May 2024 Monthly Update

I have 175 subscribers. I am now focusing on mastering YouTube.

Episode Transcript

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175 subscribers. Last month on April 3rd, I said that I was gonna have 200 subscribers

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and I was willing to put in the work. I was doing daily uploads. 30... I uploaded 30 videos
and I did not reach my goal. However, I am ecstatic because there's a book I read called
Ask by Ryan LeVec and that book is so great. The first half of it was basically his life story

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and then the second half was the actual reason why I bought the book, which was to learn how to
actually build a business and a product that people will actually want and people that actually need.
But I didn't even read the second half. I read maybe one chapter of the second half because
that's all I needed at the time. I read the entire first half of his story and it was amazing.

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Pretty much. I learned that he has this thing where he sets a massive goal and then he's like,
oh, I don't even know if I can do this, but I'm gonna work my butt off to actually get it.
And afterwards, by let's say he sets a goal for three weeks time and then three weeks passes

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and he didn't achieve the goal. He's still super happy because he made so much progress.
And that was exactly my mindset when I said that I was gonna reach 200 subscribers.
First of all, I know that I will eventually get hundreds of thousands of subscribers,
more than that. But right now, my skills are terrible. I suck. It's obvious. So I have to be

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realistic and I hate that word, but you have to be realistic until your skills catch up with your
actual mindset. So my mindset is like millions of subscribers, but my skills are 175 subscribers.
And one month ago when I was setting my goal, I said 200 subscribers.

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And that means that I would have to gain 75 subs in one month, which by the way,
in the month before that, I only gained 13 subscribers. And then the month before that,
I only gained nine. So that means that I would have to pretty much 10x my growth in one month.
And I was ready for it. And I put in that work. And the thing is that I basically

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spent the whole month building my work ethic. I did six hours minimum of work every day,
except for one rest day a week. So six days a week, at least six hours of work every day.
And then I would just read for the rest of the day. And I built up my work ethic. And eventually,

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towards the end of the month, I realized what was holding me back because I wasn't making the progress.
I was at like 150 subs a couple days ago. And I realized what was holding me back. It was the fact
that, first of all, my ideas are not that great. I'm repeating the same thing over and over again.
I'm basically making the same content. It's not really original anymore, because I already made it.

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And second of all, they suck. The videos suck. There's no reason why people should watch it till
the end, much less watch past 30 seconds. So it counts as a view. And that's when I saw a,
there's this YouTube course that I'm part of. And it's a community of YouTubers like me who are
trying to grow and build an audience. And there's this one guy who just started YouTube maybe two

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months ago. I started 10 months ago. And this man started two months ago. And on his first view,
or on his first video, he gained 1000 subscribers. His first video got 50,000 views or 100,000 views.
And that is why I realized that my videos suck. I'm not giving the viewer any reason why they

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should watch it, much less watch till the end. And so I saw this guy's video, his first video.
And I wasn't even going to watch it. I was fully conscious. I was like, okay, I'm just going to
watch the intro to see what he does. And I was hooked. It wasn't even my type of video. It was
a volleyball video. And it was like anime and stuff like that. And I was like, I'm not really into

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this, but I was hooked. I wasn't even his viewer. And I was hooked. And that's when I wrote down
to my journal. I did this maybe one and a half weeks ago, I wrote down in my journal. That's
my next focus. Figure out the intro, give the viewer a reason to watch till the end. And so
that's when I went on this huge study session, I pretty much dropped everything. I finished making

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the rest of my videos so that I could complete the daily upload for the whole month. Excuse me.
I pretty much finished making all the rest of the videos for the rest of the month so they could
just roll out on their own. But I stopped working. I literally stopped working altogether. I was,
I spent an entire 30 days straight waking up going downstairs, while my breath stank. I didn't even

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do anything. I didn't even make my bed. That's, that was my big thing that I did for the past 10
months, where I always made my bed. I always, I don't have a normal bed. So I basically
fold up all my blankets and put them in my closet every single day I did that, no matter what.
And that was my big thing. It was like a way that I set the day right. But I stopped doing that

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because work was more important. So I literally just left my room while it was all dirty and went
downstairs and worked for 30 minutes. I said my whole daily routine in the last month's update.
So you can go listen to that. But basically I stopped doing that routine, even though I gained
so much growth out of it, because now I'm able to work eight hours a day, nine hours a day,

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I stopped. And you know what I did? I spent 10 hours in my room every day. The last time I did
that was when I was addicted to video games. I know I'd spend 10 hours playing video games.
But now life feels like a game. Life is literally starting to feel like a video game. I've heard
about this so many times. People, a successful entrepreneur is saying, I mean, business is

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just a game. And I always thought it was like a metaphor. But then people said, like, this is real,
like it actually feels like a game. And once you get there, you'll start to notice. And I'm
starting to notice. I'm starting to realize, oh, this is like a game. I spent 10 hours in my room
every day for probably five days straight studying. What I did was I went downstairs and got a sheet

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of paper and pulled up Mr. Beast's YouTube channel. He's the most successful YouTuber on the planet.
And I pulled up his YouTube channel and wrote down maybe 25 of his most popular video titles.
Wrote all that down on one sheet of paper. And then I flipped it over. And then I found all of the

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most popular titles in my niche. So basically my genre of basically what type of content I'm
making self improvement. Mr. Beast is a general entertainment YouTuber. I'm a self improvement
YouTuber. So I went and found the most popular self improvement YouTube videos. And I wrote down

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all their titles like 25 titles. And once I did that, I went upstairs and literally just
wrote them down over and over and over and over again for hours. So much so, I was writing down.
I'm a righty. I was writing down with my right hand for so long it started to go numb.

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But I needed to study. So I said, All right, left hand, I started writing with my left hand.
It took me probably 20 minutes in the beginning to write a full paragraph with my left hand,
which would have taken me maybe four minutes or five minutes with my right hand. I am ambidextrous

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now. I learned how to write with my left hand because I have been studying so hard. And I
learned I never learned how to study in school because I always did good no matter what I never
studied. But now I'm studying I basically my study method is I literally just write the same title

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over and over again. So I go through the entire list of titles and then flip to the other side
where it's all of the self improvement titles. And then after that, I have this there's this guy
that I talked about last episode where he is my exact dream customer and he has this he wrote this
whole amazing comment that is it takes seven minutes for me to write it down, like completely

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write it down in my journal. And I've probably written down that comment word for word in my
journal at least 20 times. I am not exaggerating. I exaggerate a lot of times. But I am not
exaggerating when I say I wrote this guy's comment down 20 times because I am trying to

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mold my mind to become the most like the best entrepreneur possible. And in order to do that,
you have to know your dream customer. And I am not my dream customer. My dream customer is a 35
year old dad. I am not 35 years old. I am not a dad. So I have to do some crazy methods to

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basically learn what it's like. And that was my routine. I basically would write down one entire
like I would write down the 25 Mr. Beast titles and then I would write down the 25. Oh wait, no,
no, restart that I would write down the 25 self improvement titles. And then I would write down

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the 25 Mr. Beast titles and then I would write down that entire YouTube comment. That is all I did
for days. And I did that for probably the first three days. And then I realized that I wasn't
even improving my intros. My intro is what I needed. Because remember when I said how I saw

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that video of that volleyball guy who had a YouTube video his first YouTube video hooked me. So that's
what I needed intros. So what I did was I went on to Mr. Beast YouTube channel again. But this time
I only went on to four videos before I wrote down 25 video titles but now I chose four very

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specific videos. Two of his most popular ones. It was the Squid Game one and then also the Last
Sleeve the Circle one. And then I also chose two of his still amazing ones, amazing videos but more
recent ones. And it was the ages one through a hundred choose or decide who wins or something like

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that. And then there was also another one called $10,000 every day you survive in a grocery store.
And I basically what I would do was I would go onto each of those videos, write down the title,
and then I would pull up the transcript. So the actual words that they say. And then I literally

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wrote them down all on a sheet of paper. And that took a long time. I would do the first 30 seconds,
not the entire video, just the first 30 seconds of each of them. And once I did that, I had an
entire sheet of paper filled with perfect intros, literally like near perfect YouTube intros because
they're getting hundreds of thousands or hundreds of millions of views. I'm getting hundreds of

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views, barely hundreds of views. Mr. Beast is getting hundreds of millions. So these intros I
copied down. And then after that, I went into four YouTube videos that were not actually my niche,
but they were part of the education niche. So basically on YouTube, there's the there's the

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entertainment, which is Mr. Beast and basically videos that are just for entertainment. And then
there's education, videos that are for education. So my videos are for education, they educate people.
And there's other educational YouTubers in other niches. For example, there's this one guy who
has this script writing YouTube education niche. So he basically teaches how to write a perfect

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YouTube script. And one of his videos I really liked. So I basically copied his intro down on my
sheet of paper. And then I also copied one of Alex Hormozzi's intros down for one of his videos.
And then two videos from Eman Gaji. And basically, what I would do is now that I had all of these

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video intros copied down, I went back up in my room, locked myself in my room for the next three
days straight. And I would follow my routine, I would wake up before I even before I even made
my bed, I would literally throw all my blankets off of my bed, and immediately open immediately

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turn on the light immediately open my journal and lay in my bed, which is the floor. So lay on the
floor and start writing down an entire paragraph of a YouTube 30 second intro transcript.
And then after that would shower do that and then I would go back into my room for the next four

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hours or five hours and just keep writing those down. I, I didn't even know if it was working.
I did not even know it was working. And I kind of I was just like, okay, I'm just going to do this.
Hope that it works. I had no reason to suspect it would work, because I was literally just writing

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down stuff. But I kind of knew that it would work. And it did, because I just recently made
a video, which I'll get to in a moment, because there's one important thing that I didn't mention
earlier. And after a while of doing that, I kind of started to stress out, I kind of started to be

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like, Oh, man, I suck at YouTube. And so I, I went on this YouTube community, this YouTube course
of a bunch of people who I mentioned earlier, a bunch of people like me who are trying to grow
their YouTube channels. And there was this one guy, he was a consultant, basically a YouTube

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consultant, and he was running an agency. And he was basically trying to find leads. And so he
posted a comment saying, saying, comment your YouTube channel in the description, or sorry,
comment your YouTube channel. And I will give you a free audio. So he'll basically tell you

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a suggestion for free. So at first I was like, I don't know, whatever, I saw that before. But
then I went back, and I commented my channel. And it was already 18 days old, that that post was,
so I'm not sure if he was going to respond. So I just forgot about it. And then the next day,
I went back and checked. And I see that I received like seven DMs from this guy, he messaged me

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privately like seven times. And then I went, I didn't even read those yet. I went to the comment
to see if he gave me a tip, because he gave every single person a tip, he would say, oh, make better
thumbnails, oh, better upload schedule or whatever. But then there was my name, and he did not give

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me a tip. And then some person who responded after me, he gave him a tip. So basically,
he saw my comment out of the hundreds that he already responded to, and he didn't respond
to mine. I was the only person out of the hundreds that he did not respond to. But he sent me seven
DMs, and none of them were giving me tips. And so that basically made me think, oh, shoot, I've got

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something special here, which I already knew that I had something special on my YouTube channel. But
the fact that all of these other people are like, he didn't give any other person attention, except
for me. I got seven DMs from him asking if I wanted to join a call with him so he could be my
consultant. And so I was hype, because I saw that he had a customer review, like, someone gave him

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a, someone sent a video basically saying that he was good. And so I was like, all right, I signed up
for a call and the next day I hopped on a call. And he was terrible. I'm not even gonna lie. He,
I could tell that he didn't really know what he was doing. And this is coming from someone who

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does not know what they're doing. I don't know what I'm doing on YouTube, obviously, because I have
less than 1000 subscribers. I have less than 100,000, like even 1000 subscribers, you still don't
know what you're doing. But I knew that he didn't know what he was doing because I mean, I use
common sense. He was showing me a bunch of people that he was working with. For example, one channel
that he had helped, he's been working with for the past four years. Four years ago, it blew up

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with one short, one video that was 30 seconds long, got 50 million views. And his channel got
one million subscribers from it. So for the past four years, he said that he's been working with him
and that he's kind of been like doing his own thing, whatever. But I saw his channel and he has
a million subscribers and he's getting less views than I am. His shorts, his videos are getting

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literally five views, five views worse than I am. And he has a million subscribers. I have 100
subscribers. I'm getting more. So that's all I knew that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
That's common sense. I don't have to know anything about YouTube to know that he doesn't know he's
talking about. So he was like, yeah, at the end of the call, he was like, yeah, do you want to

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work with me? And I was like, no, I'm not gonna. And then, well, no, to be honest, I gotta be honest
with you. I should have said that. I should have said no right off the bat. But I was too much of a
wuss to say no and to reject him while we were in a call. So I said, I'll think about it. Which,

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as I, as those words came out of my mouth, I, I just felt like an idiot because that is the worst
thing to say to a salesman. Because that is a no. And it just means that you're indecisive. It means
that you don't, you're not going to make any decisions. And if you want to be successful,
you have to be able to make decisions and you have to be able to say no to people. And so I

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basically just violated one of the laws of success. But I made up for it because the next day, I,
I texted him, I DMed him and I said, you know what, I thought about it and I don't want to work with
you. I wish you the best of luck. And he responded, he was chill. So respect. But the point of the
story is not all of that. I just spent way too long talking about that. But the point of the story

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is the fact that the end my entire, have you ever felt like the entire world is,
oh, there's a perfect word for it. Oh, conspiring. Have you ever felt like the entire world is
conspiring not for your defeat, but for your success? Like right now, I feel like everything
is going perfectly for me. Like random things are happening that I could never have done on my own,

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which makes it so I'm going to be successful. And so let me explain what I mean by that.
In that story, I just told you, I posted my channel on this guys on this post. And that was the only
time I ever commented on anything. And I've been in that in that community for months. That was the

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first time I ever commented. And I received and I told you the story of what happened. But then
something else happened. Some random guy who I thought was a salesman, because he was like,
hey, he just texted me, hey, how are you doing? And I was like, Oh, that's kind of weird. He's
probably trying to sell me something. So but I just went on with it. And I just said hi. And we

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had a conversation over the course of a couple of days. But then out of the blue, he said,
have you tried Darryl Eve's YouTube formula? And I didn't even know what what that was. I didn't
even know if that was a person or if that was like a thing, because he kind of spelled it wrong. And
he was spelling with all lowercase. And it was it was weird. So I dismissed it. I was like,

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All right, whatever, screw this guy. And I just ignored him. But then a couple of hours later,
I went back onto my computer. I was like, You know what, let me just look this up.
Just I wasn't even thinking about it. I just looked it up. And I discovered Darryl Eve's.
This man is the number one YouTube consultant in the world. And let me tell you, I went onto his

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website, and he was selling a book. It was a funnel, selling a book. And there was a video
of Mr. Beast I mentioned many times before, the most famous, the most successful YouTuber on the
planet, Mr. Beast said that he is his consultant. And he said that there's only two or three people

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in the entire world who understands YouTube more than Darryl Eve's does. So with that said,
he has a book called the YouTube formula on how to be successful on YouTube. And this is the exact
book I needed. Mr. Beast said that if you read this book, you'll know everything you need to be

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successful on YouTube. And so as you can guess, I was ecstatic. I was so hype. And I didn't
but I didn't have any money. I had no money to buy it. I did I actually have $50 in my bank account,
but I need all of that to be able to pay for subscriptions for this podcast costs $15 a month

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to keep online. And then I also pay for Canva, which is like that's absolutely essential.
Actually, it's not even that essential anymore. But it's very useful for me. And then I also pay
for chat GBT, which I could I could get rid of because I don't really use it anymore. But I need
all my money. And so I was like, Okay, I got to get this book. And I was willing to I was prepared

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to buy it. Like I was prepared to cancel chat GBT and go buy it. And so I like went upstairs and
and went to my mom and I talked to her and I said like, Hey, can can you just buy this book with my
card on Amazon? Like I had no intent on trying to get her to buy me buy it for me. Like to be honest,

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I do sometimes do that. I'm going to be completely real with you. Sometimes I try and play the little
sneaky game and say, Hey, like, can you get this for me? But this time I genuinely was going to buy
it for myself. And so I was like, Okay, well, can you just buy this for me on my card? But she knew

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how much money I had. And she was like, No, I'm just gonna buy it for you. I was so hype. So she
bought it for me and it arrived. And this whole time while I was waiting for it to come, it took
two days. I was studying. And I was kind of falling apart. Because I didn't know what to do on YouTube
because I realized that this whole time I've been making trash videos, I've been spending like five

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hours on each video for it to get 10 views. And so I didn't know what to do. But I was just studying,
I was doing my best I could waiting for the book. And then the day it came, it was at nighttime. So
I fell asleep and then I woke up and I studied that book all day. And the first thing so I started
with chapter 10 and 11. And I read those and then I read the entire and I read the beginning of book.

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Because I heard someone say that you should start with 1011. So I read that and the first tip was
a specific tip. And I took action on every single tip that he gave on chapter 10 and 11.
And I made an entire video based off of those tips. And they were like the actionable steps.

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And that video is called actually forgot what it's called. Let me let me check. I just finished
making it this morning. And it's called social media will end your kids. One of my most popular
videos is a video on social media. So that's why he said to make a video on that topic of your most

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popular video. So I did that. And then I followed some other tips. And this was the first time where
I actually implemented what I've been studying of learning the intro so you make me making a better
YouTube intro. And I got to say this is the best video I've ever made. And I just finished it today.
Today is May 2nd. And I am not even sure when I'm going to when I'm going to post it. I have not

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even scheduled it because I'm trying to buy time so I can just read this whole book during my work
day and be able to just figure out my new direction over the course of the next couple of days.
And be able to maintain a one week ahead of time schedule. It's whatever. Basically I have this

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awesome video the best one that I've ever made which every single pretty much every single one I
feel like that way. But I actually think that this video will get at least 2000 views. I've only
ever gotten 2000 views once. But I think this video will get 2000 views. And that is basically

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that's basically what I have to share with you today. Oh actually one more thing. I have a whole
plan on the first law the first lesson in Napoleon Hill's law of success in 16 lessons. The first
the first lesson is a definite aim. And I basically went through that the first time I read the book

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maybe four or five months ago. And then I went through it again to like a couple weeks ago. And
I have this whole definite aim this whole very elaborate plan written down on a piece of paper
that's taped to my wall. And right now I'm in the current stage where basically my goal is to get

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100 dad stories which is basically 100 people 100 dads sharing their stories to me. And to give an
example of what I mean by that I mentioned this guy who this my dream customer this the first dad

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who commented on one of my video one of the first dads who comments on one of my videos
was maybe a month and a half ago. He commented that entire post. And that's the guy that I wrote
down. I copied his post his comment down at least 20 times by hand on my journal.

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I want to receive 99 more of those. Now for the past couple weeks I've been tracking it every
single night before I go to bed. I write down was today a good day. Like did I do enough work today?
Yes or no. Like did I give it my all. And pretty much five days out of six it would be a yes.

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And then one guy or and then the next thing I say is how many dad stories did I collect.
And for the past couple weeks I've been saying one one one every single day I literally write
down one. And I realized that I actually collected maybe three or four more without even noticing

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because they weren't in the same like elaborate structure as the first one that I got. So I was
dismissing them all but I do have dad stories. So I do have maybe three or four out of 100.
And the reason behind all of this is because I want to get 100 so that I know exactly what type
of product and what I know exactly how to solve the issue. I know exactly how to help dads.

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And that is what is going to be the foundation to my million dollar business.
And I know exactly what you're thinking right now. What is this 18 year old kid thinking
million dollar business. He's going to make a hundred thousand dollars a year.
Million dollars a year. What does he think. Well you'll just have to wait and see because
it is possible and it will be done.