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If I wanted to pander to stage green people, the big thing to focus on is social responsibility. Green people love to feel like they're helping to fight climate change or provide fair wages to some worker in a 3rd world country when they're buying coffee. They wanna virtue signal on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. Stuff like the latest obscure health superfoods. They love people using pronouns, promoting diversity, supporting BLM and LGBT rights. They have their own woo-woo language you'll have to identify and start using yourself to virtue signal to them as well. If you're selling a physical product, it should be organic, handmade, ethically sourced. If you've got some kind of digital-only product or a service, you'll need to virtue signal by marking your prices up by at least an additional 5 - 10% and then donating that extra percent to charity for them. If the product isn't environmentally-friendly to produce then you should offset that with some action.

I wouldn't think twice about shelling out for a good computer. I spend most of my waking hours in front of one, so on a per-hour basis even a $2,000 computer that I used for 5 years, would be pennies per hour. I agree with other comments about getting a PC instead of a laptop. Unless there is a specific reason why you actually need it to be portable. I had a laptop in uni and never took it to class, it didn't really ever leave my room. Also be aware of all the great distractions that a powerful computer can present, mostly in the form of gaming.

Why 2 or 3 years? How did you calculate that number? And what number of subscribers, monthly ad revenue, or other metric will tell you when it's time to switch to full-time? What is holding you back from committing to the company AND working 2x as hard on your Youtube channel as you currently are? I just looked up your channel and it looks quite good. I don't speak the language, but they look well edited and packed full of detailed information. So I understand that they take a lot of time to produce. But if you are passionate about going full-time, you need to work a little bit harder to get there. Like at least 20%. Before your most recent video that you uploaded today, your last one was 2 weeks ago. I think you should be aiming to upload a video on the same day of the week at the same time each week. That might mean waking up 2 hours earlier every day for the next couple of years. Or 2 hours per night less doing stuff you enjoy. But now while you're young and have lots of energy is the best time to do it.

Sam Hyde isn't someone that I would normally suggest emulating, but his advice on this is golden: Actual advice starts at about 11 minutes. But good info on identifying actual toxic people vs just difficult relationships before that.

Scale up. Get more people to take your lessons -- plaster free advertisements on notice boards at grocery stores, coffee shops, on telephone poles, or whatever. Post online on Facebook marketplace, groups in your area Get more people to hire you for shows -- start reaching out to at least 5 venues every day. Local bars and restaurants, clubs, etc. Sell more music -- Make an account on Fiverr or Upwork and offer to write quick little jingles or tunes for people for $5, $20, or whatever you think is reasonable.

The Gamestop short position was covered fucking months ago. It was over 100% short sold at the peak, now it's only 20% short sold. You're just parroting shit your friends are telling you with no real knowledge of what's going on or what it means. What are you talking about Andrew Cohen? There is no Andrew Cohen at Gamestop. George Sherman is the current CEO, has been since April 2019. The saving grace used to be that you had to be smart enough to open a trading account to ruin your life with options trading. Now Robinhood made it as easy as installing an app. No I don't own any GME. I thought about buying some when Reggie Fils-Aime and the Petsmart CEO joined the board in March 2020, based on actual fundamentals, but I didn't. Way before this meme stock stuff. No way in hell I'm aping into the bubble at this level.

Look at a 1 year chart. You think it's gonna 2x or 10x when it's already at $282, when fair market value is like $20 - $50? That being said, what happened with AMC today is pretty interesting. But people who have no idea how the stock market or finance work, and are learning about Gamestop 5 months after the initial hype, somehow missed the initial story even when it was on every mainstream media outlet for weeks, should stay a mile away from it. Quick way to get burned and lose all your money. There is no such thing as quick or easy money that doesn't come with exceptional risk (aka complete gambling.)

Someone with writing as their ideal medium weighing in here. Yes, it's really your ideal medium. Don't think of the writing as your life purpose itself. It's just a tool that allows you to most effectively communicate and actualize your life purpose. Your life purpose is what you write about. An analogy... Your life purpose might be building birdhouses. Using a hammer is your ideal medium to accomplish it. That doesn't make the hammer itself your life purpose. It's just a tool. Who the fuck is excited about hammers? Don't focus too hard on the tool, don't start making hammers. Just use it. Disclaimer: There are people who fetishize writing itself and make that their life purpose. See people with entire Youtube channels devoted to the writing process. Just like there are probably people whose life purpose is constructing the perfect hammer. But that doesn't sound like it's you. So don't get distracted by writing as a purpose instead of a tool. That would be the equivalent of spending hundreds of hours trying to figure out what the ideal hammer to buy is.

Yes it's viable. When working through the Life Purpose Course, it was one of the options on my shortlist. I ran my own Minecraft server for most of 2019 - 2020. I nearly started a how-to channel to compete with The Breakdown teaching people how to run their own servers. That guy is currently sitting at 300k+ subscribers on Youtube and safe to say he is making a living from what he loves. There is 100% room for another channel in that space. For me, it became too stressful. The power of being an admin got to me and turned me into an asshole. I got obsessed with maintaining a great lag-free server and started to resent my own players. And I was making more and more rules to micromanage stuff like redstone machines, which upset people. Eventually there was too big of a disconnect between what I wanted and what players wanted, so I decided to just step aside and let my mods take over the server and run it themselves. Being a server admin is a thankless job where people never really tell you what you're doing right, and immediately start shouting the second something goes wrong. It also doesn't pay great for the amount of work that you put in. There are a few guys who run multiple servers for different game modes and seem to be making a good living. But most of them do stuff that I think technically breaks Minecraft's ToS, like offering special perks to paying members that give them an advantage over non-paying members. Like Dlavjr said I would try to find a way to benefit society. Don't do it as a money-grab. But don't think that it has to be some grand vision though. Giving a kid who is bullied at school somewhere that they feel safe and welcome to hang out is huge. The memories from your server may be some of the highlights of their adolescence, you might even save some kid from killing themselves by finding meaning and community on your server. Aside from running a server, you could create all kinds of Youtube channels. Let's Plays, how-to guides, etc. Or even offer a service where you come in and create a running server completely customized for someone and then hand it over, so they get a turnkey solution without needing all the technical details. A couple of the companies renting out Minecraft servers seem to be run by teenagers as well. If you like more of the IT side and want to rent an entire OVH server and then split it up for people to rent from you.

You're about 5 months too late

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet: The 4 hour workweek by Tim Ferriss Chris Guillebeau - The $100 Startup was also pretty instrumental to starting my own business

I mean.... if you want to build a Youtube audience, the obvious answer is to make high-quality Youtube videos on a fairly frequent and consistent basis, no? You can't build a Youtube audience by posting on Facebook or any kind of "tricks." Time spent trying to build a TikTok audience would be better spent just making Youtube videos instead. The thing with TikTok is yes you get tons of views. It's not hard to have a TikTok go viral and get millions of views. But TikTok is absolutely dog-shit abysmal in terms of engagement and actually getting people to take action. It's mostly just kids mindlessly scrolling through video after video. They won't actually follow links or check you out on other platforms. Whether you're trying to grow a Youtube channel, a blog, or anything else, the answer is the same. Just provide an overwhelming amount of valuable, useful information to people for free. It's so simple that most people don't do it. They focus on trying a bunch of tricks and "hacks" that don't work half the time. Of course there are a few other important things like creating good thumbnails and titles, and picking good video topics. But that doesn't matter if you aren't putting out at least 2-3 videos per week when you're getting started. There are also courses you can take that will teach you how to do it. I'm in one but it costs $449 per year, there's probably cheaper options on Udemy, Skillshare, etc.

So what I'm hearing is that you know what you DON'T want to do. I haven't heard much about what you DO want to do. Or even what you think you might want to do. If you haven't taken the Life Purpose Course yet, I'd highly recommend it. It'll help you out with this. These 2 options I see as just trying to run away from your problems. You definitely haven't thought about this too in-depth. So you move to the middle of nowhere and build a cabin. (Nowhere near cities has land that you can just buy and build a cabin on.) Have you looked into whether you can get internet in that kind of place? Probably not, or if you can it'll be slow and expensive satellite internet. Maybe not even good enough to stream videos on. Work part-time... where? If you're living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, there are very few jobs available. Also in remote places, food and everything else tends to be more expensive too. I am quite familiar with this option.... even this week I found myself looking at places 7 hours up north. Found a sweet house on 72 acres on an island with a population of 2k people for about $500k. But then where would my wife work, what's the internet situation? I looked how far it was to the nearest Tim Hortons, McDonalds, or anything and it was over an hour. It's easy to romanticize that kind of lifestyle but I don't think many people would actually like to live it. Same with being a monk and doing the same boring stuff every day. If you actually like graphic design or building websites, this is an option. This is the path that I took. My story is actually very similar to yours... Canadian, got into a career just to appease my parents (accounting), then quit and started my own business as a freelance writer. It's not hard to learn some basic graphic design skills and start offering your services on Fiverr or something similar just to test it out. You can always see if you like doing it for a bit in your spare time, and then decide to either fully commit or find something else. I think these ones are kind of just excuses. You also probably like eating, but that doesn't mean being a chef is a good idea for you. Getting into the psychedelic field in any meaningful capacity means going back to school and studying a lot of chemistry and stuff that you will probably find boring. How would being a runner give back to society or create anything good for others? What do you get out of it except a brief good feeling when you get a new personal best? Exercise is important but unless you're already an elite athlete, I don't think it's worth basing a life purpose around.

I don't know a ton about it. Except I think it costs an average of like $200 to mint your artwork as an NFT and list it on OpenSea. If you are confident that your artwork is good enough someone will pay $200 for it, go for it. If you're not sure, you may lose money. Doesn't hurt to just create one or two I guess and see how they do. Although I think a big part of what makes NFTs successful is that there's a big series... like cryptopunks, bored ape yacht club, etc. Part of what gives credibility to a project is that an artist is willing to create like 100 NFTs, not just 1 or 2 to make a quick buck.

If it's interesting, why not? Some people study Latin or other stuff just as a hobby. Even if it won't be their career or have any practical application. With business and marketing, at least you'll be able to identify when it's being used against you when you're considering an online course or out shopping at the mall. You'll be less likely to fall victim to big flashy red "SALE" signs, pricing strategies like making something $99 instead of $100, false scarcity or limited time offers, etc.

What if you've got a renter who just decides not to pay? Even if you do background and credit checks, it can happen. And it seems like the law is tilted to wayyyyy favor the renter. They can basically live rent-free in your house for like 6 months while you go through the proper eviction process from what I've heard. And then on the last day, they might decide to totally trash your place on the way out. That's my #1 worry that has kept me from getting into real estate. #2 being that I'm not very handy and don't know what to look for, what you describe happening in the video basically. Once you get to the point that you own multiple properties or an entire apartment building, your risk is more spread out. But it seems like you just have to hope you get lucky and aren't bankrupted by bad tenants not paying for those first couple of properties. My own home has probably gone up $100k in value this year so yeah, in retrospect I could've just bought another house and held it without renting and have my net worth double. But I would also rely on a renter to be able to pay that second mortgage.

You don't need massive work ethic and discipline. You just need to realize that the average person has absolutely abysmal work ethic and discipline. If you work even twice as hard as the average person (not hard,) then you're twice as far ahead. Compound that out over 10, 20, 30 years. "No distractions" is the big one. You need to work in long, uninterrupted chunks of time. At least 1 hour at a time with no distractions. That means no social media. Phone in airplane mode. Turn off desktop notifications for things like emails. Switching tasks is one of the biggest productivity killers. It might seem faster to just quickly answer an email when it pops up. But for most tasks, it'll take you 10 minutes to really get back into the swing of things when you switch back. You need to experiment to figure out what's optimal for you. Everyone is different and works best under different conditions.

I answered this in a private message for someone a couple days ago, but I don't think most people will want to read the 1,000-word version so I'll try to summarize it and provide a generic answer... Edit after writing: Nevermind this is still gonna be long lol - Be unhappy enough with your job to make a change - Start looking into what other options are available. Google and look up "work from home" type stuff on Youtube and learn as much about it as you can. - Figure out what you think you would like to do. Research that thing even more, in a specific way. - Maybe invest in an inexpensive ($0 - $150) but trustworthy course to teach you the basics in an efficient way - See if there is a way that you can test it out your business idea but only spend a couple hours per week on it. Something like Fiverr or Upwork is good for most freelance work. Don't worry about pay, just get some experience. See if you like it. - Make a plan and discuss it with your partner/family/roommate or whatever. For me it was that I would quit my job, but that I had to start making $X per month within a year or I'd need to find another job in my old industry. - If you have a chill and understanding boss like I luckily did, you can tell them that you want to quit in 3 - 6 months to start your own business. - Keep learning and ideally doing a bit of work on your business in the evening and on weekends - Start trying to build up your business. I waited to create a website and find clients until I actually quit and could do it full-time. But if you can start getting a small amount of consistent work early, that'd be best. - Take the leap and go full-time I recommend watching a lot of business / self-help channels on Youtube like Project Life Mastery, Dan Lok, Grant Cardone to get you deep into the spiral dynamics "Stage Orange" mindset if you're wanting to start your own business. Now I find most of what they say very cringe, borderline scammy. But when you're just getting into business they provide a lot of motivation and inspiration. Just don't drink the koolaid and buy their overpriced courses. If you type "motivational video" into Youtube and watch those kinds of things they get you pretty hyped up to make a change in your life too. I had a playlist of my favorite (now kinda cringe to me) motivational stuff that I made at one point. I'll make it public if you wanna check it out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLJvCIJuCYbZME6E4G1Q0lrLKUyf5Ccy I specifically attribute the "THE WAKE UP CALL | You Will Stop Wasting Any More Time" one for inspiring me to make $10,000 in one month one time. If you listen to this shit enough, you'll actually start to believe that you can do anything, and that earning a million dollars is easy. Saturate your mind with it and let it take over. This is maybe the most important part. Click the link and watch a couple of the videos. If I could share something with an 18 year old kid who wanted to start a business, I'd just make them watch motivational videos for 1-2 hours every day. Getting into that hustle "I AM DESTINED FOR GREATNESS" mindset is 90% of it, even if you don't have any skills or knowledge to back it up yet. If you get fired up enough from motivational videos, you will find a way. You'll hack through the forest with a machete and blaze your own path. It's fine. lol. i don't know how to answer that. It's about what you'd expect. Empowering but a bit scary. Even now a few years later, if you rely on a couple big clients, they can leave at any time and you'll be left scrambling to figure out where to get money next month. Some months early on I earned $2,000/month and then I'd go 3 months in a row where I earned $0. If you've got a partner who keeps their job, it's a good anchor and a lot less stressful to just take the leap and start your own business. If you're living on your own, I would say you want to save at least 1 year's expenses first, probably 2 to be safe. You will need to figure out how to motivate yourself and how to be productive. In addition to the cringe motivational stuff, spend some time reading and watching about productivity. Try working early in the morning, late at night, using the pomodoro technique, and other stuff to see what makes you the most efficient. You don't have a steady job where you can just show up and get paid any more is the big thing. It's 100% on you, and you decide how much or little you want to work and earn. I've found a real sense of abundance though. There is no real scarcity out there. You're connected to the entire world and millions of companies via the internet. All you need to do is find a few to hire you. If you go looking for work hard enough, you'll always find it. Even not actively looking for work, stuff just seems to fall into my lap when I need it. One job will dry up, and I'll suddenly get an email from someone else who wants to work with me. Stuff like that. The big thing is just deciding if you wanna work 8 hours a day and earn lots of money, or just work 2-4 hours a day to coast and get by and play video games all afternoon instead.

In my opinion, it doesn't. Except that it can be a gateway to those topics, in the same way pickup artistry can. I've had the same experience with NLP. I go into it with the intention of getting a bunch of cool Derren Brown type jedi mind tricks. In reality it's pretty boring. NLP is also widely considered to be pseudoscience. Although I know a lot of people here are into alternative stuff so that doesn't necessarily mean much. Just that science looks down upon it and its claimed effectiveness. If you want the benefits of NLP without getting super autistic about how much emphasis you put on which word, or sneaking suggestive words into your sentences... just study sales/marketing instead. Haven't read them all yet, but I also bought all 3 of this guy's books... https://www.coldreadingsuccess.com/kindle If you're wanting the stereotypical NLP "wow people at parties" results, might as well go all the way and be a total charlatan.

I worked 8.5 hours a day in an office for years. At least 3 or 4 of those hours were just slacking off every day. Watching Youtube videos, listening to podcasts while I work which lowers my productivity, doing fantasy football with coworkers. I know from all of the other employees I saw, they were all operating at 50% capacity or less too. That's just standard procedure in the corporate world. That's just the stuff you could actually get in trouble for. Not to mention how much time was wasted in useless meetings and other stuff. Now I own my own business. On a busy day, I wake up at 6 am and I'm done by noon. That's if I feel like making $300 - $500/day or I have lots of work lined up all at once. Normally I work like 2 hours per day just to earn $100 - $200. Which is what someone earning a $30,000/yr salary would make working 8 hours a day. Like Brivido said, it's about quality not quantity. During those hours I'm 100% focused. No email, no checking my phone, no music, no facebook, no youtube. No breaks, no stopping to eat, no getting up. No distractions at all. I much rather get hyper-focused and give it 100% for a few hours than half-ass it for an entire day. Would you rather do 1 hour of $100/hr work or 10 hours of $10/hr quality work. Also focus on the tasks that actually get you results to save time. Cut out little busy-work things that make it feel like you're working but aren't. For example, if you're a blogger, the 1 activity that gets results is writing more and better-quality blogs. Not wasting time looking at your analytics each day, or other stuff. Similarly, I don't take on clients who want to have unnecessary weekly meetings or babysitting/hand-holding. I exclusively communicate through email so I can respond when I want to, and don't have to schedule and be on video calls at specific times, or waste time making small-talk.

Partnerships are complicated and it's easy to have disagreements. I would do it all yourself. Split it into two courses. One on shadow work, one on ADHD treatment. Make the shadow work one a prerequisite before you can take the shadow work one. If you aren't passionate about the shadow work part, create a basic course outline with all the points that need to be covered. Then pay someone on Upwork or similar to create it for you. If you aren't passionate enough to do that, then just abandon it entirely I guess. Also the crossover between people who are interested in solving a concrete problem like ADHD and more metaphysical woo-woo stuff like shadow work is going to be pretty niche. Most people don't want to put in the effort for something they don't believe in, just to get to the part they want. So in that sense I think it'll be a really hard sell.

PhD is academic, business or exercise physiology is applied. Unless you want to spend your life doing research or teaching in a university, I wouldn't bother with a PhD. It sounds incongruent to your life purpose. Also while technically it can be completed in 4 years, most people take 5 - 7 to finish their PhD. So you should plan more realistically to be 26 - 28 once you're done if you go that path. What makes you wanna accept? Just pressure from your family and society, or is it something you really want to do? If you are already iffy about it now, think how you'll feel 3 years in.

Besides knowing that you love cooking, you also need to know what your top values, signature strengths, and ideal medium are. That's what will clear up the confusion about Youtube vs blog vs restaurant. We can't give you a quick answer to that. It takes hours of video in the course to explain it, and then you have to sit down and do actual exercises to derive the answer for yourself. We don't know you. How are WE supposed to know if you'd be happier working in a restaurant or making a Youtube channel if you can't figure it out yourself? Stop looking for shortcuts. You're talking about something that will be the difference between whether you wake up loving your life every day for the rest of your life, or work a job that you hate for the next 40 years. Spend the couple hundred dollars and a few days worth of your time and do the course. I'll give you a little hint... think of the first time that you realized you loved cooking. What were you doing, where were you, and what about it made you fall in love with it? There are lots of different reasons to have a love of cooking. Was it the idea of contributing to your family? To see the look of enjoyment on people's faces as they ate your food? Mastering the technical nature of a difficult recipe? The first time someone paid you to cook? There are probably dozens of reasons depending on which chef you ask, and it'll determine what path they take.

There's really two main options: Online course platform -- like Podia that you've already looked at. Also look at Thinkific, Teachable, Kajabi, Learndash. Some of these have beginner plans that are free that might meet your needs, so worth checking out and comparing to see what's best. When you look at the pricing, just make sure they aren't charging you a % for each sale on top of a monthly fee. Like I think Teachable is $29/month PLUS 5% from every sale on their lowest plan. You have to go up to their $99 plan to not have the % thing. Think long-term if this is going to be a one-off thing as well, or if you plan to create a full video course or something one day. It's going to be annoying to move from one platform to the other, or to have your paid products spread across multiple services. So it might be better to pay for a more full-featured service from the start for the sake of easy growth. LMS (Learning management system) - This is one of many wordpress plugins that allows you to host courses or sell stuff directly on your own website. Or look at e-commerce plugins like Woocommerce. Or you can just integrate Stripe directly into your own website to take credit card payments. If your e-book isn't full of images it should only be a couple hundred kb. Even a basic Bluehost or Hostgator plan should be fine with people downloading a couple hundred copies per month. One isn't necessarily better than the other, there's pros and cons. Personally I think I'd rather have it on my site and own it 100%. So it can never go down or be unavailable because of another company. But that also comes with more work to set up and maintain on your part. Go with a platform like Podia if you just want to set it and forget it though.

Of course you aren't on the same level, these guys have been honing their craft for a decade or more. Everyone starts somewhere. Sadhguru was just a dude working a regular job and riding motorcycles. Go watch some of Leo's videos from 8 years ago to see where you could start. You don't have to start off with "What is the meaning of life" stuff. There are basic spiritual / non-dual concepts you can introduce. To be a teacher, you only have to be slightly more advanced than your students. As you grow and learn, they'll grow with you. The answer isn't to lock yourself in a room and do shadow work and study for 10 years. You might be more knowledgable, but knowledge is just a part of teaching. You need to do it to learn about communication, presentation, etc.