- Yo, what's up, this is Max Berger here,
and I'm walking down the beach on a
beautiful exotic island.
We actually just survived a tropical thunderstorm,
so I'm happy to be alive.
And in this video, I want to talk about
the five biggest reasons why
you want to become self-employed,
why you want to become an entrepreneur,
your very own boss.
Have you ever wondered whether there's
more to life than a boring, dead-end,
nine to five job?
Have you ever dreamed about breaking free,
you know, traveling the world, making good money,
and just enjoying life?
My name is Max Berger and I've obtained that freedom.
No more office dress code, no morning commute, no boss.
This channel is for you, so here's to your freedom.
Now, obviously there's plenty of more reasons for that
other than just five, but those are kind of
the five main reasons why I chose to become self-employed,
and I hope they can inspire you,
and I hope that, at least,
they can make you think a little bit about your future,
whether you're in your early 20s,
whether you're in 30s, late 40s,
it doesn't matter where you are right now,
and listen up, because this can change your life.
Number one reason of why you want to become self-employed
is you want to be independent of time.
I think it's Monday or Tuesday right now,
shooting this video, it's around 3:00pm,
4:00pm, something like that.
Most people are probably getting ready to go home
from their boring nine to five job.
Most people are trying to loosen up their tie a little bit,
most people are probably already in public transport,
in the metro, some guy sitting next to them, sweating,
and their armpit, it's smelly, and you think,
come on, why am I even here?
And there you see young Max having a good time,
being on an exotic island,
not even sure what time or what
day of the week it is.
You want to become time independent.
You do not want to have to be
at the office at a certain time,
and then, you know, just count the hours every day.
You don't, you don't want to be dreading Monday
and looking forward to Friday,
just kinda going to the bar Friday, Saturday
to drink it all away, and then Sunday,
already kinda having this bad, bitter taste of Monday.
Why do you want to do that?
It's preposterous, and nobody should be
in a situation like that.
You should be as happy as to dance
towards your working day every Monday.
You should be excited for Monday,
you should be putting in some extra work on Sunday
if you feel like it.
This is your life.
You're gonna work for the rest of your life,
most of us are gonna work 30, 40 years.
Is this what you want to do,
be dependent on your time every freaking day?
Every freaking hour?
Or you probably, maybe you're like me,
you don't want to get up early in the morning,
you're a night person, you enjoy staying up at night,
you enjoy being creative at night,
you hated getting up in the morning.
If that is you, then becoming your own boss,
becoming an entrepreneur might be the best choice for you.
And the second thing here is
you want to be location independent.
You want to be able to travel the world, man, come on.
Globalization, you can complain about it
as much as you want, you can think it's great
as much as you want, it does have one undeniable
big, big advantage: you can get everywhere in the world
so much easier.
I know my grandmother, she's 95 now, god bless her,
it was hard for her to travel back in the days.
Nowadays, in terms of EU, and business class flights
are so much more affordable and everything,
you can do all these things.
The world is out there waiting to be conquered by you,
waiting to be explored by you.
You don't want to, there's people here
on a little boat conquering the sea.
You know, you don't want to be stuck
in your office, stuck in one city
for the rest of your life.
I guarantee you, one day you'll wake up,
you might be 30, 40, doesn't matter what age you are,
and you're like, I haven't seen the world yet.
When is it gonna be?
When can I travel through Europe?
When can I go see Amsterdam?
When can I go see Thailand, Hawaii,
when can I go see some whales, some dolphins,
swim with the sharks?
When, when, when, when, when?
Well, the ugly, ugly truth is,
if you're stuck in a nine to five job,
it's very unlikely for you to ever do that.
Maybe, you know, you get a little bit of time off,
you get two weeks vacation in summer,
and you're looking forward to it your whole year,
and then it's finally there,
and then the weather sucks or whatnot.
No, you wanna be grabbing your laptop.
Your laptop is all you need for your business,
your smartphone, you wanna say, you know what?
For next month, I'm gonna live in Barcelona.
I have a friend of mine,
he's building his business from Barcelona.
He wants to enjoy the sun while everything else
is dark and cold in winter.
Maybe you say, you know what?
I'm making enough money now, let's go to New York,
let's get a nice penthouse, let's go to LA,
let's go to the beach in Thailand and work from there.
You want to be location independent.
I'm working right now, I'm shooting this video for you
barefoot in the water, how great is that?
You want to be time independent,
you want to be location independent.
And number three is actually a personal reason of mine,
something that I've personally always resonated with a lot,
and that is I didn't want to have a boss.
I didn't want to have bad, boring colleagues.
I was sick and tired of a dress code.
Just thinking about having to wear a shirt and a tie,
and thinking about having to say, yes sir,
of course sir, or yes, mister colleague,
the water cooler conversations
are quite amazing indeed,
let us talk about yesterday's football game.
I was sick and tired of that
before I even started it.
I had many bad jobs in my early youth, you know?
Lots of summer jobs, lots of uptight, you know,
above the shoulders, ascetic, suit-wearing jobs,
and I was tired of it.
I'm like, jeez, I can't wait to take that off
and go home and just be myself again.
I was tired of that.
That's why I became an entrepreneur.
I became my own boss.
I can work whenever I want,
I can work from wherever I want,
I can wear whatever I want.
Jesus Christ, if it wasn't for YouTube guidelines,
I would show you footage of me working in my bed
wearing boxer shorts, wearing nothing,
smelling bad, but being happy because I was my own boss,
I was wearing whatever I wanted,
and I was reporting to whoever I wanted,
which was me, myself.
And you know what?
Let me tell you something really, really important here:
chances are very high that you're somehow
coming up with excuses right now,
that there's some sort of resistance coming up,
building up deep within you right now,
some sort of rationalization as to why
you're not living your dreams yet.
I'm too old, I'm too young, I gotta finish this here,
I can't quit now.
What are my friends gonna think?
What are my family gonna think about me?
What is my girlfriend, my boyfriend gonna think about me?
You're gonna have some sort of excuse,
maybe even, hey, you know what, Max?
You're flexing too much, I don't like you,
who do you think you are, et cetera.
Be aware, be aware that this form of resistance
is a deep, inner urge communicating to you right now
that it's time to change.
Whenever you feel inner resistance, trust me,
it's coming from a point of missing out.
You do not want to be missing out.
You are afraid and there's all this
resistance and rationalizations coming up.
You have to fight back, okay?
You have to fight back and understand that
there's only one life that you have,
and that life needs to make it count, okay?
We're gonna head up there now because
I don't wanna be hit by a tsunami,
and I'll talk to you in a second.
Okay, so they evacuated big parts of the island.
No boats are coming or leaving this island
for the next 48 hours, so we're kinda stuck here.
And the water is receding like crazy.
Usually I would be knee-deep,
waist-deep in the water, but the water's all gone,
which I read online is normal before
a very, very severe storm or tsunami,
so if I die, obviously, revenge my death,
and I'll keep you updated.
Okay, so we survived.
The pool has a little bit less water.
That's totally fine.
Our house up here is fine as well.
Looks good from the outside, looks good on the inside.
It's a little bit rainy, but yeah.
Okay, so we're walking through the jungle right now
and I have to look down because I don't wanna
step on any insects, like this one.
So, now that we've talked about inner resistance,
let's talk about the inner urge,
because you might feel, and this is the next reason,
you might feel that there's more,
there's more to life than dragging yourself up every morning
and just being, ugh, like that's the feeling, like ugh.
Maybe there's more than a boss that doesn't care about you,
maybe there's more than working in a company
that you don't believe in,
working on a purpose that you don't believe in.
Maybe there's more than your small little apartment.
Hello.
Maybe there's more than working for Fridays,
and Saturdays, and Sundays.
Maybe there's more than waiting for a vacation.
Maybe there is more, and it's crazy because
we're not being taught that.
This stuff's not being taught in school.
Let me focus here.
Right?
What are we taught in school?
Sit down, fit in, shut up, do your homework.
Hey, I found another way to fix this equation
here in mathematics.
Oh, you didn't do it the way
the teacher want you to?
Okay, sit down, do it again, it's wrong.
What are we being told constantly?
To fit in, to think inside the box,
not think outside the box.
And this is the very, very sad part,
and then we fit and and we do a good job, you know?
We get good grades, and we do well in school,
we pay attention, we're nice and respectful to everybody.
Obviously still be nice and respectful,
but you kinda get what I'm meaning, right?
And then we have a nice, respectable little job,
and we go and make our 30, 40, 50, 80, 100K,
maybe, even a year, but inside we're miserable,
we're hella freaking miserable,
and one day we wake up and we say,
well, maybe there is more.
I can tell you what there is more.
A private pool, my friend, that's what's more.
A private villa, that's what's more.
Business class flights, that's what's more.
Or you know what?
If you wanna be really, really simple,
just being able to do what you want,
to go where you want, to be with who you want,
maybe that is more.
And honestly, everybody deserves that.
If I deserve that, if I can make
these things happen for me,
as a weird Austrian with low self-esteem,
with below-average intelligence,
then you can do it 100 times, 1000 times better.
Maybe there is more, which brings me to
the very, very last point, and this is
the most important point: it's now easier than ever.
It has never been as easy as this
to create your own lifestyle, to become your own boss.
We have the internet, we have free social media.
With stuff like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
you can now reach thousands of people,
even tens of thousands of people, entirely for free.
You don't need no expensive product
and capital financing, whatever,
you don't need an office, you don't need employees,
you need nothing.
If you wanna make a couple thousands dollars a month
as a completely self-employed, your own boss,
you can do that, it's not difficult anymore.
It's 2019 now, you can do that.
If, again, like, if all these other schmucks out there
making tons of money on YouTube, on Facebook, on Instagram,
or simply just online, then you can do that as well.
If I can do it, if you're watching my stuff,
you get angry, why does Max do it?
He's 28 years old, he's such an idiot, I hate him.
Yes, good, go ahead and hate me.
If I can do it, you can do that even more, okay?
It has never been as easy as now.
All you need, all you need, listen up,
is your cell phone, I kind of left it upstairs,
maybe a laptop, and ideally a mentor,
someone who kinda shows you what the pitfalls are,
where you need to be, what you need to post,
and what you need to be aware of.
That's all you need,
and you can make your dreams happening.
You deserve it, okay?
You deserve better than a nine to five job
that does not fulfill you.
You deserve better than an ungrateful boss.
You deserve better.
Thank you so much for lending me your attention.
Thank you so much for listening,
watching this video.
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Thank you very much.
Greetings from the private pool.
I'm gonna go jump in now,
gonna go do some leg workout, peace.