My story:
2006: I was a burnt out medical doctor. I worked 100+ work weeks. I slept 4 hours a night, dealt with bullshit bureaucracy, and hated the little shitty towns I worked in that came as part of the paycheck.
After my parents invested years in my education, I did not want to admit that I did not look forward to living a mediocre life doing something that I doubted. I didn’t want to be in the rat race. I want to start living my passion, travel the world, live wherever I want, and get paid to do it! But is that even possible?
2007: I got tired of it all. So I quit. Yes, I quit my job. Congratulations? I was living with my parents. I went from a highly respectable doctor to a lowly unemployed bum who made no money for months. I hit rock bottom. Yes, congratulations.
2008: One day, I got lucky. I made some money. It was in fact a very nice sum of money ($12k) in a very short time period (8 days). I could keep it all to myself, but I decided to write a book about it. People talk about selling $4.99 ebooks online. I wanted to see if you can really make money online. So I decided that I set a very reasonable price of $1,000 each for my book. In my opinion the information in it was worth alot more. I limited to 5 people only. The book sold out within 24 hours.
2009: Since then, I realised that I wanted to build a business online. Through trials, tribulations and many further failures, I learned alot more about how to make money online. In a way, I have accidentally become an internet marketer. I have met alot of interesting people along the way. Ironically, one of the guys who bought my book was one of these people. He became my business partner, and my best friend. Our business has been in the blacks ever since we started on our journey together, and the business continues to grow every day, doing what we both truly love.
2010: I started this blog back in 2006. Back then, it was mostly a personal rant about working in hospitals and complaining about how life sucked. That blog no longer exists, and never will again. My life is now in a new phase. I am doing what I truly love, and I want to transmit that message through a fresh start with this blog. I can now work from anywhere I want, live anywhere I want, and do whatever I want. Most importantly, I can do those things with people I love.
Later this year, my business partner and I are taking our online business and our partners on a 2 year world trip through Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. This will be a true test of whether we can develop something that allows us to do what we truly love. My ultimate goal would be to help others do the same thing – escape the rat race, start living your passion, and getting paid to do it.
If you can relate to where I once was, keep your eyes opened. I’m just a regular guy who worked at my life, see myself as a student of life, and will continue to every day work on improving my life.
Like Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kun Do – if you can read my blog and find 1 new useful idea or destination that changes your life… I will be very happy.
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