Life restructuring: money, goals, OnlyFans, and investing
I climbed several wealth brackets in a couple of years and never stopped to look at the board. The goal at the start of the year was $500,000 a month in profit. Two months in I was still travelling, still making more than enough, and unsatisfied. The goal was wrong.
Last year I went to 20 countries. I have been travelling for years. On paper that is the life I wanted. Most of it was a new Airbnb and the same laptop. Eighty percent of the day was identical in Colombia, Georgia, or London. The rest was finding a gym, a barber, a restaurant. No routine. A lot of time spent getting my bearings. I felt lost.
Climbing the ladder unlocks extraction, not a map
Each bracket is a different class of problem. You stop thinking only about earning and start thinking about capital preservation, allocation, and investments. You also deal with people who want your time, attention, knowledge, or money. Family, friends, employees, ex-employees. The pitch is a partnership. The behaviour is extraction. I have made a lot of mistakes here. There was no mentor and no book that matched the situation.
Diminishing returns after the first $10k–$100k a month
Iman Gadzhi sat in the back of a car, no edit, and said the most happiness he got from money was the first $10,000 a month. Then maybe $50k or $100k. After that, if people knew the day, they would not swap. At his level he was spending about $250,000 a month on security. More fame, more threats, more cars on camera. I have followed him for years. The cars get clicks. That is not the same as wanting the car.
Money is a good servant and a bad master. The hit only comes from earning more than last time, or more than the people around you. I know friends at $2 million plus a month in profit. I told myself I was smarter than them and the numbers still said otherwise. That is ego. There is always someone higher. I would not trade lives with Elon Musk. I would not trade lives with the man renting Lamborghinis in Dubai in a Richard Mille. Ask who you would actually swap with.
Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil is the book I go back to. Guy Ritchie has a clip I keep: inner world of energy is who you are, outer world is who you want to be seen as. Instagram is the outer world. Do not make the next decision to win a comparison.
Does this improve my quality of life
The old filter was: does this make more than $1,000 an hour. I ran the week through that number. The new filter is: does what I am doing right now improve my quality of life.
I have sat down for a minimum of 12 hours a day, often 16–18, seven days a week, for about ten years. Sleep six hours. Wake up and work until I fall asleep. I have sacrificed health, relationships, family. I created accomplishments. I did not create memories. Days melted. Christmas, then midsummer, then Christmas again. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying puts spending too much time working near the top. I cannot think of a worse end state: the money is there and the life is not.
I do not regret the ten years. I built a life I wanted. I have had months just shy of $500,000, over $400,000 profit. Days of $80,000–$100,000, and at least one at about $110,000. After that, $10,000 in a day does nothing. If the month is not past about $430–$440,000 it is not interesting. That is the addiction: you keep the behaviour after it has stopped serving you. I have been in a car that exploded and lost control. I walked away. A lot of people do not get 70 or 80 years. I would rather take high-leverage positions and spend the rest of the day living.
King of the hill in the OnlyFans space
Being a known name in OnlyFans comes with a target. The tallest poppy gets cut first. I thought about that before I ever posted. I turn down Bloomberg and the big Twitter spaces. I watched someone else take one of those invites and make an idiot of the industry. Andrew Tate kept going after the money was already there. I am not telling him what to do. I am documenting what the spotlight costs.
Do not sit in Dubai and film yourself running a business that is illegal there. That is an unnecessary risk.
Most of the remaining upside of this channel is networking, not direct revenue. Newer videos go back to automation, productivity, and life setup — how the channel started — not so specifically OF. The stigma is real.
The industry itself is full of people who think they are winning because cash is coming in. About 95% of the guys I meet have no idea what they are doing. You need one woman and you can call it an agency. I met a UK chatter on a big page: no scripts, logged in through Safari, no Creator Hero or any chatting software. About $75k in subscription revenue and $30k in message sales. The husband of the model is taking home $100–$120k a month and believes the page is well run. That page should be at least $300k a month, and up to about $700k if the subs are good. Marketing is strong. Monetisation is not. Money is a terrible feedback loop when it arrives anyway.
Envious of a four-hour WordPress agency
My business partner's brother is an investor, net worth over a million, plus a WordPress agency he has run for about ten years. Non-technical, brick-and-mortar clients who need a site. He outsources the work. About four hours a week on email. Revenue around $30–40k a month. He is one of the only people I know who actually got The 4-Hour Work Week. I read that book, tasted money, and put the extra hours into earning more.
I tried to tell him how to make another $10k. He asked what difference it would make. Same restaurants. Same first-class cabin. Same villas. The best hotels are about $2,000 a night wherever you are. Past a certain income, another $10k a month unlocks almost nothing. I was envious of someone most people would call less successful than me. That was new.
He walks every day, audiobooks and podcasts, markets, debt, banking, psychology. I recommended a book. He finished it the next day at 2x and messaged me. I copied the shape: about four hours of walking a day, hidden coffee shops, education, looking at new opportunities instead of the inbox.
I also still wanted time freedom. I have had money and location for a long time. I was still in the day-to-day fires, scaling, in the pursuit of a number that did not unlock a new life. A man I look at now has all three freedoms and spends $600–$2,000 a seat on Michelin restaurants. That is a life I would actually take. A guy offered me a Lamborghini video shoot in Dubai. I said no. How you attract people is the relationship you get — with women and with an audience.
$50,000 a month profit is the floor
I look at reversibility on big decisions. A bad city is a $500 flight home. This change is the same class of risk.
I am cutting the desired income to $50,000 a month in profit. I earn far more than that, and have for two-plus years — six figures a month, often much more. $50k is not a cap I will force the businesses down to. It is the point where I stop selling hours. Above it I pull myself out of the day-to-day unless there is a real emergency. Below it I go back in and grow the number again. All of these figures are profit, the amount that lands in the bank.
Time is the one asset I cannot buy back. Money is printed. I will not trade a finite thing for an infinite one past the life I actually want. That is how I am treating the addiction.
Only $10,000-per-hour tasks
I am not retiring. I am only interested in work that is $10,000 an hour under leverage.
$10/hour is a VA, admin, cleaning. $100/hour is a specialist you can still hire: developer, designer, marketer. $1,000/hour is CEO, CTO, COO, a strong operations or programme manager. $10,000/hour almost never pays cash in that hour. It pays over three months, six months, a year.
Example: I spend eight hours hiring and training a salesperson. Over six months they generate $80–$100k after salary. That is a $10,000-an-hour day. Hire a recruiter and a sales trainer and the same hour compounds further. Or spend a couple of hours on a workflow and an SOP, hand it to 30 people, and you only need about $333 extra from each of them.
Content is the same shape. YouTube is not $10,000 an hour in ad revenue. Two thousand people watch a video. The alternative is a stage, once, in one city, or two thousand separate conversations. I have been on YouTube seven or eight years, long before OF. The return is opportunities and people. That is leverage networking.
Fire yourself with systems, or sell that skill
The channel is going further into the systems and automation that let me fire myself. That is useful if you are starting and useful if you already make serious money. Most owners have not systemised themselves out. They do not know how.
If you want a first $10k a month, do not become another copywriter, logo designer, social media manager, or Amazon FBA shop. Learn to build systems — automation plus people — and take a fee or a percentage to get a CEO out of 80% of their week. Shadow them for a couple of days. Charge for the time you give back. The barrier is higher than a generic freelance gig. The competition is lower.
I am also shutting work that no longer matches the goal. A year or more ago I ran TikTok and Instagram Reels reposting as a service. Phones, SIMs, proxies, a person on the other end. It let agencies test a channel without buying the farm. TikTok is dead for this right now. Reels still work. You are still fighting the platform. The margins are not worth my time when other cash flow already runs with almost no input from me.
Cash flow into Bitcoin, two or three bets a year
A friend called it the rat race: you are in it until passive income covers the month. I have been past that line for a long time and I kept working anyway. Cash flow is a good position for an investor. You are not in a rush. You can wait.
Last week I was down about $120,000 on a position. A friend was down $10k and panicking. I have no plan to sell. I do not need the money. The thesis has not changed.
$10 million net worth is still the number. The vehicle changed. I am not becoming a hippie. I am not becoming a crypto influencer and I will not give investment advice on this channel. Life setup, automation, systems, staying out of the 9-to-5 — that stays.
A million at 12–16% is about $160k a year, call it $13,000 a month, for doing nothing. I am not looking at that. I am looking at a 2x every one to two years, sometimes 3–4x, on two or three high-conviction investments a year. Walk, read, follow narratives, write the thesis, pull the trigger. Small meme-coin money is play money. It is not the system.
About 18 months before this video I said in my OF Telegram group that OnlyFans was a cash-flow machine for buying Bitcoin. I dollar-cost averaged about $2,000 a day at the bottom, when almost nobody was talking about it except a few people I know at a similar level. I consider myself a Bitcoin maxi. I still hold other things I understand: technology, software, AI. Property can be taken. Andrew Tate was right about that. A friend sent the charts: London property over nine years has roughly tracked inflation. Against Bitcoin it is down a lot. Fixed supply is the fundamental I actually like.
Patience is the other half. There might be 90 decent moves. I want the one with a real narrative. Say no to 99.
Which life would you choose
$100k a month at the laptop, stress, teams, no time freedom — $1.2 million a year. Or walk, travel, research, make two or three investments, keep a $50k cash-flow floor, and if the book 2x, the year averages something like $250k a month. I would take the second life.
I am still a builder. I write code on weekends and never ship half of it. In a year or two I can start a SaaS or an ecommerce company if I want. The decision is reversible.
The irony: this month I will probably earn more, because I am only on $10,000-an-hour work and I have a bird's-eye view. A former partner wanted ownership of every department. He was the bottleneck. I have been that person. I am hiring project leads and a COO so I am not.
Walk, eat real food, pay the mortgage
The new setup is walking every day with audiobooks. I have not felt this sharp in a long time. Six to eight hours of other people's thinking is a better use of a Tuesday than another inbox.
I switched to a primal plate: whole foods, one ingredient, vegetables, meat, nuts. No processed food, no sugar, no vegetable oil. If I cannot name everything on the plate, it does not go in. Chicken, oysters, organic grass-fed, freshly caught. Deep Nutrition is the book. Leafy greens lose about 77% of their nutrition after seven days in the fridge. Highest-quality food is one of the few quality-of-life upgrades money actually buys. You would not put the wrong oil in a Ferrari.
I pay my parents' mortgage. I sent them to Costa Rica. A handful of people have gone from almost nothing to six figures a month off what I published. That is the satisfaction I actually feel. You do not need insane money for any of that.
Sell your brain, not your hours. I am fine with a course if you found the strategy and you run it. I am not fine with people who watch my videos, rerecord the book, and sell it. 3uTools and Airtable became OF industry defaults after I talked about them — I had used 3uTools four years earlier in an Instagram marketing agency. If a Reels strategy has six months of life, selling it and running it can both be correct. Platforms kill things. A breastfeeding hook on brand-new Instagram accounts did 3 million views and about 5,000 followers overnight. A couple of days later Instagram blocked it. That was not oversaturation.
Version three of the OnlyFans course is coming. Existing members get it free. I will try to refresh it about every 12 months. That is not a reason to buy property. The flats I would look at now are several million. The world has too many open loops. I want to be able to move. I already own some. I am thinking about selling and putting it to work. Layer Cake had it right: you no longer have to do what you do not want.
I also started talking to a therapist, Sadia Khan, in Dubai. Young enough that I do not have to explain Instagram or OnlyFans. £250 an hour, about $300. Two sessions. She had the childhood and the relationships mapped in about five minutes. She was honest: some of it you live with. Awareness is the thing I actually got — why I go avoidant, why I project, which reactions are mine. A surgeon does not operate on himself. Friends and family are biased. I was adopted. I do not tell that as a sympathy story. It gave me a better life than I would have had. It also left baggage. Most people are carrying some. Name it and it has less of you.
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hey guys hope you're well um as always been a while since I I've put together a video um in all honesty I've been going through a period of kind of like self-reflection this will be quite a long video by the way I'll put some um chapters and and time stamps down below so you can kind of go through it as in way where you see fit but um essentially I've been been going through a period of self self-reflection um as I've climbed multiple wealth brackets relatively quickly um in in quick
succession over the past couple of years um and I never really took time to kind of analyze my uh my position on on the chessboard of life um so as you climb the ladder of success you kind of unlock different problems um and because I don't there's no like I haven't got any like Mentor or um there's no like road map at least that I've come across or kind of like books or resources that
really like discuss this that I felt matched my kind of personal situation um so you unlock a completely different set of problems uh instead of trying to earn more money you maybe start looking into like Capital preservation or allocation and Investments um you also deal with people looking to extract resources from you um unfortunately I do deal with this quite a lot um whether that's resources being your time your attention your knowledge um your like financial
resources and this can be family it can be friends it can be uh employ employees or ex employees um and this has very much been something that I've been learning as I go um so to speak like making a lot of mistakes upon upon the way but people kind of are coming to you looking to extract from you not looking to build together saying like you have these resources or you have like this skill set or you have access to x y and Zed let me come together and
we can partner or and this and do this this and this instead they're looking for ways to extract value out of you um as as an individual and yeah this happens kind of quite quite frequently for me um and then as well I had to kind of reflect on where I I was in life because on paper I am living a life that I kind of always always dreamed of um like last year I traveled to 20 countries um and I've been traveling for for years um literally going going
wherever I want to however it's not quite as like as good as it's made out to be um and if anything I was feeling like a sense of being lost um because of a lack of routine from from not having like the same gym or the same Barber or like being aware of my uh location surroundings because I'm going to new places all of the time you just kind of lack stability um and yeah just not
having like a routine it means that you spend a lot of time uh building like awareness of like your your surroundings finding restaurants finding places to go to and so on um and the other thing that I kind of noticed it's actually taken me a long time to realize this but I basically travel the world going to different airbnbs to sit there on my laptop working whether I'm in Colombia orever I'm in Georgia or in London I end up doing the exact same thing anyway so is there really like much point doing it if
you're not um integrating within that that culture um that well um I mean I'm OV exaggerating slightly like of course you kind of pick up on like the natural surroundings of wherever you are um but I I would spend 80% of my time kind of do doing the same thing and then the other big realization that I've had is around um seeing diminishing returns from
earning more Mone money and also what I would kind of classify as having an addiction to money that I've recently kind of gained awareness of and I think a lot of people do actually without realizing it my goal was to earn $500,000 per month uh in in in profit um and after that the next thing that I know would have happened is I would have reached that goal and then it would be how do we get to a million dollars per month the question is when does it end and I think it probably never does money
is very very uh addictive in itself um it's the kind of comparison to other people that I think becomes addictive you I see this with a lot of high level people and the problem with greed is that it kind of grows so I do think that you see this with with yeah a lot of high level business owners It all becomes very ego driven um look at what I'm doing look at this the attention approval all these um types of things and I've read a very um good book that I
I actually go to quite frequently called outwitting the devil um it's by Napoleon Hill and it's a book of an interview with the Devil the devil that lives within all of us so like the kind of good and bad side of each of us he he interviews the the devil uh inside of him and it goes over these kind of different traits I I'll go over them another time and then yeah just to go a little bit more into like ego so there's a really really good clip on a podcast of uh guy Richie um that I'll I'll
probably Link in the description that I go back to quite a lot talking about the talking about ego like your kind of inner world of energy which is your true self who you really are and then like the kind of voice that we have in our head like the outer World of Energy who we want to be seen as who we project ourselves to be to the world and you can see this very apparently very clearly on on Instagram you can see the type of person that people want to project that that they are to to the world um and
again it all just becomes very like um ego driven so without getting too spiritual just not not comparing yourself to to other people um you you should be making decisions based on what is right for you not is not on what makes you feel better or that you're out competing the people around you who cares um not feeding your ego so you can do this in like a lot of different ways but just being very
careful that you will kind of um operating in line with your true wants and desires not just um not not your ego um yeah so don't make like ego driven uh decision um and there was a great quote that I came across that money is a good servant but a bad Master simply meaning have your money working for you not you working for for your money um and then as well I had a video pop up from Iman
Gadzhi um who I have been following for a number of years although more recently like his content isn't really tailored towards me it's tailored towards people looking to make their first like 10K per month online which is completely fine that's where kind of most people are at um but he had this video of him just sitting in the back of the car there was no fancy editing or no nothing and I do often find that fancy editing uh not picking on him at all but just in general can kind of be put in place to
um to mask the fact that the content or what you're saying isn't actually that that good um which is why like I generally don't worry about like editing at all uh maybe some people think differently maybe editing would improve the quality of my videos a lot more but I think that people come to me for Value in the videos which I will try to deliver as like succinctly um as as possible um and generally people's concern isn't that I have like some
fancy titles or or whatever um but anyway I came across a video of Iman and this was filmed on his phone I think with no editing and just like a very real 7-minute talk discussing the most happiness that he has that he achieved like financially was coming from him getting his first 10K per month which I would completely agree with I think that's where most Freedom comes in your life and then maybe getting up to like 50k or 100K I
can't remember exactly what he said and then the other thing that he said that was so um kind of profound to me was if people knew the reality of his day-to-day life people would not want to swap positions with him and I think that there's a lot of Truth to that statement if people actually knew the reality of as you become more and more famous um as you make more and more kind of money um
the reality of like a day-to-day of being there the higher up you go I would actually say like the worse it gets and again you're just experiencing like diminishing returns so he's talking on like an aspect of dealing with all sorts of problem in the business uh being at the level that he's at now with like the fame that he has now dealing with significant security threats so um he mentioned that he spends like 250k per month on security and now if you kind of watch his uh videos again this is just
I'm just giving this as an example I'm by by no means like ha on him or uh anything like i' like I said I've been a follower of his for for a very long time um now you see he's kind of going around like buying a lot more cars just kind of almost looking for things to spend this money on and it get gets clicks and it gets attention which leads to conversions which he makes his money back on I'm fully aware of this kind of formula but I would say that it's not really like true to true to yourself uh true to hisself at least because in his
own words he's not really like in into cars but now a lot of his videos are just around like saying that You' bought some bought a new car again I get it to like bringing clicks and bringing in the conversions but um as you have more money you just kind of find more things to waste it on and I've also noticed this in in my own life as well um the other problem with money is it's only interesting to earn more money than you have done before so you're in a constant kind of competition with yourself and if you're not in a competition with
yourself you're in a competition with the people around you so it becomes very very ego driven which is something that I've been exploring a lot more recently as well and again I just think it leads to this kind of downhill spiral of why do I need this money um like what what difference does it make if I make 100,000 per month or if I make 400,000 per month what is the difference uh to to the the quality of my life and the truth is is it just
becomes very ego driven it's you're operating in a realm of comparison against other people not operating from like your true self what you truly want out of life you're being caught up in comparison in the Battle of of egos so another really good thing is I've um discovered that like previously my kind of question in life would be
does this make me more money so I would ask myself this all the time if I'm doing a task does this make me more money does this make me more money and I would structure my life as like my hourly rate would be $1,000 per per hour so does this make me more than $1,000 per hour whereas now I've changed that question to does it improve my quality of life does what I'm doing right now improve my quality of life which I think is a much more powerful question to to
ask yourself does what I am investing my time in right now does it have a direct Improvement into my quality of life um the other thing that I really noticed is by being so obsessed with work and I mean sitting down for minimum 12 hours per day often 16 to 18 hours per day sitting down in front of a laptop hunched over like this it's not good for health it's not good for anything um and the last years of my life has kind of
just FL flown past me despite me traveling a lot again I just sit there on a laptop working all day I'm I'm creating accomplishments but I'm not creating memories right I'm because like the day is just kind of melting into one another and before you realize that Christmas is here then it's like the middle of summer again I'm still working and before I re realize it again Christmas is here again and I think shit a whole whole Year's gone by and again I have Financial
accomplishments from it but I I haven't made memories and just uh if if You' read top five regrets of the dying uh one of the biggest regrets is of the second largest regret is of spending too much time working I can't think of anything worse than like laying in your kind of deathbed and uh you have all this money but but what Memories do you have what have you gone out and and done done in the world um what
experiences have you had you've traded all this time for money and again I I don't regret it like I've built a fantastic life for myself um again I just feel I'm kind of at a fantastic level and there's not really much much higher for for for me to go now I'm like sounds so almost like feminine but yeah I I want to spend more time like creating memories having a great life experience the other thing with life is I think that we all all truly um take it
for for granted um this this life that we have who knows what's going to happen I've been in car accidents before uh luckily I I came out completely unharmed I I had a one of my my cars explode on me uh literally set on flames in front of me uh which was actually a near-death experience cuz I I did I lost control of the car fortunately everything was fine but we kind of take life for granted and you know we all expect that we're going to get a good 70 or 80 years even now
with modern medicine that maybe we we'll get more a lot of people die in their 40s 50s uh Health complications unexpected whatever um accidents all types of things I much prefer to spend my to spend my life in this way where now I will go and spend more time just working on projects where I have take very high leverage positions make very smart moves and spend the rest of my time in a state
of enjoying my life and and uh exploring um and and learning which I really really love to do I I really don't care about like showing off a tool particularly on like these types of matters but in some months like I've earned uh maybe just shy of half a million dollars per month so over $400,000 uh in a month before and I've had days of making like $80,000 to $100,000 in a day
and unfortunately you get like diminishing hits of dopamine diminishing hits of feelings of satisfaction of now if I earn 10 10K in a day $10,000 doesn't make any difference to my life and let me just clarify as well before I get deeper in into this kind of subject um I do actually understand that this video and me even like talking about these things will maybe like isolate me somewhat or people are going to be thinking like what the hell particularly
the people who uh um aren't earning uh who who were looking to make their first 10K per month online um this video definitely like won't won't resonate with but perhaps in a few years once you have um like kind of built up and kind of earned more money um and had these like high numbers you you you will understand exactly like what what I'm talking about um but yeah I don't mean to like have a a sense of it's not a lack of appreciation or a lack of like I've worked very very hard I've sacrific
the last 10 years of my life working pretty much seven days per week definitely more than 12 hours per day on average a lot of times 18 hours per day and I do mean literally 18 hours per day which means sleeping 6 hours per night and when you wake up the first thing you do is start working and you work till you fall asleep and I've done that quite a lot and um and it is I've sacrificed a lot of things I've sacrific my health my relationships both um personal family uh in order to kind of get get to where I am and it's also not me saying that I um
want to go and like sell all of my belongings uh people will say money doesn't buy happiness again I would say there's diminishing returns on the lower levels I would say it definitely does you can buy yourself into a pretty good position in in life um so anyway but back to a man and then the other like risk that comes of kind of comes with it is being the king of a hill in the in a particular domain so with his domain
being like smm there's like a lot of people who kind of want to be where where he is um but they perhaps don't understand like the realities of like the day-to-day of what is of of what it actually takes or what goes on and then in my space like again not to kind of um speak too highly of myself but being like a figure a known figure without a doubt within the um OF space comes with its own inherent risks and there's a lot of people who I think have seen me publishing videos or other people
publishing videos on YouTube and I've spoken about opportunities that came with that as well and they kind of jump on it as well without thinking about the kind of consequences that that come with that and I I did think about this a lot before I ever kind of jumped on to um producing content about this space is it a risk that I'm willing to take and I just think that a lot of people maybe haven't fully thought it through guys creating content in the OF space now maybe haven't thought through the risks and the
um they haven't considered what comes with with the territory and even to the point now that there's guys like making videos uh showing off that they're in Dubai and operating this business which I feel is very very a very un necessary risky move to make uh in a country where it's illegal um to be like very very careful about um operating such a business um yeah but why choose a
country where it's illegal to operate from and then talk publicly about you operating an illegal business doesn't doesn't really make sense to me just an unnecessary risk again um and then also like we've kind of seen what's happened to to Andrew Tate um and again I'm just very consciously aware that like the tallest poppy gets cut first you you make yourself a Target I get interview requests and I I deny all of them from
Bloomberg various different like Publications I've invited on huge Twitter spaces and I saw some other guy instead accepted that invitation and made like an idiot out of himself and and the industry of course everyone on the space was against him and the industry and he couldn't even explain it properly um um so there's not too much uh positive that comes anymore number one from me being in the spotlight of
um of this space most of the benefit that I get is it currently comes through through networking through the meeting of people and so just back onto that so like that is also part of the reason why like I draw back on on my uh content a little bit you'll also noticed a lot more of my content more recently is back to being focused on like automation productivity uh life setup which topics I'm really interested in and is kind of how this channel started out still sticking on like marketing but it's not
being so specific to to O um um particularly this type of domain which has a lot of stigma attached to it and we could look at examples of for example Andrew Tate if he hadn't continued with all of uh creating videos and so on he could have retired a very very wealthy man um without like attracting like further attention and maybe could have avoided the predicament that he's in maybe he
feels that he's on like a higher Journey that is more important to him than just kind of um deciding he's made all this money he's achieved what he wanted and stepping back perhaps he truly does want uh want something more than this there's something um more meaningful that he's aspiring to and I completely respect that by the way I think every uh this isn't me telling other people what to do this is simply me documenting and sharing my own journey and my own experiences from climbing the ladder of success and like what I'm kind of experiencing now um so any like at the
start of this financial Year my original goal was to be making half a million dollars per month in profit and I was quite sure that that was what I kind of truly truly wanted and however as I I kind of got into the year so about two months into this year I was feeling um just feeling a little bit like unsatisfied and again I was making like great money I'm in like a fantastic
situation I I'm traveling around wherever I want to and so it took me some time to realize I had to kind of dissect a lot of things but I realized it was that I was simply pursuing the wrong goals and there were a few things that kind of have Ki kicked this off for me um so I've been having a lot of Mee meetings with my business partner's brother and um he is he's an investor um just to give like context I think his net worth is over a million dollars um
and he also runs like an agency on the side it's not trying it's a WordPress development agency so it's not trying to be sexy it's not trying to be uh Cutting Edge working with AI or all this different stuff he's been running the business for about 10 years and most likely it will continue running for another 10 years because he's servicing non-technical markets um just older guys running like kind of brick-and mortar businesses as we would say and they just know that they need a website and an online presence and he just outsources the work he works a couple of hours per
week probably one of the only people that I know actually who has genuinely achieved something like the 4-Hour Work week which I think a lot of us kind of set out to do it was definitely one of the books that originally inspired me into entrepreneurship but as soon as I got the taste for money the 4-Hour Work Week went out the window and instead of me thinking I can live this easy life if it was me thinking I can put all these other hours in my week into earning more money and it's exactly what I've done um so he has like a very interesting life structure
of he he works about four hours per week replying to emails and just being active in like a few conversations but he doesn't really do any work himself uh I think his agency probably does like 30 maybe maybe 40K per month and the first time I met him I was kind of talking to him and giving some him some like feedback on how he could like like other things he could be exploring right uh to to make more money and he just kind of came back to me and said what difference does an extra 10K make to My Life um and
I I was kind of arguing with him about this point of like what what do you mean and like we were going back and forward and we had a really interesting discussion about this and I realized he he was actually right um an extra $10,000 per month you would go to the same places you eat at the same once you're p a certain level of income you go to the same restaurants you eat at the the same places you travel to the same destinations you're flying first class you stay in the same Villas um you stay in the like the best
hotels are like about $2,000 per night depending where where you are um there's very little unlocks that you achieve by actually earning more money so again falls back into my thesis of just seeing like diminishing returns and it was him who kind of highlighted this to me and he is someone who um I think he he would even agree with this I guess success depends on your definition um is it purely Financial or what is it but I was feeling envious of someone who I think most
people would considered to be less successful than me which was a first time experience for me so he wakes up kind of whenever he wants um and not that I'm envious of this entire setup by the way I actually prefer a little bit more structure than he does he goes around walking every single day listening to audio books listening to podcasts studying financial markets studying debt studying the banking system studying um psychology uh H like
literally anything just absorbing tons of of information so I recommended like a couple of books to him and he came back to me the next day like read it came back with a few points on this book how many people do you know that were able to react so quickly to um maybe some maybe you give someone a recommendation for a book and and it will take them like months or maybe they never read it whereas he's just um he'll download it and listen to it the next day and just message me it's done on like a 2X X speed um and so I actually kind of copied this
so whenever I I hear of people's like life setups I often like to try out different people's life setups maybe you've seen uh for example like someone following Jeff bezos's morning routine for 30 days I don't mean like that I mean more like entrepreneurs and people that I meet so I I kind of copied his um his structure of life so going around walking for about 4 hours per day um finding like some hidden little coffee shops you'll go in there when you're hot you get a coffee and a sparkling water or whatever um and I've been really
really enjoying this kind of Life setup of taking like a step back from the um day-to-day tasks and just working with like a lot on like education and exploring like new new opportunities um I realized this is all a bit all over the place by the way but it does all kind of come together um but I just wanted to kind of touch on the different points and explaining my uh thought thought process behind this um the next thing is being ego driven
so I just another thing that I've realized is a lot of my kind of motivation on that half a million dollars per month it was purely ego driven and the reason for it is because I know of people making more money than me that I would consider myself to be far more clever than um but the numbers don't lie and so it becomes almost a game of like that you need to prove yourself against other people I have several Friends making $2 million plus in in profit per month
um and it would be it was a very ego kind of driven thing that I need to be pushing to to that level uh I need to be scaling I need to be doing this D which is a very very bad uh way to live your life you're living your life in comparison to others and there is always going to be someone more successful than you are so you're basically making a deal with your yourself to be more um to to always be
unhappy until you're the most successful person in the world which is a very very slim chance of that happening and you can get kind of caught in this not even like the rat race of the 95 but the rat race of the hyper successful um and there was a podcast that I listened to the other day of Luke Belmar and he came out with this phrase of um when he's not feeling motivated he just looks at who is he comparing himself to but the problem with this analogy is
you're always there's always going to be someone doing better than you and even if you're like the chances of him becoming the richest person in the world are very low but you're kind of making a deal with yourself that you are going to work until there's no one for you to compare yourself to and then when you're at the top of this hill and you look around and realize that you've traded all of these years in order to be in in this position um I don't think that that is a it's not a trade-off that I would like to make I would not trade to be in in that position I would not trade lives
with Elon Musk for example like the the uh I think he's not even the richest anymore I wouldn't trade lives with the richest man in the world genuinely I I would and that that's a really interesting question to ask yourself as well who would you trade lives with who are you envious of who is in a position that that you would like to be and for me it's not the hyper rich guy it's not the guy driving around in Lamborghinis in uh in Dubai like renting cars or even buying cars and wearing like a Richard Mille uh it's not um
not that I'm you should do whatever makes you happy and it's not that I'm even like hating on on on this as well do whatever you want but I don't like I can go and do that stuff and and I I don't feel that I I need to it's just not in line with uh with with who I am um I don't feel that I need to get attention or respect to people by showing off how much money I have or that I can uh like drive around in this car I much prefer to get um respect off of people for what I'm doing for my
achievements for um being smart for sharing this stuff on YouTube um like things things that I'm working on and so on and that is how you can like gather respect off of people and because that also really changes the type of people that you attract if I'm um posting videos of me like driving around in a Lamborghini it's very much the same with with women in fact how you attract someone will really determine the nature of your relationship if I attract a woman to me through money and through
showing off this particular lifestyle our relationship will be very centralized around of that whereas if yes she knows I'm successful but she's attracted to all of the different um accolades that that come with that um being hardworking being smart um making good decisions being ambitious um being tenacious uh going after like what I want um these are very good traits for a
woman to look for in a man so I much prefer that she sees these things within me and that is why she likes me and the success is a byproduct of that um rather than a woman who's purely motivated in in you as a financial resource and the same goes for people why do people like you why do people like follow the type of content that you're posting the type of content that you're posting is going to change massively if you're attracting attention because you're showing off like this life that that that you're
living um I just yeah it just doesn't align with me um for example I had a guy who was trying to partner with me and he was suggesting that I go to Dubai and do a a video shoot and like a photo shoot in like a driving around in a Lamborghini I just told them no it's not me at all I much prefer to deliver value people if people if my uh what I've done and what I'm doing and the things that I talk about if they resonate with people and people respect what I'm doing that is how I much prefer to um to to to
connect with people uh um and then again I'm just kind of looking more and more into looking at people of who am I envious of who am I jealous of uh who do I wish that I have more of like a life setup like and it's not these people earning more money it really it really isn't like I found that I was far more envious of a guy who truly had complete time Freedom complete location freedom and complete Financial Freedom he's able to buy what he want his passion is like
Michelin star restaurants spending anywhere from like $600 for himself to like two grand for himself like per per seat um and he's able to do that to fly wherever he wants you're flying first class you're staying wherever you want um and as much as I have achieved Financial Freedom a long long time ago um and also had achieved location freedom I hadn't achieved time freedom I was still getting pulled in to business dealing with day-to-day fires dealing
with um like scaling businesses all in the pursuit of earning more money and again what is the purpose of of earning more money if it doesn't unlock anything new in my life so also about like not feeding your ego so I don't mean to make this like too spiritual but there's a really really good clip by Guy Richie on a Joe Rogan podcast um I'll link it in the in the description uh where he talks about an inner world of energy which is you your kind of true self uh who you
really are and then your outer world of energy which is who who you are projecting out to the world who you want to be seen as who you want to be recognized as maybe you want to be recognized for being very uh good-look or for being very smart for being very rich whatever it may be you can notice a lot of the stuff and how people dress or particularly how people construct their Instagrams um Instagram is kind of very much a portrayal of the outer World of Energy often very fake and misaligned with that person's kind of true self um
so just making sure that these decisions are kind of coming from a kind of true to you because everyone's definition of success is very different and again I'm not saying that I have like the right answer but it is the right answer for me but maybe your definition of success is is very different perhaps your goal is to be just as wealthy as possible um purely to win like the competition of of having more more money than um than the people around you for kind of proving a
point which again is completely fine um but yeah making decisions that are completely like true to s rather than feeding your own ego which is a game that I was realizing that I was playing again not intentionally uh it's kind of taking me a long time to to realize this um but yeah feeling of envious of of someone that I was more successful than was like a very uh strange strange feeling he he should be envious with me and in a way I do actually think he is which is like the kind of weird thing
about our our our relationship um he's envious of my life in different ways and I'm envious of his is in in different ways um and it's not obvious not not um common um for me to be uh envious or jealous or of other people's life set so and how how does this kind of translate like what actions am I kind of taking through this so I've come up with a kind of formula and um that I'm going to be like trying out or or going to be
transitioning to um and with all big decisions I tend to make in my life I try to look at what is the ability for me to reverse this decision how easy is it for me to reverse this decision so if I'm wrong um how how easily can can I get out of this and really it's very very easy to do so there doesn't there's not a huge amount of weight or kind of friction coming with me making this decision um an example would be of like traveling the worst case scenario if you don't like the place you go to and you buy a flight back for $500 so it's a
very easy like Risk reversal um that being a simple example so I've decided to reduce my I this is a very strange thing to say as well but to reduce my desired level of income to $50,000 per month bearing in mind I earn far far more more than this like six figures plus per month um and have done for the past two plus years um and
before that I was also earning like relatively good good money so choosing to reduce my like half like like my income to $50,000 per month and it doesn't mean that I'm going to like stop everything to bring down to that exact number what it means is anytime I'm above that number I'm kind of pulling myself away from work um I no longer feel a need to work and anytime I go below that it's time for me to go back into the back into the
business um you know back into like the the day-to-day stuff on on growing the income again uh that is like the level of income that I'm kind of uh happy with if I'm earning more than that I I'm not complaining all I mean is when I'm above the 50k per month range I no longer trade my time for for money unless there's some form of like emergency um that really and truly needs my attention this by the way I'm always talking in profit when I'm talking these numbers so when I say 400k per month or making 50k
per month I mean that is the final figure of money that will come in that comes into my bank account every month that is my minimum level uh acceptable level of income and I get for some people listening to this going to think what the hell are you are you talking about like of course at 50k per month it's like a a dream like anyone should be happy at that level of income and I think you're completely right which is why I'm choosing to to to make this decision of no longer exchanging my time for money which I have done uh for for a
long time um and then there's people who are going to be earning far more money than 50k per month who are also for different reasons going to be um I don't know maybe like shocked or so surprised by by this decision um what is the reason behind this not trading a finite asset time the one thing that we can never actually buy back um I can optimize my life I can try and be smarter with how I spend my time but there is no way for me to buy back time that I have spent so why on Earth would
I trade that for money uh an infinite resource again I don't need to go into it but U I'm sure a lot of people know how the financial system works and that we can just endlessly print infinite amounts of money um overcoming like an addiction to money so no longer letting money be the master of my life I don't mean an addiction like if I don't have money I'm on the floor but just not like I'm you having withdrawal symptoms I mean an addiction in terms of I am pursuing something when I realize that
it no longer serves me which is the definition of an ex of addiction that it has negative impacts on your life uh and you're aware of that but still you continue to pursue the same behavior um and so for an example of that would be I sacrific my health in the pursuit of more money um and and have done for a long time however I've changed that very very recently uh the next thing is only really focusing on like $10,000 per hour task so again this isn't me saying that I'm not going to be working at all it's just me saying that I'm only interested
in working on very very high leverage uh things and there's one thing that I really like which is $10,000 per hour tasks so if any of you haven't come across this concept the idea is you have $10 per hour tasks they can be handled by a VA your admin your clean you're able to hire someone to do those tasks for $10 or less per hour they're put in the $10 per hour task Cy range $100 per hour task there would be a little bit more specialist maybe a software developer maybe a designer maybe a marketer um anyone that maybe yeah it's
a kind of specialist skill but you can hire for below $100 per hour that is a $100 per hour task then you have $1,000 per hour task now you're getting a little bit more interesting this could be kind of CEO CTO level coo level um like operations manager um maybe some very very good project managers or program managers um overseeing a lot of key areas of your business they would be putting the $1,000 per task range um and then the highest level is $10,000 per hour tasks so what that means
is generally it's quite hard to make $10,000 per hour I'm not able to trade my time and receive directly that hour $10,000 back cash in hand however through leverage there are a lot of opportunities within like all businesses of if you do this today over the next 3 months maybe 6 months maybe a year it
will generate you $10,000 so some examples of tasks such as that would be hiring again just to keep the math very simple let's say I hire a sales person and I spend 8 hours training them on what to do and over over the next 6 months they make me they make me $80,000 that would be a $10,000 per per per hour task I mean maybe they make us $100,000 minus their salary they're
generating me $10,000 per hour and over the next year it equates to be even more than that so then you can look at like the next form of Leverage that would be maybe I instead I hire a recruiter and a sales manager or sales trainer so the recruiter builds out a system where they hire people and bring them into uh the training program done by the training manager um and then the training manager oversees and manages them so and that that for me could be way higher than a
$10,000 per hour task um because I've just invested in hiring those those people um they've come into the business and now they're able to make me money uh autonomously um so that would be an example of hiring another example could be through system so um you have ideas and you build out uh workflows and standard operating procedures that you then give to the team that you then have 30 people working off of um or B your team is um and by you spending a couple
of hours on building out this system uh each of those people only needs to make you uh an extra like $300 in order for that to be a $10,000 um per hour task uh three um $333 so we need to make for that to be a $10,000 per hour T there's tons of kind of different opportunities um in in ways that you can kind of Leverage um and Achieve $10,000 per hour tasks content is also a great
one um like it's part of the reason I do do this YouTube stuff um I can't say it's for $10,000 per hour Tas me but it does now bring me significant benefits not in terms of direct Revenue mostly in terms of opportunities being unlocked and people that I meet networking um YouTube is essentially leverage Network if 2,000 people watch this video right now the other alternative is that either I get on a stage and I talk to 2,000 people but that has its own
um series of problems that 2,000 people need to be in the same location all the time I can only do the show once maybe people are busy that day also I'm probably not a good um not not good on stage or I have this conversation 2,000 times with 2,000 individual people and how long would that take YouTube is the best form of Leverage networking that I have have ever come across um which is the main reason for doing this those of you that have been following me for for a long time like long before the of days
bearing in mind everything I've been doing YouTube for I think about seven or eight years now um documenting my journey as as an entrepreneur um I think that they will know that my primary focus is on like delivering value there's a lot of different way a lot of different $10,000 per hour tasks um that that you can kind of focus on so I'm trying to exclusively focus on these so really focusing on Building Systems and automation which by the way is going to be the direction this channel is
going more into um is me the systems and automation that I use en able to kind of build out this this lifestyle um to literally fire myself from my own business and this applies equally well to anyone who is kind of starting out as well to like the very senior business owners uh people making great money already it's what I really like about this it is equally value uh valuable to to everyone because business owners in most cases haven't systemized themselves out of their business in many cases they
don't know how to um so it's not a case of not wanting to they don't know how to so of course you can learn how to do it and how to implement the these uh automations and systems or maybe just get some ideas and inspiration on things that I Implement um but also for the people looking to make their first money online um or making to look the make their first $10,000 per month uh I believe that there is a huge opportunity for becoming a systems Builder SL
systems integrator slpress expert whatever you want to call the the job title entrepreneurship is now such a a a um common uh role and job for people to kind of go into they want to run their own business but they're they have no idea how to automate themselves out of their business so instead of becoming like a copywriter um or like a a logo designer or like a social media manager or a um like whatever like insert
whatever like generic thing like an Amazon FBA guy you're going into what hundreds of thousands of other people are doing already and there's a very low barrier to entry uh which means there's huge competition instead if you learn the basics of kind of systems building and uh uh how to build out and Implement processes through Automation and through people um you can go to a business owner and you could even look at a percentage of a company to automate someone out of their job in like an advisory role and
you implement this stuff for them to kind of build out systems but you could also just charge very healthy fees far more than a a copywriter um would be able to to achieve by going to a CEO and saying let me shadow you for a couple of days and I will uh automate like 80% of of of what you're doing through Building Systems be it through people or through staff uh and you could charge even an hourly rate or like a large upfront fee and depending on the size of the business business and how how highly the CEO values his time
um there's kind of like no downside for for for this so to go into businesses and Implement like processes and systems if you can establish yourself as as an authority within this space um there's a ton of opportunity that that gets unlocked and yeah and so again just setting my kind of Baseline for me to kind of maintain the quality of life that I that I like um I've set myself just $50,000 per month above that again I I'm not complaining if I'm earning more money I'm just no longer willing to
exchange my uh time for money above that that level um and it also doesn't mean so I'm just going to continue as well it doesn't mean I'm stopping at 50k per month because I'm also transitioning now more into investing but we'll move on to that in in just a moment um again like just working out that my ideal life my true dream life is having true time for Freedom true location freedom and true Financial Freedom the
other problem with money is that it's it's kind of only interesting to earn more money than you have done before in order to get like a dopamine hit or some level of excitement you need to be pushing the boundaries all the time and the more money you earn the more that kind of becomes a problem because you either feel that you're stepping forward or you're um kind of not not progressing um something like being in in the gym but kind of not seeing any results or just being able to maintain a physique that that you kind of had before so I guess that's a very good
analogy I'm choosing to go into like maintenance mode um with my w w w with my my finances um but for example like I've had days where I've earned like you know $110,000 in a in a day in 24 hours and the problem with that is if you earn then 10K in a day it's not interesting if you earn 20K it's not exciting 30 like but you need to be surpassing the level that you were at before to maintain a level of like your prog
progressing and you're kind of pushing forward uh and again like on my like monthly income if I'm not making more than like 430 or $440,000 per month um it's just it's just not exciting again profit $155,000 per day uh in in profit is what I need to be earning for it to be uh exciting and interesting for me the other thing is kind of stopping businesses or habits that are no longer aligned with my goals or kind of where I want to be and so I
have a few things I may be set up like um a year ago a number of years ago that at the time kind of served a purpose for me but kind of no longer do for example like um on like Reels reposting or like Tik Tok reposting um I mean it even sounds funny to say but I I actually looked at it very much as we're kind of helping the community in in in one way because in order for someone to set up a
test of reposting on Tik Tok or on Reels they would need to buy a load of phones and they need to um get a team member somewhere to do it they need to get us SIM cards um set up all the proxies and vpns and it it's like a hassle it's like annoying to do whereas we have the phones and like resources that I just s we can just kind of put something together to uh as a way for people to be able to set up the these marketing channels and kind of test out if it works for them or not the issue becomes the um kind of the same
issue is always with operating any black hat business is these platforms do change Tik Tok is kind of dead at the moment um Reels is going like really quite well um but you yeah like what what is like the um there's no real benefit for me in running these Services particularly if anyone knew like the profit margins that that that that we we were working to but it also helps out agencies to be able to run on these different platforms and see if it's profitable for their their
creators um the but and then we yeah the thing is is that you're kind of fighting against these platforms and again for the returns that I get it's not worth me investing uh large amounts of time into um like constantly fighting against these things when we have like other strategies and I have other like cash flow incomes that are already working very well that require no or very little time input from me as well as like no headaches but the other thing is is like
the type of clients that you deal with unfortunately in o 95% of guys are um have no idea what what what what they're kind of doing and the problem with o is it's so easy to say that you run an agency you basically only need to know one woman and you can basically start an O agency and um like there is and this I I'm not just like talking about like low level here as well even on a high level it is like ridiculous
there's a a girl that I have um met out here who's a a chatter she manages a big chatting for a big page she's a UK girl um and they are using no scripts they're not they're logged in Through Safari they're not using any type of software in order to manage the account the account is doing 75k in subscription revenue and something like 30k in message sales and I'm telling her like
tell your boss we can like fix this um like and and eat like 5x or even like 10x that ratio of the account um that account should be doing I I would say a minimum 300K per month um total and if we're doing very well on it depending on like the quality of the subs up to like 700k per month and because people are so fixed in their mindset and this is the other issue with money because this guy is making money he's making about 100 to 120k per month he has the delusion that
he is running this page very well um like he is the uh husband I think of the model so and because he just doesn't know and because technically they are making money he is deluded into thinking he is managing this page very well but in reality um it's like it's atrocious there's no setup at all they've got no idea of what like Creator hero or employe is or whatever chatting management software like you want to use they're just completely clueless but because they're making money they believe that they're they're doing everything right so they have very good
marketing the girl is very good she is very very good at bringing traffic to her page but they're not monetizing well and there's just so many examples of things like this I come across all the time um so again and now kind of going into um investing so there was this concept that I kind of came across uh that I was introduced to by a friend of mine uh of like the rat race and it basically means you are essentially you are in the rat
race until you have a higher level of passive income than you need to support your life and I have had that for a long time however I I never decided to kind of step back and um not keep on working so by having cash flow I really feel it puts you in a very unique position as an investor because the same as it does with the business because you don't need to need to make any drastic decisions you're not in a rush to make money you
don't need to make money to pay the bills you're kind of financially comfortable um and you have more money coming in every month that you're able to even deploy into new investment opportunities as and when they arriv um for example in like the crypto markets at the moment you can see very clearly who is like um not comfortable in their position like my friend is messaging me that his position's down like 10K and I'm down I was down like 120k last week like it it's back up now
but it makes no no difference to my life at all I have no plans on selling the asset I don't need the money uh and he's kind of panicking um because he he can't afford to lose the money because he doesn't have other cash flow whereas it puts me in a very unique position because even if it does go down and it does stay there again it doesn't have any real impact on my um on my like day-to-day life of course I prefer not to lose the money um but I'm just comfortable and very confident in my
thesis that the asset will will increase I will also be continuing my like overall goal of getting to $10 million so again like I said this video isn't about me like becoming a hippie it's more about me um saying changing the life structure and how I will be pursuing the path to $10 million so the other point to make is as you earn and acquire more money money essentially being a resource it becomes for you to continue working and
to outwork the rate that you can make money off of Investments even on like a baseline level you can be making like 12 to 16% per year with a million invested um which would be like 160k so about $113,000 per month you're receiving passively for doing nothing whereas I'm not looking at those type of investment opportunities I'm looking at doing um a 2X every like one to two
years in some cases more so in some cases it will maybe be like a 3 to 4X um in some cases maybe like a little bit less but not looking at doing like high volume trading genuinely looking at at investing um and so what I mean by that is spending most of my time walking around listening to audiobooks absorbing information following different narratives collecting different theses um uh building different theses sorry um on prospective Investments and pulling the
trigger on maybe two or three Investments per year that I have extremely high conviction on so not looking at doing like high volume trading maybe like when there's like these little like meme coins uh going on um I'll have like a small uh portfolio like just kind of play around money um just for like the the fun of it um but nothing that I'm playing with like seriously I'm looking for sensible logical Investments that that really kind of make sense to me um a few other points to kind of make out it it's it's
uh a coincidence that um the crypto markets are taking off at the time that I make this video so it's not that I've kind of caught a pump and all of a sudden think that I'm I'm a great investor this has been something that has been um on my mind for for quite some time and it's purely a coincidence that uh that um it's playing out at the same time that this happened there's like a lot of different kind of things in my life things popping up that are kind of telling me that this is like the the the correct move for me to make um just on
the subject like as well I won't be I don't want to push the channel into any like investment so you're not going to see me turning into into like a crypto influencer or anything like that I personally don't like giving investment advice um it's still going to be very much focused on you you know life setup automation systems processes and kind of outthinking um the system so to speak thinking outside of um like avoiding like the 9-to-5 and how to um kind of
have like a very rewarding Life by setting up and optimizing your life in kind of particular ways which is also why I put this video out there um a sense of me like being like a just telling my honest uh thoughts and experience as I clim climb the ladder of success um and just to I guess clarify my position on crypto whilst I'm on the subject as well so I actually mentioned in the like um in my only fans telegram group years ago uh about 18 months ago
maybe about 18 months ago that I felt o was a fantastic business for generating cash flow and investing that cash flow into Bitcoin which is what I was doing uh dollar cost averaging of about $2,000 day into Bitcoin all the way at the bottom whilst no one nobody was talking about crypto except for a few like high level guys that I know who were kind of doing the same thing when everyone was scared I was deploying Capital every
single day not talking about my thesis just quietly deploying more and more Capital um and that has also paid off uh obviously pretty well for me um I would consider myself uh a Bitcoin Maxi um but it doesn't mean that I don't have exposure to other asset classes and when I say I'm going into investing I am looking at a lot of other asset classes as well predominantly within technology and software because it's what I understand very well AI as well um but um yeah I I'm open to a lot of
other OPP opportunities but in terms of crypto um the fundamentals of Bitcoin are very very compelling to me owning your own asset when genuinely none of us own any any other asset at all um property can be taken from you very very easily if you yeah Andrew T was completely right on that if you upset a government uh you'll find very quickly that the property is is no longer yours
um plus if we actually do some comparisons my friend sent me over some charts if you compare if you compare property in the UK over the past nine years compared to the rate of inflation property in London hasn't actually gone up at all it's just maintained uh value with the rate of inflation so you actually haven't gained any purchasing power whatsoever uh and if you look at almost every asset class compared to bitcoin over the past um 10 years um the property prices in London are going down
sign significantly if you compare property prices to to BTC so and I just simply love the most basic fundamentals of supply and demand and having a fixed Supply I've done quite a lot of research into like the gold Supply banking system fractional Reserve um Banking and all these different things again I won't bore you with but um there's some some really good audio books out there um a really good books that that you can kind of listen to to understand the whole system how it works and how I again I think it's becoming
more common knowledge these days but how basically everyone is being uh shit by by the financial system um and yeah and as the other point is just kind of me being patient as well so when I mentioned just making like two or three moves per year uh despite there being maybe 90 good moves that I can make I'm kind of waiting for the one fantastic move to to come along um so again by having cash flow and and just simply being patient and waiting for
something to come along so saying no to the 99 opportunities to come along and say and executing on the one uh that you feel there's like a true um unique narrative um behind so um yeah I guess that is kind of my um overview so I was reading that from a laptop just because I was trying to make it uh a bit more clear because this so many different areas that are kind of going over explaining my thought process behind this but essentially once you
once you are working with a certain amount of capital um to see returns from investing uh like kind of what life would you prefer to live um even if we just keep the maps very simple here um if I'm making like $100,000 per month but it needs me to sit in front of my laptop all the time working dealing with stresses dealing with problems building out teams working the whole time not having true Freedom not having time Freedom or or like uh location freedom in some cases
um but I'm able to take home 1.2 million per year um or would I prefer to spend my time traveling literally traveling wherever I want to walking around and exploring these places um listening to audio books podcasts on different uh narratives trying to like research different topics um for me to be able to build up a solid thesis on on investing and then just kind of making you know two or three Investments per year um and
watching them kind of play out and still making like a 50k based cash flow Plus off of investing maybe an extra 100K to if you average it out over a year if I like double my portfolio it works out to be about 250k per month in income um yeah Whi which option would you rather choose and the the answer to me is kind of quite quite an obvious one um and I the other thing to say is it's not
like I will never go back into running a business again like I said this this I I'm like an entrepreneur and a very much a builder and maker of things at heart I really enjoy I think as many of you know the process of like building things of writing code um it's why I kind of release so many things and probably half of the stuff that I build I don't even release publicly I I'll just kind of build something in a weekend and never do anything with it um yeah I'm very much like a maker at heart
and whenever I decide like maybe in a year or in a couple of years um I can always decide that I want to come back and like start a new new project be a SAS company or an Ecommerce business or or whatever but right now I'm focusing on building out systems on hiring people um project managers project leads uh coo um and various kind of people in that regard to Sy to to systemize myself out of the business the other very interesting takeaway I would say
actually is um ironically I have a funny feeling this month I'm actually going to earn more money because I'm operating at a much more like higher level at the moment only working on $10,000 per hour tasks having like a bird ey view over the business as a whole rather than me being focused on like the day-to-day tasks um sometimes the biggest thing holding back the business can Simply Be You by wanting to control too much and I I saw this directly with one of my old
business partners um he was very much a control freak and he just didn't realize that he was actually the biggest hindrance to the business by him wanting to have ownership of so many different departments in the business um which it was just physically impossible for him to do uh it was a hindrance for for the growth of the business and I've kind of noticed that myself uh I'll still be publishing videos but predominantly on um building out systems processes team
themes uh and and setting up like a very interesting life uh life structure uh on how to like live without sounding too cliche but kind of live the best possible life like having the best setup that's possible to you the other like really um and I can honestly say like I've been following this kind of new uh life setup of um walking every day listening to audio books and I've never felt not never but I I'm feeling
really really good I've also made some changes in terms of like Diet uh following a primal eating diet so basically only eating Whole Foods which means like single Source Foods as in vegetables Meats nuts um also one of the biggest the highest quality improvements uh that money is is able to bring to you in terms of Life quality and happiness I would say is um eating the highest quality of foods I really like the saying that you
wouldn't put fish F oil in a Ferrari you put the highest quality um fuel in into a Ferrari and if you kind of value your uh your body like your mind how everything is is interconnected you want to be giving your body and your mind the highest quality of fuel that you can for it to perform it its best and I don't mean even in terms of sports of course it applies to sports as well but just in terms of day-to-day mental function mental Clarity um so I've been spending
I've been um just consuming like the highest quality foods uh a lot of um yeah just if no processed foods no sugars no vegetable oil and if I cannot tell you all of the ingredients on a particular thing on my plate it means like it's processed and has been mixed together um so I'm just eating whole greens um stapes chicken uh oysters um organic
grass-fed uh freshly CAU things so the this is there's a book called Deep nutrition I can recommend you to to listen to as well really really good book and so I've been kind of following the eating principles based off of that and my body is literally I feel so good like it's like your body is saying thank you um for like cleaning out all of the shit within your within my system as I've eaten a pretty uh processed diet of a lot of uh just ordering takeaways
ordering like food delivery services simply for um for convenience um so that it doesn't doesn't take up more time um yeah and like so another interesting fact for you from that book is uh even eating like whole vegetables you by from the time of picking like leafy greens if you refrigerate it for 7 days it's already lost 77% of its nutritional content um so really like spending that extra money on getting
fresh healthy Whole Foods um organic iic not sprayed with things really caring about the process of how that food is coming from the from the ground onto your plate um yeah has been a really really positive impact for me as well another thing I did have a thought of to kind of balance out my karma was potentially doing a uh a like no fap Channel um again just going back into um
outwitting the devil that is one of the things that he really talks about is being in control of your sexual urges as a man and me having worked in the OF space for so many years I just couldn't agree more um men are you can literally just be controlled and like everyone else working in the space as well they know just as well as I do um men are literally controlled by by their sexual urges both online you can even see like a very successful guy if like a
beautiful woman walks in uh he kind of loses um loses his composure around around these women so um another thing I've been looking into is uh like exploring is abstinence um so like seen retention essentially um just just to like not be wasting energy on like casual encounters meaningless
casual encounters um it's only something I've been looking at very recently but the other one I can tell you is like cut out all hopefully if you're working in the OF space you've done this already um but cutting out like all pornography from your life any um negative cut out everything that isn't kind of serving your goal but just as a man I think one of the biggest weaknesses most men have is giving into their kind of sexual urges and they're
able to have people like wrap them around their finger um just because they're they're thinking with with the wrong head there another thing to mention probably the most satisfaction I get at at the moment is from helping people um genuinely I I can say that there's a handful of people whose lives have kind of changed who have gone from doing having no money in their bank account or making very little um to doing six figures plus per month and I get thank you messages for it from them
that is a really really good feeling um like it's a selfish feeling like um I do it because I know that I will get that good feeling so it's not just in my Good Charity or good nature I I like the feeling of helping people um that's another one to mention as well like is um being able to like not retire my parents but I I just pay for my parents mortgage um because in the UK prices have gone up massively um so they're just like very comfortable I don't even both my parents are really
quite active um I I think my dad would go mad if he uh if you went into retirement like you kind of needs to be occupied doing something um but just to pay for their their mortgage is like a really nice feeling I just sent them on the holiday to Costa Rica going around the the um rainforest Jungle of Costa Rica and they're things that give like a lot of of satisfaction but again by like you don't need insane money to to do that next up like as much as I'm all talking about uh these things about
money I will say um that I still plan like my current goal is still to get to a net worth of $10 million um I just plan to use very different vehicles in order to get there I don't plan on trading my time for the next two years or 3 years to to get there so my original goal was like 10 million before um and now I've just kind of changed that like I I will still get there like regardless um
but I know that it it doesn't make any um significant difference to like the quality of my life um so I don't need to trade my time time being a finite asset the only finite asset that we have am choosing where to deploy my capital in order for it to work for me and generate me more capital and that is how I will achieve the goal of getting um to to $10 million in net worth whilst simultaneously I will have bought back all of my time which I have already done
um and the other interesting concept that I really like is sell your brain and not your time and this is very clever and again like courses kind of get like a bad um reputation um personally the problem the thing I hate about courses is that anyone can just copy all the things that You' spent ages figuring out record a load of videos talking just it's like me reading
a book and then absorbing all that information and then re-recording the same book and selling it and people do it for me it's like completely Shameless people do it in the OF space as well um you'll notice yeah you you'll notice this a lot in this space whereas I feel that the person who spends the time to kind of figure out the strategies and then implements those strategies as well and sell that information I'm I'm personally fine with it as long as you are figuring out those strategies yourself which is
what we have always done the thing I think people don't realize is all these tools that are like industry standards now 3uTools I've been using for years because in my agency before this 4 years ago now we used to use it for our Instagram marketing agency and it it's like an unheard of tool and and that is how like I released it and now of course that is what everyone used and I I spoke not released it sorry I spoke about it and it kind of became the standard for everyone to use Airtable as well automate all just the kind of Tex stack
of O uh is is very much something that was for me and of course other course creators they don't actually they're not experienced in these things they've just heard me talking about it and then got like an understanding of of how to use it um and and there is like a big difference and the other thing that people talk about is um if something is working so well why sell that information and the reason is so if I have a strategy on Reels that is working
incredibly well um it doesn't mean it's going to be lasting forever so I can kind of make the calculation that um let's and not a case of like it's going to be shut down next week but let's say that we get six months out of this particular strategy um is a a faster and easier way for me to scale particularly if it's like on a High um on like a a high user platform um for me to sell and just let other
people scale for me to sell the strategy and let other people scale as well and often the answer is actually yes you um you monetize the strategy through selling it plus you monetize the strategy through doing it yourself um and then you sell the strategy to other people they come on board as well and it's not a case of oversaturation it really isn't it's it's a case of um of of the the platforms fighting against you for example I have the perfect example of this uh just a few weeks ago
if people saw the breastfeeding strategy on on Instagram um we would we were doing the breastfeeding strategy and on brand new accounts we had a lot of accounts getting like 3 million views uh no post no followers no no following and it would go to like 5K followers overnight first post would be be breastfeeding and then just uh a couple of days later it just stopped and it's not because of oversaturation uh it's because Instagram has decided to block this so that was a bad quite a sad
example I thought that we would get at least a few months out of it um but yeah to in terms of like selling information as long as you kind of provide new strategies when other strategies stop working I'm I'm kind of P for it to be completely honest speaking of I have version three of the only fans course uh coming out so for all existing members they will be upgraded for free I'm going to try to do it like every year or so every 12 months um and sometimes throughout the year I I'll push out some some kind of more videos with new new
strategies and and things that that we're working on the only like I guess other thing is like the thing that takes up a lot a lot of like Financial resource is if you're buying uh real estate uh if you need to make like a large deposit like the type of properties that I would be looking at these days would be several million dollars um but I also don't actually see the upside currently of owning real estate I think because the world is in such a
um there's a lot of uh open Loops let's say that I think we need to see how they play out and I think one of the best positions that you can be in as an individual as an investor as an entrepreneur is simply in being a adaptable and being able to move quickly um not that I I think like the world's going to end uh but I think that there's there's kind of possibility of of not even possibility a
high likelihood that within our lifetime um even in the next like decade or so that there can be something quite serious that kind of takes place of course I hope that it doesn't um but as an individual you need to make sure that you are able to be adaptable in in in moving your location so I'm not really that motivated to buy any any property at the moment anywhere in the world um or I have got property already but I I'm actually even thinking of selling because I think that I can just
triple that money um passively through through invest fortunately I no longer need to do anything that that I don't want to um it's a very good saying from the Layer Cake goes and yeah um I I will kind of follow this process for like of of learning as much as possible and investing I also think it's great just to be like having for
like six or eight hours per day I'm just absorbing information from very very smart people um I feel I'm I'm feeling very very sharp at the moment um I think would be a good way good way to describe it um and yeah but if ever I choose I want to change my mind and get back into the r race of of pursuing more money um it's very easy for me to do so so this is a very easy decision for me to make because it's also very reversible if if ever I decide um that I I change my mind on it
so with that I hope um I hope that you received value from this video um be it now or be it in several years down the line perhaps you dealing with some type of similar problem or feeling lost in earning like Financial Resources um I'm more than happy to like connect with anyone who's on uh yeah in in like a similar similar stage in life that's the other thing that I'm starting to work on a lot more is like building out of my my
network whereas before as an entrepreneur I was very much kind of Lone Wolf operating but by myself to my own detriment to be honest but it's just because naturally I'm I'm introverted um I I'm very happy and always have done always have operated on my own final thing that I'll I'll give you um just before we before we partway is um I for whatever reason this is something
that's kind of a taboo subject to talk about I personally don't don't really care um going I I've been speaking to a a therapist um Sadia Khan I'm sure many of you will have seen her she's been on quite a few podcasts she is really good she's based out of Dubai um and because she's quite young she's like in tune with the modern world so it's not like you're talking to like some 60-year-old therapist trying to explain to her what Instagram is or like what only fans is or um like the Dynamics in
kind of like a modern relationship or or um as like an individual like how it can be living in like Dubai um or or like or whatever um she she's young so she's very like in tune with the modern world so I've done two sessions with her she's £250 an hour so about $300 per hour so I appreciate she'll be out of the budget for like quite a lot of people um but I was talking to her about um I mentioned this before but I I was adopted um and I
have some like not even consciously so the thing I was very impressed by her about she asked me a couple of questions about my relationships about my childhood and I explained like uh a couple of points to her and she had me sused out within about 5 minutes of it was literally like a scene out of a movie like someone's reading a script of of your life and your relationships so that was honestly quite impressive um and I can't say that she
like solved everything for me she she's very honest which I also like she literally just said that many of these things like you may live with them for your whole life but perhaps we can work on them and see some improvement uh and maybe like remove move them all together um but it's not something that's going to happen over even like weeks or months it's it's going to be like a lot of work for a lot of a lot of years so even then I was thinking like actually how much does this uh does this mean to me but um
the point is the biggest thing that I've had is her kind of explaining to me why my thought processes some of my thought patterns why I maybe react or feel certain ways in certain situations um maybe why I'm a avoidant or naturally a an introvert um just having that kind of explained to you I found to be very very powerful um so now I'm like consciously aware I have
an understanding of my subconscious mind and if I react a certain way to a situation I can say like no Nathan that's uh um even things in cases that perhaps I would like blame some of my previous partners for um I realize I actually me it's my own um it's my my own issue but you can project that blame outside like you you you don't want to look at your your own mind and realize that it's you causing causing a problem
so yeah just having awareness of these like thought patterns and processes that go on in your mind I think is really really powerful um because we are our decisions very much led by our subconscious mind so we may as well have an understanding of not only how the subconscious mind works but more specifically how your subconscious mind works as they say like a brain surgery can't perform wouldn't perform brain surgery a brain surgeon wouldn't perform brain surgery on on himself I think with psychology it's very it's very very
similar to have um a very smart person that's that doesn't know you personally you're not friends with there's no they have no intrinsic motivation you've already paid them there right um their sole motivation is to kind of help is to listen to you and to kind of help you and give feedback and kind of correct you with no emotional connection or no emotional attachment like um friends or family or
whatever they're always going to be biased to to kind of being on your side maybe they don't want to tell you like the harsh reality of things um or maybe they just haven't got an understanding that they're not able to do so whatever the case may be I've really found that to be quite good so my recommendation is kind of for anyone who has some form of childhood trauma um which is probably most people uh I know very very few people so again this isn't me playing like some sympathy card or something it's one thing that I I really hate people doing
online is when they're going on about what a rough childhood they have and the reality is there's always someone that's had it much much worse so I never complain about anything that happened to me in fact my childhood had like a very positive outcome I was adopted into a family who gave me a much better life and I wouldn't be wouldn't be in this position that I am today um if if that hadn't happened so um I have a full um appreciation for for all of the things that happen to me both both good
and bad um however you will carry along some form of like mental baggage from uh from from childhood trauma so even if like whatever it may be perhaps a divorce or perhaps you had a very distant and cold parent or uh you know alcoholic or family like abuse within the family or sexual like whatever it may be um to kind of have the courage
to go into that and to to understand it and understand how it affects your your mind today your day-to-day thought processes and your decision making um has really has really been been quite good for me so that's um it's had a good impact on my life again I can't I haven't solved anything I I think my issues are still there but simply by having an awareness of of them gives you and having an understanding of them
of them gives you a certain power over them of noticing these um processes within your mind so um yeah quite a deep deep uh thing to kind of leave it on but again I hope this video was uh was valuable um yeah I'm really looking forward to this kind of next stage o of the journey and uh yeah thank you for if you've watched it all the way uh through here I not just saying it genuinely thank thank you for um your kind of support and and
and yeah and and watching the the content that I put out