My Life is completely different thanks to Notion
5 years is a long time and a lot can happen.
2019: No direction in life, high school senior working 40 hours/week.
2023: 2 newsletters, a digital product store, and a loving audience on Twitter.
I spilled all the details 🧵
2019: Senior in highschool.
Had no idea what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go in life.
I was told by most around me that I should be an engineer because those guys *make money*
I worked full-time (like 30+ hours a week) and I knew that trading my time for money was just not something I wanted to do.
Little did I know what I would come to find out in college.
2020: a year later, and I am a freshman in College.
At this point, parties are practically my middle name.
I could hardly tell what I wanted to do, but stocks interested me.
I started waking up every morning for the market, and that's when I realized I love money.
Not the material but the way the institution works.
More importantly, how the game is played.
2021: I got my first house.
Well not technically my house but a house to live in nonetheless
I am fully learning at this point how to be a full-time adult, and it is hard.
Stocks still interest me but I really want to start my own business.
I worked at amazon in the warehouse and listened to around 40+ hours of podcasts per week.
I felt like I was ready but still, had no idea what I was going to do.
2022: I started my first newsletter on April 29.
It is still going to this day and I publish weekly on it (themoneymattersletter.substack.com)
It’s about the stock market and the economy, but still I knew that I wanted to do something else.
I wanted to build an audience but didn’t know where to start.
Until I found @thejustinwelsh and @heyeaslo and my brain started firing on all cylinders.
I loved Notion because I used @tomfrankly ultimate brain template, and I wanted to build my own.
That’s where I doubled down on learning how to write, build on notion, and devolp a personal brand.
2023: Who knows where life will take me.
I am fully committed to being digitally nomadic no matter how long it takes me.
I finally picked up some momentum on Twitter,
and my second newsletter as grown to almost 50 subs organically.
I’ve sold 750+ templates on gumroad and am only more excited for what’s to come in the new year.
I just wanted to write this because I never thought I would be where I am today.
And that you can do it too, it just as simple as starting.
And getting through the part where no one listens.
Whatever you do, just do it for yourself.
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