I Am Thankful For These Times... But NEVER Again!

It was Thanksgiving today.

Another year not being able to go home and spend Thanksgiving with my family.

Although I could have been bitter about it, I wasn't... mostly because I've been drowning myself in work as of late.

The work keeps me distracted.

Anyway... The fact is, I am thankful for these tough times I've been going through, but I also will never allow myself to fall back into this dark place ever again.

I am thankful that I was forced into a place of being completely broke.

Broker than broke, to the point it wasn't no joke.

While living on the 29th floor, on the Strip, in a glass tower...

The whole situation is just fucked.

Just completely whacky, ironic, and telling of the type of life I've been living.

Truth is...

I haven't been living my life at all.

I gave everything to my work, and the pursuit of greatness, over the past 5-6 years... even when I wasn't being rewarded for it most of the time.

I had to learn how to put in work, even when you don't get to see a penny in return.

I had to make another million bucks, only to watch it go out the door just as quick, but for the right reasons this time.

Instead of blowing millions on dumb shit, I blew at least a million on mistakes.

Big boy business mistakes.

Mistakes that taught me valuable lessons.

Lessons worth far more than a million.

As long as I don't quit.

And man, I've been closer than ever to quitting.

Or at least going back to a sales job to make some money to come back with.

But I feel I'm finally about to turn my life around.

Today, for Thanksgiving, I worked on launching two Skool Groups.

The Happy Hour and The Simple Income Society.

There was so much work to do still.

L from The Happy Hour recorded her VSL video today, and then I had to edit it today as well.

The really crazy part...

I was not looking forward to doing it, it was the last task on my list...

When I got to doing it...

I realized she had sent me 23 videos.

Why is it ALWAYS 23?

I know why...

Because that's God sending me a message telling me to keep going.

That I'm on the right track.

That I'm going to be the Michael Jordan of whatever the fuck I end up doing.

As long as I lock in, and go for it with all I got.

And that's what I did with these two Skool Groups over the past few weeks.

So I hope I am about to be rewarded for my hard work.

It's been a long time coming.

I've been blocked from being rewarded by things outside of my control all year.

But this time, I was not blocked at all...

The only thing that can possibly stop me from making these Skool Groups work... is myself.

And I'm not going to let that happen.

I put in the work.

I put in more work than 99% of the people who have made money with Skool.

I put in smarter, more experience-backed work than 99% of the people who have made money with Skool.

There's no reason why I am not about to start making money with Skool.

The people I'm working with have over a million followers and subscribers combined across all their socials.

They have authority and trust built in their niches.

There's no reason this shit ain't about to sell like hotcakes.

I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

And I am so thankful that that is the case for once, in a long, long while.

I finally am looking forward to and excited about tomorrow.

Rather than dreading it or just not being phased by it in any way.

To wrap this up... This is my first post on this Chief Empire Officer blog.

I'm hoping to use this platform as a place to scream into the void when I need to blow off steam. A place to use as my ongoing journal.

I want to start "AccountaBlogging". Basically I want to hold myself accountable with this blog by posting things like a Daily Stand Up of the work I do each day.

When I did Daily Stand Ups during The Upside Geeks days, those were some of my most productive, energized and prideful days. It feels good putting in a lot of work and your team around you knowing it, pushing them to get better.

We'll see how this turns out, I'm basically going to do whatever the fuck I want with this blog.

But I want to start using it because I think my soul really needs the writing, it's a part of who I am, and I need to lean into it for a whole host of reasons.

Until next time...