I was chasing so many ideas and following thought patterns on the internet. My mind was stuck into this ideology of listening opinion from the folks who have been through rugs and riches.
This brought me back on finding reasons why these folks on internet started. What was their idea behind the creating long-lasting impact in life and why they should start today?
Then like a normal internet rat, i kept scrolling again and get to see loads of stories on “starting over in life”. How was their first ten video recordings or businesses or communications or networking interactions. I felt for a second that there must be reason or to say WHY behind this, that didn’t let them get trapped into self-insecurity.
There are so many examples to quote here on who took the saying of best time to start is “start today” but the one that resonates with me are those who share recordings of conversations with smart, hardworking and wealthy people on the internet, while being comedic and paid to do so.
I am talking about My First Million Podcast. Sam and Shaan started brainstorming business ideas, with 1 on 1 calls with scrappy $6 mic, unstable voice and incomplete words. It was their ritual once every week.
Sam plays the more skeptical, data-driven layman role, while Shaan is the wilder, more improvisational idea-generator. They will start by pitching something dumb, then start escalation from “this is stupid!” to “wait… this might work”.
This style led them working with Tony Robbin to Syed Balkhi from WP Beginner to so many more genius minds.
They didn’t stop there. They invited all the folks in industry who knew something about creating digital businesses and scale to 8-9 figures.
They took everything from life stories to how to get into specific businesses. How they found out about these ideas? Why this idea or business? What made them stick for this many years? What are their predictions about their industry? And most importantly how can someone out there skip insecurities and start today?
If you are me, you would like to think through all the moving pieces behind their success, so does these folks are. Gosh i love how creative they are with questions on the go. Then you get into the head of in question millionaire or billionaire and walk through the finances and other vital aspects which made the journey interesting and challenging as well.
My most favorite story is from the Mohnish Pabrai on MFM about how Virgin Air started in early days and what made Richard Branson, Richard Branson.
How they cook the show (my 3 cents):
Start with old school or trending TikTok ideas or info products, roll-ups of boring businesses, and or local services, etc.
Let the “how this might be working” process flow in. Then chime in with the modern technology led solution, suggesting or understanding other persons framework and then build a stupidly simple strategy on distribution to scale this to 5 to 8 figures.
Then they would start searching what can be the possible add Ons or the current execution examples in the market that they can replicate or add a touch of any old practices from their diary of experiments with a bit of fun.
In short
They didn’t get themselves kill over “it’s not the right time” or “we are not ready yet” to get started. You never know if this is enough. You just share what you think at the moment. Now is the soon enough time to get started, and start creating a long-lasting impact in professional and personal life.
Just like those 2 nerds, i am starting this journey, I am ready to start today. Doing so to prune ideas and skills in my head into something that is readable.
Something useful that can help re-track in the future. A piece of memory and notes on thoughts posted on digital repository to get better in writing and sharing my own and possibly other’s stories (with my lens).
That’s all folks.
Allow me to close with this beautiful quote.
As Marcus Aurelius said:
“Until death, all defeat is psychological.”
The moment you accept this, everything changes.
Most setbacks or failures aren’t final, they’re just mental. Your body can keep going long after your mind has already surrendered. The real battle is always internal. Never let your mind declare defeat while you’re still breathing because “you only lose, when you give up”.