To Live Deliberately
The point of working online is to have more control over our lives, at least that's the most important thing to me. Some people hustle all day and some people like hanging out at the beach, but we're all living outside of the limitations of a normal job. Entrepreneurship supports one of the key goals in my life: to live deliberately.
It's ironic, then, that one of the major obstacles I've faced since quitting my job and going on my own has been not thinking for myself. It's an insidious problem. One minute you're browsing WickedFire minding your own business, and the next minute your obsessed with copying the success of someone else. All of sudden your minding everyone else's business, but not your own.
Mind your own business!
—The same problem happens if you read Hacker News, but that's less of an issue because I think we can all agree that Hacker News is full of faggots. And not the good kind of faggot like we have here, the ball cradling, shaft stroking, dick sucking kind, but awful Obama-loving, Zuckerburg-worshipping, emasculated pussies.—
Most marketers make money by influencing another person's dreams for their own life. But what about your dreams for your life? When you're living on the Internet, it's extremely easy to get caught in the trap of chasing someone else's dream. Look at all of the losers that want to create the next Facebook. Really? If I'm being brutally honest with myself, there's no way in hell I'd want what Zuck has.
Use your imagination and willpower to create the best life for you.
Honesty Takes Work
Eventually we all get what we want anyway. People who really want to build the next Facebook and work hard at it will do well. But people who convince themselves that they want to build the next Facebook, but actually want the comfort and security of a normal job, are just going to fail until they get in touch with reality.
Honesty and integrity aren't discussed much in the Internet marketing world, but in my experience, rigorous honesty is essential to living deliberately and staying on track with my own intentions for my life. Self-awareness doesn't come easy. If you think you know perfectly what you really want, you probably don't realize how difficult it is to actually see unadulterated reality.
Success comes when you work with reality.
What I've Learned
Obviously Internet marketing is a fucked up world filled with delusion, greed, dishonesty, insecurity, and misinformation. I don't give a fuck about educating the willfully ignorant masses, but I do want to contribute to the success of people who are serious about making something of themselves.
I wanted to write about something I've learned in the few years that I've been working for myself. I considered writing about building content teams, getting the highest quality work from writers, project management for content teams, and so on, but the thing that's helped me the most and that I care about the most is living a principled life.
I'm not going to get detailed right now about how get some principles into your life. Insight meditation is sick if you're ready for it. As I recall, living with principles is the main topic Stephen Covey wrote about. There are plenty of communities, and books, and other resources if your willing to look for them.
My experience is that the more honest I am about who I really am and what I really want, the more happy and successful I am. I'm not a millionaire yet, but it doesn't seem so far away, and my lifestyle is incredible.
My humble advice: Hard work is necessary for success, but self-honesty is even more primary and powerful.
At the end of your life, don't look back and see that you've lived like the mass of men: in quiet desperation. Do what you truly want to do. Live deliberately!
The point of working online is to have more control over our lives, at least that's the most important thing to me. Some people hustle all day and some people like hanging out at the beach, but we're all living outside of the limitations of a normal job. Entrepreneurship supports one of the key goals in my life: to live deliberately.
It's ironic, then, that one of the major obstacles I've faced since quitting my job and going on my own has been not thinking for myself. It's an insidious problem. One minute you're browsing WickedFire minding your own business, and the next minute your obsessed with copying the success of someone else. All of sudden your minding everyone else's business, but not your own.
Mind your own business!
—The same problem happens if you read Hacker News, but that's less of an issue because I think we can all agree that Hacker News is full of faggots. And not the good kind of faggot like we have here, the ball cradling, shaft stroking, dick sucking kind, but awful Obama-loving, Zuckerburg-worshipping, emasculated pussies.—
Most marketers make money by influencing another person's dreams for their own life. But what about your dreams for your life? When you're living on the Internet, it's extremely easy to get caught in the trap of chasing someone else's dream. Look at all of the losers that want to create the next Facebook. Really? If I'm being brutally honest with myself, there's no way in hell I'd want what Zuck has.
Use your imagination and willpower to create the best life for you.
Honesty Takes Work
Eventually we all get what we want anyway. People who really want to build the next Facebook and work hard at it will do well. But people who convince themselves that they want to build the next Facebook, but actually want the comfort and security of a normal job, are just going to fail until they get in touch with reality.
Honesty and integrity aren't discussed much in the Internet marketing world, but in my experience, rigorous honesty is essential to living deliberately and staying on track with my own intentions for my life. Self-awareness doesn't come easy. If you think you know perfectly what you really want, you probably don't realize how difficult it is to actually see unadulterated reality.
Success comes when you work with reality.
What I've Learned
Obviously Internet marketing is a fucked up world filled with delusion, greed, dishonesty, insecurity, and misinformation. I don't give a fuck about educating the willfully ignorant masses, but I do want to contribute to the success of people who are serious about making something of themselves.
I wanted to write about something I've learned in the few years that I've been working for myself. I considered writing about building content teams, getting the highest quality work from writers, project management for content teams, and so on, but the thing that's helped me the most and that I care about the most is living a principled life.
I'm not going to get detailed right now about how get some principles into your life. Insight meditation is sick if you're ready for it. As I recall, living with principles is the main topic Stephen Covey wrote about. There are plenty of communities, and books, and other resources if your willing to look for them.
My experience is that the more honest I am about who I really am and what I really want, the more happy and successful I am. I'm not a millionaire yet, but it doesn't seem so far away, and my lifestyle is incredible.
My humble advice: Hard work is necessary for success, but self-honesty is even more primary and powerful.
At the end of your life, don't look back and see that you've lived like the mass of men: in quiet desperation. Do what you truly want to do. Live deliberately!
