Why I quit my full-time job as a manager?

Working a full-time job is something normal and obvious for some, and something to escape from for others. As I’m leaving my full-time job to focus solely on my own business (selling books on Amazon and blogging), it’s time to address this interesting topic. This will be my personal and subjective post about working full-time and changing my life towards starting my own business in an online form.

My story in a nutshell

In 2013, I moved to Cracow in search of a more interesting life and positive changes. At first, I worked in a second-hand clothing warehouse, then I delivered food by scooter from restaurants in downtown Cracow. Over time, I became a waiter at the same place and worked in this way for 3 years. I knew I didn’t want to do it, but the necessity of earning money obviously forced me to work. The work itself was fine, but I was sure I wanted something more from life. It wasn’t just about higher earnings, but also about a more interesting life. I wanted to do something that interests and excites me.

At first, I read many books on personal development, biographies of famous figures, and business books. Once I believed in myself enough, set my direction, and gained the necessary knowledge from online courses, I started a business on Amazon. I published my first products in the form of books and slowly started earning more. One of my books even became a bestseller on Amazon, and I knew that Amazon and online business were what I wanted to do in the future.

Full-time job and restaurant manager position

The restaurant where I worked was in a very bad state. The manager left, and the new person selected for the position almost led to the closure of the entire business. What surprised me the most, however, was that the restaurant owner wasn’t interested in his business.

But it didn’t particularly bother me, as I was doing my own thing outside of work and was very excited about it. When the situation in the restaurant became very bad, I was asked to take over the manager position. Initially, I didn’t want to apply for this position, as the company was heading towards failure. Moreover, the manager’s job itself is incredibly demanding and time-consuming. However, I agreed and took on the challenge. It was something big and new for me. Unfortunately, my dedication and long hours at work led me to put aside my Amazon business a bit. Although my products were still selling and bringing me passive income, I stopped publishing new books because I simply didn’t have time for it.

Full-time job—is it worth striving for someone else’s benefit?

I worked as a manager for two and a half years. This was a fully independent job, and I managed a medium-sized restaurant right next to the main market square in Cracow. In less than a year, I got the company (restaurant) up and running and even doubled the turnover in some months. I ensured the smooth operation of the joint, the people, and the marketing. The business was thriving. Anyone who has ever worked in the food industry knows how difficult it is and how hard it is to run a restaurant establishment. I put a lot of energy and heart into my work and provided a significant income for the restaurant. I was very proud of this because several people before me failed in this aspect. I believe I have achieved this through regular work and my knowledge related to online marketing and search engine optimization, which I gained while launching my first products on Amazon and taking online courses.

Bucket of cold water

I remember perfectly how, after less than a year of working as a manager, I achieved the best financial results ever achieved in this restaurant. During a conversation with the owner, I heard the words: “If you don’t like it, goodbye. The costs of running the business are high.” It was like a bucket of cold water.

A few months later, during a larger event at our restaurant, the restaurant owner boasted to the guests that I was making a lot of money for him. I was very happy about it and I never felt bad about it that someone from my work earns much more than me, because I tried very hard and received compensation for it. However, I heard a sentence then, which the restaurant owner said to one of the guests in my presence—”I can fire him at any moment”. It was, of course, about me. After that situation, I decided that it was not worth trying anymore. Especially for someone who does not appreciate my work and get about himself by talking down about me or others.

Returning to Amazon and online business

In a way, I have to thank my former boss. Due to his ignorance and arrogance, I have decided to return to my passions and my business on Amazon. Working full-time was already crossed out in my mind. I started publishing a lot of new products and I dedicated every free moment to working on Amazon. I woke up at 6 a.m. and worked before going to work, where I often spent most of the day for 6 days a week. Within a few months, I have produced several hundred simple automatic products. After a few months from the start, I was already selling 1500 copies monthly. It was the beginning of 2018. I have decided not to leave my job yet, as I wanted to build up a larger financial cushion and apply for a mortgage for half the value of the apartment I wanted to buy in Cracow.

During this time, I continued publishing on Amazon and decided to open my own blog to be able to fully fulfill myself. The blog also provided me with an additional source of income. For a long time, I worked full-time, ran a blog, and sold on Amazon—I had 3 sources of income that allowed me to earn more. I also built up a financial cushion that was meant to help me leave my full-time job. At the end of 2018, I decided to definitively quit my job as a restaurant manager and focus on my own business. Ultimately, my full-time job ended at the end of February 2019.

Full-time job—is it worth it?

Below, I present some of my conclusions. Keep in mind that every job is different and everyone wants something different from life. Personally, I believe there is nothing better than complete freedom and responsibility at the same time. I realize that taking full responsibility for your decisions is difficult and many people will remain in full-time employment. Especially if they are comfortable and well off. I felt great discomfort, and that largely forced me to make a change. I know many people who work full-time and are happy with it. I also know people who were forced to leave a ‘secure’ position because one of their superiors had a whim.

To avoid being so negative—working full-time is also a good first step towards saving capital and earning money. If you want to start a business in a particular industry, a very wise move is to work full-time and gain experience in that field. With time, you can learn a lot, save capital, and start your own business.

Below are my subjective advantages and disadvantages of working full-time. Feel free to comment and share your opinion on this matter. Please write about your pros and cons.

Working a full-time job—advantages:

1. You can learn a lot and get paid for it.

It’s a very good option before starting your own business. If you want to open a restaurant, look for a job as a waiter or restaurant manager—you will avoid many mistakes in the future. The manager’s job taught me how to run a company and how to be more resilient to stress. I do not regret the time spent and I am grateful for this lesson. Paid lesson.

2. You will meet a lot of people and make contacts.

Contacts are very important in life and it is definitely worth working for someone at the beginning, as you can meet many interesting people. It’s best to work in the industry in which you later want to run your business. If, for example, I wanted to specialize in finishing apartments, I would dedicate several years to working for someone, and then I would start my own company. I would then know exactly what to do and who to contact.

3. You will earn your first money.

Work will ensure immediate income for you. You go to work and receive a salary. We all have financial needs. While working full-time, it’s worth saving a part of your earnings, as it will allow you to start your own business in the future.

Working a full-time job—disadvantages:

1. Wasting time

In many cases, working for 8 hours a day is very ineffective. As an entrepreneur, you can achieve much more within 8 hours. An employee compensated on a monthly or hourly basis will never be as effective as someone compensated for achieving specific business goals. When running your own business, you decide how much you work, and no one stops you from working smart and earning 10 times more than in a full-time job with the same number of hours worked.

2. Working a regular job kills our natural entrepreneurship

A fixed salary, a narrow range of duties—it kills the entrepreneur instinct that we all have. Even my job as a manager, which required me to practically run the company on my own, made me behave like an employee, not an entrepreneur. After all, I was receiving a fixed salary and the company was not mine. Why should I sacrifice so much? We always approach our own company differently than we do a regular job—that’s a fact. In a job on a contract, you cannot earn significantly more. By running a business, you are able to significantly increase your earnings, scale your business—then your hard work makes sense. Unfortunately, this principle does not apply in the case of this position. Why should you then make an effort? It’s normal that in such a situation our natural entrepreneurship is being killed.

3. Your hands are tied

In a regular job, you cannot make too many decisions. The decision-making process often takes a long time, and many decisions are made for you. You can be transferred, dismissed, or the company may collapse, etc. Job security is very illusory, as we entrust responsibility for our situation to someone else. Is this convenient, but will anyone take care of us as well as we would take care of ourselves?

4. Lack of freedom

You have to be at work at specific hours and days, and you cannot decide on your own time. In the case of your own business, it is up to you to decide how to organize your work. Do you want to work in the evenings and go for a walk in the morning? This won’t work in case of a full-time job. While tending to my business, I can go for a walk after lunch, take a nap, and then complete the planned tasks in the afternoon. I don’t have to explain myself to anyone, and it’s the most wonderful feeling in the world.

Summary

Remember, it took me many years to transition from employment to owning my own business. These were initially changes in my thinking, and then active actions in the form of developing my own business. I don’t want to encourage you to quit your job. Everyone is different and has a different life situation.

I would like to encourage you to think independently and make more conscious decisions about your own life. Remember that if something doesn’t suit you, it can always be changed.

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Does a fully passive income exist?

Does a fully passive income exist? A few facts and various types of passive income

Each of us wants to make money with minimal effort. There’s nothing strange about that. In the age of the internet, we are bombarded with proposals for making money online through passive income. In this post, I will show you whether a fully passive income really exists and I will try to present the truth about it to you.

Passive income, making money online, and other great promises

First of all, anyone who has achieved success in the broad business world (not just in online business) will tell you that success requires tremendous effort. When we have little life experience, it seems to us that there are magical ways to make huge amounts of money easily. Unfortunately, life is not that simple, because if it were, everyone would be earning very well, but that’s not the case and it never will be. It’s also worth adding that the whole art lies in earning regularly over a longer period of time.

A hundred percent passive income online—what is it?

By passive income, I mean income without constantly engaging your time. A single effort can yield profits for an extended period. Using this mechanism you can create multiple streams of income and enjoy earnings that are bigger than the average paycheck from active income (like a regular job). Also, passive income gives you freedom, as you don’t have to work every day at set hours. But how to achieve such income and what is this all about?

Above all, passive income has various faces

My grandmother has passive income in the form of old-age pension. She has been receiving passive income for a very long time and does not put in any work to receive this income. Of course, this income results from years of previous work and from the pension system. It’s also worth noting that the money my grandmother receives does not necessarily result from her work, but from the social security contributions that I pay every month, for example, by running a business, and maybe you working as an employee.

As you can see, every income has its origins and our society operates according to certain assumptions. Every passive income online also has its principle of operation, and these are often very different mechanisms. I assume that you are not interested in waiting for a pension and want to actively increase your income.

Passive income can also take the form of your own business of any kind in which you won’t have to work much. If you own shares, but other people run the business, then it’s going to be passive income. It doesn’t have to be an online business at all. I know people who have created their own business and built a structure of people who manage this business.

Does a fully passive income exist?

I will now give you a few examples of passive income, and you will see that each of them has a different degree of ‘passivity’.

Publishing products on Amazon in the form of books through KDP

It is a model of earning and passive income that I have had since 2016. In 2016 and 2017, I worked very hard and created about 600 automatic products through Kindle Direct Publishing. Since 2018, I have practically stopped publishing, but my passive income from books has continued to increase and even reached a level of PLN 10,000 per month in months like December (when sales are very high in stores).

For over a year, I have not published any new products, but despite that, I have been receiving an increasing income from the sales of my books. Amazon handles the entire online store, payments, shipping, and even returns, and I don’t even know who is buying my books. It is virtually a fully passive income, as it does not require my intervention. The only activity that needs to be done is to pay tax once a year, but my accounting team takes care of that.

It is also worth mentioning that this type of income is based on real products sold on Amazon (mainly in the USA) in the form of books, eBooks, simple notebooks, etc. By no means it is an income based on multi-level marketing (MLM), where in the end there is a tacky product with an inflated market value.

Blogging and selling online courses

In this case, I also earn very well (I admit, even better than on Amazon), but this is a completely different type of income. My online courses sell automatically, and the blog and YouTube channel do not require my constant attention. However, I need to regularly create new content, take care of customer service, and deal with many minor issues. Running a blog and selling online courses also required me to establish a company, which in itself is quite engaging.

Passive income is only partially present here, as I have to regularly dedicate my time to work on my blog and technical issues. This is simply my business based on a scalable online business.

Blogging and affiliation

Here the situation looks similar, but it’s a bit simpler than when selling your own products on a blog. Passive income from affiliation also requires regular work on the blog from me. I create valuable content that helps others, and thanks to that, I’m able to earn from affiliation. However, in this case, I no longer have to deal with the actual sales and customer service, as is the case with selling online courses.

Affiliation is definitely a more passive form of earning income compared to selling your own products, but it still requires your engagement in the form of creating content. After the client finishes the transaction, you receive a commission and above all, you do not have to worry about creating products. This is a great option for people who are good at creating content and marketing.

You can create a good video on YouTube and promote a selected product through affiliate links. The video will not require your attention, and the sale of advertised products will also not require any involvement.

Fully passive income—conclusions

As you can see, the three methods of earning money online offer completely different types of passive income. In the case of Amazon (books and eBooks), you can have a virtually fully passive income based on real products.

It is completely different when it comes to blogging and online courses. Here, a lot of work should be devoted to creating your own business and running, for example, a blog. This game is definitely worth the candle, but passive income in this case, I would say, is only partial. Of course, I could leave this business to its own devices, but over time, the income would decrease because I have to deal with clients, and my products require regular updates.

In the case of affiliation, passive income is higher and it falls somewhere between online courses and selling on Amazon.

Other types of passive income and what to avoid?

Passive income, including fully passive income, can be obtained in many different ways. First of all, it may simply be your own company that operates independently over time. However, to accomplish this, it always takes many years of hard work.

Passive income can also come from real estate (a very popular topic lately), but it requires having a significant capital, and such investing is a result of previous good earnings. Buying a good property is also an art that requires a lot of work, knowledge, and commitment. Especially now, when real estate prices are high.

We also have MLMs, which stands for Multi Level Marketing. Here the situation is similar to affiliation, but the whole game is based on acquiring partners who sell products, and you receive a commission from their sales. Unfortunately, the whole scheme often relies on weak foundations and on poor and expensive products at the same time. I believe that the products I recommend should be valuable and thoroughly tested. Therefore, on the blog, I recommend only those products that I use and that can provide value to others.

I definitely avoid MLMs. I knew people who were fascinated by this type of business, and in this case, you can also earn a lot of money. However, I always think that business should provide value to the customer, and these types of businesses often do not provide such value.

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Is it worth to take an online course in 2024?

Is it worth to take an online course

In my previous posts and videos, I mentioned how important it is to invest in yourself and in personal development. Not long ago, I listened to a podcast by one of my foreign mentors. It was a podcast about investing. It covered topics such as starting a business, investing in real estate, buying stocks on the stock exchange, and much more.

However, the most important area for investment turned out to be investing in yourself. Subconsciously, I knew this, but realizing this fact made me think a lot and understand where my biggest successes came from and how to achieve my next goals.

Online courses—which courses do I use?

It started a few years ago with a foreign course that taught me how to run a business on Amazon by publishing eBooks and books. I was very afraid to invest money in my first online course. I didn’t know if the money spent would pay off and if I could trust someone. I was worried that the person selling the course just wanted to take my money and sell me knowledge that is easily available for free, or that it would be worthless knowledge.

Before I even took the online course on Amazon, I published my first book without any specialized knowledge. The book turned out to be a failure and is people buy it very rarely to this day. By the way, it was my only book published under my real name and titled Krakow Party Guide.

However, I decided not to give up and invested in knowledge, purchasing an online Amazon course. I published two books at the same time using the knowledge gained from the course. One of them turned out to be a failure again, but the other started very well. Its sales remained at a very good level and after about two months, it became a bestseller on Amazon.

The cost of the course and the previous unsuccessful products paid off within a few weeks, and my book continued to earn money. Writing these words several years later, I still receive passive income from this bestselling book.

What is the lesson learned? Certainly, that it’s not worth giving up, despite initial failures. Above all, investing in knowledge helped me succeed and I started earning my first money in the global market by publishing books on Amazon.

Then, there were more products, some sold better, and some a little worse. However, I continued to learn and publish new products on Amazon in the form of eBooks and paperback books. See more about publishing books on Amazon here and sign up for a completely free Amazon course.

My Amazon business opened up new opportunities for me. At that time, in one of the Facebook groups, I met my mentor from Belgium, who taught me for free how to become a publisher on Amazon. From him, I learned the most important publishing strategies and how to publish books in large quantities at the lowest possible cost. If it weren’t for the first investment in an online course and the first step into the unknown, I would have never “met” this guy, and today I wouldn’t have over 550 books on Amazon.

This business changed my whole life and allowed me to earn more. Above all, I gained the conviction that I can publish books and do it successfully. My passion for books and interest in online business resulted in a business that is well suited to me. The desire for development and learning led me to start my blog. This is just a small example of how a bold decision to acquire initial knowledge eventually leads to such unexpected and wonderful results.

Online courses are knowledge in a nutshell

Despite the fact that the internet offers a wealth of free knowledge, unfortunately, it is often outdated knowledge. Furthermore, it is difficult to find information professionally gathered and presented in a clear manner. Why do you think sellers expect payment for online courses? Well, it’s because acquiring this knowledge often took years of work and preparing an online course in a way that allows for convenient use requires a lot of effort. You can never expect someone to create a great course for you, dedicating a month of their time and providing knowledge acquired over the years completely for free.

Creating my blog also required me to learn many new things. Learning WordPress (creating websites and blogs) and creating online courses also required time and money from me. In this case, I also invested in online courses for creating WordPress websites and dedicated months to learning.

Without investing in knowledge, it would have taken me ten times longer, and I probably would have given up along the way without the proper support. Do you think that investing in a WordPress course for a few hundred dollars was a good investment in this case?

Everything shown step by step

In each of the courses I have taken, I gained knowledge that showed me step by step how to achieve certain goals. By publishing my first books, I learned how to execute each step in sequence and how to generate a steady income from book sales. I would never have been able to publish my first books well if a very experienced person hadn’t shown me how to perform each task in sequence and how to do it well.

Furthermore, without someone’s mentoring, I wouldn’t have believed that what I was doing made sense. Having someone (even virtually) who has already achieved certain things allows you to believe that you can manage too. Why do you think athletes have their coaches? A good coach will show you the knowledge gained over the years and motivate you to take action in difficult moments. Thanks to them, you will believe in success and not give up along the way.

I recently joined a year-long course that teaches how to run a business and how to invest in real estate. It wasn’t cheap, costing me $300 dollars. Do you think that’s a lot? Someone who is just starting their business venture may think it’s a huge amount, which additionally doesn’t guarantee any return. There is never a guarantee—everything depends on your hard work and belief in success. However, if you base your work on good and relevant knowledge, success will be closer than you may think.

Do online courses guarantee success?

Every good online course shows step by step how to complete certain tasks. However, is there any guarantee of success? Of course not. Why is it that one student publishes fifty books with my course, while another want a refund for the course after a week because, after watching a few lessons (without taking any action), they find it too difficult?

I always say that everything depends on your belief in your abilities. I can only guarantee that without the right knowledge, you will certainly get discouraged because you will make the simplest mistakes that I dealt with a long time ago. However, even with the best knowledge, if you don’t believe in your own abilities, you won’t accomplish anything, as you probably won’t take any steps towards your business.

The most important factor for success, apart from knowledge, is simply taking action. In order to be more motivated to take action try my morning affirmations. You have to act, attack, try, fail, and try again. You can’t be passive. You have to actively take actions every day towards improving your life.

If you think that creating your own business in any form is easy, you may quickly become disillusioned. The good news is that if it were easy, everyone would have their own business and be making a fortune. Only with faith in your own abilities and the right amount of knowledge will you be able to work systematically and, most importantly, effectively.

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How to get motivated to LIVE? Search for motivation and sense + MOTIVATION

How to get motivated to live? This is basically what my blog is about—searching for motivation for positive changes. This post is inspired by a sensational book entitled “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Franklin.

Many of us struggle with what to do with our lives and often do not know which direction to go in or how to find joy in life. I myself was in a very poor situation many years ago and couldn’t find for myself any meaningful occupation or idea of myself. This resulted in a lack of motivation and depressing states.

How to get motivated to live?

I will start by answering this basic question—you have to have goals. You have to have an idea for yourself, define what is your hobby, and what you want to achieve, because you need to make sense of your actions. It’s so simple and difficult at the same time. We live in times when most of us have a place to live, food, and freedom. Despite this, we often do not know what to do and lose motivation for life. In addition, a huge choice of possibilities for action simply blocks us a lot.

In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl describes events in concentration camps, where the chance of survival was very low and the prisoners suffered in an imaginable for us way. Despite this, some of them were able to find hope and motivation to act. Others gave up, which meant a quick end for them. Literally. Based on their experiences we can find out how to get motivated.

Viktor Frankl survived a stay in several camps and as a psychiatrist developed treatment methods based, among other things, on the difficult experiences in the death camps. Thanks to observing people in such extreme conditions, Viktor Frankl was able to determine why some people were able to motivate themselves even in such a hopeless situation as being in a concentration camp.

His method of treatment was very simple. It was based on giving meaning to a man’s life and showing them the way. According to the author, people in difficult situations should be explained that even difficult moments have meaning and value. Even in difficult life situations, we can find meaning and set goals that will motivate us to survive and overcome temporary difficulties.

People in difficult life situations very often regained their strength through a brief conversation about the meaning of their life and through a change in perception of everything around them.

What conclusions can you draw from this?

Remember that life puts us in very different situations and often these will be situations that require overcoming many obstacles. However, if you understand that even these difficult moments are valuable and that by overcoming difficulties and your weaknesses you become a better person, it will help us find a lot of motivation and willingness to act. Moreover, it is often enough to look differently at your life and set yourself goals to get a kick to act and get a grip.

Not without reason setting goals and plans for yourself is so popular. Viktor Frankl described the prisoners who lost hope and then died very quickly. On the other hand, people who could explain to themselves, that outside the camp waited for them, for example, people who loved them, that difficult times would end, etc., were able to withstand any difficult next day and thus survive.

We do not live in such drastic times now, but the conclusions are clear. If you lose your willingness to act and you don’t know what to do, set yourself targets for the next year and write them down. Then every day read your goals and remember that over time they will lead you to a place where you want to be so much. It is your goals and your belief in meaning every day that will help you find this “motivation” to act. Look for inspiration in books, maybe online, find something that will fascinate you and follow this path. Take your time and don’t give up. You should always expect some obstacles and problems, but with a goal on the horizon you will be able to go through many difficult moments that will surely appear.

Also, remember that taking even simple actions makes sense and in the long run, your life can change a lot because of it. I wrote about it in a post about the butterfly effect and my personal goals.

I encourage you to read the book “Man’s Search for Meaning” and to download morning affirmations to start each day with a solid dose of energy.

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The butterfly effect, or why it is worth to act now

The Butterfly Effect, or why it's worth acting

In this post, I will show you how the butterfly effect works and why it’s worth taking action even without knowledge and a specific plan. I know that many of you want to earn in your business and improve yourselves in many aspects of your life. Today, I will prove to you that taking active steps will eventually lead you to where you want to be. Even if you do not yet fully know your purpose.

What is the butterfly effect and does it really work?

Before I show you how the butterfly effect worked in my case, it’s worth explaining exactly what the butterfly effect is. Wikipedia defines this concept as follows:

The butterfly effect is a sensitive dependence on initial conditions, an anecdotal representation of deterministic chaos. In the eponymous anecdote, the flutter of a butterfly’s wings, for example in Ohio, may after three days cause a sandstorm in Texas. Examples of the butterfly effect include meteorological phenomena.

It sounds a bit complicated, but I’m sure most of you have seen the movie titled ‘The Butterfly Effect’ from 2004. We see there exactly how individual decisions over time have a very strong impact on our future. If you decide to take even one small step today, it can make a world of difference in your life situation down the line. That’s why it’s worth getting the ball rolling today and taking action even when we’re not sure it’ll bear fruit. I’m not talking about going in blindly here, but about consciously taking on challenges, learning, getting inspired, and trying out new stuff.

First event, or the book Instant Millionaire and my goals from tears Ago

If you follow my blog, you probably know that I have come out of a rather difficult situation in life. In 2012, I still lived in a small hometown with no prospects for the future. However, small steps and decisions changed my life over the years.

Reading a short book titled ‘The Instant Millionaire‘ triggered a series of events in my life. This book inspired me to set some goals and believe that I can shake things up. Nothing happened at once. However, the outlined goals and belief in my own abilities eventually led me to start changing my life and achieving those written goals. I didn’t know how to achieve all this, but I believed I could do it. Reading the book was a game changer, it made the future take a different turn. It was just such a butterfly effect caused by several hours of reading.

Below you can see a list of my goals from the beginning of 2012. I virtually had nothing at the time, and my life was definitely without prospects.

In the photo, you can clearly see what my dreams and goals were. I wanted to have a steady and secure income with a clear perspective for the future. I didn’t know how to achieve these goals, and I didn’t even write that I want to have my own business. If you follow my blog, you know perfectly well that I have achieved this goal. I created a business on Amazon with passive income and a well-earning blog. You can imagine how unrealistic those goals seemed to me at the time.

I also had a hankering to live in Cracow, in my own, modern apartment with a city view, complete with a balcony and an underground garage. Imagine how I felt when some time ago I found these written goals and realized that I live in such a apartment.

Although I don’t have the BMW that I dreamed of back then in my garage, I do have a car that I am very proud of. I could say that this goal is also somewhat achieved. I can probably afford a BMW now, but I’m not a fan of spending a lot of cash on a car. Especially since I work from home and don’t really need a car specifically. Maybe someday I’ll make a review of my current car.🙂

I have also achieved the goal of savings that I wanted to have. Today, I not only have those dream savings, but also my own business, which is largely automated and brings me very good income. By saying very good, I mean amounts of at least several thousand zlotys per month.

I did not achieve goal number four, but I did it consciously. I had ambitious musical goals, as I used to play the bass guitar. However, I quickly realized that I did not want to pursue this path and decided to look for other ways to make money and fulfill myself.

The second event, or the accidental work

Another event that set off the butterfly effect over time was working in a restaurant as a driver, then as a waiter, and finally as a manager. After about six months of moving to Cracow, I stumbled upon a restaurant in the downtown Cracow while looking for a job. Initially, I worked as a driver and then as a waiter for three years.

For many people, such random action and work doesn’t make sense in terms of achieving success, but I decided to step out of my comfort zone and do anything, because I was in a difficult situation and even simple things were difficult for me at that time.

At work in the restaurant, I met many wonderful people and my current fiancée, who supports me incredibly in my business today. A colleague at work pointed me towards an online business that ultimately changed my life. My mean boss in turn motivated me to work on my own business, to finally leave my manager position and the give up my regular job. In the restaurant, I learned many valuable things and I still keep in touch with many people from that place. If I hadn’t taken action years ago and persevered in the work, which theoretically was poor, today I wouldn’t be writing this post.

I am extremely grateful that I decided to overcome my fear and just started to act. With my goals in mind, I deeply believed that sooner or later I would find a way to achieve what I desire. I read many books and searched for ideas for myself. This led me to the third event, which had incredible consequences in the future.

The event number three, or online business, Amazon, and book publishing

When I used to work as a waiter, I became very interested in the topic of making money online. I believe that most of my readers understand the fascination with this business. At some point, I came across the topic of publishing books on Amazon, and I just decided to give it a try.

I had no knowledge, but thanks to reading self-help books, I knew it was worth taking action and trying. I have published my first book. Despite poor sales, I did not give up and decided to invest in more books and an Amazon course. It was not easy, as I had no guarantee of success and I did not have much savings. Next, I published the second and third book. One of them became a bestseller in its category on Amazon, and then everything started to go in the right direction.

While publishing books, I came across a certain individual from Belgium who became my mentor and helped me release subsequent products. I didn’t ask for it, but my actions in publishing on Amazon clearly impressed that person. The gentleman decided to teach me for free and motivated me to work. This led me to publish more books and simple products on Amazon again. My passive income was growing, and I was saving more and more capital.

My passion for personal development and online business has led me to a point where I decided to open my own blog, which you are currently reading. Thanks to this, I started earning and saving even more capital over time. This finally allowed me to leave my job and focus solely on the business.

The butterfly effect and my current situation, as well as some motivation for you

As you see, these small insignificant actions that I took without any guarantee of success resulted in amazing events over time. I am writing these words from my splendid modern apartment overlooking Cracow, with a large balcony. After writing this article, I will take the elevator to the underground garage and get into my beloved car. Then I will pick up my fiancée from work and we will go to the cinema together.

I have substantial savings that exceed my goals set years ago, and my business will be making money for me while I’m at the cinema, for example. It was precisely this first book I read about personal development, stepping out of the comfort zone, working in a restaurant, and then deciding to enter the online business that led me to achieving those goals from 2012.

I do not write this to boast. Besides, there are many other people with significantly greater achievements to their name. However, I want to show you that even a person who was in a very difficult situation can change a lot in their life. The key to this is precisely the action that will bring you many changes and successes over time. The butterfly effect really works.

The butterfly effect will also work for you—how to initiate future changes and successes today?

The butterfly effect works in the life of each of us. We often do not realize that what we do today has a huge impact on our future.

Buying a book for ten dollars today may change your thinking and in the next few years you may start creating your own business. Writing your goals for the entire year and even goals for the next ten years will subconsciously make you start looking for ways to achieve those goals. Even the first unsuccessful steps towards your business can eventually turn into a situation you wouldn’t even expect today.

Remember that a small child learning to walk and falling does not realize that someday they will run and ride a bike. Just like you, today you can take your first steps into the unknown, but remember that with time this will lead you to wonderful things. Do not be afraid to believe in your success. Success does not have to mean having millions in the bank and a super car, but it will be living life on your own terms. Life in accordance with our dreams.

The butterfly effect, or why it is worth to act — watch the video

Why I am THE BEST? (and why you are the best too)

Why I am THE BEST? (and why ARE YOU TOO)

Why I am THE BEST? Under this slightly selfish title, I want to convey one of the most important things about striving for success, making money, achieving goals and high self-esteem. What’s is it about? Each of us has two hands and a head on our neck. We have a place to live, we have something to eat, we can easily earn our living and put aside even a little money. Most of us are probably pretty healthy people, too, and we don’t have any bigger problems. In short, we are similar to each other and have similar opportunities. However…

Are we the same?

So why is it that some people are more successful and, for example, earn more? Why do some care about their body, look great and are healthy while others neglect themselves? Why does someone work hard, put aside money, start their first business and don’t stop investing, while someone else spends everything and complains all his life?

After all, each of these people has the same physical conditions? Anyone can change their place of residence, work, open business and travel. However, so many people do nothing to improve their lives. Why is it like this?

You are what you think you are—Arnold Schwarzenegger example

Why did Arnold Schwarzenegger become the greatest bodybuilder of all time, the highest paid actor and governor of California? He had above average physical conditions? I don’t think so, because he was born with a heart defect and had two open heart surgeries. He had the last surgery quite recently and immediately after it started photographing the new part of the Terminator with over 70 years of age on his neck.

Did Arnold asked himself: “Why I am the best”? Well, I don’t know, but he really believed he would be the best and took action in that direction. It is, of course, a very extreme example of spectacular success on a global scale. However, I want to show you on this example that what you think about yourself shapes what you become. If you see yourself as a person who can earn 2,000 zlotys, that’s who you will be.

It’s not just about money, it’s about who you are and what you get from life. If you believe that you can do what turns you on in life, maybe change your place of residence, have a cool partner, and lead a fulfilling professional career, then by all means, you can. All you have to do is believe that this is real.

You don’t have to be who you are now

Look around and see how many people live a life of nothingness, a life imposed on them by their surroundings. Who said you had to graduate and find yourself a safe position in a corporation for a few thousand bucks. Why can’t you do something completely different that makes you much more excited? Who said you have to live here where you live and stay with the people you’re with? Arnold Schwarzenegger grew up in a small town in Austria a long time ago. However, he decided to be the best bodybuilder of all time and moved to California.

Years ago, I thought I could only be a driver in a small company and drive goods to shops. While living in my hometown, I assumed I could, at best, find “some” work in the local area, and things would somehow fall into place. But inspiring books opened my head. After the breakdown, I moved to Cracow, where I worked as a waiter. Then, I became a restaurant manager and over time I created my online business on Amazon and blog. I have abandoned all those who have dragged me down. The more I believed I could be more than that, the better I’ve done in my life. Reading books on personal development and learning new things helped me a lot.

Remember, you are who you think you are. If you want to change something in your life, change your mind. Read books, meet people better than yourself, andset your goals. Each of us is exactly the same person, and apart from what we have in our heads, we are absolutely no different. Work on your perception of yourself and believe in yourself.

The process of change is endless and lasts for years. However, the only and best time to start is today. Here and now. Think of all those people who are exactly the same as me and you, and who are doing things much bigger than we can imagine. Remember that you are exactly the same person as them.

I encourage you to take advantage of the morning affirmations in PDF, which you can apply every morning and change your thinking from today.

Why I am the BEST (original post)

Why I am THE BEST? (and why you are the best too)— watch the video

Best Amazon Course: How to publish a no-cost product on Amazon

Amazon Course: How to publish a no-cost automatic product on Amazon?

My basic Amazon course www.p24.fromwaitertomillionaire.net has been updated and recreated from scratch. Why? Much has changed recently on the Amazon’s KDP platform (formerly CreateSpace), as the entire portal was merged with Kindle direct Publishing. My students who have so far published books and simple products through CreateSpace with my Amazon course have to face a new platform. Many people are afraid to move to the KDP and use the new platform.

As a result, my new Amazon www.p24.fromwaitertomillionaire.net course has been fully updated to change the Amazon book publishing platform and shows a new proven way to publish simple, automatic and most importantly no-cost products on Amazon.

I encourage you to check out this completely refreshed version of Amazon www.p24.fromwaitertomillionaire.net course. You will learn how to publish your first fully automatic product on Amazon at no cost and how to replicate this process endlessly and provide yourself a passive income for many years.

There will be plenty of knowledge about publishing on Amazon and online business. After the purchase of this Amazon course http://www.p24.fromwaitertomillionaire.net/ you will also get a discount code for a bundle of more than 70 Amazon KDP templates (interiors) for commercial use! If you want to know more, feel free to read my other articles containing knowledge about for example: rules for selling on Amazon.

How to publish a book on Amazon? 10 videos for beginners

How to publish a book on Amazon?

In this post, I will introduce a series of 10 short video clips, in which I will show step-by-step what the process of creating your book on Amazon looks like. Watch each video in order to learn how to publish a book on Amazon:

01—Getting to Know Amazon:

02—Finding a niche:

03—Kindle Direct Publishing:

04—Choosing a Book Title:

05—Ebook vs Paperback Book:

06—Ordering a Book Cover:

07—Ordering Content for Your Book:

08—How to Publish a Book on Amazon? —costs:

09—Marketing and Positioning:

10—How to Publish a Book on Amazon and Get Started?:

Don’t buy my Amazon course, if… who are my courses for?

Don’t buy my Amazon course if…

Do not buy my Amazon course because… but first things first. 😉 My blog is starting to grow and viewers are writing to me claiming that they don’t have money and are unable to risk an investment, for example, $150 in my Amazon course. For some people, a problem and an insurmountable barrier is also, for example, investing $200 in publishing their first book. I am receiving messages and comments that someone cannot afford such risk. At first, I couldn’t believe what I was reading, but then I remembered how I used to think just a few years ago.

How can we expect results in our lives if we play in our safe zone? We are often afraid to invest in our business and idea even a few hundred dollars. I’m not just talking about my course or online business here, but about life in general. I invested several thousand dollars in my first book and I completely lost that money. This lesson taught me that I can’t do everything by myself and I can’t be afraid to invest in knowledge, in online courses, books, etc. If you’re afraid to invest even a little, you’ll never create even a small business, because fear will block you and you will quickly fail, even if you start doing anything.

A pin can support a butterfly

There is no such thing as certainty that something will succeed and there is no such thing as full safety. I will say more—there will be failures and avoiding them will prevent you from realizing any of your dreams. A stable situation (only outwardly) can give you a 9-to-5 job, where someone else will tell us what to do, and we can avoid having to make any decision.

It seems convenient, doesn’t it? However, such jobs usually offer a salary of a couple of thousand dollars. The painful truth is that if you want to achieve something and earn more, you need to take responsibility, make decisions, and do difficult things. Otherwise, everyone would be earning $10,000 per month.

There are no guarantees of success

No one can guarantee you success after purchasing an online course, book, or training. You won’t get a guarantee of success in business, in a relationship, or a guarantee of life in general. You need to take responsibility for your life. As Jacek Walkiewicz once said, is you want a guarantee, you can get one for a toaster. I can’t promise you success after purchasing my course because I am only providing you with the knowledge I have acquired over the years, along with a lot of motivation to take action. Some people think that by watching movies and taking courses, they will lose weight or make money. It doesn’t work this way. To earn a few thousand per month on Amazon, it takes a minimum of several months of dedication, hard work, and at least some small investments. Some will achieve it faster, while others more slowly.

Many people also fail because they give up at the first attempt. In order to order a cover on Fiverr the website for $5, you need to have a card and pay for it online. Besides the said $5 the website will add tax and a service fee, and the seller will offer us a better cover for $15, etc. Some people are even afraid to give their card number online and do not want to “risk” ordering some goods. However, results are achieved by those who take action, make mistakes, sometimes lose, but do not give up.

Don’t buy my Amazon course if…

If you are afraid to invest a few hundred at the beginning of your journey and you expect certainty that you will quickly earn on Amazon, then do not buy my course. When creating simple products on Amazon, you need to fill out a US tax details and provide all your data. If this scares you, then this business is not for you. You also need to use the English language, at least basics, and at first, it may be a challenge for foreigners.

Amazon may reject your products, many of them may not sell, there will be a lot of competition, and there will always be someone better—I guarantee that. If you are not able to take the risk and join the game, it may really be worth considering something easier. Unfortunately, easy things can be done by anyone and it’s up to you whether you take responsibility and discomfort on your shoulders, learn every day, or whether you give up and stay where it’s easy. Where everyone can be.

I also received a comment recently accusing me that I make money on my course. Yes, of course, I do.. Just as you may want to earn from your book on Amazon. The question is, do you create something valuable, or do you just want to make money? When you buy bread at the store, you help the bakery, the cashier, and the store owner make a living. Just as the employer earns from you, etc. There is nothing wrong with that, and you shouldn’t think in such categories.

At the beginning of my publishing journey, investing in the Amazon course quickly paid off, and I can now use this knowledge extensively when launching new products. In the last month, I received more than $1,000 from Amazon, mainly for simple products, and I admit that I haven’t done anything in this area for a few months. However, I had to learn a lot earlier and overcome many of my barriers in order to receive passive income like this every month. Is it a lot of money? Some people don’t earn as much after 40 years of work. Others, on the other hand, earn millions in their businesses. Consider for yourself which of these people took matters into their own hands and were unafraid to take risks.

Don’t buy my Amazon course, if… who are my courses for?— watch the video

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How to publish a notebook on Amazon for the global market in less than 24 hours

How to publish a notebook on Amazon?

How to publish a notebook on Amazon for the whole world? — I reckon that’s the question I’ve been asked most frequently for several years. Amazon is the biggest sales platform in the world and it allows you to reach customers in many of the wealthiest markets. However, the real kicker is that Amazon offers sales in the American, British, Canadian, and European markets, plus a few other smaller ones. These markets are so crucial because they’re home to hundreds of millions of wealthy customers, particularly in the U.S. market, who are inclined to shop till they drop.

Intro

In the USA, people shop a lot and without unnecessary hesitation. Thanks to this, the demand in these markets is high and, for instance, sales in the American market are incomparably larger than here in Poland. In the US alone, there are 325 million people who are definitely wealthy and are very keen on making purchases. Amazon is an American platform—sales on this platform are pretty big and they’re growing with each passing year. Moreover, the pandemic really gave Amazon a leg up, as a ton of people were practically forced to shop online.

For anyone living in Europe, selling any product in the US is an intriguing idea, as we’re dealing with a huge market, a global sales platform, and a decidedly stronger currency. Selling even simple products abroad (like notebooks), mainly in the US market, can bring significant benefits to a seller living in Europe, even if it’s a drop in the bucket in the scale of Amazon.

Kindle Direct Publishing (formerly Create Space)

Also a very interesting option is that by publishing a book in the form of a notebook through Amazon KDP (Kindle direct Publishing) you do not have to invest virtually any money in products. You can say you operate on a dropshipping basis.

Kindle Direct Publishing prints and ships the products you’ve created digitally to the buyer, and all you see is your seller’s dashboard. Amazon plays a middleman role in this transaction and serves as the sales platform. As the product creator, you get a commission for each item sold and even if no sales are made—you simply don’t pay a dime.

Additionally, selling as an author (even large quantities of notebooks, books, e-books) through Amazon KDP, you don’t need to run a business, as you pay for tax for copyrights.

How does Amazon KDP work?

Amazon KDP is a platform owned by Amazon that handles the publication and sale of e-books and paper books. E-books is a separate matter, which I’ve described in this post. When it comes to publishing so-called notebooks, KDP fits the bill perfectly, as this platform allows you to publish your own product in the form of a print-on-demand paperback. This means that anyone who signs up for Amazon KDP can virtually create their own product, which after publication will be available on Amazon worldwide, that is, for a large number of potential customers.

There’s no need to pour money into product inventory, and the book/notebook itself is sold on a print-on-demand basis. Our products are digitally released and available in the Amazon store in the US, Canada, and also in Europe (UK, Spain, France, and Germany). Only when the customer purchases our product does Amazon then print, package, and ship it to the customer. It’s like selling cars online, but the factory only makes the car when someone orders it, and we get our cut from the sale without getting our hands dirty.

KDP also offers a pretty high cut of the profit to the author of the product in the final retail price (you can adjust the price and profit in the wizard while adding your own product in the KDP dashboard) and that’s why so many people use this platform to sell their products (not just notebooks).

From a seller’s point of view, selling a notebook looks just like selling an e-book. The product is created online (title, cover, interior + a few other details) through the Amazon KDP platform and you see every sale in your dashboard.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a clue who’s buying our products and we never get to see the printing and shipping process, because Amazon is the seller and they never spill the beans about the buyer’s information.

For some people, this might be a downside, since we’re totally at the mercy of Amazon, but I’m of the opinion that this model gives us complete freedom and simply peace of mind. We can sell thousands of products automatically each month and not even get a single email, meaning we’re creating a passive income based on real products.

However, the real dough regularly rolls into our account if our products are up to snuff. What’s more, over time we can also start publishing more complex products or even ghost-written e-books.

How to publish a simple notebook as a book on Amazon?

It’s a pretty straightforward process and it’s worth learning. Over time, you can also expand your product portfolio and release more complex books. Personally, I make a pretty penny from this and just in the pre-holiday period, I raked in about 10,000 zlotys, mainly from simple automatic products in the form of notebooks.

The process of publishing products in the form of notebooks is pretty straightforward, and the Amazon KDP platform is open to everyone — including people from Poland and all over Europe.

The main perks of publishing through the Amazon KDP platform:

There’s no sign-up fee for the platform and no subscription charges — Amazon KDP is totally free of charge.
The ability to publish simple products that cost nothing (so-called notebooks and low-content products).
There’s no need to own a business (at least in Poland, you pay your tax once a year as an author).
Flexibility — it’s all up to your creativity what products you’ll be selling.
Publishing even simple products on Amazon is a great lesson in SEO, graphic design, English, and general computer skills.
Creating a passive income based on real products.
The opportunity to develop and publish increasingly sophisticated products over time.

When it comes to drawbacks, it’s worth mentioning the following things:

The publication is in English and mainly for English-speaking markets.
As of now, Amazon KDP doesn’t allow publishing in Poland.
You need to be handy with a computer and those who aren’t up to snuff in this area might not cut the mustard when it comes to publishing.
It’s also worth dipping your toes into creating simple graphics when publishing basic notebooks. However, you can also order graphic jobs from freelancers — especially when creating e-books.

I teach how to publish a notebook on Amazon step by step in my sales course, Product 24, but before you decide to dip your toes in this business, I encourage you to sign up for a free Amazon and online business course, where I lay out exactly how to publish products on Amazon via the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing platform.

The process of publishing a product (notebooks, e-books, and paper books) goes something like this:

Signing up for Kindle Direct Publishing.
Filing a US tax form.
Setting up a Euro currency account in any bank.
Understanding the basics of Amazon and the KDP platform.
Choosing your niches and ideas for your own products on Amazon.
Publishing a simple notebook in the form of a book using Amazon KDP’s platform wizard.
Filling out complimentary data, title, cover, description, category etc. on the Kindle direct Publishing platform.
The notebook (or e-book, book etc.) pops up within 24 hours (sometimes longer depending on the period and product) on Amazon and is up for purchasing in the biggest markets.

Sign up for a free Amazon and online business course here.

How to publish a notebook on Amazon for the global market in 24 hours — watch the video

21 powerful tools for online business and Amazon — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Today, I’ll answer one of
the most frequently asked questions

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on my YouTube channel
and on my blog.

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How to publish
a simple notebook on Amazon?

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To those who don’t know, Amazon is
the world’s largest sales platform

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which sells mainly on Western markets,
like the US, Canada, Europe,

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the United Kingdom
and many minor markets.

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We’ll be mainly interested in
the US, Canadian and the UK markets.

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Why? Let’s take
the US one for example,

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which is an area
where I sell 90% of my products.

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The US is my main target.

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Now, 325 million people live in the US,
each of them making

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much more than Polish people in dollars.

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These people are much more eager
to make purchases.

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It makes the demand on Amazon –
which is one of the biggest stores there –

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very large, so it’s easier for us to sell
something in the US than in Poland.

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If you’re going to sell
some small product

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on the US or global Amazon market,
the demand is very high

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and even if our product will be small
compared to the rest of Amazon,

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for a person living in Poland,
this microscopic sell

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will significantly impact our pockets.

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That’s why I encourage to sell
even small, simple products on Amazon,

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especially the US one, because you can
take a tiny piece of this market

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and earn on it.

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Especially if you add to this
a big currency difference.

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The USD value is still much higher
than that of the PLN.

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That’s why the profits you get in Poland
are very significant.

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Before I get to the steps of publishing
a simple notebook on Amazon,

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I’ll tell you
how to release a simple product.

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You can release such a product –
a simple notebook, a book, etc. –

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through the CreateSpace platform.

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It’s a self-publishing platform
thanks to which you can release

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paper books, simple notebooks,
gift books, handbooks and novels.

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But I’ll focus here on
the simplest notebooks.

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Thanks to this platform,
you’re able to create such a product

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in an electronic form and
CreateSpace Amazon will print it,

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sell and serve the customer,
while you do nothing.

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You only oversee the process
from the vendor panel

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and don’t need to be physically involved
in this process.

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It’s the same as when selling e-books.

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Now, I’ll tell you how to sell
such a notebook on Amazon.

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Amazon notebook.

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First step – registration

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on CreateSpace.

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That is, you register
on the CreateSpace platform,

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which is a self-publishing platform,
through which you can

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release products on Amazon in book form
and other forms, so I recommend it.

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The second step is to fill in
the US tax return.

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That is, you, as a non-US person,
must fill in the relevant information,

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such as that you’re
a Polish citizen and a taxpayer,

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you write your data
and declare that they’re true.

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Thanks to it, Amazon and CreateSpace
know that you’re a non-US person

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and they hold only a bit of a tax,
while the rest you need to pay in Poland.

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Next step – foreign currency account.

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You need to set up
a foreign currency account,

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so that you can
receive payments from Amazon,

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as all the money you earn from Amazon,
CreateSpace, Kindle, etc.,

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flows into your account.

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Fortunately, the days when Amazon
paid in checks are long gone.

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The next step is to

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look for niche and ideas.

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You need to get to know
Amazon platform

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and see what kind of products
are being sold there.

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Check out how
other simple notebooks look like.

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You need to spend a lot of time
on analyzing what Amazon looks like,

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how it works, what sells well,
discovering keywords and other products.

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All in order to know the platform
and be able to come up with ideas.

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The fifth step is the actual
release of the title through CreateSpace.

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Once you register on CreateSpace,
have a declaration, an account

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and know what you want to release,
then you need to add a title

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on our CreateSpace platform
and move on the the next step.

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Which is connected to
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Completing the data.

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That is, when uploading our product –
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you need to add a data,
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keywords, cover and
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In the case of a simple notebook,
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Once you go through all the steps,
you publish your notebook on CreateSpace

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and it’ll appear on Amazon
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In this way, it’s for sale
on the world’s biggest markets.

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and you can repeat this selling process.

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That’s how the steps look like.

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If you’re interested in Amazon,
check out my free course – link below.

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I also invite you to a course in which
I show how to publish such a notebook.

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Online business vs. brick-and-mortar business—which one to choose?

If you choose to take the harder path and opt for your own business, you are in for a long adventure. Running a business is not for everyone, but once you decide that you want something more out of life, I will try to help you choose the type of business by showing two different examples of running a business—an online business and a brick-and-mortar business.

Online business vs. brick-and-mortar business—how do they differ?

I used to be a waiter at a restaurant, and today I still run a restaurant as a manager (update: in early 2019 I quit my job for online business). For a long time, I also has run a company in parallel and operated in an online business (Amazon + blog with online courses), where I earn more than in a job. Why am I still working as a manager? Because I like this job, I earn well and I care about the place I manage. However, I want to show you what running a brick-and-mortar business looks like, when operating in a rented space and employing several workers.

If you enjoy working with people and like a lot of activity, then a brick-and-mortar business is for you. Every day you have contact with people, the phone rings often, and there is always something to do. This type of business requires you to be a very energetic person above all, and it’s not a place for someone quiet or timid. I would say that it is a business for a strong and confident person, as it requires constant readiness to act and quick reactions.

As the owner of such a business, you are responsible for everything. In this case, people are a very difficult factor to control and manage. Conflicts and misunderstandings are a daily occurrence and are definitely a downside of this type of business. Employees come and go, sometimes someone doesn’t show up for work, and some may struggle with their assigned tasks.

Remember that as the owner, you are the one responsible for everything. There are hardware failures and difficult contacts with authorities. The fixed costs of running such a business are also very high. Regardless of turnover, you must pay rent and salaries to your employees. All of this makes the risk quite significant, and by running such a business poorly, you can lose a lot of money. Just opening such a business is also very costly.

I would say that this is not a business for beginners. It requires capital, strong nerves, and a lot of hard work. However, many people are engaged in this type of activity and are doing well. If such a business is well thought out, it can bring very good profits.

Why did I choose an online business?

I started developing my online business in 2016, but it wasn’t until the end of 2017 that my earnings in this aspect significantly increased. This was due to the fact that I was gaining the new knowledge needed to create and publish new products and I was simply getting to work systematically. Today, I earn more in online business than in a full-time job, and eventually I will probably shift to earning solely online.

How does online business compare to brick-and-mortar business? First and foremost, an online business does not require large costs—both at the beginning and later on. Costs are an inherent part of every business, also this one, and must be paid, but they are unimaginably smaller than in the case of a stationary business. You don’t have to rent a space or hire employees. The only people who will work for you are potential freelancers who will occasionally perform tasks for you. This is a big advantage of an online business, and even publishing 10 books on Amazon is practically no expense compared to opening a small cafe.

Online business vs. brick-and-mortar business—which one to choose?

When running an online business (e.g. selling on Amazon, running a blog, etc.), you often work alone on your computer. This also requires being defined and decisive, but you can do it from the comfort of your home. For some, this will be a big plus, and for others a huge minus. My nature is that I am more of an introverted person and I definitely enjoy working in online business from my home more than in a crowded restaurant late at night. This is a very important, as each of us has different preferences, and it is crucial to choose a work style that suits our personality.

In online business, the responsibility for equipment and costs is much lower. We don’t deal with malfunctioning equipment or leaking pipes here as often. However, we often have IT-related issues, which of course require a different set of skills.

In my opinion, the biggest advantage of online business is much lower costs. There is no need to rent a premises or hire employees, and low initial costs are the biggest advantage. Especially if you don’t have a large capital to start with. Anyone with an average job and a monthly income from full-time work can start an online business. We can develop an online business while working full-time, which can be much more difficult in the case of a stationary business.

Online business or brick-and-mortar business—which one is for you?

First of all, think carefully about what you are good at and how you can use your predispositions. If you are an extroverted person with some capital, you will definitely do better in running a brick-and-mortar business that requires constant contact with people. However, if you prefer to work from home and are more of an introverted person, then an online business may be a much better option for you. It’s up to you to decide.

I have tasted every kind of business, and I must admit that running a restaurant is a great challenge, just like the online business in publishing books on Amazon. What kind of business do I prefer? I guess that’s obvious. The moment when I will fully transition to my online business is getting closer and closer. As soon as this happens, there will definitely be a longer article and a video on this topic.

How to start your own online business?

You definitely need to start by choosing a model for your own online business. To start your own online business, it is worth deciding whether you want to deal with, for example, selling books on Amazon, blogging, creating online courses, or running an online store. I encourage you to take advantage of my free Amazon and online business course, where I show the best types of online business: here. Also you might want to try my Amazon KDP Product 24 course, which will help you start publishing your own products on Amazon within 24 hours!

Online business vs. brick-and-mortar business—which one to choose?— watch the video

Online business vs. brick-and-mortar business—which one to choose? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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In my last video,
I told you about the difference

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between working on a full-time job
and running a business,

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especially an online business.

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I told you that the approach must be
different in case of running a business.

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Be welcome to check out that video.

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In this video, I’ll tell you
about the difference

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between traditional business
and online business.

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I’ll present the pros and cons of both,
because I can show them on my example.

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I want to help you with
answering questions and doubts.

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If you’re considering starting
an online business,

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then you’ll learn whether
it’s the type of business for you.

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I started as a driver,
then I was a waiter in a restaurant

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and now I’m a restaurant manager.

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And this is an example of
a traditional business,

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which I know inside out,
as I’m running it.

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So, I know what
traditional business involves

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and what are it’s pros and cons.

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At the same time, I’ve been running
my online business since 2016.

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It’s mainly Amazon, books,
simple products

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and now, since 2018, my blog
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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I earn there more than in a full-time job
as a restaurant manager.

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I want to show you the differences,
so that you can choose something for you.

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At first, let me tell you
how traditional business looks like,

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basing on the example of a restaurant,
but it can be applied to

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all kinds of businesses,
in which you have a few employees,

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your premises
and you work with people.

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What are the pros and cons?

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Above all,
working in a traditional business,

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in which you have
employees, premises

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and a constant contact with people,
you must have a very specific character.

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In the previous video,
I told you that you must have

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a proper approach to business.

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Now, having a traditional business,
you’re exposed to people every day,

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so you must be a very determined,
confident person, knowing what you want.

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Also, you must have some knowledge
and manage people every day.

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You must be able to talk to people,
be very strong mentally,

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often even slightly aggressive
and able to defend your opinion,

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because it’s the only way
to manage a small company

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with a few or over a dozen employees –
as in case of my restaurant.

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It involves watching over
everything constantly,

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as there’s always something going on,
especially in gastronomy.

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It’s a work in
a constant whirl of activity.

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A lot is going on,
many problems arise,

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because it’s not
just managing people –

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it’s also hiring people,
firing people, training people.

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Also, working with a client,
technical problems in the premises,

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as sometimes
a pipe or equipment break.

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It’s a work from morning until evening,
very responsible, often very stressful,

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involving contacts with bureaucracy.

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It’s not suitable for vulnerable people.

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But it gives a lot of satisfaction
and there’s a lot going on,

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you have a contact with people, etc.

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In order to work in such an environment,
to manage a place like this,

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you need to like it,
having this kind of

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contact with people
and a constant action.

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The question is – are you a person able to
sacrifice, be tough and fight every day?

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Or would you rather work full-time,
not worry about a lot of things

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sleep peacefully
and riding a bike after work?

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Or do you want to own such a business,
working often 14 hours a day,

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where people don’t come to work,
where people don’t want to work,

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where many things go wrong at once
and you need to manage it?

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But it gives a lot of satisfaction,
as you can overcome

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your barriers and comfort zones.

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This type of business
or managing a place like mine

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reveals a person’s character,
when they’re able to manage it.

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I believe that I can.

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That’s what a traditional business
involves. Hope I haven’t discouraged you.

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Now, how an online business
looks like?

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Basics are the same – you need to have
this entrepreneurial thinking,

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so you must switch
from working full-time

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to someone who creates his
business, invests, etc.

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But I mentioned it previously.

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When we compare it to a traditional
business, it’s still a business

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and you need the same approach.

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But online business is
a completely different kind of business.

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That’s because an online business
must be based more on yourself.

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There’s not as much contact with people.

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In case of a traditional business,
you have some employees.

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In case of an online business,
let’s say you create books on Amazon

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like me, you have your blog, courses,
then you don’t have employees.

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You can commission writing
the content of a book to somebody,

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a product’s description
or creating its cover.

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But these are occasional work orders
that you commission to freelancers

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from your computer
and from your home.

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So, you don’t have
a contact with people,

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you don’t have employees
and you don’t have clients

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you have a contant with.

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That’s because if you’re
running a business on Amazon,

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you don’t have an access to clients,
as Amazon takes over

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the whole customer service
and does everything for you.

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It’s cool, because you don’t have to
deal with customers,

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which can be
either advantage or disadvantage.

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That’s because a contact with people
is a different experience for everyone.

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I’m quite an introvert,
so I really appreciate working in peace,

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in the comfort of my own home
and an online business suits me.

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But I’m also able to manage a restaurant.

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There are different kinds of people –
like introverts, who prefer solitude,

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working from home and for such people
online business works great.

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It’s the answer for the needs of people
who like working alone

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and they feel uncomfortable
in a loud, noisy place

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where they’re attacked, often mentally,
by people and prefer working

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in the comfort of their homes.

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They focus on working in solitude,
they don’t hurry

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and are able to work
more efficiently this way.

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The question is –
what option do you prefer?

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What will work better in your case?

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I think you feel what’s better for you.

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And neither option is better.

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Some people feel comfortable
in noisy places with a lot of employees.

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Others prefer more quiet,
which an online business provides,

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even if it’s still stressful
and demands a long-term, hard work.

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But it’s happening in completely
different conditions – often in home.

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Another very important
aspect is an investment.

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Let’s say
you want to open a small pub

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or you want to open
a business on Amazon, or a blog.

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Investment in a traditional business
is simply more expensive.

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If you want to open your restaurant,
you must invest much more money.

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Renting the premises,
renovating it,

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hiring employees,
buying equipment, concessions, etc.

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These are large costs to bear.

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In case of an online business on Amazon –
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the costs are lower.

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I’m the supporter of the idea to
open an online business gradually,

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while you work full-time
and invest some small amounts.

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In this case, investments of starting
such a business are really low.

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You can invest 10-20% of your savings
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and start opening
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while working full-time.

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If you want to open a restaurant
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then you can’t have this business
and work full-time,

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but you must devote to such a business,
have more savings and time.

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So, it’s something completely different.

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Another important factor is costs,
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having even one employee,
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I don’t even mention
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then the fixed costs are huge.

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Regardless of sales and turnover,
you have to bear these costs.

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You have to pay for premises,
employees, electricity, gas, water, etc.,

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which you use,
even if you lack customers.

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In case of online business,
your monthly costs are relatively small.

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Of course, you have to pay
social insurance and accounting.

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However, in case of
selling books on Amazon,

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you can do it even without
an economic activity.

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Nevertheless, the fixed cost of running
an online business are much lower.

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A server in case of a blog
or books on Amazon cost you nothing.

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If you create a product
for $100-200 or for free

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and release it,
then it doesn’t cost you nothing.

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Amazon handles the rest
and it doesn’t cost you anything.

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If you write a blog,
you have to bear the costs of a server

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and a few additional ones, but these are
very small in a scope of a month.

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For example, one sale is able to
exceed the cost of running your business,

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which is different in case of
a traditional business.

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That’s because a weaker month
while running a restaurant

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or a traditional business
can cost you tens of thousands dollars.

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In case of online business,
you just risk to earn nothing.

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I want to give you
some food for thought with this video,

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so that you can think
what type of business is suited for you.

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Also, what type of person are you
and what will work for you.

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Are you the kind of person
who feels comfortable at home

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or in a big company
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How to earn money online while working full-time?

Nine-to-five job vs online business—earnings and Ideas

A very large part of society works full-time—it’s normal and there’s nothing wrong with that. The more ambitious ones, however, are looking for a way to start an additional business that will bring them income after hours and may eventually even allow them to leave full-time job. How to make money online? Is it easy and is “making money online” for everyone? Unfortunately, a large portion of these individuals are not aware that running even a small online business requires hard work and, above all, a completely different approach.

When starting an online business (or any other type of business), we cannot have a sense of entitlement or demand earnings after the first month, as is the case with a regular job. Unfortunately, some of my students starting their business on Amazon ask me right at the beginning, “how much will I earn per month?”, “will I be able to make a living from this business?”, “what is the guarantee of making a profit?”, etc. I am very saddened by such questions because it is the wrong approach.

Online business requires months and years of work. It is only after time that every business is able to generate more and more income that exceeds the salary on the job. The first money you can be easily earn after a few weeks, but I think the time needed to initiate (make meaningful money) online business is at least six months.

Online business vs nine-to-five job—comparison of earning methods

If you go to work, you get your first salary right after a month. This gives you the opportunity to make money without taking risks or investing. As time goes on, you can earn a bit more and receive a paycheck every month. However, what if you want to earn more? Let’s say you make 3 thousand dollars. As for the first job, it is not so bad salary, but over time your needs grow and what to do then? Unfortunately, in most cases it is difficult to earn significantly more while working in a regular job.

How is it in online business? How to make money online? The beginning is always very difficult and requires learning and breaking many barriers. In particular, you have to overcome your mental barriers and believe that you will succeed, because you will surely come to work for months for free and you will have to invest your own capital. Your earnings will initially be minimal and unlike in your nine-to-five-job, you have no guarantee of making money.

However, if you persist in difficult beginnings and make use of the knowledge gained from those who are better than you, you can quickly start such a business and start making the first money. Over time, online business will start generating first income, and you have to be a persistent person and not give up. Success is simply action and not giving up in the process—it is so simple and so difficult at the same time.

The job may be fun at first, but if you stop working, guess what’s gonna happen? Yes—you will not earn. Plus, over time, you can’t count on more money. It is different in online business—earnings at the beginning are small, but over time you will start earning more and your revenue will increase. If you are a systematic person, over time your online business earnings may well exceed your full-time salary, as was in my case. Moreover, if you stop working for a while then your online business will continue to earn money for you. Time works here in your favor.

How to earn money online while working full-time?

Online business has the advantage of allowing us to gradually build a company with relatively low financial investment. The most important thing is to understand that you need to start gradually, be systematic, and make use of knowledge, as without this knowledge, you will quickly fail on simple problems. If you are now employed then you are in an ideal position—you have a constant cash supply and you are able to devote a small percentage of your income to starting a business online.

It is very important to set a specific time windows which you will dedicate to your business. You can start this business after hours and spend, for example, 3 evenings a week on work related to your online business. You also have to treat your business as a business, not a hobby. If you decide to create an online business, remember that you are opening and owning a business. It doesn’t matter that you run an online business at the beginning without a formal company (often you can run an online business without a registered company, especially at the beginning), but you have to think about yourself in terms of business owner. Over time, you will start earning more passive income from your business and only then can you think about leaving your regular job.

Making money online is often a pretended business.

There is no such thing as magic money-making online business. Many people are fooled by promises of big online earnings with little work. The Internet is a great tool that enables modern business and gives us the opportunity to scale this business independently without the use of employees, without renting any premises and without big investments. However, there are no shortcuts. You have to work hard and you can’t avoid it.

Do not get involved in MLM and similar “online investment” schemes, as they are businesses that rely on collecting commissions from the people who join these programs. Instead, try to build a brand and provide value. By providing value, you will make people willing to pay you. I earn money online, but my income comes from selling real products—books, eBooks, and online courses. I create my brand and give values to others.

Once you decide how to earn online, only thing you have to do is to work hard. Every business requires a completely different approach and taking responsibility for your own decisions. Work hard and don’t give up. Check out my courses below: Product 24 and Online Business Course, and learn how to make money online.

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How to earn money online while working full-time? — preview the video transcript

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Hi![pause 0.[pause 0.1s] I’m Tomek.[pause 0.1s]From Waiter To Millionaire.[pause 0.1s]

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Today, I want to tell you how to start
an online business while being employed

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and does it even make sense.[pause 0.1s]

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Is it sensible?[pause 0.1s]Or maybe you should quit your day job?[pause 0.1s]

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How to do it?[pause 0.1s]

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Which way you can earn more –
on a day job or in your business?[pause 0.1s]

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Is it easy?[pause 0.1s]

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Today, I’ll present you this topic,
as I’ve run my online business

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for a long time and I’m earning
much more here than on a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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I’m also working
in a some kind of a day job,

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as I’m running the restaurant.[pause 0.1s]

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So, I want to help you
approach this topic.[pause 0.1s]

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In this video, you’ll learn
how much you can earn

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and how you can approach this topic.[pause 0.1s]

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To begin with, let me say that
many people work on a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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This is perfectly normal.[pause 0.1s]

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A lot of people work on a day job,
earn a salary,

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work in this way all their lives
and that’s how it always is.[pause 0.1s]

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Some of these people – let’s say
the more ambitious ones

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and those who want
something more from life –

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try doing something after hours.[pause 0.1s]

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Some of them want to change a job,
others think of starting a business.[pause 0.1s]

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The ambitious ones often
start a business and act.[pause 0.1s]

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And now, at the beginning,
before you start making steps

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towards starting an online business,
you should know what does it involve.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s because business is
radically different from a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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On a full-time job,
you go to work, earn a salary,

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while business demands
a completely different approach.[pause 0.1s]

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When it comes to my students,
whom I teach earning on Amazon,

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and also to people
employed at my restaurant,

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I see a very demanding approach in them.[pause 0.1s]

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The first question people who want to
start an online business ask is:

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“how much money will I earn
and when I’ll start earning them?[pause 0.1s]”

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It’s a very wrong approach,
as business is something long-term

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which you must be engaged with
all the time.[pause 0.1s]

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It requires a change of thinking.[pause 0.1s]

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When you’re starting with your business –
whether you’re opening a restaurant

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or publishing products online – you must
think long-term and systematically.[pause 0.1s]

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You can’t expect to start earning
huge amounts of money after a month.[pause 0.1s]

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Of course, you can earn first money
after a month – bigger or smaller sum.[pause 0.1s]

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But it’s not as in the case of a day job
that you go to work

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and expect to be paid after a month.[pause 0.1s]

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Even in a full-time job,
you can’t expect to get everything at once

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and only then
you’ll start making an effort.[pause 0.1s]

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When you go to a day job,
you must do your best

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and only then
you can expect to get a raise.[pause 0.1s]

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To start with, I want to present you
the difference between

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earning online and
in a full-time job or in business.[pause 0.1s]

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I’ll draw a simple chart.[pause 0.1s]

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Here we have the time
and the salary that you earn.[pause 0.1s]

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If you’re going to a full-time job,
you receive some salary,

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let’s say $1,000,
and then your earnings grow a little,

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grow, grow, grow
and let’s say that it’s your life

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or a few years.[pause 0.1s]

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In the case of online business –
or business in general –

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the beginning will be very difficult.[pause 0.1s]

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Here, of course, you work
all the time, 5 days a week,

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while in an online business
you also work 5 days a week,

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but you earn a little.[pause 0.1s]

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After half a year, a year you earn more
and then you earn much more.[pause 0.1s]

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I’ll draw a workload in a different color.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s the workload required here –
so, how much you have to work.[pause 0.1s]

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Here, the workload is like this,
but in time, by working the same,

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you’re able to earn more.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s why it’s so important
to be systematic and to learn

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in case of business.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s because if you
stop working on a day job,

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as you don’t want to
or you lose motivation,

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your earnings plummet right away.[pause 0.1s]

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In any kind of business,
you don’t stop earning

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when you stop working.[pause 0.1s]

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If you take 2 weeks off,
your earnings will be the same.[pause 0.1s]

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Most importantly, over time,
as your business will grow

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and you’ll have more products,
customers, mailing lists,

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Google will position you,
you’ll sell more and more,

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then you’ll reach something called
“snowball effect”.[pause 0.1s]

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This happened to my books on Amazon –
I did nothing for half a year,

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but my income continued to grow.[pause 0.1s]

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I’m selling 1,000 products per month.[pause 0.1s]

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At this point,
I don’t have to work at all,

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while my earnings are still growing.[pause 0.1s]

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This is a very good example of
the difference between

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online business and a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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On a full-time job, you have to work
all the time to earn money

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and you have the established rate.[pause 0.1s]

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In an online business,
you’re the entrepreneur

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and you must strive to learn and grow.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s the difference.[pause 0.1s]

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How to start such an online business?[pause 0.1s]

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You need to approach it like a business.[pause 0.1s]

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So, it’s not like
you’re going to a day job,

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you expect a paycheck
and you do what you’re told.[pause 0.1s]

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In your online business,
you must learn,

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you must make decisions,
you must set goals,

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you must act
and you must attack all the time.[pause 0.1s]

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If you publish your simple products
on Amazon books, e-books

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or you create online courses,
then you need to educate yourself,

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you need to go forward all the time
and you must be

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the person who runs this business.[pause 0.1s]

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You can’t expect anyone
to tell you what to do.[pause 0.1s]

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Yes, you can read books
and do courses

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which are necessary to gain knowledge
and you need to learn.[pause 0.1s]

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But if you don’t push it forward,
then it will be a flop.[pause 0.1s]

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The advantage is that while you’re
taking responsibility for yourself

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and being a decision maker,
you can earn much more than on a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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On a full-time job, once you
stop working, you stop earning,

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while here you can
automatize your business

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and your earnings will be much higher
than on a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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So, how to start?[pause 0.1s]First of all – treat business as business.[pause 0.1s]

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If you’re starting on Amazon,
publishing simple notebooks, books,

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then you must treat it as a business.[pause 0.1s]

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Of course, if you have a day job,
start doing it after hours.[pause 0.1s]

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Dedicate 3-4 evenings a week,
when you have time,

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let’s say, 3 hours 3 times a week
and start your business,

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but treat it as a business.[pause 0.1s]

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Don’t give up, be systematic,
try to be a better person,

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try doing better things,
better products

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and over time you’ll see
your income grow.[pause 0.1s]

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Don’t expect to earn a lot after a month,
but in half a year

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your earnings
can equal those on a day job.[pause 0.1s]

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When it happens,
don’t quit your full-time job.[pause 0.1s]

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Try to earn more
and develop your business.[pause 0.1s]

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You don’t have to quit your day job,
because you can treat an online business

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as a bonus which
doubles or triples your salary.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s alright,
because you may like your job.[pause 0.1s]

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But in time, if your income from
online business will be

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twice as high as your full-time job
salary, then you can quit job.[pause 0.1s]

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If you’re on a day job
and you hesitate to start a business,

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as you don’t know
if it’s difficult, etc.[pause 0.1s],

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you’re in a perfect position.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s because working on a day job,
having a salary,

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you have a steady income
and you’re getting paid every month.[pause 0.1s]

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And if you’re earning $1,000-2,000, you
can dedicate 10-20% from your paycheck –

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or you have some savings –
for starting your online business.[pause 0.1s]

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That’s because an online business
has the advantage in comparison to

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a stationary business that
it doesn’t require big investments.[pause 0.1s]

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Of course, you need to invest in
your first products,

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but if it’s a kind of business
which I prefer and teach,

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then the initial costs are very low.[pause 0.1s]

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These are the costs of releasing
first products and investing in knowledge,

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but it’s a small part of a salary.[pause 0.1s]

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So, being on a day job, you’re able to
develop this business after hours,

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invest a small part of your earnings
and multiply those earnings over time.[pause 0.1s]

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Then, it’s up to you
what direction will you choose.[pause 0.1s]

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I highly recommend you to try,
as an online business changed my life.[pause 0.1s]

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It’s given me much, much more income,
I still want to develop in this direction

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and I hope to inspire you to do the same.[pause 0.1s]

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If you’re interested in
an online business,

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I invite you to my free course
on how publishing books, e-books,

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simple notebooks on Amazon works.[pause 0.1s]

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I also present
other kinds of an online business.[pause 0.1s]

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If you’ve liked this video,
give a thumbs up, subscribe,

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watch my other videos and visit my blog
with articles and cool, free materials.[pause 0.1s]

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Thanks a lot and see you
in the next video.[pause 0.1s] Bye![pause 0.[pause 0.1s]

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How to get rid of insomnia—1 SIMPLE WAY

In this article, I want to share with you how to get rid of insomnia, I will show you a very effective way to deal with this nagging problem. I am describing this issue on my blog because I have been struggling with insomnia for a very long time, and it has had a very negative impact on my life. Insomnia and its consequences are a very unpleasant topic, and I don’t need to tell that to people who suffer from it.

This article will show you 1 simple way how to get rid of insomnia that will work in 100% cases where insomnia is caused by stress, fear, excess tasks to do, tension and fear of insomnia, which is probably most of the cases that meet us in the modern world. Read the entire article to overcome your insomnia, because it is very important to understand the problem itself through an in-depth and informed familiarisation of the subject.

A brief overview of my insomnia, or the causes of insomnia

My problem with insomnia started a few years ago when I began working as a restaurant manager and was already running my business on Amazon. The new job was very demanding and stressful for me. I had to overcome many new barriers and break my comfort zone in a very significant way. Difficult work and excess duties resulted in a high level of stress and exhaustion of the body. There were busy nights and late work. The lack of sleep resulted in even higher levels of stress and a lack of ability to focus on the work being done.

Over time, my attention was increasingly focused on the fact that “I need to get some sleep”, because my body always have poor performance without enough sleep. However, excessive focus on falling asleep caused even greater problems for me in this aspect. Very often I couldn’t fall asleep and I would wake up very early in the morning, thinking that I wouldn’t get enough sleep and wouldn’t be able to function properly the next day. The thought of facing a difficult day due to lack of sleep caused me to be unable to fall asleep and experience insomnia. This, of course, resulted in a lack of focus all day long and great tension. The problem was occurring more and more often, and I developed long-term insomnia, or rather anxiety about insomnia, which was causing the insomnia.

Hyperintention, or the fear of insomnia

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl in his brilliant book “Man’s Search for Meaning” describes the phenomenon of hyperintentions on the example of, among others, insomnia. The concept of hyperintention is defined as an excessive focus on the goal. What does this mean in practice? If you excessively try, for example, to fall asleep and constantly think that you only have 7 hours of sleep left and that you won’t be able to sleep well, that you will mess up the next day, the result of this is precisely the inability to fall asleep and shallow, nervous sleep. Hyperintentions cause us great stress, which prevents us from relaxing up and falling into the deep sleep that is necessary for us.

The concept of hyperintention and excessive concentration can be demonstrated in many different examples, and this mechanism manifests itself in various types of anxieties and phobias. A great example is the excessive focus during sex and the topic of achieving orgasm. If we overly focus during sex and think too much about what we need to do, we stop feeling pleasure and this can result in sexual issues, especially problems with achieving orgasm.

Anxiety is the main cause of sleep problems

The same applies in many other areas of life. If you want to talk to a girl, speak in public, have a job interview, etc. and you overly focus on what you have to do, the result of your actions may be lamentable. The stress and anxiety caused by hyperintentions deprives you of confidence and freedom of action. You start to feel the fear of failure, which results in stress and ineffective action. The nervousness caused by exaggerated concentration will make you feel and act uncertain in everyday situations.

Due to excessive focus on the task, you are overanalyzing the situation and stressing excessively, all of which is preventing you from successfully performing certain actions in a way that ensures your success. You know perfectly well that people who approach many things in a relaxed manner handle them much better. Unfortunately, fear of failure makes you perform the task poorly or even avoid it altogether. As you can see, the concept of hyperintention works not only in situations of sleeplessness, but in our entire lives.

Paradoxical intention, or simple treatment of insomnia without any medication

So, how to get rid of insomnia caused by anxiety and stress then? Viktor Frankl presented in his book a great way that we can apply in case of insomnia caused by anxiety. This worked 100% for me and that’s why I want to share this solution with you too.

The way is simple and can be applied immediately—it is a paradoxical intention, that is, a desire for what we are so afraid of. Imagine that you don’t need to sleep at all and you don’t have to go to bed early. Your attitude must be opposite to fear. By going to bed or waking up at night, don’t try to fall asleep. Remember that your body alone is able to adjust your sleep and if you need it, you’ll just fall asleep. If you don’t feel like sleeping yet, don’t go to bed. Six hours of good sleep is better than ten hours of sleep in stress and fear of not getting enough rest. Focus on not wanting to fall asleep and just try not to fall asleep while lying in bed. This is the first and most important part of solving the problem of insomnia caused by anxiety and stress.

How to get rid of insomnia? Understanding the problem is the best treatment

The second part of solving insomnia is to understand the whole mechanism of hyperintentions and paradoxical intentions. Understanding how our body works is another very important factor, because we comprehend our problem and are aware of the causes of our disorders. A simple explanation of the phenomenon followed by the application of the mechanism of paradoxical intention will make you feel a huge relief by understanding the cause of the problem.

This way, we can step out of ourselves a bit and see the problem from a different perspective—it’s a great way to treat insomnia and many other ailments and medications. Looking at ourselves from the side is a wonderful skill and it helps us to control our emotions and fears in various situations that we encounter every day, and insomnia is a great example that helps to understand this mechanism and apply it in many aspects of our lives. Understanding our minds and learning has also helped me to overcome my depression.

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Original post: How to get rid of insomnia

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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In this video, I want to present you
a very simple way to overcome insomnia.

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I had been struggling with it
for several years and had a big problem,

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as my life
suffered a lot because of it.

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I want to show you a very simple way
that worked for me

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and which is able to improve
the quality of sleep in 100% of cases.

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I’m talking about insomnia which
is caused by the anxiety of insomnia,

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a stress and the excess of tasks.

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When it comes to our personal
or work life, we often get stressed

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and we can’t sleep, we’re afraid
that we won’t get enough sleep,

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we feel stress, tension
and this causes insomnia.

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In this video, I’ll show you
a very simple way to overcome insomnia

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caused by such things.

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It’s very important for you
to watch this video in its entirety,

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because – apart from
this very simple way –

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it’s also very important
to understand the problem and explain it,

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as it will also help you
overcome insomnia.

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So, let’s get to the point.
I’ll tell you briefly about my insomnia.

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I was having a problem with it
for several years,

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when I became a restaurant manager and
started running my business on Amazon.

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The excess of responsibilities, stress,
overwork, tension –

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it made me unable to sleep.

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I worked late, pulling all-nighters,
but I had no problems with sleep at first.

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However, later on, I began to be stressed
that the next day is very demanding,

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I was waking up early
and then I started having anxiety

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that I won’t get enough sleep
and that I’ll fail at work

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because of being sleep-deprived.

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And we all know that we function badly
while not having enough sleep.

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So, the fear of it
caused the lack of sleep, tension

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when I lay laid down or I often had
such a problem that I woke up

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at 3 a.m.
and I couldn’t sleep till morning.

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I was mentally exhausted,
sleep-deprived

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and I couldn’t do anything
for the entire day.

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And every evening, I stressed
that I won’t sleep another night

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and it resulted in sleep deprivation,
waking up at night,

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waking up before morning and nerves.

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Of course, my efficiency during the day
was very low and I couldn’t sleep.

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And I’ve been struggling with
insomnia for years.

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I managed to solve it in a very simple way
that I want to show you.

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I read a great book recently,
“Man’s Search for Meaning”,

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by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl.

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In this book, the author describes
his experiences from

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4 concentration camps,
in which he went through difficult times.

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This psychiatrist,
Viktor Frankl,

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describes the workings of
the human psyche.

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He also describes
the mechanism of hyper-intention,

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that is, a mechanism in our head
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an exaggerated concentration
on achieving some goal.

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I’ll explain it to you
on the example of insomnia,

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but it can be applied to
many other problems in our lives.

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The mechanism of hyper-intention
involves an exaggerated focus

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on achieving some goal.

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If you overfocus on the fact
that you have to sleep well,

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because you have
a hard day ahead of you –

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usually, you have a hard day every day,
as life demands a lot of activities –

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and if you overfocus on
getting enough sleep,

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on the fact that you have
little time left till the morning,

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that if you don’t get enough sleep,
you’ll function badly the next day,

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then the mechanism of hyper-intention
won’t let you relax.

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This mechanism works in
many different aspects of life.

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Viktor Frankl in his book
“Man’s Search for Meaning”

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compares this mechanism
to many other things,

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like achieving an orgasm,
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if you overfocus on achieving an orgasm
or you focus too much on yourself

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and you think too much what to do.

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It can also be applied to the situation
in which you go for a job interview

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and you think intensely
that you must perform well.

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Or when you approach a boy or a girl
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When the mechanism of hyper-intention
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that you must perform well,
then anxiety appears,

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so you can’t relax
and use your abilities.

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In the case of insomnia,
the mechanism of hyper-intention

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causes a great anxiety.

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Anxiety is a problem in this situation,
as the anxiety that is triggered in you,

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doesn’t allow you to relax and sleep.

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At this point, it doesn’t matter
if you spend 5 or 10 hours in bed –

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you still won’t get enough sleep.

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But if you get rid of this anxiety,
then you just need 6 hours of good sleep.

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Now, why is it that some people
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don’t stress and they perform well,
while people who get emotional

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in case of anxiety,
whether it’s insomnia or not,

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can’t focus and do some task?

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That’s the mechanism of hyper-intention –
overfocusing on a goal.

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It’s very important to
understand this mechanism,

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before we move on to a method
that will help you fight insomnia.

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If you focus too much
on the fact that you must sleep

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and it causes you to stress,
to feel anxiety of insomnia and tension,

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then your body can’t relax,
you can’t sleep and you get tired.

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Every day is lost, as you
don’t get enough sleep

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and it rolls like a snowball – causing
fatigue and a stress the next night.

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And that’s how it goes.

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Now, how to overcome overfocusing
and anxiety of insomnia,

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basing on this mechanism?

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Viktor Frankl
in his book proposes

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a very simple method
called paradoxical intention.

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How does this method work?

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In the case of fear of insomnia
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where you have to deal with
fears, phobias, compulsions, etc.,

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you can apply this mechanism
to many different aspects of life –

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this method relies on
paradoxical intention.

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That is, you try to do something
opposite to your fear, phobia, etc.

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So, if you have a problem with insomnia,
you can’t get enough sleep,

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and you’re stressed by it,
then you should take the opposite steps –

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you should try not to sleep.

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It may seem ridiculous,
but if you try not to sleep,

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your intention is not sleeping,
you try to force yourself not to sleep,

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then guess what – you sleep like a log.

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It’s a method that I tested
and it works brilliantly.

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I’ve been struggling with sleep
for 2 years,

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having anxiety of insomnia,
stress and waking up at night.

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When I applied this method,
I just try not to sleep,

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telling myself that
I don’t want to sleep,

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that I don’t need it and direct
my thoughts and attention

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to the fact that I don’t need to sleep
and it’d be OK to be sleep-deprived.

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At this point,
using this method for some time,

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I sleep like a baby every night.

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I’m not bothered by many factors
that caused me to wake up.

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I sleep well, I wake up well-rested
and I have a lust for life.

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It’s hard for me to believe that
such a simple method works so fine.

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To sum up – try to stay awake,
use paradoxical intention

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and focus your attention
on what you’re afraid of.

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That is, if you’re afraid of
not getting enough sleep,

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try to stay awake.

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If you’re stressed by
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think “OK, I’m stressed by it,
that’s no problem”.

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In this way,
you release tension

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and your body knows
how much sleep it needs.

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If you relax by applying this method,
then your organism will regulate sleep

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and you’ll sleep very well.

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Even if you wake up before morning
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that is, thinking that
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you’ll sleep well
and you’ll have a deep sleep.

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It’ll cause you to rest in a great way.

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You can start using this method today
and it’ll work from the first day.

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It doesn’t require drugs,
as I also tried

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various sleeping pills,
herbal medicines, etc. –

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it doesn’t help
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Using this method is a first part,
but the second very important method is

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understanding this problem,
that is, to watch this entire video.

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You must know
how your brain works,

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that insomnia is caused by the fear of
not getting enough sleep,

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that hyper-intention is about
overfocusing on a problem,

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which causes tension
and inability to act.

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You should also use
paradoxical intention, that is,

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try to set yourself up for the opposite
and try not to sleep.

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So, you should understand your psyche
and theory about it,

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gaining knowledge
from different sources.

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You should also be able to
see yourself from the outside

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and in this way use this method,
as it’ll work well.

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If you understand this problem
subconsciously, it’ll be solved.

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It applies to many things in your life –
understanding psyche and problem

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allows you to free from it
and you start to see clearly.

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If you’re able to look at yourself
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you’re able to release from
your emotions and solve problems.

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Looking at yourself from the outside
is a great ability in life and business,

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as you’re able to approach
many issues in a relaxed manner.

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So, use the mechanism
of paradoxical intention,

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try to consciously direct your thinking
that you don’t need to sleep.

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It’ll cause great relaxation in your mind
and you’ll sleep well.

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In addition,
try to understand a problem,

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because the understanding of a problem
will be a solution for it.

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Be welcome to read the article
linked below this video.

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This article is about
the problem of insomnia.

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Read it, apply the method,
try to understand this problem

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and I’m certain
that it’ll help you greatly.

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In my case, it works brilliantly
and I’m very happy

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that I’m a different person
after using this method.

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If you’ve liked this material,
check out my other videos.

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Do your friends hold you back from growing?

Do you feel like your friends and surroundings might be hindering your progress? I don’t know if you realize but we all want to gain acceptance from our surroundings. The lack of acceptance is unpleasant, and the need for acceptance by our surroundings is inherent in our nature, because without the help of our surroundings we could never survive. Nowadays functioning without the help of others is very difficult in every aspect of life.

This is why you subconsciously try to be like your environment because you want to be accepted this environment. You want to be able to get help from others and you feel good when in the group. Everything is fine until you want to change something in your life, because it will almost always mean moving away from your group and often you’ll have to face the reluctance of this environment.

You become like the people you associate with

Imagine that you’re surrounded by folks who love to party, knock back a few drinks, and smoke cigarettes. Maybe some of these people don’t have a job and complain about the world around them. They do not leave their city and spend most of their lives there. Maybe it’s a slightly overexaggerated example, but let’s just say it’s your environment. It doesn’t matter if it’s the closest family, friends, or maybe both. What kind of person do you think you’ll be in this environment for a long time? If you stay in this group, you will take over a lot of the features of such an environment over time and you will certainly do what people in this group do. Even if it doesn’t suit you. Unfortunately, this is how our world works.

Let’s switch gears for a moment and imagine that you’re surrounded by people who regularly take care of their physical condition, work hard and smart, learn new things, earn a good living, read books, and have insightful discussions about various possibilities. They often hit the road together and enjoy discovering new places. What will your life look like if your surroundings are just like this? Like before, you will take over most of the features of your environment—after all, you want to stay in the group and feel good, have contacts, relationships, etc.

The principle of operation is the same

You take over the characteristics of your environment. It doesn’t matter whether they’re positive or negative. This is how the world works and everyone wants to be accepted and adapts to their surroundings.

Why do you speak the language you speak? Because everyone around you speaks that language. But why more and more people in Poland also speak English? Because English is increasingly surrounding us in our country. Why did Poland ever have a socialist system, the shelves in shops were empty and the older generation was taught Russian in school? Because we were influenced by an environment from the East, which affected us so much. The more daring ones ventured abroad, where they were exposed to the influence of a richer and more liberal environment. And so, they became richer and more liberal themselves.

Who are you surrounding yourself with?

Think about it. Your immediate family, your friends, your associates, or even your life partner. Every day, they define so much what you become. Your friends invite you for a beer, and you go with them. Then you have a hangover all day long and you don’t feel like doing anything. Did you know that someone else during this time might have published two books on Amazon or worked a fourteen-hour shift as a waiter, put aside a few hundred zlotys for their first business, and learned a few new sentences in English? So, what’s been going on in your life during this time?

A nice example I heard listening to an English-language podcast about US Marines. These are very disciplined soldiers who are always in great shape. The beds are made immaculately. However, when they finish their service, their shape and standards often drop dramatically. They lose their shape, their willingness to live and often become even unemployed. Why is it that one moment these soldiers are at the peak of discipline, and then so many of them drastically let their standards slip? You probably already know the answer.

The environment during their service demands them to be the best possible version of themselves. They can’t let it slide, because then they’ll be cut off from the group. Each of them adjusts to the rest, which requires a daily battle with oneself and being a better person. As they gradually change their environment to one that is clearly less demanding, they lose their motivation and take on the characteristics of their new environment.

How was it in my case?

During my studies, I had a group of friends who were cool people. However, the only way they spent their free time was by drinking alcohol. What do you think, how did it affect me? I didn’t want to be a loner, and I did what they did, too. The worst part was that I even liked it—after all, if others live like that, what’s wrong with it?

In my surroundings, I also interacted with many people who smoked cigarettes. My family, friends at school, then my first long-term partner. How did it affect me? Of course, for many years I smoked, and even when I tried to quit smoking, it never worked out because there were always cigarettes around me, and I returned to the habit. It was only by cutting off what didn’t suit me, leaving behind friends and people who had a negative impact on me, that I was able to rediscover the joy of life and develop healthy habits.

I now successfully work as a manager, build my own business, and have released hundreds of products on Amazon. How did I do that? I’ve changed my place of residence, I work with people from all over the world, I read biographies of famous individuals (in a way, I surround myself with them), I watch movies of those better than me (God, thank you for YouTube), I buy and participate in online courses related to business and Amazon, I seek new acquaintances, and so on. I’ve changed my environment, and my life has turned 180 degrees — that’s what this blog is all about.

How to change your environment?

If your environment is pulling you down (if that’s the case, you’re probably aware of it already), then you’re in for a challenge. How to start? Gradually, start surrounding yourself with people better than you.

You don’t have to give up your whole life right away. Read books, meet new people, take courses (the Amazon course changed my life years ago), try new things, take risks, and try something new. Get inspired every day with affirmations, watch my videos and take action.

Books + internet

In these times, we are fortunate that knowledge is at our fingertips. We can have a business teacher from the other end of the country or the world. I learned business on Amazon from someone on the other side of the world through a course worth only a few hundred dollars. All I had to do was want and act. I recently invested in a year-long business course for $300, and for the next year, I will be surrounded by ambitious people and gaining valuable business knowledge. This is how you change your surroundings. Today, it is easier than ever, so I encourage you to take action. Good luck!

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Do your friends hold you back from growing? — watch the video

Do your friends hold you back from growing? — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I want to tell you
about a very important topic for me

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and for everyone of you,
even though you may not realize that.

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Your surroundings, friends,
the closest people in your life –

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whether these are co-workers, people in
school, at work, family, colleagues –

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they all have a huge impact on you.

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Now, like in this video’s title –
do they block you from self-development?

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I want to answer this question
within the next few minutes.

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For example, let’s say that
your loved ones, your family and friends

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are the people who like to party,
often go out for beer,

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drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes,
complain about the world,

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maybe many of them don’t work,
they don’t leave their circle

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and they don’t travel anywhere –
that’s what your surroundings look like.

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How do you react to it – you try to be
above them or you just conform?

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I think that if you live in
such surroundings for years,

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then you’ll start to become
the same person as they are,

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whether you want it or not, because
you’ll try to automatically adjust.

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It may not suit you,
you may suffer,

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but as long as you don’t get out of
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you’ll become such a person.

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Imagine that your friends are people who
play sport, avoid alcohol,

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don’t smoke cigarettes,
like to travel, to discuss wise topics,

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maybe they do business,
read books –

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so, positive things
that you’d love to be doing.

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And now imagine that these are
the people in your surroundings –

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what kind of person you’ll become?

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Think about it – will you go to
parties by yourself?

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Will you complain about
the world by yourself?

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No. You’ll automatically
adjust to such people.

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It’ll have a very big impact on your life
and these people will pull you upward.

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Sorry, becuse it’s windy
and I hope you hear me well.

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And now, I presented these two examples
to make your realize that

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it doesn’t matter whether you’re in
the positive or negative environment –

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you’ll always derive from
this environment and adjust to it.

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That’s very important, because
you may have good intentions,

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but if you remain in your negative
environment, it’ll always drag you down.

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Even if you want to move forward
and you have an idea for life,

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your surroundings will drag you down.

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That’s because if you tell
your negative surroundings

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that you want to open a business,
educate, go to college, anything positive,

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what will you hear?

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They’ll respond negatively
to the fact that you want to develop,

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be a better person and
they’ll drag you down.

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On the other hand,
if you have nice people around you,

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everything will go your way,
as they’ll pull you upward.

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I have a whole list of things
I want to tell you about,

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so that I won’t forget anything.

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Why do you speak Polish?

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Because everyone around you
speak Polish, when you live in Poland.

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Whether you want it or not,
everyone will be speaking Polish

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and you’ll also learn this language.

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That’s another example that
your environment influences you a lot

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and you can’t do anything about it.

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In Poland, more and more
people speak English

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and there’s a lot of stuff
written and spoken in English.

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So, most people start speaking English.

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Why? Because we’re surrounded by
these things

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and sometimes we need to know
this language to do something.

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So, we’re adjusting
to these circumstances.

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Just like it was in Poland in the past –
why people learned Russian in school?

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Because we were influenced by the East
and we adjusted to it.

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Now, the world has changed.

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People used to leave back then
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richer ones, to have more in life.

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That’s why you should surround
yourself with people better than you

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and why bad environment drags you down.

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I’ve been listening to
a cool podcast about US soldiers.

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When they’re in the military,
they’re at their best,

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they’re very disciplined and very focused
on being the best version of themselves.

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Their beds are made perfectly
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the most disciplined people in the world,
when they’re in the military.

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But it’s often the case that
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they literally just descend.

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That’s because
they don’t have a discipline,

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their physical condition is weakening
and they often start drinking.

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Why? Because their military environment
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a great and strong person,
train, etc.

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Once they left,
they fell into bad surroundings,

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they had no motivation or purpose
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That’s another example how important is
the environment you’re in.

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When I was young,
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I had a bunch of friends
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My friends were cool,
but their main way of spending time

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was drinking alcohol,
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leaving classes
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And guess what kind of person I was?

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Yes, I was the same person as them.

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I used to go out for drinking
alcohol, I was wasting my time,

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I didn’t know what to do with my life
and I even enjoyed it.

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Why? Because I was
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and I didn’t know
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I wanted to adjust and not be rejected.

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Leaving a harmful group of people
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as no one wants to be rejected.

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That’s because rejection from the group
simply meant death for us back then.

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Nowadays, we also need to have
other people in our lives,

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but it’s a little different.

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We have this deeply ingrained thought
that we have to remain in this group.

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It takes a lot of effort from us to
change our environment

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and disattach from the group.

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So, how to change your environment
for the one which lift you upward?

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Luckily, nowadays you have the internet,
books, e-books, YouTube and –

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no matter what situation you’re in –
you can start reading books

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written by successful people
and cool biographies.

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I started my so-called
self-development from reading books

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by Arnold Schwarzenegger – great book –
Richard Branson, and many others.

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It’s not about getting excited with
some biographies,

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thinking that
you have to be a billionaire.

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The point is to surround yourself with
better people and to be motivated.

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When you read books, you slowly
become motivated to be a better person

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and you start thinking that you can.

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You slowly start leaving
your old environment

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and try being better than it.

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When I was starting my journey,
except for reading books,

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I invested in courses,
learned about business and Amazon.

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Over time, my friends consigned to history
and I was meeting new people.

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Now, I invested in a rather expensive
course that costed me $300,

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which brings together business people
who can meet, so I gain knowledge

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and surround myself with
new people in this way.

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Nowadays, we have the internet
and we can connect with people

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from all over the world –
I encourage you to do the same.

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If you don’t have people
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with whom
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you can find them online.

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You can learn, meet people,
watch movies, read books –

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that’s your starting point.

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Over time, your life will start to change.

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So, I encourage you to act,
meet new people,

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change your environment,
reject what you don’t want

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and add the things you want
in order to change your life.

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Once you start changing
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you’ll see that within a few years
your life will also be changing.

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I’m the best example of it,
as that’s what happened in my life.

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So, I wanted here to inspire you
to change your surroundings.

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Be welcome to check my other videos
about enhancing one’s life.

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give a thumbs up and subscribe.

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I greet you from
a cool Kraków in October.

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It’s very beautiful here.

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I hope you heard me clearly,
despite of the wind.

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See you next time. Bye!

Think big—Hollywood movies and motivation to act

Think big—it’s an obvious statement, but what does this have to do with a big-shark summer blockbuster? I’ll explain to you in a moment and tell you why a visit to the cinema for an unambitious (but good) movie showed me what it means to think big.

Think big—$150 million

That was the budget of the movie titled The Meg, about a big scary shark, which I just had the opportunity to watch—crazy, right? The same was the cost of marketing and advertising this product/film. This simple and unambitious film is a digital product released on a large scale, the global scale. Think about this for a moment and consider the fact that someone invested some $300 million to create such an entertainment product. The same type of product is a book on Amazon or an online course. In this case, the business model works the same—someone pays a certain amount and gets access to the product.

How to earn millions? Think big

You have to invest a lot of money and have a lot of knowledge and experience. How do you do things like that? You have to start somehow and leverage your knowledge. Huge film studios also somehow used to start with small projects and cheap films. You too can start by publishing small things. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small product on the Internet or maybe some other small business.

First of all, you need to create products and business on the largest possible scale. These days we have the Internet and can release products on a national and even global scale. You can’t limit yourself and open a small store in your neighborhood—think globally. Maybe a small trivial product on Amazon or an online store is a better idea than a big store in a small town? Remember also, that it’s hard to make big money without any investment. A cinema movie that earns several hundred million dollars must also have cost at least tens of millions.

Start with small projects and investments. If you can invest, for example, $500 and earn 1000 in a few months, you are on the right track. Repeat and refine the process. Try to sell all around the world and think big. Someday you may be able to invest 500K and make a million, but you won’t do it if you don’t start with small products and small investments.

Fear of investing

Many of us are afraid to invest money in their first products, in their first business or in knowledge. I would even say that we are panicky about investing our hard-earned money. It’s a fairly common phenomenon, and I didn’t want to spend my savings on anything. I didn’t have much problem buying material things and spending on, for example, vacations. While, investing money in something that requires work and doesn’t promise a profit was very difficult for me. I can see that this is very difficult for many readers of my blog. Why?

If you buy, for example, a tangible thing, you spend a certain amount and have a certain value—zero risk. While investing in products, knowledge, or a company, there is no certainty about the future return on investment. After all, you can work for nothing and additionally lose money. This sounds scary, and what scares us most is that we are the ones taking responsibility for the results of our actions and investments. It’s only up to you whether, after investing even in a small online business (say, $1,500), you lose that money, or you earn $5,000 and gain a lot of new knowledge in the process.

Responsibility is the key to success

If you want to get something then you have to take full responsibility for it and take the risk. That’s the end of the story. Want more than a measly paycheck? You have to learn, act, invest and not be afraid to lose. Fear of failure stops you from acting and I see it in many people (in myself as well).

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Think big—Hollywood movies and motivation to act — watch the video

Think big—Hollywood movies and motivation to act — preview the video transcript

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Hi! Today I’ll tell you about
Hollywood movies,

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thinking big, how to
get motivated and be inspired

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on the example of
summer blockbusters from Hollywood.

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I recently went to the cinema
for a movie about a big shark.

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A huge shark kills people,
chases ships – total mayhem.

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A really great entertainment,
but a silly, trivial movie.

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I highly recommend it after all.

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The film costed $150 million –
that was its budget.

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The same amount was spent on marketing
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which sums up to nearly 1 billion PLN
for a movie about a shark.

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It may seem like a very stupid move
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into a movie about
a shark that kills people.

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But this film,
which premiered a few weeks ago,

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has already earned
several dozen or several hundred dollars

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and will earn even more in time.

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And now, on the basis of this movie
and an investment of some film studio,

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which spent $300 million on a movie,
on a digital product, on a global scale,

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I want to inspire and motivate you to act.

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Very often, you’re afraid to invest
some money, like $500, $1,000 or $5,000,

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for your first business
or first products.

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Whether it’s the online business,
which I talk about on this blog,

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or any other business.

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That’s because if you spend
your hard-earned money on the tangibles,

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like a bike, a car, a trip, etc.,
then you receive something certain

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for a specific amount of money.

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But if you create
your business –

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no matter whether it’s a product for $100
or some more expensive business –

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then you also spend
your hard-earned money

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and you need to work hard.

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However, here the risk is that
not only can you lose money,

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but also the time and energy
for creating it.

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You need to take responsibility for that,
as it’s up to you

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what effect you’ll achieve.

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I want to inspire you
in terms of any business.

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It doesn’t matter whether it’ll be a movie
for $300 million or a $300 book.

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By the way, I teach about
selling books on my blog.

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But here I want to inspire
and encourage you to think big.

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If you make a big film on a global
scale, that’s great,

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as it’s the only way for such
an expenditure of $300 million to pay off.

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But using the same principles,
you can release your first book,

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a course, some simple products
on Amazon or doing any kind of businesses.

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You can publish various products
on a local or global scale

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by using different portals.

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You can publish digital products
on a global scale in the same way

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as a movie in the cinema,
which is also a digital product.

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I want to motivate and encourage you
by the fact that it’s possible nowadays.

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You don’t need to think on a small scale,
on the scale of your neighborhood or city.

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You don’t have to open a store
for local clients.

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You can create something
very small and simple,

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but publish it on a global scale.

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It can be a trivial, simple product
which will take you a week to create.

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A product on which you won’t make
much money on a single sale,

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but you can sell it on a global scale
or in the developed countries.

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Thanks to it, you’re able to
create business on a large scale.

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As for large-scale business,
some time ago

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I recorded a video about
“The Millionaire Fastlane”.

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It’s one of the greatest books
on an online and regular business.

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It teaches that it’s worth creating
a large-scale business.

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That is,
you create products or any services.

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And yes, it’s difficult,
it requires investing,

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but you can reach clients
in your country or in the world.

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In this way, you’re able to scale it
and your business can be profitable,

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because you earn money
from a very large area.

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That’s what I want to encourage you to.

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On the example of a silly, trivial
Hollywood blockbuster about a shark,

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which earns
a lot of money on a global scale.

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I want to encourage you to invest
some money in your first business.

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You’re able to double, triple or multiply
your investment many times over.

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Remember that you need to
take responsibility,

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you need to invest some money
to have first earnings from your business.

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Also remember that you can
scale the business over time,

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you can earn from a bigger and bigger area
as your business grows –

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that’s how every business works.

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Online business can grow much quicker –
not in 10 years, but in 1 year.

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You can nicely
start your business from home.

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You don’t have to travel all over
the world to sell on a global scale.

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I encourage you to it and I wanted to
motivate you by this video

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on the example of
my trip to the cinema.

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If you’ve enjoyed this video, I want to
invite you to my Amazon course below.

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I teach how to release simple products –
books, e-books – worldwide

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and I show how to do
other kinds of online businesses.

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The links are below.

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I you’re interested in the topics of
self-development,

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overcoming your weaknesses,
online or regular business, etc.,

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then subscribe, give a thumbs up
and watch my other videos.

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Thanks a lot and
see you in the next video. Bye!

How to change your life? 11 AWESOME RULES

How to turn your life around 180 degrees?

How to change your life? Learn these 11 rules to change your life.

My story in a big nutshell

I live in a wonderful Cracow, I have a beautiful fiancée and soon we move into our dream apartment with a view of Cracow. I sell about 1000 books a month on Amazon, I work successfully as a manager and I run my blog, which is my great passion and it brings me a nice extra income.

I am healthy and everything is as it should be—this is what my life looks like and after a long time of reflection it sounds quite cool. Maybe your you it’s a big success, or maybe it’s just something normal. You’re the only one who knows the answer, but for me it’s a big deal. Why? Because my life used to be completely different, and to get all this, I had to change myself completely. In this article, I will show you how I changed my life and how you can change your life for the better.

How did the past look?

I’ve always been a very closed person. In high school, I practically had no friends and I wasn’t particularly liked. I was very ill—I underwent 6 serious and painful sinus surgeries and spent many months in hospital for this reason. I avoided going to school as much as I could. My escape was computer games and loneliness. After high school and college it wasn’t much better. I couldn’t overcome my fear and usually locked myself in my comfort zone and I always missed opportunities to get anything that would give me luck.

I come from Oswiecim (a small infamous town near Cracow). Most of my family works in nearby car factories. I got my first job when I was 19 at a car parts factory in Tychy. I ran away from there very quickly and did not imagine living or working in such a place for a long time. I’ve tried my strength over the years in many different places. These were mainly factories and driver jobs. Unfortunately, for a long time I did not realize that I could do more, do something completely different than people around me.

The bottom and first motivation for change

The lack of faith in my own strengths and the lack of faith that I can do more than people in my surroundings over time have caused me serious problems. My then video recording and editing company collapsed, my long-standing relationship broke down, and I tried my strength unsuccessfully in random workplaces. Of course, I gave up everywhere because these were not places for me. Unfortunately, then I did not know that you should go your own life path instead of being like a flag in the wind. I was floating adrift without a goal and that’s how I couldn’t get anywhere.

It was only my final mental breakdown that made me think and I realized it was very bad. I was in a great depression and I enrolled in a psychologist. Then, I accidentally came across an audiobook for the book titled The Instant Millionaire and I was enlightened. It was the first personal development book in my life that began a great transformation in my head. I realized I could do a lot more than my surroundings let me. I made my decision to leave to Cracow and plan my targets.

How to change your life for the better? My path

The beginnings in the Cracow were harsh. Apart from the move, I had no specific plan. I worked very hard at the beginning in a second-hand clothing sorting plant and I rented a small bachelor pad. Over time, I was fired (I was told I wasn’t a good fit) and immediately afterwards I got a job as a scooter driver at a restaurant in downtown Cracow. I realized then that I do not have to work in dirty factory facilities at all, but I can even be an ordinary driver and work in a colorful and lively place. It was an important lesson for me, and I couldn’t have this job in a small town.

So, every day I worked in downtown Cracow and met people from all over the world. Over time, I became a waiter at this restaurant and spent a very cool three years working in the food industry. In a colorful place and in an environment completely different from what I thought I was destined to. Meanwhile, I continued to see my shrink (it lasted over a year) and fight depression and my demons. However, I did not feel any improvement and I came to the conclusion that I had to gain knowledge of my problems by myself and I had to work to improve my own life for the better also by myself—I understood that no one would do that for me.

At the same time I read a lot of personal development books, biographies of well-known people and business books. After all, it led me to the topic of online and Amazon business. My passion for books and personal development has shifted to the creation of e-books and paper books with online tools. Using my skills, I developed online business and increasingly knew it was something for me. Constant learning and development gave me great happiness, and the creation of my products gave me great pride and increasing earnings.

With time, I even was promoted to the manager of that restaurant where I had worked as a driver and waiter. Who would’ve think it could happen. I worked very well as a manager, although it was not easy. This work required overcoming my comfort zone every day, because it isn’t easy to manage a company and a dozen people’s team. At work, I met my current fiancée and my life today is completely different from what I see if I look a few years back. Over time, I quit my managerial job as my online business developed enough and as I put aside a solid financial cushion.

I want to show you with this short story that no matter how bad you’re now, you can always make a difference. You won’t change your whole life in a few days, but if you change your mind, expand your comfort zone and act systematically, you’ll be a totally different person in a few years.

How to change your life? 11 rules

Change your thoughts

Start by gradually changing your thinking. How to do it? Read books by authors who achieved a lot in their lives. Inspire yourself to be even better—so over time your thinking will change and you will believe that you can change your life. See the post, where I show the best books that have changed my life.

Believe in yourself

If you surround yourself with positive things, read books, use affirmations, practice morning habits every day, you can change your thinking and believe in yourself. If so many people can move forward, so can you. Remember, without self-belief, you won’t achieve anything.

Cross your comfort zone every day

I always talk about this—if you want to have something you don’t have, you have to do something you haven’t done yet. There is no shortcut and remember that over time you may even feel comfortable feeling discomfort. This is the only way. Do what scares you.

Act.

Just just. Maybe you don’t know much yet, maybe you lack confidence and money. You may not believe in yourself enough, but just act. Stop putting all this stuff away for later, do what you can here and now. For most things, your action will suffice and you will learn everything over time. You can do it.

Make mistakes

Fear of failure is one of the most blocking things. If you can fight this fear, you have a good future ahead of you. Remember that everyone is scared—the question is will you give up and let it go? It’s your life and fight for it!

Learn and watch

No matter who you are now—maybe you already have a lot, or maybe you don’t have anything yet. But if you don’t learn new things, you stop developing. Learning things and development are the only way to get happiness and gain what we want from life.

Work damn hard

Unfortunately, you may not like it, but you have to work very hard if you want something. There is no shortcut, and to have something, you need to work hard. Often for years and for your entire life. Get ready for everyday hard work, but remember—if you do something you at least like, then work is very often a pleasure.

Cut your ties with wrong people

If you want to get out of the current life situation, you have to leave some people behind. Sometimes our surroundings drag us down. You have to leave what limits you behind. You have to have the courage to change your place of residence, work, friends and allow yourself to change your life 180 degrees.

Prepare for many difficulties

Do you think I will be easy? You’re definitely wrong. It will be hard, and changing your life is bloody difficult. However, this is the only way to what you really want. This process is a daily struggle with your own weaknesses and limitations.

Be a systematic person

You don’t have to do everything in one day because it’s impossible. Act systematically and take even one small step forward every day. After a year you will come out to lead and beat all those who do nothing. No one will be able to catch you up.

Don’t give up, NEVER!

You will certainly suffer many failures on different levels of your life and that is for sure. Remember that every failure brings you closer to the success and to your goals. Those who don’t fail at all are always those who do nothing.

Good luck!

How to change your life? 11 RULES — watch the video

How to change your life? 11 RULES — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Today I’ll tell you
how to change your life.

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How to be in a completely different place
than you’re right now in a few years.

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I have a good life – it would seem
and that’s probably the case.

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I have a wonderful fiancée.

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We’ll be moving soon to a new apartment
with a view of Kraków.

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I sell around one thousand
books and e-books on Amazon.

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I successfully work
as a restaurant manager.

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I direct a team of a dozen or so people.

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I’m also blogging,
which is my passion.

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I’m selling my products on this blog,
which is another source of income.

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I’m doing great financially,
I’m resourceful and I’m healthy.

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So, everything’s alright.

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But is it a success?

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For one person,
it may be a great success,

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for the other
it can be something obvious.

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Because what’s the big deal
with a good job,

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additional income,
fiancée, apartment?

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That’s a standard.

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But for me it’s a huge success
and let me tell you why.

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Let’s start with
describing my background.

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When I was a teenager in high school,
I was in a very bad situation.

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I had almost no friends,
no one liked me,

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I didn’t like them either,
but I also didn’t like myself.

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I was in a bad situation.

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I had 5 or 6 very painful operations.

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I was hospitalized for many months and
didn’t show up at school very often.

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I hated school and
I spent my free time in my world,

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playing computer games –
it was my entire world.

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I hate this time
as it was a terrible period.

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But then it wasn’t better.

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I was a very insecure person.

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I was very unsuccessful in life,
as I was very afraid.

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I was afraid what others think
and to step out of my comfort zone.

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The fear was winning with me.

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I was afraid of doing anything to change
my life, as the fear paralyzed me.

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After high school, I went to college
and I was also a failure there.

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I was still overwhelmed by this fear
and I didn’t do anything.

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Fear blocked me and it led to the fact
that even though I finished college,

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I was still failing in many aspects.

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I started my first job
at a car parts factory in Tychy.

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By the way, I come from Oświęcim.

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It’s near Kraków
and it’s a very infamous city.

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A large part of my family works in
automotive industry,

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in Silesian factories.

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When I was 19,
I started my first job in a factory

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that produced metal parts for cars
and I felt terrible there.

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I felt that I didn’t fit in there.

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I gave up on this job very quickly
and I worked in many places from then on.

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I failed in many of these places.

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I was always giving up sooner or later
and I was very miserable.

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I was embarrased
that I fail over and over again.

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Everything I’ve been doing
always ended up as a great failure.

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I even had a company dealing with
video recording, editing,

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but I also let that go pretty quickly.

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Why is that?

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Because I was afraid to change anything.

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The environment I lived in –
a small town, friends, family –

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showed me a view of the world that was
the only possible option for my life.

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I couldn’t imagine working
in a factory for my whole life,

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as it was a terrible perspective.

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But I didn’t know what to do.

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That’s because my environment –
town, friends, family –

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showed me that I can’t do anything else
and I was very miserable.

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Also, I didn’t know how to fix myself,
how to change my life

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and how to be a better person.

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I lacked sources of inspiration
from the outside

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that I can do something different
and be better.

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Over the years, it led me to
various work-related issues,

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to long-term relationship and to
many other unpleasant everyday situations.

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I was afraid to do anything,
step outside my comfort zone

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and believe that
I can be something more than

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a person who isn’t fulfilled and does
things he or she doesn’t want to.

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I didn’t know what I want,
but I was afraid to take a risk

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and to try something new.

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Then I hit rock bottom
and I was in a very bad situation.

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I’ve been visiting a psychologist
and I was in a hole.

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I was literally a pile of shit
back in 2012

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and I have to admit it out loud here.

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And once I hit rock bottom,
I was in so much pain

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that I wanted to do something,
but I didn’t know what.

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At that time, I reached for
a book called “The Instant Millionaire”.

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I described this book a few videos ago.

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“The Instant Millionaire” book
changed my life completely.

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It was the first book from the category of
personal development books.

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It was a book
that told the story of

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a young man searching for
his place in life

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and asking a millionaire
who grows roses for advice.

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Check my video where I talk about it.

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It was the first book which showed me
that I can do something different.

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I went out of my town and environment
which didn’t suit me.

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This book’s author showed me that
there are people who do business,

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look for their place in life,
so I can also look for it and I can try.

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It gave me such a fresh breath of air
that there’s something beyond

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what I was doing at the time.

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So, I moved to Kraków.

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I’m sorry, as it’ll be a longer video,
but there will be pieces of advice

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at the end of it and a lot of cool stuff.

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Then I decided to write down my goals
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During first months, I’ve been working
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It was a bad, hard work
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They said I wasn’t suitable for it
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I want to thank the owner of
this company in Balice who fired me,

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becasue he was right –
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Then I started working as a driver in
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It was a bad job and I think I was paid
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I can work in a colorful place
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and where there are people
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This place was in market square in Kraków,
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I’m in a colorful environment.

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So, I don’t have to work at the factory,
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and load sheet metal into an old machine
that sparks on me and smells of grease.

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I can even be a dumb driver,
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where people are smiling,
where you want to live and work.

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It was my first thought –
that I can do something different in life

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and not necessarily
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There weren’t
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So, it was my first success.

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Later, I became a waiter
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It reaffirmed me that
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I thought that I want to come back
to the restaurant every day,

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as it’ll be fun.

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Despite all the difficulties
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it was colorful, I wanted to do it,
I could meet wonderful people

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and make new friendships.

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So, my life changed a lot in terms of work
within 6 months or a year.

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I was a waiter for 3 years.

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I realized that work can be
interesting and colorful.

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At that time, I read a lot of
self development books,

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written by the people
I took inspiration from.

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These were autobiographies,
motivational

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and personal development books,
about business.

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These books broke a barrier in my head
of what’s possible.

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If you read 10 books about famous people
who achieved something and about business,

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then you know
that you can do it too.

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You start wanting this and looking for
ways to do something interesting,

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learning how to create a business
and how to be the person you want to be.

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You read books, surrounding yourself
with cool knowledge and inspiration.

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I was very fascinated by the books.

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Many people even said,
“Why the hell do you need these books?”

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In the meantime, I became
a manager of this restaurant

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in which I started as a scooter driver.

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I was stepping out of
my comfort zone in a big way.

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When I record this video,
I’ve been a manager of this restaurant

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for 2 years now.

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This work forced me to
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to acting in spite of fear
and to achieve goals under duress.

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I’ve met my current fiancée there,
my life has changed,

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we’re building our apartment, etc.

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It all led me to a place where I’m now.

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At the time when I was a waiter,
by reading development books,

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seeking knowledge on the Internet,
on YouTube, etc.,

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I found the topic of online business.

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I began to learn online business
and became

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more interested in
personal development.

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I published my first books,
which I discuss in other videos.

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Over time, being both
a manager and a waiter,

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I’ve been learning
online business

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and I’ve published
550 products on Amazon to date.

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Many books,
simple products, e-books.

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I created a blog
which is based on my passions, that is,

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online business, overcoming weaknesses,
taking on projects and learning.

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Here I am now –
I have a wonderful fiancée,

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our apartment is almost ready, I sell
more than a thousand products monthly,

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I have 550 products on Amazon,
I have an online business

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and I work successfully as a manager.

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And I started 5 years ago
while being in a big hole.

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That’s how I’ve changed my life.

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Now, is it a lot?
Yes, it’s a damn lot for me.

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That’s because
I’ve turned my life around completely.

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I totally changed
and I’m a different person now.

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Take it as an inspiration – you can change
your life completely within a few years.

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Even if you’re
down and out, depressed

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and you don’t know
what to do with yourself.

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You can be inspired, read books,
gain knowledge

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and quit the place in your head
or on the map that you’re currently in.

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Maybe you want to change
your poor job or create a business.

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Let my story inspire you to think
that you can change your situation.

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Now, I want to present to you –
basing on my experiences and knowledge –

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11 rules of mine
that will help you change your life.

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Let’s start from the top.

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First rule –
change your way of thinking.

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Surround yourself with people,
read books, watch movies,

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talk to people better than you.

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I recommend you books, as it’s
a cool way to change your thinking.

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Every day, read books about
online business,

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and books by people
who achieved something.

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You’ll understand that
you can change your situation.

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Second – believe in yourself.

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I’m reading “How to Get Rich” now.

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Felix Dennis claims that
you can’t achieve anything,

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if you don’t believe in yourself.

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That’s the basic thing –
you must believe in yourself,

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because otherwise
no one will believe in you.

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Third – overcome your
comfort zone every day.

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Previous video was about it.

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You have to do something
that scares you every day,

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overcome weaknesses
and after a year you’ll be a person

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unrecognizable even to yourself.

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Fourth – just act.

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Even if you don’t know something
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just do it, because you’ll never know
exactly how to do something.

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So, do it, even if you don’t know how –
you’ll figure it out in time.

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Just act, because action
moves you forward,

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even if you don’t know
how to do something yet.

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Make mistakes.

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Remember – if you act,
you’ll make mistakes,

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but it’s the only way to move forward.

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Learn on your mistakes.

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Only people who don’t do anything
don’t make mistakes.

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Sixth – learn and observe.

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Doesn’t matter if you’re 5 or 55,
you have to learn new things every day,

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soak up knowledge and be like a child.

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That’s because a curiosity and constant
learning allow you to develop yourself.

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People who don’t develop
don’t achieve anything in life.

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Seventh – work damn hard.

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You need to work hard every day
and move forward,

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because you can have
ideas and plans,

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but you won’t achieve them,
if you don’t move your ass

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and move forward everyday.

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That’s because only hard work
can bring results.

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You should do something
that turns you on –

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like online business,
books on Amazon and blog in my case.

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I love recording videos
and writing articles,

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even though
I work hard and I’m tired.

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So, if you do something what
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then it’s something more than work.

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Eight – it’ll be hard –
disconnect from people,

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surrounding, friends, family
that block you.

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That’s because often you live with
somebody who blocks you.

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Until you realize that you need to
get away from this environment

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and cut off from some people,
then you’ll never be able to move forward.

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Surround yourself with
people better than you

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and with the ones who inspire you.

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Not with those who depress you,
who persuade you to party,

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to be bad, poor and average.

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Be something more than that.

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Ninth – be prepared for
a lot of difficulties.

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Unfortunately, it won’t be easy.

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If you decide to follow
this difficult path of changing life,

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it’ll be hard for you,
you’ll encounter obstacles,

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but it’s the only way of
moving forward.

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Tenth – be a systematic person.

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Remember – you need to overcome
your obstacles, get out of comfort zone

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and do something every day.

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You just need to push your life
forward every day

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and after a few years
you’ll literally be in a different place.

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Small step every day –
a whole new world after a year.

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Last thing – never give up.

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If you fight and
act systematically every day,

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then your life will be different,
if you just don’t give up.

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So, don’t give up and don’t let
yourself think you can’t do it.

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Believe in yourself,
change your way of thinking, read books,

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learn, observe, make mistakes,
act and don’t give up –

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it’ll allow you to change your life.

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I’ve changed my life and I’m changing it
every day by fighting –

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and I wish you the same.

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I hope that this video will inspire you
to get out of a bad situation.

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Even if you’re in
the worst stage of your life,

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like I was once,
remember that you can act.

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Under this video you can find
a link to a blog article

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with the same content as here.

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You can save it and download
affirmations from my blog.

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If you’ve enjoyed this video,
give me a thumbs up,

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subscribe and watch my other videos.

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I hope I’ve helped you,
because I’ve been through hardship

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and now I’m trying to push my life
forward and change it every day.

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I hope that you’ll succeed too.

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Thanks for watching.
Good luck. Bye!

FROM WAITER TO MILLIONAIRE — why do I do this?

On my blog “From Waiter to Millionaire” and on my YouTube channel, I provide free and paid knowledge in the form of courses. Here, I present my methods for making money online, I show my weaknesses publicly and give solutions to how to deal with these weaknesses. If I’m doing so well, why do I share knowledge and also publicly show how I overcome my weaknesses? Why show how I earn and allow others to earn in a similar way? After all, reason requires you to keep your knowledge to yourself and use this knowledge as much as possible for your benefit.

Probably a lot of people wonder why I do it? Why would I want to seemingly create competition for myself? Many people are very sceptical about this because it may seem to them that I just want to make as much money as possible. If I show in my courses how to improve my life, how to make more money, there must be a hook in it.

FROM WAITER TO MILLIONAIRE — It’s not only about money?

I don’t know if you realize that a lot of people are driven by something more than money. The sale of my products on Amazon, the salary of the restaurant manager, the earnings from the blog and online courses allowed me to earn several thousand zlotys last month and I have been earning more and more for a long time. Sure, it makes me very happy and motivates me to work. However, I wouldn’t trade blogging, creating content, courses and videos for you for anything in the world. If someone today offered me a job for tens of thousands of zlotys a month in exchange for giving up my passion for blogging, personal development and online business I would refuse without a second thought.

Creating content for you, overcoming my weaknesses, using my skills to create something like my blog gives me great satisfaction. Like being a restaurant manager, because I’ve been associated with this place for years and I just care. Sure, it’s nice to make good money while doing it, but that’s what comes from doing something that interests us and gives us satisfaction, because then we are able to work simply well and with passion.

Don’t keep everything to yourself

You can’t be happy and successful in business how you hide everything for yourself. Success and happiness is an action for others. It may seem naive to you, but if you try to create and work to help others, you produce things and products that are needed by the way. Thanks to this, you have a good chance of success after meeting the needs of your customers. Focusing on yourself is often the opposite. In addition, the happiness and motivation you get in return is priceless.

From Waiter To Millionaire — why do I do this

Do I want to make money?

Of course I want to make as much money as possible—there is nothing wrong with making money. This will allow me to develop my blog From Waiter To Millionaire and give more value to my viewers. If I don’t make money, how can I share knowledge with you? Without the money, I wouldn’t be able to make free videos on my YouTube channel, a free online business course, buy recording equipment, etc.

To create the blog, buy hosting for the blog, plugins and themes for WordPress, hosting for videos for courses, pay my social security contributions, taxes, accounting, I have to have an income, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to maintain this and give you mostly free content. Remember that every business must earn so that it can exist. You probably want to make money too and want you to do better in life—there’s nothing wrong with it and it’s nothing unusual. The most important thing is to create valuable products and services that bring something to the lives of others.

It is worth realizing that you can simultaneously create valuable business, give value to others and earn well. These two things do not exclude themselves and I would say that it is quite difficult to give value without earning money.

The driving factor is something more than money

You can’t be motivated only by money, because over time you will come out of it badly. If you run an online business or perhaps a restaurant then you need to focus on creating good value and on helping others meet their needs. You have to create your brand and that’s the only way you can build a good business for years. Besides, when you make decent money, you start to understand how important the type of work you do and the lifestyle you run are.

Why do you need money when you hate every moment you spend at work? I think it’s worth trying to make money in a way that interests and fulfills us. By earning money on Amazon and on my blog, I feel like I’ve won the jackpot—I’m earning very good money and doing what I love.

It doesn’t matter if you work in a lousy job and earn little or maybe you run your own dream business and earn very well. In each of these cases, you spend a lot of time working under specific circumstances. It’s worth pursuing doing what makes us tick.

From Waiter To Millionaire — why do I do this?

On my blog “From Waiter to Millionaire”, I create valuable content and help others—it’s my business idea combined with passion. For years, I struggled with problems and wanted to change my life. My blog helps many people overcome different barriers and thanks to it, I also overcome the next stages of my life. Creating a business in the form of a blog comprises the use of my specific skills, thanks to which I enjoy creating content. I personally suffered greatly in the aspects discussed on my blog. Sharing my way and solving my problems publicly gives me great satisfaction and simply helps me and my readers.

I don’t know if anyone will understand how much work and fight it took me to get to that moment in my life where I can share all this with you. If we’re talking about money and business then few people will understand how hard I worked as a restaurant manager and then went home and spent every spare moment for months creating my products on Amazon, while others went out for beer and laughed at the world. Few people will understand how much work it took me to get out of a small town and believe in myself. Dozens of books read and years of work on myself. Creating a blog, courses, working 7 days a week and lots of frustration while overcoming the next steps in my life and business.

When you have overcome tremendous adversity in your life and it costs you a lot of hardship and emotions, you really want to show others that they can do it too—that’s what this blog is about and that’s why I do it.

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From Waiter To Millionaire — why do I do this — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Why am I creating this blog?
Why am I doing all this?

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Because on my blog,
on my YouTube channel, on my courses

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I present various ways
how to improve your life,

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I show my ways
and share knowledge with you.

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I also provide methods of earning money
in the form of free and payable materials.

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Many people probably wonder
why am I doing this.

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Because revealing my methods,
secrets for life-improvement, earning

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may seem foolish for someone.

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Some person may think that
if I have a nice way of earning money,

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if I know what to do in life,
if I know how to live a better life

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and how to overcome my weaknesses,
then why should I share that with others?

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If I give out free and payable materials
in the form of courses,

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there must be a catch somewhere.

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So, in this video I want to tell you
why I’m doing all of this.

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I’ve been making pretty good money
from my products on Amazon

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and courses for a while now.

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I’m also a restaurant manager
and I’m doing quite well.

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In the last month,
I earned several thousand PLN.

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It includes manager’s salary,
products on Amazon,

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as well as the income
from blog and courses.

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I cross boundaries and I’ve been doing
well for quite some time now.

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Why am I sharing
these things with you?

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If someone offered me
100 000 PLN day job

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with the condition that I must resign
from my passion,

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that is creating my blog,
sharing value, enjoying this process,

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then I wouldn’t agree to it.

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Why? Because my motivation is
not only money.

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They’re important, but not essential.

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Apart from financial aspects,
many people are motivated by creating,

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giving value and helping others.

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That’s because nothing brings more joy
than creating something

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that turns you on, that you like.

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For example, it’s impossible to work
7 days a week for 12 hours each day,

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if you don’t do something
which gives you joy

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and allows other people
to improve their lives.

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It’s very important to focus on
helping others.

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Imagine that you’re starting a business.

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No matter whether it’s a restaurant,
a blog, online products, etc.

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You can’t be motivated only by money.

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Let’s suppose you opened a restaurant
and focus only on earnings.

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How would it end up like?

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You’ll be making poor quality food,
buying low quality products

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and treating customers badly.

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Why? Because you won’t care about
the customer’s satisfaction.

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You’ll care only about money.

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It applies to every similar situation.

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If I had created materials just for money,
it would have been a crap.

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It applies to every business.

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You should focus on developing a brand,
creating value and helping others.

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It should be based on solid foundations.

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I show all this because it turns me on
and because I overcome my barriers.

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By giving cool,
valuable content,

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you focus on the recipient
of your service or product.

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It may seem a little naive that
you focus on others and not on yourself,

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but if you do this and give
valuable content, trying to help,

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then it’s not naive, as you create
something of very high quality.

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That’s because
you focus on another person.

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By creating something
you’re passionate about,

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you care of its high quality.

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Even though I’m still working
as a manager,

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I’m in a place that I like and respect,
so I’m passionate about it.

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I expect some payment for it,
but I don’t do it only for money.

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Same applies to my products on Amazon
and courses – they’re my passion.

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In this way, we do good work,
create something valuable

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and that’s why we succeed.

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Thanks to it, customers are able to
benefit from your service or content,

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while you’re able to work a lot
and with joy.

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Even if you’re often overworked,
you just enjoy doing it.

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Of course I want to make money.

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Anyone who runs any business
wants to make money.

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I’m very happy if I earn
more and more and succeed.

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I’m very successful at making money
and I’m very happy about it.

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But you can’t be motivated
only by making money,

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because, as I said earlier,
it’ll end very badly.

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Of course I need money,
as the maintenance of my blog

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requires the purchase of hosting.

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Creating courses
requires hosting for videos,

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WordPress plugin, as well as
plugins for creating a blog, etc.

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It also requires equipment –
microphone, tripod, lighting, etc.

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So, I need to have money for all of that.

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Of course, every business wants to make
as much money as possible,

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but it must be based on values,
the will of creating something valuable

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and focusing on other people, etc.

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Every business requires paying
social insurance, taxes, accounting

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and all I’ve mentioned earlier,
so money are necessary.

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But the foundations
must be based on the values

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which stem from
your interest and passion.

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The basic question –
why am I doing it?

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Because you don’t even realize
how much struggle and suffering

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brought me to this point
in which I’m now.

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Getting out of my city,
overcoming the weaknesses,

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going to a psychologist
for a year or two,

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overcoming my barriers
and comfort zones.

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I’ll never forget the times
when I worked as a restaurant manager

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6 days a week, 10 hours each,
sometimes 7 days.

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At home, I’ve been working for
several hours before or after work.

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I’ve been publishing my products,
learning, working from dusk till dawn,

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while others drank beer
and didn’t care about anything.

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They were often laughing at me.

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I’ve been working for over a dozen hours
a day and with no days off.

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I’ve been creating a better life
for myself by overcoming weaknesses.

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I read more than 100 books.

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I searched for knowledge
and broke barriers,

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elevating my life to a higher level.

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It took a lot of emotions to
break next barriers,

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when it comes to
business, Amazon or blog.

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It was very hard for me to learn how to
create videos, blog, courses, graphics,

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before and after
releasing my courses and products.

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Also, it was very hard
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various obstacles
while running a restaurant.

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Nowadays, sharing these topics
gives me an immense joy,

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because I want to share them.

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I want to show others
how much I struggled

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and provide solutions for them,
so that they can change their lives.

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That’s because I know how hard
it is to fight and to change life.

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I don’t want to keep it to myself,
as it’d be stupid.

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I use my peculiar skills
to create blog, courses, videos

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and products on Amazon.

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All this gives me great happiness
and having a blog motivates me better

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to create free or payable content –
mainly free.

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All of this helps me
to overcome next barriers

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and get out of my comfort zone again.

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I learn various topics,
which I then pass on to you.

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I’m showing you my success
and I want to inspire you,

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so that you can also succeed.

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If people say
that I’m doing it only for money,

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then they’re completely wrong,
because giving value,

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giving something to others is the best
satisfaction and motivation to work.

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When you do something wholeheartedly,
base it on your experiences,

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on your difficult experiences
and you like it,

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then you create content,
products, services of great value.

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You give something
really valuable to the world, to people.

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And if you create something valuable,
then you create something good,

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which is in demand, sells well
and be profitable over time.

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Don’t ever take shortcuts
and create something only for money,

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because basing something on your
passion, interests, often weaknesses,

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showing others what you can do,
will give you the best value.

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So, focus on creating something valuable
and it’s the key to success.

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That’s why I’m doing it –
because I want to give value.

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I want to prove to myself that I can,
I want to give you something cool

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and I don’t want to keep this knowledge
to myself, as it doesn’t make sense.

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Giving nice knowledge and value
will pay off for you and for me.

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I want you to succeed –
that’s why I’m doing this.

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I want to motivate you
and be a better person.

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I hope that
you’ll benefit from my content.

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If so, please subscribe,
give a thumbs up,

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use my materials
and a free course from the link below.

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Thanks a lot.
See you in the next video. Bye!

Profitable business idea – why a business idea is only 1% of SUCCESS?

Discover why every seemingly profitable business idea is inherently worthless, delve into an intriguing story from my experience in the food industry, and learn the practical steps to transform ideas into a profitable business.

In this post, I’m going to show you how a cool business idea relates to the real successes of people who have these ideas. Surely, many of you have interesting ideas and business plans. In the age of the internet and the huge flow of information, it’s very easy to come up with ambitious ideas. Our dreams are often fueled by observing entrepreneurs and each of us wants to achieve a lot in the context of making money. That’s typically when business ideas arise, but unfortunately, they don’t often materialize into anything special. In this article, I’ll give you some insight into why these ideas often don’t succeed, and I’ll show you a real-life example of how to turn even a mundane business idea into a success.

I have a fantastic business idea…

A few years ago I had a good buddy (we worked together for years as waiters in the same restaurant) and we had a lot of cool business ideas. We wanted to start our own business and we talked a lot about it at work. We were just ordinary waiters without money, but we had big ambitions fueled by good business books. My buddy was really fired up about every idea and gave me a lot of faith that we could create something interesting together.

As I suggested that we start taking action or even took the first steps towards better understanding the possibilities (e.g., I was inspecting a potential rental place for business purposes), my friend avoided taking the next steps and what’s more, he already had another great business idea. He then stated that we would start implementing this first idea, but he would also be working with the next one in the meantime. Additionally, he also wanted to simultaneously work in a restaurant and do a few other things. I understood at that time that it’s not worth doing business with such people, because they never manage to stick to their resolution for long, they just get wound up with new ideas.

Afterwards, the same guy was very focused on cryptocurrencies, but unfortunately he didn’t even start to implement the our previous ideas. For some time, he talked a lot about investment opportunities and persuaded everyone in the restaurant to invest in cryptocurrencies, which by the way no longer exist today (it was mainly a scam operating on a referral basis).

Meanwhile, the same friend told me that, just like me, he published a notebook on Amazon (I had been working on this for quite some time)—he published a few items, and then boasted that he had sold one copy. This probably marked the end of his business on Amazon KDP. He tasted many ideas and took a small step in each, but he was afraid to take the next ones, which would eventually lead to success in each area.

I stick to publishing on Amazon all the time instead. For two years, I released almost 800 products and created a passive income for myself, which allowed me to quit my full-time job. Next, I focused all my attention on creating a blog and an e-commerce business, and I also achieved great success in this aspect (even much greater). My buddy, who I still know today, is a waiter at another restaurant and probably has a new brilliant business idea popping up in his head.

How to distinguish a good business idea from a bad one?

I’ll move on to the main factor determining success in the next paragraph, but it’s worth noting that there actually are better and worse ideas for making money. Although none of the ideas from my old acquaintance worked out, if you really want to start your own company, it’s worth taking the right and proven direction. Our time is limited and it’s worth focusing our work on something that will work.

First and foremost, before implementing our idea, it’s crucial to invest our time in market research, specifically in checking whether a similar business to the one we want to create, is already operating. Let’s say I dream of opening a small restaurant in Cracow downtown, because I’m interested in working in the food industry. The idea seems interesting, but it needs to be checked out.

The first step should be a conversation with someone who is already working in this industry, and even getting a job in a similar, already operating restaurant. This will help any aspiring entrepreneur to understand a particular business idea and gain initial experience, contacts, etc.

What’s more, checking out a particular industry in depth often discourages you from that business, as you get to know its dark sides. It’s totally fine and it’s OK to give up at the very beginning, provided that we do it consciously.

Today, while looking for a business idea, I would definitely rule out, for example, owning my own restaurant. The costs of running such a business are huge, you have to work with difficult people 7 days a week, and on top of that, the entire food industry has been plunged into chaos by government economic lockouts. A quick analysis clearly shows that this is not the best business idea—especially in the center of Cracow, which has suffered greatly due to the pandemic.

For a change, a keen observer will notice that for many years (especially since March 2020) the e-commerce industry has been thriving. Online stores, selling on Amazon, creating content on YouTube—these are just a few interesting business ideas in an industry that has been booming for many years. I had already recognized in 2016 that the internet is the future and I completely left my position as a restaurant manager at the beginning of 2019, which is just under 3 years from when the idea for an online business popped into my head. It quickly turned out that it was the best decision of my entire professional life, as a year after my departure, the food industry literally died, while the whole e-commerce sector literally skyrocketed.

Since 2016, I’ve been tightly holding onto my specific business idea (e-commerce) and despite many other tempting options, I didn’t let go. E-commerce business allows you to sell on a large scale (country and even the whole world) without leaving your home and without investing large amounts of money. Indeed, this is definitely a future-oriented industry that is rapidly developing. For a change, the food industry requires large investments, which is associated with financial risk. With such simple criteria, you can easily distinguish between the good and the slightly less attractive business ideas.

However, this doesn’t mean that a given, for example, more challenging industry isn’t worth our attention. Each of us is unique and everything depends on our experience, interests, capital we have, and our propensity for risk. I chose the low-risk route without investing capital, but there are people who, with substantial capital, make a lot of money in gastronomy—even during the pandemic.

Check out the article where I present 7 interesting ideas for your own home business..

So what to do?

An idea will never make you rich and won’t change anything in your life. You might feel better for a moment, but nothing will come out of it. You can’t patent an idea (at most, you can patent implementation) and no one cares who came up with a particular way of making money. Simply having a good business idea is not enough. Contrary to appearances, what I just wrote is actually great news for you. You can have a thousand ideas and zero in your account, while the person next to you can implement a banal idea into life and earn quite well from it.

Remember, you don’t have to reinvent amazing solutions and search for unique ideas. There are methods and ideas that have been proven for a long time. All you need to do is gain knowledge on how to execute a particular business idea and plan. If you have the opportunity to gain knowledge from someone who is already working in a certain industry and you see that what others are doing is profitable, it’s definitely worth heading in that direction.

How to source a profitable business idea?

You can simply copy a profitable business idea if it’s not patented. My books on Amazon aren’t particularly original, and many of them share similarities with titles published earlier. However, these books generate income, and it’s not an issue for anyone. My blog and my online courses are not an innovative idea either, as a multitude of entrepreneurs around the world use this way of earning money. Many people before me have launched their own products on Amazon and started their blog. So what? Each of us has the right to build a business according to proven schemes.

An example profitable business idea is simple: release 50 products on Amazon KDP within 3 months and do it as best as you can. Next, you need to refine the process and stick to publishing throughout the year. Such a plan practically guarantees initial successes and there’s nothing original about it. Sure, you might be one of the first in your country, but on a global scale, a lot has already been invented in this aspect. All you need is to equip yourself with the right knowledge and…

Hard and smart work is 99% of success

This is the main entry barrier that caused my buddy from the restaurant to never realize his ideas for his own company (many of these ideas were very good). If you’re not able to work hard on implementing your (or someone else’s) profitable business idea, don’t think you’ll achieve anything. Cool ideas bring momentary joy, but only their implementation yields results in the form of money. The ideas I implement may not be exceptional, but through hard, systematic and wise work, they bring me results.

For instance — I’ve spent many months working on a series of simple products, which I’ve automated and now they bring me a passive income. It wasn’t easy or particularly sexy, as I was working tirelessly through the nights and had absolutely no time for myself (I was working as a restaurant manager at the time), but through hard work and acquired knowledge, I turned a profitable business idea into a real business. Can anyone duplicate this? Yes, of course. My products are available on Amazon, thousands of people browse them every day and anyone can copy them.

A lot of people ask me if I’m not afraid of someone copying my methods or products. I’m definitely not scared, because I know that only a small portion of people are capable of dedicating months and years to building a business similar to mine. Very few people are able to pursue ideas for a long time without giving up in this aspect.

Great business ideas that are born in our heads are totally worthless, because they are just ideas. Even the most profitable business idea won’t bring us any financial profits and won’t make money unless it’s implemented. What’s more, most profitable business ideas have long been used by someone else and in almost every case, we’re not original with our business plans. However, the most important thing is that our profitable business ideas are worthless without commitment and hard work. However, if your idea hasn’t been used anywhere yet, it most likely means it doesn’t work and it’s probably not worth pursuing in that direction.

So here’s a tip for you: learn, gain knowledge, and above all, implement proven ideas in the long term. Ideas are everywhere around you and you can only realize a very limited number of them in your life. Consider what you want to do and make use of what you know works. Work hard, don’t give up and over time you’ll see more and more results. Dedicate, for instance, a year to building a business, because you won’t accomplish anything valuable in a month. If you’re scared of competition, remember that few people are persistent and will work as hard as you. Executing proven ideas always brings the best results.

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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In today’s video,
I’ll tell you about profitable business idea.

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I’ll tell you how to find and verify them.

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I’ll discuss
why most of them are pointless.

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Also, I’ll tell you
a very interesting story from the time

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when I was working in a gastronomy,
which will stand as an example

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why most ideas aren’t worth pursuing
and why they won’t be a success,

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as well as won’t bring you any results.

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Let me begin with a story about me
and my very good friend

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with whom I’ve been working for
several years in gastronomy as waiters.

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As young people, we had a lot of
ideas for business and making money.

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We were young boys who read books
and who were looking for a way

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to make better money than by
working full-time at the restaurant.

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We’ve been discussing for hours,
had a lot of both

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interesting and uninteresting
business ideas.

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The difference was that
after a few years of reading books

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and searching for my way of life,
I’ve finally chosen my niche.

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I’ve chosen my idea
and started following that.

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It was Amazon KDP,
publishing ebooks, guides,

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simple products,
then it turned into a blog, etc.

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At the same time, my colleague
still had a lot of different ideas.

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We wanted to open a coffee shop,
a restaurant or an online business.

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When my colleague offered a business,
I made an effort to do something,

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like looking for a rental property or
creating graphics for our online product.

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But my colleague already had
another idea and wanted to pursue it,

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and after that idea,
he had another one.

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It discouraged me from
entering the partnership with him

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and ultimately
we didn’t do anything together.

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His problem was that
even though he had a lot of ideas,

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he didn’t follow any of them
in the long term.

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No matter whether
these were good or bad ideas,

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he was quickly switching them
and ultimately didn’t implement any.

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He wanted to pursue
a few at the same time,

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which was impossible and discouraged me
from working with him.

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I decided that I want to conduct
Amazon KDP business independently

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and I don’t want to enter
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because I saw that it’d be pointless
as my colleague still had new ideas.

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So, I stuck to my own idea
and it brought results over time.

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And from what I know,
my colleague still works as a waiter

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and is probably searching for
a new, amazing and unique business idea

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which will generate a million dollar
revenue after a month of light work.

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Of course, I say it ironically,
as there are no such business ideas,

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because every innovative idea
requires a tremendous amount of work.

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Especially innovative ideas
require a huge amount of work.

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Why? Because innovative companies
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break rules and they have to
reinvent a lot of things.

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While business ideas which are
quite simple and proven to work

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are often the ideas
that need to be implemented

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and then you expect profits
in a boring way

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from the implementation
of these ideas.

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I remember starting
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following it, publishing on Amazon,
then there was a blog, then e-commerce.

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It took me 3 years to quit day job
in this way.

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I implemented simple ideas of publishing
which were not unique,

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as tens of thousands of people
had been publishing on Amazon at the time.

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When it comes to my blog,
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I was not a pioneer either.

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I was just simply creating my business
according to proven patterns.

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I learned from others and it still
brings me better and better results.

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I don’t do anything extraordinary.

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That’s the point –
business idea doesn’t count.

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You don’t need an unique idea,
you don’t need to invent anything,

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but you must –
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choose your own business idea
and stick to it.

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Where can you get this business idea?

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On the blog, I promote
online business, Amazon, webstore.

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For some people these will be
nice business ideas,

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but I think that 95% of people watching
this video won’t like these ideas.

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So, where to find ideas
that you want to implement?

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First of all, you should check the market
for already operating businesses.

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Let’s say you are interested in
opening your restaurant.

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Then, you’d need to
verify this business idea.

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How to do it?
I’d hire in some restaurant.

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Maybe similar to the one you want to open
or in a similar company you want to run.

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Learn from the best people there and
look for those who are already doing it.

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Check how many similar businesses
operate locally, globally or online.

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Analyze how much money they make.

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Learn from those who operate businesses
how it looks from inside.

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And only then decide
whether it’s a business for you.

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You want to have a restaurant?
Hire for a year as a waiter.

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See how this work and business look like,
analyze pros and cons,

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and after a year make a conscious decision
depending whether this idea would work.

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Because if you want to have a bar
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I can tell you that nowadays nothing’s
happening in the center of Cracow

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and you need to check it
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pursuing this type of idea.

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However, market study can indicate
that sushi restaurant for delivery

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on the outskirts of Cracow
can be a great idea.

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Similar case is with online business.

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It’s worth checking
whether publishing on Amazon,

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selling physical products on Amazon,
blog, online store

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or any other kind of business would work.

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If a lot of people do it
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then maybe it’s an idea worth pursuing.

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The first step is to analyze the market
and looking for an idea for yourself.

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This idea often stems from
years of working in different places,

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exploring the world, traveling,
reading books, watching YouTube videos.

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That’s why you should spend some time –
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on testing various things
which will allow you to find your way

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and ideas for business later in life.

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And now, if you get to the point where
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you examine them,
check the competition,

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analyze other people or companies,
then you should move to

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the ultimate and key point
of this video,

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which is a boring, long term
implementation of a chosen business idea.

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A business idea is worthless
when it’s only created in our head –

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like in case of my colleague,
who had dozens of business ideas

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and every business turned him on.

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When he was coming up
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he felt like he owns this business,
but that wasn’t the case.

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That’s because going from an idea
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often takes years of hard,
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and investing your time or money.

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Not many people are ready
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Let’s be honest. A day job,
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it’s easy to endure it for a month
and you have an instant gratification.

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Like in case of eating carbohydrates –
it’s tasty, but it doesn’t pay off

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in a long term.

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So, my main point is – implementation
of a proven idea is the key to success.

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Search for an idea
and try different things.

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Once you come up with an idea,
write down the plan and follow it.

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I’ll give you an example of
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which is my niche.

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It’s the release of 50 simple notebooks
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and then sticking to this business
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This type of approach,
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creating a business
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and learning from others guarantee
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The whole difficulty lies in
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The same applies to opening a restaurant
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That is, regularity, boredom
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That’s how you beat 95-99%
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which has great ideas,
gets excited by them, discusses them

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and then moves on to the next idea.

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So, in reality, such people as
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and they’re not a competition.

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Remember that you can steal the ideas
as they’re not patented,

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such as opening an online store,
restaurant or publishing on Amazon.

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Many people can do it.

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On Amazon, you can see how many
particular products are being sold.

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In this way, you can easily check
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products, activities
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Then you can focus on one goal and start
implementing your plan step by step.

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I’ve stuck to an online business
for a few years now.

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A few years ago,
I decided to quit gastronomy.

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One year later,
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gastronomy has collapsed, while
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because of the obvious reason.

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So, a brave decision,
sticking to one topic

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allowed me to enter the business
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The key here is sticking to
one relatively proven business idea,

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which may be simple, stupid or trivial,
but regularity, boredom

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and repeatability generate results.

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It generates results for me
and people who earn a lot.

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These people
often do nothing extraordinary.

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I encourage you to reflect on this topic,
read good books,

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check other people’s
ideas or products.

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Then, you just need to write down
the idea and implement it.

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Remember that the ideas
in your head are worth nothing,

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but the implementation of these
often simple and proven ideas

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generates the best results.

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I wish you to achieve success.

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Be welcome to check my other video
in the link here –

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“7 interesting business ideas”.

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I invite you to take a free course
on Amazon and online business.

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All the links are below.

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You’ll find even more interesting ideas
and suggestions

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on what can you do,
especially in the e-commerce world.

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Thanks for watching.
See you later. Bye!

7 genius ideas for making money from home

In this article, I’m going to introduce 7 ideas for making money from home. I’ll show some interesting and modern ideas for businesses that you can run from home and start right now without major investments. As it happens, I’ve been personally using most of these types of businesses for many years and I have a lot of information to share, which will definitely come in handy when you start in this slightly crazy world of making money on the internet.

Key links presented in the post:

➡️ Free Amazon KDP and online business course
➡️ Zonda cryptocurrency exchange (formerly Bitbay)
➡️ How to Purchase Cryptocurrencies Guide
➡️ WordPress — Introduction
➡️ Fiverr — website for freelancers
➡️ Amazon FBA course by Norbert Adutis

Who I am and a few words about me for the beginning

A few years ago, while working as a waiter in a Cracow restaurant, I became interested in online business. I had quite a bit of free time and heard about Amazon and the opportunities this platform offers. Knowing how many potential customers I can reach through Amazon, I decided to take action. However, it was harder to gain knowledge on this topic and I didn’t know how to start. I made a bunch of mistakes and wasted quite a bit of time and money in the beginning. Over time, I invested in online courses and next products I released more consciously. Today, I have dozens of e-books on Amazon Kindle and over 700 products in the form of paperback book/products on Amazon.

Before you start reading the article below, keep in mind that running any business requires hard work and consistency. There’s no such thing as a shortcut and quick money-making. Your results will always be as good as your input, and don’t expect miracles from reading articles and watching videos on YouTube. Articles of this kind aim to guide you and provide great ideas to make money from home, for a home business. However, at home you will have to work just as hard as being a full-time employee.

The only difference is that you won’t get paid immediately, and the amount will depend solely on your effectiveness, not the time you spend working. Treat your home business like a business—it’s not a hobby. If you decide to follow one of the directions described below, give yourself at least half a year and don’t expect results immediately. Some of the online business ideas below require years of work and only then do they yield the best results.

7 ideas for making money from home:

Amazon Kindle—ebooks and digital products

This is where I started and I recommend you the same. Amazon Kindle allows for the publication of electronic books/eBooks, such as guides, information brochures, and fiction books—there are no limitations here. All you need to do is have your own text in English (you can simply outsource writing an article in English, for example, on UpWork.com) and a cover (on Fiverr.com, you can order a cover for your book starting from just $5). All you need to do is familiarize yourself with the Amazon platform and have a basic understanding of English.

You don’t have to write books, or even descriptions for these books. All of this you can delegate to people on the aforementioned websites and easily receive a simple digital product, which after being published the next day are already available worldwide, including in key markets such as the USA. All you need to do is upload the file with the text of our book, the cover, product information in the appropriate panel, and your book is available the next day on Amazon.

Remember, a book on Amazon Kindle doesn’t have to be a long novel (of course, it can be if you want). It works perfectly for selling simple guides on any topic, cookbooks, manuals, etc. There are no limits and the market is ever-growing. You’ll find a lot of completely free knowledge about publishing products on Amazon Kindle in my several-hour-long FREE COURSE.

Amazon and books/paperback books printed on demand

Amazon and print-on-demand paper books are the next step for those who have decided to publish their digital products on Amazon Kindle. Kindle Direct Publishing offers the opportunity to sell your content (which you may already be selling as an eBook) in the print-on-demand formula by shipping paper versions of this content to customers. Once again, it can be both a long novel and simple guides, coloring books for kids, diaries, and whatever you can think of. An interesting aspect here is that when selling paper products, you don’t have to offer only text, but practically anything that can be printed. It could even be a single motivational sentence on each page, wrapped in a nice cover, and the book is ready.

You might not believe it, but to publish a book virtually worldwide, all you need to do is upload an electronic file with any content and a cover. Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) take care of everything for you—sales, payments, printing, shipping, and all you need to have is an account where Amazon will transfer your funds. You don’t have to invest a single penny in printing your products, as Amazon will print and deliver them for you.

For several years now, a very popular way to earn money without any personal investment has been publishing simple products in the form of so-called ‘low-content notebooks’. It’s nothing more than publishing paperback books on demand through the Amazon KDP platform. However, instead of complex content, we publish a book, for example in the form of a grid notebook, and we create a simple cover for such a product ourselves. The result is that within an hour, you can produce an interesting product to be sold worldwide without any input of your own. What’s more, you don’t need to have a registered business entity to do this, because all the time you use Amazon KDP that pays royalties.

The topic of Amazon KDP and selling paper products is my favorite type of online business. I have over half a thousand products released on this platform. Once again, I invite you to my FREE COURSE, where I discuss this topic in great detail.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

This is a way of earning that deviates a bit from selling your own products or services, but it’s very interesting and effective. I’ve been making increasingly larger amounts of money on cryptocurrencies for some time now, and if you’re interested in broadly understood earning on the internet, it’s definitely worth taking a closer look at cryptocurrencies—even additionally for the purpose of investing part of the earnings from other business presented here, because sooner or later you will face the problem of investing the money you’ve earned.

Earning through cryptocurrencies is about long-term investing or short-term trading. What is characteristic of cryptocurrencies is that their value can fluctuate quickly which gives a great chance to multiply the invested capital (or lose it). That’s why I wouldn’t call it a business, but more like investing and even a bit of gambling. I’ve adopted a strategy of consistently purchasing popular currencies like BTC and ETH and holding onto them for the long term.

This is the simplest option that doesn’t require any secret knowledge. If you find this interesting, you can try your hand at trading (I recommend the largest exchange in Poland, Zonda—formerly BitBay), by buying and selling cryptocurrencies regularly. However, this method requires staying up-to-date and it’s still very risky. In this post, I’ve delved into the topic of cryptocurrencies in more detail.

Amazon FBA—Physical Products on Amazon

Among different ideas for making money from home, you can find ones that require another level of advancement and difficulty when it comes to selling your own products online. What mainly sets this particular type of business apart from the previous ones is the need for significantly larger financial and time investments. Unlike ordering text for our book (be it paperback or digital), here we have to order a physical product from the supplier in larger quantities and transport it to selected Amazon warehouses.

In the case of Amazon FBA, we are dealing with a fully-fledged business activity and the sale of physical products worldwide. This is involves more advanced business (in the case of books, we don’t have to invest in buying products). Selling physical products on Amazon happens through Amazon’s distribution centers located around the world, and you deliver your products to various sites depending on our target market. This is a business model for the advanced and it definitely requires more capital to invest, although everything really depends on what products we will be selling.

Amazon FBA, as a more challenging type of online business, also offers greater earning opportunities—remember, the harder something is, the fewer people do it, and the more you can earn.

I personally don’t sell physical products through Amazon FBA, but if you’re interested in this type of business, refer to Norbert Adutis, who I’ve hosted on my YouTube channel several times.

Blogging and YouTube

Another very interesting and creative way to run a business from home is blogging. Blogging is nothing more than creating valuable content for free and building relationships with your audience. This type of business differs from those previously described, as we’re not creating paid products in this case (at least not right away and not always). Our task here is to build a relationship with the client by providing them valuable information for free.

This is a very time-consuming process, it requires commitment and knowledge of the topic discussed on the blog. You won’t get any payment for your work for a long time in this case, but a well-developed personal blog is something that allows for very effective promotion of any products—both own and from third parties.

When creating a blog, you need to use the right tools. The basic tool is WordPress, which is a free open-source platform. You install it on purchased server and thus create your website and blog. If you want to create your own blog or website, I’ve detailed it in this post.

Don’t forget about creating video content as well. It’s essential in these times, as most audiences expect information in this very form. You can also supplement your efforts by creating podcasts and using platforms like Instagram, Twitter, etc. The topic of your blog should ideally be based around your passions and interests. Only by doing this will you be able to create content with pleasure without any gratification for the first few months, or even years.

By building a community around your blog through offering high-quality content, you are able to monetize your blog over time by selling products in the form of online courses or through affiliation. The cost of creating this type of business is not high (at least not financially). The biggest expense is time and effort, as creating a blog requires long-term thinking and any earnings from the blog are always backed by free work for many months and years.

In my FREE COURSE “THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS” I dedicate an entire section to discussing the topic of blogging. There, you’ll find an extensive video record and answers to all your questions.

6. Affiliate marketing and partnership programs

Affiliate marketing involves earning commissions from sales by recommending selected products. How to get such a commission? All you need to do is to wait when someone buys a specific product through your recommendation (via our link). Simple and challenging at the same time. The concept of earning from home is quite straightforward. The challenge here is to build a proper relationship and trust with the client, so that they trust you and buy products on your recommendation. How to do it? All it takes is to create a good blog based on your passions, and then you can recommend products related to the subject of your blog.

The biggest challenge here is to create a community where you could your products. Apart from blogging, you can create, for example, groups on Facebook, fan pages, mailing lists, but to have such tools, you need to offer free high-quality content to attract people. The best results come from combining all tools, that is, video content (YouTube), blog (WordPress), mailing list, fanpage, groups, Instagram, etc.

The available affiliate programs are diverse and the choice depends solely on the topic your community is interested in. I personally recommend online courses and software the most, as these areas can yield the highest (often even 50%) commissions. A simple example of an affiliate program is recommending online courses in my store here.

Informational products/online courses

The last idea for a home business is publishing informational products. An informational product involves mainly offering information in the form of online courses, eBooks, etc. The easiest thing about creating an informational product is… creating it. However, selling it is the hardest part. Truthfully, informational products, just like affiliate marketing, should be based on a solidly built relationship with the client (blog, YouTube etc.)

How to create such products? This is going to be a slightly more complicated process and it requires more complex skills than, for example, publishing a book on Amazon. You will need to have a website/blog on WordPress. One of the cool things about WordPress is that it has a huge number of plugins that allow to create paid access zones. Thanks to WordPress, you can integrate payments, mailing lists, and other tools that will allow you to create your online course, landing pages for collecting emails, and for example, pages for direct selling of your eBook. Here, you will find all the information about informational products and other home business ideas.

Earning as a Freelancer on Fiverr.com

Finally, I’m presenting one more additional and very interesting way. You can work as a freelancer for clients from all over the world, for example on Fiverr.com. If you have certain skills, you can announce yourself on such a platform and create offers for potential clients. The range of skills you can monetize there is vast. I order book covers, graphics, product descriptions, book promotions, and many more on Fiverr. If you’re pretty good at English, have the right skills and want to develop them, then working on Fiverr could be an interesting option for you. Just like with Amazon, you earn in a strong currency and this can be profitable, especially for people in Poland.

It’s not exactly a passive income, like for example Amazon, but for someone who has specific skills, it’s a great option for additional or even steady income over time.

7 ideas for making money from home—conclusions

All ideas for making money from home and each type of online business require commitment and hard work. It’s also worth investing in creating or purchasing products (writing an article/book, ordering physical products, buying the right tools for creating a blog and informational products). So why an online business? Because it offers the possibility to start from scratch with small steps here and now, without giving up your current job. You are capable of kick-starting, for example, the publication of your simple product like a book on Amazon during your free time after work.

You don’t have to invest large amounts and daily consistent work can lead you to very good results after a year. Remember, by releasing just one simple book a month, you’ll have twelve of them by the end of the year. You invest gradually and learn constantly. Don’t be fooled by the quick ‘making money online’ schemes—by creating products and giving something of yourself, over time you’ll start to have a profitable business that would contribute a lot to others.

Check out my free course “THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS”. In each section of this course, you’ll find an extensive video detailing 7 ideas for making money from home. You’ll find out the level of difficulty and costs you’ll need to bear at the beginning. Also, you’ll find there answers to all other questions related to that business idea.

Good luck!

7 genius ideas for making money from home — watch the video

7 genius ideas for making money from home — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Today, I’ll tell you about
7 ideas to make money from home.

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Mainly without contributing.

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These will be the methods
which I use in my business model.

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I’ll tell you how to start
implementing them without capital.

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I’ll do the introduction
to each of these models

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and you’ll be able to
choose one for yourself.

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These ways of making money
are for people in every age.

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It doesn’t matter if you’re studying
or working full-time.

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You can start with these methods
after hours and develop them over time.

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I started a few years ago with
the first method on this list

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and that led me to total freedom.

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I haven’t been working full-time
for two years now

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and maybe one of these models
will help you too.

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Maybe you’ll develop it
or move on to others,

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but I believe that
most of these models allow to

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earn good money and
change your life completely.

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That’s what my blog is all about.
Let’s start.

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The first model for earning from home
is publishing ebooks on Amazon.

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In 2016, I’ve started with this model,
publishing my first books,

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first ebooks written on commission.

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There are many possibilities.

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There is more content like this
on my blog,

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so check out my posts, videos
and free course about Amazon

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and online business.

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But in a nutshell, publishing ebooks,
simple books on Amazon KDP

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involves commissioning content,
like ebook, handbook, cookbook

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or children’s book –
there are infinite possibilities.

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There are many niches on the market.

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It involves commissioning a book,
its content, cover.

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You just need to have
an idea for this product and a title.

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And you publish it on Amazon
under a nick.

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Of course, you can also write a book
on your own – if you’re able to.

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But in most cases, you’ll simply
order content, publish a book as a product

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and thus deriving a passive income
from Amazon KDP.

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Amazon KDP is a platform
I often speak about,

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where you can publish
ebooks, books and simple products.

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It doesn’t require economic activity.

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You can often do this
with zero contribution or a small one.

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You can settle accounts once a year
and create any product,

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order it and release it on Amazon.

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You can order the cover on Fiverr.

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That’s the first way to publish
such products with content.

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You need to invest
about $150 or more to do this.

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Of course, you can also write the book
yourself or translate it from Polish,

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although it’s most beneficial
to order products in English.

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The second idea is also Amazon KDP,
about which I talk a lot on the blog.

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Publishing simple products is something
I’ve moved on to over time

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after releasing ebooks on Amazon.

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Simple products on Amazon KDP,
which I call notebooks,

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that is, the no content products.

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It’s the creation of simple notebooks.

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They can be in line,
checked or with a minimal content.

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In their case,
you create a cover yourself.

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And in this way you can publish
simple notebooks or coloring books

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on Amazon KDP in an easy way
and without an economic activity.

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I talk more about it in other videos
on my channel, on blog posts

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or in the free course
linked below this video.

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The topic number 3 is
making money on cryptocurrencies.

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It’s a different topic than publishing
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or other kinds of business.

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Crypto involves investing.

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We have 2 tactics here.

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I won’t talk in detail about crypto,
as there’s a comprehensive video

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on my channel and a blog post
on this topic, so check them out.

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I’ll link it here on top.

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Crypto involves either
a simple long-term investing,

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in which you buy crypto.

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At least I do it myself.

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I buy the most popular crypto,
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and store them in a long-term,
as you can earn on it without a risk.

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You can also try trading.

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It involves a bit of gamble and you
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doesn’t involve great knowledge.

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Holding in a long term
is also an interesting option

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as a risky addition –
remember, addition – to investing.

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I’ve been earning good money
on crypto since a long time,

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I achieve great growth rates
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I recommend you to take interest
in this topic.

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Even as a supplement
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or to another business,
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if you want to invest a small portion
of your funds to learn this subject.

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I believe that within 5-10 years
crypto will grow

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and develop in many directions.

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So, I invite you to take an interest
in this topic as well.

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Another very interesting business idea,
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on your interests,
on the things you like, is blogging.

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It can be a blog created on WordPress
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It can also be a blog or a vlog,
such as a YouTube channel.

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It often involves creating
a personal brand or just a brand.

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You choose a niche,
write posts about it, give a lot of value,

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help solving problems
and thanks to it you create

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a very long-term community.

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That’s in contrast to Amazon
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and sell them rather quickly.

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On Amazon, you can make first money
within a week or two.

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In case of blogging,
YouTube channel, WordPress site

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you’ll be able to earn money
after a long time,

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as you create a brand, a community
and only after a long time

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can you make money.

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By creating WordPress blog,
you can learn WordPress

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and you can create websites
for somebody else.

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That’s the idea for another business
not on this list.

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But blogging, creating a community
is a great idea

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which enables you to sell
any type of product.

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That’s because creating a blog,
a community, a YouTube channel

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allows you to sell online products,
courses, books

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and you can also promote
local businesses, restaurants,

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other people’s brands
or earn on advertisements on YouTube,

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or advertising
other people’s brands for a fee

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on your platform,
blog or YouTube channel.

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If you’re a person who is good at
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creating written text content,
then blogging can be

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a brilliant business idea.

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Or if you want to create products
on Amazon and hide a bit,

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then in this case
maybe choose this option.

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Option no 5 is interesting, profitable
for me and offers great opportunities.

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It’s affiliation, that is,
affiliate programs.

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Selling other people’s products
using commission.

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Since YouTube and blogging exist,
it has gained greatly in value,

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as you can record a video describing
a product, write a blog post

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and by posting affiliate links to this
product, you can earn a commission.

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And now, the point is that making a video,
writing a post or promoting a product

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is not easy, but if done well,
it can promote a product on YouTube

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for many years.

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For example, you can do a review of
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I also offer an affiliate program
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you’ll gain 50% commission
on each sale for many years.

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You don’t have to set up a company,
you don’t need to have an online store.

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That’s why
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you just gain commission
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or deal with clients.

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On my blog, through affiliation
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such as online courses,
software, hosting,

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as these products allow you to gain
a high commission, like 50% or even more.

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You can also promote products on Amazon,
where the commissions are up to 10%,

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or physical products
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In case of many blogs or YT channels,
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also makes sense.

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It depends on the type of blog or channel.

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You can promote
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Another option is Amazon FBA.

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It’s the only point on this list
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It’s selling physical products
on Amazon worldwide.

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I don’t deal with this topic.
I just present you this option.

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It’s a more advanced topic, where
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in contrast to publishing on Amazon KDP
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You need to have your company,
the investments are bigger,

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but the opportunities are greater.

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The competition is smaller,
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and physical products
allow you to sell everything.

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You’re not limited to books,
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It’s for more advanced people.

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Next option is online courses.

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The business of online courses
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in the last 10 years.

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Especially since March last year,
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Everything moved to
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online courses on earning online
or on learning the first dance, etc.

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All of that is now online –
education, learning to play an instrument.

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You’re able to publish your online course
with a very low contribution.

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We’re talking about
a contribution of around $250.

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These are very small amounts.

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In combination with a blog,
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a nicely created brand,
online courses in any industry

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can give you really nice earnings.

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I was talking about this in a video
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how I earned half a million in
the online store through online courses.

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I don’t need to promote
this business model,

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because if you’re watching my blog,
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that I earn big money in this area.

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Also on affiliation, crypto,
blogging and on Amazon

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from which I started.

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So, I recommend you
to take interest in this topic.

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I present my business in the free course
about Amazon and online business.

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Find the link below.

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The last, bonus option is selling
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For example, on Fiverr.com –
one of the world’s biggest sites

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where you can sell your graphic skills
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creating anything on the Internet.

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There you can sell your skills
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like in these options,
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In Poland, we have Useme site.

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There are also other portals, such as
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I recommend Fiverr,
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and it offers many possibilities.

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So, these are the most interesting
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allowing you to make money from home
with zero or small contribution.

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You can start as a beginner
with Amazon or crypto.

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If you have more skills, you can
move on to these other methods.

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But keep in mind that you can
make a great income from home.

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Do it yourself,
if you want and have skills.

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If not, start with commissioning
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Remember that each of these models
requires work and commitment.

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I’d recommend you to choose
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such as Amazon KDP,
blogging or anything else,

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and focus on this topic
for an extended period of time,

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write down your goals
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as it’s a business.

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I guarantee that in this way
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in each of these models.

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It took me about 2 years
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affiliation and my blog products,
so that I was able to quit my job.

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I’ve documented it on my blog,
so you can know it already.

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If not, check out my blog and my free
course about Amazon and online business,

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where I describe
these methods in detail.

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I take you behind the scenes of
my business and earnings. Check it out.

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Give a thumbs up and subscribe,
if you’ve liked this video,

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so that you can watch
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Thanks and regards. Bye!

BEST MORNING HABITS (15 MIN.) — BE PROACTIVE NOT PASSIVE

Best morning habits — what are they? We all have some morning habits but are they good? Unfortunately, many people start their day passively and without sacrificing enough time to properly prepare their body and mind. What does a passive morning mean? It’s like a flag in the wind. It’s the lack of good preparation for the upcoming day and passive reaction to whatever happens. A passive morning involves repeatedly resetting the alarm clock, reaching for the phone or computer as soon as you get up, or immediately turning on the TV and listening to the dumbing (and negative) news.

A passive morning is starting the day without a strategy and without a plan.. A rushed morning and doing everything at once makes our whole day just as chaotic. Our whole life is made up of just such individual days.

Are your habits the best morning habits?

If you spend every morning without planning your day, and you don’t take time to consider what’s important to you that day and in your future, you’re acting passively. Spending every morning and day like this, don’t expect anything more from your life. Your whole life is made up of just such individual days.

If you take care of your every day, dedicating 15 minutes each morning to do simple morning habits, it will change your thinking. Subsequently, your positive thinking will influence your actions. Your actions will have a significant impact on your life. Simple!

How to change your morning habits? Check out the live recording and download the morning affirmations in PDF.

BEST GOOD MORNING HABITS (15 MIN.) — don’t be PASSIVE — watch the video

BEST MORNING HABITS (15 MIN.) — don't be PASSIVE — preview the video transcript

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Is there anybody out there?

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Let us know if you can hear us.

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You can see beautiful views behind me.

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I’m now in the Beskids and
the landscape is better than in Kraków.

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We’ll start soon.
Just wait for some more people to join.

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Today I’ll tell you about morning habits.

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I’m in the Beskids right now,
near Nowy Sącz.

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Weather’s not good,
but it’s a fresh morning.

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Autumn is approaching,
so it’s the perfect time to talk about

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morning habits, morning rituals
that change our life.

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Let me tell you in a nutshell
what today’s live will be about.

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It’ll be about morning habits
and how they influence our lives,

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our thinking and how we can
change our lives thanks to morning habits.

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What am I going to tell you about?

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I’ll try to wrap it up
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In the first part, I’ll tell you
why morning habits are so important

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and how they influence your life,
perspective and how they can change life.

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In the next part, I’ll tell you
how morning habits affected my life

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and how they changed my life.

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Furthermore, I’ll provide you
with the examples of morning habits

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that I use and which you can use.

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I’ll show you all my morning rituals
and tell you a bit about affirmations.

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So, let’s start.

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To begin with, an introduction –
why morning habits are so important?

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What’s the purpose of using
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Someone who’s not familiar with
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may think that it’s something strange.

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The main purpose of using morning habits
is to combat the habit of being reactive.

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What does it mean?

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Each day you get up at
a certain time, you have your habits

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and you do something everyday.

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Most of us get up rather late,
shifting the alarm clock,

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and right after getting up
we go to do our everyday tasks.

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And now, if you get up late
and do what your environment dictates –

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turn on the phone, TV, radio,
open the mail, Facebook and so on –

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and you’re bombarded
with tons of information and stimuli

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that want your attention.

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Just turn on your phone,
on which you see notifications,

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messages, you turn on Instagram,
Facebook, another notifications,

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various news and information
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without your focus.

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So, what’s up with this reactivity?

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If you turn on these types of stimuli
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such as phone, TV,
and you don’t pay attention to your mind,

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then everything wants your attention
and you don’t aim your life

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in the right direction.

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You’re being reactive
and not proactive towards

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your goals, priorities, interests,
what you want to be like,

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but you do what your loved ones, family,
friends, phone, TV want you to do.

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You’re starting to react
and do what environment expects you to do.

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then how our day ends like?

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You do tasks you didn’t want to
just to get rid of them,

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to get over the things
which reach you through various stimuli.

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In this way your priorities, plans,
business ideas, life plans –

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like losing weight,
improving your life, opening business –

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are not implemented,
as you’re reactive.

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the purpose of morning habits –

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it’s about preparing for each day.

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Because if you want to
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like lose weight or improve
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then you need the right amount
of time in the morning

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to prepare for the day to come.

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Now, by implementing the right rules
and habits, you’re able to set

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goals and priorities for yourself.

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You should spend 30 minutes on them.

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I’ll tell you about health habits
in a second.

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you should take 15 minutes a day
to write down daily goals.

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I’m not talking about such goals
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but about goals
helping to change your life.

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to write down 1-2 main goals of the day,
analyzing these goals,

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changing them, writing down
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then your mind will be aimed at
what’s important.

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You’ll do the daily tasks anyway,
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what’s important for you in each day.

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So, maybe you want to take
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your online business or to lose weight
and you’ll go for the first walk.

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like “I need to take 15-minute walk after
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and you have them scheduled,
then these goals are realized.

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you’ll execute them.

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and you achieve it today,
tomorrow and so on,

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then your life will change after a month.

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and execute them,
your life won’t change today,

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but you’ll feel better after a week.

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We’re now talking about walks
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after a month your health,
mood and weight will change.

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The same in case of business.

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If you write down simple goals,
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and you’ll start to execute first steps,
they won’t bring you income

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in the first week, but after
a month or 2 they’ll begin to produce

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certain results, effects
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these “silly” morning habits
will begin to seriously affect your life.

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And now – morning habits
are the exercise for the mind.

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Just like you exercise your body,
in the morning you exercise

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your mind and brain.

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Thanks to it, you have
a positive attitude towards each day.

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And now, I’d like to tell you about
shaping the world with your thoughts.

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All of us live in
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It can be a negative
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Now, let’s say you grew up
in the rich, satisfied and happy family,

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which is supportive, achieves
its goals, tasks, smiles

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or in such a work environment,
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That’s obvious, as if you see
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tries and achieves some things,
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that you’re able to do these things.

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at work, at home,
in the childhood or everywhere,

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then you don’t believe in yourself
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with your thoughts in your own way.

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So, if you spend 15 minutes in the morning
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throwing to your head
nice, positive things, affirmations

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that you can, that you want,
that you have the energy

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and that you want to achieve something,
and you’ll be motivated

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by implementing simple techniques,
then you’ll believe

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that you can do something.

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At this point, if you believe,
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then you’ll write down these goals
and you’ll achieve them everyday.

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And if you achieve small goals,
you’ll be able to achieve big goals.

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So, thanks to these morning habits,
you’ll shape your world

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in a very cool way.

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By the way, tell me
if you can hear me clearly.

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Write in the comments
if everything’s OK and now I move on.

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First of all,
morning habits are a motivation.

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Great motivation, as it’s a simple way
to boost yourself with energy.

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Thanks Tomek and thanks Lukas.
I can carry on.

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First and foremost,
morning habits are a motivation.

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My blog and my channel
are about improving life,

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motivation
and enhancing your situation.

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Everyone asks, how to be motivated
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The answer is – thanks to morning habits.

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That’s because morning habits and simple
techniques increase our motivation.

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Trivial techniques which
increase motivation, cheer you up,

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make you write off goals, go for a walk
or start achieve your goals.

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They’ll give you a boost of energy,
being both simple and effective.

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Now, I’ll tell you how morning habits
have changed my life.

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When I was moving to Kraków 5 years ago,
I was feeling very low.

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That’s when I started doing
my simple morning habits.

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I started by doing
simple physical exercises,

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like push-ups, squats – 15 minutes of
trivial exercises to boost my body.

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And I read a lot of books.

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If you follow my channel, you know that
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and that I publish books on Amazon.

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That’s because books have changed
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In addition to simple physical exercises,
I’ve been reading biographies,

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business books
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It allowed me to believe, gave me
motivation and boost of energy everyday.

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And then, if I must have faced
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I always had the strength,
energy and I acted.

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If you read a book or a biography
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traveled around the world, etc.,
then if you read everyday,

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you start to believe
that you can also do it.

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Even if you’re in a bad situation
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but you start to believe
that you can change your job,

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save some money, do business,
travel somewhere,

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change something in your body,
thinking, publish a book, etc.

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Your perception starts to change.

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I started to believe in myself,
develop, read more books.

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In time, it led me to online business,
publishing books

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and improving life, open a blog
and so on, and so forth.

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Morning habits motivate me everyday,
even if I don’t want to do them.

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I realize that sometimes you’re too lazy
to do them, but you need to.

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That’s what morning habits are for –
to move forward everyday,

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because it helps very much over time.

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I hope it won’t start raining.

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Now, I’ll show you my morning habits,
which you can also apply.

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Each of them or some of them.
I highly recommend you to do it.

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I’ve developed my morning habits
over a long period of time.

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At first, these were
simple physical exercises,

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such as push-ups, squats, stretching –
I recommend them.

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Next habit was reading books.

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So, what habits I apply every morning
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You can start with just some of them,
but regularity is the key.

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It’s better to do
1-2 simple habits everyday

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than do all of them once
and then forget about them.

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By the way, I’m about to prepare
the Morning Habits program.

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It’ll be available in 2 weeks.

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I’m in the Beskids, recording material
for this program, so I recommend it.

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Now, let me tell you
about my morning habits.

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Everyday, right after waking up
and using a toilet, I hydrate myself.

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After the night, your body
is incredibly dehydrated,

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as you don’t drink
any fluids for about 8 hours.

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So, your body, which is composed
of water, functions on water,

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and needs water, demands it
and screams for something to drink.

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That’s why the first thing to do
after getting up is to drink

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1-2 glasses of water.

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It’s important not to drink
coffee, tea right after getting up.

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Also all kinds of carbonated
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but these you shouldn’t drink at all –
resign from them.

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So, the first habit
is to hydrate your body.

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If you get hydrated,
your body feels better.

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If you have comments or questions,
write them and I’ll answer at the end.

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After hydration,
do simple exercises.

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I use simple exercises – stretching,
bends, arm swings, push-ups, squats.

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It takes me about 5-10 minutes,
but no more.

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It’s not about doing
complicated exercises in the morning,

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like running for 30 minutes,
but it’s a different matter.

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It’s very important to –
after hydration – take 4 minutes

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for simple stretching, a few squats,
maybe a couple of push-ups

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to wake up your body.

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It’s about warming up every muscle
to wake up after hydration.

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Next one is a more hardcore
morning habit.

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I recommend it, but I’ll understand
if somebody is afraid of it.

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Namely, cold shower –
I’ve been doing it for a 2 months now.

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Cold shower is something incredible.

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I recorded a video about it,
so be welcome to check it out.

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My morning routine is hydration,
exercises and cold shower.

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I’m now in the mountains
near Nowy Sącz

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and here the water in the shower
was much colder than in Kraków.

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Today’s cold shower was really cold,
but it woke me up.

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Cold shower is very beneficial
for your health.

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It helps you feel better,
aids weight loss, circulation, etc.

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But, at the same time,
it’s also a mental exercise.

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Walking under cold water in the morning
breaks your comfort zone

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and it simply makes you
stronger for the rest of the day.

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The next morning habit that I do
is a very specific one.

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For the first 30 minutes, when I
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I have a rule that I don’t turn on
any electric devices until I’m done.

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So, for the first half an hour,
you don’t turn on phone, check messages,

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Instagram, Facebook,
computer, TV or radio

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with commercials and other nonsense.

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As I’ve said earlier, you need to avoid
a habit of being reactive.

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So, if you turn on something which
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then you’re about to lose.

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Don’t do it. I also recommend you
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for all day, as it’s idiotism.

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Then, I do affirmations,
which I have here with me.

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They’re printed
and I read them every morning.

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There are a lot of affirmations,
about 3-4 pages of them.

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The first ones are for strengthening
the self-confidence and well-being.

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They motivate me and help me feel better.

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Then I have another page of
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which help me be confident about
achieving success in business.

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I’ll read you some sample affirmations.
First, about self-confidence.

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How to use affirmations?

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Affirmation is a change in thinking.

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Affirmations should be read aloud
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That’s very important –
not only read, but pronounce.

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“What I do today
shapes my tomorrow”.

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A simple affirmation.

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You just need to read it out loud,
believe in it and move to the next one.

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“I become a better person everyday”.

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“The best is yet to come”.

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“I’m greatly thankful for
everything I have”.

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Reading such affirmations cheers you up,
motivates you, boosts your energy.

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Some people may laugh from it,
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motivate themselves in this way.

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That’s the same if you have
a positive person next to you,

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like boyfriend, girlfriend, dad, mom,
who will tell you that you can do it,

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that you’ll succeed.

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You help yourself with these affirmations
that change your thinking.

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And, as I said earlier, thinking
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and that affects your life.

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I also have
some sample business affirmations.

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“Success is not talent,
but regularity and daily growth”.

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“I have my goals and that’s why
I’ll always know what to do”.

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“I give value to people and focus on
helping, which gives the best results”.

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“I can easily earn money”.

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I read such affirmations
in the morning for 5 minutes.

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To be effective, they should be read
with conviction and using your whole body.

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These affirmations are on my blog
in the link below.

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You can download them in PDF,
keep on your desktop or print.

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Download them. The link’s below.

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In this way you’ll sign up
on the mailing list

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and get info about some cool stuff
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like motivational videos, Amazon, etc.

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So, be welcome do download affirmations.

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And when “Morning Habits” program
will be ready, you’ll get notified.

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And a penultimate habit of mine
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It’s very important to find
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for reading a few pages of some cool book.

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It’s like in the case of affirmations –
a nice book makes you believe

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that you can achieve something.

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If you read 10-15 pages
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in which someone achieved something,
then you start to think

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that you’re also able to do something in
this direction and you become motivated.

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Of course, you can postpone
your reading, like me.

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After a cold shower, I eat breakfast
and then read for a while.

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And the last morning habit
is checking out my schedule and my goals.

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I have my schedule with a weekly plan
and write down goals.

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I write down my goals everyday,
check them out,

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look what I need to do each day
and write additional ones.

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If I write down goals for a day,
I’ll be able to achieve them.

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I often look at the schedule and
don’t want to do something written there,

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but I have to, because I wrote it.

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You must force yourself to write down
these goals everyday,

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even though it’s easier to write
than to execute them.

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If this schedule will force you
to do these small, uncomfortable tasks

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you don’t want to do everyday,
then after a month or a year

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you’ll do so many important tasks
that your life will be on another level.

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And that’s what it’s all about.

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When it comes to goals, you should
write down weekly, monthly and yearly ones

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and check them out,
so that you know what to focus on.

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In this way you’re not being reactive,
but active and act in a direction

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that will make sense to us later.

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That’s how the sample habits look like.

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If you have any questions,
write them in the comments.

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I’ll also tell you that I recommend to eat
protein and fat breakfasts,

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as they’re good for you.

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Avoid all kinds of cereals with milk,
sweet things, this kind of trash,

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as it takes away your energy and you
don’t want to do anything after an hour.

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If you eat something fat,
like eggs, mayo, avocado, etc.,

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then you’ll feel great and have energy
to do tasks for many hours.

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I highly recommend you this approach.

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Do you have any questions
about morning habits?

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I saw that someone already commented.

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“Water works”.

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“I wake up at the same hour everyday,
instead of sleep longer

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on weekend and it’s better”.

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Of course it’s better,
because if you wake up a bit earlier,

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you gain time.

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If you wake up late
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then you don’t have a plan
and you won’t do anything.

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If you wake up early,
you have more time

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and even after spending 30 minutes
on morning affirmations and habits

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you have more time and energy.

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So, it’s a very cool option
and it works very well.

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Be welcome to check out my other videos,
as I also talked about morning habits.

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There was even one about cold showers.

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Be welcome to download affirmations.
The link’s below.

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You can read them everyday
and be motivated.

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If you don’t know how to start,
then just start with a few simple bends,

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hydration and reading affirmations.

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I’m sure that will help you very much.

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“Carbohydrates provide you with energy
for a long time”.

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I’m not sure about that.

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Maybe for half an hour
and then energy drops.

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Fat has many calories and the thing is
you don’t need to eat a lot of it.

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You can eat carbohydrates,
but your energy will drop.

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Whereas if you eat something fat,
like egg, mayo or avocado,

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in which you have protein and fat,
then you don’t need to eat much of it.

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There are not many calories,
but it’s an energy

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which is constant, positive
and it won’t suddenly drop.

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The same applies to changing your life.

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If you change something
by taking small steps everyday,

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then it’s much better than trying to
change everything in one day.

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I highly encourage you
to be systematic,

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to download affirmations,
to use them, to do morning habits,

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simple exercises, to get up earlier
and to motivate yourself in a nice way.

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Thank you very much for watching.

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Give a thumbs up,
go to my channel and hit subscribe.

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I invite you to watch my other videos.

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See you soon.
Thanks for your attention.

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I’m pleased that you’ve spent
this time with me. Bye!

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21 Powerful tools for online business and Amazon

TOOLS for online business and Amazon

In this post, I will present you the most important tools for online business, Amazon and making money online. These are the tools that I personally use and recommend. It’s been a long time, and I had to make a lot of mistakes before I picked the best tools for online business.

In the realm of online business and Amazon ventures, choosing the right tools is critical to success. After going through my own experiences and learning from my mistakes, I’ve compiled a list of basic tools that have proven effective in my journey. Tailoring your toolkit to the specific requirements of your online business is crucial, and the tools I recommend may not be a perfect fit for every venture.

Remember, depending on the type of online business you want to run, you might need different tools and only some from this list will be suitable for you. If you’re not sure which type of online business is right for you, check out my free online course on Amazon and online business to figure out which online business will be the best fit for you.

Below you will find TOOLS for online business and Amazon:

Tools for online business, blog, and web courses

WordPress.org — free and most popular web and blog development software. You install WordPress on your server.
Bluehost.com — a hosting service for my blog and online courses. A good and cheap option, especially if we buy a plan for several years.
Unstoppable Domains — here, I buy and store web domains.
OptimizePress.com — a plugin and theme for WordPress. With OptmizePress, my blog looks good and in addition, I have a landing page builder. An example of a landing page created in OptimizePress and used to sign up for my free Amazon course — see here: FREE AMAZON COURSE
Publigo — a WordPress plugin and the best platform for creating online courses. My courses are powered by this software. Automatic access to courses after payment, integration with mailing and billing systems. It’s a fully automatic system, giving me a lot of freedom, as I don’t have to handle payments manually.
MailChimp.com — create a mailing list and get automation. It integrates with WordPress and other most popular plugins. MailChamp is also free at first.
cj.com — a global affiliate system. You can use the links to recommend various products and earn significant commissions. Good way to do online business.
Canva.com and BeFunky.com — for easy and fun graphic design. It is better to start with Canva, as it’s free.
Keywordtool.io — helps you find keywords when creating titles of blog posts and clips.
Zoom.us — group video calls and interviews — everything you need to meet whoever you want from your home.
Vimeo.com — paid hosting for movies that are available only inmy courses.
YouTube.com — obvious, with YouTube I can find people interested in my blog.
Revolut — fast, convenient and modern payments. Don’t forget about online business.

TOOLS for online business and Amazon

Kdp.Amazon.com — Kindle Direct Publishing, the Amazon platform for independent publication of e-books on Amazon Kindle. See how to release a book for Amazon Kindle in this post.
KindleSpy — search for niches and keywords in Amazon Kindle Store.
Creative Fabrica — a brilliant website that lets you buy graphics and interiors for your products for Amazon KDP and many other Print on Demand (POD) platforms. You can also sell your own graphics here.
TheWritingSummit – here you can easily subcontract writing the contents of your book. With the code fwtm you’ll be able to get additional discount.
Fiverr.com — a website where you can order book cover, product description, product promotion and more.
Upwork.com — here you’ll hire freelancers who can help promote your books, become your virtual assistants or write your entire book.
Wise — best personal, business and currency account (currency account for business on Amazon).

TOOLS for online business and Amazon — watch the video

TOOLS for online business and Amazon — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’ll tell you about
the tools I use in my online business.

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These will include the tools I use to
publish books, products on Amazon

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in various forms – ebooks, paperbacks –
and the tools I use outside Amazon

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to write blog,
create courses and make money online.

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I’ll present you the tools
I use in all aspects of

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my online earning and online business.

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You’ll have the knowledge that I’ve gained
over a very long period of time.

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You’ll get all the knowledge in a nutshell
here and you’ll be able to choose

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some of these tools and thanks to it
start your online business.

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No matter if it’ll be
ebooks, information products

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or any other online business.

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I’ll present you all the tools that I use.

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You’ll be able to use them
to make money online and to work online.

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Be welcome to watch this video.

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Knowledge I provide in this video
has been gained over a very long time

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and I’ll teach it to you
in a fun way and with all the details.

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I have this entire list here.

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If you prefer to read,
then under each video

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there’s a link to the article
and you can read everything there.

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However,
I invite you to watch this video,

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as here I’ll explain
each of the tools I use in more detail.

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Let’s start – first tools
will be the ones I use to write a blog,

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to create online courses, etc.

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The first tool is WordPress.

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If you’re not already
familiar with WordPress,

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it’s a platform used to create
a blog or website

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that you put on your hosting, a server.

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WordPress enables the creation
of highly professional websites

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for those who don’t have knowledge
of programming, etc.

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Everyone is able to learn
WordPress fairly easily

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and create a blog, a company’s website
or online courses by using it.

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You just need a little willingness.

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If you want to create a blog,
do it only on WordPress,

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as it has plug-ins, themes
that you can then install.

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Depending on the chosen direction,
you can add new things to WordPress.

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Another point is hosting.
In my case, it’s Bluehost.

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It’s simply a server
which hosts your website, blog or courses.

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WordPress is automatically installed
in case of Bluehost.

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Bluehost has reasonable prices.

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In case of a 3-year plan,
the monthly price is very, very low,

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probably 3 dollars, so it’s almost free.

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I have a 3-year plan
and highly recommend it.

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I have many sites on Bluehost,
including my courses page.

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So, it’s very universal and you can
fit a lot of things in there over time.

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Another tool is AfterMarket.pl.

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It’s a Polish website
where you can buy, store

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and sell Internet domains.

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A domain is required in order to
have a blog or a website.

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My domain is Fromwaitertomillionaire.net.

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You can buy a domain
at AfterMarket for a very good price

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and then plug your website
from Bluehost,

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and you have your blog thanks to it.

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Let’s continue.
No 4. OptimizePress.

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OptimizePress is a plug-in to WordPress.

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That’s why it’s so important
to create your blog on WordPress,

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as you can install various plug-ins,
depending what you want to do.

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But OptimizePress is a plug-in
to WordPress which is a theme

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making our blog or website look cool.

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Another issue is that OptimizePress
has landing pages, that is,

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websites used for selling,
collecting emails

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or signing up for the free course.

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If you go to my blog, you can find
a free course to sign up for.

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There’s also a landing page
which collects emails.

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OptimizePress also has
this kind of creator

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which will help you
to create such pages in an easy way.

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It’s also necessary
when you want to collect emails

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and do marketing, if you have a blog.

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So, I highly recommend OptimizePress.

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It’s worth to invest in some basic plan
to have packages,

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as you can’t do it yourself.

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OptimizePress also has an option of
creating online courses.

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But I use for it a Polish plug-in.

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Next, when it comes to create courses,
we have WP Idea.

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It’s a plug-in for WordPress
that integrates with WordPress

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and thanks to it you can create
online courses failry easily.

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These courses
integrate with our mailing

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and automatically integrate with payments.

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WP Idea is a Polish system.
It costs from a thousand PLN up.

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It’s very cool. I use it
for my online courses,

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which you can check out on my blog.

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I highly recommend it.
You can’t function without this plug-in.

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Next one is Gramto.com.

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Wpidea.pl. OptimizePress.com.
Bluehost.com. WordPress.org.

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You can find the link
to the article below each video

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and you can find
all the links from the list there.

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You can check it out.
Now – Gramto.

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If you use Instagram –
which is a must when you run business –

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you can connect
your Instagram accounts to Gramto

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and control Instagram, create posts.

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Gramto also automates Instagram.

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There are such cool options
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messaging and so on.

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So, if you want to fully use Instagram,
then you should install Gramto.

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Especially because
it’s basic version is for free.

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If you want a higher package,
it costs about $10.

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So, it’s worth it.
I use the paid version.

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What’s next? Mailchimp.

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Mailchimp is a mailing system
which creates mailing lists.

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You create the account
for free at the start.

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It’s used for collecting emails.

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If you have a blog, a hosting,
a domain and so on,

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and you create
a landing page for collecting emails,

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then you need to
connect it to Mailchimp.

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You set parameters and if people sign up,
Mailchimp collects their emails

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and you can then send them messages
collectively or create some campaigns.

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It’s an essential part of marketing
for a blog and business in general.

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Next, we have M2M.

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I use it outside of my blog.

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Money2Money is an affiliate system
in which you can recommend

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various financial products.

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If you want,
you can become interested in it,

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as many online business work in this way.

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That is, you create a network of people
and they recommend products.

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Thanks to M2M, you can recommend
various financial products.

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It’s an idea for an online business.
You can do it full-time or occasionally.

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Then, when it comes to
creating graphics – Canva.com.

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And BeFunky.com

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You can find all the links
in the article below the video.

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If you don’t see something, check it out.

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Canva.com and BeFunky.com.

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If you create a blog
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it will require the basic graphics
to create Facebook posts or images.

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I highly recommend Canva.com,
which I use to create covers for books.

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You can easily create basic graphics
or the more advanced ones.

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BeFunky is paid,
costs around $25 per year.

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I also use it,
but it’s a more advanced tool.

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I use both,
but I recommend starting from Canva.

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No 10. Keywordtool.io.

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It’s a tool used for
searching for key words.

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If you create YouTube videos,
blog posts,

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then this tool will help you easily find
more or less popular key words

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and similar to the ones you use.

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Keywordtool.io.
Very helpful tool to find key words.

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We’re talking about SEO, that is,
search engine optimization,

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so that our articles will pop up
in search engines thanks to key words.

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No 11. Zoom.us.

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Zoom.us is a tool used for
conversations between two or more people.

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You can talk to a person
on the other side of the world,

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you can record it, you can do conferences
with more than 2 people.

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It’s very cool for online consultations
or conducting interviews.

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Great tool, much better than Skype.
Brilliant stuff. I highly recommend it.

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I know that I provide a lot of tools,
but these tools are very important

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and it took me a very long time
to know which are worth my attention

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and which are not.

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Another tool – Vimeo.com.

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Vimeo is a hosting for video files.

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Of course, we also have YouTube,
where videos are available to the public.

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But if you want to create an online course
or a video available only on your site,

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then you should use Vimeo.

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It’s quite expensive,
but if you want to do the online course

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and you want to have videos,
lessons which are visible

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only on the website,
then you should buy Vimeo hosting

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and choose videos for those
who buy a course on this website.

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No 13. YouTube.

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Seemingly obvious, but thanks to YouTube
and creating content marketing

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and giving a lot of knowledge for free,
you’re able to attract

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people who will be interested in
your free and paid content

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on your blog, creating website traffic.

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I think that YouTube is underestimated.

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By using it and giving a free content,
you can reach to a lot of people,

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like I do,
so be welcome to watch my videos.

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The last tool on this list –
PayPal.pl or .com.

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I don’t know if you’re using PayPal,
but it’s an ingenious tool for paying.

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You can pay for pizza
or online shopping.

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But many different portals
which you’ll use for online business –

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either some affiliate programs
or various other –

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they’ll often pay you only by PayPal.

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That’s why PayPal is so vital
while receiving payments.

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Receiving payments
from a lot of companies,

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especially international ones,
is possible only by PayPal.

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Also, if you order some covers or pay
someone on the Internet, use PayPal.

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You only need to
provide someone’s email

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and a direct debit will be sent.

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It’s just a very easy way of
paying and receiving money.

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It revolutionized
the method of online payments.

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Thanks to PayPal,
we can make payments much more easily.

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These are general tools
for online business,

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releasing products,
creating a blog, etc.

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Now, let me tell you quickly
about the tools I use for Amazon,

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for publishing products,
books and ebooks on Amazon.

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The first one is KDP –
Kindle Direct Publishing.

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It’s a self-publishing platform
allowing you to publish ebooks on Amazon.

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I’ve talked about this in other videos,
so I’ll be brief.

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After logging in, creating an account,
providing personal data,

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you can upload your ebook
and this ebook appears on Amazon.

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It’s an essential tool when it comes to
publishing ebooks on Amazon.

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The second tool is, of course,
CreateSpace.com, which I love.

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CreateSpace is similar to
Kindle Direct Publishing,

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but it also allows to issue
the products in a paper form.

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That is, if you upload your book here,
it will be sold on Amazon in paper form,

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sent to the customer,
while you will have some income from it.

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It’s a brilliant tool for publishing
long novels, handbooks,

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simple notebooks
or motivational books.

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I highly recommend it to you
and I talk more about it in other videos,

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so check them out.

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Here’s a classic.
You need to know it.

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It’ll be useful in any kind of business.

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Fiverr.com. A place where you can order
simple or advanced services

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starting from $5.

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So, you can order a cover,
text formatting, translation,

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recording an intro
to your YouTube channel,

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creating a product description.

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You can order everything there
in an easy way

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and for a very good price.

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Fiverr.com offers the access to
freelancers from all over the world.

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Next – Upwork.com.

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It’s a portal that allows you
to hire freelancers.

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In case of Fiverr, you search
by people’s offers,

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while here you search for people
for longer cooperation.

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You can hire a virtual assistant
that will promote your books

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and do various tasks needed.

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Such an assistant
may live far away from us.

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You can also search for people
who will write a book or format a text.

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It’s a more complex version of Fiverr,
but it offers greater possibilities

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and if you want to work with freelancers,
Upwork.com will help you hire them.

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No 5. mBank.pl.

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That is, an online bank account.

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If you have a bank account
which doesn’t function well,

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create one in mBank.

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It’s great for online and mobile payments,
and also for shopping on Amazon.

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I highly recommend it.

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I use a foreign currency account
there for receiving payments for books.

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I also have a business bank account there
and it facilitates my work.

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And that’s all the tools
I wanted to present.

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Remember that my recommendations of
these tools are based on

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my knowledge gained over a long time.

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I hope you find them useful
in launching online businesses

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or in your economic activity.

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If you’ve like this video,
please subscribe.

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Check out my other materials
for more knowledge

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and the article below this video
to see the entire list of these tools

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that I use and benefit from them.

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If you’ve liked this content,
give a thumbs up and see you on Friday.

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Thanks a lot.
I’ll see you in the next video. Bye!

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing — big money vs. happiness

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

The sudden death of Matthew Perry was undoubtedly one of the most shocking topics of recent days. It shocked all the fans of one of the most famous, dare I say the funniest sitcom ever filmed. Matthew Perry, or as we know him from the sitcom, Charlie Bing, tickled our funny bone with his clumsiness, sarcastic sense of humor, and incredible self-deprecation.

In his private life, even though Matthew could give Charlie a run for his money when it came to making people around him laugh, he was battling his own inner demons. Back in the day, when he was on the set of Friends, and even before that, he was hooked on alcohol and drugs, including cocaine, opiates, and prescription painkillers.

In his book Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing Perry writes that he started doing drugs when he was just a teenager. In his later life, he battled fear and depression with them. As you can see, depression, which I personally managed to escape from, can leave a huge mark on our entire life.

How alcohol and drugs poison our lives

Matthew Perry has been battling with alcohol and drug addiction since his youth. His story is a cautionary tale for anyone considering dabbling with these substances. Even though it may sound like a broken record, I believe that similar warnings are worth repeating at every possible opportunity.

Back in the 90s, when Matthew Perry was starring in Friends, his addiction to cocaine and opiates was so severe that he often took drugs on the set of the show. At one point, he was so addicted that he couldn’t remember many of the scenes he was shooting.

Perry’s addiction really threw a wrench in his life. He had issues with memory, focus, and mental health. He lost many friends and loved ones. Matthew Perry has never been married and doesn’t have any kids. He’s been in a few long-term relationships, but none of them could weather his addiction.

His addictions really took a toll on his personal relationships. He was emotionally all over the place and often turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with stress and anxiety. This behavior was a pain in the neck for his partners and often led to conflicts.

In one of the interviews, Perry said that his addiction has wrecked many of his relationships. “I’ve been in many relationships that went belly up because of my addiction,” he said. “I’ve wrecked a lot of things in my life because of drugs and alcohol.”

His career also took a hit as he was having problems with memory and concentration, which made his work a hard nut to crack.

Perry had been through 15 rehabs and 12 surgeries, but he just couldn’t stay clean. In total, he spent 9 million dollars for treatment..

Matthew Perry’s story is a wake-up call for anyone who feels they might fall into the treacherous trap of alcohol or drugs. Getting hooked on them can have serious health, personal, and professional repercussions. Of course, while it’s clear that nobody’s perfect and anyone can find themselves in a similar situation, the most important thing is to never throw in the towel and not be ashamed to seek help, to step out of their comfort zone.

If you or someone you know is wrestling with addiction, reach out for help. There are plenty of support forms out there that can help you battle addiction and get back in the driver’s seat of your life.

Fame and money from a rich man’s perspective

Matthew Perry had a bit of a love-hate relationship with fame and money. On one hand, he was grateful for the success he had achieved, but on the other hand, he felt swamped by pressure and expectations. He even said that if he could,he would trade fame and fortune for a life free from addictions.

Perry was over the moon about the success he achieved thanks to Friends. The TV show brought him popularity and fame. Perry hit the jackpot and could afford to live the high life. At the time of his sudden death, his net worth was a whopping 120 million US dollars.

On the other side, Perry felt overwhelmed by the pressure and expectations. He knew he was in the public eye and that his life was under the microscope. This made him feel out of sorts and he often backed off.

Perry openly talks about his struggles with addiction. In his book Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, he writes about how fame and money contributed to his addiction, but also about how a huge amount of money saved him from death.

Perry reckons that fame can be a double-edged sword. It can lead to isolation, loneliness, and addictions. Perry advises folks who are hitting it big to tread carefully and seek help if they need it.

As you can see, big money means big opportunities, but also huge risks. It don’t give happiness in itself, but life would be a lot harder without it. In Perry’s case, it’s a pretty tricky math problem. Who would’ve thought that, on one hand, if it weren’t for money, maybe he wouldn’t have had unlimited access to various intoxicants, but on another, if he didn’t have it, would he be able to fight his illness so effectively and face life’s adversities head-on?

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

In the book Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry takes readers behind the scenes of the iconic sitcom, while also sharing his personal battles with addiction. The book tells the tale of Perry’s life and career, with a focus on his battle with the booze and drugs.

Perry spills the beans about his childhood and youth, including his rocky relationship with his parents and struggles with anxiety and depression. He also describes his quick rise to fame in Hollywood and his addiction to cocaine and opiates.

With his signature sense of humor and honesty, he describes his long-standing battle with illness and the motivation that helped him despite having ‘everything’. This book is an autobiography chock-full of the most intimate details about Perry’s lost love, his toughest times, and his loyal friends. Without a doubt, it’s genuine, touching, and full of wit.

The book is straight from the heart and personal. Perry doesn’t beat around the bush about his mistakes and weaknesses. He describes how his addiction wrecked his life and how hard it was for him to break free from it.

What can we take away from Matthew Perry’s history?

As a rule of thumb, we never learn anything better than through hard knocks. However, there are some exceptions to this rule and it’s worth saving yourself unnecessary suffering and disappointments, so I encourage you to learn from others’ stories. Matthew Perry’s story can be a real life lesson for us.

First off, addiction to alcohol and drugs can have serious health and personal consequences. Drugs only help for a moment, then comes the withdrawal, helplessness, and fear.

Fame and money can be a blessing, and most of us think of them in these terms, but they can also be a curse.

Let’s bear in mind that thanks to them, almost limitless possibilities open up before us—both good and bad. As I often say, they can provide us with comfort and convenience, but they’re no guarantee of happiness. Money, in itself, without sorting out health, relationships, well-being, doesn’t bring happiness.

Luckily, it’s never too late to start a new life. Perry has been battling addiction for many years. In the end, he managed to get his act together and build a new life. He even wanted to set up a foundation to help folks battling the same substance addiction issues. Let his story be a beacon of hope for all those battling addiction.

The book I mentioned in this article is available here: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

1 reason WHY YOU WON’T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life – Motivation

Why you won’t achieve success

I believe you deserve a truthful truth about why you won’t achieve success you want in your life. I base this post on my personal experience and the example of people who write to me and try to start their business on Amazon. I have many trainees who start an adventure with Amazon based on my Product24 course, and many of them see the same problem I saw at home a few years ago. What is this problem? What makes us fail in life?

1 reason why YOU WON’T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life — do you start something? Finish it.

This is the main reason why most people who try to achieve something ultimately fail, why they, including you won’t achieve success. Everything you want is beyond your comfort zone. Don’t delude yourself that it’s different. No motivation video on YouTube will cross your comfort zone or overcome the fear of failure for you. If you start creating a business, you change your life. Maybe by creating a relationship, or maybe starting reading a new book or doing an Internet course.

No matter what it is. When you start a project, how often do you stop in the middle of it and fail to see it through to completion? Think about it and answer yourself honestly? How many times do you put a book back on the shelf halfway through reading it and look for another better one? How many times has a cool idea been born in your head and maybe even you did something about it, but very quickly your fear of failure and the conviction that it wouldn’t work anyway took over?

Example of Amazon and my course’s participants

A lot of people who start business on Amazon with my course have the same problem. My students are given step by step knowledge of how to go through the process and what steps to take. I noticed that some are already in a lost position when buying an online course — why is that?

Some of the course participants know they’re barking up the wrong tree the moment they make the purchase. They’re hunting for excuses right off the bat to justify their future flop. Often, when we’re about to start something new, fear creeps into our minds and we start looking for excuses not to take action.

How else can you explain folks who throw in the towel during the first steps of registration on platforms for product publishing, just because they didn’t get a verification email or they don’t understand some things in English, when they could translate it with Google Translate in a jiffy?

How can we talk about success here, when so many people give up right at the start with simple tasks? I’ve been noticing such behaviors in people around me for a long time, and unfortunately in myself too, but now that I know this mechanism, I can fight it.

Why YOU WON’T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life? Are you a passive person?

Once upon a time, I was sitting on my butt, waiting for a miracle to happen. I was stuck in a rut and didn’t know what to do. But it was only when I took action and dedicated myself to one thing at a time that my life really turned around. You can’t wave the white flag at the first sign of trouble — it’s always going to be part of your life. No matter if it’s running a business on Amazon, working a nine-to-five job, studying or snagging a cool partner. Don’t wait, just act.

My life changed when I decided not to give up and created my products on Amazon. The beginnings were tough as nails, but months of hard graft, slip-ups, and frustration have led me to where I’m standing now. I’ve secured myself a nice passive income from Amazon, which has taken a load off my mind. Gaining self-confidence allowed me to create my very personal blog, teach others how to do the same, and overcome subsequent challenges—especially in my own head.

Too many options lead to no action

We live in times where we have a ton of choices in everything. This makes us often not act at all. Decide what you want to achieve and stick to your guns for a while—say, for a year. Don’t let yourself be thrown off balance and distracted. If you want to publish 10 books on Amazon, then focus on that and don’t do anything else for half a year. If you’re working or studying, dedicate a few evenings a week just for your chosen goal. Take your time and each day, slowly but surely, inch towards your goal.

Don’t go chasing after shiny new opportunities, because you’ll stop pursuing your previous goals. There’s no such thing as perfect ideas that bring results right off the bat. A business idea is just 1% of success — the rest is all about smart strategy execution and action. I kicked off my Amazon adventure by scoring my first wins thanks to focusing on one topic for a long time and the knowledge that guided me step by step.

1 reason WHY YOU WON’T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life – Motivation — watch the video

1 reason WHY YOU WON'T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life – Motivation — preview the video transcript

1 reason WHY YOU WON’T ACHIEVE SUCCESS in life
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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Today I’ll tell you about one reason
why you won’t achieve success in life.

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It doesn’t matter if it’s a success
in business, in relationships,

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at work, at school – just in life.

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It’s about all aspects of life, because
you should treat these aspects as a whole.

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The principle is the same in all of them.

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When it comes to this reason
which causes your failure in life

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on many levels,
which I’ll enumerate in a sec,

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I’ll speak from my experience.

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That’s because
I failed many times in my life.

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So, it’ll be based on my example
and the example of my students

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who go through my Amazon courses.

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What’s the reason
why you won’t succeed in life

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and won’t achieve your goals,
both minor and major ones?

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The reason is –
if you start something, finish it.

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The reason is very simple.

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If you start some project,
an online course, a book,

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then finish it, do what you have to do
and don’t let go, don’t give up.

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If you start reading a book,
let’s say a business book,

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you want to develop
and halfway through the book you stop

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and look for another,
more interesting one.

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Or you start an online course,
work through the lectures, watch

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and you don’t do anything,
just letting it go.

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You go to work, change it for another one,
hoping that you’ll earn more there,

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but it does not happen.

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Sometimes the same case
may be in relationships,

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that you always look for
the perfect relationship

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instead of focusing on one.

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It can be compared to many things,
but I’m speaking from experience,

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because I failed many times,
I was constantly changing

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aspects of my life
and looked for an ideal place.

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Only when I pulled myself together
and started focusing on one thing,

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had I found this place.

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I’ll also say a bit about
the experience of my students

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whom I teach how to sell on Amazon.

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The idea for this video
came from my observation.

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I noticed that many people
have bought my courses

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and they go through these courses,
release their products,

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but some of them –
luckily, the minority –

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after buying the course
give up very easily at the very start.

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They turn on the first lessons
and let go,

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giving up when
encountering the first problems.

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Like, when they
need to create an account

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or when they don’t receive
the verification email.

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That’s what happens if you
don’t learn to finish what you started.

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So, if you start a book
and don’t read to the end

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or if you buy an online course,
which requires months of work

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and you give up after one month,
as you don’t have results.

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Nobody has results after
one month of work, no matter what.

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Whether it’s publishing books,
working on gym, doing sports, day job –

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you won’t achieve results after one month.

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However, if you will finish things –
basing on my students’ experience –

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and sacrifice a few months, half a year
for finishing what you started,

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bringing the whole project to completion,
then you’ll get the results.

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If you don’t, you won’t get results.

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Remember that
you can’t be a reactive person,

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you can’t submit to all the impulses.

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Should you reach for
something new and fun? No.

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If you have decided upon something,
like, releasing your products online,

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then stick to it
for a few months or a year.

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Devote a few evenings a week
after your day job or school and do it.

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Nothing brings results right away.

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Only months and years of work
can turn into great results.

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You’re often very close,
but ultimately give up,

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because you get interested in
something amazing and new.

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No. The key to success is not giving up.

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Everyone has plenty of ideas,
but the idea is just 1% of success.

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The remaining 99% is execution.

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That’s why so few people
achieve something in life –

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they give up their business,
change jobs and way of life.

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After many failures
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I finally focused on one thing.

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I buckled down
on the topic of Amazon

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and I’ve been developing it for years.

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It took me months of work and failures
to start achieving first successes

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and create my book,
which was an Amazon Kindle bestseller.

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So, it didn’t happen out of the blue.

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It was preceded by many months
of work, investments and failures.

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If I had given up after 3 months,
I wouldn’t have had anything out of it.

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It took me some time
to get best results

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and a whole year
to start releasing many products.

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Now, I have more than 550.

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It took a lot of learning, many failures
and frustrations, but I didn’t give up

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and I didn’t search for
another amazing thing.

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Which is hard nowadays,
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That’s why it’s so easy to get distracted,
start something new

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and, in fact, complete nothing.

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Remember – the basic principle is
to finish what you started.

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If you finish small things,
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it’s such little things
that your life consists of.

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If you learn to
make a habit of completing things,

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not leaving them open,
then it would reflect in bigger matters.

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If you devote to some project,
like the kind of business I’m teaching,

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then you can get big results
in a few months or years.

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Remember that you won’t achieve
anything in one month.

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Only the persistent ones get
what they want and others just give up.

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Be persistent, act, don’t give up,
finish what you started –

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that’s the key to success.

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Greetings from Kraków and Vistula river,
where I’ll continue my trip.

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See how cool Vistula looks like.
Greetings from Kraków.

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I’ll see you on YouTube every Friday.

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Maybe more often, as I have time now.

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If you liked this video,
give thumbs up, subscribe

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and see you in the next video.

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Bye!

How to Get Rich (review) + WHY YOU WON’T BECOME WEALTHY

We all have a lot of great ideas and plans, but fear of failure is their biggest slayer. A lot of people in my circle wonder how to get rich. Often they tell me they’ve got a brilliant idea for a business and for changing their lives. However, the vast majority of them are all talk and no action, as time keeps ticking away. Moreover, we often don’t even talk about our ideas and dreams. Why?

I am reading a very good book titled How to Get Rich — it is a guide and at the same time an autobiography of British millionaire Felix Dennis. How to Get Rich presents the harsh truth about wealth and achieving our goals in a very engaging way for the reader. Based on this book, I’ll lay out a few reasons why you might not hit the jackpot and achieve success in life. We can understand wealth as not only money but also all kinds of successes and a happy life.

Why won’t you achieve wealth?

If you’re scared of taking a hit and admitting it publicly, your chances of striking it rich are slim to none.
If you’re always sweating over what the neighbors might think, you’ll never be a wealthy person.
If you choose a safe path in the form of less responsible nine-to-five job and are afraid to risk your the and your loved ones’ safety, you will never become a rich person.
If you can’t work harder and more than your friends and family, you’ll never learn how to get rich.
If you can’t convince yourself that you’re good enough and valuable enough to be rich, then you’ll never attain wealth.
If you can’t look your fear of failure in the eye, you’ll never be a wealthy person.

Fear of failure

Fear of failure is the main factor that blocks us from achieving more in life. Have you ever pondered how often you give up on taking action (even on small daily things) because of fear and uncertainty? How often do you let go of something you desire because fear and the thought of failure creep into your mind?

Achieving your goals through hard work, giving up pleasures, exposing yourself to criticism during the process, and potentially facing public criticism for your failed actions — all of this is scary and it holds you back. Fear of failure and humiliation, along with a lack of belief in one’s own abilities, effectively puts the brakes on most people’s efforts to improve their lives.

The good news is that everyone grapples with this fear, and that’s why the vast majority of people don’t hit the jackpot or amass wealth. This means for you that by overcoming this fear of failure and criticism, you can take the lead.

The Blog From Waiter To Millionaire, or how to get rich

When I was kicking off with my blog, I had to publicly show that I was getting into action. Everyone around saw my work, movies, blog, and personal thoughts. My first video showed my goals for 2018 and included a public statement on how to achieve those goals.

I didn’t know how to get rich, how to do most of the things required in setting up this kind of business like a blog. Creating a platform on WordPress, designing graphics, writing posts, creating videos and online courses was what I had to learn and only believing in my own strengths helped me do it despite many contradictions and problems.

I’ll never forget the first time I invested a substantial amount of money in an Amazon course, and the fear that accompanied me then is still fresh in my mind. I invested a good chunk of my savings into education on sales and my first products on Amazon. I was really scared, and only the faith in my own abilities, drawn from books and motivational movies, allowed me to conquer the fear of failure.

So how to get rich by overcoming the fear of failure?

In his book, Felix Dennis suggests that in order to conquer the fear of failure, you need to handle it in the right way. You can’t look at your fear as something utterly terrifying and succumb to it. Treat fear like a horse, which might be wild at first, but over time, you can tame it. What’s more, you can even ride such a horse. One thing’s for sure — you can’t give in to your fear, because then you’ll definitely remain a poor person in all aspects of your life.

A few simple tips on how to conquer the fear of failure:

Battle your fears every day, conquer them in every aspect of your life.
Are you scared of something? Do it!
Is there something bothering you? Despite that, carry on.
Maybe you’re ashamed of something, or you hide something? Come out of hiding and don’t think about others’ opinions.
Show what you’re made of and step out of your comfort zone every day.
Do you want to have something you don’t have? You have to do something you don’t do!

If you’re still scared, don’t want to take a gamble and expose yourself to public and personal defeat, then the road to wealth and success is closed for you. Period.

WHY YOU WON’T BECOME WEALTHY + review of How to Get Rich — watch the video

WHY YOU WON'T BECOME WEALTHY + review of How to Get Rich — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Today I’ll tell you
about the fear of failure

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and why you won’t be rich.

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Each of us has some
goals, small or big dreams.

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Many people dream of starting a business,
changing their lives or jobs.

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Some want to lose weight or gain it.

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Each of us has dreams that we
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However, many of us give up on these
dreams, even the smallest ones,

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as we’re afraid of failure
or being an object of ridicule.

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We’re simply afraid of failing.

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Today, I’d like to explain the reasons
and help learn how to get rich.

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But before we get to that
very fear of failure

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and how to deal with it,
I want to show you –

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basing on the book
“How to Get Rich” by Felix Dennis –

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some reasons why
you won’t learn how to be rich in your life.

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Whether it’s financial wealth,
achieving goals or changing life.

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It’ll eventually lead us
to the fear of failure.

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So, if you’re afraid to fail in your life
and to admit it publicly,

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then you won’t ever be a rich person
and you won’t achieve your goals.

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If you’re worried what neighbors,
others, family and strangers will think,

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then you’ll neither be rich,
nor achieve your goals.

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If you’ll play safe in the form of
some simple day job,

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you won’t take on challenges,
you’ll be afraid to start your business –

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even after hours at first –
then you’ll never know how to be rich.

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If you’re not able to work harder,
for example, over a dozen hours a day,

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or can’t spare some time after work
for a hobby which can bring money someday,

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then you’ll never be successful
and you won’t be a rich person.

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If you can’t
face the fear that scares you

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and you won’t realize
that it’s blocking you,

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then you’ll never be rich.

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If you want to see all that I say,
be welcome to read my blog post.

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There’s a link to a blog article
under each video.

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And now – the fear of failure.

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How often do you give up on
an action you want to take?

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Maybe you often want to talk to someone,
learn or accomplish something,

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create something bigger?

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It doesn’t matter
if it’s a small or big thing,

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but how often are you giving up on
satisfaction of needs,

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achieving your goals, your dreams?

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How often does it happen?

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Most people very often avoid taking action
because of this fear of failure.

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But the good news is that
each of us feels this fear.

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Each of us is afraid to
approach a stranger,

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talk to a boy or a girl,
launch some project.

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Each of us is afraid of being ridiculed
in front of loved ones or strangers.

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Everyone is afraid
what other people may say.

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then you have a big advantage over others
and you can take the lead.

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I’ll say about my blog,
as it’s a great example of

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overcoming the fear of failure.

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On my blog, From Waiter To Millionaire,
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I publicly show my weaknesses,
give solutions to various problems I had,

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I present my story
and give you a cool knowledge.

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And at this point, if I fail,
I publicly show my failure.

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Accepting this fear and following it
along the way is the only answer.

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At the start of my blog,
I didn’t know how to create videos,

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blog posts, run WordPress,
create online courses, etc.

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But despite this, I decided to act
and I encourage you to do the same.

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And now I’d like to tell you
how to overcome the fear of failure,

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basing on the book How to Get Rich
and on my thoughts.

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Felix Dennis
describes in his book

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that the fear of failure
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You can’t treat it as a scary monster
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Felix Dennis shows in his book
that you need to treat fear as a mare.

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He describes the fear as a mare,
so to treat it as a horse.

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A horse that is wild and dangerous.

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work on it and act despite this fear.

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In time, you can even use this fear
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overcoming your weaknesses,
achieving goals and dreams.

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You have to live with this fear.

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Now, some simple advice
how to overcome such a fear of failure.

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You should fight with
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Facing your fear must happen everyday
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as it’s the only way to start acting.

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If you’re afraid of something,
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changing a job, achieving goals
or such a small thing like tattoo –

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as many people will advise you against it,
for example, your parents –

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then you must overcome this fear,
act in spite of it and achieve your goals.

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Let’s take improving physical condition
to have a nice body for example –

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it’ll be uncomfortable for you
to run, go to gym and have diet,

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but you’re able to overcome this fear
and achieve your goals

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only through discomfort.

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Maybe you’re ashamed of something
and don’t want to show it.

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No – you must be open about it
and you don’t care what others will think.

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You must go your own way,
don’t care about others

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and reveal what you’re afraid of.

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your potential, act despite everything

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and not be afraid to show
that you are here,

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and that you believe in yourself.

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You can’t have
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“I don’t know, I don’t want to,
I don’t believe in myself”.

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With lack of self-esteem,
you’ll never be able to be

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rich and valuable person.

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My last video was about
taking cold showers.

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They’re a great example that
when you get out of

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your comfort zone every morning,
you strengthen strong will,

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overcome fear and yourself,
then you can achieve success

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and be rich
in various aspects of your life.

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And the last rule – if you want to have
something you don’t,

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you must do something you don’t.

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If you want to run a company,
you have to work all day

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for many years to achieve this.

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Want to lose weight? Exercise.

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Want to have a partner?
Work on yourself and be a better person.

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There’s no other way.

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COLD SHOWER in the morning – 10 powerful advantages of cold morning showers

I always talk about this on my blog, that if you want to have something you don’t have, you have to do something you haven’t done yet. Taking a cold shower in the morning is a perfect example and proof of the effectiveness of this rule, as this habit requires you to give up your comfort, but in return, it offers a ton of benefits.

How to feel better? How to be healthier? How to strengthen your psyche? How to increase our energy levels? How to achieve successes in life?

Each of us wants a better life and we often hunt for tried-and-true exercises to boost our situation. Maybe you’re just starting out on the road to consciously improving your life, or perhaps you’ve already come a long way? No matter what stage you’re at right now — if you’re not yet taking cold showers in the morning, then this is something for you.

I know it might sound pretty terrifying and dipping into cold water in the morning might seem downright impossible to you. I also thought so until I beat my another comfort zone. The perks of taking a cold shower in the morning are pretty clear-cut and for those who want to improve their life on many levels, that’s why I highly recommend biting the bullet and giving it a try.

Here are 10 benefits of taking cold showers in the morning:

Cold shower in the morning strengthens your psyche

Do you ever get that feeling, like when you pull off something tough, you feel really good, you sense a boost in self-confidence and satisfaction after completing a challenging task? That’s just how a cold shower in the morning works — it sets you up really well for the upcoming day. By tackling an uncomfortable task right after waking up, you get the idea in your head that you can handle other tough and uncomfortable tasks. A strong will then positively translates into all aspects of your day. Your success in every walk of life depends on your strong will and ability to overcome obstacles.

A cold shower in the morning will wake you up better than coffee

A cold shower in the morning will make you feel incredibly fresh and invigorated. The buzz you get from such a cold shower in the morning is directly proportional to the pain you have to endure at the very beginning. Taking a cold shower isn’t a piece of cake (especially at the beginning), but as life often shows us, the bigger the challenge, the greater the benefits that come along. After a cold bath, I feel like I’ve spent an hour at the gym and it’s definitely worth those few moments of suffering.

Boosts the body’s immunity

Another big plus of a cold shower is indeed boosting your immunity. Just like taking a dip in cold water in the winter, or cooling off with cold water after a sauna session, a cold shower toughens us up and builds our resilience. It’s scientifically proven and a cold shower is simply an effective physical exercise for our body.

It boosts blood circulation and the health of the whole body

This is another health aspect of this method. Taking a cold shower in the morning is a simple trick that gets your blood rushing to your organs and stimulates circulation throughout your body. This results in beefing up your circulatory system and a boost to your overall health. You don’t have to hit the gym or take up demanding sports to get a bit of a workout and give your body a bit of a push.

A cold shower in the morning boosts your testosterone level

This is information important for men. What does boosting testosterone levels help with? Better sex drive, mood boost, more energy, less body fat, healthier bones, muscle mass increase, and many more. There’s a reason why testosterone injections are used in doping.

A cold shower aids weight loss

Cold showers also have an impact on your fat tissue — apart from boosting testosterone in men and improving circulation, a cold shower (and cold in general) also stimulates brown fat tissue which results in weight loss. I myself apply cold showers, paleo diet and do simple sports I am very visible “ripped” and many people ask me how I managed to lose weight.

See also what my typical day looks like. In the video, I’m showing off my habits and running an interesting business from the ground up:

It spruces up the look of your skin and hair

A cold shower (as opposed to hot water) doesn’t dry out your skin and hair at all. Thanks to this, your body stripped of its natural protection and it gains in terms of health and appearance. By the way, you’ll save a bit of money on moisturizers and creams.

A cold shower in the morning boosts the body’s oxygen supply

Cold water causes a slight shock to our body and then we start breathing deeply. It has a really positive impact on oxygenating your body, and as a result, on your alertness and overall mood. The cold also helps to recover better, which is valuable for people who play sports.

A cold shower in the morning is a quick wake-up call and a ton of energy

There’s no chance of feeling sleepy after a cold shower in the morning. Oxygenating your body, improving circulation, and stimulation — all these things mean that you wake up to life in a flash and your day will be much better right off the bat.

A remedy for stress and depression

The feeling you get after a cold shower in the morning can be described as a huge relief combined with a shot of energy. Your body relaxes similar to after a physical workout, a sauna, or a massage.

A cold shower is like a little morning challenge that boosts your confidence. People struggling with self-confidence and motivation should definitely make cold showers a must. Better circulation, oxygenation, stepping out of your comfort zone, higher testosterone levels, and improved immunity — all these factors can really give a leg up to those grappling with tougher times in life.

How to kick off the adventure with your cold shower in the morning?

I recommend you a 7-day challenge. Plan for yourself that for the next 7 days, you’ll be taking a cold shower every morning after waking up and stick to this resolution. 7 days is a short stretch of time that’ll let you judge for yourself if it’s worth it. There’s a good chance that after 7 days, this habit will stick with you forever.

At what temperature should you take a cold shower in the morning?

The cold water from the tap can vary in temperature depending on the time of year. In the winter, it’s usually a good deal colder and taking a cold shower will then be a bigger challenge. The water temperature will also depend on the building you live in. For instance, in a building located near the ground (especially in winter), the water on the lower floors will be cooler. Living currently on the eighth floor, I can see a huge difference in water temperature compared to the water temperature on the first floor where I once started taking cold showers.

Don’t cheat — the water has to be cold, which simply means turn on the cold water and take a 1-2 minute shower. Don’t overthink and don’t overplan the whole process. You don’t have to douse your whole body right off the bat. Start off gradually from the limbs and work your way towards the heart — this is the standard rule when for a cold shower routine or, for example, after using a sauna, meaning you don’t cool down the entire body all at once to avoid a major shock.

COLD SHOWER in the morning routine – 10 advantages of cold morning showers — watch the video

A COLD SHOWER in the morning routine — 10 BENEFITS of a cold shower in the morning for health and for success in life

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Hi! Cold shower in the morning.
What are its advantages?

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Why should you take such a shower?

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I always say on my blog that
if you want something you don’t have,

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whatever it is, you must
do something you don’t.

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The principle is simple,
trivial and obvious,

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but how many of us do something
uncomfortable to achieve anything?

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We all hope that everything
will come easily – but it won’t.

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If you want to have something new,
you must do something you don’t.

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And that’s where
cold showers topic comes in.

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No matter if you want to be
healthier, look better, lose weight,

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feel better or toughen up –
a cold shower will help you with it.

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It doesn’t matter if you’re depressed
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or perhaps you’re well-situated.

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In any of these situations
a cold shower will help you a lot.

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I’ve tested them for almost a month now.
My friend, Patryk, recommended me them.

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I’ve always heard that some
successful people are taking cold showers,

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but I resisted –
cold water was not for me.

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But I changed my mind and I’ve taken
these showers for past few weeks.

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I highly recommend it to you and I present
10 pros of cold showers in the morning.

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If you want to read on this topic,
I publish a blog post with every video,

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so be welcome to check it out –
link in description.

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Read, if you want, or watch this video
on 10 advantages of

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taking cold showers in the morning.

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I have my blog article printed here.

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The first and most important
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is strengthening your willpower.

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Going under the cold water in the morning
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is very effective and has
a great impact on our willpower.

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That’s because if you do
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you practice your willpower
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helps you with this a lot –
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If you break your comfort zone
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then you have a great attitude towards
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Whether it’s private life,
business, day job, anything.

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If you face some difficulties,
it’ll be easier for you to deal with them,

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because after taking a cold shower
you’ll be able to overcome troubles.

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And you won’t be afraid of
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So, strengthening of a willpower
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taking cold showers.

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The second thing is simply a wake-up.

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Cold shower will quickly awaken you.

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Going under cold water,
as uncomfortable as it is,

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wakes you much better than coffee
and you’re not sleepy afterwards.

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The third advantage –
improving the body’s immunity.

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Toughening up with cold water
after leaving the sauna,

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by winter swimming or taking
cold showers enhances your immunity,

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because cold water toughens you up.

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In this way, you’re more immune
during winter and harsh conditions.

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It’s said that these kinds of treatments
greatly improve our immunity.

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I agree with that. I feel cool
and I think my immunity is enhanced.

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Another advantage –
improved blood circulation.

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Our blood is very stiffed in the morning.

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Taking a cold shower,
you awaken your body which gets shocked.

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All blood in our body
flows faster and better.

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Our body functions better
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Another advantage is rather
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cold showers increase the level of
testosterone in our bodies.

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It’s known that testosterone
is very beneficial for men’s health.

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There’s a reason why athletes illegally
add testosterone to their bodies,

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because testosterone has a great effect
on our strength, muscle mass,

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libido, mood and many other things.

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Cold showers increase
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and thus benefit in
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What are the next
advantages of cold showers?

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A cold shower aids weight loss.

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I did the research online
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cold showers are very beneficial for
brown adipose tissue,

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which helps in losing weight.

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So, cold showers are worth taking,
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because they work well in this aspect.

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Another advantage –
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is improvement of skin and hair condition.

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Ladies know about it very well
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hot baths or showers
dry out our skin very much.

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It’s also definitely beneficial
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I don’t have much of them.

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so I recommend it, especially for women.

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Let’s move on – a cold shower
increases the body’s oxygenation.

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When you enter a cold shower,
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You breathe harder, as your
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which makes you feel very good.

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Oxygen gets to our body through,
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We get stimulated and feel much better.

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The tenth advantage – a cold shower
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Let’s face it – if you take
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then the dose of energy is so high
that you’re about to explode.

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You don’t know what to do.

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I feel very recharged and want to do
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a cold shower is a cure for depression.

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That’s because it increases
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boosts our energy and makes us
feel better both mentally and physically.

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when it comes to depression,
bad mood or a lack of willpower.

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and take actions,
do various interesting things.

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It also increases your self-confidence.

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So, that’s why I think that
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that is, each day right after getting up,
take 2-3 minutes cold shower.

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Take on such a challenge for 7 days,
maybe 14 – I recommend 7 –

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and after 7 days
you’ll probably stick to them

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and you won’t want to stop using them,
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the mood and willpower improvement,
well-being, willingness to take actions

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and desire to live, will compensate
the pain of taking a cold shower.

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If you’ve liked this video,
subscribe, click the bell, give thumbs up.

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Every Friday, I upload
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Greetings from the place where
I’m surrounded by cold water.

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I’ll slowly get out of here,
as the storm seems to be approaching

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and I don’t want to be surprised
by cold water and cold shower.

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I took it in the morning,
so that’s enough.

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Thanks a lot. See you on Friday.
Take care. Bye!

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High sensitivity — how to deal with it? Book, test and tips

The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron N. — a groundbreaking book, test and tips

High sensitivity is a tricky and somewhat uncomfortable topic, but since you’re here, ask yourself at the outset — do you sometimes feel overwhelmed, feel an excess of stimuli and emotions? Does this happen to you quite often, just like it does to me? In this article, you’ll discover what high sensitivity is, you’ll use a test to check if you’re a highly sensitive person, and I’ll recommend valuable readings necessary to deepen your knowledge on this topic. I base this post on the fantastic book The Highly Sensitive Person — a book that opened my eyes.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is high sensitivity and its impact on daily life?
Are you a highly sensitive person? Take the test!
How does understanding high sensitivity improve well-being?
Recommended resources for highly sensitive individuals?
Best careers for highly sensitive people?”

High sensitivity — what is it?

The topic of sensitivity may seem uncomfortable and even shameful. Who among us has the courage to publicly admit that they feel everything very intensely and often suffer because of it? I’ve got the guts and I want to help others by sharing my experience and knowledge. Same as with depression, acknowledging that you have a problem (or you have certain features, as in this case) is a very important step towards happiness.

In today’s world we have a lot of things to deal with every day, we live in a continuous hustle and from every side we are attacked by various events, people, sounds, images, scents, tasks to do, in other words, by all kinds of stimuli in a large amount. The Highly Sensitive Person says that about 20% of the population are highly sensitive people.

However, this is not about sensitivity in its common meaning. It’s about how our nervous system works, how we take stimuli and how we respond to them. It’s about our sensitivity to the outside world and to what surrounds us. We see more, we feel more and sometimes it is too much for us — we can fight it, or we can understand it and use our qualities for our good. High sensitivity is also known by its abbreviation, HSP (Highly Sensitive Person).

High sensitivity — test and description of a highly sensitive person

(the complete test for high sensitivity can be found in the book The Highly Sensitive Person)

Do you discern various subtle details from your surroundings?
Does the mood of other people affects you significantly?
Do you need a moment for yourself on days when a lot happens?
Do you have a complicated inner life?
Do loud sounds make you feel uneasy?
Feeling shaken with a lot of tasks to do?
Do you hate doing a lot of things at the same time?
You dislike competing and being watched — do you perform worse when?
Were you seen as a sensitive person when you were a kid?

If your answer to the most of these questions is “yes”, it is likely that you are a highly sensitive person. From The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron N., you can learn that there are different degrees of sensitivity and there is a so-called normal distribution of the chosen characteristic in society. Sensitivity in most people in society will be medium, and only around 20% of people can be classified as highly sensitive.

It is worth remembering, however, that you can be a highly sensitive person a little more or less. Just like, for example, how tall you are against other in society has its average and certain percentage of people can be considered as tall, but they also differ in height from each other. However, the majority of the population fluctuates around the average height.

High sensitivity — how to deal with it?

First of all, it is important to understand who we are — here I especially recommend the book The Highly Sensitive People by Elaine Aron N. The highly sensitive people need above all a lot of peaceful time for rest and relaxation. However, it doesn’t have to mean doing nothing. Calmness and doing everything at your own pace will be good for you, including work, daily chores, or even driving a car. Dream also plays a very important role, and it must be long enough. Unfortunately, highly sensitive people need more sleep and often experience sleeping troubles due to overstimulation.

Don’t overwhelm yourself with too much hustle and bustle — if you cram your day with tons of activities and skip a well-deserved break, things might turn out pretty rough for you.

However, if you feel overwhelmed in a difficult situation (a lot of tasks to do, a large number of people around you), try to reformulate the situation on based on what you’ve just learned. Getting to know yourself better can really help you grasp your emotions and avoid feeling down. If you understand that your body is more sensitive and that you are a highly sensitive person, you don’t torment yourself with a sense of guilt and don’t think that there is something wrong with you. We often find ourselves in the company of people who are not as sensitive as we are, and keeping up with them in everyday situations is simply not for us.

As a highly sensitive person so-called HSP, you need to understand who you are and adapt your life to your needs, not the other way round. It’s worth starting by adding more rest and time for yourself. However, over time, it is worth considering changing your job to one that suits you better. As a highly sensitive person, you will feel overwhelmed in loud and crowded places. Working in a calm environment, or even at home, may be more suitable for you.

It is also worth considering with whom you want to spend time. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about co-workers, friends, or a partner, but it will be difficult for you to keep up with a person who needs large amount of stimulation, while you need time for yourself.

Is high sensitivity something wrong and how to live with it?

Definitely no. This is, in a sense, a gift, but you need to be aware of it. If you don’t understand yourself, then you often force yourself and try to be like the world around you. Unfortunately, sometimes you do it against your will. High sensitivity can be used as your strength in both personal and professional life.

Highly sensitive people — what job is suitable for them?

Since we are quieter and subtler, we work well as advisers, teachers (not necessarily in a loud school), doctors, artists, writers, musicians, or even people working in the religious sphere, freelancers. However, we may not perform well as loud individuals who act as warriors. Of course, these are just simple examples of professions for us, but it’s more about the style of performing each of these professions. Each of us will find our calling, but nowadays there is a very wide range of opportunities and we can run an online business or company even from our own apartment. The fact that I run a blog probably also stems largely from the fact that I am a highly sensitive person—that’s why I’m doing so well at it.

The Highly Sensitive Person — a groundbreaking book

This book literally changes how you perceive your life. The author, who is a psychotherapist and also a highly sensitive person, shows in this book exactly what high sensitivity is and how to deal with it. This is a mandatory reading for all highly sensitive people—the awareness of who you are and the knowledge of how to cope in difficult situations completely changes your approach to yourself. After reading this book, I gained a certain kind of enlightenment and stopped tormenting myself and denying my high sensitivity. I have understood and accepted who I am as a person. I stopped pretending to be someone I wasn’t in front of others and started taking care of myself, because I realized who I am and what is good for me.

Reading alone, of course, does not change the world around you and you will still be attacked by various stimuli. However, once you understand who you are, you will be able to look at yourself and your emotions from a bit of a distance. This is the power of knowledge that allows to better control emotions and response to the external world. Knowing the mechanisms of how highly sensitive individuals operate, you can consciously avoid negative situations and effectively cope with overload of stimuli.

I keep my fingers crossed for you. Let me know what your impressions are.

High sensitivity — how to deal with it? Book, test and tips — watch the video

High sensitivity — how to deal with it? Book, test and tips — preview the video transcript

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High sensitivity.

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What is it?
How to deal with it?

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And a short test for high sensitivity –
are you a highly sensitive person?

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All based on the book “The Highly
Sensitive Person” by Elaine Aron.

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I’m making this video, because
I showed this book on a livestream –

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this book is very important to me –

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and a few people wrote that
this book has changed their lives.

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I want to help people
who may identify with this topic,

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to understand it better.

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First of all, at the start
let’s make a short test

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on being a highly sensitive person
and then we’ll get to the topic.

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I’m going to ask you some questions.

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If you answer yes
and identify with these answers,

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then you’re a highly sensitive person.

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Do you notice various subtle
details of your surroundings?

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The mood of others greatly affects you –
both positive and negative one

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has a large impact on your
well-being and mood?

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After a hard day, you need
moments just for yourself to relax

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and you feel good on
a very though of having this time?

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Do you have a very complicated inner life?

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Loud noises, many stimuli
make you extremely uncomfortable?

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A lot of tasks to be done, an excess of
tasks to be done make you feel shaky?

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You don’t like doing a lot of things
at once, you can’t focus and panic?

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You don’t like competition
and being watched by people,

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as you don’t perform well,
so you prefer to work alone by your rules?

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In childhood, you were perceived as
a highly sensitive person

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and many people have told you that?

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If you identify with these questions,
you’re probably highly sensitive person.

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What is a highly sensitive person?

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Elaine Aron in her book
“The Highly Sensitive Person”

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claims that 20% of our society
is highly sensitive, which is a lot.

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20% is really a lot.

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So, what is a highly sensitive person?

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You may think that it’s
an oversensitive person who cries

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when something happens and it’s hard
for them – you’re wrong.

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It’s a type of person, in terms of
the build of nervous system,

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who is sensitive for all kinds of stimuli
from the surroundings.

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Whether they’re sounds,
excess of tasks to do,

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encountered people, smells, etc.

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Everything from outside
what our head perceives.

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Highly sensitive people feel
overwhelmed by an excess of stimuli.

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There’s a limen, a threshold for stimuli
when you’re a highly sensitive person.

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Let’s say that average people
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set at some average level.

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It’s not a clear line of separation of
sensitive and average,

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but rather a parabola.

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However, highly sensitive people
have a raised threshold.

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Some level of noise, amount of work,
things to do, smells, people around, etc.,

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is unbearable for these people,
in contrast to others.

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At this point, if a highly sensitive
person has this excess of stimuli,

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then it feels greatly overwhelmed
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stimuli, tasks,
smells, noise, light, etc.

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It results in many
negative ways for this person,

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because you can break down
and be overwhelmed

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or a very upsetting feelings
connected with this.

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The whole problem is that
we often don’t understand why it happens.

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That’s because highly sensitive people
often put themselves in situations

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connected with work, private life,
going out to loud places,

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working in them or generally
hanging out with very loud people.

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All this make highly sensitive people
feel overwhelmed and bad.

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They sense the moods of others,
some subtle things in their surroundings.

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but you don’t even know it,

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then it can have very bad effects on you.

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That is, you don’t understand yourself,
feel that there’s something wrong with you

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and the excess of stimuli
causes you to break down,

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so your organism must defend itself.

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The author of this book –
a psychotherapist –

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describes that
many people came to her,

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claiming that there’s something
very wrong with them.

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It turned out that these people
were overwhelmed by various stimuli

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and they were unable to function,
as they didn’t understand themselves.

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what is high sensitivity –

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that is, an excess of stimuli
makes you overwhelmed –

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and know that a large percentage
of the population is highly sensitive,

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and that a knowledge
about it is available,

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then the next question is –
how to deal with a high sensitivity?

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First of all, you need to
understand who you are.

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You should gain knowledge from
videos, articles or books

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and if you understand
what kind of person you are,

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then it’s the first step
to improving your situation.

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By understanding who you are,
you don’t perceive yourself as a weirdo,

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but you know what’s wrong with you
and you try to change it.

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you’re a highly sensitive person,

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aside from
the very fact of accepting it,

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what to do to simply feel better,
to cope with this affliction?

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Although you should call it a trait.

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First of all, if a mood of others
affects you very strongly,

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try not to stay with such people
or use your skill.

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Above all, you need to
spend a lot of time on resting.

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reaches your nervous system,

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what will happen to you?

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Unless you live in the forest,
then you need to take time to rest.

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It’s the main, basic principle –
after a hard day, take time to rest,

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often in solitude, or go for a walk,
or you can also do a calm work.

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It can be your hobby, gardening,
walking in the woods or park,

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listening to music, etc.

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The idea is to rest and understand
that you need leisure time.

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You can’t work for 14 hours,
jump into bed for 6 hours and work again,

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as you’ll break down after a few days,
if you’re a highly sensitive person.

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What else? You need a lot of sleep.

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Try to avoid being exposed
to the excess of stimuli.

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So, if you work in a loud,
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then as a highly sensitive person,
you just won’t do well there.

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That’s a fact,
no matter what your occupation is.

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Unfortunately, you may
need to change your job.

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But let’s assume that
you’re a graphic designer –

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instead of working in the
noisy office where you can’t focus,

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then you should consider
working from home.

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In this way,
you work in silence and peace.

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Not only you’ll feel better,
but also you’ll be much more effective,

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able to do more and make more money –
it’s very important.

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Another thing, after understanding
what kind of person you are,

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is to adjust your surroundings to your
personality – not the other way around.

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That’s because by understanding
that the excess of stimuli affects you,

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you should consider changing your
workplace and people around you.

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After a hard day at work,
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going to a party
will be disastrous for you,

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as you’ll get tired
and won’t be able to rest.

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Maybe it’s worth to replace
the people you hang out

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for people who are not so loud
and try to spend a free time

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in a calm, subtle manner
and often alone.

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And now the question –
because you may think that

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a high sensitivity is a bad thing,
a negative trait.

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It can be a negative one,
if you don’t understand it

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and you force yourself to do things
which are not good for you.

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That’s because in a very extrovert world
you will be pushed by your surroundings

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to a multitasking, holding a phone
and typing on keyboard at once,

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chaos, going out, etc.

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No – you have to understand
that this is a trait.

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And if you understand what it is,
you’re able to turn it into your strength.

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Resign from the tiring things,
that is, an excess of stimuli,

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maybe change your occupation and use
this high sensitivity in your career,

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in a work where
you’ll be able to do a good job.

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There are occupations
suitable for highly sensitive people.

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In this book, it’s described
in a very cool way

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that even though highly sensitive
people back in the old days

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weren’t hired on top positions,
like, a king can’t be highly sensitive,

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but his advisor, who sees all the details,
subtly senses moods,

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understands how everything works,
is able to be a great advisor

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and excel in advisory
occupations, for example.

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Fortunately, nowadays in the age of
the Internet and the flow of information,

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you can work as a freelancer.

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That is, you can
work from home, remotely.

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Thousands of new professions
have emerged,

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which are greatly adapted for
highly sensitive people.

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Like being a graphic designer
or running an online business.

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My blog is about an online business
and it’s not a coincidence.

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Only after some time had I realized
that the fact

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that I deal with books – love them,
publish, run an online business and blog –

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was caused by my high sensitivity.

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Now, you, as a highly sensitive person,
can work from home as a freelancer.

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No matter what you’re doing.

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If you’re in the office, tell your boss
that you want to spend 1-2 days a week

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working from home.

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Explain that you’ll be more productive
and it’ll be good for your employer.

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Or if you are in any profession,
like you have an online business

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you can work in solitude.

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You’ll do more, feel better
and try to work at home.

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There are all sorts of occupations
better suited for highly sensitive people.

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You can be an artist –
not an easy one –

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advisor, maybe a teacher or be active
in the religious sphere, counseling, etc.

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As a highly sensitive person,
you can excel in many professions.

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And vice versa – average people
will fail in these areas.

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Not highly sensitive
and very extroverted person

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will have difficulties in an occupation
for highly sensitive people.

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It work both ways
and remember that you should

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look for your place in life
and try to customize your surroundings,

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change it, so that you can feel good
as a highly sensitive person.

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If you’re a highly sensitive person,
I recommend you an online business.

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That’s because you can work from home.

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Or even video recording is great for
highly sensitive people,

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which is a great profession for them.

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Running a YouTube channel,
a blog or any kind of online business.

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You’ll be able to
find something for yourself.

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To sum up, when it comes to
highly sensitive people,

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take the test again –
it’s available on my blog.

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You’ll find out if you have this trait.

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I recommend checking out “The Highly
Sensitive Person” by Elaine Aron.

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Great book. I bought it last year
in October, a day before the premiere.

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The lady in Empik
found it in a warehouse.

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It had been available only in English
before, so I couldn’t quite understand it.

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Remember to take a test.

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You should understand
that you’re a highly sensitive person

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and gain info about it – you can check
article on my blog, link in description.

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The very understanding gives you
a great relief and after reading a book,

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knowing the basics of
how high sensitivity works,

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I cured myself of this problem.

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That’s because I felt that
something is wrong with me,

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that I’m maladapted,
but after understanding this topic

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I felt such a relief
that my life has literally changed.

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I understood who I am
and what kind of person I am.

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Once you understand this,
then you can start taking actions

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aimed to gradually change
our surroundings in terms of

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the people you hang out with,
leisure activities, work, rest, etc.

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And that’s another step
to change your life.

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If you’re feeling that
something is wrong in your life

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and the test confirmed
that you’re a highly sensitive person,

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you can start finding a cure for problems
you’ve struggled with since childhood.

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And that’s the purpose of this video.

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Thanks to all the people who reached out
to me, asking for this book.

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I’m recording this video because of you
and I hope that I’ll help you,

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that it’ll help many people
to understand themselves.

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As it’s the daily struggle in our lives –
dealing with difficult situations

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and seeking answers to who we are.

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And if you find the answer
to this question,

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that’s when you find happiness.

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I invite you to check out my other videos.

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Subscribe to my channel and click
the bell, so that you don’t miss out.

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See you again on Friday
and I’ll try to give you

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very cool knowledge – as always.

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See you next week.

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I recommend this book
and checking out my blog

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where you can find the article
about highly sensitive people,

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about this book and this topic.

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Thanks a lot for watching.
See you next week. Bye!

How to fight DEPRESSION on your own in 30 days?

My experiences with depression

How to fight depression on your own in 30 days? I will immediately preempt any objections — you cannot overcome depression in 30 days, but during this time you can take concrete actions that will significantly change your situation. Depression can have different levels of severity. I strongly encourage anyone who suspects they have this condition to visit a specialist. In the meantime, it is still worth trying to seek knowledge and solutions to your problems on our own, as it can be a great addition to treatment.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How can you combat depression independently in 30 days?
What are some personal experiences with depression?
What is the link between depression and personal development?
How can you separate depression from your true self?
What is the 30-day method for overcoming depression?”

To start, a brief outline of my story. For a large part of my life, I have struggled with depression and as a result, faced many difficulties. The beginning took place already in high school, where unfortunately I didn’t do my best. I was not particularly liked at that time, and as a result, I was often attacked and ridiculed by my peers. I was (and still am) an introvert. Back then, I didn’t understand who I was — I hated my life. I didn’t feel like going to school and was only looking for excuses not to have to attend classes. My world was my computer and computer games, where I felt good and safe. I didn’t want to experience the pain that awaited me in school and in the outside world, so I escaped into video games and being alone.

Later in life, it was also very difficult at times. Often, I was unable to fit into the world around me (or maybe I was trying to fit in forcefully). This resulted in depression and many problems. I didn’t handle relationships with others very well, I wasn’t able to settle professionally in any one place, and many people simply didn’t like me because I preferred to spend time alone. In 2012, I literally hit rock bottom when I quit yet another job and couldn’t find my place. The symptoms of depression made me fed up with everything. I also went to a psychologist for over a year (unfortunately, it didn’t really help me). Deep down, I knew that I could do more and I can improve and change my live. Then books on personal development appeared in my life. They slowly began to guide me towards improvement and change in my life for the better. I started to slowly believe in myself and expand my very small comfort zone.

Who you are?

For the last 6 years, I have been searching for ways to improve my condition and enhance my life. Books on personal development, biographies of successful people and daily getting out of my comfort zone allowed me to move and get rid of depression.

Positive motivation gave me the desire to take action and overcome my barriers, which in turn allowed me to get to know myself and eventually discover who I am and what is good for me. I realized I don’t have to pretend to be someone I’m not, and I can go my way.

After moving to Cracow and working as a waiter in the food industry, I discovered online business and Amazon. I started turning my interest in books into an online business. I realized I could do something that interested me, and make money on it. My depression stemmed from a lack of opportunities to live the life I wanted — I didn’t know before that it was up to me where and what I would do. Books have opened my eyes to the world and shown me that I can change a lot in my life.

How to combat depression? Depression is not you.

Before we move on to ways of fighting depression, let’s clarify what depression is. Depression is a condition when you experience a significant deterioration in mood. The symptoms of depression include sadness, fatigue, indifference, feelings of guilt, and a worsening sense of self-worth. Suicidal thoughts can also occur. Remember that depression is not assigned to you and depression is not you. Depression is an illness and if you understand that, you will be able to separate this state from yourself. You must take responsibility for yourself (this is a very important element not only in the fight against depression, but at every stage of changing your life).

Even if you are struggling with problems such as depression, don’t let anyone convince you that you are a certain type of person — you can change everything and especially get rid of depression. Even if you actually have depression, you have to deceive yourself and your mind a little bit. Here, positive affirmations and all kinds of motivational things, such as books, etc., can be very helpful.

Maybe you are actually in a bad stage of your life, you have depression, no friends, etc. However, to begin with, you need to stop convincing yourself that this is the case because such a negative approach will only deepen your problems. Start feeding yourself with positive things and changing your beliefs. You are more than just a person with problems — you can change your life and achieve more than you think. You are in control of your life and your emotions. Recently I mentioned a great book that literally changed my life and helped me motivate myself to act during a major depression.

How to fight depression on your own?

The author of this method is probably Tony Robbins — a personal development guru. This is a very simple method that allows to get rid of negative beliefs and emotions by associating negative states (such as depression) with very negative consequences that these states will cause. Tony Robbins believes that each of us is motivated by the desire to avoid pain and the pursuit of pleasure — very simple and true. That is why it is so important to tackle our negative emotions in this double way. How to do it?

Pleasure and pain, or the battle against depression.

First of all, you need to associate depression with pain, negative consequences, and unpleasant experiences that we you’ll encounter if you give in to depression. On the other hand, you must combine the feeling of pleasure with the state in which you enjoy life, improve yourself, act, exceed your comfort zone and develop. You must feel the joy of finding yourself.

This process will help you change your mental beliefs and associate depression with pain and negative effects. At the same time, this process will encourage you to do things that will reveal your true potential. You must feel the pain that awaits if you give in to depression, and at the same time feel the pleasure that awaits you if you act in a positive direction.

How to overcome depression and take the first steps towards a better future in 30 days?

Why 30 days? Because it takes so much time to develop a habit of changing your beliefs in every aspect of our life. Apply this method every morning for at least 30 days and your perception of depression should change. You will easily separate this emotion from yourself and associate it only with pain and negative effects.

Every morning, repeat the following sentences:

NEVER AGAIN IN MY LIFE WILL I GIVE IN TO DEPRESSION (or any other negative thing in this context)

BECAUSE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS ARE ENORMOUS PAIN, LOSS OF LOVED ONES, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES, SADNESS… (add your own negative effects)

I AM A VERY VALUABLE PERSON — I WANT TO BE… WHAT I WANT TO ACHIEVE IS… WHAT I WANT TO EXPERIENCE IS… (type at your discretion what will positively affect you)

I WANT TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST, DEVELOP MYSELF, OVERCOME CHALLENGES, AND ENJOY LIFE!

Repeat these sentences every morning. Let it be your morning ritual, which will take you 5 minutes every day. Do it energetically, out loud, and put your heart into pronouncing these few sentences. You can repeat the exercise during the day as needed. Let this be your first challenge on your way. Remember that reading this article won’t change anything — you have to do this exercise every day for 30 days.

I run this blog because I have gone through tough times myself and I would really like to help others overcome their own weaknesses and improve their lives. I believe in you and if you liked this post then I encourage you to check out other articles on my blog and my YouTube channel.

Depression and help of a specialist

Many people accuse me of promoting self-treatment and discouraging people from seeking help from specialists. In no case is it so. I just want to show you in this article that despite depression (or other health and other problems), it’s worth taking matters into your own hands. You can solve many problems on your own and often it is more effective.

Depression is the result of many factors and you (regardless of whether you are using the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist) can help yourself a lot. In case of many illnesses, we rely on strangers (a doctor) and medication.

However, we forget that diseases have their cause. Why do you think I practice sports every day, exercise in the morning, go to the sauna, and try to stay active? Why do I avoid sugar and poor quality food? Health problems are not random occurrences that happen to random people. Of course, life is not fair, but by taking care of yourself, you reduce the risk of many diseases, and if you have a problem such as depression, it is a signal that you need to take care of yourself as soon as possible.

Fighting depression — how to deal with depression?

Knowledge, or rather understanding the essence of the disease and your own problem, helps a lot. If you understand how depression works and what causes it, your symptoms will be much milder because you will learn to look at yourself and your problems from a third-person perspective. This applies to many problems and emotional states in life. This is how meditation works as well, which means looking at oneself from a bit of a distance. Seek knowledge and be a conscious person. Knowledge is the key to success in overcoming many obstacles in life. I overcame depression without medication, and the over year-long help from a specialist was, from my perspective, of very low quality. However, I strongly encourage you to seek the help of specialists, as each case is different and it is definitely worth trying to fight on many fronts.

It is also worth trying to take care of yourself. The positive affirmations presented above will help you improve your mood and regain control. This, in turn, will help you to take action and reduce the chances that your disease worsens. Start practicing even the simplest sport and take care of your body — you don’t even know how positively it will affect you. What’s your diet like? Perhaps your diet also needs improvement and you are consuming very poor quality food? Who do you surround yourself with? Are you in the place in life where you want to be? Maybe what surrounds you doesn’t suit you, and you don’t know what to do?

Start working on yourself. Give up what doesn’t serve you and start taking action. Improve your life every day at least minimally. Set even small challenges for yourself and try to accomplish them — I call them small victories. Active engagement and expanding your own comfort zone will make you start feeling joy. The morning habits I do every day was an incredible help for me. So do whatever you can and don’t give up — remember that no one will ever take care of you as well as you take care of yourself.

MORNING AFFIRMATIONS

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How can you earn 7 thousand in a month on Amazon FBA

You want to know how to make more than $7k a month on Amazon FBA? I encourage you to see an interview with Norbert, who is involved in sales on Amazon, specifically selling physical products through Amazon FBA. Norbert is one of the few people who deal with Amazon in Poland and help others do the same.

On my blog, I often tackle the topic of Amazon and teach how to publish your own products in the form of books and eBooks. Many of you have taken advantage of my free courses, Amazon KDP and Online Business: Basics and Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies for Beginners: Step by Step, but you also ask me how to publish more expensive and more investment-demanding physical products through Amazon FBA. Here, you’ll likely find it helpful to watch an interview with Norbert.

How to start selling eBooks and books on Amazon? Sign up for my FREE COURSE “THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS”.

Amazon Freedom Project — On my blog, I show you how to create and sell books and eBooks. However, if you want to start a business on Amazon FBA and sell physical products, I recommend Norbert’s course, which will teach you how to do it step by step.

Helium 10 — software for physical product vendors on Amazon FBA, which will help you find the best keywords, niches and research your competition. Additionally, in the “Platinium” and higher plans you get access to a very extensive Amazon FBA Freedom training course — it is a very good choice for everyone who wants to start selling on Amazon FBA. In addition, you can use discount code for readers of my blog — discount code TOMASZ50 (10% discount each month) or TOMASZ50 (50% discount for the first month).

How can you earn 7 thousand in a month on Amazon FBA — watch the video

How can you earn 7 thousand in a month on Amazon FBA — preview the video transcript

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Norbert is with me.
We welcome all of you.

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Today we’re going to talk
a little bit about Amazon.

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It’s going to be about Amazon FBA –
the section which I don’t operate.

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But it’s the one you often ask about.

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Today I have a guest – Norbert.

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Hi everyone, I’m Norbert.
Thanks for the invitation.

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I’m here today to tell
you what is Amazon FBA.

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If you already know,
I’ll provide you with more specifics.

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Me and Tomek are gonna talk
about what FBA is,

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we’ll compare FBA with
Tomek’s source of income,

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which are e-books
and what Tomek deals with,

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which is publishing books on Amazon.

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That’s what we’ll talk about.

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Yes. We’ll also answer
the questions from ours comments sections.

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Please, introduce yourself.
What do you do? Where do you come from?

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Okay, who am I and what I do?

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Honestly, right now
I’m not some well-known person.

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I lived in England for six years.
I went to work like everyone else.

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And at one point I just got bored of this.

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I worked from nine to six.

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The apartment was in London
and it took me 3 hours for commuting.

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It was just tiring.

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And one time,
while sitting with my girlfriend,

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I started looking for
other sources of income.

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We stumbled upon Amazon FBA,
which is very little known in Poland,

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as we don’t have Amazon here.

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But in the States and in Western Europe
it’s very developed.

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That’s when I wanted to try Amazon FBA.

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It was really difficult and took a lot of
sweat – sometimes even tears.

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But it was all worth it,
as I don’t have to work

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and I can deal fully with Amazon,
which became my source of income.

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Tell us, what is Amazon FBA?
Everyone heard of Amazon, but what’s FBA?

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FBA stands for Fulfillment by Amazon.

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That is, our entire order
is fulfilled by Amazon.

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You have your product which
you send to Amazon’s warehouse

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and like on Allegro –
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you need to pack it,
go to the post and send it.

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While FBA is fully automated.

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You send product to warehouses
and Amazon takes care of everything.

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You just look if the product is selling
and Amazon ships it.

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Amazon charges you for it,
as they need to pack it and ship it,

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but you don’t need to do
a great deal of work.

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You just need to make sure
that your product is in the warehouse.

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This is a very cool situation
and similar to books.

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But Amazon takes care of its sellers
when it comes to easy selling.

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It’s very good, because generally
when you start with a product,

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you need to gain customers.

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While Amazon provides us
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It’s a big plus.

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Of course, they charge for it,
but it’s still profitable enough for us.

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So, it’s a cool option.

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OK. How did your adventure
with Amazon started?

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How did you start selling
on Amazon FBA?

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I was searching for a way of making money.

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There are a lot of YouTube channels,
but you need to filter them,

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because some of them are about
persuading people to buy something,

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but others are really substantive.

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You know this, as you must’ve acquired
knowledge at the start from them.

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There are very substantive channels
which I’ve watched.

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I began to learn a lot about this topic
and then I wanted to get a course.

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It’s because starting with Amazon
is not that easy

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as selling on Allegro or eBay.

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You need to invest
more skills and knowledge into it.

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So, I decided to buy a course
about selling on Amazon.

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It was my biggest step, because
I paid $4,000 for my course.

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I carefully considered
whether to actually invest the money,

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but I decided that I hate my job,
I want to change my life,

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so I’ll invest, as I have enough savings.

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That’s how my adventure began.

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Now, this course has already
returned tenfold, if not better.

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It was now at the end of October
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and now it’s July.

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Yes.

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Selling on Amazon is going great
and I don’t regret any money spent.

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So, you started by investing
in yourself, in knowledge.

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Yes, of course.

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I also started years ago with courses
on Amazon and others.

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I also invested in the courses
about morning rituals, etc.

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We’re often afraid to invest
any money into anything,

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while, in fact, the investment –
often small, like a few hundred dollars –

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can change our lives.

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Give us the kind of knowledge
that we can’t acquire on our own.

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I agree with you that it’s worth
to invest through different channels.

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I think that if you’re not ready
to invest in yourself,

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to improve your skills, then you
can’t even think of starting a business.

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You must start from yourself,
from investing, education,

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gaining new skills.

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If someone doesn’t have this approach
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then there’s no way of life-improvement.

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That’s right. Many people in the comments
on my channel, and probably yours too,

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are afraid to start investing.

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And there’s such a panic,
a fear to spend anything, to do anything.

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But it’s the only way –
to overcome this fear, to act.

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I understand that these are
money gained by hard work

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and now you need to spend them
without the guarantee of success.

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That’s the problem.
But I think that if you just put

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enough hard work in it,
then there are chances of succeeding.

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OK, so the question is how much
can you earn on Amazon FBA

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by selling your products?

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You can earn a lot and a little,
depending on the needs.

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Some people want to earn extra
while working full-time.

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Others want to quit their jobs
and just make a living from it.

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And, to be honest, it’s extremely easy
to earn at least £1,000 a month net

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or €1,000, or $1,000.

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This is an amount
which is very easy to gain.

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It depends – if you’re fine with it,
you can earn 1,000 without any problem.

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But in my case,
while I’m constantly developing,

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at this moment,
it’s $7,200 net a month.

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But my plan is at least
$36,000 net a month.

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It’s a matter of time, of development,
but I see the potential for it.

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It won’t be a problem, but it simply takes
time, willingness and more work.

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But the amounts from $1, 2 or 3
thousand a month are really achievable.

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There won’t be a problem with this,
if enough work is put into it.

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So, there’s no such thing
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that you can earn from $500 to 2,000.

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The amount depends on
your work and approach.

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As it’s business,
there’s no upper limit of earnings

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coming from your business or Amazon.

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On a day job you have 8 hours
and you get paid a certain amount.

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But if you decide that you
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as it will enable you to do more
and give more from you.

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And earn more money.

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As in any business – if you work more,
then more comes back to you.

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Yes. I also encourage to it.

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To take responsibility and not to rely
on a day job, but just act,

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because in this way you can
earn a lot more and do a lot more.

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People often ask me
how to get started.

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As Amazon is difficult, it’s in English.

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Can anyone start?
Is it a platform for everyone?

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Honestly? Yes, everyone can start,
but I don’t want to generalize

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that everyone can drop everything
and start on Amazon.

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First of all, before we start on Amazon,
you have to learn to be motivated,

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to be hard-working
and require more from yourself.

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I wasn’t a motivated person at all.

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I could’ve spent my entire life
playing video games.

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But I needed to grow up,
so I started working full-time

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while I was learning Amazon.

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So, I’d get up
at half past 6, go to work,

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come back at half past 7
in the evening, eat,

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sit at the computer and learn,
and deepen my knowledge.

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So, my day looked like this –
I’d go to work before 7

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and I’d end my day before 12
in order to start again.

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Also weekends,
which I used for learning about Amazon.

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I’d get up in the morning
and spend the whole weekend on studying.

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So, I wouldn’t say that anyone can start,
but rather anyone with the willingness.

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If you can’t force yourself to hard work,
then it won’t make sense.

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It’s like any business – If you
don’t give it all, it will collapse.

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So, first of all, motivated people
who want to change something.

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In addition, English language is needed
as the platform is in English.

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Also in German, French and Spanish.

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However, English is a must-have.

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But again, I also know people who
started with Amazon using a translator.

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These were the people
from the course I took.

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Now, these people know English,
but they didn’t at first.

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But now, their turnover
is $2 million a year.

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So, there’s nothing you can’t do.

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You just have to give a lot from you.

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I often say that an investment
in an Amazon course

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and releasing a first product,
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costing $100,
will give us such profits in English

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that we’d spend a lot more
on English language training.

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Exactly.

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You should bear in mind
that you can brush up your English

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in one to three months
and change your level completely.

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Of course. First of all,
if we need something,

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then we’ll learn it very quickly
or find a way to learn it.

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So, the investment in business is also
an investment in English training.

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My language changed 2 years ago
when I started using Amazon.

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It was a very drastic change, when
I published my first books in English.

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But it’s a cool way of learning
by publishing your products.

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So, I think that even if you don’t know
something, you can learn a lot.

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Yes. It’s a passive learning.
You learn the language in practice.

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You don’t sit with books,
but learn it in addition.

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You can learn language by accident.
Such a good investment.

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Anyway, how much capital do you need
at start for publishing products on FBA?

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Frankly speaking, you should have
$2,500 to 3,500 at the beginning.

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But it depends what product
you want to sell.

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You can’t sell everything on Amazon.

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You need to find a product that sells well
and start selling it.

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To be honest, I have
invested in some of my products £3,000,

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that is, around $3,800.

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But I also have a product
in which I invested £800

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and it brings me profit.

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Everything depends on the product,
but it’s safe to start with $2,500-3,500.

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So, you need to invest a bit.
Not millions, but not $100 either.

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Exactly, it’s not a $100 business.

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I will give an example of my
product, the one for £800.

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I invested £800
and after the first month of selling

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the product paid off
and earned another £1,000 for me.

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So, I was able to order it again,
even order more of it,

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as I earned on it
and have something in my pocket.

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The same next month – it was sold
in total for £1,000 and I had 1,500.

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If you find a good product,
the return on investment is very fast.

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So, it’s not that you have this 10,000,
spend it and you don’t know

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when it’s going to pay off.

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They should pay off after a month,
up to 2 months,

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with a bonus for further investments.

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That is, you have to invest a little bit,
but you can have a quick return

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and start earning.

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It’s obvious that
when you invest more,

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you can also gain more.

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Of course. That’s how it works.

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I invested more,
but the returns are much higher.

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And how about economic activity?

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In my case, as I teach
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you can do it without economic activity,
just as an author.

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That’s how Amazon operates
with printed books and Kindle books.

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However, in case of physical products
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you have to have an economic activity,
if you sell from Poland?

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Yes, Amazon requires
the economic activity.

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Fortunately or not.

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Revenues are such big
that you must tax them

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and that’s when
you need an economic activity.

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Frankly speaking,
as we’re in the EU,

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I highly encourage everyone
to set up an economic activity in England,

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as there the tax system
is very friendly to a human being,

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in contrast to the Polish tax system.

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And then your sales
and your incomes have to be taxed.

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If you want to sell in the US,
you need to set up a company there,

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do the accounts there, so it’s more
complicated than just publishing books.

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But the profits are different,
also other things come into play.

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So, if somebody is afraid of setting up
their own company and in addition

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thinks about the fact that they’ll need to
do the accounts in other countries,

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then it can be frightening.

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But more that 2 million people
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so if they could’ve done it,
then anything’s possible.

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But you don’t have to do it alone.

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There are accountancy companies
that help entrepreneurs.

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Of course, I don’t even recommend
doing it by yourself.

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I’m not good at taxes, so I decided
I need an accountant for this and that.

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I’ll just provide invoices
and I want to be settled.

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I don’t want to know
anything about taxes.

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Exactly, because many people ask me
“how to do the accounts,

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how to set a company,
is it that difficult?”.

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You just need to outsource everything,
leave money to an accountant

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and focus on doing business.

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Long time ago, the same thing was
keeping me from opening my own business.

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It was this kind of fear.

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What’s the solution?
Outsource the work to the accountants.

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That’s right. I can’t answer people
these kind of legal questions.

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If you have such doubts,
go to your accountant.

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I can only tell you
how it looks from my perspective.

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I just trust my accountant.

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So, what products do you sell?

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Which products are worth selling
on Amazon?

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And on which Amazon do you sell?

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I started the sale on European Amazon,
specifically the UK one,

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as I lived there, so it was
easy for me to start selling there.

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Now, I’m also selling in the US,
because there’s a good market.

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In general, the US is the best
and the biggest market.

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There’s the biggest number of products.

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Of course, there’s also more competition,
but there’s such a mass of products

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that you can easily find something
to start selling without competition.

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What am I selling?
Currently, I’m selling 3 products.

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I won’t say which ones yet,
but I’m selling 3 products.

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Two of them is from
Home & Kitchen category

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and the remaining one is Office product.

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What are the most profitable
categories on Amazon?

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First of all Home & Kitchen,
all children’s categories

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and Health & Beauty,
so primarily conditioners and supplements.

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Incredible money waits for you there,

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but there’s also
an incredible competition.

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But if you manage
to publish the right product,

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then you’re about to get rich.

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OK, so that’s the categories
worth investing in.

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But there are plenty of other categories.

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Of course.

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It’s not that you can’t earn
in other categories,

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but that’s the main ones
with mass of consumers.

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People will always need stuff for
home, kitchen and children.

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Also, supplements and
that kind of health stuff,

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as now the world is crazy about
eating healthy and living healthy.

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Now, this niche is simply thriving
and you can earn a lot there.

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For sure. When I publish a book,
I see the amount of categories in books.

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There are a lot of them
and also subcategories.

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The amount is enormous
and it’s only related to books.

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You can’t even imagine
how many categories there are.

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In case of physical products,
there’s several hundred

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or thousand times more categories.

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We don’t know all the categories
which appear there.

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Also, new categories, ideas and products
appear all the time.

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So, you can always find your niche.

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Of course. When I’m looking for
a new product that I can sell,

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I come upon the ones
I didn’t know they existed.

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I’m surprised that people want to buy
something like this,

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but it turns out that
half of the world uses it.

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I’m not surprised that
it’s the same in case of books,

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because in physical selling there’s
plenty of categories and subcategories.

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Were you interested in
Kindle and selling books at the start?

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Did you consider it?

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Yes, when I started,
I looked through the channel,

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which I can share with you.

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This is the Stefan James channel.

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– I think you know this one.
– Yes.

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He’s in FBA now,
but he started from e-books and Kindle,

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so I considered doing the same.

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I had a friend who was doing it
and still does.

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But I decided that
I want to start with something bigger.

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That’s because I had a capital.

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Without it, I would have started
from smaller things to gain it.

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But I decided to
go straight into physical products.

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At the time, he was doing the same,
so I could use his knowledge.

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I can’t say that I didn’t think
about starting with e-books,

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but I decided to start from
the bigger stuff.

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Many people ask me and you
what to start from –

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books or physical products?

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So, the answer is – it depends on
what we want and on our capital.

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I think that you should start by
gaining knowledge from books, e-books

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and then move to the physical products.

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That’s because
we’ll make mistakes at the start.

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You also made them and I did –
by investing and losing.

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Especially before I started
investing in knowledge.

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It’s good to learn by
publishing e-book or book

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and then move to the bigger things.

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Don’t you think?

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Of course, I agree.

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To be honest, nothing will teach you
better than making a sell on Amazon.

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No matter which course you’d take,
there are always some details,

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something which comes up in time.

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So, the sale on Amazon
will teach you more than any course.

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However, the available courses
will prevent you from

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making basic mistakes
that could be disastrous.

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First, you must learn
the basics from these courses

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not to make
these simple beginner mistakes.

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The course won’t prevent you from
making practical mistakes while selling,

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but these mistakes
won’t eliminate you from business.

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So, I think that
if you want to start,

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selling a product
will give you experience,

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but you need to have a proper knowledge.

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I doesn’t matter whether you start from
e-books or physical products.

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Yes, because I’ve made a lot of mistakes
before investing in knowledge.

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I wasted a lot of money and time.

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Did you also made some mistakes,
even after taking the course?

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00:22:58,601 –> 00:23:01,943
Yes. I’m still struggling with
one mistake now,

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because even though I took
this very expensive course,

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which is advertised as the best
and is even recommended by Amazon,

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it then didn’t include
a certain subject matter,

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which is now included in the reissue.

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Namely, the fact that
Amazon causes major problems in Europe –

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not in the US, but in Europe –
i.e., once you registered an account

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and wrote some data, e.g.,
I started as a one-man business,

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but now I’ve developed
and I changed it to a company.

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That’s because it requires different
type of taxation and everything.

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But it turned out that the European Amazon
won’t allow me to simply change data.

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It requires weeks or months
of waiting for their decision

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whether it can be done.

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That’s because Amazon
operates on a very old system

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and any change in data
can cause problems.

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So, they say it’s legally difficult
for them to change data.

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That’s what I’m currently struggling with
and it can end up with Amazon saying:

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“We cannot change your data in the system,
so you must create a new account”.

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It’d mean that I’ll lost
everything I had on the old account.

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00:24:23,358 –> 00:24:27,600
All the reviews, products –
I’ll need to start from scratch.

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– That’s a major obstacle.
– Yes.

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00:24:29,944 –> 00:24:33,543
And it’s a big error
that I wasn’t informed about.

356
00:24:33,544 –> 00:24:38,029
That’s why I start my own course
from telling people to determine

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whether you just want to moonlight
or make a lot of money.

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If a lot, then you
need to start a company.

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Otherwise,
you can lose everything later on.

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00:24:50,331 –> 00:24:54,929
So, I’m still dealing with consequences
of this simple mistake.

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I needed to make an extensive research,
as people don’t talk about it much.

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When you know what you’re dealing with,
you’ll find the specifics.

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00:25:05,258 –> 00:25:11,014
But it’s not clearly stated anywhere that
you should watch out for this situation.

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00:25:11,015 –> 00:25:15,186
Doing business on Amazon
is challenging for sure.

365
00:25:15,187 –> 00:25:19,414
But many people would like to start.
The question is – how?

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How to start doing business
on Amazon in Poland?

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00:25:23,258 –> 00:25:27,014
Because people want to
find out about this from us.

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First of all – I’ll smile, as I don’t
want to be accused of self-advertising –

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but I really recommend
starting with the course.

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No matter whether
you choose mine or any else.

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Really – start with the course.

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This is the basic investment
you should make.

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That’s because you can make
so many mistakes at the start

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that you’ll waste time, lose money
and get nothing out of it.

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If you buy a course, you can gain
knowledge and then start with it.

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00:26:01,187 –> 00:26:05,600
That’s most important –
buy course and learn about Amazon.

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It’s not Allegro or eBay,
it operates completely different.

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And then, above all, you have to
invest in setting up a business.

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Not as much investing money
as investing yourself in it,

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so that you invest your time –
that’s what’s needed.

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That’s the basis for starting with Amazon.

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And then, obviously, finding
a product, selling, marketing.

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There are plenty of issues,
but these are the ones

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that should be taken at the outset.

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I agree. As I often say,
my first book was a total flop.

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After buying a course,
my second book was a bestseller.

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So, you can clearly see the difference
that someone’s knowledge gives you.

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It doesn’t matter if the course will be
about Amazon or business in general,

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but you shouldn’t be afraid of
investing in it,

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as knowledge
accelerates your progress.

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00:27:04,858 –> 00:27:10,886
For $100 or 500 you gain knowledge from
somebody who has done it for a few years.

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00:27:10,887 –> 00:27:16,614
The question is – do you have a few years
to learn or is it better to buy a course?

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00:27:16,615 –> 00:27:18,757
How do you think?

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00:27:18,758 –> 00:27:21,057
I also make this assumption.

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I’m not saying that the knowledge from
my course cannot be found anywhere else.

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Of course, this knowledge
can be found everywhere.

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But the time you need to spend
on search and preparation,

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as it is already arranged in the course,
is priceless.

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You’d have to invest
lots and lots of time.

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And also, as an example,
you’re talking about your beginnings

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and a flopped first book –
I also talked with some people

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who decided not to buy
my course and learn on their own.

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00:27:55,720 –> 00:27:58,957
I said that I have no problem with it.

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00:27:58,958 –> 00:28:02,429
After about a month
some of them reached to me,

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00:28:02,430 –> 00:28:07,486
saying that they have issues,
can’t do something or their sales dropped.

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00:28:07,487 –> 00:28:12,243
“How to deal with it? My product
is a total flop. What can I do?”.

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00:28:12,244 –> 00:28:17,114
And now it turns out that
these people have incurred a bigger cost,

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as they’ve invested in their product
which is not selling at all.

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So, I think a course is the basis and
I encourage you to invest in yourself.

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00:28:28,287 –> 00:28:33,186
My last question is – how to achieve
success on Amazon FBA?

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You said a bit about it,
but how to succeed

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00:28:36,801 –> 00:28:41,330
when selling products on Amazon FBA?

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Above all – benefit from
someone’s experience.

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There are a lot of people
who’ve already done this,

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00:28:48,257 –> 00:28:52,000
so if they succeeded,
just do what they’ve been doing.

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00:28:52,001 –> 00:28:55,757
That’s the simplest advice –
if you want to succeed,

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follow in their footsteps.

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Don’t try to reinvent the wheel.
Make use of what’s available.

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And – above all –
work, work and work.

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It’s not that once you buy a course,
you start selling, gaining lots of money.

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00:29:11,644 –> 00:29:14,757
No. You need to make a lot of effort.

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A few years later, you’ll be able to
spend 1-2 hours a day on it.

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But at the start, you’ll need to devote
10-12 hours a day.

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You need to be prepared for
hard work and sweating blood.

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00:29:30,657 –> 00:29:35,871
This business is no different
from any other business.

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It’s the same as if you’d have
a construction company or anything else.

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The company’s boss gets up,
work, boss around

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and put their time,
their money and their effort in it.

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00:29:48,144 –> 00:29:51,014
You also need to put your effort in it,

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00:29:51,015 –> 00:29:53,986
or else you won’t get anything out of it.

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00:29:53,987 –> 00:29:55,557
I completely agree.

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00:29:55,558 –> 00:30:01,257
I often get messages or see opinions
that it’s enough to buy a course,

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00:30:01,258 –> 00:30:05,014
read a book
and you already know everything.

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00:30:05,015 –> 00:30:08,057
But you still don’t earn money.
Why is that?

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00:30:08,058 –> 00:30:12,050
That’s because you need to work all day
or after hours,

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00:30:12,080 –> 00:30:16,086
as at the start you often combine it
with your day job.

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00:30:16,087 –> 00:30:19,800
You need to sacrifice afternoons,
weekends, Sundays,

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00:30:19,801 –> 00:30:23,471
when everyone go for a beer
and you need to study.

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00:30:23,472 –> 00:30:27,571
It’s up to you whether
your business will be successful.

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00:30:27,572 –> 00:30:30,957
It’s not up to a book
or course that you bought.

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00:30:30,958 –> 00:30:35,329
I want to warn everybody
that while you should gain knowledge,

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00:30:35,330 –> 00:30:39,857
you also have to put in
a lot of hard work – and that’s the key.

443
00:30:39,858 –> 00:30:43,657
It’d be too easy,
if you just got some pieces of advice

444
00:30:43,658 –> 00:30:48,914
and suddenly you’d make as much
money as the big fishes of this business.

445
00:30:48,915 –> 00:30:52,871
They also weren’t sitting
on their asses, doing nothing.

446
00:30:52,872 –> 00:30:56,029
They also put in incredibly hard work.

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00:30:56,030 –> 00:31:00,485
When I bought a course,
I was prepared not to earn

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00:31:00,486 –> 00:31:06,100
as much money at the start
as the person who sold me this course.

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00:31:06,101 –> 00:31:08,586
You must work your way to it.

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00:31:08,587 –> 00:31:12,486
That’s why you shouldn’t be
so afraid of competition,

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00:31:12,487 –> 00:31:16,014
as everyone can buy a course
and start business,

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00:31:16,015 –> 00:31:20,028
but a few of them will be able to work
8 or 6 hours a day

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00:31:20,029 –> 00:31:23,029
and move up in any kind of business.

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00:31:23,030 –> 00:31:26,871
Remember that your hard work
can elevate you on top.

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00:31:26,872 –> 00:31:29,486
You’ll earn money and enjoy it.

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00:31:29,487 –> 00:31:32,057
You can even leave your day job.

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00:31:32,058 –> 00:31:37,043
Don’t be afraid of competition.
Just act, because it can be achieved.

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00:31:37,044 –> 00:31:41,371
We’re both the examples of this
and I want everyone to know

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00:31:41,372 –> 00:31:44,386
that it’s possible,
if you really want it.

460
00:31:44,387 –> 00:31:47,457
Exactly.
Competition will always be there.

461
00:31:47,458 –> 00:31:54,129
There’s always someone two steps ahead,
but there’s also somebody one step behind.

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00:31:54,130 –> 00:31:58,100
We just need to try being
at the front of the pack.

463
00:31:58,101 –> 00:32:02,614
I hope that we’ve answered
the most important questions

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00:32:02,615 –> 00:32:04,814
about Amazon FBA.

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00:32:04,815 –> 00:32:08,871
For further questions,
use comment section below.

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00:32:08,872 –> 00:32:12,500
We’ll answer these questions
on this topic.

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00:32:12,501 –> 00:32:15,529
Tell viewers
where they can find you.

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00:32:15,530 –> 00:32:20,357
You can find me on YouTube
by my name.

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00:32:20,358 –> 00:32:26,914
We also have a Facebook group
dedicated to Amazon FBA.

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00:32:26,915 –> 00:32:32,839
The links will be available
below this video.

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00:32:32,840 –> 00:32:38,600
Many people have already gathered there.
A thousand or so.

472
00:32:38,601 –> 00:32:42,214
You can ask questions there.

473
00:32:42,215 –> 00:32:47,000
Members of this group
will gladly provide you with answers.

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00:32:47,001 –> 00:32:51,214
Those are the main 2 places
where you can find me.

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00:32:51,215 –> 00:32:53,771
YouTube and the Facebook group.

476
00:32:53,772 –> 00:32:58,443
I also encourage you to check out
Norbert’s channel, group

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00:32:58,444 –> 00:33:00,500
where you can learn more.

478
00:33:00,501 –> 00:33:05,557
Thank you very much for providing
my viewers with information.

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00:33:05,558 –> 00:33:09,086
I hope it’ll be a nice supplement
for my channel,

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which is mainly about books
and now also FBA.

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– Thank you a lot for a meeting.
– Thank you.

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We’ll surely meet again,
maybe in person.

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If not, we’ll do another interview.

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Of course.
I’m in Poland, so I’m available.

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My work enables me to meet with
anyone anywhere in Poland everyday.

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– Are you going to stay in Poland?
– Yes, for 2 years at least.

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But then I think I’ll try
moving to the US.

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– We’ll see how it goes.
– I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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I hope you’ll upload
some videos from there.

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California is my destination,
so they can be interesting.

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That’s why I’m in Poland
to develop my business,

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because the cost of living
would be higher in England.

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So I decided to come back to Poland,
develop business properly

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and then move to the US,
but we’ll see how it turns out in 2 years.

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– I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
– Thank you.

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Thanks to everyone for watching. Bye.

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– Bye.
– See you.

Selling on Amazon — How to get started? Books and eBooks

The topic of Amazon and the possibilities of selling your digital products on Amazon is becoming more and more popular. Why? Because Amazon allows you to sell virtually any products on the world’s most developed markets without having to move. You could sell on Amazon from Poland and you can sell your products abroad. Sounds cool? Amazon had its distribution centers, from where they sent your products to people who purchased them through the Amazon platform.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What are the steps to publish a book on Amazon?
How to start selling books and eBooks on Amazon?
What are the benefits of selling books on Amazon?
What challenges should be considered when selling on Amazon?
What tips lead to success in selling books on Amazon?”

However, all this requires investment, work and overcoming many difficulties. I personally prefer to sell digital products on Amazon because it is a much less risky and easier solution. Do you want to know what products it is worth to sell on Amazon and how to do it? Continue reading.

Selling on Amazon — is it really that easy?

Of course not — selling on global markets through Amazon and business in general require a ton of work and a lot of knowledge. Selling your own products in the, for example European market, was a real pain in the neck and just a business that required a lot of hard work. I got hooked on Amazon a few years ago when I heard about this massive platform that allows you to sell worldwide. I wasn’t planning on selling cosmetics or TVs though, as it would have required a lot of investment and just didn’t float my boat. I decided to get into publishing and selling books on Amazon because the upfront investment didn’t have to be so big. Books are automatic products and are much more convenient to sell.

Selling books on Amazon?

Many people ask how exactly the process of creating a book/product in the form of a book on Amazon looks like.

You have to get familiar with Amazon and the products on it.
Find the right niche and pick a title/idea for the book.
Have your book written, for example by hiring someone on upwork.com.
Order a cover on fiverr.com.
The resulting product upload through Kindle Direct Publishing (eBook, paperback book).
Your book is available virtually worldwide after the verification process.

Of course, it’s not that simple and each of these steps requires a lot of work and skills. However, it is a much simpler process than releasing your electronic or paper product in Poland. And also, you’re opening to the market of the wealthiest countries in the world (mainly the USA), which mean you can count on an incredibly larger market than if you were to release your products only locally. When you publish books, you receive income as author, so you don’t even need a business entity for that.

Selling on Amazon — where is the catch?

Selling on Amazon requires a large amount of knowledge and regular work. You should not be afraid to invest in yourself and, above all, you should focus on spending a lot of products over time. You can’t hope to be making a cut after publishing one product. It doesn’t work this way. Making money and business is a process. Publishing more products (even the simplest ones) make you better, and success comes with time, and they will be getting bigger.

The “snowball effect” applies here — the more you publish, the more sales you generate. There are no shortcuts — I always tend to repeat this truth. My first two books were financial flaps. My third product on Amazon turned out to be a bestseller, and after more than a year in December 2017 I achieved sales of almost 1500 copies per month (eBooks, books and simple products in the form of books). It is said that quick success requires years of work and that is true. To make good money on Amazon you need knowledge, practice and often some failures, but this is the only way. However, you can do business wisely and take advantage of the scale effect, which means using technology and selling globally.

If you want to learn more about Amazon and online business, please sign up for my completely free course about THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS. There I’m talking primarily about Amazon, book publishing and several other types of online business.

Selling on Amazon — How to get started? Books and eBooks — watch the video

Selling on Amazon — How to get started? Books and eBooks — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome. Today, I’ll tell you how to
release your first product on Amazon.

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Would you like to find out more?
Watch this video.

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I warmly welcome you.

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Many questions are being asked
on my blog, YouTube channel

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regarding releasing
a first product on Amazon.

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Why on Amazon?

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Because Amazon is becoming
more and more recognizable in Poland.

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It is said that Amazon
will finally be available in Poland.

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It’s already present in Poland
as we have their warehouses

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from where their products
are being shipped.

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I think that Amazon will be available
in Poland sooner or later.

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But why people
are fascinated with Amazon

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and why this subject is so hot right now?

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The answer is simple –
because Amazon offers

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not only the opportunity to buy,
but also the possibility of selling.

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Amazon offers us the opportunity
to sell products all over the world.

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It’s their strongest point, because
by releasing any product on Amazon –

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I’ll tell you
what kind of products in a sec –

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you reach for global markets.

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And that’s great, because
by releasing something simple,

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like a cosmetic, we can sell it
in Western Europe, in the UK, in the US,

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where the market
is much bigger, much richer.

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If you live in Poland,
sales in such markets

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brings much, much greater
opportunities and returns.

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That’s why it’s so fascinating and
many people are excited by it.

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Amazon is one of
the biggest companies in the world.

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It’s owner is one of the
richest people in the world.

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It is also obvious that every person
would like to be active on Amazon.

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And that’s what this video will be about.

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Many people asked me how to release
first products on Amazon.

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After a recent lecture at
the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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people asked me how to release
simple products, such as cosmetics,

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shutters, roller blinds, etc.

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I became interested in Amazon
2 years ago and I did my research.

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I think that I’ve achieved some success
and I can talk about it.

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I became interested in books.

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Of course, you can sell physical products,
like cosmetics, TV sets, etc.

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However, this business requires
a lot of investment.

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Of course, the investments are bigger,
if you want to sell on a larger scale.

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I’m a book fan and
an enthusiast of self-development,

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so I’ve become interested in
publishing books on Amazon,

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because I liked this topic
and also because publishing e-books

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paperbacks,
how-to books and so on

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doesn’t require
as great an investment as

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releasing more expensive
physical products

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and allows you to
start releasing with little money.

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You can have an easy start
and that’s why I chose this direction –

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publishing books, e-books, etc.

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And that’s why
I encourage you to do the same.

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How publishing books
or simple products on Amazon works?

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I’ll show you 6 steps on
how to release your first product

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in a form of a book on Amazon.

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Let’s find out what they are.

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First of all, in order to sell
anything on Amazon,

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whether a book, an e-book,
simple book, thick book, any big product,

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you need to learn how Amazon works.

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I always say that you should
begin your advanture with Amazon

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from getting to know Amazon well.

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In order to move to the next steps,
you need to spend many days,

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I think that even a few weeks,
you can buy something,

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spend a lot of time to learn about Amazon.

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Let’s talk about books here.

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If you want to publish
our book or guide, etc.,

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you need to spend a lot of time
browsing through products,

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categories, subcategories,
what sells well,

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how these books look like,
how the titles are written,

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how the descriptions are written, etc.

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All in order to know
how this market looks like.

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You can’t enter any market
without knowledge.

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You must be familiar with the market
and know what sells well.

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You need to know how such
a market works, what sells and what not.

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Every book, every product on Amazon
has a Best Sellers Rank.

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When you display an item,
you can see if this products sells.

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So, once you’ve done a proper research,
you know which categories are hot,

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which keywords are better than others,
which types of products sell better.

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That’s when you’re able to
move on to the second step –

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looking for a niche in which
you can place your product

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and coming up with
your own idea for the book,

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so that you can fit in this market
and release your own thing.

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Remember that looking for a niche
comes down to the first step

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and our idea will stem from
getting to know Amazon,

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as well as coming up with it
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some product,
a book or a how-to book.

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You don’t need to
create anything complex.

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You just need to find a niche.

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Often, it’s about releasing products
similar to the already existing ones.

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The next step is product commissioning.

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That is, if your product
will be a short guidebook

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or perhaps a longer book,
a cooking book,

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then Upwork.com
or various similar portals

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allow you to commission articles,
books or find freelancers.

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It’s relatively simple.

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You commission writing a book
or article. 30 pages is enough.

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Of course, it can be longer.

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And you commission
writing your book in English.

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That’s how you get
the content of this book.

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You provide a title – you can,
but don’t have to, provide chapters.

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There are people who write everything.

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Fiverr.com is the best place
to outsource such simple jobs.

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For 5, 10, 15 $
you can have a professional cover.

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You can also commission a description
for a product, buy a promotion, etc.

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There are various simple tasks
that you can buy.

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Of course, not only in the book category.

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Once you have the whole product
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you need to create free accounts on
Create Space and Kindle Direct Publishing.

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You can choose just one.

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Create Space is a portal where you upload
content, cover, description, etc.

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And then your book is available
as paperback on demand.

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You don’t have to do
anything more on Amazon.

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Kindle Direct Publishing is a portal
in which you upload book content,

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formatted cover, description and then
your book is available as an e-book

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on Kindle and the best way is to
publish the book through 2 channels.

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Create Space – print-on-demand book.
Kindle Direct Publishing – e-book.

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It depends on a book, but you usually
release on 2 platforms simultaneously.

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Once accepted by these platforms,
your book appears on Amazon.

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And if you use 2 platforms,
the book will appear on Amazon

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after the verification within
a few working days.

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So, you’ll have a paperback on one
sales page and an e-book on the other.

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You can also start from
publishing only e-book

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via Kindle Direct Publishing
and our book will be on Amazon.

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But it’s best to have it in both places,
because if a client

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finds our book on Amazon,
they can choose between

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e-book and paperback.

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And if your book, your product
passes the verification,

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which is not difficult,
if you know what you do,

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at this point your product
is available on most markets worldwide

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wherever Amazon operates.

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Amazon prints books,
sends them to people.

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If you buy e-book,
there’s no problem with shipping.

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At this point, your product reaches
the world markets.

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Whether cheap,
expensive, simple or complex one.

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You have access to a huge market.
That’s why Amazon is so fascinating.

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“So, where’s the catch?
It’s too perfect.

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Tomek, you’re talking about
incredible possibilities of Amazon”.

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Yes, the possibilities are incredible,
but remember that publishing on Amazon

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also requires a lot of knowledge,
a lot of work, etc.

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It’s very important
to start with simple products,

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not investing much money.

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It’s very important to release
products as cheaply as possible.

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So, you don’t commission
a long book.

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I always prefer simple products,
short guides, as they cost

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several dozen, 100-200 $,
to be able to handle the failure.

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You must be prepared for it,
especially at the start.

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The failures will always be there.

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But it’s worth to learn
and sell on a small scale at first.

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Publish simple products,
so that the failures won’t be painful.

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It requires a lot of work,
a lot of knowledge

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and releasing the first product
is the most difficult.

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It’s vital to think of
releasing products on Amazon

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not on the basis that you want to release
your first product

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to earn millions from it, but that
you release first products to learn.

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Of course, you may succeed
and earn a lot, but you may also fail.

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Don’t worry, it’s normal.

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But I wish your first products are great
and you earn as much as possible.

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However, you should think of it
on a long-term basis.

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You release first products
and later on you release the next ones.

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Having the knowledge and experience,
after a few months, a year

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you release better and better products
and that’s what you should focus on.

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Because I always say that sudden success
comes from years of work.

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OK, maybe it doesn’t take
years of work,

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but you need to learn,
gain experience, fail sometimes

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to release better and better
products in a better way.

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And at this point you’ll manage to
earn more and more on Amazon

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and be more and more successful.

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I encourage you to do this.

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If you’ve enjoyed this video,
be welcome to check out

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my free course – the link is below.

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I sincerely encourage you to use it.

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If you want to learn more on
self-improvement, Amazon and books,

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check out my other videos.

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See you on YouTube.

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Thanks a lot.
I wish you all the best. Bye!

AFFIRMATIONS, or positive thinking and achieving goals and dreams

In previous posts, I told my story — there was about depression and big changes. I strongly believe that you can become the kind of person you dream of being. I used to be very shy and I struggled with a lot of problems. However, if for a longer period of time you actively change your thinking, then your life also change and I am the best example of that. What you do every day has a huge impact on what person you are. The change does not happen suddenly. Only daily small steps will help you in the long term to achieve great things and make great changes. That is why affirmations will be the area of today’s focus, because affirmations are very helpful in the transition.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How do affirmations work?
What are the benefits of using affirmations?
How do I create my own affirmations?
What are some examples of affirmations for success?
What are some common mistakes people make when using affirmations?

If you want to lose 10 kg, for example, you won’t do it in one week. You gotta take care of your health every day and lose weight gradually. It is only after many months that the final effect will be visible and, moreover, you should not stop at it. Similarly—in order to achieve the proper state of your mind, you must work on your thinking every day and do it all the time. Your mind is like a muscle and should be treated as such—it requires daily exercise. Unfortunately, you often don’t realize how limited your thinking is and how much your mind needs training.

You can shape yourself through affirmations

The whole world that surrounds you since childhood shapes you and you don’t even realize how much. What you do, what you think, what you can do—it’s all just the rules established in your head, acquired during your life. Your perception of reality can both hold you back and push you forward. That is why you need to take care of your beliefs. Each of us has different experiences from youth and the resulting beliefs. Consequently, some will have it harder and others easier—but it’s the past and you can’t change it. However, if you “inject” positive beliefs into your head every day, and those beliefs will be capable of giving you a boost, then your life will certainly develop in a positive direction. Your goals and dreams will come true over time. Although gradually and slowly, you are able to actively change yourself over the years.

If you expose yourself to positive things, your life will start to go in the right direction. Don’t get me wrong — there is no shortcut here and affirmations are not a wonderful cure for problems in life. Using affirmation is just a good (and pleasant) exercise that helps you believe in yourself and change your thinking to a positive one. Just as simple physical exercises done regularly strengthen the body, regular use of affirmation strengthens the mind.

Affirmations are just exercises

Affirmations provide the best way for all of to start our life-changing journey. Starting big changes in my life back in 2012, I also started with affirmations and books (a good book is just a big collection of affirmations that change your thinking). Every day affirmations help you change your approach to the world. Thanks to affirmations, you believe that you can achieve your dreams. Maybe at first you’re afraid to dream, but affirmations allow you to change your thinking and start dreaming about great things, and then they make you start acting towards making those dreams come true.

Affirmations shape your thoughts and your positive thinking

All great people have great thoughts. Your thoughts stem from your beliefs, convictions about what is possible and what is not possible. Very often your beliefs and convictions are not true, they don’t reflect what are you capable of. Do you believe you could be able to publish your own book? It might seem difficult to you, but for some it’s a piece of cake. Maybe you wanna make extra 10,000 dollars and save up for your dream vacation? Someone else earns that much in a month, others in just one day. Everything really depends on what your attitude, your belief in yourself. People earning large sums have no limit in their head which would make them stuck at 5,000 per month.

It’s not about planning to become a multimillionaire right away (unfortunately, many people will try to sell you the way to do it), but about changing your life, seeing the world, starting your own business that will give you freedom, maybe living a slightly different life than society suggests, etc. This apply to all aspects of our lives. Who said you can’t make good money, run a marathon and, for example, dive with sharks in Cape Town, South Africa? It just depends on what you think is real. If you have limited beliefs, you will never go beyond your limits—that’s for sure. That is why affirmations and daily changes in your thinking are so important.

My affirmations

Below are some examples of affirmations that I use every morning. I developed them based on inspiration from many different successful people I follow.

SELF-CONFIDENCE AND POSITIVE THINKING

What I do today shapes my tomorrow.
To have what I don’t have I must do what I don’t do.
I will be a 1% better person every day and I feel the joy of small steps.
I am in control of stress, because stress is just fear of situations I don’t know yet.
Every day I become a better person.
The best is still to come.
I feel immense gratitude for everything I have.
I am a healthy person because I take care of my body and mind.
I’m growing because I’m going beyond my comfort zone every day.
I am a disciplined person.
I accept everything that happens to me.
Life is a gift and I will enjoy it every day.
I’m the one in control of how I feel.
Good thoughts give good life.
Everything I dream of is just outside my comfort zone.
If I don’t like something in my life then I take responsibility for it and change it.
I never give up, NEVER!
Every failure brings me closer to success.
I do my own thing and don’t worry about other people’s opinions anymore.
I don’t have to prove anything to anyone.
I take action every day to push my life forward.
I’m not afraid and that’s why I’m fighting for my dreams.
I’m doing what I dream about, achieving my goals. If it doesn’t suit someone, it’s not my problem.
I am a skilled person and can achieve my goals.
I don’t complain, I act.
I live life to the fullest.
I have a lot of energy.
That’s my life and I’ll fight for it—I won’t let anyone get in my way!
I take responsibility for my life.
Happiness is the world around me organized in my way—I am the one who shape it.
I’m a brave person because I do things that stress me out—that’s the only way.
I invite miracles into my life.
I’m an inspiration to my friends and family.

BUSINESS, MONEY, SUCCESS

Success is all about being systematic and growing every day.
I’ve got my goals and thanks to that I’ll always know what to do.
Success in business is about providing value, enjoying the process, and having patience.
Good sales is believing in what you do, in your products and services.
I give value to people, I focus on helping and that gives the best results.
I make money, save money, invest, and only then spend it.
I like to earn, not spend money.
I value the world and people every day.
I have no excuses because I want results.
I work and do more than I need for my business/work. I care!
I am not waiting for “this” phone or “this” email—I go out to people and act.
Instead of waiting, I’M WORKING!
I can make money easily.
I am looking for new knowledge and skills—it helps me succeed.
Everyday work and science will allow me to master whatever I want.
I’m looking for a role model, which helps me succeed.
I am a man of action and a decision-maker.

How to apply affirmations?

Read affirmations every morning before your other daily chores
Don’t start your daily routine before you get a proper attitude
Do it out loud and energetically—use the whole body to express the affirmations you read
5 minutes a day is enough
You can repeat the process during the day
Use my affirmations (link below, pdf file, ready to print) and very important—also create your own.

Download free MORNING AFFIRMATIONS in PDF and motivate yourself every morning to act, achieve your goals and change your life from today. MORE

AFFIRMATIONS, or positive thinking and achieving goals and dreams — watch the video

AFFIRMATIONS, or positive thinking and achieving goals and dreams — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
I’ll tell you about affirmations.

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Are they useful?
Should you apply them?

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I can tell you that you should,
as they’ve changed my life significantly.

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In this video, I’ll discuss affirmations
and their influence.

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I’ll present my affirmations
which you can use to improve your life.

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Be welcome. What are affirmations?

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Affirmations are sentences, phrases
that you speak out loud

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which are designed
to shape your thinking.

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Once you change your way of thinking,
it influences your actions

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and these actions shape our life.

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Sounds easy?
But how to do it?

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One can say that affirmations are
meaningless, overrated and stupid.

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No. I think that using affirmations
is a genius way

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to embark on the adventure
of changing oneself.

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If we’re talking here about
personal development, business,

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everything, as everything starts here –
from changing our thinking

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which influences our life.

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If you want to change, earn more,
look better, be happier,

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more confident, achieve success
in every field of our life,

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then you need to change
your way of thinking.

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The best way to start making change is to
introduce affirmations into your life.

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Affirmations help us change our thinking.

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How they work?

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Each of us has
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perceiving ourselves in a particular way.

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You grew up in some environment
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it constantly shapes
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as how you perceive yourself,
how much you can earn,

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what you can do,
what you can achieve.

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It’s all in your head.

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Whether you think
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or you think that you can’t do it.

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go to another country,
do something fun – it’s all in your head.

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All the effects that you later achieve
stem from your thinking.

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Everything great people – billionaires
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have achieved,
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They believed that they can do it,
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told them or run some companies
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Or someone had athletes as parents
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achieved success in sport, etc.

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My point is that if you surround yourself
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the idea that you can do something,
it elevates you.

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we’re blocked by society
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and we don’t believe that we can
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of our environment.

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That’s why you need to use affirmations.

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You must change your thinking,
so that you can do more in your life.

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That’s because our mind
is one big muscle that we can exercise.

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This is a good news.

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Exercise takes some work, but
you can change thinking by exercising.

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The best exercise is affirmation.

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I’ll give you an example by analogy.

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If you want to lose 15 kilos,
you’re not able to do it within a week,

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as it would be harmful for your body.

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But if you focus on a diet
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and go for a walk, then within
6 months your health will improve.

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You’ll lose 10-15 kilos,
depending on our situation.

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The same applies to your thinking,
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which will change your thinking each day.

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If your thinking will be changing,
you’ll look at the world differently.

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When you think and perceive
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then this thinking
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When you think differently about yourself,
believing that you can achieve more,

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then your actions will be aimed
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taking steps in a certain direction
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And that’s thanks to affirmations
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and, in time, influence your actions.

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So, it’s very important to change your
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as it has a huge impact on your life,
actions and goals that you achieve.

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Now, I’ll present you my affirmations.

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They’re available to you –
just use a link below,

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type your email address
and download these affirmations in PDF.

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You can have them on your desktop
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so that you can use them every morning.

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In a sec, I’ll tell you
how to apply these affirmations.

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Meanwhile,
what affirmations do I have here?

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These are the ones that I prepared
myself, influenced by successful people.

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In my opinion, they work very well
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self-confidence and positive thinking,
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These affirmations are divided into
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positive thinking,
business and making money.

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Two parts. First –
self-confidence and positive thinking.

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I’ll read you a few prepared affirmations
which you can download.

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“What I do today, shapes my tomorrow”.

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So, what you do today,
very much affects your tomorrow.

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“In order to have what I don’t,
I have to do what I don’t”.

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“I will be a 1% better person every day”.

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“I feel the joy of taking small steps”.

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“I control my stress, because
stress is just a fear of the unknown”.

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“I become a better person each day”.

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“I feel a great gratitude
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“I’m a healthy person, because
I take care of my body and mind”.

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“I grow, because I step out of
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“I’m a disciplined person”.

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Perhaps a few more from this section.

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“I never give up”.

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“Every failure
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“I don’t need to prove
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“I’m not afraid
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“I’m doing what I dream of
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I don’t care if you don’t like it”.

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“I’m a clever person
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Now, affirmations about
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“Success is not about talent –
it’s about regularity and daily growth”.

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“I have my goals and that’s why
I’ll always know what to do”.

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“Success in business
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enjoying the process and patience”.

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“Good trade is believing in what you do,
your products and your service”.

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“I give value to people, focus on helping
them and it brings the best results”.

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“I like making money, not spending them”.

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“I give value
to the world and people each day”.

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“I have no excuses,
because I want to have results”.

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“I act and do more
for my business or job”.

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“I don’t wait for this phone,
this mail, but I reach to people and act”.

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“I act, not wait”.

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“I can make money easily”.

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“I look for new knowledge and skills,
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These are just a few of the affirmations
I prepared for you to download.

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I also left a blank space
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as it’s very vital
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which you’ll come up with
and which suit your person more.

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The ones which are very personalized.
I recommend writing them.

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Now, how to apply such affirmations?

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Affirmations
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As you wake up,
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find 5 minutes – as that’s
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Do it out loud, vigorously
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but stand up, maybe exercise a bit
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Put your heart into it.

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It’s worth to speak these affirmations
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in order to reach a very cool state
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You have to do it out loud
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In that way, this 5 minutes a day
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and put you in a state in which
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That’s how you’ll start
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In time, affirmations will change your
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and your life will start to change.

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I keep my fingers crossed for you.
My affirmations work very well for me.

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and pushing your life forward,
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my channel and my blog.

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Download affirmations and use them.
Watch my other videos. Bye!

Morning HABITS of SUCCESSFUL people

Morning HABITS of SUCCESSFUL people — Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Branson, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

Morning habits are something I’ve mentioned several times on my blog. Morning habits and morning affirmations literally change our thinking, our actions and, consequently, our lives. In this post, I will focus on great people, which means I will present morning habits of successful people. I’ll show you what successful people do in the morning and what morning routines they have.

This blog post answers the following questions:

“What are Arnold Schwarzenegger’s morning habits?
How did Barack Obama start his day in the White House?
What is Richard Branson’s morning routine?
What morning habit did Benjamin Franklin have?
How does Mark Zuckerberg simplify his mornings for increased productivity

Imitating successful people is the best and fastest way to improve your life. Below, I present to you the morning habits of successful people that everyone knows.

See what successful people’s morning looks like:

Arnold Schwarzenegger — a body-builder of all time, movie star, governor of California. His morning ritual is cardio training, or endurance training and waking up early. Arnold can still be seen riding a bicycle in Los Angeles. H waits with his strength training until evening. There is also reading and a healthy breakfast.

Morning habits: sport, getting up early, reading, healthy breakfast.

Barack Obama — the former US president has always started a day in the White House 2 hours before his planned tasks. This has always been associated with early waking up and physical exercises. Barack Obama drinks a lot of water, green tea and fruit juices in the morning (he doesn’t drink coffee). Reading adds up to his morning habits.

Morning habits: getting up early, exercise, hydration, reading.

Richard Branson — founder of Virgin Group, entrepreneur and billionaire. He loves to swim and surf in the morning, especially if he’s on his private island. He also likes playing tennis — only after a solid dose of sport does he eat a healthy breakfast.

Morning habits: exercise, healthy food.

Benjamin Franklin — one of the founding fathers of the United States. His morning habit was to get up very early. He planned his whole day, what important he wanted to do on that day. Benjamin asked himself a question every morning: “What do I want to do today?”

Morning habits: getting up early, setting targets and priorities.

Mark Zuckerberg — entrepreneur, founder of Facebook and one of the richest people in the world. He is known for dressing the same way every morning, which is why he makes less decisions and thus is more productive.

Morning habits: simplifying tasks.

Steve Jobs — Apple founder, visionary. Every morning Steve looked in the mirror and asked himself: “If this is the last day of my life, would I really do what I have to do today?”

Morning habits: setting targets and priorities.

Bill Gates — the founder of Microsoft, for years the richest man in the world, philanthropist. He starts his day with an hour of exercise on the treadmill and during these morning exercises he takes various courses to learn more.

Morning habits: exercise, reading and learning.

Morning HABITS of SUCCESSFUL people — CONCLUSIONS

The morning habits of successful people are primarily physical exercises, getting up early, reading and learning. I think we should all follow these morning habits. In addition, it is very common habits of successful people to set their own goals and focus on what is really important for achieving selected tasks and dreams. These small successes of everyday life make you a person ready to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way. Successful people know this very well, which is why their every morning is active. Thanks to this, they are ready for their challenges and motivated for the coming day. You can also use these simple habits to improve the quality of your life.

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Morning HABITS of SUCCESSFUL people — preview the video transcript

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What do people like Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bill Gates,

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Mark Zuckerberg, Benjamin Franklin,
Barack Obama have in common?

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What allowed them to achieve success?

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Today I’ll tell you about morning routines
of these successful people.

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The ones that allow them
to achieve their goals, success

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and to be able to get through life easier.

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What these morning habits are?
I’ll tell you in a sec.

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Firstly – why are morning habits
so important?

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Because many of us turn off the alarm,
turns on snooze,

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eat unhealthy breakfast
and, right after waking up,

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involve in many tasks
which overwhelm us

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and we react on the things
that happen around us.

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We get up late, open phone,
read emails, have plenty of tasks to do,

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so we do them as quick as possible
to check them off.

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Morning habits are very important
as they allow you to put yourself

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in an active state, not a reactive one.

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Before you even get to the tasks,
which will surround you during the day

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and won’t allow you to do what you want,
by doing morning habits and rituals

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you’re able to focus on your goals,
important things, dreams

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and you can be active in life
and actively achieve your goals.

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So, how successful people do it?

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The world’s greatest people
who everyone knows.

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They surely have
their morning rituals, habits

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that allow them
to achieve such a success.

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I’ll enumerate several of those people
and their morning rituals.

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Let’s start with Barack Obama,
the former US President.

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A very interesting and cheerful character.

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Barack Obama would get up two hours
before the duties he had to perform.

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As you can guess, President of
the US has many responsibilities.

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Much more than family people
having two day jobs.

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He was able to get up two hours early
and then exercising for 45 minutes,

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shaping his body to be healthy,
as thanks to this and getting up early

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he was able to do
a lot more during the day.

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Despite the fact that
he got up early and exercised.

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Getting up early, exercising
and then Barack Obama

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drank a lot of water and fruit
juices – interestingly, not coffee.

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These are the morning habits of
Barack Obama, a former US President.

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Now, let’s move to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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He’s also famous
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described in this book,
and, of course, exercising.

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Arnold right after waking up
goes for a cardio workout,

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i.e., endurance training, and he did
weight exercises in the evening.

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After the morning workout,
he used to read and eat healthy breakfast.

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Now, let’s take Bill Gates.

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Bill Gates also got up very early
and then headed to his treadmill

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where he was exercising his body
and learning some new things.

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So, at the same time, he exercised
his body and acquired new skills.

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Steve Jobs.
He needs no introduction. Apple founder.

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Steve Jobs had
a very interesting morning routine,

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as he was asking himself upon waking up,
what he’d do if this was his last day.

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He was very actively focusing himself
on what’s most important for him,

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not to waste time and he did things
as it was his last day.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder,
a rather controversial person.

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He’d put on the same T-shirt
every morning.

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I’m assuming he had
a few of the same rather than one,

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but the point is that
he didn’t need to decide what to wear.

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As a result,
he didn’t bother with it

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and was able to make
many more important decisions,

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not focusing on some bullshit things.

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Who else? Benjamin Franklin.

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Historical figure, one of
the United States founders.

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He was known for the fact that
he was getting up very early every day

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and focuses on what’s the most important
to do on this particular day.

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So, he also focused his thoughts on
what’s the most important to do,

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not throwing himself into his duties.

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Now, a question for you –
how your day looks like?

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Do you get up, turn off the alarm,
continue sleeping,

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eat unhealthy breakfast,
don’t think about the most important

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tasks for you?

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Or maybe you have healthy habits?

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You may say that I’m talking nonsense.

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Easy habits. Get up early,
exercise. Trivial things.

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Maybe trivial,
but how many of you do them?

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Do you get up early,
go for a walk, jog, learn,

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educate yourself
in aspects that interest you?

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How many of you read
the goals, focus on them

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and do what’s most important?

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How many of you do it
and how many just know that you should?

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Morning habits of successful people,
alive or historical ones,

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include getting up early,
taking care of your body and mind,

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learning and focusing attention
on the most important things

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we want to achieve in life.

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Instant Millionaire, the book that changed my life

The Instant Millionaire is a book that aided me in overcoming a challenging phase in my life. However, after several years, I couldn’t even recall its title. When we attended the meeting in Poznań with Katarzyna, the author of the blog Życie pod palmami, we had the pleasure of meeting numerous amazing individuals. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone for their presence and participation. I had the pleasure to tell my story at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and to inspire others to act.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is my life-changing book’s title?
How did the book impact my life?
What’s the focus of “The Instant Millionaire”?
What advice does “The Instant Millionaire” offer?
Why do I recommend “The Instant Millionaire”?

During the meeting, I brought up a book that I had listened to back in 2012 (in the form of an audiobook). This book had a profound impact on me and played a significant role in shaping my initial goals. As time passed, these goals guided me towards a completely new life in Cracow. Regrettably, I had not recalled the title of this book until yesterday when one guy (thanks, Patryk) kindly reminded me its name.

The Instant Millionaire: a book that changed my life.

The title of this book is “The Instant Millionaire” by Mark Fisher. The book presents a very pleasant story of a young man who seeks inspiration for life. He discovers this inspiration through the guidance of an older millionaire, an enthusiast of roses, who imparts to the young man the secrets of the subconscious mind and breaking through personal barriers.

It is an incredibly inspiring read that, within its simple storyline, encompasses a wealth of valuable advice on personal development, life transformation, and financial success.

I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking inspiration for personal transformation and motivation to take action.

Instant Millionaire, the book that changed my life — watch the video

Instant Millionaire, the book that changed my life — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’m in Poznań.

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Yesterday, I had a cool meeting
at Adam Mickiewicz University

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with Katarzyna from
zyciepodpalmami.pl blog.

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Thank you all for attending it.

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There were 100 people or so.
I’m very impressed.

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I can’t believe it,
as I was a little stressed

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and I was out of my comfort zone
to speak to such audience,

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but it worked out great.

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Kasia told about psychology, theory.

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I was talking a bit
about my life story there.

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But in this video I want to tell you
about a book that changed my life.

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Yesterday, while talking about my life,
from its start to my successes,

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I mentioned the times
when I hit rock bottom.

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It was in 2012, more than
5 years ago, I was in a poor situation.

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That’s when I came across this super book.

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I didn’t know its title until yesterday.
I’ll reveal it at the end.

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Being at my psychological low
with nothing to do,

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also being right after
sight correction surgery,

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I came across this audiobook
which I decided to listen.

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This book told the story of a young boy
who was searching for his place in life

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and for answers to nagging questions.

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One day, he met a millionaire
who was advising him,

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while working in the garden
and taking care of roses.

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The story was a fiction –
they didn’t exist –

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but it allowed author to convey
very cool pieces of advice

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regarding personal growth,
writing down goals and likewise things

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which you can find
in books or movies, etc.

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On the basis of this book,
I decided to write down goals and act.

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I wrote that I want to move to
Kraków and change my life.

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It seemed impossible,
but I accomplished these goals

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after a few months,
which was unbelievable.

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At that point – the book worked.

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Until yesterday’s lecture,
I hadn’t known this book’s name.

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When speaking to the audience,
I mentioned this book

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about a millionaire who had roses
and was advising a young man.

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After the lecture, a person
approached me and told me that

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this book is called
“The Millionaire’s Secrets”.

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You can buy it or
find and listen to it on YouTube.

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“The Millionaire’s Secrets”.

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Great book that changed my life.
Now, I finally know its name.

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One question
I got asked from the audience

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was that someone wants to change life,
move to another city or abroad,

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but they’re afraid of it.

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The fear inside tells them
that their comfort zone is small

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and they’re afraid of changes.

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That’s why I want to say that
it’s important to read books,

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listening to others
or attending lectures.

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Even one small book can motivate you
and show you another perspective on life,

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that you can go somewhere,
open a business

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and read an autobiography
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These kinds of books and things
help you change your mind

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about what you can and cannot do.

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When you see that you can do stuff
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like me, you’ll start changing
your beliefs and start to act.

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That’s why I recommend
“The Millionaire’s Secrets” book.

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Thanks again to everyone for
participating yesterday in a meeting

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at Adam Mickiewicz University.

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Thanks, Kasia,
for meeting with me and with us.

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I also greet the people
who went for dinner with us.

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It was great.
I hope we’ll meet again soon.

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Meanwhile, greetings from Poznań.

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We’re at the lake. I forgot its name,
but it’s beautiful in here.

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Sunday morning.
We’re relaxing here.

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Poznań is a very cool city.

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I live in Kraków and work downtown,
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but Poznań has made
a stunning impression on me

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and I think I want to move here someday,
as this city is truly beautiful.

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Greetings to everyone
from Poznań and Kraków.

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I’ll see you on YouTube
on Friday, as usual. Bye!

Passive income vs. active income: which way of earning should you use?

Passive income vs. active income: how do you earn?

Passive income and active income — do you know how these concepts differ from each other? Active income means exchanging your time for money. You work on a job and are paid for an hour, a day, a month or a job. In this case you get active income because you sacrifice your time and energy for a given time to get that income. This is the most popular model of earning among people and it has one big disadvantage — if you stop working then your income disappears.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is passive income vs. active income?
How does passive income offer more freedom?
What is a self-operating business for passive income?
Why is online business more scalable?
How can online courses generate passive income?”

On the other end of the scale, there’s passive income. I think this is the kind of income each of us should seek. Why? Because passive income allows you to scale your potential and multiply your income more and more. Passive income gives you freedom because it does not require you to be active to make money.

Do you want to earn well? Let’s say you earn very well as a doctor or lawyer. However, this requires you to work most days a week, often a few hours a day. What if you want to earn this way every month? Every day, month, year you have to work from morning to evening to maintain your earnings. With passive income, you become a free individual, able to lead a lifestyle that even those with high earnings (in the form of active income) will envy.

Passive income and active income — lifestyle matters

While earnings are certainly important, is it truly worthwhile to pursue vast wealth at the expense of working from morning to evening? Is it worth spending the majority of our time working in a place we don’t particularly enjoy? You have only one life, and perhaps it’s worth living it in an engaging and liberating manner.

It is certain that passive income and online business enable you to accumulate significant wealth over time. Nevertheless, I firmly believe that the primary advantage of online business and passive income lies in the freedom to travel, enjoy time with loved ones, be independent from a boss, and lead a fulfilling and joyful life. I prefer to have a passive income of $5 thousand per month than to earn $50 thousand per month and work from morning to evening without experiencing the joys of life.

Passive income is simply a self-operating business

Individuals with passive income essentially have a business that does not require regular work on their part. Every business requires initial setup, monitoring, and control, but once we no longer actively participate in it, it can be referred to as passive income. If we publish your own book on Amazon, for example, you create passive income from Amazon. Amazon works for us — by handling sales, payments, customer service, shipping, and handling complaints, relieving us from any further involvement. Our role focuses on product creation and marketing. This approach allows you to generate passive income. Naturally, it is necessary to monitor and support your books to some extent, as Amazon undergoes changes and competition arises. However, a well-executed product will provide us with a steady stream of passive income for years. See what type of online business is best for you.

Unlike traditional business models, online businesses and passive income have the advantage of easy scalability. This can be achieved by creating additional products and expanding the customer base, allowing for continuous growth. At the beginning, it requires significant effort and learning, but as time goes on, there is virtually no earning cap, particularly when selling Amazon products worldwide. That’s why I am a strong advocate of selling and creating even simple products on Amazon. With a target market worldwide, just 10 simple products can have a significant impact on the life of any individual.

What is my passive income?

I own over a few hundred products on Amazon and they bring me a pretty cool passive income. Some time ago, I showed what products I sell on Amazon and how much money do I make from it?

In addition to my passive income from Amazon, I have included income from the sale of online courses that further increase my passive earnings. Online courses are a slightly different type of passive income — but they require more attention from me. Books on Amazon require minimal maintenance as Amazon handles payment processing, printing, shipping, and even customer service. As authors, we receive royalties without the need for extensive involvement in the operational aspects.

For online courses you need to manage your store and ensure customer service, but they still offer the benefit of generating passive income through automated processes. In my case, there are also earnings from affiliates, which are also completely passive, because in this business model you receive a commission for selling someone else’s product. Want to know more? Sign up for my free Amazon and online business course today and find out what kind of business is for you.

Passive income vs. active income: which way of earning should you use? — watch the video

Passive income vs. active income: which way of earning should you use? — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek!
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’ll tell you about
passive and active income,

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what’s the difference
and why you should have

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at least a partial passive income
and how to do it.

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Let’s find out.

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I greet you from the Vistula,
a beautiful river in Kraków.

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Look on its beauty.

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Taking the opportunity
to be here,

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I’ll tell you a bit about active income,
but mostly about passive one,

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so that you know what it is.

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Let’s start from an active income.

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Active income is the income
you earn by your work,

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selling your time
and making money because of it.

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If you have a full-time job,
you perform a given task for money,

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that’s the active income –
you earn as much as you work.

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Most people earn money this way.

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It’s quite OK. There’s nothing
strange or wrong about it.

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It’s normal.

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So, what’s passive income?

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Passive income is the one that
doesn’t require our work and presence.

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That’s the difference between
passive and active income.

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If, for example, you’re
a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher,

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you work as a waiter,
you’re paid for your time.

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You earn as much as you work.

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You can earn a lot or a little,
but it’s still

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dependent on your time,
your presence at work.

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On the other hand,
passive income is the one that you earn

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from the things you’ve created,
like an online product

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or business not requiring your presence.

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Nowadays, it’s very easy to create
such a passive income.

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If you create an online product or
a business not requiring your presence,

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it’s achievable for everyone
to create such income.

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You may now think
“why should I create this income,

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if I have a job and earn a lot?”.

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Maybe you have a really good job.

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Now, the question is –
what lifestyle do you want to have?

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If you have a job
that you don’t like much,

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as I often hear that people
dislike their job

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and they go to it just because,
but they don’t like it.

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It’s normal.
I was also sick of my job not once.

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In each workplace I had a boss,
we were forced to be present

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while sitting and doing nothing.

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When it comes to passive income,
it’s all about a lifestyle.

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By creating passive income,
you earn and you don’t need to

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be present anywhere.

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I’ll give you an example of Amazon Book,
as it’s my topic of interest

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which I discuss a lot and teach it.

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If you’re releasing products on Amazon –
a book, physical products

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or online products, maybe
you have an online business

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or the one not requiring your presence,
then you can work from home.

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In your slippers, shorts, panties
or without them, if you prefer.

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The point is that you can be
your own boss – you make decisions.

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If you work efficiently,
you can work only for 2 hours a day.

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But you can also work for 8 hours
efficiently and multiply your profits.

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You can work while visiting your family,
being on a trip abroad,

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in Poland or by the river.

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That’s the essence of passive income –
it doesn’t require your presence.

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You work on your own terms.

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That’s why lifestyle matters.

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I would rather earn 2,000 USD
and work the way I do now –

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running a blog
or releasing products on Amazon –

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than earning 10,000 USD
and working 10 hours a day

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as a doctor, for example.

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I don’t want it,
because I can do what I want

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and that’s
the essence of passive income.

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As I’m recording this video,
taking a break by the river from cycling,

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I’m selling dozens of books
a day on Amazon.

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Maybe some are being sold right now
without my presence and effort.

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Amazon sells these books, creates
payments, takes care of a client,

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so this platform does all of it for me.

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I can go somewhere
and don’t worry about all this.

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While when working full-time,
you can’t go somewhere,

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you can’t even leave country.

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You’ve your hands tied –
for some people it’s not a problem.

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You don’t have to quit job,
but start thinking about a passive income,

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even after hours, on your own terms
while developing your hobbies,

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so that you stay in a full-time job
you like or change it.

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Maybe you can double
your income in this way

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and go on a trip,
buy a new car, whatever,

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but the point is to be independent
and diversify your source of income.

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That’s why I’m such a big fan of passive
income and earning money online,

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because it gives you a really nice income
and the one that can be scaled.

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Yes, you can make some money
in a full-time job.

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Opening up every business,
the online one too, you earn a little.

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when creating Amazon products,

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they’re being sold,
you can create another ones

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and it requires just
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Once you have a lot of products,
your income will greatly increase

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without your attention.

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You can create a pile of products,
create a various source of income,

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as it’s possible online,
and you can scale this income very much

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in every business,
especially in the online one.

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In a full-time job you have a limit.

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You can earn 2, 4, 6, 8,000 there,
but in business or online business

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while selling on a global scale,
you can earn 15,000.

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That’s why I’m such a big fan of
online business –

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I teach it, it gives me happiness
and I’m passionate about it.

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If you’re interested,
be welcome to check my other videos.

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You can learn about
online business and motivation.

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Have a look at the Vistula.
We’re between Kraków and Tyniec.

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I’m here with my bike.

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It’s a beautiful evening
towards the end of May.

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I didn’t plug in the mic,
so that you can hear the background.

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I’ll ride towards Tyniec.
There’s a beautiful cycling route.

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Go there, if you live in Kraków.

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See you in another episode.
Like this video and subscribe, share.

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See you again on Friday, as usual. Bye!

The 80/20 rule – the most important rule of success

Today, I will present a very simple 80/20 rule, which makes it easier to succeed and achieve your goals. The 80/20 rule will help you understand why some people achieve their goals with great efficiency while others fail. It is common to observe that certain individuals effortlessly achieve success in everything they pursue. What is the root cause for this and what is the key to success?

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is the 80/20 rule and how does it relate to success and achieving goals?
Why do many people hesitate to start or give up at the beginning, despite easy access to knowledge?
How does the 80/20 rule emphasize the importance of attitude and long-term thinking in achieving success?
What role does taking action and focusing on a goal for an extended period play in achieving success, particularly in industries like Amazon?
How does the combination of a correct approach, knowledge, and consistent work lead to success in any industry?

My conclusions are based on my example and on the example of people who start their business adventure on Amazon. If you start your online business (or any other business), unfortunately our knowledge is very limited and you always have to learn a lot to succeed. Let’s just say you want to publish a book and you don’t know how to do it. It is not easy, but you are able to acquire such knowledge and act.

The 80/20 rule

You can gain access to knowledge easily. You can look for information on the Internet, you can buy books and courses online — but since access to knowledge is so easy these days, why are most people afraid to start or give up right at the beginning?

The 80/20 rule says that only 20% of your success is knowledge and 80% is attitude. Without proper knowledge, you will not be able to achieve what you want — that is a fact. However, your approach is an even more important part of the process of achieving goals and dreams. I know a lot of people who watch movies and take different courses. However, not many of these people have the right approach and they are unable, for example, to work persistently for 6 months and to use the knowledge acquired.

The 80/20 rule — what counts is your attitude + knowledge

I repeat to participants of my courses that, in addition to acquiring knowledge, it is very important to act and to think long-term. To succeed in any industry (including Amazon), you need to act and focus on your goal for a selected period of time. From watching movies, reading books or taking courses only, you won’t make money. If you want to be successful, for example by publishing products on Amazon, you need to spend at least a few months and focus very much on this process. Everyone knows that to lose weight it is enough to eat with moderation and move more. Knowing something is one thing, but taking action is a completely different matter.

I can tell you that knowledge and work for a few months is enough to ensure a simple passive income on Amazon. It is best to look at it even more long-term. But how many people can trust this process and really stick to work? Most people will say it’s not for them and they will look for another miraculous way that does not exist. This is why cryptocurrencies have become so popular — people expected a big profit without effort.

Success is in the head

If your approach is correct and supported by knowledge, you can be successful in any industry. If your beliefs are realistic and you understand that you need to work systematically, you are on track. Let’s not be fooled, there is no such thing as a shortcut. I recently received feedback from one of my students — she said she learned to create her first simple products thanks to my course and it’s getting better and better. This is only the beginning for her and I am sure that within a few months she will make the Amazon product pool bigger and be more and more successful. While another person gave up after several days because she thought it was too difficult for her. Both had access to the same knowledge and their success was determined by their approach.

However, most fears are held by people who are afraid to invest even a small amount of money and their time — they agonize over dozens of details and claim that they are unable to release their product, open their business and reach for their dreams. Once you apply the 80/20 rule, you’ll understand you can learn by everything on the fly during the process. It’s only your approach that prevents you from giving up, and makes you move forward and succeed in every area of your live.

The 80/20 rule – the most important rule of success — watch the video

The 80/20 rule - the most important rule of success — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’ll tell you
about the 80/20 rule –

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the one which will help you
achieve plans, goals and dreams.

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Want to know the rule? Watch this video.

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I’m in Kraków again. This time
there’s a skyline in the background.

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Today, I want to tell you
about the 80/20 rule.

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Very cool rule which opened my eyes.
But why I want to talk about it?

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As I get the first comments
regarding my selling course on Amazon

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and people write to me, comment, etc.,
I’ve received a message from two people.

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One of them, who bought my course,
decided to cancel after a few days,

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writing that they won’t make it,
as it’s too hard

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and don’t want to continue.

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The other person
also wrote to me after a few days,

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being very thankful, claiming that
the course contains great knowledge

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and that they released the first products,
but is still learning, that it’s a start

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and it’ll only get better.

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These two people, who received
the same amount of knowledge from me –

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or from anyone else,
as it’s just an example of this rule

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which I’ll tell you about –
one of them resigned, totally gave up,

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while the other one is overjoyed,
already achieved first successes

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and is set on the right path.

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This fact provides food for thought.

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Now, talking about the 80/20 rule –
when it comes to your successes,

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tasks that you do,
no matter whether it’s your company,

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online or normal business, your job,
private life, health, emotions, etc.,

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but 20% of your success is knowledge
and 80% is your psychology.

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Knowledge can be acquired easily
from the books,

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YouTube, the Internet, experts –
everyone can get knowledge.

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However, 80% of your success
in anything lies in psychology,

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because one person with
the same knowledge will give up,

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switch to something else
of their liking, etc.

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At the same time, other people
will pursue their goals, plans

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and – even without this knowledge –
they will just act.

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Even with a lack of knowledge,
their psychology will help them

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to gain this knowledge
and they won’t be afraid.

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People write to me
that they don’t know this or that –

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people who even didn’t buy my course,
but it doesn’t matter –

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and they won’t act,
because they have too little information.

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Psychology is the key here.

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Yes, you should gain knowledge
from various sources and act,

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because knowledge enables you
to achieve our goals easier and quicker.

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Maybe you won’t give up,
but without psychology

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you’ll be afraid to do anything.

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Thanks to a proper approach,
you’ll search for this knowledge

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and lack of it won’t stand in your way.

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Remember that you should act.
If you don’t know something – calm down.

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You’ll gain knowledge and achieve goals
through work and persistence.

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I know a lot of people who
commented on my channel, my job

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that Facebook is changing algorithms,
that I did YouTube channel wrongly, etc.

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It’s easy to watch YouTube,
attend a course and then

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boast about your knowledge,
but the key is to act.

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Act, gain knowledge
and don’t worry about lack of it –

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it’s better than boasting about it,
as what is it worth

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to read a book or watch a movie
about gym if we won’t move our ass?

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It’s better to go for a walk than to be
an expert on exercising and do nothing.

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A half-an-hour walk is more useful
than being the biggest sport expert.

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Remember that your attitude
and psychology matter the most.

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You can gain or buy knowledge,
but without psychology

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you won’t achieve anything.

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What matters is your attitude,
long-term perspective,

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persistence and regularity.

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That’s what I want to convey
through my videos –

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don’t give up, try until
you’ve made it, set goals.

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If you have a goal, stick to it
for a half a year, one year or years.

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Don’t give up once you fail,
as you’ll fail at the start,

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but you’ll learn from these failures
and your psychology – 80% of success –

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will allow you to persist, stick to it
and you’ll be able to achieve anything.

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If you’ve liked this video,
subscribe and give thumbs up.

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I invite you to my channel.
There’s a new video every Friday.

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Thanks a lot and see you next week.

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Greetings from Kraków.

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I’m fleeing as the storm’s approaching.

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I want to record more videos
and not be struck by lightning.

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Thanks, see you, bye!

Invest in yourself NOW or someday you will regret it

Invest in yourself now. It may sound like an obvious statement, but how many of you are afraid to invest in your personal development? It’s highly likely that you’ve observed this issue both in yourself and among those around you.

This blog post answers the following questions:

Why are people afraid to invest in personal development?
How can investing in oneself lead to future profits and benefits?
What was the author’s experience with self-publishing and investing in an online course?
Why is it important to start investing in oneself today and remain consistent?
How does age impact the ability to change and invest in personal growth, and why is it still valuable?

We work hard to earn money and often go through it like water, spending everything on unnecessary things and pleasure. Unfortunately, many of us are so afraid to invest even $100 sometimes in something that can give us very cool knowledge and provide huge profits in the future. I’m talking about things like buying a good book, buying an online course, going for some training (often free). Usually you don’t even have to spend any money, just move your butt and meet people who can help us.

My short story with publishing books

When I published my first book, I was frantically afraid to invest any money, because I thought it was something bad at the time. It was only after my first book turned out to be a flop (I did self-publishing without any training) that I realized I was doing something wrong. I decided to invest in an online course, which taught me step by step how to publish books on Amazon Kindle and then I released more works — this time using the knowledge of those who are better than me.

I published 2 books and one of them became a bestseller on Amazon. This book alone in the first weeks reimbursed me all the costs of the course and other investments (it was 2016), and this one book earns for me to this day. I published a great product, gained my first passive income from Amazon and the knowledge I could use afterwards. The cost of several hundred dollars for the course have been paid back several hundred times until today and over time, I increased the range of my products and I learned more. This one little investment has literally changed my life.

Invest in yourself NOW — start today

The most important thing is to start investing in yourself today. Every investment is profitable only over time and often after many years. Don’t be fooled by quick money and possible shortcuts. Invest in yourself starting from today, do it gradually and you will see that after time the effects will become visible. It is about any kind of investment in yourself — it can be a good book, training, online course , taking time to learn from others, sports in the morning or just working on your own business after hours. Investment is something that does not give you a profit immediately, but if you do something regularly then over time the benefits are increasing.

There is always a good time, but as you get older, it will be harder and harder

The older you become, the harder it will be for you to develop and change your beliefs. If you’re twenty or thirty years old, you can change a lot in your life. With age, your beliefs on different topics will become increasingly difficult to change and it will be harder for you to change your life on different levels. Note that older people often find it difficult to admit younger people are right in some aspects, because the older you are, the less open you are to new things, to new truths and views. Unfortunately, we live in an ever-changing world and we need to learn new things and change our beliefs on certain topics.

Of course, you can change yourself and your life at any age, and I encourage you to do so. Just because you are forty or fifty, it doesn’t mean at all that you cannot change your profession, eating habits, open a business online or change your partner. Obviously, you can, but it may be a little harder for you.

Regardless of your age, always remember that investing in yourself and your knowledge is worthwhile. Growth, learning, and taking action bring us the greatest happiness and fulfilment in life.

Invest in yourself NOW or someday you will regret it — watch the video

Invest in yourself NOW or someday you will regret it — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’ll tell you why
you need to invest in yourself,

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why is it so important
and why the lack of investment

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is the biggest mistake
you make in business or in life.

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I invite you to watch this episode.

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I welcome you today from my home office.

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I’m not on some roof
or another cool spot.

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It’s my office.
I have a board, a computer.

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That’s where I work and create
products, videos and articles for you.

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Be invited to watch.

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Today, I’ll tell you
why you should invest in yourself

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and why is it so important.

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And also, what can be the effect of
this lack of investment in time.

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To begin with, I’d like to tell you
a little about the fear

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which I couldn’t cope with in the past.

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I see that many people
have this kind of fear.

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I see it in me,
though I fight with it now,

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I see it in my friends
and people which release

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their first products,
which try to change their life a bit.

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When you want to invest into something,
take responsibility for your life,

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publish a book or when
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that’s when the fear becomes apparent.

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You see how much you’re afraid of
investing in yourself or business

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when you need to
take responsibility for your life.

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For example, I see it in some people
that when they’re publishing

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their first book,
they panic about investing any money

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in creating the cover, in the content,
purchasing the book on this topic

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or the course with step-by-step guidance
how to publish a book or a product.

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A lot of people who are working full-time
and try to change their life,

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and start their business adventure
or, in general, make changes focused on

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taking responsibility – as that’s what
running your own business takes –

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a lot of such people, my friends
are afraid to take this responsibility,

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invest a few hundred USD
or even 15 USD in a book

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or something containing
someone else’s knowledge

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showing you step-by-step how it’s done.

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Maybe these people are afraid of
going on a training of any sort

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and get to know other people there.

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We’re very afraid of acting, taking
responsibility, invest in ourselves.

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This is a huge fear
and one of the biggest problems

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that people have when it comes to
starting a business and changing life.

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I’ll tell you my story –
when I was publishing my first book,

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“Krakow Party Guide”, I spent
quite a lot of money on this book,

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as I invested in translations,
covers, marketing.

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And that’s when I spent it all on this.

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I did it on a basis of
fragmentary knowledge that I had.

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And the book turned out
to be a total flop.

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It’s a cool book, still available,
but it wasn’t created on the basis of

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knowledge of a person
who already published a book.

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A person who is in this business
for years knows how to do it.

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Whereas I was a novice without
knowledge and my book was a flop.

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But I didn’t give up and decided to
invest in foreign courses –

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I spent not much on these courses,
maybe a couple hundred USD –

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and I published
two subsequent books at the same time,

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doing it step-by-step, basing on
knowledge, courses, learning

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and using proven methods.

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One of them was a bestseller
on Amazon. It’s still selling today.

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It was published in 2016.

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Knowledge paid back
within a few weeks or even less.

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The book is still making money now.

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Using this knowledge,
I’ve published hundreds of products

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and one small investment
literally changed my entire life.

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At this point, I tell everyone not to
be afraid to invest small amounts

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in books, courses, trips –
basically in your knowledge.

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Because when investing in knowledge,
we’re able to significantly speed up

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the process of online business
and any other kind of business.

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If you’re opening a restaurant,
call somebody, talk for an hour,

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you can even pay them for it.

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Call somebody who has 3 restaurants
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“Tell me, what mistakes have you done?
How to open restaurant step-by-step?”.

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Call somebody who knows
the business, even without charge,

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and this person will gladly help you,
tell about their problems, experience.

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This way, you’ll gain
so much time and money you would lose

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by making their mistakes –
that’s how you achieve success.

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That’s why I encourage you
to invest, gain knowledge –

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it’s the way to success.

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You won’t make these mistakes.

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It’s possible that these mistakes
would discourage you to carry on,

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in terms of online business, etc.

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That’s the same when you’re studying –
you should learn from professors.

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If you’re already working,
ask co-workers for help.

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You won’t reinvent the wheel
and you shouldn’t try.

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Knowledge is available
and you can easily get it and move on

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by investing
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not by reinventing the wheel.

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Start today – remember that time flies.

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If you’re 20, 30, 35 years old,
you still have plenty of time

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to change your life, improve it,
retrain or open online business

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which you’re able to develop
within 1, 2, 3 years in a way

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that will change your life
and you’ll be able to quit job,

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move out and you can easily do it.

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Remember that if you’ll be,
for example, 50-60 years old,

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then your views or even work situation
will be so rooted in you

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that it’ll be much more difficult
for you to change it – but not impossible.

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To change your situation
in business and relationships.

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If you want to change your life
or start online business now –

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or even change
your relationship, anything –

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and you’re still relatively young,
then you can make changes,

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act, learn, invest in yourself
and change life withing a few years.

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If you’ll talk to a person
who’s in their 50s

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and try to persuade them
to change a way of thinking

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or change life in any way,
then this person,

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even being unhappy about their life,
will have their established views

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and it’ll be hard to change, and for you
to try bringing them to their senses.

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Likewise, you’ll also be
50, 60, 70 someday

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and then the change will be hard for you.

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So, invest in yourself today,
act step-by-step

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you don’t need to change
your whole life today,

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don’t be afraid to invest,
as one day you’ll regret that you didn’t.

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And I remember first investments
in books, courses, knowledge

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and in acting,
getting out of comfort zone.

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All this still bring me nice effects
and I know it’s only the start,

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but I want to encourage you to act
and not being afraid.

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This fear of investing even a few USD,
as it often comes down to

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investing small amounts of money –
don’t be afraid of it,

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because if you’re looking for
happiness, fulfillment in anything,

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then investing, learning and change
will bring you great happiness.

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Overcoming your obstacles,
learning new things,

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releasing your first product
will give you such a confidence

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and so nicely change your beliefs,
that it’s the essence of happiness.

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That is, changing your life
to your liking, acting, achieving,

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overcoming your barriers
give you the greatest happiness.

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I encourage you –
invest in yourself and don’t be afraid,

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as the ones who fear
don’t make changes,

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stay in their jobs they hate,
in the life they don’t like,

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while those who can overcome this fear
and invest their money,

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leisure time and try to slowly change
their lives, these are the ones who,

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after a few years,
are being envied by everyone else.

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I encourage you to act
and invest in this way.

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This will give you happiness.

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If you’ve liked this video
and want to learn more about

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investing, publishing books
on Amazon, changing your life,

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then subscribe and watch other videos.

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I invite you to watch my next videos.

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Greetings, thank you, bye!

Woodstock and bungee-jumping, or why is it worth to take action!

Woodstock and bungee-jumping — how does this relate to my blog? Today’s post will have more relaxed and inspiring vibe and will be about the Woodstock Festival, fun and action. It was 2014 — I had been a waiter at a Krakow restaurant for almost a year, Route 94 was the king on the radio with his My Love.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What happened at Woodstock Festival when stepping out of the comfort zone?
How did facing fears at Woodstock lead to memorable experiences?
What lessons were learned from Woodstock adventures?
How to overcome fear and embrace new experiences?
How taking action brings unexpected positive changes in life.

After the big changes in 2013, my life finally became colourful. My workmate asked me if I was going to the Woodstock Festival with him because he had always wanted to go there. My first reaction was negative and I started making up different excuses to avoid going. It was something crazy and unknown. Dirt and slaughter everywhere — why should I go there? , I thought. However, a few days before the deadline I was finally persuaded, even though I was afraid of the unknown and inconvenience. However, I decided to overcome my comfort zone.

Fear of the unknown often steals great moments

Are you afraid of trying something new? It doesn’t matter if it’s a trip to a cool place, moving out, changing job or surroundings, opening up your own business, or picking somebody up. My great fears about going to Woodstock quickly began to turn into the best memories of my life. Travelling for 15 hours by train, sipping on cider along the way, and finally arriving at the scene instantly dispelled my fear. Hundreds of thousands of people and an amazing atmosphere. There were three of us, my work buddy, and another girl who worked for us as a bartender. We met wonderful people and we created a common camp in the woods. The climate was brilliant and everyone enjoyed the moment.

Woodstock and bungee-jumping — go crazy sometimes and don’t be afraid

Having great time during several concerts within this festival, I hurt myself multiple times, got kicked solid several times in the head with combat boots, got kicked twice in the crotch (I remember every time) and someone kicked me in the knee (because of this injury I had to give up a few trips to the mountains, and my left knee hurt for a good few years). However, I didn’t regret any of the moments of play even for a while. Every night, I slept in a tent with my new girlfriend and never let anyone else in.

Bungee-jumping

I decided to do bungee-jumping from a dedicated crane deployed in the middle of the festival venue. I was very afraid and the price was high. My new girlfriend and I have been waiting in the sun for a good few hours. Finally, our time came and the crane took us high, where I could see the entire festival spot. The ropes attached to our legs (we jumped in tandem) pulled me so hard — I thought I’d fall out of the cab before we are up. The countdown was quick and the staff pushed us out without thinking. The moment of jumping from the cab at an altitude of 80 meters is such an amazing experience that it is hard to describe it. My legs were almost ripped out of me, but somehow I survived all this. I definitely felt alive.

What are you afraid of doing?

How many times in your life have you hesitated to do something new? Are you afraid take the risk because you might fail? What if you succeed? Maybe this time, what you will do will come out pretty cool and you’ll get life-time memories. Maybe your goals, big and small ones, can be achieved? Everyone has different objectives, but surely you’ll have situations where giving up will deprive you of wonderful experiences. Don’t let fear take away the cool experiences you can get from life. Don’t let it take your dreams and ideas away. Try — what do you have to lose?

Action is most important!

Remember, if you don’t have much idea what to do, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth working. I moved to a new city years ago (to Krakow) I had no plan for myself, nor did I know what I would do in a few years’ time. However, I was not happy living in a small hometown and I just wanted to change my life. My actions and my exit from my comfort zone have made my life gradually change for the better.

I read a lot of books and worked as a warehouse employee and then as a driver in a restaurant. All I knew was that I wanted to develop and improve myself. Over time, more and more have changed and I no longer recognize the old myself. The story of bungee-jumping and going to Woodstock is just a small example, but a year before that, moving to Krakow I would not even think that forcing myself to act would result in such changes and experiences. You can never predict the effects of your actions, but remember that taking action and moving your ass will result in many cool events that you don’t even expect!

Woodstock and bungee-jumping, or why is it worth to take action! — watch the video

Woodstock and bungee-jumping, or why is it worth to take action! — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek!
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today, I’ll tell you why you should act,
even if you’re not sure

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what to do and what you want.

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Why is it worth doing anything?
Today you’ll know.

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I invite you to watch this episode.

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I’m in Kraków downtown on the roof.

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See how beautiful it is.
Great weather, May, wonderful.

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It’s worth to act
in order to be in such a place.

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What this episode is about?

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At first, I’d like to tell you
my personal story.

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Namely, in 2014 I was on Woodstock.

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Everyone knows this cool festival.
In Poland it’s sensational.

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But how I got there?

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I had been working as a waiter here,
in Kraków downtown

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for half a year or a year
and my life got a little better,

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because a year earlier
I moved to Kraków and figured out my life

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which became much better.

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But what about Woodstock?

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My friend from work
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I was very afraid, thinking
why should I go to some festival.

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I’ve never been there.
It will be terrifying, dirty, hard.

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It’s not worth it.

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I tried not to talk about this topic,
but friend was nagging me so much

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that eventually I changed my mind,
even though I was scared to act,

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to risk and I was afraid of the unknown.

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And so we went, 3 of us,
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It turned out to be brilliant.
We had a great time for a few days.

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We drank cider
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We didn’t have anything to eat,
slept in a camp in the woods,

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met great friends,
went to sensational concerts

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where I got hit in the head
with a shoe probably 10 times

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my ankles were chafed, I got hit in
crotch 2 times – I remember it exactly.

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I was all bruised
and I have knee injury to this day.

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It was tough,
but the memories are amazing.

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We were having fun every day.

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The 15-hour train trip
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Sleeping in tents, new people.

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Simply beautiful memories
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and I love to go back to them.

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What’s the point of this story?
I was so scared.

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This story is the example of it.

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Also, I won’t forget bungee jumping
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half a day in the sun to do it.

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In festival’s center there’s a big crane
for bungee jumping.

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We jumped as two people in tandem.

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And we waited for half a day,
all sunburned, it was very expensive.

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I remember going to the top of the crane
and our time has come.

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Before we reached the top,
they already pushed us.

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I didn’t even have time to think
whether I want to jump.

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They pushed us
and didn’t give time to think.

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The feeling was incredible,
just as great as was the fear.

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We jumped right in
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The memories are great.

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But why am I telling this story, as
this video’s title – why you should act?

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It was 2004 – I have
great memories and cool experiences.

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But a year earlier,
my situation was terrible.

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I didn’t know what to do
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even though I had no job,
I didn’t have a plan

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and didn’t know what to do.

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But despite this desperate life-situation,
I decided to act and try,

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not knowing what to expect back then –
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I went to Kraków.

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I was working in the warehouse
and soon they kicked me out.

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I was a driver at a restaurant,
where I became a waiter.

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I didn’t know what to do,
but I exposed to acting, to life.

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I took chance, risked, went for it.

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It was hard, but I decided to act
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It led me to a place
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Year later, I’m a waiter,
working with cool people in a cool place.

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I went to Woodstock, met wonderful
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This all didn’t result from the fact
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but because I wanted to act –
not knowing what to do, I just acted.

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Despite the fact that
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I just wanted to leave my hometown
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I didn’t know what to expect.

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I was achieving progress,
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has brought unexpected results that
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that I didn’t plan.

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I want to tell you about it, as I witness
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whether opening a new business
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anything that brings risk and causes fear
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but if you try to expose
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then you don’t even realize how after
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what impact does this have on your life.

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How many cool things can happen
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get out of your comfort zone
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Of course, you need to plan your life
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but if you don’t act,
nothing will happen.

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But if you act despite
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then you’ll see
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I didn’t know what will come out of it,
but in time I focused on online business.

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I acted, tried, published my books
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I was failing, but I was also trying.

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It led me to creating
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which sell well and it changed my life.

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I opened my blog
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went through difficult things
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I was a waiter. Great job.

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Over the years, I’ve met
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Then I became
a manager of this restaurant.

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Then I started my online business.
Now I’m creating a blog.

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I didn’t exactly know
what I’ll be writing there,

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but once I started,
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I’ve been blogging since last year, 2017,
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who I didn’t expect to meet.

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Opening a blog simply was a decision
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It required a lot of work,
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who also run blogs, online business.

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Now, such miracles happen
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when I started this blog.

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Just as I wouldn’t have believed
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being on Woodstock, bungee jumping
that I will do such things.

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So, if you’re afraid, hesitate
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Go out somewhere,
change your job,

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change the place of residence,
talk to a person you like,

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take a chance,
do whatever you dream of.

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Even if you don’t know
what and where it will be,

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just search, try anything,
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result in wonderful things in your life.

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And if you focus on something,
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then you’ll see,
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what cool things will happen.

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don’t be afraid to move forward,

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because even if you don’t know
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acting always makes sense.

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Act, try different things
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because it’s worth it.

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And now I’ll show you
how beautiful it’s here on the rooftop.

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You can see the entire Kraków.

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There’s St. Mary’s Basilica
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I plan to spend
some time in the sun here.

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Greetings. Subscribe if you want
to learn a little bit about

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changing life, Amazon, books
and other cool, motivational things.

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See you in the next episodes
every Friday. Bye!

MORNING ROUTINE for everyone, or how to start your day well?

3 simple morning rituals for everyone for a good start of the day

This blog post answers the following questions:

What are three simple morning rituals that can help start the day on a positive note?
Why is hydration an important part of a morning ritual?
What are some simple exercises that can help wake up the body and promote a willingness to act?
How can affirmations and goal-setting be incorporated into a morning routine?
How much time does it take to complete these three morning rituals?

In this post, I will show you 3 simple morning rituals and I will tell you why a good start of your day is so important. You will learn how to develop these morning rituals on the example of my morning habits developed over the years. To design my morning rituals, I largely based on the morning habits of successful people.

3 simple morning rituals — why is it worth it?

I can tell you right away, yes — it makes sense and really works well. I will not present you here complicated exercises and strange rituals to perform every morning. However, I will show you very simple and fast ways to start each day in a good mood with an attitude to action. You don’t have to take long walks or do very complicated things — just take care of the basic needs of your body and you’ll get positive mindset for the coming day. This will change your thinking throughout all day, and this will lead to real actions and change your life in the long term.

My morning rituals take about 10 minutes and consist of 3 simple and pleasant tasks, which are always performed immediately after waking up. Here are my 3 simple morning rituals:

Hydration

Right after waking up, your body is very dehydrated after the night. Your body then demands fluids and the first thing you should do is to supply your body with water. I always drink a minimum glass of water with lemon juice. It is worth adding lemon juice to the water, because then you supply your organism with a dose of vitamin C and the lemon water tastes just much better.

Simple exercises

Once you hydrated your body, you have to warm it up. The water itself will not wake you up well and therefore you need very simple exercises that will get you on your feet. You don’t have to go running or go to the gym. The purpose of simple morning exercises is to get every part of your body moving — see the video below where I show the simple exercises that I do every day. These exercises will make you almost immediately wake up and feel a willingness to act.

Motivation (affirmations) + your goals + day plan

Once your body is hydrated and your muscles warmed up, it’s time for a little incentive gymnastics for your head. I strongly encourage you to purchase a planner and an empty notebook. Save your tasks for each week in the planner (I highly recommend you get one with a weekly schedule so that you always make your plans weekly). In a separate notebook, save your long-term goals and motivating sentences, i.e. affirmations. You can also save your business ideas in this notebook as well. I always have a planner and a notebook with me.

Affirmations — these are nothing but sentences that motivate you to act and positively encourage you to live. I write my affirmations and regularly add new ones all the time — sometimes I hear something smart from someone on YouTube, sometimes I write myself a quote from a book, sometimes I even write down my thoughts. It is very important that affirmations work on you and motivate you to act. These may even be the simplest sentences, like “Don’t give up!”. It may even be a morning prayer lifting up the spirit. I encourage you to work on your favourite affirmations on your own, but of course you can borrow them from someone. See my clip about the morning rituals where I show some of my affirmations.

Your goals — having goals is the best motivation in the long term. Goals give meaning to our daily routines. Affirmations, on the other hand, are a brilliant instant motivation. However, well-established goals will allow you to persist over a long period of time in your activities. In your notebook, save your goals for the next year and split them into stages. I know this may not be easy, and maybe you won’t be able to do it right away. However, once you have those goals written down, read them every morning and you’ll be surprised how easily you achieve them.

Morning rituals — write your goals every day

Plan of the day — in a planner with a weekly schedule, write down the most important task to be performed every day. Every morning, check what you have to do on a given day and note it in your planner. Of course, it is best to do it earlier and have your tasks written down in advance. Then, your every day will be ordered, and you will always do what you have to do. It is easier to get done well-planned tasks. This way, your life will then go in a good and planned direction every day.

3 simple morning rituals take only 10 minutes a day

All these steps should not take you more than 10 minutes each day. Consciously starting your day in this way will provide you with a positive start and direct you towards your goals and dreams because you will begin the day full of energy, keeping your goals and dreams in front of you. You will be motivated to work towards these goals and dreams. Good luck!

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MORNING ROUTINE for everyone, or how to start your day well? — watch the video

MORNING ROUTINE for everyone, or how to start your day well? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.
Welcome to this video.

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Today I’m in the Beskids and we’ll
discuss my 3 simple morning routines

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which are going to make your life better
and direct you in the nice direction.

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Are morning rituals
important in our lives?

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Probably many of you have heard
about such rituals

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and whether they’re worth doing.

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For me, they really are
and they don’t have to be fancy.

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Many people think
that they’re difficult,

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like long walks, running,
going to gym, reading lots of books.

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No. I’ll show you simple rituals
that you can do in 5-10 minutes,

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which will help you
start a day in a good way.

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They won’t consume much time and energy.

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Let’s start. 3 simple rituals
that I do everyday and you can too.

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From today or tomorrow.

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First ritual – hydration.

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Right after getting up,
your body wants water,

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as you didn’t drink all night,
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you simply need to drink water.

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I’ve prepared for you a normal water.

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You should drink water
with lemon juice or mineral.

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Not necessarily just tap water,
as it’s not tasty.

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you’ll hydrate nicely.

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You can even drink two glasses
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It’ll refresh your mind.

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Don’t start your day with coffee,
but a glass of water.

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Only then comes the time
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That’s the first, very simple ritual.

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The second thing to do in order to
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As I’ve said before, you don’t have to
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get up at five o’clock,
run, go to the gym.

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You can do it, but later.
Not as a morning ritual.

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It’s worth to do some
simple exercises in 4 minutes.

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I won’t show you
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but you should stretch a bit
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turn your head like that
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move your hips, do a few bends.

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Sacrifice just 3 minutes for it.

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In addition to these simple exercises,
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which I won’t show you due to my injury.

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But in addition to such push-ups,
it’s worth doing 10 simple squats.

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After such 3 minutes and hydration
you’ll see how cool you’re gonna feel

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and how awakened you’ll become
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You’ll wake up within 5 minutes
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which is very important.

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Third stage,
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This stage consists of 3 things –
motivation, that is, affirmations.

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reading your goals and plans for the day.

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I highly recommend that
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Such a schedule with
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A schedule and an empty
notebook in which you’ll make notes.

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In such a blank notebook,
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for this year, for example.

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Then, look at them every morning.

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take a look at such a notebook
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for the near future, for this year,
divide these goals,

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so that your mindset simply
shifts to achieving these goals.

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Don’t be afraid to set big,
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but you need to
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Another thing is to plan your day.

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Here we need a schedule.

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Ideally, it should be
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Such a schedule
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which you complete regularly,
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You don’t think about
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just write down goals for the week
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After morning rituals and breakfast,
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for a given day and your day
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If you write down the goals,
you’ll probably do them.

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The last thing in this third routine
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Maybe you think that
affirmations are pointless.

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But I can tell you that
they make a lot of sense.

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You can write them in a notebook.

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By the way, I publish
this notebook on Amazon,

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these types of products,
very simple, often empty.

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I only did the cover and the inside.

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You can sell hundreds of such
simple products on Amazon.

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I talk about it in other videos,
so check them out.

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It’s my product
and you can find it on Amazon.

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Back to the topic of affirmations –
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but I wrote in my schedule, various
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which I found in the books,
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people that I’m following,

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or often they’re just my thoughts.

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Having such a morning ritual,
I read these affirmations.

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I wrote down, for example,
to never give up.

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Or what is personal development,
so I read everyday that

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it’s not about reading books
and going to trainings,

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but acting,
getting out of the comfort zone.

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I wrote that taking action means that
if I want to have something,

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I do things I’m afraid of.

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What else I’ve written
for a good start of day, let’s see.

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I’ve written in English,
for example, “take action”.

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Take matters into your own hands.
Nothing’s gonna change without action.

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Also “do your best and
don’t care what the people say”.

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There are various affirmations
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months or even years.

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You need to come up with
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You don’t have to fill
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but buy a schedule, a notebook
and write even one sentence a day,

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which you find somewhere
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If you do this, you’ll start each day
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Remember that a simple 5-10 minutes
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taking care of your body,
so that you awake,

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and reminding yourself of
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and also motivating with affirmations
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If the goals and activities for
this week, year will be written

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and you’ll be motivated,
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you will pursue
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After a few months, a year,
you’ll be surprised that these

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small and big goals
will be coming to fruition.

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You can achieve miracles if you set
yourself everyday in the right direction.

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Decide what you want,
do the morning rituals.

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I’ve been doing it for a long time
with great results.

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Mortgage loan — how can you buy your own apartment on credit easily?

In this article, you will learn how to get a mortgage loan for your own apartment. With the help of Tomek Zastawny, I’ve prepared a whole bunch of valuable information for you, and I can tell you right away that it’s not that difficult — I’ve already gone through the loan granting procedure, and thanks to Tomek’s work it was quite easy and pleasant.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How can I buy my own apartment on credit easily?
Is a mortgage loan a complicated procedure?
What is the importance of creditworthiness when applying for a mortgage loan?
How does the own contribution affect the mortgage loan?
How do I determine the mortgage loan installment amount and repayment period?

It is worth to take a mortgage loan for your own apartment.

Many of us very often rent an apartment/room, especially when still being a young person who study or frequently change places of residence. However, if you know that you want to live in a certain place and just want to be “on your own” then a mortgage used to finance your own apartment is the best possible option.

There are a couple of reasons why you should purchase your own apartment with the support of a loan. First, you pay for your own apartment, and despite the obvious cost of the loan, the apartment becomes yours over time. This is definitely a better investment in the long term. When you rent an apartment, your payments essentially go toward your landlord’s mortgage, leaving you with no long-term benefits. Furthermore, living in a rented apartment is generally less comfortable, particularly in the long run, compared to owning your own property. Owning an apartment offers a higher level of comfort, and the monthly mortgage payment can sometimes be lower than the cost of renting.

I myself decided to get a mortgage despite having a large own contribution. The total cost of my apartment, including interior finishes, was about $95,000. The mortgage amounted to $35,000. Some individuals may have reservations about taking out loans, but I believe that without them, many of us would be stuck renting apartments indefinitely. Few people would want to save cash for half of their lives to buy an apartment, and few can resist the temptation to spend their savings. This is where a mortgage comes to our rescue.

Is a mortgage loan a complicated procedure?

Anyone with this process ahead of them is probably a little apprehensive about all the details and the enormity of the information. Perhaps rightly so, but that’s where people like Tomasz Zastawny come in. Tomek virtually got all things done in my behalf during the entire loan procedure. Starting from finding the best deals, completing the paperwork, and concluding with a joint visit to the bank to sign the contract. In addition, we even recorded a video for you afterwards. You can find the link below.

Therefore, you should not be afraid of a complicated procedure, as long as you have a financial expert ready to help you. Just like you don’t have to be a car mechanic to own a car — all you need is a good workshop and you’re good to go.

Creditworthiness is essential

Banks calculate your creditworthiness with their calculators, which financial experts such as Tomek Zastawny also have access to (he was able to show deals from a dozen banks). You can take a loan not only if you are employed based on an employment contract, but with a contract for mandate or if are a sole proprietorship. It all depends on the bank, the amount of your income and how regular it is. First of all, you must meet bank prerequirements, which are clearly defined, and any good financial expert will help you with this — you don’t have to study this knowledge specifically at all.

With an employment contract, you only need to work for 3 months and be creditworthy. Also, it is not that complicated and difficult. The best thing to do in this case is to use help of an expert, as they always has all the necessary and up-to-date knowledge in the field. Such person will present you deals from many banks and even help you fill out the documents from your developer, for example.

To ensure good creditworthiness, an employment contract, preferably for an indefinite period, is still highly desirable (of course, this is not a prerequisite). If your contract and earnings are insufficient for a mortgage then you can ask your boss for a raise (even a temporary one) or simply switch to a better paying job.

Mortgage loan and own contribution

Own contribution requirement when buying an apartment with a mortgage may vary but often it is a minimum of 20%. There are banks that will allow you to get a loan even with a contribution as low as 10%. Of course, the larger your contribution, the better mortgage terms you will get. When taking a mortgage for an apartment, my own contribution was equal to the half of the price of the property, and this fact undoubtedly increased my creditworthiness.

The cost of the loan is also lower with a larger down-payment, because the smaller the loan you take, the less money you have to give back to the bank.

Mortgage loan and instalment amount

Depending on your situation, you can get a mortgage for different periods of time. If you choose to repay the loan over a longer period of time then the instalment will be smaller, but the cost of the loan will be higher. It all depends on your financial ability to pay the mortgage. In addition, it is also worth to remember about the financial cushion, or in other words saved cash amounting to 6 months of your income.

I decided to take loan for 15 years and my instalment is $260. The loan period and the amount of the instalment is up to you. An interesting option may be to choose the longest possible repayment period (low instalment) with the option to overpay the loan. A small instalment means small risk, but at the same time, if you have excess cash, you can increase this instalment as you see fit.

Where to start to get a mortgage?

The best way to start is to meet with an expert and determine your creditworthiness. You can then analyse the cost of purchase and determine whether you can afford to buy your own apartment. Then, you should proceed to look for a property. Once you find the right one, proceed to fill out your loan applications. Your credit agent will also help you with your search for a matching apartment, and they will even put you in touch with selected developers.

Is it possible for two people (for a couple) to get a shared loan?

Obviously, this is possible. It can significantly increase your creditworthiness. It is not necessary to be formally married to get such a loan. I can confirm it is possible, because this is how I got a loan for an apartment together with my fiancée.

Do you have to pay an expert for his support?

The services of financial experts dealing with mortgages, such as Tomasz Zastawny, are free of charge for the client. These experts receive compensation from the bank based on the outcome of their work, with no cost to the customer. A financial expert will always try to make sure that you get a good loan (in any bank), because they will only get paid if the whole process goes well.

Just act and use the help of others

I hope I have shed some light on the process of buying your own apartment with the assistance of a mortgage. Do not hesitate to embark on your mortgage project. Many people have fears, but with a little professional help and action, it can be accomplished. Even if your creditworthiness is found to be insufficient, you will learn what changes are needed and how to improve it. In such a scenario, consider negotiating a salary raise or seeking a higher-paying job to save for your own contribution. Eventually, the apartment will be yours. Good luck!

Mortgage loan — how can you buy your own apartment on credit easily? — watch the video

Mortgage loan — how can you buy your own apartment on credit easily? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today I’ll tell you
how to get a mortgage loan.

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I’m about to meet Tomek Zastawny,
who’s gonna explain to you

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how to get this loan.

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I’ve managed to get one,
so it’s not that hard.

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Welcome. We’re with Tomasz Zastawny,
a financial expert.

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– Hi.
– Hi.

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– I’m very pleased to meet you.
– Me too.

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– I’ve managed to get a loan.
– You simply had a good expert.

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Yes, we did it together.
You’ve helped me get a credit.

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Who are you?
Introduce yourself briefly.

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Briefly. I’m Tomasz Zastawny.
I’m a financial expert.

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I’ve been working in credit intermediation
business for almost 11 years.

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I started in July 2007.

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It was a memorable date,
because I was getting married.

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It was interesting.
I’ve spent my honeymoon on a training.

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My wife was more than happy.

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So, for almost 11 years I’ve been helping
making dreams of my clients come true,

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regarding their apartments, homes –
real estates, in general.

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That’s what I’ve been doing for the last
11 years and I hope there’ll be more,

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as I really enjoy doing what I do.

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You certainly know how to get this loan.

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Tell us, why we should
get a mortgage loan on our apartment?

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You probably already know
the answer to this question yourself.

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– Yes, but maybe our viewers don’t.
– You’re right.

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I got my first credit in 2004,
when the apartments were much cheaper,

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so this credit was not that big,
but many people rent flats now.

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It’s very common.

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When you rent an apartment,
you pay an instalment for it’s owner.

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Unless the owner already
paid an apartment loan,

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so he earns on renting.

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But nowadays there’re a lot of investors
who buy apartments on a loan,

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rent, tenats pay their loan
and often they also earn on it.

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That’s a great situation,
whereas people who rent this apartment

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and pay for it don’t realize
that they can take out a loan

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and repay their own apartment.

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When we buy an apartment,
we become attached to this place.

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Renting gives us a freedom to live in
different parts of, for example, Kraków,

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but it doesn’t give us a freedom
to do what we want in our apartment.

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Often, when renting,
we even need a permission for nailing.

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That’s an uncomfortable situation.

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Or paint a wall in different color.

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While in your apartment
you can do anything.

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So, as long as you have a solvency,
you should buy your 2- or 3-person

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and feel comfortable, having
your own apartment and repaying it.

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The loan instalment is often
the same as the owner’s rent.

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So, if we know that
we want to live somewhere,

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why should we pay rent instead of
pay for ourselves in a kind of investment.

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– Exactly.
– And do it this way.

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But many people
who don’t have a mortgage loan

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are afraid of this process,
as it seems complicated.

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Taking a loan for an apartment,
lots of paperwork, certificates.

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Anyone who wants to take
such a loan thinks that it’s complicated.

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Is it really that complicated?

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For me, it’s not, as I’ve been working
in this business for 11 years.

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It’s simple.
But each client is different,

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almost every topic that I process
is different.

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The clients’ situations
often differ from each other.

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Therefore, what is worth doing
at the start?

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Check our solvency. That’s the basis.

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First thing – if we earn
a certain salary,

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are we able to take out such a credit
which will allow us to buy an apartment.

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So, in order to take out a loan,
we need to have a solvency.

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First thing –
we have an employment contract,

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we have a basic salary, bonuses, benefits.

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This allows us to repay the loan.

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Banks have their calculators,
I also have an access

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to over a dozen
bank’s calculators from my offer,

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we’re able to check whether
a given person has a solvency.

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Many people having a contract of work
or their own economic activity

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think that their type of income
prevents them from getting a credit.

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But they can. If you’ve earnings,
you’re employed at a particular workplace,

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depending on the form, for some time,
you can take out a loan.

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If you have a permanent contract,
it’s enough to work for 3 months

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in order to take out a mortgage loan.

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So, it’s not as difficult as it seems.

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If you devote your time to this task,
you can accomplish it within a few months.

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Yes. In general,
maybe I’m self-promoting myself now,

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but it’s worth to take advice
from an experience expert.

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Of course, you can go to a bank
and lose time there,

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because this bank’s advisor bank
will pitch for their loan offer.

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I’m here to guide you
through the whole process –

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the first meeting, signing documents,
completing paperwork from a developer

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or from the person
who sells you the property.

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I guide you around the whole process.

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Bank’s advisor will pitch their offer,
as that’s their job.

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It’s in my interest that
you get the best offer available.

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We compare the offers from all the banks
and choose the best one for you,

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so that you can recommend me –
if you’re satisfied with my service.

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That’s how I do business.
90% of my clients are referral customers.

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So, that’s how it goes.

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If I hadn’t done my job reliably,
I hadn’t recommended the best banks,

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then I probably
wouldn’t have sat here now.

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Yes, because I’m also your happy customer
and I can truly recommend you.

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My loaned apartment
is almost finished now.

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However, everyone’s afraid of it all.

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With your help through
the whole process –

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I can confirm it,
but I must ask you for our viewers –

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the entire process is not so complicated
if you have someone,

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who handles this topic for many years.

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That’s right. I know my business.

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But if my car’s broke,
I search for a good mechanic.

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I drive to him, he fixes my car,
I’m clueless what he’s doing.

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When a light bulb breaks in my car,
I don’t replace it,

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but meet an electician
who will do it for me.

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When you come to me,
you get info how to get a mortgage loan.

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As I’ve mentioned earlier,
I guide you from the first meeting

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and give you all the needed info
how to obtain this credit.

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The first step before buying a property
is to check your solvency.

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You must cut your coat
according to your cloth.

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It’s easy to take out a mortgage loan,
but you have to repay it.

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In addition to a solvency –
now we move to the next steps –

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you should also think about
your own contribution.

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The question is
how to get this contribution,

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but we won’t discuss this topic.

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We need to earn money
for our own contribution.

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It doesn’t need to be
a huge amount, right?

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Financial Supervision Authority
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your contribution
should be a minimum 20%.

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But there are some banks
which will give you a credit

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for up to 90% of the property value.

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So, if you want to buy
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you need to have a minimum of 7,000 USD
in order to allocate them

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on your own contribution.

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Of course, there are also
deal-related charges, like notary fees.

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It also depends on which market
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primary or secondary.

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They differ in costs.

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But we can talk about it on a meeting
and I can choose the best option for you.

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10% is a minimum.

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Of course, if we have 20%
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we can get better bank offers,
have greater availability,

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as some banks require 20%.

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You can learn all this at the meeting
and choose the best option.

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Also, a credit period.

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If we take a loan for a longer period,
we will have a lower installment.

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Shorter period – bigger installment,
but we’ll pay less interests

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in the entire credit period.

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There are many nuances
which we must discuss individually,

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because each customer is different
and expects something else.

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One prefers to have a longer period
and pay a lower installment.

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You must know that a mortgage loan
carries a variable interest rate.

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Today, I can have
an installment of 400 USD,

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but it doesn’t mean that it won’t change
through the entire credit period.

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Fixed interest rate loans
have recently appeared on the market,

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but, as of today,
their interests are higher

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than in credits
with a variable interest rate loan

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and I think that’s
the type of credit we should get.

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But there’s a risk that the rate changes
and our installments rise.

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To my clients who want to
take out a mortgage loan

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and say that they have
7,000 USD of savings,

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and they want to allocate
the whole sum as their own contribution,

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I recommend them to leave a reserve
named financial cushion.

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The financial cushion is, for me,
a minimum of 6 times our fixed expenses,

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so that there’s something left
to repay our mortgage.

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Because a mortgage is a loan for
purchase of the property where we live.

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If we don’t have the money,
the bank will want to enforce its claim.

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– And it won’t be nice.
– I hope we never find out.

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Many people have such a problem
that they don’t have this solvency.

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Even if they have their own contribution.
They don’t earn much.

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What can they do to improve a solvency?

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First of all, count your current solvency.

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Come to me and we’ll find out,
if we can get a certain amount

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with our income.

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If not, the first thing
if you work on an employment contract,

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as most of my clients
do work on an employment contract,

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often it is for a fixed period,
but most people have

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the one for indefinite period,
which is a plus for a bank,

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however, a fixed period
doesn’t preclude taking a loan.

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So, don’t be afraid if you have
a fixed period employment contract –

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you can still get a credit.

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– You need to meet some requirements.
– But they’re clear.

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Yes, a bank has a specified requirements,
like, you’re employed for some time,

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you have a contract for a fixed period,
but if for 6 or 12 months,

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you can also get a credit.

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The same with economic activity –
3 months is not enough.

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You run it for one year?
You can apply for a mortgage loan.

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Back to how to improve solvency –
go to your boss.

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If you’re good at your job,
ask for a raise.

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– Even a temporary one.
– Yes.

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But it would be nice
if it remains unchanged.

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– So that our boss won’t change his mind.
– Yes.

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If you’re a good employee,
you do your job reliably,

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I think that if you have a cool boss,
you’ll get that raise.

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The second option is to change a job.

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Nowadays, we have
a market for the employees –

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there’s shortage of workers.

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If you change a job
and there will be a continuation,

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it’s enough that you work for a month
and you can apply for a credit.

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– It seems easy and uncomplicated.
– Right?

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The third thing – an additional job.

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Of course, it requires effort
and organization of your time,

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but if you’re an expert in some field,
you can take contracts of mandate.

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It’s also some form of extra income,
if it’s performed regularly.

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It can also be regarded by a bank
as a stable income.

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Third point – I often meet with
young married couples

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who are beginning their life journey.

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They want to buy an apartment
and don’t have a solvency.

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Parents can join this loan.

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That is, if we have parents
who also receive income,

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a bank will take into account their
income to calculate solvency.

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So, you can consider this option.

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Of course, we’d prefer
to take this loan ourselves,

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not to burden the parents,
because if they join our loan,

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they’re also the owners of this credit.

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They may interfere in
an apartment finishing.

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And that’s uncomfortable.

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But it’s still better than
renting an apartment.

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Probably yes.
But there’s such a possibility.

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In time, if we start earning more,
parents can recede from this credit.

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We just need to show
that we have a sufficient income

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and parents can recede from the loan.

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– So, that’s also some solution.
– Of course.

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So, we can act
according to the situation,

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as each of us has a different one.

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That’s right.

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But it’s possible to get a loan for
an apartment in a few months.

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Yes. The procedure of obtaining
a mortgage loan looks like this –

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the first meeting is about
checking your solvency,

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determining what we want, buying
apartment on primary or secondary market.

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As I mentioned,
there’s a difference in cost.

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We determine how big a credit we want.

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Many people don’t know that we can also
get a loan to finish the apartment.

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If we buy it from a developer
and it’s empty,

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there’s a radiator
and sometimes a front door,

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we can also take out a credit
to finish this apartment.

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If only our solvency allows,
we take a loan for the purchase

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plus for the finishing of
such an apartment.

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Also on a secondary market,
if we buy it from an owner

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and it’s not pleasing to us,
as we don’t like colors or a bathroom,

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we can also get a credit from a bank
for the renovation of this property.

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We just need to have a solvency.

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The first thing – determine a solvency
and what we want to buy,

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and we search for a property.

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I can also help my clients
find such a property.

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I work with many real estate agents,
I also have some contacts with developers.

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If you want, I can also help with it.

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I don’t deal with it myself,
as I don’t have that much time.

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After finding this property,
I inform my client

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what documents are necessary
to start the entire credit process.

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If we’ve already found the property,
signed a contract

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with the individual who sells us
the apartment or with the developer,

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we meet and fill out credit applications.

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I apply with my clients
mostly to 2 or 3 banks.

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Why are we doing this?
First of all, it doesn’t cost anything.

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We can submit up to 5 banks,
but it misses the point.

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– But we need to try.
– Yes.

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That’s used when
your solvency is questionable.

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We apply to so many banks
to have a peace of mind

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and for this transaction to succeed.

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The bank can refuse to issue a credit
without providing a reason.

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It’s better to have credit applications
submitted and let them process,

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as it takes sometimes 3 weeks
or even one and a half month,

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depending on a bank,
because if a given bank has a super offer,

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a lot of people apply for their loan
and this process can take more time.

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I can point out the bank
which will give credit quickly.

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So, if we have 3 banks, the first one
will give us a positive decision,

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then we have an inner peace
that we have one decision,

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but we wait for the remaining ones.

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If we have time,
because when we sign a contract,

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there’s a certain time to pay
a seller for this property.

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So, first of all – we have peace of mind
by submitting several requests.

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Sometimes a bank
allows for terms negotiations.

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Unfortunately, not in all of them.

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If a particular bank
has a really good offer,

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we’re no longer able
to negotiate anything there,

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as the bank has so many applications
that if someone is unsatisfied with terms,

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he or she doesn’t get a credit there.

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But there are banks in which
such negotiations be conducted.

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I can confirm this,
because a few months ago

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we submitted my applications to 2 banks.

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I had a big own contribution,
so I was sure of succeeding.

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One rejected without reason
and the other confirmed.

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If we had applied to only one bank,
we’d have had a problem.

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So, you should always try.

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Many people may be wondering
about the fact that

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they’re not married,
but they live together,

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having a girlfriend, a boyfriend,
fiancé or fiancée.

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Is it possible to get credit
for two people in such a case?

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Bank doesn’t care about marriage so much.

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First of all, these people must have
a solvency to take out this mortgage.

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Thus, if you’re not in
a formal relationship,

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you can both apply for a credit.

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– Solvency is calculated together?
– Of course.

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However, some banks
count it as 2 households.

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I know which banks to choose,
because if a bank counts it like that,

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it calculates bigger cost of living.

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So, it’s also important
when it comes to a solvency.

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– But we should try in various ways.
– Yes.

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Many people may be afraid of
going to a financial advisor,

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as they don’t know how does he work,
on what basis.

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They think of going to a bank,
ask and save money,

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as I don’t want to pay
a commission to him.

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Do you charge people for your help?

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My services to the client are
free of charge,

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so on the first or last meeting
I won’t issue you any invoice.

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I’m rewarded for the effect,
that is, if you apply for a mortgage loan

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and the credit will be paid,
I get a part of a pay from a bank.

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Maybe not directly,
but that’s how I’m rewarded

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by a financial institution for the effect.

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I don’t know if you’ve seen
the mortgage loan ads recently.

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Banks don’t advertise in media
anymore, as it’s expensive.

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They prefer to pay the agent.
That’s the cheapest way to get a customer.

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I just do the work of a bank employee.

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Bank already receives
a complete application to analyze.

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So, they reward me for my job.

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Client simply needs to
fill and sign an application,

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while the rest of the work
is being done by me.

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So, even if you don’t know how to start,
come to a meeting with me

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and I’ll explain everything
from the first meeting to the last one.

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There’s even no risk.

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You know, if you hold back
some information,

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like you had credits in the past
and didn’t pay them on time,

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and you don’t tell me,
you may not get this loan.

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However, there are some customers
who actually had bad credit history,

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but if it was a long time ago,
they still have a chance.

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There are banks
which will give you a mortgage loan.

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I’m with you from the first meeting
up until signing a credit contract.

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I’m present on contract signings,
as I think that

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the client feels more confident
when the advisor is with him

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from start to finish.

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I’m with client also up until
a loan disbursement.

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What’s more, I can help even after
granting a credit.

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Like with a property insurance,
which is required by the banks.

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And, above all,
I’m a supporter of a life insurance.

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Mortgage loans are not
a sum of 1,000 or 2,000 USD,

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but more than 50,000 USD.

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If there’s a marriage with children
and one person will be gone,

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then there’s a problem.

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So, I think that when
such an amount is at stake,

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we should obligatorily have
a life insurance.

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I also do this – so that you have
in one place information

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and activities related to it
which should be done.

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You don’t need to visit banks
and waste your time.

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Be welcome to visit me.

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– To sum up, all it takes is to act.
– And not be afraid. Do the first step.

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Many people are afraid of it.
One needs to make some effort,

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but he or she can do it
with the help of your expertise.

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Yes. Although banks often make changes.

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I have a constant access to info
about situation and current bank offers.

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It often happens that
we submit the applications

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and some new offer appeares.

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So, we do it again.

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We did it, as lending rate changed,
so we wanted to economize on it.

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We changed the application.

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I think that you won’t be able to
handle it yourself.

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I get such info on a regular basis
and if there’s a change

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in favor of my client,
I’m on his or her side.

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Even though I represent
over a dozen banks,

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I’m always on the client’s side.

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I want you to get the best credit
on the best terms,

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because if you’ll be properly served
and get a good credit,

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then I hope
you will recommend me further –

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that’s how this business works.

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In other case, I wouldn’t be sitting
here and work in it for 11 years.

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As a satisfied customer,
I can recommend you, Tomek.

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– I hope you’ll use his services.
– Be welcome.

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The links for getting in touch
with him are below this video.

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– Go for a meeting.
– For a fine cup of coffee.

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You’ll find out
how your situation looks like.

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Tomek will guide you step by step
through the entire process.

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If it will be possible to get
a mortgage loan, you will surely get one.

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– That’s right.
– We ended our interview on a good note.

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– Thanks a lot.
– Thank you too.

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Maybe we’ll do more videos.

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Write down your questions below.
Tomek will answer on them.

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– I invite you to meet Tomek.
– I invite you to get a next loan, Tomek.

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I’m sure there will be more.

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– Thanks a lot.
– Thank you. Take care.

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– Bye!
– Thanks again.

Your comfort zone is your danger zone

How to get out of your comfort zone and get better every day

Your comfort zone is your danger zone. If you don’t leave your comfort zone, you won’t achieve what you want in your life. All your dreams, both the bigger ones and the slightly smaller things you want, are beyond your comfort zone. Everything you already have required you to overcome your comfort zone. But it’s already behind you. In this post, I will show you that it is worth leaving your own comfort zone, because then you get the most from your life.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is a comfort zone and why is it considered a danger zone?
How can you get out of your comfort zone and improve yourself daily?
Why is expanding your comfort zone crucial for achieving your dreams and desires?
What is the importance of taking small steps every day to expand your comfort zone?
How does staying within your comfort zone hinder progress and why is it important to embrace failures and challenges?

Comfort zone — what is it?

It is a boundary of any area of life inside which you feel comfortable. While one person may find it comfortable to run for an hour, ascending to the second floor using stairs can already be significantly outside the comfort zone for another individual, causing considerable difficulty. For some, public speech is a terrible thing, while there are people who love it. For me, publishing a simple book in the USA in a few hours is easy. But for most people, it will be something difficult and even impossible to do. As you may already guess, you can expand your comfort zone. But what for? The reason is simple — to get what you dream of from life.

What do you want? How to get ? Comfort zone is your limitation and key to success at the same time

It doesn’t matter if you want to have more money in your life, improve your health, keep your body in shape, have better relationships, be a happier person, etc. In order to improve every aspect of your life, you must overcome fear and go beyond your individual comfort zone.

You don’t have to do great things and bend your comfort zone to the limits of possibilities right away. Even small daily steps taken to expand your comfort zone will allow you to increase your confidence from the first day. Everyday little steps you take will make you go further and further over time. You’ll feel like you’re going in the right direction. You’ll be a better man.

Force yourself to act every day because the comfort zone blocks you

I try to do something every day that upsets me and makes me nervous. I realized that what I wanted required me to do stressful things. To have what you don’t have you must do what you haven’t been doing so far. If you sit on your ass every day in a safe zone of your comfort, what do you think will happen to you? You’ll lose your life, and you will be lost yourself.

Imagine you are stuck in your bed all month. How would this affect your body, muscles, bones, etc.? You would become a very weak and fragile person very quickly. That’s why you have to force yourself to move forward every day, because that’s the only way to keep yourself in shape and keep going.

It’s not that hard at all

Remember that a small step is enough every day, and the key to success is regular work. You don’t have to do big things today, but do something small every day that stress you out. If you act regularly, it won’t be that hard, and over time you’ll see how much your life has changed. I was also very afraid of moving to another city once, I was afraid of working as a waiter, then it seemed to me that working as a restaurant manager was something very difficult. Then, I started publishing books on Amazon, blogging and recording YouTube clips. Yes, I was right — it wasn’t easy, but a small step every day led me to where I am and I wouldn’t be able to achieve it in a few months. If you spread the process over several years, it turns out that every day was enjoyable, and I only had to slightly expand my own comfort zone each day. The long-term effects of these actions are astonishing.

Comfort zone vs. failures

Maybe you’re trying to earn more, change your job, improve your life, or maybe your health? But why are you not progressing in what you want to change and in your actions? Because you play within your safe zone. You think you can move forward without working every day and doing new stressful things?

When I published my first books, I was very afraid that each of them would be a flop and that it would not work. But I acted despite fear, learned new stuff and did things that felt uncomfortable. Over time, what was difficult and new turned out to be known and easy. However, everything required overcoming fear and action in areas previously unknown. I haven’t been able to avoid many failures, but only taking risks and leaving the comfort zone gives us effects over time.

You need stress and challenges — the comfort zone is in your head

If you’re only doing things that don’t stress you out and don’t force you to cross your borders, that means you’re not growing. If you go to the gym and can carry weights despite the pain, it means the effects will come. If the weights you carry are too light, then there will be no effects. It is similar in other aspects of life. Arnold Schwarzenegger said you can tell the best body-builders from the weaker ones by their ability to reach the pain zone and carry on. This makes them successful. If you feel stress, upset, enjoy it and act anyway. This will allow you to grow every day.

Your comfort zone is your danger zone — watch the video

Your comfort zone is your danger zone — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome. Today I’ll tell you
about a danger zone.

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Why is your comfort zone so important
and why you must get out of it

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in order to achieve anything in life?

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I invite you to watch this video.

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How to get what you want
in your life?

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You will never get what you want –

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no matter whether it’s
a big or a small dream, things –

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without getting out of your comfort zone.

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Take a moment to think about this,
because if you want to, for example,

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achieve a nice body, health, money,
relationships, success,

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something cool, no matter what it is,
well-being, happiness,

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it will always require you to
step out of your comfort zone.

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Your comfort zone
is your danger zone.

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If you want to have something you don’t have,
whatever it is,

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it will require doing something
that you don’t.

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Let me explain why.

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If you already achieved anything in life
and you have some resources, things,

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it required you
to sacrifice some comfort zone.

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When you were learning to walk,
you were afraid to fall

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and it required you to fight your fear,
doing something difficult

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and only over time
you were able to achieve it.

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It’s always the case that what
you already have doesn’t scare you.

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You are familiar with it
, and you are not afraid of it anymore.

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But what you don’t have
requires you to overcome this fear.

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Take me, for example.

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When I was moving to Kraków,
I was afraid of a lot of things.

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I was afraid of relocation,
I must’ve get out of my comfort zone

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to move out, to become a waiter.

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Then I was a manager
and I was afraid of this work.

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Only now I know that it was very simple.

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I was also very afraid of
publishing my first book.

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It was very difficult for me and required
stepping out of my comfort zone,

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because I was afraid what will happen
and I was thinking that I’ll fail,

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that I’ll lose money.

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And I did lose money at first,
but I got out of my comfort zone

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and moved forward.

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I was persistent, I published
other books, I was learning

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and in time it has started to bear fruit.

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Many people are afraid of
failing and losing.

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Each of us has this fear.

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The question is whether
you’re able to change it

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and if you know that each of us
wants to play in a comfort zone?

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Are you a person who
wants to play in a comfort zone?

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Are you afraid to act or not?

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I see people who don’t want to
step out of their danger zones.

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They sit in their safe spot.

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This spot means something
different for everybody.

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One person didn’t achieve
anything, sits in their home

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and is afraid to do anything.

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The other person can have a job,
income, life, but can still feel bad.

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Why? Because they still
don’t get out of their safety zone.

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The basic thing is to realize that
being in a safety zone,

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regardless of your life situation, is bad.

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Let me explain it.

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Maybe you’re on some advanced level,
but often when people achieve something,

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they think that being in
the discomfort zone is a temporary thing

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and after you achieve something,
you don’t have to do anything.

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It’s not the case.

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You have to take steps everyday.

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Remember that if you want to achieve
something – it doesn’t have to be much –

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you need to take small steps everyday
in order to achieve your dreams.

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It doesn’t have to be much,
but taking small steps everyday

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toward overcoming your comfort zone
will give you overwhelming confidence.

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For example, even today,
I needed to get up at 5.30 a.m.

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to make this video.

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There’re no other people who got up
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I’m the only one. Fortunately.

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It also required me to overcome
my comfort zone.

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It wasn’t easy, because
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and getting up at 5.30 a.m. to walk here
required getting out of my comfort zone.

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The same applies to publishing books –
I overcome my comfort zone everyday.

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Many people just don’t want to
get out of their zone.

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They can’t handle it
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if you do something,
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I see it in people who have a job,
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earn income, have a family, stabilized
and now they take no new challenges.

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Where does it lead to?

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Many think that when they lose weight,
they don’t need to do anything.

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The same with money.

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Or if you reach pension,
you don’t need to do anything.

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Many people lose a lust for life
and dies shortly after retiring.

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Because our body needs challenges.

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re 15 or 60.

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My grandmother is over 80,
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She’s living her life, enjoying it
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the end of her capabilities.

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She’s very healthy.

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The same applies to people in every age –

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if you have goals and take on
challenges everyday, then you’ll be happy.

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It won’t be comfortable, as staying in
your comfort zone seems nice,

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but you can’t do it.

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If you go to bed for a whole month
and won’t do anything,

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you’ll look bad,
your body will be damaged

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and you’ll be unhealthy.

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The same applies to your mind
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overcoming its comfort zone to be happy.

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This first discomfort, when you
do something, gives you confidence

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which can’t be achieved in other way
than overcoming a comfort zone,

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performing actions
and achieving your plans.

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So remember – be active.

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Life is a process that requires
taking small steps everyday

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and getting out of your comfort zone.

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Remember one sentence
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if you want to have what you don’t,
you have to do what you don’t.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this video.

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If you want more information, motivation
and knowledge on book publishing,

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watch my other videos.

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If you’ve liked this video, subscribe.
Thank you. See you in the next video.

Which Amazon sales course should I choose to publish a book?

In this article, you will learn which Amazon sales course to choose in order to publish a book or eBook. First of all, I would say that you should publish your first “product” not your first book. When I say book, you may think that you must be the author and write it by yourself. However, that’s not the point here. You don’t have to be a writer when publishing your first product in the form of a book on Amazon Kindle or paperback book on Amazon (Print on Demand). You don’t even need to speak English well to do so. Your job is just to find the right niche and subject and to subcontract the creation of a product on this subject. See what products I release on Amazon.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How to choose the right Amazon sales course for publishing your first book?
What tasks can be outsourced when publishing a book on Amazon?
Why is investing in knowledge crucial for success in Amazon book publishing?
How to start publishing a book on Amazon and which free course is recommended?
What are the tips for selecting the best Amazon sales courses for book publishing?

What tasks do you need to outsource?

You outsource virtually everything – book content, cover art, book description, promotion and even file formatting. I believe that in the beginning you need to try to do some of these things by yourself. It’s worth learning basic formatting and basic promotion of your first products to understand the whole process. Over time, you can outsource all these things to others. You can find all the basic information regarding getting started on Amazon, publishing books there and online business in my free course THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS. With this course, you will learn how the Amazon publishing models work and what Amazon sales course you should choose if you decide to start your Amazon journey.

Invest in knowledge and in your business

If you want to succeed by releasing your first products on Amazon, or in online business in general, you need to invest in knowledge. Many people, unfortunately, are so afraid to invest any money in their business idea or in the knowledge they need. Most people give up on their dreams and ideas because they are afraid to invest a few hundred dollars in an online course that will show them everything step by step.

People just don’t believe they can make it, which is why they are so afraid of even small investments. Unfortunately, you won’t get far this way. If you want to release your first product and achieve something then you need to invest a little and you need to get started. You can start publishing a simple book/product by investing as little as $150 with text, cover and simple promotion included. You can even publish a product at virtually no cost, but I’ll talk about this next time.

How to start? Which Amazon sales course to choose?

At first, check if the topic is suitable for you. Sign up for my free course THE BEST TYPES OF BUSINESS ONLINE. You will find there all the basic information about publishing books on Amazon and about several other ways to make money online. If you like online business then choose the type of business for you and just get started. Once you have an introduction to the whole thing and have completed my free course, I recommend you to invest in paid online courses.

Starting my adventure, I invested over time in paid online courses in English, and thanks to the knowledge I gained, one of my books was a bestseller on Amazon (a book with dozens of pages, which cost me a total of about $250). My mentor from Belgium, who was publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, was another very helpful resource. I was very fortunate that he decided to teach me for free over a long period of time.

I highly advise against publishing books your own way and without any knowledge, as you will lose a lot of time and money this way. The cost of online courses varies, but for the amount of a hundred dollars you can have the knowledge gained by someone for many years. I’m not talking about large sums here and the courses will pay you back maybe even after the first book published on Amazon.

What specific courses should you choose? I invite you to visit the courses section of my blog.

Which Amazon sales course should I choose to publish a book? — watch the video

Which Amazon sales course should I choose to publish a book? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today I’ll tell you which
Amazon course you should buy

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in order to publish your book
and start earning money.

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Be welcome to watch this video.

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Which course should you choose
to publish your first book?

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I’ll tell you that
you shouldn’t call it “first book”,

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as it should be called
the release of your first product.

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That’s because
publishing a book on Amazon,

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whether as e-book or paper,

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should be, especially early on,
a publishing.

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So, you don’t write your book,
create cover, translate.

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You don’t have to be an author –
you’re a publisher.

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By publishing your book on Amazon,
you publish a product under some brand.

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Your name can be a brand,
which I don’t recommend,

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unless you’re a writer, but not many
people want to publish this way.

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You must create your product
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creating a cover, etc.

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That’s how you’ll publish
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just like me.

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You need to outsource the work.

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You don’t have to worry about
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You outsource writing a content,
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creating a book description,
promotional text for the sales page.

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You outsource everything
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That’s why I prefer to call it
the first product in book form.

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Why a book? Because of
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in electronic form.

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In time, it multiplies endlessly
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That’s how the process of
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Now you may think:
“OK, I want to publish my book”.

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Many people reached to me
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as in my previous videos I’ve talked
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or a paper book
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Many people asked me
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and in which course should they invest.

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I’ll also tell you
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who are starting with book publishing
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Many people are afraid to invest any money
in knowledge or in their company.

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Many people want to publish their
first product without any investment

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and without having to work much.

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They apply half-measures
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with publishing a book.

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They end up not doing anything,
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of investing several hundred dollars –
which is not much these days –

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and publishing a first product.

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You need to spend $150 on publishing
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More or less, depending on a strategy –
in general, not much.

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You just need to invest in knowledge
and in creating the product.

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Unfortunately, many people
are very afraid of it

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and that’s why they don’t succeed in
publishing books or products,

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as they’re afraid to act,
to believe that it’s possible.

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If you doubt that after spending
a few hundred dollars, gaining knowledge

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and risking with your business
you can achieve anything,

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then you won’t do anything.

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So, don’t be afraid – just act.

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Now, which course should you choose
to publish your book?

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First of all, I recommend you
to check out my free course.

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Link’s in the description and on my site.

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It’s “Best Types of
Online Business” course,

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in which I describe
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e-books or paper books on Amazon

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and also business of blogging
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Check it out,
but focus primarily on this course.

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There’s a whole range of information,
several hours of material

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on how to publish these books
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It’s the best way to start gaining
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and only then this free course
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how much money and time you need to
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what tools should you use
and I’ll also show you my products.

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and then you can make a decision
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launching your online business.

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Therefore, I highly encourage
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completing it in a day or two
and in this way knowing the business,

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which will allow you to make a decision.

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If you decide to publish
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or start one of the businesses,
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then I include there
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where to learn in English
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in order to publish
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So, firstly – free course
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Then, if you’ll be determined
to publish such books,

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in my course you can find
links to external courses,

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so that you invest in your knowledge,
buy courses and move forward.

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In the near future,
I may try to publish my own course

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about publishing books on Amazon
and how to do it step by step.

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For now, I recommend you
other courses which you can use.

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But start from my free course,
where you can learn everything.

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Don’t be afraid to act,
believe in yourself and gain knowledge.

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If you liked this video,
check out my other ones

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about publishing books on Amazon,
in which I present my products,

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or the ones about self-improvement,
in which I show how to enhance your life,

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how to be motivated to act
and to do business.

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Check out these videos,
subscribe to my channel,

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so that you can keep up to date
with the latest information.

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Thanks and see you in the next video. Bye!

The Secret of Motivation – Unraveling the Power of Pain as the Ultimate Motivator

THE SECRET OF MOTIVATION — is the pain the ultimate motivator?

What is the secret of getting motivated to act and achieve what you want? Many movies and articles that motivate for action features expensive cars, wealth, successes and a cool life. Obviously, it is needed, because you need to believe in your dreams, have a vision and set goals. However, why is it that many people, despite encountering numerous opportunities every day, often fail to take action in their lives? After all, everyone desires to have their own company, a nice car, the ability to travel, and attain wealth.

This blog post answers the following questions:

What is the ultimate motivator?
How does pleasure versus pain influence our motivation?
Why do many people fail to take action in their lives despite encountering numerous opportunities?
What role does discomfort and challenging situations play in motivating oneself to act and change?
What are the consequences of not taking action and remaining in one’s comfort zone?

Why are so many people stuck in their world and don’t dare to venture out a little and pursue their own dreams, goals and plans? I’m not talking about some very difficult dreams to achieve, but rather maybe moving forward, taking action, maybe starting your own business, changing your life for the better in terms of even health and lifestyle? Does motivation in the form of all these wonderful things really work so well for us?

The secret of motivation — do you get motivated by pleasure or pain?

We are beings who are motivated, on the one hand, by pleasure and, on the other hand, by pain. We strive for pleasure, and we want to avoid pain at all costs. It’s obvious but think about it for a moment. Does having a good job, an apartment, and easy access to various forms of entertainment such as the Internet and television stimulate your motivation to work and take action?

We often fulfill our basic needs, including pursuing pleasures. Do we then want to work hard to improve our standard of living? Not exactly as it turns out. If you are in a relatively comfortable environment, then the desire to grow and to fight for a better life will not be too strong. Even if you are motivated by extraordinary things and rewards such as a luxurious lifestyle, unfortunately, your motivation can diminish rapidly when your life remains comfortable and content. While it may be occasionally boring and monotonous, at least you have enough to eat and occasionally go on vacations. After all, it’s pretty good and why risk it?

Pain motivates better?

Imagine for a moment that you experience intense hunger and have gone without food the entire day. Your motivation to get a meal will be so strong that nothing can stop you from achieving your goal of getting dinner. Maybe you are in a situation where you have a family to feed, a loan to pay off — what then will be your motivation to work? Are you going to mess around and be picky about job offers? I don’t think so. You’ll probably work hard to make it. This is the secret of getting motivated to act.

Think you’re having a baby, and now you’re responsible for it. You have to stay up all night and work hard to support it, because you can no longer afford to be a slacker. Don’t misunderstand me — life is not easy and requires a lot from us every time, especially when we grow up. However, only difficult situations motivate to do our best.

How do you motivate yourself to act and change?

Personally, I found that immersing myself in challenging situations and being motivated by the absence of an escape route yielded the best results. During my twenties, I completed college, established my own business as a wedding cameraman, edited footage, shot commercials, and so on. I lived with my parents all the time and was doing quite well, but I completely lacked hunger and felt no need to push forward.

Today, I understand that this was due to the comfortable position I was in — I didn’t have to do much. We were somehow not very rich, but I had my comfortable room, had no obligations and nothing really motivated me to work hard and to change. If worries and fears arose, I immediately had an excuse and gave up the action. It was very hard for me to step our of my comfort zones and I didn’t do it because I didn’t have to.

An increasing pain and motivation to change is the secret of motivation

After a few years spent like this in my life it was getting worse and worse. I sold the company and was left with a stockpile of cash, which made me even more unwilling to do much. The next things didn’t work out for me, and I got deeper and deeper into it. More aspects of my life were deteriorating, and I felt worse and worse about myself. After another job and a breakdown, I ended up with a psychologist in my hometown. It was 2012, and I was a wreck of a man who didn’t want anything anymore. I reached the bottom, and it was very bad for me. The pain was so strong that I had to do something because otherwise it could have ended badly. And encouraged by motivational readings, such as Instant Millionaire , I set my goals for the first time in my life and wrote them down.

What else motivated me to change?

When I was younger, I lacked self-confidence. I always wanted to be better and stronger, but I never knew how to do it. I participated in situations where I had to face many problems, but I didn’t have the courage to do anything about them. I remember sitting in a bar with my girlfriend back then. I was 20 at the time. A guy who was toasting his promotion at the company joined us at the bar and started buying us drinks and hitting on my girlfriend. I remember that he spoiled my whole evening, and I couldn’t even suggest him to find another place. I was so scared and afraid to act, I let a stranger to control my life. I didn’t fight for what was mine and there was no confidence in me. I was very ashamed, I felt terrible in my skin, but then I couldn’t do anything about it. There have been so many such unpleasant situations in my life.

I decided to move to Krakow and throw myself into the deep end. There was no turning back, because the rented apartment had to be paid, I had to eat something, and I could no longer give up work one week after starting it. Suffering motivated me to move out, suffering motivated me to work every day at a second-hand clothing wholesaler where physical work took away all my strength. When I was laid off after a few months, I could not afford to despair and I had to act, to keep looking. Then, I became a driver in a restaurant, and then a waiter. Then, I started publishing books on Amazon and I got promoted again, becoming the manager of that restaurant. I became the manager of the restaurant where I was starting my career as a driver. I had to endure, and I managed. It paid off. Without the hunger and motivation within me caused by the pain, then I certainly wouldn’t have made it.

What awaits you if you don’t act?

Years pass, and if you don’t start changing your life, you will face a lot of unpleasantness. You may be reasonably comfortable now, but do you want to be stuck in this situation for the next 10 years? But maybe you want something more? Think of what awaits you if you don’t take any action right now. You’re probably still a pretty young person, and you can change a lot. Let the prospect of pain of not improving your life motivate you to take action. What happens if you don’t cross your comfort zone? Everything you dream of is just outside your comfort zone.

To have what you don’t have you must do what you don’t do!

Put yourself in situations that are uncomfortable and difficult for you. Imagine that if you don’t do it, your life will pass and you will be a regretful elderly person, regretting what they didn’t do. Now, that’s the motivation! Let you be motivated by the image of that person who will someday regret those undone actions and plans. If you don’t risk a change in your life, if you don’t maybe approach that person you like, if you don’t try a business that turns you on, or if you don’t do what you’ve always dreamed of doing, the pain will grow over time as in my case.

I used to be very afraid to act and try to achieve what I dreamed of. It wasn’t until I threw myself into the deep water and was motivated by pain that I forced myself to work, change, be systematic and make mistakes. However, all of this has turned me from a troubled boy into a much stronger and more mature person. When I look back at myself from 5 years ago, I don’t recognize that person. It was someone else. My life changed so dramatically. It hasn’t been easy along the way, and there are probably still many challenges ahead of me.

What is the conclusion for you?

Imagine the consequences of your lack of action and:

Take your chances and do it!
Maybe move out to a new place
Open your own business
Change your job or start a business in addition to your job to be free someday
Take a risk and approach someone who turns you on or maybe end a relationship that doesn’t suit you
Do bungee-jumping if you want
Get out of your comfort zone and experience pain
Act and fail

Don’t sit on your ass because you’re probably comfortable right now, and your mind will always find an excuse not to do something. If you are having a hard time and can’t motivate yourself then put yourself in a situation where you need to act. Pain will motivate you much better than the vision of expensive cars and big money. Go further only after you have overcome the first difficulties and achieved your first successes. This is the secret of motivation.

The Secret of Motivation – Unraveling the Power of Pain as the Ultimate Motivator — watch the video

The Secret of Motivation – Unraveling the Power of Pain as the Ultimate Motivator — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today I’ll talk about
the secret of motivation.

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What motivates us more – pleasure or pain?

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I invite you to watch this video.

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Before we begin,
let me show you my city, Kraków.

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It’s 6 a.m. We’re by the Vistula River.

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A beautiful morning, which motivates.

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But that’s not our topic.

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To begin with,
we see a lot of motivators

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on the Internet, in books
that motivate us with expensive cars,

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great life, money, great success.

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Many of us are motivated
by these valuable things,

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because many people
talk about them

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and it’s something
that motivates to begin taking action.

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But if we talk about
such things as money, cars

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and great motivators,
pleasures that motivate us

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to take actions, to be successful,
then why many people,

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who have these things that give us
countless possibilities, give up?

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We quickly stop taking actions
and despite having such motivators

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like these things and a wonderful life,
we give up.

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Most people stop taking actions,
because they lose motivation.

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So, the question is whether
it really is a good motivator?

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Are such luxuries,
pleasures a good motivators

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to achieve something in your life?

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Many people would wonder what it is.

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I’ll ask you a question – are you
better motivated by pleasure

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from having such great things
or by pain?

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Such as suffering,
something uncomfortable.

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Many of us have comfort in our lives,
because we have a job,

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make money, have a roof over our heads
and can afford our needs.

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We go to the cinema, on a walk,
a trip, a vacation once a year

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and we want to achieve
something great,

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but we already live fine and comfortable.

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Everyone has different,
but even if we live with parents

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or have a job, as in Poland
there’s no problem with finding it,

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we live comfortably
and what can we achieve?

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I will illustrate it
basing on my own story.

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10 years ago,
when I was 20-something,

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I graduated from college,
I was starting my company.

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I filmed weddings,
made commercials and edited materials.

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I took grants and I did well.

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I was living with parents,
had OK earnings and lots of free time.

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I drove to different places,
filmed, created and it was fine.

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It was comfortable,
I didn’t have any commitments.

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I didn’t have any hunger then,
because I had what I wanted,

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I didn’t have to make any special effort
and I wasn’t moving forward.

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Over time, I began to lose motivation
to create my company,

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move forward
or get out of the comfort zone

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and it was only worse over time.

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I didn’t want to create my company,
I was letting go

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and losing motivation.

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In time, I sold the company,
the equipment, I had cash,

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so I was in an even more
comfortable position.

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The company was sold,
I unsuccessfuly tried to take jobs,

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but I still had comfort, cash,
lived with parents

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and it was getting worse.

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I had no motivation
to pull myself together,

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I was failing and 10 years ago
I was such low

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that I didn’t know what to do.

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And I had no obligations to do a lot.
I ended up with psychologist.

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I didn’t know what to do with myself.

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My long-time relationship
was falling apart. It was bad.

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Only when I forced myself to do something
and read first motivational book,

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I’ve decided to move to Kraków
and write down my goals.

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I wanted to find a job,
pull myself together and rent a flat.

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I cut my way back to previous life.

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I put myself in an uncomfortable position.

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Sorry, I forgot my selfie stick.

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I was in an rough position,
as I had to earn money

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for rent, living and comforts.

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I couldn’t give up.
I was doing something I didn’t want.

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I was in a position
in which I had to earn for rent,

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food and take care of everything.

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Maybe you’re now
in a comfortable situation

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in which you have a job, apartment etc.

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I chose not to be
in this situation

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and had to fight with
my adversities, like work, for years.

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Firstly, I worked in
secondhand clothing warehouse.

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It was hard, but I couldn’t give up.

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Next, I worked
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It was a pleasant job,
but I wouldn’t normally take it.

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Then, I became a waiter
at this restaurant.

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Years later, I became it’s manager.

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The conclusion
that comes from all of this

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is that if I hadn’t
put myself in a painful situation

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and I hadn’t cut my way back,
then I wouldn’t have achieved this.

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I would have never motivated myself
to act, push my life forward,

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and get out of comfort zones.

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When I lived with parents,
having my own company,

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I refused to do difficult things.

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I was finding excuses that I don’t have to
do it and it was true.

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And then I started doing them,
as it was a necessity.

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Let me tell you a bit more about my youth.

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When it comes to pain
as a motivator to change,

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I was a very insecure person.

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Often I wanted to do something
and I couldn’t,

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as I didn’t have to.

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I very badly wanted to change my life
when it comes to self-confidence.

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I remember when I was sitting
in a bar with a girl,

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when some stranger sit with us
and ruined my evening.

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He was buying drinks, hit on my girl
and I was unable to do anything.

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Why do I bring this up?

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Because this pain motivated me
to seek change.

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I didn’t know how yet, but this pain
that I couldn’t deal with such situations

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in relationships, life or at work
has always motivated me

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to make some change.

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you live comfortably,
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Let’s imagine you have some dreams
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and it’s already too late.

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You won’t change anything.

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you’ll force yourself to act
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in 30 years you’ll be an older person
who had plans today

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and did nothing about them.

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Imagine the pain
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The pain of inaction,
having wasted your chance.

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Maybe it’ll motivate you.

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Or motivate yourself
by moving out of home,

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exposing to the difficulties of life,
where you don’t know anybody

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and having to take care of yourself.

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but it’ll motivate you by cancelling
the possibility to return.

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You won’t be able to go back
and you’ll have to act.

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You won’t have a choice.

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This pain will motivate you
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and resign because you live in comfort.

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try to put yourself in a situation

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in which you’ll feel uncomfortable
and be motivated to act.

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Maybe this will be the cure
for your lack of motivation.

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Imagine being older and having wasted
your dreams and plans

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or maybe put yourself in a situation
in which life pushes you to act.

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Imagine that you have a wife,
a husband, a child or a credit.

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Yes, you have a specific motivation.

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change something in your life

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act, don’t be afraid
and try to motivate yourself,

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maybe with pain and not necessarily
some great things,

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but with something like this.

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Greetings from Kraków.

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You can see Kazimierz. I’ll go there.

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There is Wawel in the distance.

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Greetings. See you next time.

How to create a blog on WordPress?

How to set up a blog on WordPress? What tools to use?

How to set up a blog on WordPress? Why create a blog at all? Creating a blog/website is, in my opinion, one of the best ways to start a valuable and robust Internet business. Especially if you plan to make money online in the long term and intend to run a blog/website based on what makes you tick. My blog www.fromwaitertomillionaire.net is based on my passion for improving life, learning, sharing knowledge and creating online business.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How can you set up a blog on WordPress?
What are the basic WordPress tools needed to set up a blog?
What hosting service can be used to set up a WordPress blog?
How can you choose and purchase a domain for your blog?
What additional tools and platforms can be used for tasks such as graphic design, video hosting, and content creation?

You need to treat running a blog/website as a job, set specific goals and devote specific hours to work in this aspect. This is not a way for quick money and there is no shortcuts here. Nowadays, we are tempted by fast earnings on every corner. I am a supporter of creating a business on the Internet gradually, which gives value to others and allows you to grow too. This does not mean that you cannot earn money on a blog or online — on the contrary.

The Internet gives the opportunity to create a good business within a reasonable period of time by publishing products, books on Amazon, creating a blog, selling online courses, etc. How can you set up a blog on WordPress then?

How to set up a blog on WordPress? Basic WordPress tools

WordPress

Where to set up a blog? Only on WordPress. It is a free platform for creating blogs and websites. It offers amazing possibilities and provides a universal environment for any modification afterwards (e.g. adding a webshop and many others). Everyone can master the skills needed to have and run their own blog on WordPress.

Important: I do not recommend using the WordPress.com website, because it is a more expensive option (it is kind of a full package with hosting etc.), which at the same time blocks us from developing many opportunities in the future. The best option is free WordPress + own hosting. For many hosts, the free WordPress system will be installed automatically.

WordPress is a free and open platform. You do not have to pay for it and you can use it without limitations. Any developer can improve it and create appropriate plugins that you can then use on your blog. Once, to create a website you had to know HTML or pay huge money — today you just need to master the WordPress platform, which at first may seem a little complicated, but this is by far the best option. With it, you can create a simple blog as well as rich websites. Remember that there are other platforms for creating blogs and pages, which are paid or closed. WordPress is the best option and it is the most popular platform on the Internet.

I base my entire business on WordPress. My blog and my online courses are based only on WordPress and the appropriate plugins that can be installed to get the desired features.

Hosting

Where to set up a blog? Each blog needs a hosting to put a WordPress platform there. There are thousands of offers on the market and most of them will not be a bad choice. I use Bluehost.com because it offers a good price and is one of the largest platforms in the world. It is also dead easy to use.

For beginners Bluehost, the best option will be “shared hosting” in basic or Plus. The Plus Version is for people who want to create more than one page or blog in one account.

Bluehost — a hosting service for my blog and courses.

Why foreign hosting? Personally, I try to use global platforms because they are often simply better than Polish ones and I learn the language in this way. I also publish books and products on Amazon for the global market — where you can, use the best and mature tools. Of course, choosing another supplier will also be a good option, and in this area the competition is very high.

Domain

How to set up a blog with your own domain? Before you create your blog, you need to decide what the blog will be about and what the name will be. The name is very important and must reflect what your blog and your site is about. For the name, unfortunately, you have to ensure the relevant matching domain is available so that you can buy and use it. The hardest part is to create a cool and unique name that will be accessible at the same time. I use unstoppabledomains.com to buy domains. Just check availability and make the purchase.

After purchasing a domain on your hosting, you connect it and you can start creating a site using WordPress right away.

Plugins

WordPress is based on plug-ins. You can install any free or paid plugins on your website. If you think about blogging seriously, you should sometimes invest in paid tools. Of course, a large part of the plug-ins is free.

The whole charm of WordPress is that you can customize it to your needs. If you plan to create online courses, for example, it is worth investing in software that will simplify and automate the entire process. I use Publigo, which supports my entire online course store, automatically assigns access, manages payments, and even stores customers on the mailing list after purchase.

You also need to install a template on your WordPress. Template is kind of an graphical overlay that allows you to create a page graphically and functionally. There are both paid and free templates. I chose to use Mailchimp (it is called SmartTheme), as it is a template and a landing page creator combined in one.

One of the most basic rules for creating a blog is to collect emails of your users. On my blog, I use MailChimp, which collects emails of people signing up for, for example, my free course THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS. You need to give value to users who, in return, decide to share their email address with you. With the mailing list, you can over time promote your new content, courses or recommend products through affiliate programs.

How to set up a blog on WordPress? Additional tools:

Fiverr — here you can order any job (from as low as $), such as designing a logo and many more.

Canva — a brilliant online tool for creating and editing graphics. The free version is sufficient for creating graphics for your own needs.

Befunky — another graphic tool. I use a paid version that gives you the ability to professionally edit graphic files.

Vimeo — video hosting for e.g. online courses. My free course OF THE BEST TYPES OF ONLINE BUSINESS uses Vimeo to host long videos you will see while participating in my course.

YouTube — with YouTube, you can create free content for your audience and drive traffic to your blog.

How to create a blog on WordPress? — watch the video

How to create a blog on WordPress? — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome to this video.

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Today, I’ll tell you
how to create your own website,

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a blog on WordPress and an online store.

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I’ll present you detailed technicalities

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and show you
how to create a valuable content,

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and be successful in this aspect.

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To begin with, WordPress is a platform

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which allows to create websites
without programing knowledge.

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It gives chance for beginners
to create their blog,

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website or online store.

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That’s the purpose of WordPress.
It’s a visual overlay.

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The so-called CMS system,
which allows to create a blog.

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I personally knew
almost nothing about creating websites

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and within several weeks –
of course I’m still learning –

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I was able to learn
the basics of WordPress,

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create blog, my websites
and use them practically for free.

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Any of you can create a blog,
showcase page

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and, in time, add new functionalities.

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WordPress is free, it’s open source
software which is developing constantly

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and we install it on hosting.

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It also has many plug-ins,
which I’ll describe in a second.

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These plug-ins allow you
to extend functionality.

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We install plug-in for online store
or plug-in for selling page

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and we have various functionalities
on our WordPress.

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No matter if you want to create
blog or your company’s website,

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everyone can personalize WordPress,
change it and develop it.

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On my WordPress blog,
I’m able to add new functionalities,

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develop this blog, disconnect some things
and that makes WordPress so cool.

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It’s quite simple
and the most popular platform in the world

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while also being the only sensible,
free option on the market,

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if you want to create your website.

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There’re plenty of plug-ins, software
that we can install on WordPress.

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They’re either free or not,
but give countless possibilities.

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Now, I’ll guide you step by step
how to create a blog,

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which tools to use
and tell everything you must know.

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Let’s start with WordPress.org.

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This is the free open source software

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that we install on our hosting.

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Beware of WordPress.com. It’ a trap.

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If you want to create a blog or site,
you can land on WordPress.com.

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It’s still some option,
but it’s a closed platform

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which offers both hosting and domain.

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I don’t recommend using WordPress.com,

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but rather to install
free software on paid hosting,

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as here we pay for hosting,
while here we can choose it ourselves

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or change it in time.

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Here, everything is ours
and we don’t rely on some service.

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The difficulty is the same,
so there’re no pluses

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that we choose this platform
and we just close off.

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So, WordPress.org and our own hosting.

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Before we get to this,
you need to pick a domain

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and an idea for our blog,
website or online store.

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We start from buying a domain,
coming up with a name

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and an idea for our brand.

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My brand is
FromWaiterToMillionaire.pl.

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I had several ideas,
but only when I came up

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with the one which domain wasn’t taken,
allowed me to seal my brand,

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get dibs on it.

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I took my first step by buying a domain.

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If you want to create your blog,
come up with several ideas

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and buy a domain.

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This domain should be simple and .pl,
if you focus it on Polish readers.

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You can also buy .com,
as it’s a popular one.

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Such a domain costs
about 50 PLN per year.

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I buy the domain
from Polish service AfterMarket.

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Beside from buying, registering
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it also has an exchange option,
where you can buy or sell a domain.

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Investing in domains is also
a very interesting option,

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because we can buy
some interesting ones

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and they can gain in value,
because a good domain,

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esp. a domain with traffic,
can be worth a lot.

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I own a lot of foreign domains .com,
which have a traffic

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and are the names of
my notebook brands on Amazon

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and these domains
transfer a traffic to Amazon.

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It’s an automatic ad,
which promotes my products

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and perhaps the best factor
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is an outside traffic while
the traffic on a domain is automatic.

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The domain for 50 PLN.
Simple, interesting.

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Of course, it’s not easy
to come up with something interesting.

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But if we do, then we have
a nice start with our brand,

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because no one
is able to steal it from us.

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OK, let’s move on.

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The second issue is hosting.

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We should choose a hosting
which is simple to use.

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The choice of hostings
and domains registrars is vast.

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Most of them good, but some of them bad.

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I recommend Bluehost.

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It’s a foreign hosting,
but it’s super, super easy to use.

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We don’t need to install
the site on WordPress,

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because if we buy hosting on Bluehost,
it is automatically adapted for WordPress.

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It’s also simplified. When we create
a site, we have WordPress installed.

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Even if you hadn’t known WordPress,
you’d have used it

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by having your hosting on Bluehost.

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It’s also quite cheap hosting,
from $3 per month.

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Using my link below or in blog post,
you can have it even cheaper.

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If you buy a better plan,
you can create more sites.

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On sucha a hosting,
I have sites about my Amazon products.

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Many simple pages
which transfer the traffic to Amazon.

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That’s why I recommend Bluehost,
because it’s simple

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and they have a great technical support.

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OK, let’s move on.

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Once we buy a domain and a hosting,
we created WordPress site

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because in hosting we create new site,
attach a domain, it’s very easy,

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in this way we have access
to our WordPress panel on a hosting.

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We log in and see our WordPress site.

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Of course, there can be more
sites or domains attached to hosting.

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Now, there are a few things
to consider about WordPress.

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It’s a visual overlay on all the hosting,
allowing to manage options.

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You have to set basic parameters,
such as language, time, etc.

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Two things are worth mentioning –
firstly, a theme.

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Every WordPress site
is based on a theme.

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On a visual theme, which determines
a look of our page.

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I have one on my blog.

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Once you install a theme,
the page has a certain look.

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We can choose this theme
from our dashboard.

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Set font, colours, links, etc.

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Every theme will look differently
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as it’ll offer various options.

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There are plenty of themes.

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You can find many on WordPress.org.

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Some are free, some paid
and also semi-free, which are limited.

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I recommend to invest
for a theme costing $50, which we like.

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At the start, it’s a good idea
to install some themes

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and then choose the best one.

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Don’t be afraid to invest
in a $50 theme,

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because the gap in functionality
of theme or plug-in can be huge.

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When we pay,
we get something really good.

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Free solutions are often unfinished
and are not updated.

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So, I would invest
in a paid WordPress theme.

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I’m using the theme called Smart Theme.

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It’s a theme from Optima Express plug-in.

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What’s that? Let’s move on to plug-ins.

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Plug-ins are a mini software

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which we install to our WordPress.

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You can check the catalogue of plug-ins
through WordPress.org or in our dashboard.

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Then we can install the chosen plug-ins.

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I’ve bought the Optima Express plug-in.

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It’s a plug-in for marketers,
for creating sites,

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which also includes the Smart Theme,
which is responsible for the visuals.

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It provides a theme of my website.

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This Smart Theme is very cool.

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Optima Express costs about 700 PLN.

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aside from a theme worth it’s price,

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also has a nice websites creator
that I use.

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It’s a tool that gives me a theme
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I recommend checking out the latest
sales page of Alfabet Grafika course.

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It was created using Optima Express.

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It’s a new creator.
Very cool and interesting one.

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I recommend it, but it’s enough
to invest in a simple $50 theme

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or even a free one and use builder,
i.e., site creator,

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such as SiteOrigin.

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It’s another cool plug-in.

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I use them all the time, despite this,
to edit my blog posts.

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SiteOrigin Page Builder.
It’s a free plug-in.

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It’s a fine creator of sites
or posts on a blog or sales sites.

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I recommend it, if you don’t want to
invest in Optima Express,

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because you don’t have to, install
a paid theme and SiteOrigin Builder.

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It’s a very cool, free theme.

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Let’s now talk about another free plug-in.

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Yoast SEO.
It’s a necessary one for our blog.

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It’s a plug-in
that communicates with Google.

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When we set our WordPress,
we install Yoast SEO.

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SEO is an abridgment of
search engine optimization.

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Our WordPress communicates
with Google, exchanges data

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and that’s how Google
knows that our page exists,

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and can be found
by people searching Google.

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For this, we also need to
create valuable content.

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Another interesting plug-in is WP Idea.

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This plug-in supports
my online course store.

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It’s a Polish plug-in costing
up from 1,000 PLN.

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The basic, sufficient version
costs 1,000 PLN.

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There are also 1,500
and 2,000 PLN versions.

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I have this latest,
most expensive version

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and it allows us to
fully automatize our online store.

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You may ask, why I don’t use
free plug-ins to online stores.

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There’s WooCommerce
and other cheaper or free plug-ins.

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That’s because you need to have
some paid software.

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WP Idea gives me a full automatization.

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I can go away for the weekend
and sell online courses.

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It assigns access automatically
and the purchase process

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through this plug-in is very, very easy,
so user-friendly.

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Everyone can easily buy and doesn’t
get scared by the complicated process.

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This type of plug-in
allows to simplify the purchasing,

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increase sales and gives comfort
to me and customers.

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is nothing compared to
the benefits of this plug-in.

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There are also
other plug-ins for online stores.

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WP Idea is applicable for online courses,
so it’s a specific plug-in.

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There are more paid and free plug-ins.

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WooCommerce is free,
but there are also paid ones

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applicable for selling,
e.g., physical goods.

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It depends what’s your blog about,
as you don’t have to open this store.

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But if you want a store,
you gotta have a plug-in

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responsible for
the buying process of some products.

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Such a plug-in connects with
the payment provider, Tpay,

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and allows to fully-automize
selling courses

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or books in case of other plug-ins.

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We’ve got the WordPress topic covered.

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The last important detail
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is a mailing list.

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It’s a boring, non-sexy topic,
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allows us to obtain
the emails of our customers.

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When we offer them
an ebook or something,

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they leave their email
and we can stay in touch with them,

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sending information
about new posts, etc.

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In this way, our customer
will be able to come back to us.

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Because if we wanted to send messeges
to our YouTube subscribes

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or to people who like us on Facebook,
we not really can.

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Or you have to pay
Facebook a lot to do it.

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We go, e.g., to Mailchimp
which is a mailing operator.

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There are also other options.

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And we can automate emails
to such people.

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I recommend Mailchimp,
as I’ve been using it for ages.

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It’s cool and it’s free
up to 2,000 subscribers.

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It’s also highly effective
when it comes to delivering emails,

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because I’ve noticed
that many newsletters land in SPAM

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and Mailchimp ones land in a main box.

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That’s the whole
inventory of it all.

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If you want to see it in detail,
check out my blog post

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or click the link below.

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Everything is described there,
you can revise it and use the given tools.

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Be welcome. I also have
the detailed WordPress course on my page.

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Be welcome to check it out.

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Now, I’ll discuss the tool
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which is graphic editor.

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I highly recommend Canva. It’s a must.

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Those who sell on Amazon know Canva,
because you create book covers in it.

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I recommend Canva for editing graphics,
for creating simple graphics on a blog.

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It’s a must tool, but I’ve been using
BeFunky for a long time now.

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It probably costs $69,
but it’s also a very nice tool

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and it’s worth
to know one or both of them.

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Thanks for watching.

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If you’ve liked this video,
subscribe, give a thumbs up,

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watch other videos on my blog.

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I invite you for my free
Amazon and online business course,

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where I discuss WordPress,
present my business and other types of it.

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Thanks for watching. Bye.

How to quit smoking effectively?

In this article, you will learn how to effectively stop smoking cigarettes. There are as many methods of quitting smoking as there are smokers who have quit (or not) — everyone did it a little differently. Unfortunately, often ineffective or just for a while. In this article, I want to show you that quitting smoking is easy assuming that you want to change your life on various levels.

This post answers the following questions:

How can you effectively stop smoking cigarettes?
What are some methods to gain motivation for working on oneself and changing one’s life?
How does one’s environment and surroundings influence the process of quitting smoking?
What are some strategies for changing one’s lifestyle instead of solely focusing on fighting addiction?
Should alternative options like e-cigarettes or nicotine pills be used to aid in quitting smoking?

The topic of smoking has unfortunately accompanied me since the sixth grade of primary school. For a very long time, I have struggled with this addiction (with breaks it was about 10 years). Although, I managed to quit smoking for up to one year. However, unfortunately, over time I returned to smoking and for many years I could not escape this addiction. Cigarettes have been everywhere since the earliest years. A large part of my family smoked around me when I was a kid, then friends at school and college — a large part of them were smokers too, and I couldn’t help it. Well, is it actually true I couldn’t?

How to effectively quit smoking cigarettes? My philosophy and way to quit smoking

Until I was about 25, I continually struggled with the subject of smoking. My addiction kept coming back, and despite my great desire, I couldn’t give up smoking for much longer. Even my asthmatic ailments didn’t stop me from reaching for cigarettes. Unfortunately, cigarettes were everywhere in my family home, my girlfriend was smoking at the time, and a lot of friends were too.

Giving up smoking is like many other things in life — someone once said you were the kind of person you surround yourself with. My miracle method for quitting smoking turned out to be changing my environment and setting my mind on things that eliminate smoking.

What do I mean by that?

Do you think you’ll be able to quit smoking if you live with people who smoke cigarettes? Do you think that if you go out to parties where most people smoke and if you work among smokers you will get rid of the addiction? Unfortunately, if you try to quit smoking in this situation, the chances of doing so are slim. Even if you manage to quit smoking for a while, sooner or later you will be in a situation where there will be cigarettes around, and you will probably have a weaker day or be in a bad mood — then you will probably succumb. Even if you can make it for a long time without smoking, being with smokers will make you experience frequent torment because you will simply see the temptation all the time. Our surroundings draw us in, and subconsciously we want to resemble our surroundings.

Therefore, actively avoid people and situations related to smoking and unhealthy lifestyles. Instead of sitting in a pub, do sports. Meet people who run a healthy lifestyle and try to enjoy being a healthy person. Avoid people who smoke and pursue a smoker’s lifestyle.

Change your life instead of fighting addiction

As you will work and live in an environment where people practice healthy lifestyles, learning and development, you will, willingly or unwillingly, draw behaviour and habits from such people. If everyone around you is interested in their health, doing sports then you will be moving in that direction too. If, on the other hand, your environment is made of people who like to sit around drinking beer and going to parties then you will also go with them. These are just extreme examples, but I want to make you aware that your environment shapes you and your thoughts.

How to effectively quit smoking cigarettes?

Change direction and surroundings

Instead of fighting smoking, take charge. Sign up for gym, work on yourself, develop yourself and read books. Improve yourself and learn to enjoy it. There is nothing more pleasant than a feeling of being a healthy person who do, for example, some sport (it can even be an ordinary walk). Focus on being healthy, take care of your diet, physical exercises and mental development. Educate yourself and be a conscious person. You know very well what kind of lifestyle helps you and what kind of lifestyle kills you. Are you sure you want to hang out with people who are going in a direction not necessarily suitable for you? Set goals and work on yourself. Get better.

How did I reject my environment (and cigarette smoking)?

While I was still in college, I had a nice group of friends. Unfortunately, their goal was to drink beer and party etc. I was subconsciously involved in all this, and I didn’t realize that I was just like my surroundings. You can’t win with that. My then partner whom I had been dating for many years, was a compulsive smoker, as was her family. The topic of smoking was raised every 15 minutes. Every once in a while there was a time to smoke, or someone called to say you need to buy cigarettes. It was also always necessary to buy a mouth freshener, because cigarettes, after all, smell bad, etc. How could I quit smoking in such a situation? There was no chance. Even enduring some time without a cigarette, sooner or later I succumbed.

Today I do not hang out with smokers and do not spend time in their company. I automatically and consciously reject such people from my environment. You may say that it’s a bit exaggerated and selfish, but I have a right to my health and I don’t want to be in a company that has a negative impact on me.

You can apply this principle to many aspects of your life

Hang out with healthy and athletic people. Then, you will also become a sporty person, because sooner or later they will get you of your house for training or for a walk. You want to be a smarter person in some field, you just hang out with people who can teach you something. You want to smoke? Hang out with smokers — they’ll teach you how to do it and give you a cigarette when you have a moment of doubt. It’s up to you to decide.

Or use e-cigarettes?

I don’t think e-cigarettes should be used. Unfortunately, they won’t unteach you the habit of smoking. Of course, it’s better to smoke e-cigarettes than standard cigarettes. However, try to move away from the topic of smoking and go beyond it, which means take care of yourself on many other levels as well.

Should I use nicotine pills/gums/plasters?

In the initial period, it is worthwhile to support yourself with nicotine orally or in the form of patches, as the shock of quitting smoking is considerable and, despite a strong will, you can make the process of quitting a little easier on yourself, however. By using supplements you provide yourself with a dose of nicotine and it is much easier to struggle with hunger. After a few weeks, you will spontaneously stop taking the pills, as you will no longer need them. Always have such pills with you in case of emergency for a minimum of one more year, because if a crisis hits you, you can rescue yourself with a nicotine pill. There is nothing worse than reaching for a cigarette even after a long time without addiction — addiction suddenly renews and sometimes years of work are wasted.

Good luck! I keep my fingers crossed for you. You can do it.

How to effectively quit smoking? — watch the video

How to effectively quit smoking? — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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As the channel is not only about
business, but also about improving life,

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then today I’ll tell you
how to successfully quit smoking.

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Wanna know how? Let’s find out.

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I had been smoking for
10 years on and off.

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My smoking addiction
started in an elementary school.

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I was 14-15 years old.
It was in the sixth grade.

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Cigarettes were introduced to me
at that time and I got tempted.

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Generally, cigarettes
were present in my life.

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Apartment,
close and distant family, friends.

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There had always been cigarettes.

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I got used to people smoking
or a scent of smoke.

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Cigarettes were nothing new to me
when presented in school.

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I had already seen this habit
among the people around me.

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So, I wasn’t afraid about it.

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My environment clearly showed me
that this is something normal.

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That’s why I started smoking
in the elementary school

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and I was a heavy smoker
in the age of 14-15.

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In high school,
I was already addicted to it.

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I was smoking long before turning 18.

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If it would make any difference,
as it’s always harmful.

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And what have I done to deal with it?

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What’s the key to quit smoking?

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What can be done
to get rid of this addiction?

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The whole secret,
applicable in changing any habits,

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is the change of your environment.

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If in your house – whether you’re
a child, adult, husband, wife –

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someone is smoking cigarettes,

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in your surroundings –
friends in college, at work –

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people smoke, drink beer,
then you’ll do it too, like it or not.

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Let’s suppose that
you have a partner

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and he smokes,

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so cigarettes are everywhere,
you live with him.

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You think it’ll be easy
to quit this addiction,

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if you see smokers everyday?

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The same applies to college,
when during every break

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your friends go out for a smoke.

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They smoke, drink beer, party
and you think you can resist?

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Surely, your strong will is gonna
help you with that

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and you’ll probably manage to do it.

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The question is,
whether it’ll be easy?

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Maybe it’ll be like in my case,
that after a week or one year

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I was back to smoking,
because I’d interacted with smokers.

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My former partner
and her family were smokers.

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I was managing to quit smoking
for shorter or longer periods,

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but the topic of smokes
was always present.

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Whether it was about smoking,
quitting it, buying smokes or gums.

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Yes, gums,
because cigarettes stink.

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Honestly, I wasn’t able to
organize my quitting,

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as my environment, closest ones
or college friends were smoking.

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I had great friends in college.

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They were truly great people,

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but unfortunately
most of them were smoking.

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There was always a party, beer
and whether I liked it or not,

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being among these people,
I didn’t want to misfit.

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I didn’t want to be rejected.

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There’s a question you must ask
yourself, if you want to quit smoking.

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Are you able to leave
your harmful environment?

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It applies not only to smoking,
but changing your life in general.

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Are you able to change
the environment you live in?

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If you’re able to stop being
among the people who smoke,

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who go to parties,
who are doing things you don’t want –

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unless you like doing these things –

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but if you want to change
something in your life,

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then start hanging out with people
who do the things you wanna do.

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If you start meeting people
who do sports,

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go for walks, on a gym,

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then what do you think –

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how will they influence you?

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If you surround yourself
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sooner or later
you’ll go with them for a walk,

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on a gym, bike or pool.

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Surround yourself with people who like
books, personal growth or business.

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They’ll teach you and encourage
to do something better.

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My biggest advice for quitting smoking
is to change the environment

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and to focus on being healthy.

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To feel healthy
and be among healthy people.

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Your strong will is also
essential in quitting smoking,

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but it is not enough.

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Because even if you manage to quit,
while being among smokers,

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then it’ll be hard for you,
because you’ll always see smokes

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and either you’ll get tempted
or you’ll be suffering

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and be angry at yourself.

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That’s why you should change your
environment and your life.

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Try to do sports,
take care of your health,

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try to be a person
who esteems it’s health.

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Be happy that you can go for a walk.

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I’m currently
in the area of Podgórze in Kraków

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and it’s beautiful here.

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I’m taking a walk,
I ate healthy breakfast

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and I feel great.

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I don’t need to go out for a beer
to a place where everyone smokes

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and do the same.

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You should sometimes go out,
but when talking about cigarettes,

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change your lifestyle.

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Get rid of people
who have a bad influence on you,

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because if you lie down
with dogs, you get up with fleas.

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This proverb applies to smoking.

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I grew up with smokers
and started doing the same.

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Over time, I rejected this environment,
which can be very hard to do.

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It really is sometimes.

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But do you want to be
the kind of person you hang out with?

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Let’s suppose your closest ones
like parties, beer, smokes.

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If you’re among them,
you’ll do the same.

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Question, which one is stronger –
motivation to be in this group

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or motivaton
to be who you wanna be?

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Be better, healthier, more cheerful
and enjoy healthier lifestyle,

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while rejecting unhealthy
and not so positive life.

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It will be hard for you
to change your environment, people.

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It’ll be painful, but unfortunately,
even if you do something cool

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and people among you
will see that you change for the better,

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even if it’s quitting smoking,
you’ll be distancing from them.

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You must realize that.

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The sooner you do it,
the better for you.

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Change is painful.

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If you want to loose weight,
you must go for a walk.

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Don’t want to smoke?

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Change the environment, go for walks,
do sports, stay healthy,

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disconnect from negative situations
which lead you in unwanted direction.

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That’s how you quit smoking.
It’s my secret.

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It may not be the easiest path.

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I won’t give you
an immediate cure for smoking.

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But this is the only right advice,

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which will allow you
to get rid of this nasty addiction.

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By the way, we’re in Podgórze.

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It’s Sunday, the start of spring
and there’s nothing like a fine walk.

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Some people prefer
lying in bed with hangover.

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I prefer walking, working a bit
from home and feeling great.

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Let me give you some more advice.

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Strong will, change of environment –
we already know that.

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But should we use some supplements,
like pills, gums, patchs, e-cigarretes?

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In my opinion,
the use of e-cigarettes is a hoax.

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If you want to quit,
don’t smoke e-cigarretes,

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because if you do, you’re still smoking
and it’s no change at all.

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If you decide to quit
and start changing your environment,

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you can use gums, patches,
nicotine pills for a few weeks or months

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as they’ll help you
deal with nicotine craving.

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Cure yourself of smoking
and people who force you to it,

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but use some pills
as they’ll help you quit smoking.

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They helped me, as I had smoked
for 10 years on and off

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and nicotine gums helped me
fight with cravings,

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when I wanted to quit.

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People were not helpful.

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Only changing the environment
allowed me to live as I want

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and not as everyone wanted me to.

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Write your advice for quitting below.

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Every smoker has their own method.

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You can often hear advice
from smokers who didn’t quit.

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I give you a method which helped me.

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It was hard, but now
I don’t even think about smoking.

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If you’ve liked this video,
please subscribe.

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In this way you can
check my new videos,

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which I hope to be making
for the rest of my life.

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give a thumbs up.

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Greeting from sunny Kraków. Bye.

How to find motivation to engage in self-improvement

In this episode, my guest Łukasz Śmistek and I we will explore how can you gain motivation to work on yourself and how can you change your life. We will delve into the driving forces behind people taking decisive actions for change. Additionally, we will highlight the significance of enduring unpleasant experiences on the path to achieving your goals and living the life you’ve always dreamed of.

This blog post answers the following questions:

How can you find motivation to engage in self-improvement and personal development?
How do you motivate yourself to work on yourself?
What are the most important principles of success according to Łukasz Śmistek?
How can you overcome obstacles in life?
What is Łukasz Śmistek’s story and how can it inspire and motivate others?

Łukasz Śmistek is a licensed personal trainer, coaching specialist. Łukasz is involved in motivating and changing the thinking of hundreds of people on a daily basis. I decided to meet Łukasz and record motivational material for anyone who doesn’t know where to find motivation for development.

How do you motivate yourself to work on yourself? The most important principles of success according to Łukasz:

Be grateful for what you have every day
Work for your success gradually every day
Believe in yourself!
If you are in a poor situation this is exactly the right time to decide to change

I visited Łukasz at his workplace, which is one of Krakow’s gyms. I invite you to watch the interview, in which you will learn how to overcome obstacles in life and learn Łukasz’s story.

Also, if you are interested in finding motivation for action, I encourage you to read a free eBook I have for you. Check it out below!

How can you find motivation to engage in self-improvement and personal development? — watch the video

How can you find motivation to engage in self-improvement and personal development?— preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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Today we’re at the gym.

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We’ll talk about fitness,
exercise, motivation.

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Today, I have a special guest – Łukasz.

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– Where is he? Come here.
– I’m coming. Hi.

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Nice grip.

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We invite you to this video.
Today, you’ll learn

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how to change your life
on the example of fitness and exercise.

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Yes? Be welcome.

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Tell us, what you do
and who are you?

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I’m an ordinary man.
A man who do exercises,

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who is passionate about it,
who likes helping people

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and who changed his life.

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This channel is dedicated to
changing life

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on the basis of your passions.

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It can be either fitness or anything else.

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I have my passion, you have another.

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What motivated you
to go in this direction?

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What motivated me?

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Willingness to change.

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First of all, there was a situation
when I was 18 years old.

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It was more than 5 years ago, so I was 18.

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I was meeting this girl
and you know how it goes with girls.

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I had my love story,
falling in love after 2 weeks.

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But she dumped me almost instantly.

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It hit me hard.

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I decided that I should change something.

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So, my buddy told me:
“Man, check out this site.

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It’s about personal growth.
Read it and maybe it’ll help you”.

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I decided why not.

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There was this sentence:
“Have balls to say and do what you want”.

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Nice.

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I thought that it makes sense.

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Then there was a quote on women
which motivated me.

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“If you wanna have most beautiful women,
you gotta be most beautiful yourself”.

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So, I decided to do it – change my life.

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It started from there.

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I was searching some passion
for a long time.

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The site stated that:

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“Find your passion,
figure out what you want to do,

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devote your life to some purpose,
have a vision of your life”.

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It took me a while.

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Firstly, I started exercising,
I did calisthenics,

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which are push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups,
all sorts of things like that

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to weight you body.

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It was OK,
but I’m from a small village,

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so I didn’t have
the conditions to exercise.

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You know, agriculture.

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Mom works as a cleaner
for the lowest wage,

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dad has problems with alcohol.

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That’s how it was.

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I thought that I can’t sit on my ass
and do nothing,

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but I gotta do something about my life.

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So, I’ve made a decicion
about moving out of the house.

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I came to Kraków
and it was difficult for me at the start.

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I fueled up my car, took 2,000

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and came here,
without apartment or anything.

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I called a friend and asked
if he maybe knows where I can rent a flat.

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He told me that he has
a spare room and invited me.

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That’s how living in Kraków began.

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Later on, I found a job, sometimes
working from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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I didn’t have money
to buy food through one week.

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Many things happened.

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Once, I didn’t have a place to stay,
because I couldn’t afford any.

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Or various other situations as this one.

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I also had a situation in which
there was -20 degrees outside

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and I was standing in front of the door
during the night, ’cause I forgot my key.

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So, I went through
some difficult situations

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which shaped me
and gave me a strong self-confidence.

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I was thinking like: “Fuck, man,
if you’ve gone through this,

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you can do anything”.

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That’s how it started. By a strong kick.

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So, you were motivated by suffering.

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You were fed up with your life
and wanted much more.

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Yes. Maybe not suffering,
but an inner will

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to prove myself that I can do more,
become a better person

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and have something more in life.

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Not just work in a day job for
1,500 or 3,000,

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live in a warm home with parents,
have money for food etc.

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You could’ve chosen the easier way
and work in warehouse for 2,500,

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rent a room and that’s it.

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You wouldn’t need to think
what more can you do.

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But you decided to
push yourself forward.

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You could’ve stayed on a normal level,
but you move forward.

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You probably have big dreams, as it’s
only the start and you’ve achieved much.

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You know, I get up everyday

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and I’m grateful
for the life I have right now.

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Everyday, I fold my hands and say:
“Thank you, God, for what I have”.

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Some people believe in God,
others don’t.

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I won’t take either side.

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It’s indifferent to me.

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I believe in God.

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At the start, I had this attitude
that in God doesn’t exist etc.

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I simply had this kind of approach.

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Then it has changed for me.

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I realized that
if I want to become a better person,

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I need to help people.

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My life mission is helping as many
people and as much as possible.

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I’m helping on a gym.

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It doesn’t matter if someone
has 5,000 PLN to pay me

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or 50 PLN, or even nothing.

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It’s not important for me.

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Money are important, but not the most.

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Helping people
is the most important for me,

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because if I give something,
it’ll come back to me twofold.

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It’s a good motivation for any action,
not only on a gym.

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Don’t you think that sport and gym
are the things

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that can teach and motivate a lot?

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100%. Even a million percent.

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I agree with that.

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Gym develops a character,
teaches humility, teaches discipline,

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teaches that
you can’t get something instantly.

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You have to earn it
by making slow, tiny steps.

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One brick after another.

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The same with body.

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The body doesn’t change at once, but
you gain muscle mass piece by piece.

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Each and every month, week, year.

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People think that life is an event.

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Like, something will happen
and it’s awesome.

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But life is actually a process.

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Our creations,
our life is a constant process.

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We gradually introduce some things.

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Now, I feel that I achieved
some success in my life.

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I still have a lot to do,
but I’ve already achieved something.

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I did it mainly because of
a hard work and self-esteem.

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Dear viewers, believe in yourself,
as it’s the most important thing.

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Otherwise, you won’t achieve anything.

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On my channel,
we talk about success,

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which can be broadly interpreted.

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If you want to achieve something,
like in online business,

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sport, gym, occupation,
your own company or any business,

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I think that regularity is the key.

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Can this be applicable
to regularity in doing exercises?

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Can you learn by practicing?

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Of course.

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Regularity can be learned anywhere,
but you must have a will to do it.

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First of all, you must want that.

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When you go to a gym,
you won’t achieve success right away.

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It takes time that you have to spend.

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So you either look for excuses,
that I don’t want to, it’s not for me

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or you make a decision to go for it
and you start doing it.

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Probably many younger people watch us,
who want the change in life.

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Maybe they want to do fitness
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Please tell me,
as my guest in this video,

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what would you advise them?

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Where to start making changes?

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You were moving out,
it was hard for you.

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What would you advise people
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What to do?

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Most often we make decisions
when we’re most miserable.

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I’ve made mine during this state.

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I’ve made this decision
when I felt most miserable.

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So, when you feel that
the things are fucked up,

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make up your mind.

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Decide to do something different.

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Introduce new things to your life.

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But, first of all,
make a decision to do it.

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Decision is the key.

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I can only confirm that,
because I was also very miserable,

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but when I was extremely low,
on the very botton,

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only then I felt that it’s time to change.

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It’s like that in every case,
also a bit in yours.

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You need to get through the pain
in order to grow.

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100%. Effects can’t be seen right away.

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It’s often the case
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we’re freaking exhausted.

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– Sorry that I swear sometimes.
– Sometimes it’s advisable.

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Sometimes it’s easier for me
to convey emotions through swearing.

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Sometimes you have to
work your fucking ass off

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and then do even fucking more.

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Only after some time
you’ll see the results.

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I didn’t see
the results of my work right away.

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I didn’t have many clients.
It was a gradual process.

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There were sometimes worse periods,
but I wasn’t dicouraged.

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I kept going in that direction,
as I had my vision,

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in what place do I want to be.

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If we want to achieve something,
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Let’s focus on the whole process.

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Don’t focus on the physical goal,
but on the vision of it.

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If you want to be awesome in something,
then bring value to people.

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Be valuable and people
will rise you even higher.

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I think this will be a good summary.

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Let’s give value,
do something for others,

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because it will return to us.

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And when life is hard for you,
let’s act,

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because we can only change
by breaking from comfort zones.

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Like in exercise,
it has to hurt in order to grow.

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The same with being healthy.
There’s no other way.

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If you want to get some help
from Łukasz here at the gym

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or outside,
as you also engage in motivation?

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Yes. Check out my Facebook, Instagram
and my Facebook group.

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You can find all the links below.

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Join us. I organize a big group of people.

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It’s called
“Śmistek. Motywacja do treningu”.

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We motivate, inspire, help
and solve problems there.

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Be welcome to join us.

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Thanks for watching.

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I also invite you to
all the Łukasz’s profiles.

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I think it won’t be
the last video with Łukasz.

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– I hope we’ll record something together.
– Me too.

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If you want more,
give us reactions and comments.

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In this way
we know that you want more.

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Write what else
you want to know from Łukasz.

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– We’ll record another video.
– Yes.

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Take care of yourselves.

Millionaire Fastlane – book review

Best book on making money online?

My blog is about improving life and about online business, so a review of Millionaire Fastlane had to appear here. Millionaire Fastlane is one of the mandatory readings for people interested in personal development, business and, in particular, making money online in its broad sense. This book has opened my eyes to many things and helped me believe that I can create a modern business that will change my life. About two years after reading this work, the regular job became history for me. Thanks to the motivation and knowledge contained in books like this, I created a business on Amazon and my blog.

This book is particularly difficult to get (especially in the paper version). It is worth to look for used paper copies on eBay or buy an eBook form HERE. The price of this publication is high, but it is definitely worth investment.

Millionaire Fastlane — what is this book about?

MJ DeMarco, the author, presents in this book his story about gaining wealth, creating an online business and fulfilling his own dreams. The whole story begins when the author meets of a guy driving a Lamborghini. MJ DeMarco learns that he runs an online business and decides to follow this path. In the Millionaire Fastlane we get a lot of tips about gaining wealth, creating business, and all this is supported by an interesting story from the author, which shows us how MJ DeMarco gained his wealth, for example, by creating a car rental website with limousines. The author then describes how he sold his business and became a financially free man.

First of all, MJ DeMarco teaches you what path (chosen by the majority of the population) we should not follow. Unfortunately, this path is encouraged by the current education system and is imposed by our environment — preventing us from being successful, wealthy and from leading a better lifestyle. After reading this book, your thinking can change a lot.

Slowlane or Fastlane?

“You don’t have to accept mediocrity” — that’s the message of this book. Millionaire Fastlane provides very good and still fresh business knowledge, especially for modern business related to the Internet and opportunities offered by the present times. If you are aiming for a lifestyle that will give you freedom, the opportunity to travel and you are ready to spend the coming years on hard work (to be able to have more in the future) then this book is for you.

Fastlane millionaire targets primarily people who are just beginning their adventure with business, especially with online business in its broad meaning. I would say that this is a truly must-read work for each of you, and I would add that unlike many other excellent books that you can find on the market, Millionaire Fastlane is the one that, in addition to knowledge, offers a great dose of motivation. MJ DeMarco gives us a really good kick and his book is written in a very reader-friendly and interesting way.

Millionaire Fastlane is a very practical book

MJ DeMarco in the Millionaire Fastlane gives us very specific knowledge and advice. After each chapter you will find a summary along with the most important principles of the “Fastlane philosophy”. At the end of the book, you will read about the “boosting your wealth plan” and learn about the “40 most important guidelines for Fastlane life”.

As a person dealing with online business, Amazon sales and blogging, I highly recommend this book as a must-read volume. I know for sure that no school dares to introduce such books as part of their curricula because that would mean a decrease in the number of people who would like to participate in the standard lifestyle involving traditional learning, job-seeking and retirement. What do you choose?

Millionaire Fastlane – book review — listen to the podcast

Millionaire Fastlane – book review — watch the video

Millionaire Fastlane – book review — preview the video transcript

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Hi!
It’s From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Welcome.

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Today, I have a book review,

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because I decided to present
a selected book review every few episodes.

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Because books are a very
important part of my life.

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It all started with books. I love them.

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I publish books on Amazon.

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So, today a book review.
Today’s book is Millionaire’s Fastlane.

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If you want to know why
this book is one of the best ones

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about business, personal development,
making money online,

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improving your life, stay with me.

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Here we go.

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I have Millionaire’s Fastlane here.

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This is an exceptional work,
a very thick one.

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A whole lot of information.

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It is very hard to get as it turned out.

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Recently, I was reading
it in the restaurant and a friend asked me

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where did I get it
because he couldn’t find one.

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For sure, you can
find it as an ebook.

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You don’t need a paper book.

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The ebook version is easily available,
I recommend it.

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You may find it
on Amazon or similar sites.

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So, what is the book about?

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Firstly, Millionaire’s Fastlane is a book
about business, making money online.

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It was written by MJ DeMarco.
Take a look.

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A great writer.

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He wrote this book a good few years ago.

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The book is a narrative containing
business knowledge about earning

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or rather a portion of knowledge
with a personal story by DeMarco added.

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What is it about?

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It begins with the author of this book,
Andrew telling how he met a guy,

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who got out of Lamborghini, and he asked
him what he did for a living,

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as he also wanted such a car,
to make money, to run a business.

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Then the guy told him he deals
with online sales, marketing and so on.

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The point is the fascination with
such things and a new lifestyle

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prompted the author of this book
to develop himself,

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to do business, to change his life.

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And it is in this book
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he developed his
business, limousine rental website.

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He tells how hard he worked on this
website, with full devotion,

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and then how he sold it for fat money
and became financially free,

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how he earned big money,
he was able to change his life.

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MJ DeMarco interweaves in this story
all sorts of tips on running a business.

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The whole concept of this book is that
DeMarco shows how not to go

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with the society along the slowlane.

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He suggests to switch to the fastlane
and move forward much, much faster.

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He suggests us not to wait whole
life for retirement at the age of 65,

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when we are old, so that we can rest.

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He suggests to change
our thinking a little bit

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and start thinking that we are capable
of creating a well-operating company

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within 5 or 10 years,

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switch to the fastlane and change
our lives completely.

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Here we have a whole set of principles,

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examples that show how to change
our lives for the better

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by running a business,
how to run such a business.

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I would say, this book is kind
of an anti-system book.

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It shows us why modern education, society,
generally modern lifestyle

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makes us unable to develop.

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You are not able to change
your life by yourself,

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as society actually forces you
to go to school, find a job,

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wait for retirement.

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To be honest, it doesn’t suit everyone.

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Nowadays, with the help of the Internet
we are able to do a lot.

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And this book in a very cool way shows
how to go against the flow,

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take a different, smarter path
and simply try to change your life.

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In addition to offering a great dose
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it’s really well written.

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It is written with language that makes us
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and makes us want to do it.

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In my opinion, this book
should be a must-read.

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Maybe not in school, because it
would encourage kids to drop out.

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But it should be a must-read
for every young or old man

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who wants to achieve something
in professional or personal life

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because it shows us that we can do
many things better and faster.

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One of the main principles in this
book is the rule of scale.

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You can scale your business, automate it

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and run it so that
to have time for pleasure, earning more.

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I highly recommend this book.

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It motivated me incredibly,
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to publishing books and products globally.

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Not necessarily for my city or country,
but for the entire world.

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And I highly recommend this book to you.

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Test it, you may get it somewhere.

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It is available online.

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If you search well you will find it.

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Thanks a lot for watching.

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I invite you to next ones.

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See you. Bye!

What products I sell on Amazon and how much I earn

My blog focuses on improving and enhancing lives and on online business. Online business turns me on a lot because it can be carried out in many different ways from anywhere. You can start such a business with virtually no money and build it gradually step by step. My online business on Amazon has helped me quit my full-time job and live a far more interesting life. Over time, I have also added a blog to my business, as well as online courses that show how to publish books on Amazon. Do you want to learn what products do I sell on Amazon and how much money do I make?

I became interested in online business and Amazon in 2015. I quickly began to release more products (e-books and paper books). Amazon is the largest online store in the world, and the opportunity to reach millions of customers through this platform sparked my attention. Unfortunately, in the beginning I mostly failed, but over time I learned how to do everything better and my products began to bring me first profits.

At the end of 2016, one of my books (I present it and my other products in a video on my YouTube channel — link below) became a bestseller in one of the categories. It was a remarkable success for me, and it showed me that I, as a person who speaks English at a level barely “sufficient” for watching movies and get into a simple conversation, was capable of publishing a well-selling book for the world market. The cost of publishing this book was about $200 for me. Over time, I published more books (mostly print-on-demand paperbacks) and as of today I have 550 products published through Kindle Direct Publishing.

What products do I have on Amazon and how much money do I make? (update as of 2019)

I have about 700 products on Amazon (as of mid-2019) and sell between 1,000 and 2,000 of these products on Amazon per month. These are mainly simple products in the form of notebooks and eBooks. This gives earnings of several thousand per month of fully passive income. In the best months such as November and December, sales reach several thousand copies which gives me an income of up to $2500 per month.

For some, it will not be a large sum of money, while for others, quite the opposite. You have to judge for yourself whether this is a lot. I’ll just add that I’ve had a steady passive income from Amazon for a long time and it doesn’t require me to do any work. Earning from Amazon didn’t make me a millionaire, but it allowed me to quit my full-time job as a restaurant manager and focus on creating a blog, which is my great passion. Thanks to Amazon, I became a free man and my life has changed beyond recognition.

At the beginning of 2018, I also launched my blog, which was first only available in Polish. It was quite an experiment, because it is a very personal blog that at the same time earns a lot of money. I did not expect so much success in this area. After six months, my blog began to earn its first money and after a year and a half it had earned more than $30,000. Earnings from the blog consist of income from the sale of online courses and from affiliations.

In the video below, I will show you selected products I sell on Amazon.

I also invite you to my FREE COURSE, in which I describe in detail various ways of making money online. In this free course, you will learn how my Amazon and online courses business works. If you are interested in my products shown in the video, then sign up for my course (you just need to provide an email when registering) and there I will guide you through the most important issues related to publishing products on Amazon.

What products I sell on Amazon and how much I earn — listen to the podcast

What products I sell on Amazon and how much I earn — watch the video

What products I sell on Amazon and how much I earn — preview the video transcript

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Tomek here. From Waiter to Millionaire

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Welcome to the next video.

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This will be an unusual
and longer episode.

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I will show you my products
I release on Amazon.

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What I make money on, as this is
one of the main topics of my blog.

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So stay with me.

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I will show you my products
I have with me.

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You’ll see how I publish and create them,
what they look like and how much I earn.

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So, feel free to watch this video.

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Before I will show you my products,
I would like to communicate something.

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What this blog is about.

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Since the name From Waiter to Millionaire
may make you wonder if I am a millionaire.

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How much money do I earn on Amazon.

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Many may think that I am pretending
to make huge money on Amazon.

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I want to note this is a blog
about improving life,

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about improving various aspects of life,
as health, crossing your comfort zone,

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developing self on various levels
and also this includes online business.

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As I have long loved books,
I love to read,

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I decided to go into books and
start publishing them on Amazon.

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And I have been quite successful.

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But I also work
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So there is no doubt.

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I have a full-time job
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and for the last two years I am involved
in publishing products on Amazon.

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I am also into personal development,
expanding your comfort zone,

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improving yourself.

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And that’s what the blog is about.

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Going back to online business,
I want to show you my products,

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what they look like, how I published them,
how much I earn,

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to give have an idea of what it
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Let’s start.

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The first product I released on Amazon
is a book called Krakow Party Guide.

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This is my author’s book,
which I wrote myself.

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It is about Cracow, about life
and planning where to stay,

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where to party.

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The idea for it came to my mind
when I was working as a waiter.

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I decided to make a product
for tourists going to Cracow

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to share cool stuff.

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Many people asked me how
to spend an evening in Cracow.

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I decided to publish it.

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It was a huge financial flop.
It did not sell at all.

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I sold around ten pieces in a year
or two, so I count it as a total failure.

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It didn’t make any money.
It didn’t pay off.

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I learned a lot. It was my first
Amazon product, which I am proud of.

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A very important lesson that taught me
you have to publish

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what people are looking for.

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Another product.

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After my initial failure
with Krakow Party Guide,

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I invested in education
on publishing books on Amazon,

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I decided to publish next books based
on courses, knowledge, not by feel,

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but have more input
and create something decent.

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And then I published two books at once.

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One of them also did not
sell at all, but the other,

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which I have with me, is titled
Make him Scream.

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It was published under a pseudonym.

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Here is me, I published this book
along with another one.

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It is a short guide for women,
about intimate life intimate,

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and it can also be a
cool gift idea for a woman.

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And this book sold quite nicely,
and after a few months it became

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a bestseller on Amazon in one category.

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It showed me that despite the fact
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and I only understand basic English,

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the fact this book was ghostwritten,
the cover and promotion was outsourced,

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I was able to publish this book
with nothing more than basic knowledge

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and won the bestseller status on Amazon.

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Is what was unthinkable for me
a few months earlier at all.

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I published it as an e-book for Kindle
and automatically also as a paper book.

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The cost of this book was $200, including
promotion, and the income was much higher.

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The book is still available.
The launch was in 2016.

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I am very proud of it.

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Another of my products
is the book What Women Think.

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One of many products
I released and tested later on.

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This is a blank book
I published two years ago.

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And it also sold quite nicely.

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There already have
been such books before.

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Similar ones will probably
be released in future.

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The cost of this product was
just a few dollars, only for the cover.

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There was no content.

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And such a book was selling very nicely.

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It showed me again
a simple product sold globally on Amazon

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is able to offer a nice passive
income to this day.

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While these weren’t millions, I was
able to get a lot of such products.

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I created more products.

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I can only show you selected products,
as most of them are digital products

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available on Amazon Kindle
or printed on demand for customers.

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But I still have something to show.

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Another one of my products is 101 Things
You Will Regret When You’re Old.

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A simple book that lists things you will
regret you haven’t done in your life.

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It can motivate you to act.

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This is another simple product.

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A print-on-demand book on Amazon,
which also sold quite nicely.

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Now, it also sells from time to time
and contributes to my passive income,

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altogether resulting
in higher passive income.

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Another simple product.

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You are able to publish such a
thing in a few days on Amazon.

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Another product, actually a series.

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I have been publishing a lot on products
like motivational notebooks,

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gift notebooks and similar.

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They are empty or have minimal content.

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I designed covers by myself and
published them in series that cost little

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but sold in very high volumes, for example
several hundred copies per month.

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Such series published on Amazon,
with a dozen of notebooks in each one,

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resulted in the total sale of all books
at the level of 1,400 copies in December.

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Now, the average is about 1,000
products per month.

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And such products, combined
with the sale of Amazon Kindle products

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and payment for pages read,

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since Amazon also pay for each page read,

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the customer does not have
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it gives more than a thousand
dollars per month.

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With the sale of 1,000 copies a month,
let’s say you earn 1 dollar per copy.

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This gives a thousand dollars
per 1,000 sold products.

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Which is a nice passive income
in combination with a full-time job,

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where I am a restaurant manager.

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It provides me a really good
monthly income and I am able

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to grow this online business
on Amazon gradually.

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I don’t have to quit my job or
invest a lot of money to publish a book.

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I learned gradually, published regularly
more and more,

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I worked as a manager and simultaneously
I let this business roll in.

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At some point I even stopped, because
I started focusing more on the blog.

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Those books are still there,
they still sell.

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It makes a super
passive income source

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I can develop as I wish,
or even stop developing,

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and even then,
those products will still be there

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and they will ensure earnings
on a certain level,

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and passive income as a result,
which is amazing.

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An amazing opportunity to make money,
especially for people who work full-time

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or who study and may not be privileged
to give something up

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and fully devote themselves to business.

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Because if you want to open any business,
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you have to devote yourself to it
for 15 hours a day.

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You’re not able to work
in a corporation and run a diner.

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While online business, can be combined
with your work or school,

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as it is enough to spend a few evenings
a week on business and expand gradually,

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to get nice passive income with time

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that would let you quit your full-time job
or just double your monthly earnings.

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I have a few thousand extra to my salary
and I’m still trying to grow on Amazon.

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I’m developing my blog
and who knows where will it go.

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I encourage you to try your
hand online and to monitor my blog.

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You can find there and below
a link to my 100% free course,

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which shows various methods of earning
on the Internet, including Amazon,

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where you can publish
paper books, and e-books.

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This course provides
all the information for free.

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Like how to start publishing books online.

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How to ensure passive income.

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You can use it to develop
in this direction.

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It also explains other online business
models, like blogging,

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lists the tools you need.

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It is comprehensive
and available for free.

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I encourage you to take part.

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Let me remind you my blog is about
making life better, about various aspects,

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not just about online business.

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Don’t forget to check out my other videos,
where I show how to improve your life,

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expand your comfort zone, and go farther
every day to make your life better.

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SIMPLE RULE to achieve goals and be successful

How to achieve GOALS and SUCCESS in life: SIMPLE RULE and brutal truth.

There is a lot of talk about achieving goals and succeeding in life in the broadest sense. Everyone wants to be successful, have an outstanding life, the best partner and on top of that, earn a lot of money. In this article, I will present you to the most important principle that will show you how to achieve goals and success. At the same time, you will learn the brutal truth that causes most people to fail on their way to achieve their goals and dreams.

How to achieve goals and success? — REGULAR WORK is the key

Being systematic in your daily work and taking small steps each day is the biggest secret to achieving your goals. This is both the key to success and the brutal truth that causes most people to fail to achieve their goals and dreams. Why is it like this? Each of us wants to have a lot and achieve a lot. However, you will never be able to do something big in a short period of time. You won’t build a big company in a month, you won’t create a great relationship in a month, you won’t get your body shredded in a few weeks. Most important is the process, which often takes years or, which simply has no end.

What is regular work?

It meant to work hard and regularly every day, but with a clear vision and plan for the future. It’s not a mindless grind, but executing your plan step by step every day, breaking down the big goal into smaller goals.

Unfortunately, few people are able to dedicate themselves to their goals for years, while making no gains in the process. Many people often will not be able to withstand years of work and sacrifice because they lack a clear purpose for their actions. The key to achieving goals is regular work backed by a clear goal, as only this goal will give you the motivation to be systematic. See my post on setting goals.

How to achieve GOALS and SUCCESS in life? It’s easy, but requires patience

I’ll illustrate this for you with examples involving various aspects of life:

Your career — every working person wants to earn more, get promoted and make progress in their profession/workplace. But do you realize that in order to achieve all this, you need to work systematically for years and regularly acquire new skills? Do you learn and grow, or do you rely on sheer luck and expect to “hit the bull’s eye” or “win a lottery”?

Your business — if you run your own business then regularity has an even greater impact on your position (in a full-time job you are unfortunately dependent on others and their decisions). In this case, being systematic in your business over the years can result in success much greater than the one in a salaried job, because you don’t have the constraints as in a salaried job. You can develop in your own business much easier than in your full-time position.

Relationships — maybe you dream of a great partner and a great love. Do you think you are able to have your dream partner when being a rather poor person? Are you able to develop over the years to encourage the right people? Can you give love unconditionally for years and expect nothing in return?

Health — here the principle of regular work is probably mostly visible. You won’t lose weight from one healthy meal same as you won’t gain weight from one unhealthy meal. The same is true for health in general — it’s the regularity of each day that counts. A sensible diet and taking care of your physical and mental condition regularly every day will give you the right health. There are no shortcuts or magic pills.

Online business — publishing books on the Internet, for example, also requires regular work. With over 500 products on Amazon and CreateSpace, I began to be most successful long after the start. First books and products were poor. It has taken me a long time to learn, improve and develop my products, which often began to be profitable after a long period. However, time flew by, I had more and more products, and many of those that were sold under a common brand were bringing cross sales.

FREE COURSE — BEST MODELS OF ONLINE BUSINESS

It doesn’t matter if you are opening a business, trying to improve your health, building a house or planning your life in any other aspect. Remember to have your goal on the horizon (the goal should be written down and well thought out) and work systematically towards that goal every day. In case your motivation depletes, recall your objectives and rekindle your drive. Remember to leverage the knowledge of others as well — instead of making errors, learn from someone who knows how to do it by reading relevant books, attending training sessions, or enrolling to online courses related to your objectives. Never be afraid to invest money in knowledge and education. Then work systematically every day until you achieve your goal.

SIMPE RULE to achieve goals and be successful — listen to the podcast

SIMPE RULE to achieve goals and be successful — watch the video

SIMPE RULE to achieve goals and be successful — preview the video transcript

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Hi. Tomek here.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome to another episode.

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Today, I’ll be talking about being
successful in various life aspects.

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Any life aspects.

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This can apply to business.

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This can apply to the personal
sphere, relationships, work, or health.

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But I would like to tell you
about the key to success.

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What is the key to success?

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It is the truth that
will make you successful,

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but also the truth that is brutal,

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because it is also the reason
why people do not achieve success.

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Stay with me.

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What is the key?

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The key is regular work.

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So, to achieve your goals in any aspect
of life you must be systematic.

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Unfortunately it is
the biggest problem people have.

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Biggest challenge.

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Being systematic. Let me explain it.

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Regular work means working hard every day

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towards your goals.

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So, you set a goal.

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A goal for a specific time frame.

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Every day, you implement it step by step,

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with your specific reason in mind.

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You’ll never be able to take action
every day without any incentives,

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with no target on the horizon.

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With such a goal, you will be able
to work regularly every day

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and only such regular work will
lead you to success.

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Unfortunately, many people let go of
their goals, dreams, tasks,

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because after a month or two
of work, sometimes more

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they let go lacing faith.

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To which aspects of life can you apply
the principle of regular work?

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Obviously, private life.

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For example, to your relationship.

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You want to have a great partner,
a man or a woman, whatever,

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and you can’t expect to have a wonderful
wife and family after a month of dating.

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This isn’t obvious for many.

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You can’t have a nice relationship
after a short time,

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as it requires work, time,
energy and unconditional love.

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The same is true in business for example.

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You want to make good money
but you don’t know how to do it.

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Are you be able to work for years for free
to learn, and benefit after a few years?

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Or do you expect
a quick profit here and now.

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You start one thing, then another, and yet
another. Years pass, you have nothing.

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Maybe you have a full-time job.

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Want big money? Do you
invest in yourself, learn or develop?

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Are you able to face the truth that it
takes years of progress to get promoted?

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You can’t develop in a day.

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The same is true for health.

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If you are obese or overweight, or have
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you won’t be able to lose weight,
get perfect shape

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or build muscle mass in one month.

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Everything requires regular work.

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It requires regular work for years.

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You have a goal and pursue it.

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Do it all the time, strive for it
and fall into certain habits.

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At first, I made many mistakes
in my online businees.

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Months passed with no results.

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With time, I was getting better.
I released more products.

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Only ofter long time my products began
to cross-sell and sales grew.

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It took me long to make
good money online.

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In my professional work, years of
work, learning and willingness to develop

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resulted in being promoted
and better results.

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After I was promoted again, my hard work
brought results only after only a year.

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It is never the case that you are able
to attain something within three months.

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Like this large building behind me.

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Someone once thought to build
a residential complex.

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It couldn’t be made within a month.
The design took years to complete.

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The construction also takes years
and so do your goals in life.

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You can’t have everything.

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You have to think of what you want,
think it through well and go for it.

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Like with this building,
devote years to reach your goal.

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Work hard for many months or years

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and wait for the results,
which will come with time.

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I encourage you
to be systematic, to set goals.

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Don’t be afraid.

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Think carefully what you want
and work every day.

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You will see the results
after a year or two.

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I hope I motivated you to
take action with this video.

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Stay motivated facing the brutal truth.

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If you liked the video,
check out the rest,

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where I talk about online business,
motivation, life.

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Give me your thumbs up.

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See you. Thanks.

WALKS, the best way to improve your health and relax

Walks and walking — learn the benefits of this simple sport for everyone

Do you want to improve your health as well as your figure, but at the same time you don’t feel like going to the gym or doing very intense exercise such as running? I have good news for you, because there is a very underrated type of sport that anyone can do. It’s just walking and walks.

Personally, I have been practising this type of sport in my life for years. Over the years, being a waiter, I walked a lot every day at work and I saw the beneficial effect it had on my figure, on my health and on my well-being. However, I only realized this when I stopped working as a waiter and my body began to strongly demand daily exercise in the form of walking.

You may think that this is not a full-fledged sport and this type of physical effort won’t give you as good results as running. Everything really depends on what your goal is. If you want to have a neat figure, lose some weight and make your body function much, much better, then I encourage you to read the following benefits of walks and walking.

Walks and walking — benefits

Improved body shape — this will be a reduction in body fat (if you have excess fat) and an overall improvement in your posture. With regular walking, your body will look better and be more fit. If you are a woman then your legs will definitely get firmer. If, on the other hand, you are a man, you will appreciate the effect in the form of a stronger and more upright figure.
Improved health — walking is something very natural for our bodies and we need movement as much as we need air. Our entire body simply cannot function well unless we provide it with exercise in the form of walking several times a week. Regular walking will protects from many diseases that are caused by modern lifestyles.
Better mood — if your body is in motion then your brain also works better. Walking should be especially important for you if you bet on the efficiency of your mental work and your better mood. In addition, walking quiets often overtired mind.
Forget about dieting — with regular sports such as walking, you no longer have to be particularly concerned about the number of calories you consume. Physical effort regulates appetite very well and makes everything taste better. Do you want to feel like a child again? Don’t sit in front of the TV just go for a daily walk and you will see how much you will be revived.

Walking is the best way to lose weight for everyone

It is worth mentioning here because, many people struggle with the problem of excess weight. Being overweight causes poor health, bad mood and lowers self-confidence. Walking is the best way for people of all ages and all types of excess weight. It doesn’t matter if you weigh 150 kg and can barely walk, or if you want to get your abs shredded for the vacations. Regular walks help in every case and are very pleasant. Remember that in order to lose weight you simply have to move.

Walking — a simple workout plan for everyone:

Choose a minimum of 3–4 days a week and on each of these days go for a brisk walk. When I say brisk, I mean walking a little faster than you normally do. The duration of such a walk should last 30–60 minutes.
Remember to wear comfortable footwear. Running shoes will work well.
This walk can be, for example, your way to work or school. You don’t have to make a specific plan for your walking time (as is the case with running).
While walking, you can listen to podcasts, learn foreign languages, etc. Time then flies much more pleasantly, and you use that time much more efficiently.

WALKS, the best way to improve your health and relax — listen to the podcast

WALKS, the best way to improve your health and relax — watch the video

WALKS, the best way to improve your health and relax — preview the video transcript

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Hi! I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire. Welcome.

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In this episode I’ll tell you
about the best sport you can do.

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As this channel is dedicated to
improving the quality of your life,

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I must mention the health aspect.

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Today we’ll talk about
the simplest sport anyone can do,

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regardless of your age, health,
thick or thin wallet

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and place of residence – it’s irrelevant.

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This sport is for everyone
and it’s walking.

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Just a simple walk.

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Here’s my colleague, Bartek,
who worked with me as a waiter.

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– I did a lot of walking.
– We worked together.

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Together we will tell you about
the best sport, which is walking.

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It’ll be interesting.

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I’m Bartek and I worked
in the same restaurant as Tomek.

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I’m also a great fan of walking.

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I especially love walking in the woods.

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Let me tell you a little bit about
the benefits of walking.

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First of all, there is no equipment
needed to do this sport.

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You don’t have to pay for
gym membership or admission.

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You can simply go outside
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Walking increases
oxygenation of blood cells,

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allowing your body to function better.

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Not only when it comes to
physical sphere.

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It also enhances the cerebration.

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I encourage office workers
to start walking.

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Every effort causes
the lymph to flow through the muscles,

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which helps removing
toxins from the body.

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That’s the third major plus.

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Any suggestions?

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Great relaxation for your head.

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If you walk, no matter whether
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you feel amazing, relax
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You can start walking to work.

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Don’t stress in traffic jams
or use public transport.

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If you don’t have time
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you can implement this simple trick –
walk to your workplace.

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It’s needless to say that sport
accelerates metabolism and digestion.

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This is fundamental for us.

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In the past, people mostly worked
physically and they didn’t need sport.

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Only soldiers and warriors
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while ordinary people didn’t have to.

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Nowadays, we must use our body,
so that it can work properly.

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So, this is
an extremely important issue.

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I encourage you to get out of
the house, leave the computer.

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Sometimes we just
waste time in front of a laptop,

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while you can always get outside
and meet a new person or whatever.

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Just like us, who chose to
walk and talk today – be encouraged.

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So, do it, if you want to
lose weight, feel better

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or simply to make
your body function well.

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No matter what job you do.

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Maybe you do sedentary work.

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You sit in front of a laptop
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so you don’t move a lot.

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Try to change it.

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Walk instead of driving
to a campus or a workplace.

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Each day, I walk three
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Sometimes I also walk from the restaurat,
where I work as manager,

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so I cover the distance
of seven kilometers.

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That’s why I don’t have
such problems as obesity.

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I eat what I want, I feel great
and my head functions superbly.

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I encourage you to walk
a few kilometers everyday.

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During this time you can
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or anything else to your liking.

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You can learn a language
or just listen to music and relax.

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A walk after or before work
gives you amazing possibilities

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when it comes to
well-being and health.

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Truly amazing.
It can completely change your life.

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That’s why we encourage you
to start doing it.

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I recommend walking in the woods.

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Also, hiking is a great idea,
if it’s possible for you.

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So, we just encourage you to walk.

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It’s free and gives you amazing results.

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– You’ll be as happy as we’re now.
– Exactly.

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Please, check out
my other videos on this channel.

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You can learn a lot about
improving your life and online business.

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If you’ve liked this video,
give thumbs up.

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Let’s hope that Bartek will provide
more content on his YouTube channel.

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I don’t upload many videos,

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as I have little time
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But now, as we’ve started recording,
maybe I’ll get it rolling.

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Encourage Bartek to continue
his YouTube activities.

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Thanks a lot and greetings from
cool, wintry Kraków.

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We wait for the spring. Bye!

Motivational movies – TOP 10

I’m a big fan of cinema, and I think there’s nothing better than a good movie that, in addition to entertainment, offers a good dose of inspiration and motivation for action. While I’m against watching TV mindlessly, there are a whole bunch of movies that, by showing the fate of the main characters (often based on true stories), my convince you that you can do a lot of interesting and great things in your life.

What I like most about the videos shown below is that they convey the principles of success through an interesting story. You can often hear and read that the basic principles of success are hard, regular work, and following your passion. This is true, and there is nothing better than a great movie featuring a great story related to the realization of dreams and the achievement of goals. So what are the best motivational movies?

Below, there is my subjective selection of the best motivational movies that will get you moving and achieve your goals:

Forrest Gump

Do you think you are different and not good for anything? The amazing story of Forrest Gump will show you everything is possible. Forrest Gump is a man with very low IQ who achieves amazing things through his actions and a slightly different approach to life. An absolute classic of cinema and excellent entertainment at the highest level.

Catch me if you can

A life-based story about a counterfeiter and a swindler…, which, however, gives a great kick, motivates to take action and to think a little differently than everyone around. The eponymous crook, Frank, proves that many of his achievements (not necessarily legal) are also due to hard and smart work. In addition, the film contains a good dose of humour and entertainment.

Rocky

The story of Rocky Balboa along with the entire series of films featuring him are considered classics of cinema. It is an amazing dose of motivation to fight in the ring and in life at the same time. Sylvester Stallone himself and his efforts in making this film are a brilliant example of faith in one’s own dreams. I also recommend the sequels, Creed.

Pumping Iron

Want to spend some time with Arnold Schwarzenegger? In this video, you have the chance to do so. This documentary (with a bit of fiction) shows how Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved his success in the body-building world in the 1970s. If you are looking for motivation (not just for exercise) this is a must-have piece.

The Wolf of Wall Street

Once again, a character played by Leonardo DiCaprio who is anything but honest. However, the film is worth seeing because of the vast world of finance and the main characters’ approach to life. The plot (based on a true story) shows that you don’t necessarily have to follow the beaten path and still you can achieve great goals. Once again, you can see breaking the law makes you end up in prison sooner or later, and this too should be kept in mind. Plus, top-notch entertainment!

The Revenant

A beautiful and violent film about survival. The eponymous character, Hugh Glass (a real-life character) shows you can achieve virtually anything with the full force of your will. Left in the wilderness to fend for himself, the protagonist decides to fight for his life and with his persistence fights even the greatest adversity emerging from the wilderness and his opponents.

Shawshank Redemption

This movie tells a story about a wrongly convicted banker who must survive in the prison world. The story spans decades and shows how an elaborate plan and its execution over the years, step by step every day, can lead to the goal and to freedom.

The Wrestler

A film about dreams and passion for wrestling. The main character is forced to give up wrestling after having a heart attack. However, his enthusiasm does not allow him to come to terms with reality and he decides not to give up. A beautiful story of struggle to the very end illustrated in a very simple and raw way.

Only the Brave

A beautiful story set in Arizona, USA. Here, we see the story of a group of fire-fighters (all of whom really existed) who follow their passion and dreams. They work and train hard every day to be able to help others and fight fires. Their enthusiasm, however, puts them in great danger. Also, the movie provides an interesting way to present the stories of individual heroes who become better people through their discipline and team work.

Darkest Hour

The story of Winston Churchill, who is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940. He has to face Hitler, World War II and many people who do not believe in his abilities. We can how a person with less-than-ideal appearance and a craving for alcohol puts the country back on its feet and raises the fighting spirit among citizens.

3 WORDS that stop you from achieving your goals

Each of us has our own perception of the world and knowledge gained over time. We all have successes to our credit, too, and you may not even realize how much you’ve already accomplished in your life. You may even have something you’re proud of and know you can achieve your goals. But no matter what situation in life you’re in, you can get caught up in three words that you say or think. They can hold you back and block you from achieving further success.

What are these three words? “I know it.”

Let me explain what’s going on here. Many of us have our own opinions on topics such as how to act, talk, move, or think. Unfortunately, it’s often the case in life that we’re wrong about some things and do them wrong, often unconsciously throughout our entire lives. For example, how you talk to others at work, how you behave, what you eat for breakfast, and how you react in different situations. The most important question is whether you can see the bigger picture and think about whether what you’re doing can’t be done differently.

When you say, “I know it”, you may close yourself off to new knowledge and opportunities in your life. The fact that you know something now does not mean that this knowledge will be up-to-date and useful in a month or five years Unfortunately, I often encounter people who are so sure of their knowledge and beliefs that they no longer listen to anyone who says otherwise. This applies to all aspects of life — from work to private life. How few people can listen and try to look at the world from a perspective different than their own? Unfortunately, acknowledging ignorance requires stepping out of our comfort zone. However, this is the only way to succeed and achieve new things.

Are you a pussy or a tough guy?

I am not talking about representatives of my gender, but about all people. I mean your ego. Can you admit your mistakes? Can you say that you don’t know how to do something, or that you made a mistake? Maybe your ego wants to defend itself at all costs and show everyone that you are right?

Over time, when we achieve our first successes, we can become arrogant. This attitude should not be confused with self-confidence, because self-confidence is something we need very much in our lives, and it helps us to succeed. Arrogance, on the other hand, can make us deaf to new information, to knowledge and to what other people think. If arrogance become your lifestyle, you will close yourself to all new things and stop learning.

You should not close your mind. In achieving fulfilment, success and joy in life, it is necessary to acquire knowledge, experience — daily growth and development. However, remember, people learn new things differently and learning requires expanding your comfort zone.

Working in the restaurant industry, I have had to deal hundreds of times with people who were proving their points at all costs without being able to let go. In situations of disagreement or when you have a different opinion about something, your ego comes into play, and it does not allow you to listen. People often attack others just to avoid acknowledging they were wrong.

Keeping an open mind

There is a lot to learn from others, especially from those better than you. I myself wanted to help a lot of people on the issues I knew. However, often these people did not just want to listen. What is your religion? What diet do you use? Do have a regular job, or do you run your own business? No matter what your answers are, but it is important whether you can look at your beliefs from another perspective. Can you learn new things every day despite your knowledge, beliefs and experiences? Even those that are uncomfortable for you. Much of this discomfort stems from the fact that any lookout to the world that differs from yours can hit your ego, which may defend itself against being challenged.

I do not even want to say how many times I catch myself doing the same, and I do not let new things to happen. However, I try to fight it regularly. Perhaps the people around you are stuck in a ‘school-study-work’ pattern? Perhaps nobody has told you that it is worth going further to try something new and interesting. Maybe this will help you make changes in your life? Maybe you are stuck in isolation with your beliefs and opinion? The greatest people in the world spend a huge part of their time reading and learning, while they could lie on the beach and do nothing.

That is why having an open mind that is eager to learn is important. By learning something new every day, you can open new doors, and over time you will go very far.

3 WORDS that stop you from achieving your goals — listen to the podcast

3 WORDS that stop you from achieving your goals — watch the video

3 WORDS that stop you from achieving your goals — preview the video transcript

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Hi I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome to my video.

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Today, I’ll tell you about 3 words that
prevent you from achieving your goals,

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won’t let you be successful

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or change your life for the better.

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These words are making it harder
to achieve success.

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Before I reveal the words,
a short introduction.

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Each of us has achieved
some kind of success in life.

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Like learning how to walk, talk and read.

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Maybe you’ve opened a business,
graduated or something similar.

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You already have
some experience and knowledge.

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You understand
the topics in a certain expertise.

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Whatever has happened to you in life,
either good or bad,

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has made you
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So, I’m getting to the point.
What are these 3 words?

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These 3 words are: “I know this”.

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So, you think you know something
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This is the biggest mistake,

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especially for people
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Because when we’re successful
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we think that we know everything
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And that’s the biggest problem.

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We stop developing, learning
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we prevent ourselves from being
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I often emphasize that my message,

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my motto is learning, development
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Maybe you’ve achieved something
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saying “I know this”?

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You may have noticed in your behaviour
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are certain about their knowledge
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For example, there can be a conflict

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in which people firmly stick to their
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so they defend their ego,
being unable to admit mistake.

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Are you able to admit faults

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or that you didn’t know something,

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or even that you were wrong about it?

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Maybe you were arguing with someone

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and clearly saw that one side
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while being unable to admit it.

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Sadly, we do it very often
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Whether it’s business-related or else.

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We often make the same mistakes,
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that we don’t know something
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That’s because it weakens us
and shows that we’re weak.

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Can you admit that you don’t know
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or that you’re afraid of something?

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Many people think they know
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That’s their biggest problem.

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They don’t try to acquire knowledge
or listen to people

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who’re often wiser than them.

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I saw this harmful tendency not only
in others, but also in me.

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When I’ve started my online business,
I thought I had all the answers.

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When I published my first book,
I thought I knew a lot,

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because I’ve learned about Amazon
that it’s a great market.

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I’ve published my book there,

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basing on my insufficient knowledge
at that time.

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Of course, it turned into a fiasco,
as I explained it in other video.

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However, I wasn’t able to admit
my lack of knowledge.

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I was afraid to admit that I can’t.

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I was afraid to invest money
in courses to gain knowledge then,

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so I preferred spending a few thousand PLN
for this unprofitable book,

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than buying a simple course
for 100-150 $,

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the one which provided me with
incredibly valuable knowledge

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and costing only a fraction of the sum
that I spent on my failed book.

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Therefore, be curious like kids,
be able to admit

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that you lack knowledge or skills.

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Don’t be afraid to admit
in front of someone or yourself

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that what you think
and what you know is still nothing,

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that you want to learn new things.

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The key to achieving
your goals and to grow

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is a constant learning.

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Gaining knowledge, searching for it
and trying to improve your skills.

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As I look at my co-workers now
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I notice that many businessmen
or other people

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have stayed in their comfort zone
for so long, e.g. in running business,

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and did things according to old patterns,
while newcomer were shocked

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how the company functions,
how the payments are being made,

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how it’s all organized.

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Everything was slower
and done in a more primitive way.

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There are things that can be
easily improved in your life.

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Whether it’s business, nutrition,
health, sleeping or excercising.

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You can easily change
everything for the better.

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You can improve by making
small investments.

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Or even for free,
as it’s a matter of strong will.

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You can improve in everyday tasks
to be successful.

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Don’t be afraid to change,
to learn something or to be curious.

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Admit that sometimes you’re an idiot
who has to learn.

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Don’t be afraid to admit
mistake, ignorance.

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Seek knowledge and new solutions.

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You’ll see how fast you’re gonna improve,

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how you’ll unburden from
this baggage of wrong solutions.

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and how successful you’ll become.

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TOP 10 must-read motivational books

Below you will find a list of my favourite motivational books that helped me a lot in changing my thinking and changing my life. Remember that the most important thing is action and only action will change your life for the better. Nevertheless, so-called motivational books are the best first step and a great stimulus for future action. Good luck!

The Millionaire Fastlane — MJ DeMarco

How can you leverage on-line business and become a millionaire? This book presents a true story and is very pleasant to read.

12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos — Jordan B. Peterson

How to live in today’s world? Jordan B. Peterson takes on a very difficult task and answers perhaps all the toughest questions one can ask. “12 Rules for Life” is a self-help book by Jordan B. Peterson that offers twelve practical principles for navigating life and achieving meaning and purpose. Drawing on science, philosophy, and his own experiences, Peterson presents a compelling argument for taking responsibility for one’s own life and finding order in a chaotic world.

Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins

The book that shows you that you can achieve much more than you think you can. David Goggins describes his life story and tells how he became a member of the Navy SEALs, an ultramarathoner and the best version of himself.

Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing — Robert Kiyosaki

A must-read book on financial management and creating wealth.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story — Arnold Schwarzenegger

This gentleman needs no introduction to anyone. If your dreams and goals seem too big and far away read Arnold’s autobiography.

Shoe Dog — Phil Knight

Nike’s creator’s amazing memories. The beginnings of a business in a home garage, the creation of a company over the years and great faith in the possibilities combined with the hardships of normal life. The book is also very pleasant and easy to read.

The Effective Executive — Peter Drucker

How to learn working effectively and efficiency in general. Whether you work for yourself or for someone else, this book gives you a brilliant knowledge of how to work, stay motivated and motivate others.

Awaken the Giant Within — Anthony Robbins

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur and master of penetrating the human psyche. He helps us achieve our goals guiding us to lead ourselves in an informed manner and improve ourselves.

Man’s Search for Meaning — Frankl Viktor E.

A very inspiring book that describes what motivates people in their actions. The information is presented through the example of the harsh experiences of the time of concentration camps, when people had to literally fight for their lives.

The Power of Positive Thinking — Norman Vincent Peale

What can you do to make people respect you and to make your life better? This book is a classic piece on personal development.

Losing My Virginity — Richard Branson

An autobiography of a man of great success. Richard Branson is a talented businessman and a person who know how to have fun in life. His story is sure to inspire you to chase a more interesting life.

TOP 10 must-read motivational books — listen to the podcast

TOP 10 must-read motivational books — watch the video

TOP 10 must-read motivational books — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Welcome to another video.

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Today I’m gonna present you
10 motivational books

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about business and success,
which had a great influence on me.

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These are the best ones
that I want to recommend to you.

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You should read these books,

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if you think about changing your life,
earning more money,

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starting your own business.

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If you need motivation and inspiration,
these books are for you.

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They are very diverse.

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Some of them are about
great businessmen,

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the best in their field
and you should learn from them.

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The other books will motivate you
and help you to change your life.

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Without further ado, let’s start.

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But I’ll tell you one more thing –
all motivational books,

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inspiring autobiographies,
books on success,

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YouTube videos
and all these kinds of information

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you should treat as a starting point,
because the most important thing

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is to act.

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Books should motivate you
and change your way of thinking,

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so try to read them almost everyday,
but don’t forget

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that in order to
change anything in your life

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you must act.

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That’s it for the introduction.

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Let’s start describing
the best motivational books.

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The first is a classic one,
well-known and often mentioned.

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“The Millionaire Fastlane”.

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It is a great and easy book to read.

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Even though you’ll be able to
finish it very quickly,

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don’t rush and take time
to absorb valuable information.

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It describes a great path
of its author, M. J. DeMarco,

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who earned lots of money
from his online business.

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In short, this book praises
online business

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as the one
which can be quickly scaled.

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In this way you can
quickly achieve success.

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Let’s move on. The second book.
I reviewed it in my other video.

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Check that one out.

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It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
“Total Recall”.

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Incredible and very motivating
success story.

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If you think
that your dreams are unattainable,

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read this book and you’ll see
that they are nothing

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compared to the ones
that Arnold has achieved.

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I highly recommended it.

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Next book, a very different one.

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“Full POWER of life”
by Jacek Walkiewicz.

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Brilliant book. If you look for uplift,
you go through tough times,

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you’re on the brink of adulthood
or you want a change in life,

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Walkiewicz’s book is brilliant,

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because it shows how to
live your life to the fullest,

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seek inspirations, achieve goals

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and be a good fighter.

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One of my favorite books.
I totally recommend it.

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Jacek can motivate and comfort you
at the same time.

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A brilliant read.

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Another book by a successful man.

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“Shoe Dog:
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike”

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by Phil Knight.

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This book is also excellently written.

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It is very easy to read.

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The story begins in the 1960s,

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when the US citizen
gradually starts his business.

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He runs it in the basement,
imports shoes from Japan

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and creates a powerhouse.

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Great company and great book.

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I’m gonna buy Nike shoes,
as now I feel like I know the owner.

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Let’s move on.
Now something from Poland.

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“Just Do Business”
by Mr. Leszek Czarnecki.

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It’s a brilliant book on running business,
esp. on Polish market.

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It’s a truly amazing read.

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Mr. Leszek describes how he started
his journey at the end of the 1980s

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and how he was able to
create something incredible.

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He’s started many companies.

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Cool man. Great book.
Also easy to read.

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I highly recommend it.

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Moving on.

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Now something completely different.

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“Man’s Search for Meaning”
by Mr. Viktor Frankl.

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He was a psychiatrist

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who lived during the war
and concentration camps.

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He describes how human brain
works when it comes to

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motivation, meaning of life
and will of life,

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basing on concentration camps
and hard times.

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He shows how people fight for
their life or give up on it.

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It’s a book for those
who seek meaning of life

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and want to be motivated and uplifted.

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A brilliant, excellently written book.
And also thin.

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I very highly recommend it.

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Now, an all-time classic.

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“The Power of Positive Thinking”

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by Mr. Norman Peale.

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Not sure how to pronounce it.

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Great book. I’ve recently read it
for the second time.

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A classic of its genre.
I highly encourage you to read it.

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Although it seems
a little dated at times.

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Mr. Richard Branson
needs no introduction.

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He’s started a lot of companies.

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A very successful man.

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His story is very cool.

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His youth occured during the 1970s.

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Maybe even earlier.
Sorry, I don’t remember.

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But he describes his life in England,
when he started Virgin Records.

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He contracted famous bands,
then sold the company

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and started Virgin airways.

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You may also know about Virgin Mobile.

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He was a man of big businesses
and vast scope of thinking.

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It’s also a very cool story
of a very cool man who achieved a lot.

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The story is very nicely told.

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It shows how an average,
hard-working and happy man

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achieves great successes.

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I also very highly recommend it.

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Here we have
“Awaken The Giant Within”

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written by Mr. Anthony Robbins.

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Probably the thickest book I’ve ever seen.

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It will work well, if you need to
add weight into your backpack.

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It is an incredibly motivating book,
showing that

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you are able to achieve everything.

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I recommend this man.
He’s a very well-know figure abroad.

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He’s an incredible source of inspiration.

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The last book…
A bit jokingly.

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The previous ones were about great,
inspiring, motivating people

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who’ve developed great businesses.

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But to conclude,
I would like to warn you against

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excessive motivation,
so you can remember

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that all of your achievements
mainly depend not on reading books

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and motivation, but on your own work.

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Because many people
want to sell you some bullshit,

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claiming that you can do anything,
but not showing you how.

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Robert Kiyosaki writes great books.

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This is “Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant”,
but I won’t talk on it.

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Another very famous one is
“Rich Dad Poor Dad”,

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in which Mr. Kiyosaki shows
the basics of investing

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and talks about financial independence,
while motivating readers.

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The problem is that he reportedly
earned millions on talking about millions.

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I don’t think he’s the only one,
but he’s an interesting example

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of a man who was accused of earning
millions on talking about millions.

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However, I recommend “Rich Dad Poor Dad”.

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Just be careful and don’t be fooled,
because these books really…

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Remember that you should act,
not just read about it.

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Success, joy and getting out
of your comfort zones

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stem from your own actions.

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Don’t be afraid to act.
Get inspiration from these books.

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Maybe some day I will present
the rest of my books.

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motivating and uplifting videos,

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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story — Arnold Schwarzenegger — Book review

Total Recall. My Unbelievably True Life Story — Arnold Schwarzenegger. Review of the book + a few pieces of advice from Arnold

There is probably no better book about changing your life and fighting against adversity than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall. This is a must–read for everyone who thinks about success and changing their lives for the better. I would even say that this is a kind of bible for those who start their adventure with personal development and growth (not just about muscle growth). I also begun with this read and it was one of the first books I read after moving to Cracow. It helped me believe that I can change something and fulfil my dreams. This book shows that if you want something and believe in your goals, you are able to achieve it. If I were the Minister of Education, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall would be a compulsory position in high school.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and his amazing story

The book Total Recall is the autobiography of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He presents his incredible history, which began in a small town in Austria immediately after the end of World War II. We see how his passion for bodybuilding and vision of the future completely changed his later life. Arnold, thanks to his work and his dreams, achieves first successes in bodybuilding, which over time allow him to move to the USA, where he could continue his sports career at full speed. Over the years, Arnie has won the most important titles and awards related to bodybuilding and become the best bodybuilder of all time.

However, this is only the beginning, because his passion for growth and business had made him a millionaire even before he achieved the greatest things in bodybuilding. He was successful in the real estate industry, where he earned his first million.

However, Arnold Schwarzenegger by no means intended to stop achieving further goals for a moment and once again, through hard work and his vision showed us how he became one of the biggest stars of cinema in history. Arnold uses his seemingly weak points, such as accent and body composition, turning them into his greatest assets. Who would better play the role of a terminator than a former bodybuilder with a strange Austrian accent?

After another successful career in showbusiness and after serious health issues and the resulting heart surgery, Arnold returns to the cinema again. Over time, he also becomes governor of California, where he takes office for two terms.

Total Recall — A perfect book?

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a book that motivates, teaches and gives a lot of fun while reading. In addition to having a good time while reading, you will learn how to be successful in life and how to be a stronger person. Your perception of the world will definitely change after reading this book. I believe reading this type of books changes our thinking about what is possible and what is not. After reading this work, the world will never be the same any more.

The rules of success by Arnold Schwarzenegger:

In addition to spending a great time, reading this story will infuse you with a very high dose of faith and motivation. Seeing how someone can achieve so much while overcoming so many obstacles, you’ll have no doubt that your small goals can also be achieved.

Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end of his book gives a lot of helpful and proven tips. Here are some of the most important ones I have chosen:

1. Your seemingly weak points can be your strengths.

Use your qualities, because it is up to you whether they will be your weaknesses or strengths.

2. When someone says “no”, you should hear “yes”.

How many times did someone tell you that something is impossible? Never listen to such people and make your dreams come true.

3. Do not follow the crowd, go against the flow and where there are fewer people.

By going where everyone else go, you’ll get to the same place. Get on with your business and pick your path off the beaten track.

4. No matter what you do in life, sales will be part of it.

Whatever you do, you have to sell it. Learn to sell and show the world your achievements.

5. Repetitions are the key to success.

In order to be a master of bodybuilding you need to perform hundreds of repetitions of selected exercises every day. It is similar in other aspects of life. Work systematically.

I encourage you to read Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger. You will find there a lot of tips and life lessons, and reading this book will be a nice time for you.

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It’s from Waiter to Millionaire.

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Welcome to another episode,
this time a little different.

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Instead of talking about Amazon or myself,
I’ll tell you a little bit about books.

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It will be a book review.

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There will be more if you like it.

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It is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
Total Recall.

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I have the English version right here.

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I also have a Polish version.

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This version is to improve my English.

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I recommend it.

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Today, I will tell you about this book,
about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rules

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for success in life, so stay with me.

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What kind of book is this?

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It is a very good book,
describing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life.

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An autobiography.

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He depicts his path, his career.

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In my opinion, it is a brilliant read.

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It should be read in high schools
because it gives a great dose

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of motivation and
it shows you what you can achieve.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger describes here,
starting from his youth,

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how he became fascinated
with bodybuilding,

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he shows his vision, his dreams,
and how he pursues them.

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Despite the fact that everyone
told him he couldn’t make it.

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Let me tell you a bit about
Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger story.

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In a nutshell. Who is he?

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I think you know.
What story is in the book?

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Arnold comes from a
small town Graz in Austria,

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quite near us, and he was born
right after World War II.

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Something like that.

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This gentleman had
a rough start of his life.

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Small town, post-war, poverty, hunger.
But he had a dream.

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He wanted to become a bodybuilder
and move to the US.

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Even now it would be hard to achieve

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and it was completely unattainable
in those days.

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He didn’t give up and achieved
his first successes in bodybuilding

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while still living in Austria.

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Because of these achievements,
he managed to move to the US,

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where he was able to follow his dream
and spread his wings.

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In the US, he was exercising
and achieving titles,

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eventually becoming
the best bodybuilder of all time.

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But, in the meantime,
before he became a top bodybuilder,

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he had made millions
in the real estate business

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and it shows his personality.

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While exercising and developing muscles,

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he was also a businessman
who secured his future.

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He became a millionaire in the real estate

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by investing his first earnings
from bodybuilding

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and working on construction sites.

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Incredible man.

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As he finally managed to be
the best bodybuilder in the world,

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Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to do
another impossible thing –

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become an action movie star,
a Hollywood star in general.

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It seemed to be ridiculous
and impossible dream.

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Everyone told him that he won’t do it,
because he is a bodybuilder,

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so you know how his body looked like.

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No one would have told him
that he could become a great actor.

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And no one actually did.

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They were complaining about
his accent, body shape and name.

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Especially about an “awful” name.

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But Arnold proved everybody wrong

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and became an action movie star
of the 1980s and 90s.

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Each of you knows him

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and no one questions
his great achievements.

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Arnold was always saying,

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when speaking of his Terminator role,

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that he was perfect for this part.

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As a person with such a funny accent

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and having such a strange body,

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Arnold was perfect for this role.

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In a sec, I’ll talk about

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turning your flaws into strengths.

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That’s why Arnold has become
the Terminator and a great actor.

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He also did not give up the next time,

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when he was diagnosed with
a heart issue and had to have a surgery,

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go easy on acting
and withdraw from spotlight.

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Arnold didn’t give up.

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He underwent two major surgeries.

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Then he returned to acting,
so once again showed that it is possible.

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He proved his persistence
in achieving goals.

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He played in the inferior
Terminator sequel,

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gaining a truck full of money
and showing once again that he can.

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Then he decided to become
the governor of California to help people.

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And he did it once again.

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It was his fourth career path after
real estate, bodybuilding and acting.

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He achieved his unreal goal again.

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He became the governor of California
for two terms.

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A spectacular success.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger proves
that you can achieve your goals,

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no matter how many and of what kind.

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Just don’t give up
and don’t listen to others.

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At the end of his book,
in which Arnold tells his story,

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he describes the most important
life principles,

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which help him achieve his goals.

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I’ll show you a few,
for more read the book.

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First of all, every rule can be deduced
from his very vast and thick story.

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But at the end,
Arnold lists his success principles.

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I’ll give you a few.

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I hope that you’ll buy this great book.

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But what are the rules
that Arnold enumerates in his book?

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Here they are.

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First rule is very cool and totally his.

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That is, turning your flaws
into your strengths.

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Arnold was told, and so was I,
that he can’t make it and that he sucks.

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When he wanted to become an actor,
they complained about his accent and body.

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They disadvised him becoming
a bodybuilder and going to the US.

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He has turned
his flaws into his strengths.

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He became the Terminator,
as his body was ridiculous and oversized,

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his accent was terrible,
but he managed to get this role,

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while everyone told him
that he’s not suitable for acting.

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So, turn your flaws
into your strengths,

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because you are aware of your qualities
and you can use them.

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You can turn your flaws
into your strengths.

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When people tell you
that you can’t make it,

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as you often hear ‘‘no’’
when you want to achieve something,

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always try to hear ‘‘yes’’ and say ‘‘yes’’
to achieve goals.

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What you tell yourself is important.

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Others will always tell
that you can’t make it,

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that it is not for you, that you
may not achieve what you want.

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They will laugh at you when you’ll start

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doing something other than everyone.

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They’ll say ‘‘no’’,
but you must say ‘‘yes’’.

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Another important thing,
related to the previous one,

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is not to follow the crowd.

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Because if you do, they will approve it,

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but if you decide to go against the tide,

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they’ll tell that you won’t make it.

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Not following the crowd
can open better possibilities.

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Don’t be afraid to dream

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and achieve more than ordinary goals.

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Don’t limit yourself to finishing
education, going to work,

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sending a CV and making a living.

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No. You can do something much cooler.

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Maybe you want to write a book

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or record videos,
or go around the globe?

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Maybe you want to do
something special

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which will be considered
unrealistic by others?

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Don’t be afraid to follow your dreams.

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This book contains
a lot of motivation to believe,

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because believing that
you can achieve something

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is the first step to doing that.

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Such books give you motivation.

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Sorry.

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Now, the next Arnold advice.

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You need to be able to sell
anything you do in life.

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It doesn’t matter whether you write books

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or work full-time, or whatever –
you must be able to sell.

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Your skills doesn’t matter,
if you fail on a job interview.

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They will choose someone else.

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If you publish a great book,
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it will be forgotten.

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That’s how life works.

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You have to be able to sell yourself,
you have to be able

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to show your qualities and your skills.

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Show it, sell it
and don’t be afraid to go public.

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For more rules, please check out the book

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and now let’s look at
a very interesting one.

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Arnold, a very smart person,
says that you shouldn’t think too much.

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It is a damn fine and important rule,

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because many of us suffers from
what can be called overthinking.

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We think we want to do something,
achieve goals, publish a book etc.,

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but the more we think about it,
the more we question it

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and start to doubt in ourselves.

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‘‘What my parents, friends,
partner will think about it?

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Maybe I’ll do it later’’ – and we don’t.

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Don’t overthink. Just act.

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If you really want to do something,
don’t wait, just do it today.

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If you really want to approach
this girl or boy you like,

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just do it – don’t overthink.

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Arnold emphasized this
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Don’t think, but act, try.
Don’t be afraid.

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Just act and work hard.

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I highly recommend this brilliant book.

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I have the English version here.

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By the way,
a cool way of learning languages

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is to read books in Polish
and then in English.

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I highly recommend this book.

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Check out my videos,
if you’ve liked this one.

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I have videos on motivation,
publishing your own books.

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I cordially encourage you
to subscribe and watch my videos.

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I’d appreciate thumbs up.
Thanks for watching.

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Read Arnold’s book. Thank you.

Is it worth to go to college or university?

Is it worth to go to college or university? What undergraduate and graduate schools teach us today?

Probably many of you wonder if it is worth going to college or university today. In this article, I would like to share with you my thoughts on this subject. I myself graduated from a university — I did BA and MA degree. I did my BA at State Higher Vocational School in my hometown of Oświęcim, while my MA was awarded by AGH in Cracow. I graduated in cultural and educational management and human resources management. I am aware that many people who are watching me now are students or people who are still in high school, which is why this topic is very important.

The college/university time is an interesting and I would say a very pleasant period in our lives. We are then relatively mature, but we are still learning and looking for our place in the world. We meet many new people, we try to start somehow in our professional life and gain our first experience in this area. During this period, there are also a lot of opportunities to have fun, because we often are away from the family home and we do not have too many commitments, life partners or offspring.

As I mentioned at the beginning, I finished my master’s degree. I will present you here my own thoughts and experiences after I finished my education and that of my friends who were in a similar situation.

What do you want from your life?

Here you should start and ask yourself this question. You will find out whether it is worth to go to college or university. The problem rises when you do not know what you want to do in life. Your goal and future life plans should determine your need (or lack of) to go to a university. For example, if you want to become a doctor, going to a university is unquestionable necessity. There are professions that, apart from the knowledge gained during your studies, require formal qualifications from you, so in such cases, higher education is a must. Your goals and your dreamed professional life will give you the answer to the question “is it worth going to university or college?”. Unfortunately, many people do not know what they want from life and chose random majors that do not give bright career outlook. That is why it is so important to set goals and priorities regardless of age.

You must have a goal and a vision

Think well what career you want to choose in life and what lifestyle you want to lead. If you want to become an entrepreneur and be successful, education in the form of studies and later looking for a job in the profession is not the best idea. You may want to become an employee in a large corporation, a doctor, a dentist, etc. Then a university is absolutely necessary. Give yourself time and think about what you want to achieve and what education you need for it.

Nowadays, knowledge is easily accessible and if you do not need formal education, you are able to study on your own what you want quickly and cheaply. Maybe your goal is to become an online entrepreneur, freeing yourself from employee routines of working from 9am to 17pm. If you want to have more freedom, then in this case you should not follow the path of formal education offered by society. It all depends on what you want from life — if you do not know what you want and where you want to come, you will hang around and get nowhere.

Is it worth to go to college or university? What does tertiary education give us?

Unfortunately, there are many people who have studied without any purpose and plans for the future. I have many friends who have graduated this way. They have completed majors that are very general and do not give any specific qualifications, and the number of graduates with such education is huge. The labour market immediately shows such graduates how the reality looks like. Having no professional skills, and an extremely ordinary diploma, a graduate will not be able to find anything interesting on the job market. In most cases, such people do not even know what they want from their lives after graduating.

I am the best example here. I thought it was necessary to go to college because my family said so. I completed management studies and after finishing my bachelor’s degree, not even a computer store or a cellphone store was willing to hire me. Fortunately, it forced me to develop and set up my own company. I have a lot of friends who, after graduation, find themselves in a new, harsh reality and work in various jobs, but most of them have not even been asked if they have a higher education. My career has been revolving around the food and beverage industry a long time in the restaurant world, where I met many waiters, bartenders with higher education gained somehow by the way.

What is the point of completing higher education and changing an interesting job, e.g. of a waiter to boring work for a clearly smaller money? How many people who work in a completely different profession than they studied for do you know? Is it true that all the peer pressure to do something should force you to waste many years on poor studies that won’t be of any help in your life? How much money and time has been wasted this way?

What are the advantages going to university or college?

Don’t get me wrong. Studies give us many skills and opportunities to meet new people. By going to classes, preparing for tests, reading and learning, we definitely develop. An additional positive factor is that studying often requires us to move to another city and change the environment. These are absolutely very valuable advantages of studying.

Is it worth to go to college or university? What matters is skills, not a “paper”

When I was a restaurant manager in Cracow, no one asked me about my tertiary education. As I started my company, I do not remember that I must have completed any formal education. By publishing books on Amazon, creating a blog, using online tools, creating graphic designs and recording videos, I used only my skills. I did not need any diploma for this. While managing the restaurant, I used advice from people better than me and books about management and personal development — in this case no diploma was necessary either.

The skills you need to achieve your goals are at your fingertips. Did you know that you can buy, for example, an online course for several hundred dollars that will tell you, step by step, how to publish books? You do not have to spend five years on going to classes and spend at least a dozen or hundred thousand dollars (even if your school is tuition-free, you have to live somehow). Did you know that you can read a good management book and you do not have to go to college at all? Did you know you can be the best in anything you want?

The answer is in you

Everything you do in your life, you do for yourself. So reflect thoroughly on you want from your life. Do not follow the momentum of the crowd. Do not let it make you think you need to do something. Do what is good for you. Graduating a good university and having a good job does not ensure success in your life. If you do something that does not give you satisfaction, what sense does it make? Remember that you will probably be old some day. Do you want to remember yourself as someone who forced themselves to work every day? Follow your passion and interests. If you do not know what is your passion yet, try new things and give yourself time.

In my family, almost everyone worked in car manufacturing factories. Every week looked the same — getting up to work early, coming back home in the evening, TV and so on. The very thought of such a lifestyle made me feel sick, but for a long time I took this direction unconsciously. After my graduation, I even got an internship at the Fiat factory in Tychy, but when they invited me for an interview after my internship I declined. My family was not happy about this. I didn’t understand it myself at the time, but I felt that following the path of studying and working from 8am to 4pm was definitely not for me.

Should you go to college or university?

If I had gone back in time today, I would not have decided to go to college. Or for sure I would not have chosen the same major (management). I did not learn any specific skills there. If you are now facing a choice and wondering if you should start to study, here is what I recommend:

take your time to decide
try different things, find your goal and passion
travel and explore the world
learn from the best

Remember that the best knowledge is the knowledge gained in real life and from people of success — not necessarily from lecturers, who, for example, in most cases did not even run their company. I personally learned the most about management in practice as a waiter and manager and by reading books and magazines. My university did not teach me even 1% of what I learned when working in a real organization combined with a desire for development. No book in a lecture room will ever be able to match the daily pursuit of your passion. Today, knowledge can be obtained for a fraction of the amount paid for tuition. A good book, an online course and learning from others — if you combine it with work or running your business, this is the best thing you can do for yourself when it comes to education.

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I’m Tomek. From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Today about studying.

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Is it worth it?

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Let me tell you my education story.

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My thoughts on whether is it worth studying.

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You may find it interesting.

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Stay with me to the end of this video.

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Is it worth it?

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You may think about a college or university.

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Maybe you are still before this stage of your life.

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Maybe you have just started or you think about a change or its sense.

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Maybe your friends go to college and you wonder if is it worth to do?

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I myself have a diploma.

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I completed my master’s degree extramurally.

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I did my BA intramurally.

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I graduated from the BA course in my family city, Oświęcim.

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Then, I finished my master’s degree at AGH.

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The major was management. So, I have the Msc title.

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What are my insights about studying?

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Is there any point?

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Probably you want to know the answer.

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In my opinion, the basic question you need to ask yourself is “What is your goal”?

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What is your vision for the next 5, 10, 15 years?

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What do you want to do professionally or in general.

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What kind of live you want?

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Your job defines your life.

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Where you work is not just your job, it is your life.

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Where you spend 8 hours a day, defines you and it is worth to consider your goals.

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It will tell you whether you need to go to college.

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I mean professions that require not only knowledge learned during studies, but also formal qualifications.

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you should go to college or university, as it will give you a possibility, and without

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it, there is no option to do something like this at all in your life.

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As there are other paths you may want to take.

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If you want to be an entrepreneur, run a company, maybe you

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want to write, publish books, or be a waiter, a restaurant manager.

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It is from my point of view.

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Maybe you want to be a driver, or do anything else.

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But if it is something that does not require formal qualifications, a diploma, then you can safely let go.

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You can gain knowledge on your own.

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Times changed a bit.

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The school system changed.

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You are able to acquire knowledge through work, through learning, through reading books.

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Reading books does not have to take place in the lecture hall and you can as well work

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in the profession you want, and simultaneously study for what you will be doing in a while.

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I’ll tell you about my university experiences.

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Many people go to college or university not knowing why they do it at all.

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There is such a thing as social, parental and peer pressure.

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their 20s, often older, even old people, do not know what they want to do.

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They go to a college because society tells them to.

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Study, you will learn and achieve something in life.

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The only problem is that studying or living without a goal, will get you nowhere.

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in circles and not only get anywhere, but also get very frustrated.

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Dean of Management in the first lecture said everyone who will buy her book has a passing grade.

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How many exams were there that where passed without any effort?

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as I was prepared, while 90% of students, sat back, laughed and cheated.

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This is the reality of college.

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Lecturers who teach at universities are often theoreticians.

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They can’t teach us anything useful in future.

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because many people after graduation, even from good universities, often do something completely different in life.

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I didn’t get a job in a computer store, and in a mobile network store.

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Studies doesn’t give any knowledge.

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It doesn’t give you anything.

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After the college, I was disappointed. Indeed, I was stupid and did not know what I know now.

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No one’s to blame, but studies didn’t add anything interesting to my life.

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I am from Cracow.

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They need to send out their CVs to find a job in any company.

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a job that sucks, that can be done by anyone without a degree, for less.

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That’s why I keep emphasizing that when it comes to studying, your purpose in life is very important.

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Do you really need studies? If not, don’t study.

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You may only lose 5 years and end up disappointed.

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The fact that you can learn by yourself is very important.

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You don’t need a degree to do it.

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I’ll tell you something interesting in a second.

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Let me take a look at my notes so I don’t miss anything.

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I have complained so much about college.

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You may think I am a great opponent of studying.

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I’m not.

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Studying often involves moving to another city.

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Let’s suppose you come from a small town, from a village, not

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from a huge city, and you want to change your life.

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Then, going to some even medium-quality university can be of great value to you.

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You can move to a dorm to Cracow, Warsaw or another city.

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place, you must rely on yourself with little help from others.

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You are able to meet interesting people and above all, you

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still have time to look for an idea for yourself.

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meet people, gives you the chance to look for the idea.

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Not necessarily related to your major.

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Don’t worry. Many world greatest people of success, but also those

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unknown, met cool people in college and then their adventure began.

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Maybe they gave up and took their own path to their own business.

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Maybe they were working full-time.

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I don’t want to say it is not worth to do it.

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By no means.

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It is skills that count.

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Focus on the skills required to achieve your goal.

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The thing about life is always that your skills, your connections, what

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you can do will allow you to achieve what you want.

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Your paper, college diploma alone will never get you what you want.

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What counts in life is your skills, what you represent, what you are capable of doing.

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Because the answer is within you, not within your diploma.

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Maybe give yourself a year or two after high school.

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Try different things, maybe this job or another.

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Maybe an online business.

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Try the business I deal with. Think about it.

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Finally, you’ll get to know if it’s worth to study.

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Maybe travel a little bit, maybe go somewhere.

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Over time, a vision of what you want to do in your life will clarify, and you’ll have the answer.

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about you going to a university or college.

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Once you know what you want to do, it will be a very simple question.

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I hope I gave you valuable insights.

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Bye.

How to publish a book on Amazon?

How to publish a paperback book on Amazon? See what the process of publishing your own book product on Amazon looks like

I recently published an article and a video on how to release a book on Amazon as an eBook for Amazon Kindle. In this post, I would like to discuss this topic in more details and show you how to publish a paperback book on Amazon. If you have read the previous article about publishing an eBook on Amazon Kindle, you know that this is a quite simple and trouble-free process, and delivering your product to the customer is virtually cost-free. What it looks like with a paperback book? A paperback book for Amazon is created in the same way as an eBook. Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing take care of the process of dispatching and printing books for you.

Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)

Kindle Direct Publishing (owned by Amazon) is responsible for handling paperback books on Amazon. Kindle Direct Publishing is a tool for creating and publishing your paper books and eBooks. As a Kindle Direct Publishing (the platform is completely free) user, you create virtual/electronic versions of your paper books the same way as when creating an eBook.

Now the coolest part — once the book is on KDP, it becomes available on Amazon within a few working days. Your book is printed automatically and only on demand (Print on Demand), so you don’t have to pay any printing costs or, most importantly, bear any risks. Kindle Direct Publishing and Amazon take care of the print, storage, distribution, shipping and customer service activities, providing you a headache-free and easy solution. From your perspective, the creation and sale of a paperback book look very similarly as the creation and sale of an eBook. You could say that your job after publishing a book is just to watch your bottom line, because Amazon doesn’t even share with you the details of customers who bought your product.

If you are familiar with publishing and handling electronic books (eBooks) on Amazon then publishing paper books will be just as easy for you. In addition, if you already have your eBooks on Amazon then you can also publish them in a paper version and link their sales pages together, to view both the electronic and paper versions of your product at the same time.

Fiction vs Non-fiction, which books should you release?

When you publish your books on Amazon, you can choose between two paths. The first is publishing fiction books. This is a more difficult option for me, because it requires finding people who can write well (in case we pay someone to write a book for us). Of course, you can write fiction books in English by yourself if you feel you can do it. The second option (non-fiction) gives us the opportunity to publish shorter and simpler books on Amazon. The possible categories and niches are almost endless.

Non-fiction books can be relatively short (several dozen pages) and may include solutions to specific problems, recipes, advice on a particular subject and more. Feel free to choose any topic you want. You can even publish products with virtually no content (so-called notebooks) at no cost, with KDP and on-demand printing feature — especially if you’re just starting your Amazon adventure. I am myself in favour of publishing rather simple books and products. I would like to remind you that you do not publish the books under your own name. Of course, there is such a possibility if you create your own content by yourself. However, most entrepreneurs operating in this business publish books under pseudonyms or under a brand of choice (this does not need to be a name).

How to publish a paperback book on Amazon? Key tools

If you read my previous post on how to publish an eBook for Amazon Kindle, it will be much easier for you to release a paper book on Amazon, because the process is very similar and as a matter of fact you use the same tools. Once again, the main tool is Kindle Direct Publishing, which is the official platform for publishing paper books on Amazon. Kindle Direct Publishing offers a friendly interface and is a free platform. I encourage you to take advantage of my completely free course, which shows you in detail how you can publish books for Amazon and what my business looks like from the back-end.

In addition to Kindle Direct Publishing, you’ll also need someone who will write the book to you. To this end, you can use Fiverr or e.g. WriteArticlesForMe.com. The first one will allow you to have a job done by people around the world who will write a book in English for reasonable money. The second website is even simpler, because we do not have to hire anyone. We only provide an interesting topic with details and soon after we receive the final content.

You can also visit Fiverr.com to order book covers, marketing services and more. Fiverr offers a very easy way to order services from freelancers around the world. It works on the basis of offers (so called gigs). We can browse proposals for a variety of services at very reasonable prices.

Fiverr.com — here you will hire a freelancer and order a cover for your book, for example.

How do I find the right niche and idea for a book?

I recommend all of my course attendees to start their publishing adventure with careful reconnaissance on Amazon — you won’t be able to escape it, although many people would like to do it. Even the most creative person will not be able to boast fine achievements without proper analysis of this sales platform and without previewing the competition already in place. Amazon has a tonnes of books (eBook and paperback items) published through KDP that sell very well. Every beginner should spend a lot of time viewing the best products, categories, covers, descriptions, and sales rankings. This will give you the first ideas for your products.

The next step is to choose the right niche for your products. A niche is in other words a theme/subject in which our product will solve some problems and satisfy buyers’ needs. The example of a niche may be health, sport, diets, investment, personal development, cryptocurrencies, chess, etc. The Amazon store is divided into categories that show us very well the main niches and the subniches.

Amazon Kindle Store — categories and best products

What are the costs of publishing a book for Amazon?

The cost of publishing a simple paper book is the same as the cost of publishing a simple eBook. At the beginning of your adventure in this business, you will pay approximately $200 for a simple book (content, cover, basic promotion). Of course, this amount is only an example. If you try really hard, you can do it more cost-effectively, but you can obviously do it by investing much more. My advice is as follows — at the beginning, it’s best to start with simple electronic books and then add paper copies (the content remains the same). In this way, we have two versions of the book at a low cost — the electronic one and the paperback one.

In the process of publishing your own book on Amazon through KDP, it is very important to publish both a paper copy of the book (printed on demand) and an electronic version (eBook). Depending on the product itself, different versions of the product may sell differently. If you, for example, issue a cooking book, the electronic version of this book will be more convenient for someone who likes to cook.

However, adding a paper version of this product will also make it a great gift option for a loved one (it’s hard to give someone an eBook). Despite the significantly higher price of a paper version of such a book (eBook can cost $3, and paper version even $20), you may be able to earn more on the paperback version. On the other hand, the eBook version also allows you to monetize the pages read, as Amazon users with Kindle Unlimited can read your book for free and you as an author receive payment for each page they read.

How to publish a book on Amazon? On-demand printing and earnings

The biggest advantage of publishing books through Amazon and Kindle Direct Publishing is that books are printed on demand and we do not have to invest a penny in printing. Your earnings depend only on the sold quantity. When you market a simple book that is sold in small quantities, you can also make long-term money. When publishing my own book in Poland, I am forced to invest heavily in printing my product. By offering print on-demand service, Amazon greatly reduces the risk to authors and as a result it may make sense to publish a book that will sell only occasionally.

Although the cost of printing a paper book is higher than the cost of sending an e-book to a customer, you are able to earn even more on a printed book. With the price somewhere between $5 and $10, you can even earn a few dollars for yourself for each sold copy. People are able to pay more for a physical book because it has more value in their eyes.

Who will buy your books for Amazon?

The most important advantage of publishing books on Amazon is the fact that you are making your products available to the global market and especially to the US market. There are more than 300 million people in the US who earn very well and are willing to spend their money. Amazon is the largest online store in the world. Customers visiting Amazon often have their credit cards already linked with their accounts and are able to buy your product with a single click. It is not a problem for them to buy a simple book for $5 on a subject that will solve their problems.

What’s more, when you publish your book through Amazon KDP, it becomes available in the UK, Canada, Europe, India, and on several other markets. Amazon is growing and expanding its reach all the time, and the coronavirus crisis has definitely improved the platform’s (already dominant) global position.

Your book may also be available in one click for non-Amazon stores around the world. Simply check the appropriate box in KDP and third-party stores will be able to order your book in wholesale quantities (expanded Distribution).

Basic links for publishing notebooks and eBooks on Amazon KDP:

Kdp.Amazon.com — Kindle Direct Publishing, the Amazon platform for independent publication of e-books on Amazon Kindle. See how to release a book for Amazon Kindle in this post.
KindleSpy– automatic search for niches and keywords in Amazon Kindle Store. A very useful tool when publishing e-books and simple products for Amazon.
Fiverr.com — a portal where you can order book cover, product description, product promotion and more. You can also earn money as a freelancer on a global scale.
TheWritingSummit – here you can easily subcontract writing the contents of your book. With the code fwtm you’ll be able to get additional discount.
Upwork.com — here you’ll hire freelancers who can help promote your books, become your virtual assistants or write your entire book.
PayPal.com — fast, convenient and modern payments. Don’t forget about online business.

I invite you to take part in my free Amazon and online business course to learn more about publishing your own products on Amazon.

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How to publish a book on Amazon? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! It’s Tomek.
From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Welcome to another episode.

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It will be about

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publishing paper books on Amazon.

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In the last post and
the last video, I showed

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how to publish e-books,
electronic products on Amazon Kindle.

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If you missed it, check it out.

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In this video, I’ll show you a great
and only one way to publish

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paper backs on Amazon
with selected tools.

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Stay with me to the end,

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and you’ll learn how to sell your
products out to the world easily.

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Let’s go.

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Let’s talk about
Amazon and paper books.

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You know what are paper books.

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They’re cool, amazing.

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You may think it would be cool
to publish a book.

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It is possible.

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Unfortunately, in Poland
it is not as easy as abroad.

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Amazon was founded a long time ago.

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Now, it is the largest
online store in the world.

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And it is an amazing online store.

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It started with books.

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That’s one of their areas of expertise.

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It is a global store, and

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I am curious to see what
it will become someday again.

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Amazon is worth mentioning
as an amazing platform.

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Let’s start with Amazon.

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It is an amazing platform that

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gives you access to the global market,

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especially in the U.S.,
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There are customers with
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ready to buy something.

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They want to spend money,

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and you, with your products,
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a little easier and more.

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It is an interesting
option.

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In addition to physical products,
Amazon offers books.

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We already mentioned e-books.

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Catch up on it,
if you haven’t watched it.

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But now let’s talk about paper books.

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Amazon sells paper books through,

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and here is the keyword of this
video, through CreateSpace.

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CreateSpace belongs to
Amazon, it is an external company.

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A platform through which

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you can get your books online
and then they are available on Amazon.

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For e-books,
it was Kindle Direct Publishing.

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It was a platform
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a cover, content,
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For paper books,

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it is CreateSpace that looks
quite similar to KDP.

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It is just another platform by Amazon,
and there you upload your books,

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upload electronic
content, upload covers,

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and the book is
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in case of e-books,
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Kindle Direct Publishing,
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after two days on Amazon,
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No need to print them
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You can just sit and watch

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sales results and possibly promote
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CreateSpace provides print on demand,

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so as with e-books,
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to invest in the books,
we don’t have to do anything.

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you upload a digital version
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The book appears on Amazon
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CreateSpace stocks Amazon.

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It prints books on demand
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The books are sold automatically.

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And Amazon transfers your money
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The process is simple and automatic.

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Books simply sell.

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CreateSpace handles
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The same as for e-books.

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I highly encourage
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The same was true for e-books.

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What papers books should
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This is interesting.

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You can publish fiction
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Fiction books include novels,

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short stories, longer books, but not only.

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And these are books for entertainment,
a bit more expensive to produce.

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We also have non-fiction books.

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And those are very cool.
The possible subjects are countless.

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we can publish guidebooks, gift books,

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funny books, simple books,
books about making smoothies, cooking,

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travels, city guides.

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The range of topics is unimaginable.

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The more topics in life,
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paper books and e-books.

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That’s why I would focus,
especially on the beginning on this.

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Here, we are able to publish simple books
that do not cost us much.

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You are able to publish 10 or 100 of them,
each with moderate profits.

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But scaling this business, like 50 books
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in dollars or euros.

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You can generate very nice revenue
with simple products.

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You don’t need to write
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to make money in business.

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Books are not just books,

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they are physical products including
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literally anything you can think of.

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And you can publish it on Amazon.

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With a little bit of knowledge,
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and make great money from it.

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Remember this.

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Do you need to be a writer?

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Do you have to write books?

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Of course not.

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You outsource such books.

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Either e-books or paper books.

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It doesn’t matter.

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You pay others to write them.

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And now publishing a book like
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I am now making up.

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You outsource it to a writer,
using tools I’m presenting.

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On Upwork.

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You outsource a book,
actually an article.

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They don’t need
to know it will be a book.

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An article describing 51 healthy
high-protein breakfast recipes.

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Or 50 recipes for smoothies,
50 lessons for your dog.

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it can really be anything.

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It can be a book about sex, travel.

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There are people who by doing
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create an article for you.

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Which you then publish
as a book with full copyrights.

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You can publish such a book
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under your name.

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If you are into the topic
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you can publish it under a nickname.

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Or under a brand.

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You can make up a brand name that has

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something to do with cooking.

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And you publish under this brand.

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Such article, book, content, costs you
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It is really a small cost, because
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for the entire world market.

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The cost of let’s say 150 dollars,
which is the price I consider reasonable

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for a decent paper
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Is this a big cost if we are talking
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Not really.

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I think you can make
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Literally. I can prepare books cost-free.

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There are ways to do this.

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And you are able to publish
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The conclusion is that this book
can be published very cheaply.

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What tools to use?

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Let’s talk about it.

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I already mentioned Upwork,
when speaking about publishing e-books.

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Here is the same.

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We look for people, assign them jobs
to do, to write a book, text, article

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that we use for
an e-book or paper book.

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Here we order a text, publish an e-book

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and then paper book, then combine them.

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It is very simple and now

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we have our book
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The customer sees both books,
the description, cover and order

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a selected version, electronic and
paper one, which gives us a huge market.

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Well, and great opportunities for
sales and passive income.

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There are many sites
to hire a ghostwriter.

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I only give two examples.

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There are more, nothing surprising.

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Another is one writearticlesforme dot com.

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It is an easier one.

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Unlike on Upwork, where you search for
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Here, you post a topic, a few sentences,
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It is very, damn simple.

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Ridiculously simple.

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where you can buy services from $5.

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Obviously, more complex services
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But you can easily order a cover for your
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And the book is ready.

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You have the content and cover.

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On Fiverr, you can order a description
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So I did.

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you can also ask
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That way you’re all set up.

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Moving on.

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What are the costs?

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I don’t mean costs of releasing a book.
Those are around $150.

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To put it simple, they can be
much lower or much higher.

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There are no fixed rules.

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You will understand once
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What are the costs?

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If someone buys your e-book,
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So, if an e-book costs $3, you get $2.

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It is a nice price

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It costs a minimum of
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I would say that the price between 5
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What commissions do we get,

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what are the earnings in the
print on demand business.

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Once someone buys our book,
Amazon then prints the book and sends it.

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we are able to earn about $0,5.

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Of course, this is very low for
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We don’t apply such prices, although
you can if you want.

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I used to apply similar once.

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But with a book for $5, $6, $7
we get 1 or 2 dollars.

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This is a very cool option because
a dollar per a simple book

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is often more than writers
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Or it is a similar rate for books.

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when selling several thousand
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Count his earnings.

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You can easily sell 1000 simple paper
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You don’t have to be famous.

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You can make simple products.

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No need to be a publisher.
No need to run a company.

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Huge opportunities,
and remember you can earn a lot more.

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That’s why Amazon prints on demand.

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You get a commission.

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As I said, it is a few dollars
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depending on its page count.

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you get a few dollars per book.

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in the world market.

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and earned
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feels cool, considering some people
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How to promote your book?

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Here is a broad and interesting topic.

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Products marketing can be a topic
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you look for a topic that may be
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You look for a place
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Don’t try to compete in a crowded
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Maybe with time,
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But is not a good idea
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Look for a niche with
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but where you are able to sell
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for example, one or two copies a day

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and thus position them according
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The keyword is very important.

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The title should be a keyword.

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If you choose a good category,
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when uploading to the system, you are
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in the search results
and it will sell.

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which is simply a big search engine.

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That’s it in a nutshell.

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to drive traffic to your site on Amazon.

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this place, and leave the link.

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Who’s going to buy your books?
This is interesting as well.

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Who’s going to buy your books?
What is Amazon’s market?

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which is a huge platform.

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There, people don’t buy
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I can see based on a lot of people.

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they simply buy what they want,

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and they don’t mind paying
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They simply buy books.

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They buy on a much larger scale,
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You jump into this market with your books.

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You’d be surprised that I am able to
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Really simple and low-content books.

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It is truly unbelievable that
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Think of publishing better books,
making a series, a brand.

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Then, we are really talking about fat
money and a very interesting business.

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in Europe, Canada, Australia, India.

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And it expands all the time.

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Within a year or five from now,

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when your books are
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The market and sales increase.

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That’s why you
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This is a very interesting topic.

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If you are interested in this,
I invite you to my free course.

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You can find all the information
and more on my blog.

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How to publish e-books also for Kindle.

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Check it out.

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You find the link below.

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Visit my blog for more on
publishing, products on Amazon and so on.

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If you want to know more
mainly about publishing books

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and earning online, I mainly focus
on earning through books,

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I invite you to join my free course.

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It is completely free.

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It is on
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You’ll find there a load
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Take a look.
There’s nothing to lose.

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It will help you to start
your adventure in Internet business.

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It will show you
different paths I use.

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You will be able to decide
what you are going to do,

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and I hope it will help you start

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your business,
and change your life.

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Online business is part
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which I want to accomplish through
knowledge and learning.

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Online business gives freedom through
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travel opportunities, and so on.

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How did I become a waiter in Cracow

My story — How did I become a waiter in Cracow?

How did I become a waiter in Cracow and how did my transformation look like? I will tell you here my story, which I hope will show you that, despite many odds, you can change your life. If you’re looking for some motivation, this article for you.

The year 2012, which was a hard time, and my move to Cracow

My adventure began in 2012 and 2013, when I decided to go from my family city of Oświecim to a city located nearby, Cracow. At that time, I was in poor mental and life condition in general. I had a lot of failures in my life. I closed my company, which involved recording occasional events. I could not keep my place in any of the roles I have chosen afterwards. I tried my hand as a truck driver and as an intern at a larger corporation. None of these options was for me, and these adventures ended up with nothing more than me feeling resigned and sad.

By the end of 2012, I was already in quite a bit of trouble in life. At that time I lost the rest of my strength and will to live. My ex-fiancée decided to go abroad (I don’t blame her at all), and many people around me didn’t particularly know what to do with me. I also went to a psychologist with hope for help, but there was very fast conclusion that there was no money to continue my treatment.

As I was then after my eyes surgery (eye correction), my eyes were “out of service” for several weeks. Back then, I listened to an excellent audiobook, which was about a lost boyfriend and about a rich garden who advised him. The book was a collection of cool motivational and business tips that was presented with a simple history. I was very much encouraged by this book (in the audio version) to act and write down my goals. Disregarding the hopeless situation and lack of faith on my part, I decided to write down these goals. My goal was to go to Cracow, find a job and play in a band (I was a musician and played a bass guitar).

Over time, I’ve changed these goals a little and set music aside, because I didn’t see my future in this. But after renting a small apartment and having no savings, I decided to set more ambitious targets. Below you can see a list of my goals from the beginning of 2013:

2019 Update — not all goals were achieved on time, but in 2019 I achieved my goals excluding the goal number two (first things first). However, the goal number four was no longer my goal as soon as I gave up playing music. I do not know if what I have achieved is a great job for you, but please remember that I had the largest black dog, I had no job or prospects. I have created a solid business and passive income, I built my financial cushion higher than I intended, and the goal number one was achieved faultlessly. As you can see, writing down your goals makes sense.

Year 2013 and the beginning of changes

The beginning of 2013 has not brought about great changes, but the goals I have set seem to have worked for me, because I kept doing something to achieve them. I was looking for a job in Cracow and my foothold. At some point, I got a job and worked in a warehouse in a clothing sorting company. ‘Now or never’, I thought. I rented a flat and moved to Cracow. Unfortunately, after a few days it turned out that I was not needed there any more. I was left with a rented flat and without work. After a few days of searching for another job, I decided to go to this company again and I was accepted back. I had worked there company until spring, for a few months, until I was fired reportedly because I was not a good fit there.

Looking for another job, I found an ad where they were looking for a person to deliver food by a moped at a restaurant in the center of Cracow. I went through the interview wearing short and with no CV. I was accepted and a few days later I was driving a moped getting to know Cracow and handing around Florianska Street and my restaurant. I have met a lot of interesting people with whom I have a very good contact to until today.

2014 and how did I become a waiter?

After a very pleasant summer season and knowing the Cracow topography, I was offered the opportunity to work as a waiter in the same restaurant. I was a little bit frightened by this fact, because it involved learning loads of new things and extending my comfort zone significantly. The beginnings were challenging and stressful. Serving people from all over the world in the restaurant in the center of Cracow was a challenge for me. I had to learn how to carry a tray, polish my English, learn the customs of people from all over the world, and face the quintessence of life, which is undoubtedly working in the food industry.

I made a lot of mistakes from the very beginning. I spilled drinks on people, I dropped food, I made mistakes with regard to payments and bills. Overall, it was hard and interesting at the same time, and I learned a lot of new things every day. To be honest, nothing better could have happened to me at the time than such a kick-in-the-ass forcing me to survive. Living alone in a foreign city did not allow me to give up easily, because I needed money to pays bills and make a living. On top of that, there was a fight with my chef, who wanted to get rid of me and kept telling me that I was all thumbs. I decided not to give up and not to let it go. I had let it go too many times and I had lost too much with this approach.

After a few months, I started to feel more confident and, over time, it was more and more pleasurable to work as a waiter. Winter slowly ended, and I started to pick up the crop of not giving up. I met many interesting people at work. Outside the work, I went to parties and met with different people. I spent a lot of time with Marcin, whom I met in the restaurant. We worked a lot together in the restaurant, and we met often outside of work. Summer soon arrived and we went on extraordinary vacation to Mielno and the Woodstock Festival 2014. It was a great time, and at the festival I met my then girlfriend and other people.

I did not know anyone in Krakow a few months earlier and I did not even have any work. However, being forced to act and to go out has completely changed my life. This was the beginning of great change and future successes.

Working as a waiter in Cracow — what was the result?

I have worked as a waiter for three years and this was a very interesting period in my life. At first I couldn’t do anything and many people tried to bring me down, but I didn’t give up. The brave chef left my restaurant over time, and I learned new things every day, grew as a person, read a lot of books and became interested in online business. After three years, I became the manager of this restaurant and thanks to my work the restaurant improved very much.

A few years back, when I started as a moped driver, I wouldn’t even think I could be a waiter and a manager. As it turned out later, I was not only able to do it, but I could do it very well. If you’re reading this article and think you’re unable to do something and you might be afraid of something, remember you can do it. Nothing happens immediately and easily. You often have to fight for yourself and not give up. There will always be people who want to break you. Things that today seem difficult and impossible to do in a few years can be a reality. Remember, you have to set goals, motivate yourself and break through your comfort zone every day.

How did I become a waiter in Cracow — listen to the podcast

How did I become a waiter in Cracow — watch the video

What is personal development? — preview the video transcript

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Hi!

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It’s Tomek.

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From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Hello to you from beautiful Cracow,
all smoggy and wintry,

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and not necessarily the prettiest.

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Maybe as a youtuber I should record
from some beautiful country,

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expensive car or apartment, or
at least, from a studio.

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Unfortunately, the reality is that
I am recording for you from wintry Cracow.

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I’m standing a little bit in the mud,
but that’s life.

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Sometimes you have to
get dirty and work hard to succeed.

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In today’s film, I will tell
you how I became a waiter.

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You will learn cool stories about me.

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Very motivating.

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Stay and listen
to the end.

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You won’t regret it.

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I will show you here
the surroundings of the Krakus Mound.

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With a view of Cracow.

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How I became a waiter in Cracow.

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Because here I moved.

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Now, I am 32 years old.

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My adventure began
at the turn of 2012 and 2013.

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Then, I was about 27 years old.

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Yes, I was 27 years old,
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I was in a great life hole.

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I graduated from the university, I worked for several years, I had a business,

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I was filming weddings. And I was
in a big life hole.

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I didn’t know what to do.

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I was not very successful
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Many people wrote me off, including
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but it was my fault.

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I didn’t know what to do with myself.

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I was in total depression.

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It was 2012, I was sitting
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It was very bad with me for a long time.

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I met a specialist.

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Even there soon
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They threw me out, and it was bad.

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My then finance had enough too
after many years and she went abroad.

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I’m not surprised at all.

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I also had enough of myself.

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Although, then it was terrible.

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I was alone, I didn’t know
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But being alone, I started thinking a lot.

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I listened to the first book
about, say, personal development.

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I don’t remember exactly,
but it was a book about

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a boy, about a person who did not
know what to do in his life.

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He met a millionaire
who loved roses.

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He was taking care of roses in the garden.

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He was very wealthy and advised this
person what to do in life

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to run a business and gave
various motivational tips.

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It was a fictional book,
but it motivated me very well.

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I was after an eye surgery.

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For a few weeks, I couldn’t even
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I was listening and got very motivated.

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Then, I wrote my first goals
to move to Cracow.

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It was in Oświęcim, where I lived then,
and I decided to Move to Cracow.

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I had quite specific goals
because I wanted to become a musician.

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I was in the hole,
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to leave to Cracow and become a musician.

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the new year, 2013 began,

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to get out of my house, because
I was in such a hole

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I didn’t know what was happening to me.

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And I found a job in Cracow.

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It was work in a warehouse,
stocking second-hand clothes.

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Hard physical work,
poorly paid, but I thought

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I will move out and just see what will happen.

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I could not take it anymore.

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I moved.

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I rented an apartment.

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Its cost was virtually
the same as my salary.

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But whatever.

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I decided to
move and see what’s next.

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This is how I got the job as a warehouse worker
in a little shabby company near Cracow.

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I rented a shitty apartment
above the warehouse.

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With a hole in the door.

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But I knew it was only for a start.

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It wasn’t easy.

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After few days
in the first job they fired me.

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I was left without a job, with
a rented apartment in an unfamiliar city.

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I did not know a single person.

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And it was terrible.

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I remember lying down.
I felt very bad again.

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But I decided not to give up.

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Once again, I tried to come back there.

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They accepted me.

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I worked for a few months.

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It was very hard for me,
my hands were destroyed.

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But I did not give up.

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Then came spring 2013.

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The owner of the factory called me.

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He said I’m not good for anything.

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I suck.

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You are working until
the weekend and cope with it.

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I was really sorry.

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Once again, alone in Cracow
with a rented apartment.

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I didn’t know anyone again.

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But at least it was spring.

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After looking for a job,
trying to work here and there,

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where I couldn’t fit in at all,

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I saw an ad for a moped in a restaurant.

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This job was below any
qualification of anyone,

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but I thought to give it a try,
to make an attempt to work anywhere.

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I wanted to see what will happen.

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It was bad, so nothing to lose.

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I decided I had
nothing to lose in my life.

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And I will just work somewhere where
I can, and my life will take off.

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I got a job in a restaurant in the center of
Cracow looking for a moped driver.

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I remember until today when I entered
this restaurant wearing shorts.

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Without a CV, without anything.

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I said I don’t have a CV.

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But I asked for the manager.

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After a short conversation, he told me
I was concrete and I got that job.

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I started a few days later.

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The new scooter was waiting.

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And this was how I revived
for the whole summer of 2013.

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I got a job in a nice
restaurant with great people.

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I met great people
NI really like to this day.

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And it was a great summer.

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For the first time in many
years I felt alive.

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I got to knew entire Cracow,
riding a moped.

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I did not drive much.

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More I sat in the
restaurant and on Floriańska Street.

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It was great.

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I didn’t earn much,
but I felt free.

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I finally met people.

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I met a girl.

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It was really cool.

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In the meantime,
I even played in the band.

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It was my plan and
it was also a success for me.

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Nothing came out of it later.

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But, I met my goal.

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I moved to Krakow.

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I played in a music band.

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And I worked as a moped driver.

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However, the autumn came.

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You know mopeds aren’t useful in winter.

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No one drives them.

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Me neither.

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And I was offered a job
in the same restaurant as a waiter.

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I was damn terrified because
before moving out to Cracow,

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I had thought about
finding a job as a waiter.

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But my comfort zone, my
self-confidence was so low that the idea

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I could work as a waiter
in Cracow was unimaginable.

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And I was just damn afraid of it.

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The very thought to work in
Cracow as a waiter

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was unthinkable to me.

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Therefore, when they offered me
this job I was terribly afraid.

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But I started working as a waiter.

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Autumn came and I started
my first life lessons, actually next ones.

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And the beginnings were very difficult.

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From a person who was good for nothing
in life, the transition to a waiter

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in a pretty cool Cracow restaurant,
and I had contact with people from there,

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it was damn difficult for me.

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I had a lot of skirmishes
and fights with the kitchen ahead of me.

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I remember until today
the cooks in this restaurant said

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I was good for nothing, I sucked,
I should have get out of there.

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And I had to fight for my life with myself.

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I decided that I would not let go,

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as I always had in such situations.

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When someone was breaking my balls,
I always let go.

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I decided that
I would fight and I would not give up.

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I fought.

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They were saying: “either we or you.”

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But I coped with it.

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And months passed one after another.

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I was working as a waiter.

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I acquired my first skills,
because it was damn hard work.

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This is a damn hard
job, you have to admit it.

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And the beginnings were very difficult.

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Work, serving people from all over the world.

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A thousand details.

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Linguistic skills.

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Learning habits,
how to serve people

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from all over the world.

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A restaurant in the center,
with guests from all over the world.

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A difficult experience for me.

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Half a year earlier or a year earlier,
I was at home with total depression.

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So it was an amazing experience for me,

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and a damn good experience,
because either I would die there

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or I had to make it and survive.

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And I survived.

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The first few months passed.

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There were incidents.

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Food was falling.

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Many times I had enough.

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I had dreams about work.

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Dreams that I sleep in the
restaurant I work in.

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I had nightmares.

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It really took me a good few months,
half a year to get used to it.

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More or less.

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The real adoption
came after two years,

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I would say, or after a year.

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It takes a long time to
learn something.

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It is not that after
a month you know everything.

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This also applies to all spheres of life.

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I met great people there.

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Then summer came,
after winter, more leisure.

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I met great people in this job I know until today.

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Greetings Marcin, I hope you’re watching this.

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And the next summer I also spent on work,
on a very pleasant work

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with wonderful people,
there was even was a getaway

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to the Polish sea, with people I met
at work, a trip to Woodstock.

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Then I met my then girlfriend,
with whom we spent cool moments,

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working, of course, all the time.

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And I really did revived then.

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I lived an interesting life.

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It was be a big challenge for me.

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I had the opportunity to travel,
to see things, to have fun.

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And in this way, as a waiter,
I had been working,

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I don’t want to lie to you, three years, until 2016.

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To October, I started in 2013.

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It’s about three years.

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Perhaps exactly 3 years.
I started from October.

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These years really
taught me a lot, to be with people.

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How to deal with life.

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Just like that.

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How to get out of this mess
in the restaurant, with 15 or 10 tables,

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With people coming and going,
mixed-up food.

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Out-of-service equipment.

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The computer was on the blink,
the AC out of order.

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I was confronted there
with everything I could,

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and it taught me life.

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I often cursed, but
I am damn grateful.

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If you’re young and can work as a waiter,

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work for a year, two, three and
you will meet wonderful people.

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Certainly, there are cool places where
you can work in the food industry.

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And I am damn glad I had this
time that I experienced then.

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I am grateful that then, as
I moved from Oświęcim to Cracow,

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when I was very afraid, that I endured
this fear, that I went forward.

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Thank you to all those
who gave me up.

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Thank you to those who
fired me and said I sucked.

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Thank you.

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Thank you to even the cooks who
claimed that I am good for nothing.

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And said: “either we or you”. It was me.

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That’s how it ended.

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I really thank them for all these difficult
moments, because they have strengthened me so much.

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And also being a waiter, I became interested in
making money on the Internet.

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My collegues also were digging in this topic.

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And recommended me some channels on youtube, etc.

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In the meantime, as I started
my own adventure with Cracow,

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I did nothing,
I worked as a waiter, I read many great books.

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The first one was Schwarzenneger’s biography,

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which changed my thinking a bit.

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I didn’t start to do something right away,

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but slowly my thinking changed.

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I noticed that if I was able
to get my life out of this mess

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I have the power to slowly move forward.

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Not so fast maybe, one step at a time.

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So it was a great time.

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After 3 years, I became
the manager of the restaurant,

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where I was a driver 3 years earlier.

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Where I entered
without a CV, in shorts.

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Where they said I was good for nothing,
I should get lost.

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I became the manager.

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And then I actually saved
this restaurant, and helped it a lot.

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I think so.

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Its bottom line was finally in the positive territory.

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I was very happy.

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So if they tell you you can’t do anything,
you won’t make it,

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do not worry.

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If they throw you away, give up on you,
it means this is not a place for you.

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And thank those people,
who say this to you.

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Follow your way, do not worry,
try endlessly,

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show others what you’ve got.

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And perhaps you will not attain it
in a month or a year.

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Sometimes it will take years before

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you show others
and yourselves your real worth.

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The same took me many years.

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Now, it is 5 years since
I moved to Cracow.

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All messed up with fear inside.

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A few years later,
I was the manager of this diner.

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So don’t be afraid of it,
go forward.

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I am now facing
another challenge.

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I’m creating a blog,
I work on Amazon.

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And again, I feel like I can’t do anything.

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But I will learn and I will make it.

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If you liked this video,
you want to know

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how my work in the
food industry looked like, contact me.

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I will reply.

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Or I will record
a video you want.

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I will really be very grateful for
any questions, interactions.

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I will be happy to help everyone.

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If you like it, please
give me a thumb up, share,

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like and subscribe to my
channel if you want to know more

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about working over the Internet, on Amazon.

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I will talk about gastronomy a little bit,
as well if you want.

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Let me know, subscribe and
thank you, see you soon.

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Bye.

What is personal development?

What is personal development and where to begin your personal development journey

Personal development is a concept with which, unfortunately, many people have negative associations because it involves acknowledging that we are not ideal. In addition, I feel a lot of people actively jib at development and learning of new things, so they often laugh at this concept. They prefer to remain in their comfort zone and not to expose themselves to new experiences that cause stress and a sense of danger. Criticism of personal development often stems from the desire to explain our own failures and lack of action.

What is personal development in the end?

This is not about reading motivational books or attending courses. Personal development is above all a break-through and expansion of our comfort zone through active action. Active action requires us to be aware that everything we want to achieve is outside our comfort zone. It is about working on ourselves, learning new things and expecting something more from life. This is the entire key to understanding the concept of personal development.

Those who ridicule personal development, are extremely unlikely to go out of their comfort zone themselves. I often encounter disbelief and criticism towards my online activities, which are definitely outside the average social zone. However, most people who do not understand the process and criticize development, sit comfortably on their couches every day and do nothing to improve their lives.

How to implement personal development in practice?

For example, if you want a nice and healthy body, it will require some suffering and expanding your comfort zone through daily painful workouts. Want more money? In such a situation, it is worth learning a pile of new things and working hard every day — it’ll be neither straightforward nor pleasant. Want a better partner? Then, you have to be a better man, and that requires a huge change, courage and crossing your comfort zone once again. I could list more and more examples, but the conclusion is one — what you want to get requires coming out of your cosy shell and experiencing discomfort.

We must consciously submit ourselves to suffering that comes with pushing our limits. Most people are not ready to do more and will choose to criticize such a path. However, this slightly more difficult and conscious path leads to fulfilment in various aspects of our lives and gives us great satisfaction.

Barriers

The barriers that block us vary from individual to individual. If you are at a certain level of your life, then to go higher you have to climb to another step of your comfort zone. Today, there are things that may seem difficult and uncomfortable to you. However, there are people who are on a completely different level and things that are difficult for you may be trivial to them.

If you, for example, earn three thousand dollars a month today, earning five thousand dollars may seem difficult or even impossible to you. But there are people who earn such amounts in one day, they do it absolutely stress-free and they know how to do it.

Thinking traps

I myself, while still being a waiter and then a manager in a restaurant, earned about 3–4 thousand PLN after taxes (net) (as a waiter it was even less). I worked very hard and applied for a mortgage credit for my apartment. It was completely impossible for me to exceed the threshold of earnings of PLN 10,000. It was an amount attainable (as I thought then) for completely different people than me.

However, personal development, or simply learning new things, changing established beliefs and admitting to myself that I can afford to do more if I put in a little more effort — all of this allowed me to exceed the magic threshold of PLN 10,000 a month in about 2 years. Another barriers have only proved to be imaginary barriers, which has become increasingly easy to break through. Today, my full-time job in a restaurant is a thing of the past, and my annual earnings are several hundred thousand zlotys after taxes.

Personal Development — how to get started?

However, in expanding our own comfort zone and on our own personal development path, we need motivation and incentives to act in the form of inspiration and motivation. For this, we can turn to good books, motivational movies and knowledge. A good book (for example a biography of someone successful like Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger) will show us that others through their actions were able to do much. With this knowledge, everyone can change their perception of what is happening around. However, it is important to use the knowledge right away. Learn, motivate your mind, and, what is the most important, act.

Don’t wait for tomorrow. The better opportunity may never come. You will always have insufficient knowledge, insufficient experience, and insufficient skills to take off. So, start today and take action to improve your life. It may be a change in work, opening up an online business, playing sport, saying someone who annoys you to stop wasting your time or taking life and responsibility in your hands — you know what it is. If you are thirsty for more inspiration and knowledge, read more articles and to visit my YouTube channel.

What is personal development?

— listen to the podcast

What is personal development?

— watch the video

What is personal development? — preview the video transcript

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Hi! Tomek here.
From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Welcome to my video
on personal development.

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Many people laugh
at what is personal development.

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Of course, when someone
says “personal development”,

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what they often think about is coaching,

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which is some crap that everyone laughs at now.

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Maybe it’s because many people
provide very poor information in this area.

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Or a lot of people don’t
know what it’s about.

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When I have been starting my channel
on YouTube still quite recently,

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this is one of my first videos,

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I told a lot of people I’m starting
a YouTube channel about publishing books,

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motivation or whatever
you want to call it.

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I deal with publishing e-books
and paper books on Amazon,

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and I host a channel on YouTube.

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And many people, hearing it,
smile, say coaching, personal development,

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publishing books on the Internet,
is some kind of crap.

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In this video, I will tell you what
personal development is.

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How to understand it in general.

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Personal development is,
it’s probably the best definition

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it’s not about reading books,
watching videos on YouTube,

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motivating yourself some unknown way.

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It’s not like this.

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Personal development
is about acting and overcoming fear.

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Clearly, it is good to start
by reading books, biographies,

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by watching videos about
book publishing, about motivation.

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Sure, this is very cool, and necessary.

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This should be your first step.

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It enables you to change your mindset.

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If you watch a video about
publishing books on Amazon,

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I will tell you what
tools you need to use,

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how to publish
a book on Amazon.

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Maybe you will buy a course
and learn how to publish books.

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But this is not personal development.

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Until you get up and do something, it’s
not personal development.

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This is not going
beyond your comfort zone.

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Personal development is about going
beyond your comfort zone.

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Personal development is when
you actually start doing something,

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get your butt moving
and start publishing.

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You decide you’re going to publish
your first book and you do it.

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You dedicate a month or two to publish a
book and then yet another month.

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Personal development is going for a walk,
going for a jog, going to the gym,

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and walking, doing sports
for a longer period of time.

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Personal development is
about overcoming your fear,

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and approaching that
girl or guy you like.

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Doing something that
will change your life.

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This is personal development, not
motivating yourself, watching videos.

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But action.
This is personal development.

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Maybe you are a person
who sits and watches videos

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and sits on their
fat ass and eats chocolates.

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This is not personal development.

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Personal development can be saying
something uncomfortable to someone,

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saying upfront what’s wrong.

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Maybe changing your job,
maybe doing something

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against what other people say,

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as they will say something
when you start doing something else.

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This is personal development.

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It’s about stepping out
of your comfort zone.

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If you want to achieve something, let’s
say it’s a cool job, publishing a book,

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having a cool partner,

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even getting a tattoo,
while everyone tells you “don’t do it”.

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Whatever it is.

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I had a period in my life when
I wanted to open a company.

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I wanted to get a tattoo.

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I wanted this, I wanted that.

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I wanted to go to another city.

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There was always someone
telling me: “no, don’t do it”.

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Why do you need it? You are moron.

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Why do you make YouTube videos?

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Stupid, this is personal development.

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You’ll come off as
an idiot making such videos,

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So here I’m coming off as an idiot.

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This is personal development.

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I’m overcoming my barriers,
my comfort zone.

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I’m doing it while others frown at it.

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And they think “what’s the point?”

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All those who have their
excuses about doing something,

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opening a business, changing
job, doing something uncomfortable,

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something that will give you
the results in the future.

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These people are afraid.

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They are afraid to
step out of their comfort zone.

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How many people would dare to
make a YouTube video?

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How many people would dare to make
YouTube videos for a year,

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while all the relatives
and strangers watch and judge you.

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How many?

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Do you have anything in your life
that you would like or want to do

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but you think that maybe
it’s not for you.

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All the people who think this way,
prefer to stay in their cocoon.

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Stay in their comfort zone and do nothing,
because they feel safe.

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They don’t have to
overcome their fear.

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Personal development is about overcoming
your fear and taking action.

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It is about systematic action.

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Action that is clearly backed
by knowledge, education, reading books.

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It is about going beyond
your comfort zone.

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Consider whether you step
outside of your comfort zone,

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or you just sit
on your butt and do nothing.

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You watch TV and videos over
and over again and nothing changes in your life.

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What do you think you will achieve
if you keep sitting on your butt?

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You will not achieve anything.

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If you are here and you want to be here,

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then you have to go this way.

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You can’t go that way or that way.

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You have to grow,
and you will feel discomfort.

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You will feel damn discomfort.

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But you have to develop
to achieve something.

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It will hurt. That feeling in your guts.

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If you think about something new
and you think you can’t do it.

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You can feel the tension.

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You’re about to give up.

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This is the moment that tells you
you have to do it.

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This is the situation when you’re scared.

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That means you have to do it.

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And remember, you can stay where you are.

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You can work on personal development,
which means you have to act,

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you have to move forward.

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Don’t be afraid.

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Because only by action,
by exceeding your weaknesses

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by overcoming your fear will
you achieve what you want.

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What you want is outside
your comfort zone.

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And that’s personal development.

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Acting in spite of fear.

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Conscious action as you move forward.

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If you want to learn more about
development in terms of overcoming yourself,

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overcoming your fear, in terms
of publishing products on the Internet,

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acting a little bit
differently than the society tells you.

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I mean expectations to go to school,
get a low-paid job

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or maybe you want to do something more,

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publish your books,
maybe act differently than everyone else,

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which is going to be frowned upon,

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but if that’s what you want,
I invite you to watch more of my videos,

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to subscribe to my YouTube channel,

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to subscribe to my blog,

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to read my articles that I hope
will add some value to your life,

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and force you to think
along a bit different paths,

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against the tide,

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which will be stressful,

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but which will give you something.

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Feel invited.

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Thank you for watching.

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I hope you learned a lot.

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Thank you very much.

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I wish you all the
best and hope to see you soon.

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle?

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle? (Amazon KDP)

The subject of publishing your own book and your own product on the Internet may seem very appealing. For sure, anyone who starts to feel interested in online monetization and online business sooner or later will dream about releasing their first product. How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle? Most people will think for certain that they must be an author, a writer in order to publish their first book. Publishing our own book may seem to you something big and even impossible. If that’s what you think, then in this post I’m going to put you right and tell you exactly how to publish your eBook on this worldwide platform.

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle? It's easier than you think

First of all, there is a lot of strategies for releasing books on Amazon and it is worth finding one that is right for you. The first thing that comes to the mind of most people is to publish fiction books, but it is only one of the possibilities that you should consider when you write content by yourself. It is worth knowing that the publishing market also consists of very simple guides and simple products (so-called low-content books and products) that can be published virtually without any financial risk. You only need to have the right knowledge and invest some time. To get started, it is worth to learn about the two basic book types you can publish on Amazon:

Fiction books — books that feature fictional stories. These are usually long books filled with text only.
Non-fiction books — often short book-like products focusing on solving a problem. They may be guides or even simple calendars and so-called notebooks.

The area of fiction books is for people who actually write and publish, and for those who want to invest a little more money to start with in publishing a book. In contrast, non-fiction books are a huge category with thousands of sections. You can also publish electronic products there, i.e. books in the form of eBooks. Your idea of an e-book published on Amazon may be very wrong — first of all, such a book is usually written by a ghost-writer and it concerns a selected topic. Just have a few dozen pages written in English (it’s cheaper than translating from your mother language, in case it is not English) and you already have a book, which you can publish under any pseudonym.

Books appear under a nickname or under a brand of choice — this is a standard and very common practice. It’s worth knowing that everyone can publish their products on Amazon in the form of eBooks and books. This way, we use Amazon as a store where we sell our own products. It is up to you to decide what tactics you will adopt. You can write books on your own if it matches your skills, but you can simply be a single-person mini publishing house, and publish content you order from others.

Where can I order writing an eBook or a book?

It’s quite simple and convenient to release a book globally in these times. Simply use an online website like Fiverr.com and order writing a book of any length, on a topic of your choice. It can even be a book with 20 pages, that is a slightly longer article packed in a cover (you can order a cover for $5 on Fiverr.com). Create an order on the selected website, select a person and wait for the finished result. Ordering such a book involves just a few simple messages, and that’s how you have a dedicated person to write your first product. Your main task is to find the right niche and to subcontract the rest of the work.

What should be the theme of my (ghost)written eBook released on Amazon Kindle?

Check out the Kindle Store section on Amazon.com. There you’ll see hundreds of categories in which you can start publishing your first products. This may be a category related to sport, losing weight, food, travelling, etc. However, many people make fundamental mistakes and publish books in categories that interest them rather than publishing products that are actually in demand. If you would like to learn more, I encourage you to use my 100% free course, in which I am talking about these mistakes and also about releasing electronic books on Amazon Kindle.

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle? What are the costs?

Publishing your eBook or book on Amazon may seem to be a very expensive investment. This process requires some capital, but you will pay up to $150 for ordering a simple book with a description and cover. With the right knowledge and preparation, you are able to release simple products and guides. You can repeat this process and take advantage of the scale effect that the Internet offers. Costs can be much higher with more complicated products (there are no specific rules here and you can as well order a long book for $1000), but simple guides can be created for small amounts. Over time, you can focus on more sophisticated and more expensive products.

Who will buy my books?

Remember, when you publish your book on Amazon Kindle (Amazon KDP), you share it with the global market and, above all, the US market. The US market alone is over 300 million people with high earnings who are willing to spend these earnings in the most popular US store, Amazon.

When you publish a book on Amazon, you will also open up to the European, British, Canadian and many other smaller markets that grow every day. Imagine you publish 50 simple electronic products over the course of a year, which will be available on most of the world’s developed markets. You receive 70% of the profit from every book that costs $3 or more, which gives approximately $2. This is still more than the amount received by authors who sell their paper books in the largest distribution networks in many countries.

Does it make sense to publish books for Amazon?

I released my first book in 2016 and the online business on Amazon allowed me to leave my regular job with time. In a year and a half I published about 600 products (I focused mainly on low-content items and so-called notebooks). In the meantime, I also started my blog. In the beginning, I was publishing mainly eBooks in the form of guidebooks. Over time, I added more material about publication of simple notebooks and calendars because I am familiar with graphic design and I am able to design covers for simple products on my own. This allowed me to build up a solid financial cushion and leave my regular job. With my business on Amazon, today I can focus exclusively on my passions and on blogging.

That’s why, remember my dear reader that you can also start your own online business. Any person living in any place in the world may publish an eBook on Amazon or, for example, sell their own online courses. This type of business (online business from home) made me a free person and I wish the same to you.

How to sell eBooks on Amazon?

Start from registering in Kindle Direct Publishing. This Amazon website is a web service that allows to publish eBooks and on-demand paper books to be available on Amazon. What’s more, you don’t need a formal business and you can get started from anywhere in the world. I encourage you to take advantage of my free Amazon and online business course, where you will learn how to release a book for Amazon and more. Also discover your own rules of sales of books and eBooks on Amazon.

Basic links for publishing notebooks and eBooks on Amazon KDP:

Amazon.com — Kindle Direct Publishing, the Amazon platform for independent publication of e-books on Amazon Kindle.
KindleSpy — automatic search for niches and keywords in Amazon Kindle Store. A very useful tool when publishing e-books and simple products for Amazon.
Fiverr.com — a portal where you can order book cover, product description, product promotion and more. You can also earn money as a freelancer on a global scale.
TheWritingSummit — here you can easily subcontract writing the contents of your book. With the code fwtm you’ll be able to get additional discount.
Upwork.com — here you’ll hire freelancers who can help promote your books, become your virtual assistants or write your entire book.
Wise — fast, convenient and modern payments. Don’t forget about online business.

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle?

— listen to the podcast

— watch the video

How to publish an eBook on Amazon Kindle? — preview the video transcript

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Hi. Tomek here.
From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Warm greetings!

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In this video, I will show you
how to publish your book on Amazon,

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an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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You will learn why it is so easy
and how it can be easily done,

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what tools I use,

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and how can you start
making money from such a book.

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Stay with me to the end.

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I will show you all my tools and methods.

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Here we go.

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How to publish a book on Amazon Kindle?

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I will start by telling you what
Amazon Kindle is.

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Maybe you’ve heard about Amazon.

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I think so. It is a very popular store.

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It is the largest
online store in the world,

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which offers products
mainly in America,

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but in Europe also, in the UK,
around the world.

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And it grows all the time.

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I hope it will finally be in Poland.

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All the more reason to know how
to publish such a book on Amazon.

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It is a huge market,
primarily in the USA.

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And you may have heard of the Kindle too.

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Kindle is an e-reader by Amazon on which
people can buy books through Kindle Store,

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that is Amazon’s e-book store.

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E-books are available for purchase
through Amazon from your Kindle reader,

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but also through apps on phones,
Android or any other system.

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You can even make purchases on
a desktop app on your computer.

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In short, Amazon offers e-books on
virtually every platform around the world,

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mainly in the USA,
where the market is huge.

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A lot of people buy there and they have no
problem with it at all.

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In our country,
this is no so well-developed.

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The USA is where
it is profitable to publish.

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You’re wondering how you can publish
a book on Amazon Kindle,

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because it seems perhaps difficult.

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This is not as difficult as it may seem.

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Of course, it requires
a little knowledge and tools.

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How to do it?

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You are able to publish a
book on Amazon Kindle within a few weeks.

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And then it is there.

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It stays there and is
virtually maintenance-free.

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And it can make money for you.

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You can publish various books.

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You don’t have to publish a long book,

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you don’t have to publish a novel,

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you don’t have to write a book,

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you don’t have to design the cover.

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You don’t really need to do anything else

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than just use systems required
to create such a book.

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It can be a
100 page long cookbook.

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It can be a smoothie
recipe book with 50 pages.

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It can be a book about dog breeding,

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it can be a book for adults.

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There are tens of thousands of
topics which you can use to release your books.

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And you don’t have to write such
a book by yourself. This is very important.

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How to publish such a book?

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I will show you now.

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The first thing is Amazon.

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Take a look at Amazon
to check what does it look like.

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Amazon Kindle Store.

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This is Amazon’s store
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Check it out.

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See how many books are there,

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what are the available categories,

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and the whole market.

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It is huge, and even more people
buy these books.

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Remember, you don’t have
to create a super book.

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A simple product would be enough.

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For example a book about preparing shakes.

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How to publish such a book?

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The primary platform is
Kindle Direct Publishing.

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I will write here KDP.

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Links will be below under this video.

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Don’t worry, don’t write it down.

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You’ll check it out later
after watching this video.

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Kindle Direct Publishing
is a free platform,

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where you register,

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and through this platform
you are able to publish books.

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There, you put your file,
the cover and the book,

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and once it is put there
and it is approved,

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then within one to three
business days it appears on Amazon,

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and it is available throughout the entire
distribution network, worldwide.

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It looks like a pretty cool option to me.

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And quite a simple one.

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This book is available on Amazon.

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But how to get this book?

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Since you are not an author,

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perhaps you can’t write well,
especially in English.

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How to do it?

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Well, very simply.

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There is such a thing as,
for example, Upwork.com.

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A website where you can
hire people to write.

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This is only an example.

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There are many similar websites.

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This is a website where you hire experts,

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assign them your projects.

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For example to write a 50 pages long book.

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Of course, you can find there
people for various jobs,

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not only for writing books,

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but for example for proofreading,
to work as a virtual assistant.

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Here you can find a person who will write a book in English for you.

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It will cost you, for example $100.

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Of course, there are similar sites,
such as Freelance.com.

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Also, there are websites
for ghostwriters only.

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I will provide all links
below in the description.

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This is a general website,
where you can order your book.

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Another website is Fiverr.com.

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Here, you are also able
to order writing a book.

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Here you are able to order a description
for the book for the sale page.

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You don’t even have to write your
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to encourage purchase.

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You can order it here
along with ordering a book.

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And on Fiverr.com you are also able

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to order a cover for your Kindle book.

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For $5-10 they will design
a cool cover for you in a few days.

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Your task is just to
do a market research,

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browse some items,
decide what you want

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choose a book title, although they
can help you with that too on Fiverr.com

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You log in on Kindle Direct Publishing,

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you assign jobs to write the book,
design the cover, and you publish.

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Then this book is available
on Amazon to the entire world.

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It requires a little bit of
willingness and persistence.

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But you thought publishing
a book is difficult, right?

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Not necessarily.

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After a month of work,
you can publish even several books.

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And they will be available
on the global market,

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and they can really
make money for you.

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Is it really a necessity to spend
a couple of years in a college

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to get a low-paid job,
or is it better to publish your books

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for the world market?

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It is certainly an issue
worth thinking about.

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I have been in this for several years.

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I also publish paperback books,
which I will cover in another video.

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With these tools, you are able to publish
your first book in a month,

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and then learn and publish
several books in a month.

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You can also publish paper books.

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More on this later.

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And you are able to
reach customers all over the world.

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You may be wondering if you
need English to publish books?

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Yes, you do need it.

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But you need it in a really basic form.

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To sign up for Kindle Direct Publishing,

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to check out how everything works
on Amazon, Upwork or Fiverr.

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You need very basic English, which means
you probably already speak it.

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For example, are you able to set up an
email account in English?

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Set up an account
on any website in English?

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If yes, you are able to do it.

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Remember, no need to write a book,

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to write a description.

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to design a cover,

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to speak in public.

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You can do all this quietly, gradually,

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with the help of a translator,
by learning.
You can do all this quietly, gradually,

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with the help of a translator,
by learning.

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And remember that publishing your first
book will be difficult,

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as you will have to learn
some new words.

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I assume you know some basic English.

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It may be a barrier for you to cross.

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But every published book stays there.

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You will publish more books.

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The second one will take you
twice as fast as the first one.

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The tenth one
you will publish in auto mode.

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You won’t even remember its title.

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Keep in mind what a big leap you do
when it comes to the English language.

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If only you can keep up after releasing
your first and second book.

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The advancement in your
skills will be huge.

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With time, it will not be
a problem at all.

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This is a repetitive process,
and the key to success is consistency, persistence.

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And you can publish 10 books,
100 books in one year.

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And they will make money for you.

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Consider whether it is
an interesting model.

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Let me know what you think about it.

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How does television affect people?

How can we reduce the negative impact of TV?

A few years ago, I decided to stop watching TV completely and deliberately got rid of the TV. Why? I decided that in order to achieve something in life, I have to get rid of things and habits that waste my time. Then, I abandoned television, computer games and other things that did not bring value to my life. It was not so difficult to drop TV, but for some people, the big doses of silence and calm in these times may seem strange and unnatural. In this post, I’ll show you how television affects people and why you should get rid of your TV viewing habits.

Harmfulness of television

Recently, I visited my family and saw once again how serious this problem is, and I decided to share with you my observations on how television affects people. Usually, when I visit my family, close ones or friends, this meeting is held in the living room. Everyone is sitting, talking, and there must always be a big TV in the background. As I haven’t watched TV for a long time and I don’t use a TV, presence of a TV screen literally stultifies me and makes me unable to think normally.

I can tell you a story that I witness regularly when visiting my loved ones. We are all sitting, long commercials are screaming at us with sky-rocketed volume, making our words or even thoughts inaudible. Sometimes, I cannot believe in the way television affects the lives of today’s families and is pulling us away from important things. Instead of talking about themselves and their issues, people comment on performances of completely strange people, judging and criticizing them from the couch. In the gaps between stupefying and artificial programs, we get a dose of promotion, new products and everything we need to live. I can’t see how many problems television creates and how fast it can respond to these problems at the same time.

All the news we hear on TV and in the media has virtually 100% no impact on our lives and those of our loved ones. More news from the world of politics, tragic accidents on the roads and cases shown just to talk about something — these events mean nothing in your life. Unfortunately, our lives are short, and if we want them to be cool and fruitful, we must act and broaden our horizons. Television takes time and deprives us of the ability to think by blurring our attention.

What can you do about it?

It’s easier than you think. Just dispose of your TV or just unplug it together with your set-top box. What do you say to the challenge of 30 days without TV? Do you know how much time and mental energy you will gain? Try it and I am sure you won’t regret it. And remember, it’s not about giving up all the pleasures of the modern world. It’s all about choosing your content consciously and not over-using it. Each of us sometimes likes to watch a good movie, and for example, YouTube has a mass of valuable content. Go to the cinema, start watching content that in addition to entertainment can give you some knowledge. And limit TV, especially stupefying commercials, bullshit news and sleazy shows. Instead, talk to your loved ones, listen to them, go for a walk, and read a good book in the evening — you’ll see how much your life will change!

Use your morning habits and have time for yourself

The best ideas come to mind when we have time to think. My life has changed very much when I switched from morning TV watching into morning habits. If you get a passive mind-set in the morning and just consume cheap news, then every day is going to look like that. However, if you want to achieve something in your life, you need to change your attitude to active. What does that mean? This means doing simple exercises and avoiding TV every morning. With this attitude, you will pursue your plans and dreams instead of blindly consuming excess of news that have no connection with your life.

How does television affect people?

— listen to the podcast

How does television affect people?

— see the video

How does television affect people? - preview the video transcript

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Hi. Tomek here.

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From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Today, a slightly different video,
an unusual one.

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Because I’m away.

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At my family’s place, let’s say.

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We are here in the mountains,
in a cool place.

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But what is the point?
I’d like to talk about television.

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Personally, I am a great opponent of
television and a TV set at home.

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I think this is a very bad thing.

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Why?
I haven’t used a TV for years.

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This is something
very distant to me now.

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I used to live without it.

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I have not watched TV
for a long time.

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But why is it something
you should get rid of.

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Being here with my family, visiting
different people, different places,

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different houses,
I see everyone has a TV.

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When I see this,
I’m shocked.

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Having not watched TV for several years,
not owning a TV, seeing a TV,

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seeing someone watching TV,
I am in total shock.

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Why?

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Because I can see how television
distorts our thinking.

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For example, we visit someone at their
place and everyone is talking

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and television jams everyone.

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Commercials are screaming out, fluff,
news like about some councilman

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who had drugs in his car or a tragedy somewhere
on the other side of the country.

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Something happened to someone,
someone is missing.

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People we won’t see, we have never ever
seen before and we won’t see distract us.

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People are sitting, watching, discussing
things that are going on somewhere.

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Song competitions, etc.

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These types of programs.

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People dish, discuss about others,
while forgetting about their own lives.

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Instead of taking care of themselves, of
people around them, talking to them frequently,

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reading a nice book, doing something,
creating something,

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they consume, sit, watch and deal
with topics unimportant in their lives.

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That will never be important,
that are somewhere far away,

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and that will not
give them anything.

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Similarly, I observed,
for example my family home.

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Even when it comes to my loved ones, who
spend a lot of time in front of the TV.

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I remember it from my childhood.

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My closest ones,
who sat half a day in front of the TV,

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often even
not having time for me.

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And they discuss topics that are remote,

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that are not ours.

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What for?

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Why do it?

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Why talk about the winner of some competition
somewhere on the other side of the country?

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Why watch a councilman
explaining himself about drugs found in his car?

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Why watch politics?

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Why not get on with your life?

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Why not make it better?

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Why not travel, enjoy the moment?

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If we watch news that is truly
unnecessary for us so often,

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there is no time
to take care of our lives.

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There is no time to think about matters
of the future and our plans.

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Then there’s only time
for current affairs.

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We are constantly distracted by news,
while time goes by.

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Time goes by, years pass,
and we don’t move on.

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Therefore, I suggest you,
if you have a TV, sell it.

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Maybe you have a new one,
or old one, never mind.

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Give it to someone for free,
sell it for 100 or 200 $

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and buy 2 cool books,
or go on a trip somewhere

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and note that cool silence
coming to your heads.

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And don’t get me wrong,
I love movies.

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As you can see, I even have
a film tape on my arm.

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I’m a big cinema enthusiast,

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and everyone should
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There are cool things like
cinema, movies, YouTube,

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where we can select
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We are able to choose
a movie, a program that is interesting for us.

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You can choose a specific movie because
you feel like watching it at this moment.

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And select the news for yourself.

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Don’t let the information noise, stupid
news, politics, commercials into your minds.

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They actually disrupt your life and
make you forget what is important.

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Because there is too much of it.

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Don’t waste your life watching TV.

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Life is too beautiful. Enjoy it.

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Sell your TV, give it away.

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Or sell the setup box,
and keep your TV,

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and hook it up to your computer
to watch cool movies on a big screen.

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But don’t watch this crap.

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Get busy with your life,
develop yourself.

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You will see how cool it is,
when you reject TV,

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and you’ll see all the peace,
quietness and relaxation you have

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without the excess
of information coming from TV.

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Thanks.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for beginners — first steps

In this post, I will outline how cryptocurrencies work and I will show how to buy bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. This will be a high-density knowledge (the post turned out to be quite long) that will allow you to understand the operation of cryptocurrencies and enable you to make your first secure purchase of these blockchain-based currencies. You will also learn how to store currencies safely and how to sell them over time.

What will you learn in this post

What is Bitcoin and how do cryptocurrencies work?
Key cryptocurrency concepts and tools.
What are some examples of bitcoin investment strategies?
What is the purpose of buying cryptocurrencies?
The process of buying Bitcoin step by step.
Buying cryptocurrencies — which exchange should I choose?
What do I do with cryptocurrencies after the purchase?
Recommended wallet types for cryptocurrency storage.
How to sell cryptocurrencies stored in a wallet?
How to tax and settle revenues from cryptocurrencies?

All the links in this article:

KuCoin — one of largest cryptocurrency exchanges. A good choice for anyone who starts a cryptocurrency journey.
Binance — the largest crypto exchange in the world.
Coinbase — one of the world’s largest services where you can easily buy cryptocurrencies.
Coinomi— a mobile wallet.
Bitaddress— creating paper wallets.
Free Bitcoin and cryptocurrency course — here you will find free Bitcoin lessons to guide you how to make a purchase.
Blockchain.com — here you can check your Blockchain system wallet status.
Trezor — recommended hardware wallet.

The theme of cryptocurrencies has been around for a long time, but I have to say that I have been slow enough to enter this world. While still working in the restaurant, I had friends who literally worshipped BTC (and other cryptos) and could have talk all day about them. This topic was very appealing. My friends were constantly talking about investing, having no real capital at the same time. Then, I focused on creating my own business (Amazon and blog), and a few years later, the subject of investment became a necessity for me, because I simply saved a large amount of money. With solid financial backup, I decided to start investing some of my savings in cryptocurrencies.

IMPORTANT: Before delving into details, I would like to point out that I am not an investment adviser. All the pieces of advice presented here are my thoughts, and each one of you should always make your own financial decisions at your sole discretion. Furthermore, investment in cryptocurrencies should be considered high-risk and should only be made with money that you are theoretically prepared to lose. I have invested a lot of money in cryptocurrencies, but it is only a small part of my cash reserve. The rate of cryptocurrencies is, of course, based on the demand and supply of the particular cryptocurrency, but the price of Bitcoin, for example, can also be influenced by the policies of various governments (e.g., economic lockdown or inflation), investments and activities of large companies, and even large-scale sales of cryptocurrencies by entities with a large amount of them. In addition, the mechanisms for the development of a cryptocurrency also influence the price. Keep this in mind.

Also, if you want to see a more detailed cryptocurrency purchasing guide, I invite you to take part in my free Bitcoin course. I recorded as many as 8 video lessons as a guide, showing step-by-step how to buy and store cryptos using a variety of websites. I decided to create such a free cryptocurrency purchase course because the subject was too large to be included in one post.

What is Bitcoin and how do cryptocurrencies work?

Bitcoin is a digital currency based on a blockchain (a distributed register of network operations that all users have access to) and an electronic payment system. It is also referred to as digital gold, and I think this expression very clearly explain what Bitcoin is. It is digital gold. It is a payment scheme without intermediaries (without banks or governments). Bitcoin was created in 2009 by an anonymous developer (or developers) who hides under the nickname Satoshi Nakamoto. To put it simply, Bitcoin makes it possible to make payments to anyone in the world over the Internet in a decentralized manner. You don’t have to understand all the details of blockchain operation to use Bitcoin, but some basics are worth exploring. In the same way, I believe that you don’t need to know the engine design to drive a car well and safely, but you should know the traffic rules — so in this post, I will try to give you the necessary knowledge without going into details, but this will still be a considerable insight.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are based on the decentralization of the payment system, i.e. there is no bank that would control users. For example, Bitcoin works like the Torrent network (in its core), which was very popular at times when we didn’t have Netflix and other streaming services. Torrents relied on their users who downloaded and shared files (usually illegally distributed or pirated films, games and, of course, a lot of pornography) — there were no servers or fees. For Bitcoin, the transaction is concluded between two users and the entire process is operated by so-called miners (their computers) who process their Bitcoin transactions and receive a predetermined commission in Bitcoins. The system is designed so that the transaction you are executing is distributed among users (miners) to confirm the transaction. All transfers must be confirmed simultaneously according to appropriate rules that prevent cheating. This process creates an appropriate chain system (blockchain), which in the case of decentralization is inviolable and it constitutes the base of the entire ecosystem. Blockchain is a virtual ledger book that contains all transactions and is responsible for their credibility.

2. Key concepts and tools:

Public Key — this is your account number where you hold your funds. You can give this key to a third party to transfer funds there. You can have many such keys (wallets) and they can have different forms (stock exchange wallet, mobile wallet, paper wallet or hardware wallet). You can create a key by installing a wallet in the appropriate application or by creating an account using dedicated online websites, which are also called cryptocurrency exchanges. You can transfer funds between your accounts (public keys) using wallets.

Private Key — this is your “PIN code”. When you generate a public key, you also receive a private key. Without a private key, you will not be able to withdraw funds from your account (public key).

Wallet — wallets are used to store your private and public keys. An online cryptocurrency exchange account, an application on your phone, or a paper card with saved keys can be such a wallet. A wallet is simply designed to protect access to these keys. Even a compressed file with keys in a password-protected notebook can be your wallet.

Cryptocurrency exchange — is it a website (e.g. Binance, Kucoin) that enables you to find other buyers and sellers of cryptocurrencies. There, with the currency you choose (EUR, USD, JPY, etc.) you can buy your first cryptocurrencies. These sites also provide online cryptocurrency wallets, but once you have bought a cryptocurrency on an exchange, you can transfer your funds to another public key (wallet) of your choice, even to the one printed on a piece of paper (known as a Paper Wallet).

3. The investment strategy and the purpose of the cryptocurrency purchase

In addition to the possibility of anonymous payments, cryptocurrencies also (or especially) offer the way to easily invest our money. Bitcoin’s exchange rate over the years has shown us that its value can rise or fall very quickly. We had very different periods in which Bitcoin’s price significantly increased or decreased. This undeniably stimulates imagination of many people and encourages to purchase Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. I do not intend to comment on the excellent investment opportunities in this case. Cryptocurrencies provide an interesting option, and I think it is worth to take an interest in the topic, because in the future, the importance of the blockchain technology will be ever increasing. We could make a bold statement that cryptocurrencies will play an important role in the coming decades.

There are two main investment tactics. The first one involves simply trading with cryptocurrencies, buying at a low price and selling at a high price. But easier said than done, as there is no single person who could with absolute certainty anticipate future prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This is more of an option for the advanced or the naive ones — unless you are treating it as entertainment and do not invest large amounts of money. My assumption is that it is worth to hold cryptocurrencies long-term and this is the option number two. In this case, we occasionally buy a selected amount of cryptocurrencies (even for a few hundred dollars), while trying to avoid peak price periods. With this strategy, we should have a good chance of winning after years. It is a similar tactic to investing in gold, i.e. we buy regularly, protect the value of our money and, in the process, have a good chance of increasing the value of our savings.

I also plan to write an extensive post about my investment strategy for cryptocurrencies, where I will include some tips how everyone of you can easily define your own strategy that would be simple and safe at the same time.

Bitcoin — the process of buying Bitcoin step by step

The easiest way to explain the whole process will be to use the example of a transaction to purchase Bitcoin on an exchange of our choice and transfer it to an external wallet that ensures security. For this, I will use KuCoin, Coinbase and Binance. These websites work in a similar way. Personally, I use Binance and KuCoin in particular, but for the most people who would like to make their first transaction Coinbase will a good choice as well. In fact, each of these services will be a good choice and I do not want to force you to use any specific one in any way. I am also introducing the whole process step by step on video in my free course, which includes as many as 8 lessons on this topic.

First of all, you must register and verify your account with each of these services. Cryptocurrency exchanges are legally obliged to verify your identity and it is normal for them to require your personal information along with a scan of your personal ID. Often, you will also need to verify your own bank account by making a small transfer — this account will be needed over time if you want to convert Bitcoins into a FIAT currency (government money, like USD, EUR etc.) or deposit money on the exchange. It is a large and mature exchange. Here, we use dollars or euros.

KuCoin

This service will be a good choice for many of you, with its simple and user-friendly interface and support of many FIATS. It is very easy to use. To buy a cryptocurrency, you can use other users’ offers (P2P) or the “Fast Trade” option, which allows you to purchase/sell assets very easily without going into individual bids. Before you can buy, you must transfer money from your account to the website, of course, you must complete the verification process as you do on other websites.

Advantages: offers a huge selection of cryptocurrencies and features low fees compared to other exchanges.

Disadvantages: KuCoin is not licensed in the United States (unlike Coinbase) and has less cryptocurrency choice.

Binance

Binance is the largest global cryptocurrency exchange with its interface available in many languages, which is probably a big advantage for many people. Binance is highly sophisticated and also has the ability to purchase many less popular coins. In this respect, Binance outperforms, for example, KuCoin, but on the other hand, it is a somewhat more complex site in terms of the user experience. That’s why I recommend it to more advanced people who want to buy less common cryptocurrencies (altcoins) as well. If you are only interested in buying the most popular cryptocurrencies (like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) and prefer an easier purchasing process, I would encourage you to use Coinbase.

Binance

Advantages: large-scale global service, international interface, multiple options and a variety of cryptocurrency features available.

Disadvantages: the abundance of options can be overwhelming in the beginning.

Coinbase

With Coinbase, you can connect your own bank account (Revolut also works), but you can also attach your card for easy purchase. Coinbase is a very simple portal for buying cryptocurrencies, because it has a very clear interface and no need to browse sales offers. Simply specify the number of cryptocurrencies that you want to get.

Advantages: Coinbase offers a secure way to invest and trade with cryptocurrencies and the purchase process is very simple.

Defects: the service is fairly simple and has little function and capability.

Buying cryptocurrencies — which exchange should I choose?

As you can see, a lot may depend on which currency you want to use to purchase a cryptocurrency and whether you want to deposit funds on the crypto exchange. If I were you, I would use Coinbase to start-up or the world largest crypto trading service Binance. I also recommend to sign up with at least two services so that to have some freedom of manoeuvre for selling a cryptocurrency at a good exchange rate, as the services also have their daily payout limits, and the rate you are interested in will stay the same forever. In addition, it is worth to get to know two different websites (at least to satisfy your curiosity). For example, you can purchase Bitcoins with one currency Coinbase, and sell them at Binance and get paid in another. The possibilities are endless. If you would like to see a step-by-step process of how to buy Bitcoin, I encourage you to take part in a video lesson as part of the free course.

How many cryptocurrencies should I buy?

This may be your first question here. I have two tips for you. Firstly, the purchase of cryptocurrencies should only be a small investment in your total accumulated funds. This means that if you have e.g. $5,000 of free funds available, invest no more than $500. Under no circumstances should you spend a lot of your savings on this, as cryptocurrencies are still a high-risk investment — especially if you are just starting to enter the market. Invest as much as you can afford to lose. Secondly, start with small amounts and treat it as a lesson. Sign up for two exchanges and buy cryptocurrencies for £100 for a trial. Then transfer the purchased currencies to your external wallet (more about wallets later in this post). Think about investing a little larger amounts only after you have understood and gone through the whole process of buying on small amounts. I have invested quite a lot, but it is still a small percentage of my savings.

What do I do with cryptos after the purchase?

After registering with a particular service and making your first purchase, the cryptocurrencies you purchased will appear on your account at the given website. Each service is your online wallet at the same time. If you have an account on such a website, you are given a public key for you to receive purchased cryptocurrencies. However, keeping large sums of money/cryptocurrencies online is not the best idea in the long term, as these services are vulnerable to hacker attacks. Don’t get overly paranoid about this, but simply consider transferring some purchased cryptocurrencies to an external wallet — it is a good practice.

Recommended wallet types for cryptocurrency storage

Your public key and your private key are numbers that need to be stored somehow. There are many services our there (including crypto exchanges) that will be happy to do it for you, but I recommend that you transfer your funds to an external wallet, which is much more secure when you keep cryptos in the long term.

Mobile wallet/app — this is software that you install on your phone or computer. It is secured with a password and a special phrase (so called recovery phrase). After you purchase Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies on the exchange, we can then transfer them to our in-app wallet. Simply enter your public key generated by your wallet and send money from the exchange. I use the Coinomi wallet, which is available as an app on my phone and a desktop app for Windows (I use both because they sync with each other). This is a relatively safe way to store cryptocurrencies and this should be enough to start with.

Paper wallet — this is the safest form of cryptocurrency storage, yet not quite handy. To create a paper wallet, just go to Bitaddress.org and generate a public key and a private key for yourself. Then, you can print such a key or simply rewrite it on a sheet of paper. We can transfer funds from exchanges/services or mobile wallets to such a public key. The whole idea of a paper wallet is that our keys (especially the private one) stored on a sheet of paper and stored in the place we choose are impossible to compromise by hackers or with malware, because they are stashed, for example, in a briefcase in a dresser.

The disadvantage in this case is the inconvenience of use (keys should be printed and stored), and if you want to sell your funds you need to reach for the file with papers.

How to create a paper wallet with Bitaddress.org

To check the amount of the funds collected in the account (in the created public key), simply go to blockchain.com and enter the number of your public key. Then, we can then see all the funds and transactions saved in the account. These funds can only be withdrawn if we know the private key generated at the beginning together with the public key. Write down and store securely your paper wallet private key. If you lose it, the whole amount of cryptocurrencies accumulated on the selected wallet won’t be retrievable.

Hardware wallet — this is an option rather for a little bit more advanced people, because it requires to purchase a device (a hardware wallet is something like a secured USB stick) and its costs starts from a dozen of dollars. The advantage of such a wallet is the convenience and the fact you can store your cryptocurrencies away from the web. One of the most popular manufacturer of hardware wallets is Trezor and its products can be purchased on their official website.

For rookies, I recommend using the free Coinomi app to get some experience and store first purchased cryptocurrencies away from the exchanges. Once you have learned the process and you want to invest more for a long term, then it is worth transferring your funds to the hardware wallet. I also encourage you to try out the free course where I show everything in the video lesson.

How to sell cryptocurrencies stored in a wallet?

To trade cryptocurrencies or just cash out your investment after some time (by converting cryptos to a government currency — like USD, EUR, etc.), you should sell cryptocurrency on the exchange. This process is similar to buying cryptocurrency, but reversed. First of all, you need to have funds available in the form of cryptocurrencies on the exchange to cash out. Therefore, if you keep them in an external wallet, first transfer them to a website such as Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, etc. If you have cryptocurrencies in your mobile wallet, it is enough to send the selected amount e.g. Bitcoin to the address of the wallet in our account on a given website. Remember your exchange account is also a wallet. You will find your wallet address both in Coinomi and in the settings of your account on the exchange. However, if you have cryptocurrencies in a paper wallet (manually saved/printed public and private keys), you must first import the cryptocurrency into a mobile wallet (e.g.. Coinomi) by providing your public and private key. After entering the private key in your mobile wallet, your cryptocurrency will be downloaded from the “paper card”. Then, you’re free to send cryptocurrencies to the exchange from your mobile wallet. It is not possible to send cryptocurrencies directly from the paper wallet to the exchanges described in this post.

To sell any amount of cryptocurrencies, choose the appropriate option on the site or publish a bid including your sale price. After the sale, the money will be in our online wallet on the website. It is worthwhile to make a full transaction as part of learning. To do this, you should register on a chosen website, authorize your account, buy a small amount of cryptocurrency, transfer it to an external wallet, transfer it from the wallet to an exchange (it may be a different exchange than the one where you made the purchase), and then sell it back on the market for this small amount of cryptocurrency. This is the best way to learn the whole process and even a pre-requisite for buying larger amounts of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

How to tax and settle revenues from cryptocurrencies?

The last issue is to pay tax for the amount earned by the sale of cryptocurrencies. The process may look differently depending on the country. In Poland for example, you have to send a tax declaration once a year (for 2022 it will be until the end of April 2023) and you have to pay 19% income tax.

Example (applicable to Poland): If you buy cryptocurrencies for $2,000 in may 2020 and sell them for $3,000 in November, your income will be $1,000 and you have to pay 19% tax ($190). The numbers are to be entered in the form PIT 38, field C. For more complicated matters, I always recommend you to meet your accountant who will calculate your annual tax declaration for you. In a free course, you will find a video conversation with my accountant Marcin, who explains in detail how to pay tax for cryptocurrency revenues.

All the links in this article:

Kucoin — one of 3 largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The best choice for anyone who starts a cryptocurrency journey.
Binance — the largest crypto exchange in the world.
Coinbase — one of the world’s largest services where you can easily buy cryptocurrencies.
Coinomi— a mobile wallet.
Bitaddress— creating paper wallets.
Free Bitcoin and cryptocurrency course — here you will find a free Bitcoin lessons to guide you how to make a purchase.
Blockchain.com — here you can check your Blockchain system wallet status.
Trezor — recommended hardware wallet.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for beginners: first steps

— listen to the podcast

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for beginners: first steps

— see the video

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for beginners: first steps — preview the video transcript

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Hi! Tom here.

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From Waiter to Millionaire.

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Warm greetings. In today’s video, I will
tell you about cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.

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You’ll learn how exactly Bitcoin works,

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the blockchain mechanism,
and other cryptocurrencies.

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I’ll show step by step how to buy
your first cryptocurrencies,

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where to do it, how to do it safely,
how to store cryptocurrencies safely,

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how to transfer them to various wallets,
how these wallets work,

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and finally how to sell these
cryptocurrencies.

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This will be a video for beginners who
are not familiar with this topic,

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and who want to start their adventure
with cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and maybe

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want to invest their first money.

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A few organizational issues.

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I am not an investment advisor.

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Remember all financial decisions,
related to cryptocurrencies, or other,

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or your own business investments
are made at your own risk.

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Also, the law does not
allow me to advise you.

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So, only get into
what you understand.

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I hope this video will
help you understand the topic,

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and it’ll be
a cool intro for beginners.

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Those who want to go deeper,
I cordially invite to

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my latest cryptocurrency course,
which is completely free.

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There are no hidden costs.

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The link to the course is below,
and you can order it for free,

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use it and
it is there for you.

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It is a kind of video tutorial
that shows exactly how to buy,

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store, send, and sell cryptocurrencies
using several services as examples.

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Feel free to participate in this
cryptocurrency course after watching this video.

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Let’s get started.

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Cryptocurrencies.

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I’ll start with some
facts about them.

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This is an interesting topic.

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I will often mention Bitcoin,
as it is the most popular cryptocurrency.

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A very interesting one,
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which has taken over the world.

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It was created some 10 years ago
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and today, we still don’t know who it was,
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I’ll give you a comparison to start with,
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cryptocurrencies and
the blockchain system work.

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The blockchain and cryptocurrency
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which is freely
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Everyone can access it.

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There is no supervision of a bank
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are publicly available.

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that they are decentralized
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If any of you remember torrents,

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which were especially popular in the past
when there were no streaming networks

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like Netflix, etc.,

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it was from torrents that
pirated games, movies were downloaded.

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Everyone probably still
remembers the old days.

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A lot of pornography
was also available there.

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But what is important is that torrents
were and still are based on P2P networks,

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i.e., users who receive and send files.

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This network could not
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it consisted of millions of users
transferring files among themselves.

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The same way the Internet
can’t be turned off,

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nor can the users in
the torrent network be turned off,

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or the network be dismantled,

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as it is based on the users,
and the network is free to use.

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The only cost is the users’ hardware.

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This is the big picture.

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The Bitcoin network
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are also based
on the users.

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Now, I’m going to use my new board,
which has just arrived, to show you

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how a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin works.

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Let’s say, there’s me, Tom, and I want to
send to someone, to Anna, one bitcoin.

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I don’t know if it is
clearly visible, but it should be.

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I’m sending one bitcoin.

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Each of us has its own public key,
I’ll explain it later.

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A public key is an account number
assigned in the Bitcoin system.

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You can have many of them.

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So, having one bitcoin in my account, I only need to know Anna’s public key,

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which can be publicly available,
if she decides to share it and still it is safe.

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And now by sending one bitcoin to this
public key, I’m sending a signal to the bitcoin network

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that I want to perform such an operation.

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In the network, there are miners,
whose computers validate the transaction.

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They are simply users
of the bitcoin network.

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They validate it, and only after reaching a sufficient number of confirmations,

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from users to prove
the transaction is valid,

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I have sufficient funds in my account,
only then is this bitcoin transferred to Anna.

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Then one bitcoin disappears
from my account.

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The miners receive a small payment,
a fraction of this transaction,

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And Anna receives
the payment in bitcoin.

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Thanks to the user-based system
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there is no bank,
it’s impossible to cheat.

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Because the number of miners who confirm
the transaction is greater than 1.

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The system is designed in such a way that
you can’t cheat it.

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And you can’t really reach every user.

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They cannot be ruled out.

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It is a decentralized system, they
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and you can’t just turn it off.

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And it is a fully anonymous
and non-supervised transaction.

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This is how bitcoin works.

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This is a digital currency designed
for such purposes,

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which operates outside
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the so-called Fiat currencies,

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and this currency has slightly different characteristics
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since its quantity is limited.

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There will be no more than 21
million bitcoins on the market.

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Now, we have about 18.

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The system is set up so that
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up to a certain point,

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and also the maximum
amount is 21 million.

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It is impossible for any government
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due to some kind of virus.

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This currency can’t be destroyed
so easily by inflation or other such things.

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Of course, the bitcoin exchange rate in general.

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Let’s write down the bitcoin exchange
rate at this moment.

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It was a little over 7000 euros when
I bought bitcoins recently.

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Bitcoin started with a value
of literally nearly zero.

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10 years ago, bitcoin cost virtually
nothing, then it grew to several hundred dollars.

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Back then it already seemed a lot.

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While in 2018, bitcoin reached about $18,000
and there was a big frenzy about it.

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The bitcoin rate depends
on the demand and supply.

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The supply is somehow fixed,
because there is a limited amount of bitcoins.

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But the demand can vary a lot,
because it depends on events, like economic crisis.

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A crisis may increase demand for bitcoin,
other cryptocurrencies, or gold, etc.

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It also depends on actions,
on people who may have a lot of bitcoins.

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The bitcoin founder may have a lot of bitcoins
and may want to enter the market at some point.

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Then the supply goes up,
the demand goes down.

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But in general bitcoin
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Though, it is very dependent
on the mood of the market.

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On whether the government bans
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What are the legal restrictions.

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And this results in the fact that
bitcoin’s rate simply changes.

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As of now, we have a stage
of relative stabilization.

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But it is still a currency that is capable
of skyrocketing or plummeting by tens of percent

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in just a few months.

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This means pros and cons,
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by investing, for example 50,000
in bitcoin in a few months, you can earn tens of thousands.

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And it is an incredible opportunity.

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And I’ll tell you, maybe even before
I get to buying cryptocurrencies,

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I’ll get to the investment strategy.
How to buy bitcoins or cryptocurrencies at all.

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Well, there are two options.

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The first one is trading.

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It is for the people who
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who know what they are doing,
or for the people who are naive.

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It is nice to buy
one bitcoin for $5,000

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and sell it tomorrow for $5,300.

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We earn $300.

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But is the same way
we could lose $1,000.

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Trading requires constant attention,
following the news,

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and even then, you wouldn’t be
able to predict the future of bitcoin.

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But historically, its
exchange rate rises all the time.

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The second strategy is to buy bitcoin
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We try to avoid the peaks.

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We buy cheap from time to time, a little
more, a little less,

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but we regularly fill our wallet
at relatively low prices.

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That way our money multiplies,
and after a few years we can have a cool gain.

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And I am also a follower of this strategy.

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It doesn’t just come down to bitcoin,
but to many other things.

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We regularly buy bitcoin or other
cryptocurrencies.

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And importantly, bitcoin,
cryptocurrencies – it is a very high-risk investment.

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If you want to buy bitcoin,
and I’m about to show you how to do it.

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You have to use for that purpose only
money that you are prepared to lose.

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If you have $5,000 in your account,
then absolutely don’t buy a crypto for $5,000.

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If you have $100,000,
then don’t buy for $100,000.

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I think you should allocate 5 to 10%
of your savings for cryptocurrencies,

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so that if something happens, you won’t be put in a
corner to withdraw them

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at a lower rate and
lose on the investment,

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or simply you won’t
lose your livelihood.

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Not to mention people who
took out loans for cryptocurrencies.

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We just don’t want
to feel stressed about it,

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and if we want to be in the process
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I think it’s worth getting into it,

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but with the money we can lose,
we can freeze,

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because maybe in a few years we will be able
to make a pretty good profit on it.

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If you have $100,000 in your account, buy
bitcoins for a few thousand dollars,

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if you haven’t done it before, learn to
operate on small amounts.

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I also teach and encourage this.

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I invite you to
a free cryptocurrency course.

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The link is below.

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I show how to buy cryptocurrencies
for small amounts at the beginning,

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teach how to use the exchanges
and how the whole blockchain works.

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This way, once you learned the process,
you can buy cryptocurrencies for more.

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In the course, I also show how
I do it, how I buy cryptocurrencies.

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I show how I store them.

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I even show how
many I have of them.

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I really recommend this course.

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Let’s move on.

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I will tell you where such
currencies can be bought.

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Where we are able
to purchase such cryptocurrencies.

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Sorry it’s taking so long.

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There are many websites
for buying cryptocurrencies.

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There is some in every country.

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I will show you three that I use.

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There is one
main website I use.

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I’ll tell you
its advantages and disadvantages.

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Let me write them down for you.

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The first one is BitCoin DE.

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The second one will be Coinbase.

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And Zonda (formerly BitBay).

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The Polish one.

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All links are under the
video and in the course.

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I really recommend it.

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I mainly use bitcoin DE,
because it is a German exchange.

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Of course, it is available in English.

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I like it
because it operates in euro.

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I have a lot of savings in Euros
from my sales on Amazon,

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and that’s where I invested
some money and bought cryptocurrencies.

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Most of the other websites also
allow purchases in euros,

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but Bitcoin DE is a German site.

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It’s very cool because it’s been on
the market for a long time.

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It’s trust-worthy for me and
this is where I bought most of my bitcoins.

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The second website is Coinbase.

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It is one of the largest English-language
exchanges in the world,

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and Zonda, which is a Polish website,
and there you can trade in PLN and also EUR.

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And other currencies.

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There, you can buy all cryptocurrencies,
while on Bitcoin DE only a few basic ones.

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Bitcoin is available on every of them.

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Bitcoin DE is a very interesting option.

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I recommend.

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Coinbase is one of the
largest crypto exchanges in the world.

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Shopping there is even easier.

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Unlike on Bitcoin DE, where you have to
choose and buy specific offers,

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same on Zonda, which is easy,

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while on Coinbase, you just need to specify
the amount of cryptocurrency you want to buy.

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Registering on these websites
is very important,

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and I talk about it
in more detail in the free course.

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The links are below.

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I tell in this video course how to do it
exactly, but as for now I’ll give you a little hint.

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In Coinbase, we select the exact amount of the currency we want to buy,

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and the website converts it,
and automatically and gives this currency.

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In order to sign up,
you have to provide your data.

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The verification is quite stringent
on these websites.

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It may slightly arouse your distrust,
because you must provide scans of our IDs,

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and in the case of Bitcoin DE you have to
have a conversation in English or German

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through a special app with a consultant to
verify your identity.

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But every exchange works this way, because
they are legally required to have our data,

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including our home address.

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So don’t be surprised if you have to
provide this data.

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But once you register, you are verified,
then you can trade currencies.

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You can buy, sell and send them to
external wallets.

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If you want to see on video how I buy
these cryptocurrencies,

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sign up for my completely free
cryptocurrency course.

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Now, the other thing worth talking
about is wallets.

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Wallets and keys.

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Once you have purchased cryptocurrencies
on the exchange,

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when you set up an account,
each account is a public key.

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That’s how the blockchain is structured.

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Especially bitcoin.

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So based on the example of bitcoin,
there is a public key and a private key.

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The public key is your account number,
which is visible, for example on the website,

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for transfer from outside.

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It is visible.

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You can generate it
on special website, like bitaddress.

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All links below.

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This public key is your account number
you can share,

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and there
you can transfer your bitcoins.

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Of course, you can have a lot
of such public keys.

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There is also a private key,
a security measure.

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You use it simply to log in
to your account.

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You can also create it
manually for paper wallets.

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More details in a second.

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And this
key is only for you.

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In order to withdraw money from your
account you need to provide it.

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To withdraw cryptocurrencies
from such accounts,

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you don’t need to know this private key,
but your credentials.

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Then, we can withdraw funds.

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But if you want
to store your cryptocurrencies,

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let’s say, purchased
on Zonda or Binance,

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and at that moment
you have there one bitcoin,

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then, what’s next?

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Cryptocurrency exchanges
are not the safest place to store cryptocurrencies.

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Many of them have been
hacked in the past.

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Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies
have been stolen.

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It is obvious you use the exchange,
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I recommend sending
your bitcoins to an external wallet.

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A wallet is our public key
secured with a private key.

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You have a few options.

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You can, of course, hold your currencies
in a wallet on a cryptocurrency exchange,

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and that is an option.

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I don’t advice it in the long run,

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especially if you want
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If you want to trade,
you need it there.

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This is the first option.

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In this case, it is a type
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The second option is
a mobile wallet.

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A mobile wallet can be
in an app on your phone.

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I highly recommend Coinomi.

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It is an application
for a phone or computer.

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They are both in sync, and
there you can send cryptocurrencies.

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It is password-protected
and relatively secure.

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Another option is a paper wallet.

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Simply, a piece of paper.

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Here is how it works.

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Once you have
currencies on any exchange,

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you have bought one bitcoin,
then you visit a dedicated website, Bitaddress.

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For the links, see the description
or read the blog post.

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My free course also shows
exactly how to do it.

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Here, we simply create a public
and private key manually on the website.

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We write them down on
a piece of paper or print.

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And at this point, we transfer money in
the form of bitcoin to this public key.

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And our paper is in a drawer
in the dresser.

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Don’t tell anyone where.

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And at this point, to withdraw the money,
you have to provide this private key

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in an electronic wallet
like Coinomi.

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Without access to this private key,
you won’t be able to withdraw money.

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And if it is on a piece of paper,
then no one is able to steal it from you,

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no one is able to hack it, etc.

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Presuming you hid it
in a safe place.

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There are some risks, like fire,
well then, we will lose those bitcoins,

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if this private key
is not written down somewhere else.

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Well, but that’s the risk.

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That’s why we have apps,
mobile wallets like Coinomi.

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We can have paper wallets, or for example
hardware wallets such as Trezor,

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which you simply plug in to USB,
enter your PIN and use it for storage.

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Although they also carry some risk, and
you have to pay for them.

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To start, I recommend to use, for example
Coinomi and send your funds there,

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and if you want to hold long-term,
then make transfer to a paper wallet

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and then tuck two copies away
and hide them in two separate places,

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so that to be able
to pay it out a few years.

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This brings us to where we have our funds
in the form of Bitcoin

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in a paper wallet
or Coinomi mobile wallet.

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And if you want to cash them out,
better don’t it right away, just wait,

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if you want to withdraw your
cryptocurrencies from Coinomi

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and cash them out
into euros or dollars,

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then type your public key to make a transfer
from Coinomi to Binance or Coinbase

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and at that moment your cryptocurrencies
will appear there and you can sell them

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for example for euros or dollars
on many platforms like Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin.

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And that’s how
we got the money back.

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If you have funds
in your paper wallet,

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then you must first import them
from your paper wallet into the mobile one.

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In Coinomi for example

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you just type your private key.

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All bitcoins are downloaded
in this case to Coinomi

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and then we can send it
to an exchange and sell it.

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An advantage of a paper wallet is that
no one can steal bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies

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because it can’t be
accessed from the web.

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I think that’s it.

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If you have questions,
leave your comment below.

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If you want to learn more,
visit my blog.

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You can find everything there.
I might have forgot to tell something.

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I recommend my
free cryptocurrency course,

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made especially for you.

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Last thing, a tip from me
on how much of a cryptocurrency to buy.

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I think you should buy
a little to start with.

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Buy for a dozen dollars
or euros to learn the whole process,

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buy cryptocurrencies on
any of these websites,

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register preferably on
at least two of them.

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Buy small amounts on each,
learn how to use them,

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understand how the whole
blockchain and bitcoin work.

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Send some to a mobile wallet,
some to a paper wallet,

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import it, send it back
to the exchange,

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maybe even sell it.

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Do the whole process
on a small amount.

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Learn to understand.

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Even make some
minor mistakes.

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Later, only after you learn this,
and understand how cryptocurrencies work,

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you can buy some larger amounts,

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and from time to time,
when the exchange rates are off-peak,

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buy more and maybe someday
they will gain a lot of value.

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No one knows.

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That’s why you should invest only a small portion of your funds.

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Thanks a lot!

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I warmly invite you to my free Bitcoin
course and my free Amazon and online business course.

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See you!

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Subscribe, give your thumbs up
and take care!

The blog From Waiter To Millionaire — what is it?

The blog From Waiter To Millionaire is my personal project that aims to improve the quality of our lives. Here and on my YouTube channel, you’ll find a lot of valuable insights on topics related to improving many aspects of our lives.

My name is Tomasz Micherda and I have been a waiter for several years, and then a restaurant manager in Cracow. I am keen on acquiring new knowledge, improving my life and online business. I am interested in the broadly defined personal development, and I publish books on Amazon. I’m also a big blogger and a blog you’re reading now is my greatest passion.

My blog is designed to inspire you to act and provide you with useful knowledge. Over many years, I changed a lot in my life and my every-day goal is to be a better person. It is a great pleasure for me to share my knowledge and achievements with you, because you can also learn a lot, and I am therefore more motivated to work on myself. Sharing my experienced with you also makes me learn much more about the subjects I have chosen.

From Waiter To Millionaire — what are the topics I discuss here?

Better living — what do you want to change in your life? You feel you can do much more, but you don’t know how to do it and where to start? Start by setting your goals and gradually achieve them every day.
Thinking differently — you don’t have to follow the crowd — only in this way you will feel 100% like you.
New knowledge — learn every day and grow. Knowledge combined with action is the key to success. Find new articles, videos and online courses on my blog every week.
Richer life — are you sure regular job is satisfying for you? I am passionate about online business. I’ll give you a whole bunch of free lessons about online monetization.
Motivation and inspiration — in addition to knowledge, I’ll tell you a lot of interesting things enabling you to understand that you can do more than you think.
Freedom — all these things can give us a lot of freedom in our lives. Times have changed and we no longer need to follow the patterns. Today, we can lead a life that is more interesting, different from that of previous generations, and a life that is definitely more in line with our interests.

I invite you to visit my YouTube channel, where you can find a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to take action.

The blog From Waiter To Millionaire — listen to the podcast

The blog From Waiter To Millionaire — see the video

The blog From Waiter To Millionaire — preview the video transcript

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Hi. It’s Tomek here.
From Waiter to Millionaire.

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I’m saying hello from
the beautiful Polish Beskids.

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We escaped smog in Cracow.

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This is in general my first film.

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Therefore, forgive a little. It may not be
perfect and I am a little stressed.

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But I’d like to say what
my channel will be about.

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My blog From Waiter to Millionaire.

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It will be a blog about me.

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It will be a channel about me, where
I’ll show my thoughts, I will give my knowledge.

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I decided to create it because
I’d really like to grow.

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This blog will motivate me to work much harder.

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Because if I share my goals, experiences, knowledge with you,

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and I have to record regularly,
it will help me a lot.

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It will help me a lot to be systematic.

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And being systematic is the key to success.

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And what kind of knowledge will be
in this channel, what will I talk about?

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I will primarily talk about Amazon.

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And publishing various products on Amazon,
mainly books, because it interests me.

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It turns me on.
Paper books, electronic books.

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This is the first thing
when it comes to finances.

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I’m going to talk here about development,
about knowledge, about learning,

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about breaking more barriers, comfort zone,
because this is, in my opinion,

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the most important thing
we can do in life.

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This is the key to any success whether
in publishing books or in breaking through.

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Why From Waiter to Millionaire?

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Because I have been
a waiter for a long time.

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I still am somewhere
in the world of food and restaurants.

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This make it clear why waiter in the title.

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I was a waiter and it was
an amazing experience in my life.

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It is a symbol of the beginning
of a career, of my life.

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The term millionaire will be our goal.

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It’s not about making a million,
although why not,

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it’s more about achieving,

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breaking through, overcoming your
limits and whatever it may be.

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For me it may be creating
a cool blog, having many viewers.

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For you it may be
something completely different.

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Yes, you know what will it be.

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I will be helping you.

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Regarding motivation, regarding knowledge,
and I will focus on Amazon.

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I will tell you how to release on Amazon.

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What it’s all about.

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Why it turns me on.

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I’m going to talk about
online business in general.

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Because I think it is a brilliant business.

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Why? Because any online business allows us,
allows me to be free,

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to give up my regular job, to travel,
to work remotely and be free.

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Whatever being free means to you.

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Maybe just having time to yourself,
maybe it’s traveling, maybe it’s anything else.

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But freeing yourself by being independent
from others who may control us.

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It’s also about breaking free from society,
which means not necessarily following a path

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such as studying, working, sending out resumes.

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Just maybe it’s learning, studying,
developing and doing what we want.

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Now times have changed.

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From 10-20 years, especially in recent years,

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we are able to work and live
completely differently,

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why our lives can be much more interesting.

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We don’t have to sit
from morning to evening at work.

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But we can do many more interesting things
and have fun and be proud of ourselves.

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That is the purpose of this blog.

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This is my first film.

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I hope you like it.

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There’ll be more, there’ll be a lot of them.

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I invite you to subscribe this channel
to get more videos of this kind.

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I also invite you to my blog, where there
will also be articles,

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where you will find
a free course on Amazon.

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A very elaborate one.

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Check it out,
there’s a link in the description.

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On my website as well,
you’ll find everything there.

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All kinds of tools, information.

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I encourage
you to visit this channel.

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Thanks for watching, see you soon.

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Thanks!

How to make money online?

How to make money online? — The most important rules of success

How to make money online? In this article, I will show you the most basic principles which will help you succeed in earning online. Those rules apply to virtually any type of business and to any of your goals and tasks in your life.

At the beginning of my journey in making money online, I was very fascinated with Amazon. When I was looking for information on making money online, I learned that Amazon is the largest online store in the world and has access to a huge number of potential customers and that you can release your book there. I was then sure that it was a business for me.

I decided to release my book. The decision was made. As a waiter in a Cracow-based restaurant, the decision-making process didn’t take me long and I decided to release my first product on a topic I knew and liked. I titled my book “Krakow Party Guide” and it was a guide for party lovers and tourist for my city. The idea seemed brilliant because it was unique on Amazon and the entire market.

Making money online and creating electronic products

In two weeks, I wrote a book. Then it was turn for the English translation, ordering a cover on Fiverr, text formatting and promotion. I spent a good few thousand PLN on the book (the main cost was the English translation). Unfortunately, the book proved to be a complete financial failure, and sold poorly. The return on sales did not even cover part of the costs incurred, and it was certainly not a great business success.

However, I did not give up and I was still wondering how to make money online. This time, armed with paid knowledge from online courses and the knowledge of those who already got it over, I decided to proceed. I have learned the principles I should follow in the process of publishing my book on Amazon. One of the basic principles was to research the market, that is, to publish products with a demand, not those that seem interesting for us.

How to make money online? Amazon and Amazon once again

I decided to release two more books at the same time and after a thorough market study and having acquired the necessary knowledge, I decided once again to act. The first of the two books once again proved to be a failure and again sold in a very small quantity. However, the second book allowed me to completely forget about the previous defeats. Immediately after the premiere, my book Make Him Scream was sold very regularly.

I was very happy when looking at the sales results, especially because I was on a sunny holiday in Barcelona at that time. There is nothing more enjoyable than lying on the beach with your girlfriend and watching the sales results of your own book. My book was a sexual guide for women, and this niche proved to be very successful. But the best was still to come. Some time later, my product became a best-seller on Amazon in one of its categories, which resulted in even more sales and my great pride, because seeing the word “best-seller” next to my product made me smile very broadly. Over the years, I’ve even created an online course Release a Best-Seller, which shows exactly how should you release books and how my book was awarded the title of the best-seller on Amazon.

In this example, I would like to tell you how to make money online and to outline the key principles of the success in online business.

Principles of success

Systematic work and not giving up — this is probably the most important element of success in every aspect of business and life in general. The most efficient online profit-making is ensured by systematic work in one area (e.g. Amazon). You have to try and try and try, until you succeed. If only you believe in what you do, you will be able to do it. Remember: to achieve your goals, you need long work, and people looking at it from aside will still think you’re just lucky. I am the best example, because the best-selling book was only the beginning and the starting point. After that, it was only better and thanks to systematic work, I learned how to earn money online and I created a solid business on Amazon and also my blog over time.

Long-term thinking — another principle that results somehow from the first one. You have to believe in what you do and focus on the process. You won’t get a lot of money within a month, you won’t lose 10 pounds in a week, etc. The bigger and better effect you want to see, the more time you need to spend on it. You can only achieve the results by thinking long-term and working regularly every day. You don’t have to make a breakthrough today or tomorrow — take one small step every day and do it every day for the next year, and you can be sure you’ll go far. Then, others will look at you and think how you were able to do it?

Knowledge — you still need to add knowledge to the previous rules. In my example, you can see how expensive it was to release my first book. It makes no sense to learn on your own mistakes — it costs too much time and money. It is easier to pay a fraction of the price for this knowledge and avoid unnecessary stress.

If you liked this Article, I invite you to visit my YouTube channel for more information and helpful knowledge and to read the rest of the articles. Also take advantage of the free online Amazon and business course — learn more about how to earn online.

How to make money online? — listen to the podcast

How to make money online? — see the video

How to make money online? — preview the video transcript

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What is the key to success
on the Internet, in online business?

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Maybe everyone is wondering
if it’s some amazing knowledge

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or you must have a lot of money
to make a lot of money on the Internet

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to be successful on the Internet.

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I’n sure this is true
not only for online business,

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but of any kind of business.

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What it takes to succeed on the Internet.

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For example on Amazon.

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As I was starting my adventure with Amazon,
I published my first book,

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which was my own book.

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It was titled Kraków Party Guide.

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I’m from Krakow as you may know or not.

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I used to work in the food industry.

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I was a frequent party-goer back then,
and I know Krakow well.

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I was fascinated by Amazon.

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I heard about Amazon in a course,
without any specific information,

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but I heard Amazon is huge,
it offers amazing opportunities to sell worldwide.

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I became fascinated.

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Amazon was what I wanted to do.

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I needed to publish my book.

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What kind of book should I publish?

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Maybe, a book about Krakow.

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I lived in Krakow.

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A great idea.

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I knew it.
I will write it.

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I wrote a book.

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It took me maybe two weeks,
because it was some 50 pages.

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Enough. No need to publish
more on Amazon.

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I translated this book, ordered a cover
and I published it.

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In the meantime, I promoted it.

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It needed some promotion.

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It cost several thousand PLN.

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The book was published on Amazon.

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It was a flop. The sale was very low.

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Some 20-30 copies
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From each
I had maybe a few dollars.

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So, the success was not very big.

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An ultimate financial flop.

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I was very disappointed.

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What is the key to success
on the Internet?

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I didn’t give up.

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I decided to keep publishing
and invested in knowledge.

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I invested in courses that costed several
hundred dollars and I gained knowledge.

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I gained knowledge that guided me step by step
on how to publish, how to do it well.

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With this knowledge, before the publication
of the next book, I began to learn many new things.

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First of all, not to publish books about
what I like, but about what sells.

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But that is perhaps
a topic for another video.

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What is the key to success?

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First of all, it is knowledge and
keeping up, that is, doing something,

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learning from those who are better than
you and not giving up.

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And this is probably
the main key in this video.

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My first book didn’t
work out for me at all.

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So I decided to publish more books.

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Two at a time.

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And, by that time I had already
learned the inside know-how.

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I researched the market
and published two more books.

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The second book turned out to be a flop.

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It was an even bigger
flop than my first book.

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It didn’t sell at all almost.

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I created it a little bit
on the basis of what I like.

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It doesn’t matter.

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The third book, I thought it out well.

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I researched the market.

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I don’t hide the fact it wasn’t
an exceptional book,

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but it was based
on good market research.

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I didn’t give up and I published the third
book, which was a bestseller on Amazon.

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I couldn’t believe it.

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I published this book in 2016,
I guess.

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Yes, in 2016. Right before
I left for my vacation.

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I was in a hurry to get it done before
going to Barcelona with my girlfriend.

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I published this book.
I did everything I needed to do.

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In Barcelona
I notices great sales.

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I was lying on the beach
and watched the sales level.

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When I came back, the book became
a bestseller on Amazon in one category.

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I really couldn’t believe it.

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A simple book.

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A book 30 pages long.

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Well, the topic is not relevant.

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I will tell it perhaps in my course,
which you can find in the link below.

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I describe there the best methods to make
money on the Internet.

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Also there is a lot about books.

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This book was a bestseller.

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And I couldn’t believe it, because it was also
such a ridiculous category, never mind.

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And really, when I saw a bestseller label
in the world’s largest online store

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on my book that I didn’t write myself,
that someone wrote for me,

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it was an amazing feeling.

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It’s been a while since then.

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This book still sells and is out there.

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I will show it to you someday.

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Or take a look at the course.

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For me it was
a proof that it can be done.

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It’s not like the first time you do something,
it works out for you.

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Let’s say you are a child.

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At the beginning you have to
learn how to walk.

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You learn everything
and the beginnings suck.

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You just suck.

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We must admit our first times suck.

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Every first time is the worst,
as they say.

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I remember that it just
gave me a lot to think about.

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And remember nothing will
work out for you at first.

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It is difficult to publish
products on the Internet

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or creating whatever you create,
in all industries in all life areas.

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The key to success
is to be systematic,

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to keep up
and to think long-term.

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If you create an Internet business
turn to your knowledge, education,

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and learn from
whoever is better than you.

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Make a hell of a lot of mistakes,
otherwise you won’t learn any lesson.

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But there are mistakes you can avoid,
as they can be very costly.

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If you have someone to help you,
they will tell you, even from videos like this,

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what should be avoided.

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There are mistakes you will make,
you must make.

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Many things will
turn out to be failures.

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You can avoid certain mistakes
to save a lot of money.

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For example, if I knew how to
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I would not have published it,
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I would have known that there was
no demand for a book about Kraków on Amazon.

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Now, I know that when creating books
for Amazon, we’re targeting the U.S. market,

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and that we must select
our primary audience.

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At this point such a book makes no sense.

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Unless it’s for fun.

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But that’s not the point.

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You can publish
for fun and still earn.

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Therefore, leverage someone else’s
knowledge and think long-term.

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Don’t be afraid of failure, because
failures will happen.

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Just make sure to limit them.

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And try endlessly.

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Do not give up, then you will succeed in
business on the Internet.

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If you want to do it faster,
then visit my website or use the link in the description,

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where there is a free course
where I present the best online business models

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including Amazon and more.

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There, I tell you everything you might
want to know to get started.

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Simply click, sign up,
enter your email and you get instant access.

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The access is unlimited.

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There you’ll find
7 long videos, descriptions,

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a lot of interesting information,
you’ll see how I work on Amazon.

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Everything that might
interest you to begin with.

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Also, I highly encourage you
to take a look there.

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Because the online business adventure is amazing.

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It gives you freedom
and I’d love for you to give it a try.

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I wish you all the best and luck.

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Thank you.

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How do you like videos like this one?

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I encourage you to subscribe to my
channel and leave your like.

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This will help me a lot.

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Thanks and see you soon.

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Making money online, or why is online business the best?

Making money online, or why is online business the best

In this article, I’ll tell you why I chose this kind of business for myself. Earning on the Internet, which is simply doing business online, is something I see remarkably interesting and innovative. The Internet today offers us opportunities that we could dream of a few years ago. The most important of these opportunities is scaling our work.

First of all, making money online should be treated like any other type of business. This is not something “easier” than other types of business. I’d love to warn you at the beginning — doing business online is as demanding as any other business. Don’t expect shortcuts in this case because you can’t do business with this approach. Every type of money-making requires your dedication, commitment and investment. What makes online money-making so special (at least in reference to the types of business that I prefer and recommend — check OUT THE FREE COURSE “The Best Types of Online Businesses” (coming soon) — is the scale effect and the ability to create a business virtually independently.

Making money online means a lot of potential customers

By creating products online, we are able to reach an enormous number of people and duplicate our product at no extra cost. If we create a product such as an e-book or a book printed on demand, it is enough to bring as many leads as possible to our product and, in fact, there is no upper limit to our earnings. We can add new products regularly to create a snowball effect, owning more and more products over time. With me, this principle has worked well on Amazon for releasing books and later also for blogging.

Working online and doing business online also gives us a profound sense of freedom in our lives. We do not have to commute, wait in traffic jams. Using our computer, we can work from any place in the world. Of course, we do not have to fly around the world (but we can), but it is about total freedom, which makes us live a completely different style of life that was not available to most people 10–20 years ago.

You can start from zero and grow gradually

Another especially important aspect is that you can start online business and making money online completely from scratch. Gradually, you will be learning and building your products. If you have a regular, full-time job or you are a student, you are able to build your business online in your spare time. I regularly published simple products on Amazon and blogging allowed me to completely stop working a regular job.

The results of your work will depend only on your input. In your regular job, you are being paid by an hour, a month, etc. If you are doing business online, only you are responsible for the results. You take full responsibility for your input, your knowledge and your mistakes. Earning in this way forces you to think long-term, which makes you move from thinking as a regular employee to thinking as a businessperson who is fully responsible their life. No more pretending and complaining. The good news is that if you work wisely, you do not need to work your buns off to have a good financial impact on your work. Who said you need to work 5 days a week? Why not work harder for a month, and then spend the next month elsewhere and work less with a laptop in your hand? Making money online gives you full freedom.

You don’t need to be a genius to run an efficient business online. Simply publish and promote simple products — an amazingly simple gift book for the US market can give you regular income and you are able to prepare a significant amount of such products in a short time. It is enough to know how to do it, and your regular work will be the key to your success. I remember the day when I sold my first book in the US and it was an amazing feeling. Creating something for yourself and selling it in a country where you have never been, changes your beliefs. At a time, this has changed my perception of what is feasible.

Making the first dollar should be your first goal

Yes, one dollar. Once you do it, then it will go faster and faster. If you can earn one dollar, you can earn just one million. The strength of the Internet is enormous because the Internet enables the scale effect and sale for many people.

Making money online: why is it worth to do it? — listen to the podcast

Making money online: why is it worth to do it? — see the video

Making money online: why is it worth to do it — preview the video transcript

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Hi. Tomek here. From Waiter To Millionaire.

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Hello once again from the beautiful Beskids.

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See how cool it is here.

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Today, I’d like to talk a little bit about
online business, namely why online business?

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Because on my channel, I discuss the topic
of online business.

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This is one of the main topics I talk about.

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Online business turns me on and that’s what
I’ve been doing for a while.

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I got very into it and I love it.
Especially Amazon and everything related to it.

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Now also blogging, but as the title of this
video suggests, why online business?

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Why does it turn me on?

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Why will it turn you on maybe?

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So why?

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Because it is amazing, beautiful.
It did not exist 20 years ago.

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At all.

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20 years ago everyone
had their first cell phones.

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Today, we have smartphones,
the internet, amazing opportunities.

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Online business in my opinion is amazing,
because it allows us to have a workstyle,

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to have a lifestyle that
were once not attainable.

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A workstyle that gives us
a completely new opportunity.

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With online business,
you are able to publish

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for example an e-book or paper book,
with a very low contribution.

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You can release it for $100 or even less,
sometimes for free, if you can do more.

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For the US and global markets.

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And it is there.

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It is there all the time and it sells.

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It will be there for years and even decades,
as long as there are platforms like Amazon.

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And this book will be there
and will sell.

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This is one of the reasons why I like online business,
’cause I can create such things.

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This is just an example
of online businesses.

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A product you can sell.

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That’s cool, that’s what I do.

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Other reasons?
Because it enables a different lifestyle.

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If you grow an online business, it will give
you a lifestyle completely different

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from the one previous generations could have.

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That is, you don’t have to go to work.

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You have to work and learn,
but you don’t have to get up at a specific time,

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leave at a specific time
every day.

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You can do it at home.

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You can do this in travel.

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You can do it anywhere.

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You can do it even at your current work.

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If you have the opportunity and you can use
spare moments at work to start such a business

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and you can do it.

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Another reason for
the online business is that

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you can start it
having a full-time job.

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For example, you can start it
when you go to school, college, university.

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If you have a full-time job,
you can do it after work.

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Also, in the evenings or at work.

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I did that this way too
and I also do, and it is possible.

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You can start from scratch.

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You don’t need experience,
you don’t need much.

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You can do it from today,
learning, without any knowledge.

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And you can do it today.

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This way you are able to reach your goal
step by step and the results you achieve

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are really only up to you.

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It’s not that you’ll earn
any specific amount online.

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This is not a full-time job.

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The results depend on
how much time you devote.

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You can devote, for example,
three hours a week.

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You know the result.

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Or you can work 4 days a week
for 3 hours each day

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and really speed up the process to
be able to leave your full-time job in a year.

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You are able to do it.

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Here what matters is your approach.

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It mustn’t be the full-time job approach,
but the result-oriented approach.

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Work smart and you will have results.

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For example, did you know that you can
release several products a day for the US market?

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Did you know you can,
within six months

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release 200 products for
the US market and global market?

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I don’t know if you realize what a great feeling it is
when you publish a book and sell

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the first copy and make a few dollars.

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The first earned $ feels amazing.

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And seeing how the product you created sells
on Amazon and you get paid for it,

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let’s say $2 per book.

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It makes you feel you can do it.
And now imagine you’re able to publish

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100 books in six months and they are there and
they make money for you.

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And you don’t need
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You don’t have to do anything.
They sell.

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Really, it is a feeling that cannot be
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Another aspect when it comes to the business
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is that you have to keep learning.

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It all depends on you.

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There is no boss here who
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Or who will tell you exactly what to do.

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You have to switch entirely
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That is, as if you had a company.

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You have to take care of your effects.

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You take responsibility for
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Don’t act here.

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Your input will give you output.

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This is also an amazing aspect
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It forces you to be completely responsible.

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A clean fight, just get on with the job.

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And another aspect of working on the
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There is no such thing here
that you go to work, work for 8 hours and get paid.

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Paid per hour or per month,
per day, and so on.

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Here in turn you have to take responsibility
for yourself, you have to look long term.

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You build your online business,
whether you publish books online

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or sell on Amazon or run a blog.

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You build your brand,
your products for many years.

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You have to realize that it’s not easy.

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The Internet gives you amazing opportunities.

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But it’s not that you can became
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You have to take a long-term view.

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And with that in mind, you’ll grow a lot.

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If you plan an online business
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and makes you a better person.

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So don’t work per hour,
don’t work for someone else,

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for any kind of paycheck,
even a large one.

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Instead take full responsibility, create, wait,
invest, develop, learn.

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And after a year or two enjoy a really
rich harvest.

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And that’s the essence of the Internet.

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When publishing products on the Internet,
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I saw the greatest results
after months of hard work.

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After I stacked up a lot of products and
knowledge, experience,

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only after time they began to bring a cool effect.

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Really cool effect.

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Really, imagine selling
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What a feeling.

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There comes another month.

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You don’t publish them again.
You do another 1000.

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How do you feel?

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Give it a try.

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If the theme of books for Amazon and
releasing online products is something

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interesting to you, please subscribe to my
channel and take a look at my website,

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where I created a free online course.

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Best Online Business Models, where
I present the most interesting ways to make money online.

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First of all, Amazon, books, and more.

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I presented there all types of online
business that I have selected and described.

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There, you can get to know them.

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It is a 100% free course.

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Just visit my website.

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There it is.

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Below there is a link.
Enjoy this course.

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It is elaborate.

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It’ll take you a while to go
through it, but it is free.

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You can visit and see.

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Maybe you’ll love online business and
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and start operating in this area.

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Maybe you want to develop.

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You want to change your life.

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I highly encourage you to do so.

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Thank you very much.

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I’d appreciate your thumbs up,
your subscriptions, and using my course,

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I’ve worked very hard on it.

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I’d love to see it helps
you to learn something.

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Thanks! See you soon.

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Bye!

How to set your goals?

How to set your goals — my 2018 goals for the project From Waiter To Millionaire

How to set your goals? Many outstanding people say that we should record our goals and, ideally, share them with our relatives. I decided to go a step further and my first video and blog post will be about setting targets for 2018. I share my plans publicly, because then I will have no other option than to simply achieve the goals I have set. My goals are written and public — now I just need to achieve them.

Before I go to my plans in concrete terms, I will tell you how the goals should be set correctly. I built my goal-setting principles on my experience, past plans and the knowledge of people much better than me. In many books related to personal development, business, etc., you can find at least one paragraph on how to set goals. Here are a few amazingly simple and universal rules.

How to set your goals and achieve them effectively?

The goals should be recorded — this is a basic principle. If you don’t save your goals, you’ll just forget them quickly. Keep your goals in sight so you can return to them at least once a week. I have a large A4 paper sheet that hangs over my desk and reminds me every day of my goals.
Goals must be defined — you must clearly define what you want to do and how long you want to achieve your goals. The goal must be measurable because you need to know when the goal is met.
Share your goals — tell your friends and family about your goals. Now, if you don’t get them done, you’ll be perceived as someone who make empty promises. You don’t want to be seen like this, do you?
Break your goals into smaller stages — that is an incredibly important aspect. If you set a goal for example to release twelve books on Amazon this year, plan to release one book per month — it seems more realistic. Too much work to do results in postponing and giving up the action.
Little action every day = a big effect every year — remember that your daily work will give you a long-term, amazing result. I used to release two simple products per day on Amazon (sometimes more), and in the course of the half year I had more than half a thousand, and until today they provide me with a passive income. The first money I received only a few months after the product was released, but after a longer period of time the sales exceeded more than a thousand items every month, and I didn’t have to do anything more. In order to achieve this effect for a long time I had to stick to the daily targets, because going too far forward would quickly discourage me.

My goals for 2018 are as follows:

Create a blog “From Waiter to Millionaire”:

Post 50 great videos on YouTube (1 video per week)
Publish 50 valuable posts/articles (1 entry per week)
Post 50 valuable posts on Instagram (1 post per week)
Create and publish at least 1 product/online course for those interested in publishing books on Amazon.

UPDATE of the progress in 2019 and some motivation for you

My targets for 2018 have been fully met. The blog From Waiter To Millionaire was my small business experiment, which has totally exceeded my expectations. I have achieved my goals in excess. I have published more content than I had assumed and I created four online courses in total. In the course of one and a half year, my blog provided me with PLN 127 571 of revenue. If you’re still thinking of creating your online business, I strongly encourage you to start taking action. Hard and systematic work have made me successful in blogging and previously on Amazon. Setting goals makes sense and I very much hope that my blog will inspire you.

How to set your goals? — listen to the podcast

How to set your goals? — see the video

How to set your goals? — preview the video transcript

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Hi, I’m Tomek. It’s already February, but
I’d like to show you my goals for this year.

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I am just starting my
blog From waiter to millionaire.net

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and my goal for this year is to create a super blog,
release 50 videos,

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release a new video every week,
give you super knowledge.

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And if I don’t do it, then I’m a moron,
an idiot, and you can laugh at me.

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I invite you to visit my blog.

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See you soon!