Should you have fun or make money when you're young? 💸
Both ;)))))) ⠀ If you don't already know me, my name is Sam Walford and I'm a 16y/o dropout from the UK and so far I've made almost $10k from my coaching business (travelling Europe this summer) all while LOVING MY WORK. ⠀ And so my answer is that you should have fun by making money. But obviously it isn't that simple to build a business you love. ⠀ And so that is why in this post I will give you my 5 biggest lessons that have allowed me to LOVE working, and that I am 100% confident will allow you to build a business you love too. Let's get started :) ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ And this post is long af so if you want to watch the video, here it is... ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 1: Don't confuse freedom with golden handcuffs💸 When I was 14 I got to $2k/month with coaching but oversubscribed myself on calls. I lost all my freedom because I had no time, I started hating business, and I got addicted to video games to cope. ⠀ Waking up at 4pm crying, playing fifa all day, then going to sleep at 5am. I wasted the entire summer of 2024 indoors hating myself, and by September my business was completely gone. I lost it all because I made one crucial mistake: ⠀ I forgot why I was doing business in the first place. I was doing business for freedom, and money was just a means to that freedom. But I put the money before my freedom, and oversubscribed myself on calls, which lead to me burning out and losing my entire business and months of my life. ⠀ If you too are doing business so you can go and travel, and live life free from the 9-5 with infinite freedom, then you must understand that most business models (like dropshipping, clipping, all this BS) are literally just GLORIFIED 9-5 JOBS. ⠀ You make more money with them and have more freedom sure, but at the end of the day you're still spending your life on something you don't enjoy. Instead of being a slave to a boss you’re a slave to your own business; you’re a slave to the business that was originally meant to set you free in the first place.