Growing in a bear market & Escaping a future that you hate to think about.

The last three years of my life have been all about escaping the things that I don’t want in or for my life. Back when I was in my 3rd year of college I realized that I wanted to be as far away from the rat race as possible.

My Anti-Vision

I had nightmares about being stuck in the race: dreading every Monday, trading my time for money while someone else is making a fortune and I’m skipping family events for work deadlines for purposeless & unfulfilling work... the type of race where the only winners are the people not in the race. Now, you may not feel the exact same way I do about all of the above, we all have our own perspectives… but the only reason that I am where I am today; working for myself, & not in the rat race that I dreaded being a part of so much, is because I had an anti vision for my future… A vision for my future that was filled with the things that scared me to think of.Strong negative emotions, things like anger & hate are potent & very powerful. You may have been told to suppress your anger or to hide your hatred & to love everything & everybody… but the truth is you can utilize these potent emotions for good, for your own betterment. This is what creating and realizing an anti-vision for your future is based upon. Extracting power from things that you would hate to see for your future, that make you angry to think about, and using them to push you forward.

Clarity & Relization

Coming back to when I was still in college: I started to craft my anti-vision throughout the first few years of college after learning about what I definitely didn’t want for my future. Working on assignments that I wasn’t interested in, working a 9-5 for someone else’s dream, and having to wake up and go to work on some mundane cycle of tasks. I learned quickly from college & working at McDonald’s what I didn’t want, & this snowballed into me a discovery phase to find some way to work for myself & explore what I’m actually interested in.In the last 2.5 years since I discovered major parts of my anti-vision, I took steps to make sure my life would be able to stay as far from my anti-vision. Utilizing the strong feelings of anger & fear to press on the gas & take action against the nightmare version of my future.

Taking Action

What actions did I take? I started making youtube videos on my online business ventures, this went okay, I gained 4,000 subscribers in less than a year, made 250+ videos, learned a lot about content creation & made enough money to convince my mom that I’d rather bet on myself that the last semester of college.This led to me making multiple youtube channels, learning skills in editing, recording, talking to the camera, explaining my perspective, & getting people interested in my interests too.After around a year of being on my own path, and creating to avoid my anti-vision I fell into the crypto rabbit hole, & specifically took interest in the Cardano blockchain. Since I already knew how to make youtube videos & had been creating for over a year I decided to make a new channel to talk about crypto. In hindsight, I probably would have been better off using my existing channel, but all is well that ends well because this channel passed my year-old channel in just 1 month.My new channel talking about the new thing I was interested in made me over $5,000 in only 2 months after creating it. (I made videos every day, some blew up because of the crypto bull market timing) but it eventually slowed down & for a long time I continued making the same types of videos, not really evolving much in myself or my business…

A Nightmare Reminder

then I lost 70% of all my crypto, paying the government over $25,000 for taxes that I didn’t really have in liquid now that my crypto was worth 85% less than it used to be & in my head popped again: my anti-vision…I felt it creeping up on me again, the nightmare-like future of all the things I didn’t want my life to be comprised of.

Although ever since I started creating I’ve only grown in terms of how much money I’ve made working for myself, many times I’ve become complacent, but every time I’ve become complacent I’ve gotten some form of a reminder that I need to evolve in order to even stay where I’m at because everyone else is moving forward by nature… otherwise: It’s back downhill to the anti-vision.

Today’s Reality

Nowadays, my channel based on cryptocurrency is performing quite well all things considered, & growth is still apparent not only in my business but also in my portfolio because I’ve constantly been working against my anti-vision.My purpose with this newsletter is to tell you, & show you that even though cryptocurrencies arent in an up-only mode right now, you can still make a lot of strides forward in your life as someone who is interested in crypto & invests in crypto. Your portfolio might not be green but the grass is very green on the side of creation & growth against a future you hate to think about, so think about it… what’s your anti-vision? Tweet your anti-vision at me, or DM: https://twitter.com/jackfriks

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