Look around you.
No seriously, look around you.
Look at all the people you are surrounded by.
I see every day, everywhere I look,
complacent, average, mediocre.
There's no greatness around me, no success.
You have to ask yourself,
do you really wanna end up in a situation they're in?
Do you really, do you really want to live a life like them?
Do you wanna have a nine to five job
and work your entire year just for one vacation?
Do you wanna waste your days doing nothing?
Just living for someone else.
Do you want all that?
No, no one wants that.
But the good news is now you're aware,
now we know that we don't want that.
Most people fall into the trap
and they don't know something else is possible.
They just do it.
They don't, most people aren't aware
that they can do something else.
Most people don't know how.
Most people just think that this is the only path for them.
But you gotta look around.
Just remind yourself, you are not gonna be like that.
You are not gonna end up in a similar situation like that.
I see it all the time.
In my day, I really struggle with it
because I see it everywhere I look
and I just, sometimes it really gets to me.
I just wanna throw a fit about how,
like there's no greatness around.
It's like, why is no one striving for anything around me?
But you gotta just keep it to yourself
because no one is gonna change.
Only they can change for themselves
and they're probably not gonna change.
So you gotta do it yourself and it's a path.
And this podcast is all about me documenting my journey,
getting there, because it's not easy
and I'm in the middle of it right now.
Right now I'm still a broke high school student.
I'm just at the beginning of my journey, I feel.
And I keep on looking around
and there's no one to look up to.
So that's why I go to books.
And if there's one thing that I learned,
how to escape this place,
the one best thing that I've learned is educate yourself.
If you can educate yourself on the right topics,
if you can learn from the right books,
then you will break free, you will live how you want to live.
For example, the first book that really brought me
some notion that there was more was called Unscripted
by MJ DeMarco.
And that book was basically all about how
it basically exposed the rat race
and it exposed how people think it's good
to trade your time for money
and people basically trade 40 years for a,
not even guaranteed, not even guaranteed retirement.
They trade 40 years of their life
and many years in school as well, trying to retire.
And it just exposes like the unfair trade
and the just all around stupidity of it.
And it also sheds light onto the right,
like a better path called the fast lane.
So most people are on either the slow lane
or the sidewalk.
The sidewalk is people who are basically spending more money
than they're earning, they're in debt most likely
and they're basically trying to live,
they're basically living above their means.
And they tend to be very, they're consumers
and they are, how do I say this?
They just look for dopamine and instant gratification.
They're all about instant gratification.
So if there's a new car, they get it
because they want to show it off
and it's just all about instant gratification.
So that's the sidewalk.
And then the slow lane is,
it's basically people who are saving all their money.
They're living frugally
and most people are in the slow lane I think.
I could be wrong though.
Most people that I'm surrounded by are in the slow lane.
So they're frugal and then they basically,
they still trade their time for money
except this time they don't have debt.
The sidewalk, they have this thing called parasitic debt.
It's basically where, I don't remember what it was.
To be honest, I haven't read that book in a while
but they have parasitic debt and then they're,
both the sidewalk and the slow lane have 40 years
or 50 years of indentured time
which is basically time you owe to the system
before you get your free time.
So the equation that basically the way their life works,
I'm just gonna focus on the slow lane right now.
The way their life works is they clock into their job
at eight, like 9 a.m.
and then they work all day until five
and then that's their indentured time from nine to five.
But since most people commute to work,
their indentured time is usually from eight until six.
And then they get two hours or three hours at night time
and that's their free time.
So they get three hours of free time every night.
But that doesn't, let's just ignore that
because people waste that anyways
and people don't really consider that free time anyways.
So basically they're working five days a week,
Monday through Friday and that's indentured time.
So they're basically trading five days a week
of indentured time for two days a week of free time.
So they're giving five days up
for two days back for free.
So they originally started with seven days
and then they gave up five of them and then kept their two.
And they do this for 40 years.
Like that sounds just insane to me.
That's a terrible return on investment,
terrible, just all around terrible, everything.
And so at this point in my life, when I read that book,
probably a little less than a year ago,
I definitely did not want to end up like everyone else,
but I didn't really put my finger to it.
I wasn't really conscious about what was going on.
I didn't really want to go to college,
but by what it seemed like I had to
and that was just the only path available.
That was the only path that I knew.
And then once I read the,
like I want you guys to pay attention to this.
The only path that I knew was what everyone else had done,
go to college and then work in nine to five
for the rest of my life.
That was the only path I knew.
So it makes sense that most people are mediocre
because that's the only path they know.
Most people don't read the right types of books,
like unscripted.
And so once I read unscripted, I was like, oh wow,
I'm not going to college.
Now I know that this path is available.
And then I read the millionaire fast lane,
which was a good book as well.
It's basically the same book, but shorter.
And I like, just reading that book, unscripted,
autumn already like completely shifted everything for me
and opened up a lot of new pathways
and a lot of new opportunities.
And it just brought me the awareness of this like possibilities.
So with that first lesson,
I learned that reading actually can change my life.
Reading can actually bring me new opportunities.
Reading can allow me to see new opportunities.
So then I kept on reading.
And then the next like big game changer book that I read
was Rowdy Transurfing, steps one through five.
And I read that and then I instantly realized
that every single thing that I was doing,
like, okay, let me, let me get some context.
So I knew I wanted to go to business.
I knew I wanted to make a business,
but I didn't like know how to be successful.
Like I knew like, yeah, I had to make a business,
but I don't know how I actually have to,
I don't know how to actually go about life and be successful.
And so I learned about Transurfing.
And once I read that, I realized that pretty much
every single thing that I was doing on a day to day basis
through my thoughts was wrong.
And it was like not helping me get to my goal.
So I like realized, oh wow,
I actually have to radically shift everything.
Like my worldview, my thought process, my mindset,
my attitude, everything I have to radically shift
my attention.
And so it was not instant.
It's not, and I'm still working on it today.
Like even today, I want to talk about staying present.
It's like being awake.
It's basically staying present.
And it's, I learned about the best way to explain it
in a book called Toof-D, The Priestess.
And basically when you have your,
so there's two screens, your inner screen
and your outer screen.
The outer screen is everything going on outside
of your leg body.
So this podcast that you're listening to
is the outer screen.
And then the inner screen is everything going on
inside your body, inside your head, inside your mind.
And so if you, you can be immersed in one or the other.
You can be immersed in the outer screen.
So let's say you are completely immersed in this podcast
and you're not really paying attention
to your inner screen at all.
You're fully immersed in the outer screen.
Well then you are asleep.
And it's not good to be asleep.
And don't worry because I'm asleep like a lot still.
I'm still working on it.
It's like a process.
So, and don't be yourself up over being asleep
because I'd learned that lesson the bad way.
And I realized that it's a process.
It's not gonna happen overnight.
It's not gonna happen in one month.
It's gonna take a long time.
And then the inner screen is everything going on
inside your head or inside your body.
So if you're immersed in your own thought,
if you're deep in thought, then you are asleep as well.
And you're basically acting on autopilot.
Either or it doesn't matter which screen you're immersed in.
If you're immersed in one or the other, you're asleep.
Now, how do you wake up?
Well, all you have to do is hold your attention on both.
Like hold it in the middle of the two screens.
So your like attention is focused on the outer screen
as well as the inner screen.
That's simply how you wake up.
And so, Transurfing, one of the biggest things
that Transurfing made me realize is that
I'm asleep most of the day.
And so I have to be awake to be able to manage my reality.
And that's one of the big things that I've been working on.
Especially like lately, I think that I can't really tell
because I still have the habit to wake up all the time.
But lately I feel like I've been getting complacent
with waking up.
And especially at school and at home,
I feel like I'm asleep most of the day
when I'm at school or home.
And so, because I don't really wake up that often.
And so I have to just basically get it back going again.
Like today on my bike ride,
I remembered this one concept of tracking your attention.
And when you track your attention,
you basically figure out, you basically like wake up.
And then you hold, you stay awake
until you fall asleep inevitably.
And once you fall asleep and you catch yourself
that you fall asleep, so then you wake up again.
Then you go back and track your attention
and figure out what made you fall asleep.
So it could be anything in the outer screen
or the inner screen.
So I remembered about that concept of tracking your attention
in during my bike ride on the way home
from the gym today.
And I was biking and I was awake, I woke up.
And I was at this stop sign and I like biked through it.
And then I saw this car on the left
who has stopped at the stop sign.
And then I fell asleep.
It was just an ordinary stop sign.
So I was just going, it was just ordinary.
Everything was ordinary, but I fell asleep from that car.
And so I fell asleep and then probably like
half of a block later, which if you're not familiar
with a city block, I realized that a lot of people
don't know what a block is.
It's basically like a row of houses
that like one street or I don't, it's,
imagine like maybe like a 10th of a mile.
I think I'm not, I don't really know for sure.
It's, it's a, okay, whatever.
Let's not waste time on that.
If you want to look up what a block is, just look it up.
And so I was half of a block later biking.
So maybe like 10 seconds later, I was,
I realized like, oh, I got to wake up.
So I woke up and I was, and then I went back
and figured out what I fell asleep by.
And it was a car.
So I was like, oh, I fell asleep by that car.
So then I remembered, okay, next time I see a car,
I'm going to wake up.
And that's basically how it works.
When you figure out what caused you to fall asleep
and then make sure that next time you see
or experienced that or think about that,
you have it trigger you to wake up instead of fall asleep.
That's called reversing the habit of falling asleep.
Most people have a habit of whenever something happens,
you fall asleep.
I include it.
And I'm in the process of reversing it.
So whenever something happens, you wake up.
Like Vadom's on said, it doesn't matter as much
if you fall asleep as you actually being in the habit
of waking up.
So it doesn't really matter how much time
as you fall asleep, but what matters is that you have
the habit to wake up over and over and over again,
which is good because I think that I do have that habit
because I woke up like 10 seconds later.
And then I fell asleep from something else
a few seconds later and then woke back up.
It's like this whole back and forth of falling asleep
and then waking back up.
And sometimes I get frustrated.
I'm like, I'm losing progress.
I'm backtracking, but you're still moving forward.
You're still moving forward.
They're one of my episodes.
I don't remember which day it was,
but I talked about this thing where on the road
towards your path, it's got lots of,
you're in a straight road towards your path,
but it has lots of changes and altitudes.
So lots of hills.
There's a lots of ups and downs.
Those ups and downs are still taking you towards your goal.
The ups and downs included.
Like the off days are still taking you towards your goal
at the same rate as the good days.
If anything, faster because that's the way gravity works
according to the metaphor, but it's just a metaphor.
So I'm in the works of tracking my attention
because I read it in Transurfine.
And like one of the biggest themes
that I'm trying to bring to your attention is reading.
Like learning the right types of books.
The one of the first book that basically changed everything
for me was Unscripted.
And then the second book was Reality Transurfine.
And I'm like still reading a lot of books.
Right now I'm reading a book called Die Wise,
which was, I was very hype.
I was very excited to start reading for like over a month,
like maybe two months.
And Gene Pascal Reiman really hyped it up a lot.
And to be honest, I'm in the first like 80 pages.
And yeah, it's good.
It's brought a lot of things to my attention,
but I don't think I'm at the right stage of my life
to actually read it.
But I'm still gonna finish it.
But I don't feel like I'm getting too much out of it
simply because I don't really,
I don't see it affecting my current situation that much,
which I could drastically change throughout the book
because I feel like he's giving a lot of like introductory,
or not introductory, but laying out a foundation
for this book.
And one of the books that I do wanna read in the future,
which I feel may be another game changer for me,
is called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons.
And basically I talked about it,
I think yesterday's episode.
And it's basically a book by Napoleon Hill.
So Napoleon Hill was commissioned,
I don't think he was like paid,
but basically Andrew Carnegie,
the richest man in the world at the time.
This was like 80 years ago maybe.
Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world,
he basically told Napoleon Hill to study
all of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world.
And that's what he did.
And Andrew Carnegie gave him all the connections.
So Napoleon Hill studied greats,
like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie,
and a lot of other people that I don't know,
that are that I didn't bother to read all their names.
Because, and then he studied them for 29 years
and figured out like the secrets, all the secrets,
all the things that all the successful people are doing.
And basically trying to figure out like,
what are the successful people doing
that the normal average citizen is not doing?
And he compiled it all into a book
called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons.
This was after 29 years of studying
the most successful people in history,
like ever, most successful people ever.
And so he, after 29 years wrote in a book,
Laws of Success in 16 Lessons,
and Henry Ford got a hold of that book.
And like saw that it was way too powerful.
He was like, oh, this book is way too powerful.
You have to take it down.
You cannot release this publicly.
And so they took it down
and then he had to edit it down.
Like basically water the book down, water it down.
And then he became another book,
which I don't know what it was called.
And then he edited it down even more.
And that like even super watered down book
was called Thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
And it was like the number one bestselling.
It's like one of the most bestselling self-help books ever.
And Thinking Grow Rich is missing a secret.
I saw a video, Kevin Trudeau was saying
that Thinking Grow Rich was missing a secret.
That's why most people don't see success manifesting
and all this stuff.
And I feel like the secret is in Laws of Success
and 16 Lessons because Henry Ford didn't want it to go public.
And I was looking it up and there is like a,
there is a book for like $17 on Amazon that says
it's unabridged and it's like got everything in it.
So that I definitely want to read.
It's like 500 pages long, but the issue is
I'm kind of in this situation where
to the past couple of months I've been obsessing
over these seven books that I bought
and I've only read one of them so far
and I'm in the middle of Die Wise, the second one.
So I got to finish all of these books
which are probably going to take
probably the rest of the school year, like two months maybe.
Because they're long, like a set of humanity,
come of age, Die Wise and the Egypt code
are like 300 to 500 pages long.
So they're very long.
Journeys out of the bodies and Toofty the Priestess
are both fairly short.
So I'll be able to finish those quickly,
but those other books are going to take a while.
So basically the moral of today's episode so far is
what are people, what are average people
that we're surrounded by?
What are they not doing?
They're not reading the right types of books.
They're not learning how successful people become great.
So that's what you got to figure out.
And I've listed three great books so far,
two that I've already read and one that I feel
the very strong desire to read.
And that's like the beginning of everything.
And I want to talk about spirituality,
but first let me check.
All right.
Okay, before I say that,
I wrote some notes down for this episode
and I just read them.
I got through all of them except for one thing
before these things I want to talk about.
Figure out where you're lacking and fix it.
That's something that is a very big skill to have.
One of the things when I was first getting into self-improvement,
I realized I didn't want to do a lot of this stuff.
There was, what?
Especially with business, I didn't want to,
there was a lot of things I was too lazy to do.
And so I was like, oh, I'm lazy.
How do I fix this?
Why am I lazy?
I don't have discipline.
Well, how do I get discipline?
And I read in a book called The Unplugged Alpha,
he said that taking cold showers
is the simplest way to build your discipline.
So I started taking a cold shower.
I only take cold showers now.
So now to fix the lack of discipline,
I only take cold showers and that's it.
Like I don't switch it to hot halfway through
like I used to do like a year ago.
I used to do that, but now I, for the past couple months,
I've only taken cold showers the whole time.
So that's something you got,
like one of the biggest tips I have,
figure out where you're lacking.
Like what are you lacking?
And that's something that another thing that I figured
that I was lacking after I read Transurfing
was my worldview was holding me back.
My thoughts were holding me back.
So I tried to figure out like,
how do I radically change this?
Well, first of all, I learned Transurfing
and I learned of it and then I learned it and I studied it,
which I plan on studying it again in the future,
in the near far future, in a few months
after I read Laws of Success.
But you gotta like study,
one of the things is study the right types of books.
Transurfing, I learned of Transurfing,
I read it the first time,
and then there was so many things
that I wasn't taking action on
and I just simply forgot.
So I re-read it and I started taking action
on a lot of different things.
And that is where I was lacking, my worldview
and my spirituality.
I was like still in this mediocre thought process.
My mind was still mediocre average.
And so I realized, oh, I don't have spirituality,
so I need to work on that
and figure out what that even is.
So that's why I got into these seven books
because I feel like these are gonna help me
with my worldview and my spirituality,
like my soul and all that stuff.
And then another thing is the gateway process.
So meditation.
This is like taking action.
I meditated or summer, just normal.
And then I got into the gateway process,
the gateway experience over a month ago.
And if you guys been listening to these past couple episodes,
I have had some, I've just started to have some success.
I've had three unique experiences
where two of them were,
like one of them was a flash of light
and then another one was a flash of light
with like three dark figures on the bottom.
And then, and all this stuff was during my meditation.
So I can, I'm like, I have my eyes closed.
I'm in a pitch black room
and I'm laying down on my back
and I'm meditating with the gateway experience.
And so the flash of light.
And then the third one was a piece of paper
with text written on it, which was really strange.
So those are the, that's like me starting to get some,
some results, but I've had a lot of results before
with doing the inner work.
You, another thing is figure out where you're lacking.
Like for me, one of the things where I was lacking was,
I would have a lot of lost over girls.
And so what I did was I just started,
I realized like that's where I'm lacking.
That's an issue.
I got to fix that.
And so every single time during my meditation,
I put girls into the energy conversion box,
which is a box you place like things,
that thoughts that are popping up in your head
that you don't want to, that like need to get gone.
Like that you need to get rid of.
And then I also stayed in my affirmation.
I'm a man with high standards when it comes to women.
And so slowly, but surely I still have issues today,
but it's not nearly as bad as it was like a month ago
or a week ago even.
And every single day I keep on doing it more and more
and it's getting better and better and better.
So that's another place where I figured out
where I was lacking and I started to fix it.
And right now, where am I lacking right now?
I'm lacking in my viewer count.
So I realized that I am not,
one of the things for marketing,
one of the lessons that I learned in expert secrets is
if you build something great, no one's gonna come
unless you like show it to them.
So there's a quote from Field of Dreams.
It's like, if you build it, we will come or something like that.
Basically saying that if you build something great,
people will come and see it.
But that's not true in the real world
because you have to build something great
and then market it.
You have to actually get people to know about it.
And I've been doing a little bit of marketing
just on recording TikToks, three TikToks
and three shorts every day.
So for the past like maybe two weeks.
And it's definitely helping,
it's not helping the podcast.
I don't think I've had many people come from my TikTok
and start listening because I'm still at around six
to seven viewers on my podcast.
But I'm slowly but surely gaining a lot of followers.
So yesterday I had like 10 followers
and now I have 15 followers on my TikTok.
So that's like the only marketing that I'm doing,
but I realized a couple of weeks ago
that I needed to be a guest on podcasts
because one of the things is people don't,
people tend to want to stay on their own platform.
So if you are watching something on TikTok,
you don't wanna leave TikTok.
And if you're watching something on YouTube,
you don't wanna leave YouTube.
So they tend to wanna stay on their platform.
So basically marketing my podcast on TikTok
is inefficient simply because I don't have the audience,
but also because even though I could gain an audience,
just one viral video or like just over time
of consistent posting, I'll gain followers like I have then.
But people, it's much more efficient to meet people
where they're already at.
And that's to go on to a show and become a guest speaker.
And so last night I wrote down in my journal,
I need, like my next, like 20% my next 10x jump
is being a guest speaker.
And I declared that I was gonna do that a couple of weeks ago,
but I was, I'm not gonna lie, I'm very nervous.
Like I'm, I know that this is something
that needs to be done to, like this is the next stage
for my podcast.
Like right around now, I'm on like episode 97.
So I've built a name for myself
or at least I've built some credibility.
I've proved that I'm here for the long run.
I've proved that I'm actually serious about this.
And so I, but I still don't have many listeners,
which is why I need to be a guest on a show
that has at least a couple hundred listeners
or honestly, I'll be a guest on any show
that's in my market.
I just need to get myself out there
and do a very good episode with them.
And then only promote my show if they ask,
like where if, cause I know that I used to watch,
I used to listen to a lot of podcasts
and I used to listen to Dyer of a CEO
and I'm pretty sure in Dyer of a CEO,
he would always, he would always interview a guest
and then let them talk like the whole time.
And then at the end, he's like,
so if the viewers are interested in getting in touch with you
or not getting in touch, but like interested
in seeing your work, where can they go find you?
And then they would say where they can find them.
Like their TikTok or Instagram or YouTube or whatever it is,
which that's what I would do
if the host actually asks that,
which if the host doesn't, it's still a win
because I'm getting myself out there
because if people just look up my name,
just James Rides and see,
if they just look up my name, then that's a win
cause that's more and more people just looking up my name.
It's just anything.
So anything is a win.
And I know that the next step is being a guest
and to be honest, I'm really nervous and I don't,
there's a lot of like negative thoughts going in my head.
Like, oh, I don't deserve, or I'm not like good enough yet.
I don't want to ruin their episode or all this stuff,
but I know that this is all just negative stuff.
And I have to do it anyways.
Like that's what courage is.
Feeling fear, but doing it anyways.
So like just do it even though you're still afraid.
And I feel like this, a couple months ago,
I was really into expanding my comfort zone,
but I haven't really done it much since school started.
For the past two months, I haven't really done it too much.
And this is definitely gonna expand my comfort zone.
Like I'm really, like I don't, I'm nervous about that.
And to be honest, I don't like,
I don't really know how it would even work.
I know that there's like platforms where I can sign up
and people will be able to find me,
but I don't even know anything about it.
It's just all unknown, which I keep reminding myself that
when I first started even business,
I didn't even know how to build, how to register in LLC.
I didn't even know where to even start.
I didn't know any of like the tactics.
I didn't know how to even do anything.
But then I just figured things out one by one.
And then now I can do all of that.
Like even when I started the podcast,
I recorded 14 episodes too scared to even post,
but I also didn't even know how to even create a channel.
So then I had to figure it out and I figured it out.
Now I know that I can do it again.
And it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.
So the same thing with this podcast and being a guest speaker.
It's always going to happen.
And I feel like that's another reason why
if a millionaire had to start from scratch
and they were basically like racing someone
who was an average person to like an average person
and a millionaire started from scratch each
and they both had to, they both raced to become a millionaire.
The millionaire would win because they already know
like the process, they already know a lot of the stuff.
And they already know like the mindset.
Like one of the mindsets that I'm developing
is being conscious of the, what I just said,
how if you don't know something,
well, of course you're not going to know it.
You've never done it before.
So now you're conscious that you just do it anyways.
Like when I first started, I was too scared to even
register my LLC.
Cause I was so, it was so much of the fear of the unknown.
I didn't even know what was going on.
I had to spend like three days journaling,
doing like fear exercises,
showing me that the rewards outweighed the negatives.
And it was like a process.
So in the beginning, I was really bad at it.
But then over time, I was better and better and better.
Now I'm still bad, but I'm getting better.
And it's all just growth.
It's all a process.
Like so self-improvement is one thing,
but then entrepreneurship is like the epitome,
or it's like the most, what's the word?
There's a word for it, but it's basically like the most,
it's like the truest form of self-improvement,
purest form of self-improvement.
And I believe that because there,
one of the things when I was,
one of the things that pushed me over the edge
to start entrepreneurship and actually start my business
was something that Hamza said.
He basically said that when he grew more as a man,
like when he started his business
and started working on entrepreneurship,
that's when he actually grew as a masculine.
That's when he actually grew as masculinity.
Like he became a man, like way more of a man
when he worked on his business, because of his business.
And it's all about growing and improving.
So just working on business is still self-improvement.
So let me get some water.
So yesterday, I,
yesterday, which was the 21st of October,
I changed my show description
my show description to something different than it was before. When I first started the
show, I wrote a show description, which was fine. And once I recorded episode 96, and I
believe episode 89 had just posted that morning. So then I switched the show description and
I checked on Apple Podcasts to see if it switched on there. And it didn't, which I predicted
that it may switch once I post another video. And I posted another video this morning, and
I haven't checked Apple Podcasts yet. But pretty much I want to make sure that I'm documenting
everything, or at least most things. And that's one of the things I changed, the show description.
And now I think that it's a lot better. And I wrote, I copied and pasted the old one and
the new one in a Google Doc and took screenshots so I can document it like on paper as well.
And another thing that I plan on changing is the trailer, because if you guys have listened
to the season trailer for this show, it is terrible. It's like two minutes, I'm like,
welcome everyone. And I didn't even know how to speak. And that was still when I had that
voice recorder, so it sounded terrible. And I definitely plan on changing the trailer
and adding a new one in. So I want to let you guys know about that. And I did record
a new one yesterday, but it kind of sucks. I was pretty much what I said was, are you
a part of the 1%? Neither am I. Do you want to learn how the 1% made it? So do I. And
then basically follow my journey from going from a broke high school student to the 1%.
And I liked it when I recorded it. But it rhymed and it sounded dumb. So I didn't, I'm
not posting that just because I don't like the rhyming and it kind of sounds dumb. But
I like like that idea of basically saying that I'm, I don't really know what I'm doing.
Because that's one thing that I see a lot in my books, how people say that it's not
good to be the person teaching something that you're not actually like, it's not good to
make money off of something that you don't do yourself or something that, how do I say
this? It's not good to make money off of teaching people how to do that or how to make money.
Wait, I'm having a hard time saying this. When I was reading the millionaire fast lane,
he would always basically bash on like those gurus that were making most of their money
by teaching people how to make money. So they weren't actually using their own strategies.
And so I'm conscious of the fact that I'm making, eventually I'd be making money off
of teaching people stuff. But I think that it's different because I'm documenting it
and I'm teaching you as I go along. But I am conscious of in the past, I may have sounded
like I knew all this stuff, which I want to make clear that I don't, I'm just figuring
things out along the way. Like I just started, I'm still like, very new to all this stuff,
even Transurfing, even all like mindset and world view, I'm very new to this stuff. Self
improvement, I'm very new to. So I'm just documenting. And that's what I wanted to make
clear in the trailer that I don't know what I'm talking about either. But I'm just trying
to figure things out along the way. And I want to prove that you can escape even though
you don't know anything. So I want to, I want to keep that like honesty and I want to keep
that like vibe to prove that you can still like free yourself even though you don't know
much. And just all that.
So the three business books that really helped me kind of start business were Dotcom Secrets,
Expert Secrets, and Traffic Secrets, Russell Bronson's books, as well as the four hour
work week. And honestly, Dotcom Secrets was Dotcom and Expert were both of my most impactful
because they really taught me how to structure my business and how to position myself as
an expert. Even though I wasn't really applying it right away, it's very nice to have that
knowledge because, let me explain this, I wasn't really planning on applying it right
away. But now that I have like, I'm in this better situation. So the only thing that I
really applied from those two books was to record a podcast. I've been applying that
and then once I get to the situation where my right now my target number is 100 followers,
100 people listening to every single one of my episodes daily. So once I get to that
number, I'm going to create a lead magnet, which is basically like a free gift that I
send to people. And all they have to do is give me their email address. And like, the
only reason why I would know to do that is because I read it in the book. So that's why
I think that it's so good. Like one of the things I heard from Hamza was even it's still
good not it's still good to read books, even if you don't plan on applying them right away,
because it like changes your brain chemistry and it changes like your decisions. So then
you'll be more likely to apply in the future, which I 100% agree with. Even if you don't
plan on applying anything in that book, as long as it's a good book and beneficial, then
it's 100% worth reading, which is another thing like die wise. Like I said, I don't,
it's not really, I don't see it as really benefiting me too much right now. Not at least
not as much as like laws of success will. But I still think it's beneficial to read
just because it will change my brain chemistry and it will change like my ideas on things
and it will change my perspective. So that is like that. And I have this whole like plan
in my head of once I reach certain points, then I'll do this. So like I said, once I
get 100 followers on the show, I'll send everyone to a basically promote a lead magnet, which
is which they're going to you guys would give me your email address, which I to be honest,
I don't. Yes, the email address will come in use later, but at the moment, the email
address will not help me too much. What will is on the second page. Once I give you the
lead, the email address, there's gonna be two steps. It's gonna be step one is fill
out this form. And then it's just gonna be a form asking you guys what would be like
what what you guys will essentially would be me getting information from you guys on
how to build a course that you guys would like or membership site. And then the second
step would be like check your email for the email about the actual item that you guys
wanted the free lead magnet. And like the whole purpose of that campaign would simply
be to get people to tell me ideas on a course to make. And then I would make that course
and then sell it. That's like that's like my business plan right now. So if you guys
are interested in seeing my like progress or my documenting my journey on that aspect,
that's my plan. I haven't even taken action on any of that simply because I don't have
100 followers yet, which I feel like 100 followers will be fairly easy to obtain once I start
being a guest. Because another thing I read about yesterday was it's a waiting game. Like
early on in the podcast, you know that it's a waiting game. Like I'm just sitting here
waiting for something to happen. But nothing's ever going to happen. And like you remember
that filled the dreams quote, if you build it, we will come know that's not true in real
life. Nothing's gonna happen. Like it's going to take forever if you want to organically
like truly naturally get traffic and build your show just from like search results. Just
people accidentally coming across your show. And so that's why I got to start doing stuff.
I got to actually start putting myself out there because right now I'm kind of in like
my corner my own box and I haven't really put myself out there. I've just been posting
my own content. And I haven't really been appearing into other people's content, which
other people already have traffic congregated, they already have viewers congregated. So then
if I can put myself out there onto that content, then maybe I'll grab a portion of those viewers
and, and then start listening to this show. And so that's another thing a lot of people
I included like to start channels, YouTube channels, podcasts with the like wanting to
make money. Like I remember when I used to play video games, I had a YouTube channel
like every other kid my age at that time had a YouTube channel about like playing that
video game. And I would post like those dumb, terribly edited YouTube videos about like
my video game. And I wanted to make money off of it. That's like all I cared about.
But that's the issue. I think it's fine to want to make money off of the podcast as long
as that's not like your only goal. But if you want to make money, you have to actually
know the business side of things. Like you have to actually know how to do it business
like like how to actually succeed business in business, which is why I'm so grateful
that I actually read books and learned about all this stuff because I would not have made
it this far if I was just on money, if I just wanted to do money. And also I wouldn't have
made it this far if I just wanted money, but also didn't know the knowledge. So it's one
thing to only have money on your mind, but it's another thing to have money on your mind,
but also know how it works like know the business side of things. You'll see a lot more success
if you you'll be more likely to gain success if you know how the business side works. But
even that is still probably not enough, you still have to have a bigger reason, which for
me is the self improvement side of things. Like I haven't had any like true moments where
I feel like I changed anyone's life. So I don't really know. Like I see all the time
in these business books where successful entrepreneurs say that they were originally in it for the
money, but then they changed because they're like, Oh, I changed this person's life. So
now I'm in it for the people like I'm people entrepreneurs are all about the, the change
that they'll make in people's lives, which I haven't really seen any, like I don't see
that I've changed anyone's lives yet. So I can't really relate on that. So right now,
to be honest, like the only things that I'm doing this for is to document the journey
as well as the self improvement side of things, like showing people my results, they're not
results, but showing people my transformation and making it clear that they that you guys
can get it yourselves. And then the money side is also a big benefit as well, which
it's, I think it's apparent that I'm not 100% in it for the money because I would not have
made it to episode 97 if I was. And so it's all like the business side of things going
back to my old YouTube channel, like I would post one of my biggest issues was I didn't
know how to actually gain success. So I would post when I wanted to, which was like once
every couple months. And they were like trash videos. And then even like my old TikTok,
when I during the lockdown during the quarantine, I had a TikTok channel that I started posting
on. And my first video, I was like, Oh, this is going to go viral. It did not. And then
the next video is like, Oh, this is going to go viral. I all I wanted was for it to go
viral. And those are the wrong reasons because if you're in it just for things to go viral,
then you're not going to make it very far. And one of the things yesterday that I read
in like how beginner mistake mistakes for podcasting, one of the beginner mistakes is
to constantly check your analytics. And I learned I learned about that last night. And then
this more or just before starting to record this episode, I was like, Oh, I remembered
it. I was conscious of checking your analytics too much. And I had checked my analytics every
single day this week. And I was like, Oh, I want to check my analytics though. And I did
it anyways. So that's another fail. So it's like, Oh, there's a lot of little things that
I fail about fail on throughout the day. But like to be honest, the analytics side, it's
not too bad because I know that yes, I'm hoping for a like, I'm hoping to have a lot of people
like that one day I had 57 downloads in one day, which by the way, I spiked up to 57
for one day. And then I went back down to my normal six to seven downloads per day.
So I'm like, I'm obviously I'm hoping for a lot of downloads in one day, but I already
I can like, know I know that it's like not very like likely to happen. And then I also
checked my TikTok analytics, which I'm still hoping for a video that's more than 200 views.
Because all of my videos except for one have gotten more than 200 views. The the one right
now is at 179. So every single one of my videos has gotten more than 200 views, which is good.
Like it's way better than my YouTube, my YouTube channel. On the YouTube podcast, they pretty
much all of them have like zero views. But the shorts have like, most of them have like
zero and some have like 50 some have there's like one that has 150. That's it. So the YouTube
side of things is not very good. But my TikTok is being very successful at the moment. 200
around 200 views per episode or per TikTok and post three per day. And I've probably got
like almost 200 likes total, which is very good, I think. And then I also have 15 followers.
And I've gotten quite a few comments. So it's like all those little wins, you got to keep
adding up like one of the things that got me through the early days of podcasting, until
I actually created my positive feedback loop was the little wins. Excuse me. And I remember
I would create like, let me give me one second. I would create, oh my gosh, let me get some
water. I got a dry throat. All right, so I would create like little goals for little
wins that to achieve. Like my first one was like episode 10. That was double digits. And
then my second one was episode 21, which meant that I was in the top 1%. And then my third
one was like episode 50. And then I kind of stopped the wins until for lacking life. And
I told the story, someone said that episode 100 is like the big milestone. So then I realized
I was only like 30 episodes or 40 episodes away. So that's that's my next goal. And I'm
on episode 97. So in three days, I'll have recorded 100 episodes, but then it won't be
until like nine days, or 10 days until episode 100 actually publishes and posts. So episode
100 is like my next big goal. And it's all about those little big wins. Like for the
TikTok, one of my goals was to like get more followers, which was an arbitrary, I think
that's right word, is like an arbitrary goal. So it wasn't really that good of a goal. But
right now, just saying this and reminding myself of the big goals, the big win or the
little wins. My next goal is 20 followers on TikTok. And then 250 likes. So that's like
my next big goal or my little goal, big or little win. So basically gamify it. Like one
of the things I learned from Hamza is gamify yourself improvement. Like basically treat
it like milestones or achievements, which I never really did in real life. But I found
it very useful in like podcasting because there's actual analytics and there's actual
like markers that you can use. So for my podcast after saying all this, my next little win
is 10 rolling average subscribers. Right now I have six. So double digits, rolling average
subscribers. And that's, that's pretty much where I'm at with all that. Sorry, my voice
is kind of going out right now. I have no idea why. Hopefully it's not like serious.
Um, this past week has been very good. Next week is going to be even better. Hopefully
I'm going to, or I'm definitely going to start getting double episode days in because I have
to prepare for my vacation next month, which I'm not going to be recording at all during
that week because I want to take the entire rest, but I still want to post daily. So next
week I'm going to be posting double episodes, but that's it for the episode. So follow for
more if you're interested. Have a good day.