โ๏ธThis is not an intro post, this is my story... (it's long, so take a sit to read it)
3 years ago I got into self-improvement. I had been 4 years into this massive chronic depression and turned out I could have gotten out of it the whole time in only two weeks of doing the right habits. Meditation Working out Reading Those 3 simple things, building for myself a timetable and developing enough discipline to souly focus on that and stop my bad habits (playing video-games, smoking and drinking enrgy drinks while listening to music, partying with my friends while taking drugs and drinking and social media addiction). I did struggled with quitting smoking and listening to music while drinking energy drinks but that's a story for another day. The rest of them... all gone. I had no idea of how the brain worked, how dopamine worked, how instant gratification was poison and delayed gratification was the pathway to a better life, a life of meaning and actual acomplishments. I learned through self-improvement that disipline is just as painful as depression caused by instant gratification but you can either chose the pain that comes from growing or the pain that comes from decaying. It doesn't matter if you don't make a choice, because not making it only guarantees the later. After a while on self-improvement, naturally I started to look for a way to become productive beyond just taking care of my body, mind and soul. I wanted to grow, expand, build something, make money, contribute to the world, help other people. I'm not going to lie, I tried a bunch of business models (I knew I wasn't going to get a random job or anything, I was going to make money with a business, preferably online, I had read The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, I knew some shit now!)... I tried SMMA but no local businesses would take my services and I found cold outreach so fucking hard and painful, so I quitted that. I tried buying medical equipment to sell to private clinics, that flopped as well. I tried software development but it took me months to develop the shittiest of apps and I got discouragued and quitted as well (I wasn't that good programming, it really takes a lot of time and effort to learn). I tried more business models than I can remember right now to be honest.