Your routine builds your future. I believe your daily habits are non negotiable because the way you live each day becomes the life you create long term. I wake up around 6am. I have worked in the trades most of my life, so waking up early has always been part of my lifestyle. It gives me structure, discipline, and a strong start before the world gets noisy. The first thing I do is avoid my phone for the first 30 minutes. No scrolling. No distractions. No checking messages straight away. I want to control my mind before the world starts trying to control my attention. I’ll usually have a colder shower in the morning because there are a lot of benefits around discipline, energy, focus, and starting the day doing something uncomfortable. After that, I do my skincare and grooming routine so I feel fresh, clean, and presentable. How you look after yourself matters. When you feel sharp, you move different. Then I take my supplements and make breakfast. I try to eat clean and lean most of the time, but I also understand we are not always going to be perfect. The goal is to build a lifestyle you can actually stick to. After breakfast, I train. Most days I’ll do around 1 hour of weights followed by 1 hour of cardio. I also aim for a minimum of 10,000 steps a day because I work at a desk a lot now, so I need to keep my body moving. If I can, I’ll use the sauna after training. Then I’ll usually grab a black coffee as my little morning treat. When I get home, I have my second meal of the day and get ready for work. Most of my work now is social media, business, systems, content, community, and building the future I want. I usually work 9 to 5, but realistically I am often still on the computer until 9pm or later. This is the season I am in. I am building. I am focused. I do not drink. I do not go out much. I am locked in on my mission and goals because I believe your 20s are one of the most important decades of your life. Two to three times a week, I also train Muay Thai.

For the first 3 to 4 years of my working life, I did not respect money at all. I was earning from a young age, but most of it disappeared into drugs, cars, partying, bad habits, and things that gave me short term excitement but did nothing for my future. I did not understand assets. I did not understand long term wealth. I did not understand how hard money could work for you if you gave it a job. At 18, my mum told me about crypto. That conversation changed the way I looked at money. I started searching online, watching videos, joining communities, and putting money from work into crypto. At first, I had no idea what I was doing. I made money. I lost money. I chased hype. I got excited too quickly. I made emotional decisions. But I was hooked on learning. I started investing into coins like BTC, ETH, XRP, Cardano, Polkadot, XLM and Doge. Some were smarter decisions than others, but every mistake taught me something. In 2021, everything changed again when I got introduced to NFTs. I joined Discord communities, sat in voice chats all day, met people from around the world, and started learning how online communities, hype, marketing, and digital assets worked. This was also where I started building my first real online connections and side hustles. One of my biggest wins was Hape Beast. I got selected for whitelist out of thousands of people during peak NFT hype. Their Discord had around 500K members at the time, which was crazy back then. I minted for 0.3 ETH and later sold for 8 ETH. That was around $40K at the time. I was 18 making that overnight. At my peak, I had around 25 to 30 ETH and over $150K to my name. But I also learned the hard side of investing. The market changed fast. The bull market turned into a bear market. I got scammed multiple times and lost over $10K. I invested into the wrong projects. I held things too long. I got greedy. I watched money disappear because I did not fully understand risk management. Eventually, my portfolio dropped back to around $70K. I cashed a lot out, bought computers, TVs, furniture, and upgraded things around the house. Then I stepped away from crypto for a while and went back to work.

Most people only see the business that worked. They do not see the ones that failed before it. FIFO Australia is my fifth real business attempt. Before this, I failed four times. At 16, I tried self contracting as a steel erector. I had the idea, but I did not take enough action. I procrastinated, waited too long, and was not persistent enough. At 18, I started a water blasting business. We bought the wrong equipment, I partnered with someone who was not as committed, and after the first job, we gave up. Our first client was my mum. We actually did a good job, but I was 110kg on a roof and I knew deep down I was not fully in it. Then I tried NFTs. Twice. We made the art, but there was no real value behind it. Looking back, it was more of a quick money idea than a proper business. No mission, no service, no real problem being solved. Both failed. The fourth was a recruitment company. The idea was good, but I was with the wrong person, we did not have enough capital, and we did not build the right systems. I was working in the mines while trying to make it happen, but the drive and structure were not there. Then came FIFO Australia. This one was different. It had real purpose. We were helping real people solve real problems. Helping people get into mining. Helping people fix their resumes. Helping people understand FIFO. Helping people move to Australia. Helping people build better careers and better lives. Since starting FIFO Australia, the growth has been insane. We now have a team of 8, offer recruitment, mentorship, resume support, career guidance, and are moving towards training and assessing in the future. But even this business has not been easy. I had a business partner at the start, but over time we did not see eye to eye. I wanted to move faster, build properly, and take the company in the right direction. So I bought him out for $60,000. Now I am rebuilding again. Better systems. Better team. Better direction. Bigger vision. The biggest lesson I have learned is that business is not just about having an idea.