How to Build a Life That Matters & Get What You Want Starting Today

I am on the verge of losing my job so in my desperation I said F*ck it! and finally picked myself and painted the Koji fish I wanted to paint in my room and I feel so freakingly free when I see it finally existing. I made it WITH MY OWN HANDS. I'm living.

It's funny how we give other people so much control over our lives... the person on the other end of the phone... the person doing the interview, the person that sees our potential. We give them so much power of our lives and it's insane. I recently declared that i'm no longer letting that person on the opposite side of me or that person that's in front of me the power to dictate the direction of my life.

By pushing through the discomfort and the fear, I got into grad school after 5 years of being a caretaker for my mom. I could feel myself slipping back to how I got stuck in the first place, and getting caught up in the fear of saying "here, I made this" and being judged that its not original or good or full of mistakes or worthless. But I'm getting tired of my own excuses and this episode was such a wakeup call!! I'm going to do a project because I want to explore it with my own eyes and my own curiosity. I just love to learn about systems and the world and I have to remove the points or external incentives of is it worth it for my career. Anything is worth it as long as I'm growing!! Thank you Mel and Seth! ❤

Ive never heard of this man before today but I am highly motivated to check his work out and invest in some of his books. He's wise, straight forward, but still gentle and kind.

I just left my job because after working 15 hours a day for a company they decided they don't need senior person who built system from zero but some cheaper resources. That takes a heavy toll on me and I finally decided to start my own business and things are looking pretty well now.

I truly believe I found this video for a reason. I recently started my digital products business to help overwhelmed moms get out of survival mode, calm their nervous system, reconnect with themselves, and begin building a life they’re proud of. I only have 85 subscribers right now and haven’t made any sales yet—but I’m not discouraged. Like Seth Godin said, if you’re doing something important, there will be resistance. This is just the beginning. I’ll be back with an update in 6 months.

I once met someone at a gold storage facility in the UK. We talked about privacy, decentralization, and off-grid movement. When I asked what influenced him most, he didn’t say a course or a mentor- just quietly said, “Hidden Money Rules by Steve Braveman” No context. No explanation. Just a book that opened a door I didn’t know existed.

I grew up in an emotionally chaotic and physically disorganized household. It was overwhelming AND I remember thinking, even before I was five, “ I can’t do anything about this or that. Yet, there are things I CAN do. What shall I do today? “ And once I thought of a thing, or some things, which seemed within my ability to do, I would do them. It could be as mundane as sweeping the floor or matching socks, OR as inspiring as building my own fort out of random sections of plywood and a holey piece of canvas for a roof. Or pretending the apple tree was a spaceship that would take me to far-away places via the many, many books I voraciously consumed in the cradle of its boughs. I discovered that by refusing to let things over which I have no control suppress my desires and ambitions, a lot could be learned, experienced, AND/OR accomplished merely by my little old self, AND often with a sense of satisfaction. AND more importantly, I learned that anything after BUT is BULLSHIT.

I don't know why but when he said "If nobody comes, no one will know nobody comes". I was almost crying...

Seth's mum's story reminded me of the newsletter I am thinking about starting. Unlike social media, where we see they only have 2 subscribers and click out. If you have only one, or even no, newsletter subscribers, it's hard to know. And the fact that you actually have a newsletter will probably carry enough kudos to make them think you have many.