniques you won't find available most places on the internet (if at all). These are strategies he has developed from thousands upon thousands of hours of staring at charts, and you can implement a few of them without having much knowledge of trading and make a killing (I'm thinking he and I will have to sell a course down the road). My current portfolio isn't big enough to make trading worth it, but I have some great positions in Crypto and will buy some stocks if we go as low as my mentor thinks we're going. When I have $100,000 available to me I will begin swing trading. This $100,000 can come from both my portfolio and internet marketing. Maybe I'll start at $50,000, but we will see when I get there. I would want $50,000 to be the absolute minimum my bankroll is for trading to make it worth the time. When I get to $2,500,000 I will live an amazing life filled with travel and being able to see my family as much as I want and whenever I want. To be fair, though, if I didn't get to 2.5 million and just had a few hundred thousand and was making low 6 figures annually from trading, that to me is the same success.
Micro Goals
1. Get both brands socials and sites up and running
Project 1 is in the vegan niche. I began that about a year ago growing a Facebook page for fun when I started actually getting more into internet marketing. I grew it to 10,000 follows but reach kept dying with each new Facebook update, so we decided to start a group. The group is at 2,700 members after a couple of months and is growing at a nice rate organically. We will be doing more to grow this faster soon. We have 1,400 followers on Instagram and get about 100,000 monthly visits on our Pinterest. My graphic design partner, Max, is learning how to do crazy-awesome animation videos. Soon we will add Youtube to the mix for this project. All videos will be original content. We will be doing videos featuring us, as well as many animated videos. We will also be using Reddit and Quora to drive traffic to the site.
Project 2 is a niche I won't reveal at this point in time. Max is currently designing a logo for us. We need to set up all of our socials and start growing these. This project will also use Youtube and it will be original content. We currently (also) have an email list that's 1,000 addresses long.
Both projects will use Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, Quora, Linkedin, Youtbe, Tik Tok, Medium and Twitter to drive traffic.
2. Finish two ebooks for both projects
We're currently working on four ebooks - two for each project.
For the vegan niche, we have one that we will be giving away for free in an attempt to capture more emails and build our group, and then the other we will be putting on our site and Amazon kindle, and we will begin marketing it soon. We will also have affiliate offers in it and we will promote our socials and group in it. We will initially offer it to our group and socials, and then with any initial sales (or even if there are none), we will pay influencers in the vegan niche to promote it.
For the other niche, both ebooks will be for sale and listed on Kindle. I will be promoting one of the two really hard. It will reference the other book and link to buy it, and it also has about 6 affiliate offers in it. I will be using influencer shoutouts to try and sell the shit out of it. I will use some people from my vegan niche to buy it and leave me good reviews just so it has an initial 5-star rating on it. I'm hoping if I can deduce the correct influencers this book will actually sell quite a bit but am trying not to have any expectations.
3. Post every day on Pinterest, Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Twitter for both projects
I want to stay consistent with producing content. I want to make sure I post every day to these channels to keep my audience engaged and growing.
4. Keep adding to my Crypto portfolio
Any disposable income I have I keep adding to my positions. I think the Crypto market will see a huge run by the end of 2021 (surpassing the 1 trillion total cap mark) and I'm hoping my portfolio is worth multiple 6-figures (which would make this journey much easier). I will also take a percentage of profits from my brands and invest it (assuming I make any money anytime soon).
5. Keep improving as a human
Every day I want to keep getting better. Here's the plan for this:
-State everything in life I'm grateful for immediately upon waking up each morning
-Meditate at least 5 minutes daily
-Workout 6x a week
-Play guitar 15 min a day - I used to play a lot and miss it. It's time to get that creative outlet back
-Read at least 15 min a day of some sort of book that will help me improve as a person (just got The Millionaire Fastlane as per a recommendation on BHW). Audiobooks are fine, too.
-Scan BHW for at least 15 min a day to keep learning IM
-Continue improving diet. I consider myself to have a better diet than most people. I eat WFPB, which is basically vegan but without the processed shit foods. I occasionally have some junk, and I want to cut that out completely. My diet mainly consists of lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, fruit, nut butter, veggies, tofu, and tempeh. I have never in my entire life felt this amazing (grew up on the standard shit American diet), and I want to continue getting better. Current protein intake is 100-120g a day and I want to increase my calories a bit and bulk up.
-Judge less. Since going vegan and watching a ton of factory farm footage I have become quite judgemental about others' choices. It's especially hard with loved ones when I watch them cram nothing but empty calories and foods high in preservatives, antibiotics, fat, etc, down their throats and fear for the health of their future selves. I need to stop, though, and just set a good example and try to skew my thoughts as far as possible towards only things coming from a place of love.
TIME FOR SUCCESS
So, that about wraps it up for now. Again, sorry for starting a new journey since I started one a week or so ago. This really epitomizes what I want to do, though, and this IS THE ONE. I want to do a journey so badly because I feel it keeps me accountable for my plans, and it brings people together in an effort to all get better. When people who know more than you see you TRULY putting in the work, they'll take some time to drop some knowledge to help you. I also realize that I'm at a farther point in my IM journey than all beginners, so when they come to find this thread maybe it can help them get started on their own path to success. Basically, this thread can evolve into something beautiful with a wealth of knowledge in it from many members of this community and can be a lot of help to those who need it. It's also just a great way to think out loud
I love the community here. I've only been a member since September, but this is one of the best things in life I have randomly come across so far. I had shiny object syndrome at first (I'm sure most people new to IM who find this place also experience that), but I'm now learning how to properly utilize this site to achieve my goals instead of just trying to replicate what others have done before me for success. I feel like my future success (sans trading...though that's attributed to randomly finding the right source, as well) will be 95% due to BHW. I love all the journey threads. They're so motivating. I love that we can all help each other succeed and to form the lives of our dreams. I hope I look back in a year, 5 years, even 10 years, and see the start of this thread, and remember this moment of sitting here typing this out as the first step in a journey that transformed my life forever. I also hope to continue to learn and still be on this site in many years giving back to the community like so many of you do.
Now it's time to keep working. I will just keep grinding out these two brands and will check back every day with my progress! Good luck to everyone on their journies!
So, I recently started a thread about $50,000 by the end of the year using multiple methods (pod, affiliate sales, Youtube, etc). There was absolutely nothing wrong with this journey, but after I had a long meeting with my partner (we hadn't spoken in a while because life has been crazy), we decided we need to be deeply immersed in our roots, and building our own brands. We had a great talk and discussed what we want out of life. In my last thread, I had mentioned I always wanted to do Youtube, so that will still be on the table. I will still be doing all of the same things I would be doing in that thread, but instead of me doing content that's trending, I will be doing content for the two brands we will be building. Don't worry, there shouldn't be another "my journey" thread after this one
This is basically the same thing as the 50k journey, but I will be focusing on my brands instead of other crap. I have also decided to change the income goal, as I want this to shape the rest of my life. I want the success of this journey to pave the way for absolute freedom for me and my family.Quick Background
I'm Joseph! I'm 32 and am an organic produce farmer living in upstate New York. My journey with IM started a couple of years ago (before I knew places like this existed) as a social media marketer and manager. I wanted a side income to farming since we make next to nothing (I make 23k a year absolutely busting my ass), and I knew how to use social media pretty well. So, I started reaching out to people and charging $50 a month to help them grow their social channels. This was a nice side income, and I currently charge $250/month and just stick with a few clients that I actually enjoy working with. I could never scale this, as I don't necessarily enjoy the work of helping people grow their dreams while I have none to cultivate - I think this is why I made the switch from the 50k thread to growing my own brands. I need to grow my own baby now. Also, I can't imagine having like 20+ clients at a time, but I guess that's where you just own and manage the business and hire people to do the annoying work for you...maybe this will be implemented into this journey at some point.
I have a gf of 7 years and she has two kids. Their dad died in a car accident when the daughter was 3 and the son was in the oven. They're now 15 and 12 and are amazing kids that I love dearly. Part of my drive for success is to be able to travel the world with them and give them things they never thought imaginable. Don't worry - I'm not materialistic at all and am teaching them to enjoy moments and memories instead of things, but you need money to travel the world (and experience those moments and make those memories). I'm teaching them money shouldn't be their sole goal in life, but at the same time, it's okay to strive to make a lot of it, as long as your intentions are pure and aren't coming from a place of greed and power/control hunger. Put happiness first
I will be working with two other people. They're a couple of digital nomads currently residing in Costa Rica. One is a graphic designer who is just amazing, and the other is a VA and an (almost) holistic life coach. We make quite a great team with the skillsets we can pull together. Okay, enough about me.
Macro Goal
-Start two brands and scale them to a minimum of 6 figures per year in revenue
-When I have $100,000 in disposable income I will begin my career of swing trading
-Get to $2,500,000 liquid asset value by age 40 and never have to work again
-Improve as a human every single day in every aspect of my life every day until I'm dead
I turned 32 years old on February 3rd. The goal is simple: have $2,500,000 to my name by the time I'm 40, and then do no "work" for the rest of my life. I will live off of market interest, and hopefully the brands I'm building will just bring in passive income at that point with their established traffic. (Why 2.5 million? I guess that just seems like a good number to me to be able to live an amazing life off of the interest in the markets.) I will achieve my 2.5 million by building two brands to 6 figures annually (per brand) and then trading stocks (including Crypto). I have been getting really into trading, and thankfully I have a mentor who has been trading professionally for 15 years. I have been learning at a very fast rate thanks to him, including techniques you won't find available most places on the internet (if at all). These are strategies he has developed from thousands upon thousands of hours of staring at charts, and you can implement a few of them without having much knowledge of trading and make a killing (I'm thinking he and I will have to sell a course down the road). My current portfolio isn't big enough to make trading worth it, but I have some great positions in Crypto and will buy some stocks if we go as low as my mentor thinks we're going. When I have $100,000 available to me I will begin swing trading. This $100,000 can come from both my portfolio and internet marketing. Maybe I'll start at $50,000, but we will see when I get there. I would want $50,000 to be the absolute minimum my bankroll is for trading to make it worth the time. When I get to $2,500,000 I will live an amazing life filled with travel and being able to see my family as much as I want and whenever I want. To be fair, though, if I didn't get to 2.5 million and just had a few hundred thousand and was making low 6 figures annually from trading, that to me is the same success.
Micro Goals
1. Get both brands socials and sites up and running
Project 1 is in the vegan niche. I began that about a year ago growing a Facebook page for fun when I started actually getting more into internet marketing. I grew it to 10,000 follows but reach kept dying with each new Facebook update, so we decided to start a group. The group is at 2,700 members after a couple of months and is growing at a nice rate organically. We will be doing more to grow this faster soon. We have 1,400 followers on Instagram and get about 100,000 monthly visits on our Pinterest. My graphic design partner, Max, is learning how to do crazy-awesome animation videos. Soon we will add Youtube to the mix for this project. All videos will be original content. We will be doing videos featuring us, as well as many animated videos. We will also be using Reddit and Quora to drive traffic to the site.
Project 2 is a niche I won't reveal at this point in time. Max is currently designing a logo for us. We need to set up all of our socials and start growing these. This project will also use Youtube and it will be original content. We currently (also) have an email list that's 1,000 addresses long.
Both projects will use Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, Quora, Linkedin, Youtbe, Tik Tok, Medium and Twitter to drive traffic.
2. Finish two ebooks for both projects
We're currently working on four ebooks - two for each project.
For the vegan niche, we have one that we will be giving away for free in an attempt to capture more emails and build our group, and then the other we will be putting on our site and Amazon kindle, and we will begin marketing it soon. We will also have affiliate offers in it and we will promote our socials and group in it. We will initially offer it to our group and socials, and then with any initial sales (or even if there are none), we will pay influencers in the vegan niche to promote it.
For the other niche, both ebooks will be for sale and listed on Kindle. I will be promoting one of the two really hard. It will reference the other book and link to buy it, and it also has about 6 affiliate offers in it. I will be using influencer shoutouts to try and sell the shit out of it. I will use some people from my vegan niche to buy it and leave me good reviews just so it has an initial 5-star rating on it. I'm hoping if I can deduce the correct influencers this book will actually sell quite a bit but am trying not to have any expectations.
3. Post every day on Pinterest, Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Twitter for both projects
I want to stay consistent with producing content. I want to make sure I post every day to these channels to keep my audience engaged and growing.
4. Keep adding to my Crypto portfolio
Any disposable income I have I keep adding to my positions. I think the Crypto market will see a huge run by the end of 2021 (surpassing the 1 trillion total cap mark) and I'm hoping my portfolio is worth multiple 6-figures (which would make this journey much easier). I will also take a percentage of profits from my brands and invest it (assuming I make any money anytime soon
).5. Keep improving as a human
Every day I want to keep getting better. Here's the plan for this:
-State everything in life I'm grateful for immediately upon waking up each morning
-Meditate at least 5 minutes daily
-Workout 6x a week
-Play guitar 15 min a day - I used to play a lot and miss it. It's time to get that creative outlet back
-Read at least 15 min a day of some sort of book that will help me improve as a person (just got The Millionaire Fastlane as per a recommendation on BHW). Audiobooks are fine, too.
-Scan BHW for at least 15 min a day to keep learning IM
-Continue improving diet. I consider myself to have a better diet than most people. I eat WFPB, which is basically vegan but without the processed shit foods. I occasionally have some junk, and I want to cut that out completely. My diet mainly consists of lentils, beans, nuts, seeds, fruit, nut butter, veggies, tofu, and tempeh. I have never in my entire life felt this amazing (grew up on the standard shit American diet), and I want to continue getting better. Current protein intake is 100-120g a day and I want to increase my calories a bit and bulk up.
-Judge less. Since going vegan and watching a ton of factory farm footage I have become quite judgemental about others' choices. It's especially hard with loved ones when I watch them cram nothing but empty calories and foods high in preservatives, antibiotics, fat, etc, down their throats and fear for the health of their future selves. I need to stop, though, and just set a good example and try to skew my thoughts as far as possible towards only things coming from a place of love.
TIME FOR SUCCESS
So, that about wraps it up for now. Again, sorry for starting a new journey since I started one a week or so ago. This really epitomizes what I want to do, though, and this IS THE ONE. I want to do a journey so badly because I feel it keeps me accountable for my plans, and it brings people together in an effort to all get better. When people who know more than you see you TRULY putting in the work, they'll take some time to drop some knowledge to help you. I also realize that I'm at a farther point in my IM journey than all beginners, so when they come to find this thread maybe it can help them get started on their own path to success. Basically, this thread can evolve into something beautiful with a wealth of knowledge in it from many members of this community and can be a lot of help to those who need it. It's also just a great way to think out loud
I love the community here. I've only been a member since September, but this is one of the best things in life I have randomly come across so far. I had shiny object syndrome at first (I'm sure most people new to IM who find this place also experience that), but I'm now learning how to properly utilize this site to achieve my goals instead of just trying to replicate what others have done before me for success. I feel like my future success (sans trading...though that's attributed to randomly finding the right source, as well) will be 95% due to BHW. I love all the journey threads. They're so motivating. I love that we can all help each other succeed and to form the lives of our dreams. I hope I look back in a year, 5 years, even 10 years, and see the start of this thread, and remember this moment of sitting here typing this out as the first step in a journey that transformed my life forever. I also hope to continue to learn and still be on this site in many years giving back to the community like so many of you do.
Now it's time to keep working. I will just keep grinding out these two brands and will check back every day with my progress! Good luck to everyone on their journies!
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