11 Reminders to make you feel better about life in 2023:
Seeing others bragging about their winners makes you feel like you're nothing and going nowhere - Here's 11 reasons to not feel that way (and in fact, to feel VERY EXCITED about 2023) Let's go!
1. Chat GPT is “the new thing” and less than 0.0014% of the world is using it.
You’re in an amazing position to streamline your marketing and make entirely new businesses from it.
Don’t sleep on this! (I’m using it already)
2. Everyone who posts on social media has less money than you think you do.
One “giveaway” is how excited they get over a $3k or $5k deal…while posting about millions. Huh?
3. Anyone who “made $200k” on a launch or E-commerce thing loses 50%-90% of that $200k on ads and contractor costs
4. NFT’s can be researched, but it’s still gambling.
5. People don’t post about their financial losses publicly
6. Small, consistent wins tend to give you more money and freedom over the long term, rather then going all-in on riskier projects.
(i.e. you only see the random “Big winners” - 100 or 1000 people tried to do what they did and failed most likely)
7. People who really are “crushing it” have no life outside of business.
I literally have almost zero memories of living in LA the year I made a million dollars.
I knew it was the price of success so I don’t mind, but remember the person you’re envious of is living a boring life.
Maybe once a month they make a camera opportunity of an event to pretend, but it’s 14+ hours a day on your screen to do what the giants do
8. Try and treat your personal and romantic life like a business.
As in, think about what a funnel would look like to make friends or a lover/girlfriend/boyfriend
- You would need to find a way to meet a collection of people (friends) or potential dates in bulk then the good ones remain until you find ones worth spending time with.
Try and block out time away from “work work” to do this, it hits you at times like birthdays, Christmas, and new year that you…don’t have too much going on besides work
9. Doing nothing is a GREAT strategy. I had my best client EVER after I retired and did zero work for a year.
The offers got better and better until I said yes to that one. Likewise last summer I chilled, and two new businesses found me.
Don’t keep thrashing about in the ocean of things that are hard work as they make you “one off” money.
10. Tied to this- Don’t start a business that can’t easily scale into something that doesn’t require your time and direct work to grow them.
Both of my main businesses are now this way and I am a lot less stressed and frantic :)
11. Caveat - If you want to say I’M TIRED OF THE HUSTLE that’s fine too.
When that one big whale client came along for me in 2020, I LOVED being an “employee”.
I didn’t have to make no content, do no sales calls, give no talks, etc.
I just did my work, clocked off, collected my cheque. (I’m hustling to build this Substack & my agency now, but I loved those 18 months away from the grind)
Bonus pro tip: Nothing converts better in most niches than a human face.
Us humans are just drawn to them.
The idea of a selfie was an inevitability!
Hence, your customers making a quick video speaking to camera will convert like crazy.
Read above for what’s working in ads right now (selfie videos that look like user generated content).
