TIE #024: You Must Want Change (How to Escape the Rat Race)
Start today or live a life full of regret. The choice is yours.
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The reason you are still stuck working a job you hate is simple:
You don’t want change bad enough.
Here are things you are probably doing, that are doing nothing for you:
Consuming motivational content
Reading books about business/entrepreneurship
“Planning” for things you will never do
Telling yourself you’ll start “one day”
All of these are just different forms of procrastination disguised as beneficial tasks.
Stop doing them.
In fact, stop reading this newsletter.
I’m not kidding.
It won’t make you money. It won’t help you escape. It won’t do anything other than make you feel good when something I say resonates with you.
(Actually, being a paid member will absolutely make you money but only if you’ve already taken the leap and started an Amazon business first)
I’ve said this a million times already but if you want to escape from your current lifestyle, you need to make more money.
It’s stupid that the world works that way, but it is reality.
You go to that job you hate because you depend on the income it provides. If you didn’t, you’d just not go and spend time with the people you love most.
You can complain that this isn’t fair or you can do something about it.
People often accuse me of “only caring about money” on social media.
I don’t give a shit about money. I only care about freedom.
In fact, I still drive a 13 year old vehicle despite being able to walk into a dealership and buy five brand new cars in cash. I just don’t feel the need to.
I talk about money because it is the key to freedom.
Your other idols on Twitter won’t tell you that straight up, but I will.
The money won’t come if you aren’t willing to try something new, be uncomfortable, and take a little bit of risk.
I can’t tell you how to want change bad enough, that’s on you.
What I can tell you, is how I did it. I sat down and analyzed this stupid game all of us humans play.
99% of us adults do the following:
Wake up to an alarm 5 days/week
Leave behind the people we love most until the day is almost over
Commute to a workplace that does not care about us
Spend 8 hours of precious time (that we never get back) doing something that we’d rather not be doing
Commute back home
Repeat on end for 50 years
All of that for the promise of a paycheck that you have no control over and two days of “freedom” on the weekend.
I looked at that process and read it repeatedly until it pissed me off.
Another human is telling me when I have to wake up? Fuck that.
Another human is telling me when I have to start working? Fuck that.
Another human has control over when I can take a vacation? Fuck that.
Another human has control over how much money I make? Fuck that.
I have to do this for 5 decades and only get freedom once I’m old? Fuck that.
This was enough for me to start immediately and never stop.
I don’t know if doing what I did will work for you, but finding what pushes you over the edge is a must if you want to escape.
Starting today means taking an active step towards something that makes you money, but doesn’t require you to be physically present to generate that income.
My personal recommendation is an Amazon business because it carries the highest chance of success (with no experience) and has little to no downside if it fails.
If you’re cool with that, sign up to for a seller account right now.
Not in an hour, not tomorrow. Now.
Or go back to being all talk and live a life full of regret.
As always, the choice is yours.
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