RuspBerry
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- Nov 13, 2023
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Rusb Journey - Behind the scenes of my online success: a journey of digital earnings
Hello everyone
I have been using this forum for some time, at first without even registering. I normally accessed the site and started reading thread after thread for hours to get inspiration for my projects.
I saw that there is a really warm and cool community that I can't wait to be a part of.
So I plan to write whenever I have time to update my journey and share tips, strategies and ideas with all of you.
As you will see later, I don't want to talk about my journey only in terms of the economic aspect, but in general, everything that surrounds me (gym, money, social media...etc). This is because for me, travel is not just about one point of view. People grow and grow in many aspects at the same time. By sharing all this he hoped to be able to inspire as many people as possible and perhaps, why not, become a point of reference.
After this little introduction, let me introduce myself as best I can:
I am a 20 year old boy, born and raised in Italy (so I initially write everything in Italian and then translate with Google Translator, therefore excuse me if my English is not perfect but I do what I can. Ps: sometimes I may even forget to translate the text, so please write to me as soon as possible so that I can fix it as soon as possible)
Since I was little I have always had the characteristic of starting something I liked and continuing it until exhaustion.
I remember that my first passions were:
- Lego (yes, you understood correctly, just Lego bricks. With them I built anything, up to vending machines or miniature combination safes)
- Magic (yes, I became passionate about the world of prestige for about 8 years, in particular " card magic ", I now remember very little about that world, but I believe the manual ability in managing and manipulating cards will remain with me for life)
- Youtube
With that channel I earned my first 200 euros (using Adsense ) over the course of 2 years.
it was precisely in these years that I actually started using a computer, an editing program (Vegas pro 14), a screen recording program (Obs) and a photo editing program (photoshop ) .
What I learned in these 2 years allowed me to become passionate about the world of online earning and above all it was the training base that served me in the following years.
Many of my peers (18/20/22 years old) still wouldn't even know how to move around the Windows screen (yes, I know, it's 2023). But I think that all the frequenters of this forum do not have this problem.
I don't know how it works in the rest of the world but in Italy school is divided into 5 steps (not all obligatory):
- Kindergarten: for children (not mandatory)
- Elementary: from 6 to 11 years (compulsory)
- Middle school: from 11 to 14 years (compulsory)
- High school: from 14 to 18 years old (mandatory up to 16 years old, then you can drop out permanently)
- University
I remember that I was getting about 1000 views a day on all my videos and I had reached 2000 subscribers
By hiding all my videos on YouTube I stopped earning.
Then there was an event…an event that changed my life forever.
Even today I wonder what I would be like if this event had not happened.
You should know that since I was a child I have always frequented the "scouts", at least that is what they are called in Italy . In America I think they are called "boy scouts" or something like that.
In any case, an organization of children, teenagers and adults who, without any profit, create a community and grow together.
In there I found my best friends who I still hang out with today.
Here, thanks to my scout leaders, I signed up for a WORLD event in which all the scouts in the world headed to America for an event that repeats every 4 years. I'm talking about JAMBOREE
I am aware that few people know about the scouts and especially the jamboree so I will try to share some YouTube videos to help you understand what it is:
(these are the videos of the 24th jamboree edition, the one in which I participated. The 25th edition was held in 2023, in South Korea)
It's an event where 45,000 scouts from all over the world gathered in West Virginia to exchange cultures.
Of my entire group (about 40 people) only me and another girl were selected by our leaders and following registration, after weeks of waiting, we received confirmation that we would be leaving for America in the summer
(for those interested: the trip costs 3500 euros)
Obviously imagine living every day waiting for this world event. Expectations above the stars.
To give you an idea, the event would have been during the summer of 2019
The registration was made around October 2018.
Now comes the best part:
As I was telling you, imagine living every day with these expectations, every time seeing the video of the first link that I shared with you (it was our trailer, while the other videos were shot during the event).
The questions that were spinning in my head were:
- will I be ready?
- Will I be up to it?
- How many people will I meet?
- How will other people see me?
- Will I be capable enough?
Until I looked in the mirror.
I knew I was overweight (about 160cm X 80kg) but until then I had never cared that much.
I was still a kid, I ate as much as I wanted and whatever I wanted.
Well, once school was over (around June 16th) I decided to join the gym so that I could be "ready" for the event that would be held in July/August.
Needless to say, in those months he managed to do very little for my body but another fixation was born. As before there had been Lego, magic, YouTube...now the gym began.
I won't dwell on the jamborre yet as I only mentioned it to open this other great parenthesis (the beginning of the physical change), even if I could stay here writing for days about that event.
After returning from this event, without thinking twice, I signed up for the gym
September 2019, October 2019, November 2019, December 2019, January 2020 completely dedicated to school and the gym.
Complete focus.
I was perfectly able to keep up with everything. I never defined myself as "very good" at school, but I always got by with cunning, cunning and intelligence. I studied as little as possible, I always anticipated my homework to make the most of my free time and I obtained above average results.
In these 5 months I have lost 20kg, I will never forget it.
I almost never went out of line.
Just a slice of pizza on Saturday with my friends (imagine a slice of pizza as a round pizza divided into 8 slices)
I had even forgotten the flavor of "drops", my favorite biscuit
my physique changed completely, my abs were visible and I went from being overweight to normal weight.
I listed the months up to January 2020, because at the beginning of March 2020, as we all know, covid began
Schools closed, streets empty and above all, at least from my point of view, gyms closed.
I wasn't too discouraged, I immediately started studying methods for training at home, once again optimizing all the time I had.
As I believe in the rest of the world, school continued through video calls in Google Meet , which started at 08:00 in the morning and ended at 14:00 in the afternoon (08:00 AM - 02:00 PM)
The revolutionary thing was that, by attending school from home, you could copy very well in every exam, assignment and question. The time I dedicated to studying decreased dramatically and I achieved higher grades
Once again: there were classmates of mine whose grade point average worsened because they did not know how to acclimate to the new environment and the new provisions
Being able to study less, I dedicated more and more time to myself and above all to my body.
Sometimes I trained 2 times a day: in the afternoon and in the evening, until 01:00 at night (01:00 AM) and then took a shower, slept and went to bed... ready to access the meet video call the next day with my phone, in my pajamas with the cup of milk in front of me.
My physique improved drastically during this period. Obviously the workouts I did at home were more oriented towards calisthenics (push ups, Australian pull ups with a broomstick held by 2 chairs). From time to time I ordered a pair of dumbbells from Amazon (20kg dumbbells each) and then returned them
At that time I still wasn't earning, and since 20kg dumbbells could still cost 200 euros, I couldn't afford it (ps: although I come from a wealthy family I have always tried not to ask my parents for anything, not for any general issue, but because I always wanted to handle my problems on my own)
During the Covid period I studied a lot about bodybuilding, training techniques and methods for recording your workouts
I don't know if you can tell from how I write or how I think, but I've always been a schematic and precise guy in what I do, so even the gym hasn't been saved from this characteristic of mine.
in this period I created an excel in which I can record all my workouts. Day by day I implemented more and more functions, until I reached literally millions and millions of Excel formulas that allowed me to calculate every single parameter of my training (which I was discovering by reading books on the gym and watching videos on YouTube).
During training I see an advertisement from a "guru" who taught KDP Amazon. I started to inform myself at the beginning out of curiosity until I started writing (after months) my first book on the gym (ps: I have never given any money to any YouTube guru, but that guy, who I don't even remember now the name, although it would have cheated me with some fluff course, introduced me to a new world)
I wrote my first book about the gym, completely as a beginner I learned to better use word, photoshop (to create the cover of the book) and the various software that Amazon makes available for the publication of the book
Once again I was learning a new skill
From that moment I began to rediscover (after YouTube) the world of online earning, as with that book I saw the first (few) euros appear in my account.
From there another great chapter of my life opened which I will definitely want to tell on this forum as soon as I have time.
I hope I have made you passionate about my story (I still have to tell the highlight and you will understand why I am here, why I chose this name for the forum and the greatest successes in the business world)
I wanted to continue writing but I realized that it's 01:49 in the morning and I should wake up at 08:00 for university (oops, spoilers)
If you are interested in the continuation and have found my story so far intriguing, let me know if you want the continuation and I will be very happy to share everything with you.
Once I talk about my past and fully introduce myself I will use this same thread to write down my progress on all aspects of my life (not just business) weekly.
Goodbye everyone and... see you soon
