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Diane’s interview with Dan Lok is FASCINATING. 

Traditional approaches to work are now irrelevant, the workplace has changed and so must we.

Embrace the freedom and rewards of a new style of working.

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RT LydiaBelanger: “Even within one type of expertise or set of experiences, you can leverage that into different income streams." – dianemulcahy on how self-employed women can maximize their income https://t.co/eTZZl4PV73

— Göran Askeljung (@guran) September 4, 2018

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How Ricky Gutierrez, Tony Robbins, Dan Lok and Youtube transformed (destroyed) my world view.

Basically, copy writing is the WHOLE point of this blog.

Sure, Freelancers Kill is the title, and busting out of that 9-5 rut is the inspiration, but learning to write effective copy is why I am writing this, and why you’re here reading it. 

I always looked for ways to make more money. ALWAYS. Training, courses, small business,  self study, climbing the career ladder... I tried all of these. In my career in music stores, then in Hospitality, then recently, in my Engineering career (I’m a Plant Fitter for those who are interested).

EVERY. TIME. I found the way blocked by colleagues resisting change, company politics, a lack of attention from senior management (Seriously, the amount of bad managers in workplaces is shocking, god knows how much they’re costing the economy!)

It all got me thinking, “There really has to be more than this”. Running around every day for someone else.. Hell, they didn’t notice what I did do, only ever the things I DIDN’T. Sounds familiar right?

I was having a conversation one night with my friend, telling him the plans I had for selling cheap items from Alibaba through a Facebook page, and seeing which were the most popular. He’d been doing his own research, luckily, as it opened a whole new door for me!

Thing is see, when people are run down, tired, trying to keep up with the rent and bills, you don’t have a whole bunch of time to seek out new opportunities. Possibly, like I did, you stay in the same mental tram lines, trying out new versions of effectively the same idea, and never really thinking new thoughts...

ANYWAY, he put me on to a couple of guys on Youtube talking about FBA stuff (Fulfilled BY Amazon), and another guy, Ricky Gutierrez. Now, Ricky REALLY resonated with me.

Ricky is a day trader based in Arizona, and immediately I was grabbed by Day Trading. 

YOU’RE TELLING ME I NEED A LAPTOP, WI-FI, AND A FEW HUNDRED BUCKS AND I CAN MAKE MONEY? WHERE DO I SIGN UP??

Literally.

I immersed myself in Ricky’s stuff as much as I could. Cypress Hill on the morning drive to work was gone, I bought a Bluetooth speaker for the car and just listened to his Youtube channel as I drove... EMA, SMA, VWAP, ETF, DGAZ, UGAZ, TSLA.

ALL the acronyms were flying into my ears! But what do they mean?? (I will actually be covering a bunch of that stuff in future posts).

A lot of the stuff that struck me, not just about the astronomic gains to be made, was the stuff about mindset. Traders mindset, positivity, the psychology of it. It reminded me of a book I had bought, Money, Master the Game, by Tony Robbins. I was intrigued, I’d trained for a good job, I was doing the right things, why wasn’t I living the life I wanted? Was my thinking “wrong”?

I knew Tony did motivational stuff, but that was it, so I put him into the ‘tube to see what he was about.

THAT was a real turning point. Tony’s stuff just blew my mind. it made me see in the plain light of day that my dreams were never going to come true on the path I was on, and that in his own words, “MASSIVE ACTION” was needed. 

We’re told from very young to get a good job, work hard, climb the career ladder, seek stability. I always assumed that with these things the happiness would come. I’d work hard, get the promotion, the pay rise, the house, the car.

BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT IS.

Tony made me see I had to change my entire outlook, especially cos no one ever got rich working for someone else!

If you want the lifestyle, the financial freedom, the independence, the ability to do the things that fulfil you every day, then you too have to take MASSIVE ACTION.

So I delved further. Tony had so successfully cranked up my pain points, even from an audio track on Youtube that my world view was entirely skewed. I started to look into trading and investments seriously, learning what the indicators meant, how to use them, how trading in the UK is different to trading in the US (The PDT rule DOESN’T count if you’re a UK trader incidentally). I listened to Tony, looked into NLP (Neuro-Lingustic Programming), kept looking to improve my mindset and find the key to (what genuinely feels like) my escape.

On it went, research and study in my spare time, lunch breaks at work, then one day there’s this guy, Dan Lok, pops up in my channel feed. He tells you how using his program, you can make A LOT of money. So I’m listening. He had released an interview with another author, Diane Mulcahy. Diane had written a book entitled The Gig Economy, and the two of them were talking about how the gig economy is the workforce of the future, and how freelancers have an increasing share of the workload.

It was truly eye opening. Many of the things I knew to be true clicked. Employers don’t want full time staff, the gig economy isn’t just about Uber drivers getting stitched up in London. The gig economy represents a real chance to embrace the change of traditional working roles, particularly with the prevalence of digital disciplines and remote working.

Freelance. Remote. Working.

That’s the key. The ability to make my own money from wherever I am in the world. No more sitting in rush hour traffic to be a work at 8am, no more having to be there when there’s nothing to do to make sure the hours are met, just, no more of any of the pain points I’m getting tired of dealing with.

By this point, I had realised I had to be my own boss, whether as a trader, author, financial expert, coder, whatever I was going to do, I had to do it for myself. I enrolled in an online marketing course, for two reasons; the inability to sell  correctly was a key reason that my former business wasn’t as profitable as it could have been, but also digital marketing is something I can do from anywhere. Home, an office, Starbucks, the beach!

I was focused on the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) side of things, but once again Dan Lok shook things up. He said (to surmise), IF YOU WANT TO LEARN A HIGH INCOME SKILL, MAKE IT COPYWRITING.

BOOM. That was it. Learn how to talk to your audience. Make it compelling. Sell them your product.

So here we are, practising copywriting.  

So in the process of this journey, I have uncovered a whole bunch of stuff that can allow you, yes YOU, to take control of your own future, and your financial freedom, and literally live your dreams.

Sure enough, there will be other pain points, where do I work from? Can I get WI-FI by the pool? How do I deal with THAT client? Do I want Colombian or Kenyan coffee whilst the laptop boots up? They remain to be seen. BUT, nicer problems to have huh? 

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Have a nice day.