I remember it like it was yesterday.
March of 2023.
I’d just returned from the astonishing landscapes & panoramic views in southern France.
The beautiful beachfront of Nice.
The mystifying greatness of Pont du Gard.
The breathtaking lavender fields in Provence.
But one place stood out: Monaco.
The yachts, the supercars, the casinos…
But most importantly the dream of chilling out in the sun, being able to do whatever I want, inspired me to finally say:
Fuck it.
It had been more than 6 months since I got into online entrepreneurship.
Every day I consumed at least 3 hours of:
And many more businessmen alike.
But I’d always put off starting my own business.
“I’ll do it once I’ve graduated.”
Graduation came and went.
“I’ll do it once I have more clarity.”
The clarity never came.
“I’ll do it once I have a job.”
I got a job but I was still paralyzed.
On the 17th of March 2023, that changed.
I started my first ever business: An ads agency.
I didn’t even know how the fuck ads worked, all I knew was that I needed to attract clients (somehow).
So I started sending cold emails to local cafes.
That’s why I ceremonially named my business “CoffeeAds Media”.
Just about 10 cold emails later… I’d already given up (lol).
“Not a single reply? This must not be working.”
Onto the next thing.
This cycle repeated itself a few times with a few other business models.
None of them gained any traction.
One day, however, I realized my mistake:
I didn’t stick to it for long enough.
I wasn’t putting in the reps.
For the next couple of days, I thought long & hard about what service to sell to whom.
That’s when a stroke of genius hit me:
“Why don’t I do webdesign? I’ve always liked designing and creating stuff.”
Swiftly I pulled up a YouTube tutorial and got started.
I designed my first website and had a fucking blast doing so.
“This must be it!”
The next day I scraped Google Maps for every lawyer in my hometown.
(Don’t ask me why I chose lawyers…)
I now had a list of over 200 prospects I could email.
And so I did.
I even cold-called a couple of them.
Hours of laborious work for …drumroll please… 1 response.
A friendly family lawyer who lived near me.
He didn’t want me to design a new website. He merely wanted me to fix some stuff on his existing one.
I did that for free and got my first ever testimonial.
Eventually, he did end up paying me for maintenance services.
I’d made my first dollar online! Yay!
The problem?
I hated the work.
I couldn’t care less about some lawyer's website.
This wasn’t the purposeful business model that I was looking for.
Slowly but surely, I fell into a rut.
Every day I was doing tasks that I absolutely despised:
The worst part?
I was gaining ZERO new clients.
“What am I doing wrong?”
“Why am I even doing this?”
One day in October, I was so frustrated that I didn’t want to work.
Instead, I sat down, opened my laptop, and wrote an article about biohacking.
Why did I do this?
I don’t know for sure.
But I must have craved some creative outlet after months of strenuous busy work.
What started with 1 article turned into a 5-part series.
Every time, I was in the flow state for HOURS.
It was genuinely magical.
I didn’t care about the quality of the article, I just wrote. And wrote, and wrote.
By pure chance, I also discovered a blond guy with a deep, mysterious voice on YouTube.
Dan Koe.
He sold the dream of making money by simply writing about things you enjoy.
“This is too good to be true!” I thought.
But I gave it a go anyway.
I opened my Twitter account (which I’d created a couple of months ago) and started posting daily.
That was about 4 months ago.
I still haven’t quit.
I have about 1.7k followers.
And I’m making about $1000 per month just by writing some words in a doc.
It’s funny to look back and see how inexperienced I was.
All the mistakes I’ve made.
But they were all part of the journey.
Sure, I could have made progress MUCH faster.
But I needed those lessons.
If I could go back, the only thing I’d change is that I would have stopped worrying so much.
I was going here anyway – No need to stress out. It’s never been worth it.
Enjoy the journey and build some epic fucking businesses.
Your biggest fan,
Tim <3
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