People love freedom. People love lies. People love money. Do you know what these three things have in common? Nothing. If you don’t have money and you want a lot of it, it won’t be easy. First you have to give up your freedom to earn money. Only later, with time, you might be able to gain both money and freedom. Getting rich overnight is impossible. If you see a YouTube video titled “How to make €1000 a day,” it isn’t real. If someone truly knew how to make €1000 a day, they wouldn’t need to make videos about it.
But to be honest, I do know a way to make €1000 a day. Just between us, it has to stay our secret. You need to create a lot of videos titled “How to make €1000 a day” and simply wait. People will watch them and you will earn a lot of money. This method isn’t for everyone, but it works. Other ways are harder and take longer.
I’ve been thinking about starting my own business for a long time. I have very clear criteria:
- I want to work from home.
- I don’t want to work with people.
- I want to create digital products because I don’t want to trade my time for money.
- I don’t want to be tied to one place.
You might wonder what kind of person wants something like that. It’s me, an ISTJ personality. Someone whose biggest dream is to buy a wooden cabin by a lake, in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Finland. In a cold, dark country.
I know it won’t be easy or quick. It will be a tough journey full of sweat and pain. But I believe that at the end of that journey I will be able to fulfill all my dreams.
If entrepreneurship were easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur. But if everyone were an entrepreneur, there would be no one left to work nine to five. And if no one worked nine to five, there would be no one you could hire for your business. That’s why entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone. Maybe not even for me, but I’m willing to try and fail. Because everyone who has achieved something had to fail first.
My advice to you: don’t be afraid to fail again and again, because one day you will achieve ten times more than you ever risked losing.
