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How My Boss, GaryVee, and Einstein/Relativity are helping me Learn more about myself

Today was quite interesting!!

Got a new intern on our team who is going to help me in business development to reach out to potential customers.

We also are going to focus more on creating opportunities for inbound sales via social media marketing versus the outbound we were doing through cold emails… Im glad for that as it seems more enjoyable. It also is more on-target with the current marketplace.

Ever since watching GaryVee I’ve come to realize the full power of social media.. and its far more amazing than I thought it was before, even as a long-time advocate amongst my peers.

I look forward to figuring out how to use Twitter and Instagram to really create interest in our product, as well as use Medium ‘professionally’ to create cool blog posts… although I am wary about what value I can offer as a ‘kid’ who doesnt really know much about HR.

Nevertheless, this realization has helped me to discover how much i enjoy talking with people about dope new tech! Selling has never been my strongpoint. Im probably a perfectly average salesman… if not more exceptional in presentations versus bad in closing the sale (but great in getting referrals). I dont like selling but I Love advocating and just sharing the passion and interest I have in innovative stuff.

Speaking of… Great stuff about to happen on that front! We’re about to go hard on AI/chatbots and showing people the value of analyzing EQ and such… Going to be awesome coming out of ‘stealth mode’!

I do need to get better with dedicating more time, more efficiently, to really deliver my full value to the company, but yeah… time to get this startup goin!

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I also finally got into my first LIVE #AskGaryVeeShow!! Im grateful for having a phone just to catch more value from these sorts of things. Even though I figured I wouldn't get a call, I still got a little anxious trying to figure out what I would even ask him! I could come up with dozens of questions that I would love his insight on… but just paying attention to his content pretty much answers all of them. So going through that on top of witnessing the way he ‘tore into’ the caller who kept kinda BSing him was incredibly valuable.

What was crazy was that much of her ‘problems’ were ones that I am dealing with now… albeit, I feel as if I found a way to deal with much of them already… still…
She was also 22.. she also had ‘ambitions’… she also wanted to build her own thing… she also felt like she wasn't doing enough… she also compared herself unfairly (and idiotically) to the ‘1%’ of stupidly successful people our age… etc.

The whole conversation helped me both come to grips with my own issues and to gain confidence about my Journey/ progress.

In doing so, I realized that I am not like Gary… in that I dont ‘enjoy the process’ of achieving my huge goals… And thus is why I struggle with working as hard as I ‘should’ to get there. However, I am also just like Gary… in that I want to achieve these huge goals and care not for the new car or shiny watch or fancy vacations (although I do want to spend time traveling with my SO/fam). I know that once I do get to a point where I am financially free and dont have to be distracted by the BS of my circumstances, I will most definitely enjoy the process from there to a million, to a billion, and to a trillion. What inspires and motivates and excites me most about the prospect of having a trillion dollars is being able to create more value… to create more cool stuff… not ‘retiring’ or partying or any of that crap… I just want to create cool shit.
And every step of the way in which I can do that is a great, awesome step!

THAT’S why I hate the idea of getting a 9–5 or a part-time job just to ‘have my own money.’ I hate it SO much that I would rather live in my mother’s basement, watching my little, completely unambitious brother make more money than me at the pizzeria while I sit here working for free on someone elses startup… all because I value the experience and the connections and the skills I am gaining at this startup far more than any gaming pc VR rig or cool new drones or even romantic, expensive dinners I know my SO would love…

I would rather struggle and stress out about how to cold call 500 people and get 3 meetings a week in order to get just 3 companies to use our platform then breeze on through the corporate careers or retail jobs or college classes I could have had.

I would rather spend my ‘free’ time documenting my thoughts and formulating ideas and researching people I want to network with than playing that next-gen MMO or the new Shadow of War that I know will be dope or catching up on all the Netflix shows im missing.

And I know Im not quite there yet… I still have moments when I basically sacrifice my long-term goals for short-term pleasures… I know every time that I fail to conjure up the willpower to stave off watching YouTube is time that pushes back on my timeline to build Hovercars and Spaceships… I still end up thinking too much instead of DOING… I fail to document some thoughts on Instagram and make new Podcasts… and I hate myself every time for it… but GOTdamnit Im learning and growing and getting better at hustling.

More importantly… Im figuring out where my personal ‘balance’ and priorities and fulfillment lies. Because trying to be like Gary and hustling 24/7 for the next 10 years is jsut not me… Its not my path… Even though I cant spend every weekend playing games… I do really want to, and would regret, not taking the time to enjoy marvels of the industry like reading ISSTH or inevitably playing Chronicles of Elyria … not only because they supply me sanity.. but they also inspire and motivate me to build things like that later on down the line.

I plan to create a whole lot of cool things… and that means experiencing what makes things cool.

I plan to become a trillionaire not by (complete) hustle.. but also through ‘getting lucky’ with amazing execution on dope ideas.

I plan to inspire a whole new wave of people in a whole new type of economy!

#CreativeEconomy

Meanwhile… I really enjoy ‘wasting time’ reading and watching and amateurishly theorizing about Relativity and Quantum Mechanics… deluding myself into thinking that I may have the ‘key’ to what dark matter is and how one might utilize space-time to build starships….

Hahaha… But that is a topic for another conversation…

Thanks again for coming along with me on my #pathofatrillionaire with these daily #blogumentaries… I’ll be launching my own crowdfunding campaign(s) super soon too!! SO excited… even if I dont get much attention/support anytime soon haha.