Avi Arya talks to college students about making money through personal branding and micro videos. He covers overcoming career confusion, why taking action matters, and how to turn your skills into income.
Foreign. Hi everyone. This is Avi Arya. Father of two girls, six dogs, husband to a superwoman, a streetcar racer turned hotelier, now social media marketer and founder of Intern Moguls. Today's topic is what should I do? I am a college student. How should college students make extra income? Do side hustle? Should they leave their college? Should they still be part of the college? What should they do? So ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, awesome information for you is. The good news is listen. If you are feeling confused, if you're feeling you don't know what to do. If you feel you don't know what the next track in your life is going to be, welcome to normalcy. This is what a normal situation is for anybody who is thinking, thinking of where they are going. Most people who are not thinking, they don't know where they're going. So they are parked, the car is on a handbrake and they're chilling. You are somebody who's thinking of where to take your life. And therefore you don't know if you go straight, go, go behind, left or right. You're on a crossroads. So confusion is like a crossroads. So it's a. I think it's the best situation in my own opinion. I think the best situation to be in. You don't know where to go. But you have enough options, right? You can go here, you can go there. But you're feeling stuck. You're feeling stuck because there's no decision. You can't take a decision because you are not getting enough ammunition to think is this decision correct? Is this going to make me successful? Is this going to take me to my dreams? Let me tell you, you could be two kinds of people. You could either have a very clear dream. You want to go to Bollywood and become an actor. You want to become a social media celebrity. You want to become an agency owner. You want to become a rock star. You want to do a singer, actor, dancer, whatever the other people are like, I'm still figuring it out. I don't know where I want to go and at the same time I feel stuck. So what should I do for both of you? Let me tell you, this is again very good news. Because this is normal. You at your age in college, this is what you're supposed to feel because you're finishing one activity. You, you got into a college, you got into a course and you're like I got in. You took a decision. Either your parents helped you, your friends helped you, peers ad something you saw and you got into university. One decision done and then now you're like, what should I do next? Every time a business person or any celebrity or any, anybody in the world, any human being in the world makes a decision, they are perplexed with thinking what to do and they find themselves in that confusion. They have mentors, mentors have mentors. There are startup boards, there are advisory boards. Why do companies have advisory boards? You are alone, you don't have an advisory board. So it's okay to feel confused. So the first thing I want to tell you is it is okay to feel confused. That's absolutely fine. Don't think you're the only person at every level in your life, at every decision, whenever you're trying to up your game, you are going to feel confused. So ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, you do not need to beat yourself up because you're feeling confused. It is absolutely okay. The second thing is that nobody knows what's going to happen with any one decision. There's not going to be any mentor like Avi Arya or anybody else on this planet is going to be able to tell you, take this route and you will be successful. But there are few basic ingredients of life that anybody can tell you about. Work hard, get up on time, try to stay away from bad habits. Try to stay away from company of people who have no aim or they're not feeling confused. People who are wanting to go ahead in life, they don't know where to go. Those are the people you need to be with instead of being with people who are saying, I don't want to go anywhere, let it be. You know how to edit your circle. The basic ingredients of life. Get up in the morning, start reading good books, follow people. And after that you come to a level, you're like, you know, I'm following four people on the Internet because I'm a social media guy. I'm following four social media people. I'm an athlete, I'm following four athletes. I want to go to Bombay and become a film director. I'm following four film directors. Then you take a decision. Who is that one person whose values most resonate with you? And so then cut off everybody else and have one guru in life and start following what that person is doing. You can have follow one person for health, one for wealth, one for somebody who's an expert in your field, somebody who's giving you a confusion, a clarity, coach, whoever, whatever you feel. There are all kinds of people on the Internet. Follow one person for one craft that he brings to the table and then adhere to the Best principle that he's giving to you, you know, so if people are giving you, best principle, get up on time. You know what everybody said? Get up on time. Give me another secret. Then you go to another guru, and you go to another guru and another Facebook channel, another Instagram channel, You read another book, you go to another seminar, you get another. You get motivated again, and you come back and say, I'm confused again. Welcome to the real world. If this is happening with you, this is happening with everybody else, because the first decision was fine or feeling confused, that's absolutely fine. But now that you've gone through all these things, now it's time to take a decision on who to follow. And once you've taken that decision, the third is what to follow. If somebody is telling you, get up early, because that's what you need to do, start getting up early. If somebody's telling you, read books, do that. If somebody's saying, create more content using micro videos. Three videos a day, 15 a week, 60amonth, 720 a year. That's my message to the world. If you want to become a personal brand, if you want to start engaging with people, if you want to start selling a product or a service to people in India and all over the world, then you need to start communicating through videos. Because videos are like salespeople. You don't need to hire them, you don't need to fire them, you don't need to educate them. Once you've created a video, it's on the Internet forever. You can push it through Facebook ads or Google Ads, and you'll go and meet the direct audience that you want to meet in India or abroad, and they will go and get you, your clients back. So I propagate videos. Whoever you're following, if you're following me, and if you like the MDM system, the Micro Video Mastery System, then you must first make those three videos a day. 15 a week, 60amonth, 720 a year. Whatever you're doing, start taking, taking action. The indecision, the confusion happens at these three levels when you don't take action. So, ladies and gentlemen, this was my short video on how I feel. People, you know, in college can get over confusion and get to the next level. Don't. There are enough and more opportunities for you to become a personal brand. Start working with people, selling a product or a service, being an affiliate, selling any product to any part of the world, unless you become a personal brand, unless you're able to be able to, to be known, unless you get the attention of people. It takes time. So the easiest and the best way to go is to create videos. That too requires discipline. So ladies and gentlemen, if you need more information on this, I do a webinar every Monday night 9pm India time, Thursday night 9pm India time which is what 8am Vancouver time as well. And then I do a follow up webinar on Saturday. Follow me on any of these journeys where I give you a 90 minute blueprint on how what you can do as a college student to be able to go from point A to point B. I hope this video was useful. Don't worry, everybody needs an advisory board or somebody to help them out. Thank you very much for watching this video so far. I really appreciate it. Share it with a friend of yours if you think it gives you value. Once again, this is ABHI Alia, father of two girls, six dogs, husband to a superwoman, a streetcar racer turned hotelier, now social media marketer and founder of Internet Mobile. Signing off.
