After six months in a small village of 200 people with my family, I felt it was time to step back into adventure and reconnect with people. Today I set off hitchhiking to Málaga with just €50 in my pocket. This is not about testing limits, but about exploring what is possible. My experiment is simple. Can I make it the 2 700 km by creating value along the way, whether through Skool, consulting, or the skills I carry with me? Today the road already brought me as far as Prague, and I am curious to see how far connection, creativity, and a bit of courage can take me.

Imagine you’ve lost everything. Your job if you’re employed. Your business if you’re an entrepreneur. Imagine a bailiff has taken it all. Your house, your car, every asset you could possibly sell. Imagine they cut off your phone and all the extra comforts you’ve been used to. You’ve got two options. 1) Either end your life 2) Play Squid Game Today is a new day. I paid for another night in a hostel for €14, which means from yesterday’s €50 I’m down to just €8. Prague has more than a million people, so there are plenty of opportunities here. But at the same time, I’ve noticed that the closer you get to big cities, the less people seem to care about each other. It’s like here on Skool. In smaller communities, people connect more, know each other, and help each other opposite to big ones. Right now, I’m charging my phone and then I’ll go for a walk around the city. I’ll be paying attention to people, situations, opportunities. Before 11 CET, I’ll be back at the hostel so we can have our “We are free” meeting. At noon I’m meeting up with a friend. In the afternoon I have an online call with the CEO of a great entrepreneurial community on Discord. We’ll be going over the details of how I’m looking for a co-tycoon to help grow the community industry and my marketplace. In the meantime, I need to figure out how to get €50, ideally $500, so I can start building a reserve. How would you play the game?

To be honest, the last few days before flying to Málaga I’ve been way too active. I was fine-tuning all my Skool communities and improving processes on Genusio (my community marketplace) so it makes sense as a whole and so I can fully focus on finding a Co-tycoon in Q4. Even though my plan was to keep it at 2-3 hours a day, I ended up working 10-12 hours on average. Yesterday it caught up with me. I started the day full of energy but by afternoon I was drained because I managed to squeeze a week’s worth of work into just 4 hours. And of course, I randomly joined a workshop on Cybersecurity on top of that… which pushed me over the limit. After that, I was mentally done.

In July, I acquired the FB group Yachts ⛵ with the sole intention of turning it into another profitable business in my cash flow portfolio. I bought the domain Yachtusiasts(dot)com and created the premium community Yachtusiasts here on Skool. I had no prior connection to yachts, and to be honest, even today I’m not exactly an enthusiast. But as I’ve been getting to know this interesting segment through the source community, I’ve been meeting new friends and people who inspire me. One example is Vita, a fifteen year old girl who just bought a boat and is renovating it from scratch. How did we end up connecting and partnering? You wouldn’t believe it. One day, I was approving new members into Yachts on FB. In the entry questions, I mentioned the premium community and asked if I could send members more information via Messenger. That is how Vita’s mom reached out. We started talking, agreed to collaborate, and she became a moderator in the group in exchange for being able to promote within it. Later, we agreed on further cooperation and began rolling out our projects together. I’m already looking forward to Málaga, because naturally, yachts have started to interest me more. I don’t feel the need to buy one, but I already know that when walking along the coast I’ll be more observant. Instead of just saying, “Oh look, a boat,” I’ll be thinking about whether it is a sailboat or a yacht. I’m sure that very soon you’ll be reading stories from me about being out at sea with someone. So, I’m not completely convinced that when you start something only for money, it cannot turn into a hobby. And conversely, a hobby you once loved may turn sour once you begin doing it just for money. That is why I like not labeling myself and building my cash-flow portfolio in a diverse way. And before I forget. Do you see the connection between buying an older boat with the intention of renovating it and enjoying it, and the way I buy “old groups” that I renovate by migrating them onto new technologies? Even a child understands that building a new boat from scratch is more costly, both in time and in money. So if you do not yet have your own community but are considering starting one, you do not have to build it from the ground up. Buy an already established one and give it a new soul. Learn how to do this with me inside Acquire Community

What do you HAVE TO and what do you WANT TO do Today? Share your own self-reflexion with us. I have to take care of a few personal things before my flight to Málaga. I really want to hit the road again, start networking with people offline, and bring them here among us too.