Five "Years" of Business... Did I Learn Anything?

Five Years… Progress?

What do you do when you are locked in a house bored all day and night. No work, no college, and one can only play so many video games.

I made a podcast. I had listened to a podcast about Disney for two years up until that point and I thought the medium of podcasting was so interesting. Did I know what I was doing?

Absolutely not but I decided to give it a try. It didn’t work out. I burned out as rapidly as it came up, probably at about ten episodes. It has been in my mind every year since. The ability to start a business, and I didn’t need money to start, no brick-and-mortar locations, nothing. Just a computer, microphone. The digital world was an untapped resource, my parents didn’t use it, and I never knew it had so much potential for growth.

The potential of making money was all I needed. I would keep thinking over and over, how do I make money online. I took a few FREE courses from some digital marketers that really weren’t the best but were showing off their mansions, their fancy cars and I loved the idea of having those things. But how do I get the money from other people’s pockets in my pocket as quickly as possible. It would keep bouncing around and during the end of the pandemic I subscribed to a couple different subscription boxes where I would get cool items every month that were catered to me.

I started an LLC because I figured that in no way this would fail. Got a website, kept working on it until it was a subscription box mixed with a blog. I researched items to put in the box, I needed the cheapest stuff but still creative to turn a profit. I wasted my time and money. It lasted a couple more weeks. The only purchase of my “subscription” box was from my brother. Another failure was added to the list.

This website would stay up for a year, I would post blog articles once every two months. No traffic to the site. I would post it and not share it anywhere. So, no one knew. In 2022, I had an urge to make Disney things work again so I started vlogging. That didn’t work. I didn’t feel very comfortable recording myself. It wasn’t for me. It was fun to go to the parks every day and at that period of time, I was working part time so I would be able to have this going consistently for a few months. It was all about getting money and being successful. Staying at resorts, eating dinners, doing never before seen experiences.

It was all about me me me. No care whatsoever for the customer. It was about me. After that, I was in a relationship and got a full-time job so I couldn’t do as much business ventures. They stayed on my mind. 2023 came and went and there was no progress in anything. Just a pile of anxiety.

In 2024, I think my brain finally hit a large growth in maturity. I experienced success in finance, my job, and my schooling. I also started the blog you are reading now. Over this five-year period I got really deep into self-development and I decided I should talk about my experiences. I didn’t have such strict categories on it. Why can’t I talk about self-development, business, finance, and vacations? This blog has been running for a year and it’s not about the money for me. I have been doing amazing things with my current income. Could I make more, of course, sure. But in 2024 I finally hit that jump where I went from, basically wanting to get money from stupid people to treat people like me. TO try and deliver as much value as possible. Emphasis on trying because I don’t do amazing at this sometimes but my heart is in the right place. I have fallen in love with the medium of writing again and the subject matters are subjects that really matter to me.

I still haven’t found the recipe for consistent posting. I mostly just write and write to create a pile in my living room of notebook paper. Just waiting to be worked on, but I never do. I am still trying to figure it out. The jump from 2023-2024 was massive, hopefully I can make the jump from 2024-2025 change my whole life again.