I failed starting a business for 3+ years

Have you ever felt like no matter how hard you try, success keeps slipping through your fingers? Well, you're not alone. I failed starting a business for over three years. And here's what I learned. In this video, I'm going to share you my journey of failure, the lessons I learned, and how those failures eventually led to my success. Whether you're struggling with your business or you're just starting out, my story is probably going to resonate with you. When I first started, I was filled with enthusiasm and big dreams. I thought I had everything figured out. I had some success with business while I was going to college. I was going to school originally to get a degree in computer science. And I had my whole life mapped out that I was going to make a ton of money and get rich by, you know, working my way up the corporate ladder and trying to get to the point where, you know, I had a good paying job, I had a good condo or whatever, good apartment. And I basically just like played the game of life. And then I came across business and I did like a sales job. And during that sales job, I learned about business building multiple income streams. And I came across doing what was known as real estate wholesaling. And so I did that for a little bit. And I actually made like 40, $50,000 my sophomore year of college. And so after the end of my sophomore year of college, I decided to move out on my own instead of moving back in with my parents Last summer. I decided to just work for myself that summer instead of getting a job like most college students do in getting a summer job. So what I did was I worked at home. And then after like a month or two went by, I realized I was like this. There's a lot more to this and I really want to commit. I was afraid of going back to school because I was afraid that the opportunity was going to miss itself. I was afraid that I was going to go back to college and I was going to miss the opportunity that was right there in front of me. So I decided to drop out of college and I was able to make like some money during this whole atomic period. But I'll be honest, like, I would, I would make some money. Then I moved out on my own. You know, I didn't realize how expensive furniture is and a lot of, you know, basic necessities and having to pay for your own things, you know, and then I had to figure out how to put food on my own table. And I didn't realize how much or how expensive life normally is when you pay for everything yourself. You see, know, a lot of times I was going to college, so, you know, dorm costs were significantly cheaper, you know, or I was back at home living with my parents, and they would make sure that I had dinner every single night. And I basically had no expenses whenever I was home. So, you know, when I moved out on my own, I didn't realize how much life kind of punches you in the face a little bit as far as realizing there's expenses. So I had to, you know, some months I had to get really creative. You know, I made a amount of money, but I soon saw that money kind of leaving quickly. And so I, you know, that whole kind of dream that I had, you know, reality hit it pretty hard. My first business, you know, like, I was able to make some money with it, but it was, like, it was super inconsistent. And I quickly realized that I had no idea what I was doing. I told everybody, I told the whole world that I wasn't going to go to college and that, like, I was going to be okay. Like, I was just, you know, I was successful in life, you know, had this big, huge kind of like, ego that was built around it, and it really wasn't. I had no idea what the hell I was. It was kind of my naivety or my ignorance of anything. But I was so stubborn. Even when I had $50 in my bank account and I had to figure out how to pay rent, that was like twelve hundred dollars at the end of the month. Even when I was in those situations, I declared to myself that I was not going to get a job. I was not going to move back in with my parents. I was too stubborn to, you know, call it quits or say that I lost. And so I tried different things out. I started building a YouTube channel, and I had some success with that. And there was one point in time where I had some views, I had some subscribers, and I was like, I need to make money. So what did I do? I spent two weeks making a course on how I flipped my first couple of houses, and I went like crazy trying to find some people that would buy it. I think I was in a bunch of different Facebook groups. I was in a bunch of different communities. And I just told everybody that I created a new course. And lo and behold, I think that weekend of making the course, I made two grand and I was able to pay rent. And so my life was kind of like this for a very long time. For the first few years, like, it was like this. Like, I would see some success, and then Just due to like, my lack of, you know, seeing the sequential consequences of my decisions, my lack of, you know, focusing and committing on one thing and then also my lack of, you know, not seeking help and advice from others really put me down a pathway of like, I was, it was kind of scary at some points I was like, how am I going to make this happen? How am I going to pay the bills? You know, I, I did the thing, I jumped out, like I jumped off the cliff. But then now I'm like, I feel like I was literally building the airplane as I was falling. And so the constant failures really took a toll on my confidence. I started doubting my abilities and whether it was cut out for entrepreneurship. And a lot of my friends and family were like, extremely skeptical. They told me like, go get a real job. Which added to my frustration and self doubt. Like, they didn't know exactly what I was doing or like that I was even having necessarily any financial issues or anything like that, because I never let anybody know that. But it was just like, it was hard with like, the amount of people that didn't believe in me while I was trying to build a business was pretty insane. And so after, you know, despite all the setbacks, like, I refused to give up. Each failure taught me something, something new and brought me closer to my goal. And I realized, like, I learned the value of networking and building relationships with other entrepreneurs. Their insights and support were like, invaluable. I think just bouncing ideas like, and just sharing the problems that I was facing just really, it validated what I was feeling. It also reminded me that I was not living an original experience whatsoever. And there's something so, like, beautiful about that. Just knowing that other people go through the same exact pain and suffering that you do. It's like I said, it's a very beautiful feeling. And it just, it feels relieving or like it's, it's, it feels good to know that you're not the only person that ever faces this issue of not having bills, like not having the money to pay bills. And then now after me doing this, you know, business for like seven years now, it's like, I realize how frequent that is. It's so normal to like, you know, have everything going on, have a lot of success, you know, be very optimistic. And then, you know, next thing you know, it's like you're concerned about making payroll or you're concerned about, you know, being able to get like, be able to even like, do basic things like get food and, you know, those kind of early setbacks or those early failures that I had in the first few years, like, really set me. Like, they really helped develop my character, and it really helped me understand that, like, this, like I said, as I met other people, I was. First of all, it was more. I was more relatable than ever before to successful people because I realized successful people fail and fuck up all the time. And so whenever I'd hang out with them and talk to them, we just understood each other. We understood each other on a different level than I would have never thought otherwise. It was like, you know, oh, you've been kicked in the nuts. Oh, hell yeah, dude. I've been kicked in the nuts, too. And so when it came to. When it came to meeting other people that have, like, do business and run businesses and. And own businesses, it was a very normalized subject. I realized how normal it is for all of us to kind of go through shit. And the other thing that I learned is just being flexible and willing to pivot my business model was extremely crucial. Like, stubbornly sticking to a failing idea is a recipe for disaster. Like, one of the biggest issues that I had was just. I just. I tried to make things work. Like, I tried to force the universe to, like, work a certain way, and that's not how things work. Instead, like, one of the biggest issues that I had was I wasn't looking and seeing why, you know, what was successful out there and what success actually looked like. I saw success, but I never figured out exactly why they were successful. You know, it was like, I kind of did what they did, but then I kind of. Like, a lot of it is I did a lot of things that they didn't do or I didn't do a lot of the things that they did. And because there was that discrepancy in that gap between, like, what. What was needed to, like, have a result. And then my actual execution was. Is so far from what was needed was really what set me back. And anytime that, like, I wouldn't see success, I would constantly bounce around. I remember starting an E Commerce store. I remember starting, like, an Amazon business. I remember starting Instagram theme pages. I read the YouTube channel the real Estate. It got to a point where after my initial success, I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna do every business model now. And that was one of my biggest mistakes. Honestly, if I just stuck with one business and just saw it all the way through to making a million dollars a month, I would have been fine. Because basically every business, every one of those businesses I listed you can make a million dollars a month with it. But I couldn't see that. Like, I just, I felt like I. It was the, the key or the secret was to try everything and to have everything. And what I will say is, a man who chases two rabbits catches none. So don't be the man that chases two rabbits. And that was the person that I was being. I was trying everything out. I was trying to do all these different things, and that is what set me apart, or that is what pushed me backwards, and that's what made me burn all my money. On top of realizing the rent and the expenses that I had was I. I wasn't giving something a full shot instead of like making a bunch of little 1% optimizations to constantly become better and better. Instead, as soon as I would run into a wall, I would try something different, I'd run into a wall there, I would try something different, I would run into a wall, I would try something different. Instead of just keep running into that wall and keep pounding on the door until the door opens. Because I realize now, at this point, now that I've made millions of dollars online, is that success is inevitable if you just keep doing the same thing over and over again, and you just kind of are a mad scientist and reiterating your variations of what you're doing. And I just, I never allowed myself to kind of look outside. Like, I never realized that for myself or I stuck with things that just didn't have a high income potential. Like, I would just, I would find some way of making money, I would go do it. But not knowing that obliviously, like, the most anybody was doing it with that type of strategy or whatever, was making like three grand a month, five grand a month, instead of studying the people that were making $50,000 a month, $100,000 a month. Like, I was studying the people that weren't really making that much money in the first place. And me studying these people that were not making that much money in the first place really got in the way of me even at all having any amount of success. And so here's the thing. After numerous failed attempts, I finally found for me, it was a business, like, the business that clicked. You know, I talked about, I did the real estate for a bit. You know, I just wasn't consistent with it. I started to have a few bad months and I just, you know, I got shiny object syndrome, started doing YouTube. I was starting to very see consistency with it. I got to where I was able to make like 2, 3, $4,000 a month with it. And it wasn't until I discovered faceless YouTube channels and I discovered, you know, just I started to have some more business wisdom, I started to talk to more successful entrepreneurs that I really learned how this all works out. So I quickly went from like making like 3, $4,000 a month to where I, after like a few months I scaled up to like $42,000 in a month. And then a year later I was at about $70,000 a month. And that was just because I found something that was like working. There was a high income potential. And what I did was, is I committed to going all in on that thing and seeing it through to the other side because A, I knew that it was possible and then B, I knew that if I just committed to the thing, then I would see myself amounts of success. And so that's what I did. I committed for, I think it was like 60 days. I said, I'm gonna do whatever it takes. It didn't even take that long. Like after 14, 15 days I got to where I was making a couple grand a day. And then, you know, it was kind of hard to sustain a couple grand a day, but I got it to where I was doing, you know, at least a thousand fifteen hundred dollars a day. So I got to over forty grand, forty grand a month. I outsourced everything. I hired a whole content production team. I removed myself from the business. I went, traveled to Indonesia, Bali. I went and you know, was there for a little bit. My income dropped a little bit. You got down to us make it like 10, 20 grand a month. And then from there, now that I had that foundation, I was able to constantly keep stacking on top of it. And I got it to where I was making $70,000 a month. And then I decided to pivot and get into or. I started doing branded YouTube channels and doing more kind of like long term play. So that play was good. It was like a good like two year play of my first kind of faceless YouTube channels. It was a little bit short lived as it was a little bit against community guidelines. And then I discovered I was like, okay, cool, I want to do this for like I want to focus on 10 year, 20 year game plans. So then I had a lot more long longevity in my direction. And ultimately like what started happening is I just draw my ego. I started actively seeking and implementing feedback which helped me refine my, my YouTube channels and my approach. And instead of trying to do everything on my own, I think for the longest time it was like my Stubbornness and my ego kind of got in the way of things. I was like, oh, no, it's okay. I'm good. I can figure everything out myself. Instead of just like, hiring or paying people that have already done what I'm trying to do and just having them tell me what to do and just learning through their failures and their mistakes instead of my own. And so that's when I started really, like, that's why I built my own, like, info business and info products and stuff like that, because I got so much value out of, you know, once I started hiring mentors and started hiring, helping people to help me, it changed my life, actually. Like, it saved me so much time and saved me so much money. Like, you know, I'd pay someone $20,000 to teach me a thing, and in reality, they would save me, like, millions of dollars worth of headache and struggles because I only paid, like, because I paid them whatever, the 20 grand. And that mindset of, like, realizing that how much time, how much pain and suffering you can save somebody is why I kind of fell in love with that process and. And helping so many other people do it. And all the time, you know, it's like, I was just talking to a student today that, you know, she's making like 20 grand a month, and six months ago, she was making next to nothing. So it just, like seeing those people that go through those progressions and then seeing her go through some of the same struggles that I used to go through and trying to help her navigate through that is like, just. Just makes me feel good in the world. Like, I'm, like, I'm. I'm saving people time. Like, the three years, that first few years of pain and suffering, of building my first business, it's like, it's so beautiful to help other people do the same. So, you know, ultimately, at the end of the day, remember, failure is not the end. It's a stepping stone to success. Each failure brings you one step closer to finding what works for you specifically. And so for those of you that are just starting out, don't be afraid to fail. Learn from your mistakes, seek guidance, and stay persistent. Your breakthrough might be just around the corner. And my journey of three years of failure taught me invaluable lessons about persistence, about flexibility, and importance of learning from each setback. And so that's what I have. Thanks for all the support and the love. We just passed through a thousand subscribers, actually, after starting this channel like a month ago. You guys are insane. We got like 40,000 views just in the last few days. So thank you guys so much. And make sure to drop a. Like, watch the other videos. And I think we can get the laser show here. It looks like you guys all. I'll see you guys all in the next one. Peace.