I was always super ambitious about getting the most out of life. I figured, that there had to be other (more efficient) ways to have the lifestyle you imagine in your wildest dreams. I wanted more. You get raised to fit into the hamster wheel and keep running in circles until you die. The same happened to me too. And suddenly you find yourself in a job you don’t like, working your ass off for somebody, realizing THEIR dreams. And you start to cut down on your OWN visions and passions.
You go to school, then you graduate and then you get a job. Next there is maybe getting married and buying a house on the list. But this was never my plan. I always disliked living an average (“normal”) life. But still I found no way to break out of it! There were so many missing puzzle pieces and I had no person around me that really was a role model for me – someone who “gets it”. So I decided that I will find it out by myself.
I read every piece of educational literature that I could find and I thought might be helpful in fulfilling MY version of a happy life, trying to see the bigger picture a tiny bit clearer each day. So I took the leap of faith and quit my day job with no real assurance of what will happen next. I started my own little business tried to strike it rich in the app store. But when I first started out, I literally failed in every way or form. I made every mistake in the book and burned big amounts of money just because I didn’t know better back then. I learned some pretty hard lessons.
It wasn’t until I graduated college and learned the right way to “do the business” that I started to see positive changes. Somehow nobody prepares you for the real world in college. So, I figured if it took me several years filled with mistakes and “banging-your-head-against-the-wall”-experiences to find success, there had to be thousands of others out there who were struggling to see positive change for them as well, whether it was happiness, financial independence or just a more abundant and rich lifestyle.
On top of that, when I think back on how intimidated it was when I was first started out, I can only imagine how many other people must feel the same fear holding them back. There had to be others who were paralyzed by these same thoughts and I wanted to help.
That is when I started writing this book.
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