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You're listening to the Travis Makes Money podcast presented by GoHighLevel.com for a free 30 day trial of the best all in one digital marketing software tool on the planet, just go to gohighlevel.com travis. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Travis Makes Money podcast where it's our mission to help you make more money. Today on the show, I brought on my producer Eric Skorzinski to chat a little bit about some things online. So, Eric, what's up?
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What is going on? You're always talking about ways people can make more money and there is no shortage of opportunity to do that. But this does raise a really interesting question because there are a lot of people, especially now with technology and all the different side hustles you can have where they are in everything. Like they're doing photography, they're doing social media, they're doing sales on the side. How much should people, you know, kind of mitigate their risk and be involved in a bunch of different things so they can accept a lot of opportunities versus kind of focusing in on one thing and compounding results in that one area? Jack of all trades versus mastering one thing. What do you recommend to people in regards to that?
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I think if you're first starting, I think it's really valuable to say yes to every opportunity and to do a bunch of different stuff because the, the result is going to come from mastery of one thing. But it, but the inevitability of the struggle of mastery in that one thing is, is something that I think a lot of people aren't willing to do because they chose a path that they're not, they don't really care about and they don't really want to do it. They just want the result. You know what I mean? So they're not, they're not in it for the journey. And it's as cliche as it sou. It really is about the journey. It's, you know, it's not just a thing that you see on coffee mugs and embroidered pillows. It's, it's a, it is the truth. And I was listening to Arthur Brooks on Simon Sinek's podcast and they were talking about that. They're like, yeah, we try not to, you know, embrace all these cliches, but some of them are just really true. And that's absolutely one of them. And for those who don't know, Arthur Brooks, he's a, he's a professor at, I want to say Harvard, but he has a, he has a class on happiness, which is what he's got gotten really known for. And he wrote a, a book, I believe it was with Oprah recently, was a, was the co author and it was all about happiness. And so Simon Sinek had him on to talk about happiness and it was, it was basically, it was basically that conversation that picking something that matters to you, something that has meaning to you, something that will light you up and make you happy in the pursuit of that thing. Because there will always be struggle involved, there will always be obstacles involved. It's important to pick something that's gonna, that's gonna allow you to have that along the way. But sometimes if you can, if you just jump into one thing and you have no idea why you chose that thing and there's no deeper purpose or why behind it, which is the Simon Sinek part of the conversation where we talk about the why and the purpose and find your why and start with why. If you don't have any of that, then first sign of obstacles, it's gonna be really difficult to stay engaged in that thing. And then secondarily when you're first starting, you probably don't have any money. In fact, you might be in debt, you might have student loan debt, you might have credit card debt, you might have, you know, vehicle debt. There's a lot of other things that could be potentially financially prohibitive. So it is somewhat valuable at the beginning to say yes to a bunch of different things and work five different gigs and side hustles and jobs just to store away cash, you know. And then, and then once you put yourself in a position to succeed, the thing that's doing the best that you have the most interest in, then you can just plow all of your resources, time and learning into that one path until it is the most successful something that you're working on. And I know this, this, this is not a, a political podcast, but I saw a, a clip of Ben Shapiro recently talking about his business when he first started, but before the Daily Wire was a thing and he was talking about how he was just out of law school and he was, he was working three or four different jobs as well as a side hustle writing for some paper or website or something like that at the very beginning of his career. And he was working 12 to 14 hour days at the that time he was able to make three to $400,000 a year in income. And that was the inception of the Daily Wire. And obviously he ended up finding his path and choosing one, one thing and doubled down on that thing. And obviously it turned out pretty well for him from a business standpoint. But he didn't just start that thing out of college and raise a bunch of debt or raise a bunch of capital to get it started. He applied himself to multiple things, figured out that he didn't want to be a practicing attorney, that he actually way more enjoyed this writing gig that he was doing on the side to extra income. And that ended up being the path that he pursued full time and he turned it into a really successful business. So even, even people who you look at now and you go like, yeah, but they're really good at that one thing. It's like, yeah, but that. What? He wasn't a classically trained journalist. You know what I mean? He was, he was an attorney, he was a lawyer, he went to law school. So. But he was just like, hey, that seems interesting. That seems interesting. That seems interesting. And then worked his ass off at a bunch of different stuff for a long time to, to increase income, put himself in a position to be able. That thing with everything that he had in his, in his, his energy. So pick, pick the path eventually. But at the beginning, it's really valuable to say yes to everything.