Making Your First $100/Day #shorts

23 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube #shorts by Capitalism.com featuring a personal narrative about early entrepreneurship goals. The speaker recounts being 18 years old on dial-up internet, planning to become a pastor earning about $30,000/year, and setting a one-year horizon to reach $100/day. By focusing on steady, often 'boring' short-term work, the speaker reports reaching a consistent $100/day after about 40 days and argues that a long-term view enables disciplined, less flashy actions that outperform short-term hustles.

Questions this video answers

18 years old.

About $30,000 per year.

About 40 days.

Chapters

My first goal in business was just to make $100 a day. I was 18 years old, working from a dial up Internet connection and I was about to go to school to become a pastor and make about $30,000 a year. I thought if I give myself one year, that's enough time for me to slowly build up enough momentum for me to be able to hit $100 a day. Having that one year horizon allowed me to do the hard work in the short term and I actually made $100 a day consistently after about 40 days. It's my opinion that having a very long term view of where you want to go at least one year out gives you the COVID and the permission to do the things in the short term that are boring, that nobody wants to do. Most people want to come out of the gate guns a blazing, but if you focus on the boring work for long enough, you end up passing everybody else who's doing the short term stuff in order to try and hustle their way to success.