All right. What's up, guys? Stefan here
from projectlifemastery.com and it is
Q&A time. I've got a question here from
someone that I'm going to answer in
today's video. It's a question I get
asked a lot, probably some variation of
a few times a day to be honest with you,
and it's a question that frustrates me a
little bit because it's a dabbler-based
question. The answer that I give to
this question is probably the answer
that I know a lot of people do not want
to hear, but it's an answer that I
believe that everybody needs to hear.
I want to be a hundred percent honest in
my response to this. I can relate to this
question because I used to think it. I
got no judgment. I've been there. I've
been the dabbler mentality. I've been in
scarcity in my life when I was desperate,
just getting started so I got no
judgment of this, but I've also been on
the other side. I've been through the
path of where this question leads and
gotten to that result and it's the wrong
path. It's the path that you do not want to
take. I've been through the ups and downs.
I've built successful businesses now, and
I'm more evolved that I can give you a much
better answer today than I ever could
five years ago. Not only that, I've
worked with thousands of entrepreneurs,
and I've learned from their successes
and also their failures, their mistakes.
The question here is from John. John
wants to know, "Stefan, what is the easiest
and fastest way for me to make money
online?" John wants to know, "How can I get
rich quick? How can I make money in the
shortest, easiest way with little effort
and the shortest duration possible?" This,
my friend, is the wrong question that
you should be asking. This question has
lead me down a path that you do not
want to end up at,
and I've been down that path. The
problem with the question is that it's a
short-term thinking mentality, and the
truth is, listen close, there is no
short-term fix for a long-term situation.
Thinking this mindset, "How can I get
rich quick? How can I make money the
easiest, fastest way?" It presupposes that
you're not willing to do what it takes
to really build a successful business
that's profitable and sustainable
long-term. With this thinking, with this
mentality, you're focusing on
shortcuts. You're focusing on the gimmick,
the trick, the loophole. That's what's
going to appeal to you. You're going to
buy into that. Often times, when you
buy into that, it's depending on a
strategy that's not going to work
long-term. None of those tricks, loopholes,
taking advantage of a certain situation,
that's not going to lead to long-term
wealth. That's not going to solve your
problem. It's not going to create the
life that you really want. In fact, in
many cases, it's going to get you into
trouble. It's going to maybe make you a
little bit of money but it's not going
to last. You're not building anything of
value. You're not building an asset.
You're not building a brand. I see
many people time and time again, they're
just trying to solve a situation in
life where they're totally desperate or
they're looking to take the
path of least resistance. They're looking
for the shortcut. They don't want it ...
If there's two different paths, they
want to take the path that is the
easiest instead of the road that's less
traveled. The road less traveled, even
though it might be a lot more
challenging, a lot more difficult, even
though you might get some scrapes and
bruises along the way, it leads you to a
path, to the result of a much
higher level of success than you ever
could possibly imagine, a lot further
than the other person that's taking the
path of the shortcut. The road less
traveled is going to take you
to that sense of pride, and wellbeing, and
fulfillment, and making a difference, and
adding value to people's lives, building
something of meaning in your life that
you can be proud of. That's what you want
to build. That's what you want to do. That
requires a longer term thinking. That
requires you thinking it's a marathon.
It's not a sprint. Listen. To build
a business, a real legitimate business that
makes you money, that makes you passive
income, that allows you to create a
certain lifestyle that can allow you to
create wealth in your life, that requires
a lot of work because anything of value
in life requires a lot of work, a
lot of work, a lot of risk, a lot
sacrifice, a lot of just gritting it out, and persevering, and
going through the trials and
tribulations along the way, the obstacles,
the failures, the ups and downs. That is the
path of success. You can't sugarcoat
that. I'm being a hundred percent honest
with you guys. I've been through that
path. I can tell you guys so many
experiences and stories from my life that I
don't publicly share because why bother?
Times of hitting rock bottom, and
adversity, and pulling all nighters, and
making sacrifices in other aspects of
my life to get to where I'm at today,
it's the thousands of hours that you
practice in private that you get
rewarded for in public. A lot of
people, they don't want to hear that.
They're intimidated by that. They're
afraid of that. They don't have the
confidence. They don't have the belief. They don't
have the mindset. They're caught up
dabbling, looking for this shortcut
opportunity where they can make some
money from. What happens is they
don't make money fast enough. They don't
get rich in the next month. They don't
get results in the next three months, and
so they throw in the towel. They give up.
They jump onto new opportunity, the
new shiny object. Then they repeat
the same cycle. They are looking for the
short-term return from that. They think,
"Hey, you know what? If I'm going to put 30
days into something or if I'm
going to invest my time and money, that I
better make money within 30 days. I
better make money
within the next three months." It doesn't
work that way. That's not how business is.
Business requires you sacrificing your
time, effort, sweat, blood, money, whatever
it takes to building something that you
don't see any return from in some cases
for a few months. That's the reality of
it. It's like
You plant a seed in the ground and you
come back and you water it. Two days later,
you're not going to see anything there.
There's going to be no visible immediate
result that you see from that. A lot of
people, they're like, "Oh, I haven't seen the
result yet," so they give up. They walk
away from it. No, that's not how it works.
You got to keep watering it. You got to
keep fertilizing it. What happens is
when you consistently take action
towards something, and you sacrifice the
short-term gain that you get from it, and
you put in the hours, you put in the work,
you're consistent with that, you're
adopting the mastery mentality, then what
happens is something magical that you
can't even see, the beginnings of
something that you have to trust and have
faith is going to lead to something much
bigger. When you water that seed, there's
roots that are being grown
underground. You can't see it. It's
invisible to your eye but it's happening.
You got to keep watering it. You got to
be consistent with that. When you
water, you get rewarded for it. When you
keep going, when other people would give
up and throw in the towel, that's what's
going to lead you getting the results
that most people dream of. As
long as you keep taking action,
eventually that seed sprouts and it
starts to grow.
Before you know it, you get excited
because now you see the result. You see
the fruits of your labor and you keep
watering it and, sure enough, it grows and
it grows and it grows. Eventually, it
grows into something that you're proud
of. It grows into something that's secure,
something that's sustainable, something
that can consistently produce rewards
for you and your life and provide a
certain lifestyle for you and your
family. That's how success works. That's
how building a business works. If
you're thinking, "Hey, you know what? How
can I just plant the seed and I
water it for a little while?" You see
nothing from it. Or, "How can I shortcut
that process?" It's not going to last. I
see people, they make some money but for
how long? They make some money
for a month. Great. You can't quit
your job off that. You can't live off
that. That's not secure income.
They make money for two months,
or three months, or a little bit of money ...
That's not secure. That's not
sustainable. Or, their entire business is
dependent on one strategy. That's not a
sustainable business you can quit your
job off of. If your entire business is
dependent on one company, on Facebook, or
Amazon, or Instagram, and you're totally
dependent just on them, and you haven't
diversified to build pillars in your
business, that is not a sustainable
business. That is a risky business that's
dependent on someone else. It's a one
legged stool, not a Parthenon, which is
what I teach. That one legged stool can
collapse. Then, poof, you're starting
from zero. My answer to this question
is I don't want you to ask that. I don't
want you to ask yourself, "How can I get
rich quick? How can I make money short?"
That's not how you want to be thinking,
my friends. You want to be thinking, "How
can I build something of value? How can I
build an asset, a brand that has a
long-term sustainable income?" Even though
it's going to take longer, that's okay.
You've got time. You've got time. If you need
money, if you're desperate, if you're broke, then
get a fucking job. Get a fucking job
where you put in 40 hours. You get paid
immediately from that
and just be an employee and then build
your business on the side.
Maybe get a part-time job. Maybe you get
two or three jobs. I don't care what it
takes. If you need money, you're
desperate, then that's what a job is
there for. There's many jobs that exist.
You got to be resourceful in that way. If
you can't be resourceful enough in that
way, then business is definitely not for
you. You don't want to approach
building something, building a business
from a state of desperation. You want to
be in a place where you're making enough
money that you can pay your bills and
expenses, and then you also have some
positive cashflow from that that you
can then use to invest in your business
and help nurture and grow it and making sure
it's a quality product or business that
adds value to people. I'm not saying
that you got to be a perfectionist in
any way. I'm saying, "Hey, you know what?
Let's try to make sure that what we're
building is something we're proud of."
Let's make sure that we can publish
something. You create something. It's
something of quality. Again, maybe it's
not perfect but you can improve it. You
can make it better and better and better.
You can continue to add value. You get
feedback and you make it better and you
turn it into a brand and you attract
people to you. You build a relationship with
people. You build trust. You deliver for
them time and time again. That's how you
build a raving fan culture, a brand that
people recognize and they respect and they
associate a positive emotion and feeling
to. That's what's going to give you a
competitive advantage long-term. That's
what's going to allow you to never have to
worry about competition, about saturation,
about things going away, about
"Am I going to make some money, then
I'm going to lose it?" You're building an
actual brand and an actual asset.
That's the path you want to take. That's
the question you want to be asking
yourself is how can I build that.
You got to say, "I don't care how
long it takes. I'm committed to
mastery. I'm committed to do what it
takes. I want it." That's what it
comes down to is how bad do you want it? If
you want it bad enough, you'll find a way.
If you can't find the way, you make the
way. If there's a wall, the dabbler,
they hit the wall. They give up.
The master, when they see the wall, they hit
the wall. They find a way over the wall,
around the wall, under the wall. They
break through the fucking wall. They're
going to get over that wall because
they're committed to the goals and the
results that they're after. Listen. It
took me years before I started making
money online. I was the dabbler for years.
I've been there. Not pointing the finger.
Man, I've been there before. Trust me. I've
been there making some short-term money.
I've been there. Hey, that
loophole seems really attractive. Maybe
I'm going to do that for a little while.
Sure enough, I get involved
in it. It leads me down a dark path.
Sure enough, it doesn't last. It doesn't
work. It wasn't until I recognize
this and I decided, "You know what? I've got to
build something of value here. I've got
to build a brand, a business that can
really impact people's lives." That's how
I started Project Life Mastery. Man, I
started putting new content. I got
nothing back. I'm putting up videos.
Nobody cared. Nobody cared to watch
my videos. No traction whatsoever. I had a
shitty camera that I put up. It
wasn't even as nice as an iPhone. It was one of
those picture cameras that just
happen to have a video feature. I just
start recording. I had confidence. I had
faith. I believed. I said, "You know what? I'm
going to build something big." I kept
taking action towards it. It did not happen
overnight. It did not happen after a month,
two months or three months. It was months
after that before people really started
to enjoy my content, and I started
getting some subscribers. Then people
that really benefited from it then
asked me for some more help, and then
commented and engaged with me.
That was the beginnings of
the business that I have today. It's
not until I recognized that, everything
changed for me. Everything. That's
what I want for you.
John, you got to get out of the dabbler
mentality. You got to get out of the
short-term thinking. You got to commit
yourself to mastery. You got to commit
yourself to going through the process,
of working hard, creating that vision that
excites you. Take the road less traveled.
I promise you it's going to lead to a
much nicer view. It's going to lead to a
much better result. It's going to lead to
result that you're proud of, a result
that's secure, that's sustainable.
Eventually, you're going to have to take
that path anyways. Might as well just
take it from the start, from the
beginning rather than learning the hard
way like I did. Listen. I hope this video
resonates with you. I wish I had this
advice when I got started. I learned the
hard way for sure. That's why I'm
passionate about this. Hopefully, I can
influence some of you. I know some of you
will still be in the mentality
regardless and be attracted to the shiny
objects that appear. Then others I
know that this message will resonate
with. They're open. They're ready for it
and will make an impact for them. Listen.
The other answer that I can give you is
I've got a free course. The free
course that I got is a seven hour
free training. In it, I share seven
ways that I make money online, seven
different business models because, listen,
you're asking, "What is the best one to
pursue?" It's an impossible question to
answer. It depends on your vision, what
you want to create.
Don't base your criteria on what's
easier. Don't base your criteria on what is
the fastest way I
can make money. Don't base your criteria
off of that. Base your criteria on
choosing which path you're going to go,
which is the vision that you have for your
life. What is something you're going to be
passionate about, excited for, a way you
can add value to people's lives? Take
that path. If that's a physical product
business on Amazon, great. If that is a
publishing business, great. If that is a
blog and social media business, then
awesome. If that is a mobile app, if it's
a software, I don't know whatever
it is but pick a niche, a topic that you're
passionate about and build a business around
that. The course that I got will help you
with that. It'll help you give some clarity
on the different directions you can go
by me transparently sharing the ways
that I've done it. There's no right or
wrong. They're all just many ways of
taking that path to get to the
destination you want to go. There's many
models. They're all effective. You got to
pick the best one for you. The free
course I got, if you go to
projectlifemastery.com/freecourse,
projectlifemastery.com/freecourse, you just
got to put in your email address to
get access to it. I go into each
business model pretty in depth.
There's like seven hours, a little bit
too much content I probably gave in
that, but I really wanted to over deliver
and share my experiences with each one
and what I think of each one. That
can help you choose which direction you
want to go because I provide resources
that can help you get started in that
direction. I would start there. Pick
one. Whatever you pick, commit to it
long-term. Take massive action with it.
Then, soon enough, it'll be where you
want to go. All right. Thanks for watching
the video. Talk to you soon.
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