Wednesday Night Thoughts

While reading the book The $100 Startup, the author recommends a 140-character business statement. After short consideration, this is what I wrote,

“To help teach young, motivated people to become inspired to invest aggressively, love life, and chase things they love.”

I believe that the most important trait that a person can have is honesty, and not just telling parts of the truth, but being transparent about the whole truth. I think that all things in life crumble with dishonesty.

If you are able to look in the mirror and lie to yourself every day about who you are and what you believe if a relationship is intertwined with lies and deceit, if an organization is built upon corruption and fraud. They all surely shall crumble with time.

While right now this blog has received a total of about 4 viewers, all family members and friends, this is my greatest idea for a business. Selling what I believe to be my most valuable asset. My thoughts.

That might have been the most egotistical statement you have read.

But that’s because you aren’t reading it, how I am saying it. I believe that my best skill, which I spend the most time practicing, is simple thinking. Sometimes I feel like I’m in the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty the way that I sit in classrooms and dream of climbing mountains, surfing waves, and exploring the world.

Only to be shaken back to today’s reality. Which, most notably, was and is my dream life. Maybe just not a life I want forever.

So this, this is my escape. Both mentally and physically. I spend all of my free time diving into these ideas of investing, starting businesses, planning travel, and adventures I have an oddly deep wealth of knowledge for niche things, things that I believe it doesn’t hurt everyone to have.

For example, I think it’s important that people don’t just throw their money in an internationally-sized bank’s checking account and spend it without thinking. I think that if people KNEW the simplicity of investing and the potential and had solid advice from someone who DOESN’T have $100,000 to risk, they might just follow along and see long-term benefits.

I think if people heard every day from someone like them, they might just be a little more open to listening to themselves.

So with complete transparency, I can say that I want THIS is to be a piece of my final goal. If all goes well I’d love to write here until the day that I no longer have access to the internet. I want this to be my key to the world, and my physical escape beyond my mental one.

Throughout life, I have experienced many hyper-fixations, something that is a very common trait of both autism and ADHD. But there have been a couple of fixations that have come around just so many times that I know that it’s something that I could invest my life into.

Physical creation and exploring.

So this blog is going to take a little turn. I originally was looking to produce an incredibly strict blog with firm upload days, times, and topics. Honestly, I felt limited because on days when I was super interested in an investment I couldn’t write about it and I could feel the words on my fingertips while I typed about different ones.

Now instead, I’m going to write about what I feel is best each day. If something presses my mind it will then be pressed into my keyboard.

This is not to say that things will be written exactly as they are thought, but rather I’ll talk you through my thinking and learning process so hopefully you can follow along and enjoy the benefits.

This blog is not going to be produced with any end goal in sight except as a vault for my thoughts and an escape from the frustrations of daily life. I hope that I can use this to look at myself and catch all the lies that I tell to the person looking back at me in the mirror.

Because I believe in honesty.

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