The First Pages

Hola amigos. If you're reading this, welcome to the first, of many, weekly newsletters: The Sunday's Journal.

A/N: For the first few newsletters, they will be posted to my website.

The purpose of this newsletter is to give some insight into my life personal life. How I'm trying to be a better person. How I'm striving to accomplish my goals. How I'm trying to be make me and the ones I care about proud.

I'm hoping that this newsletter not only is going to be a reference for me when I look back on my journey, but a guide for you on the realism of becoming successful in all areas of life.

In this newsletter I'll cover projects I'm working on, what content I'm consuming and creating (one of it being this), how I'm trying to improve my day-to-day life and more.

I plan to keep The Sunday's Journal not too long of a read, but for this first one, it'll be quite long.

Well fastened your seatbelts mis amigos and thank you for coming along with me on this journey.

Money Projects

Well I guess you can say I've been starting to be hit by the craze of making a lot of money.

Now don't get me wrong, I've always been looking toward being an individual who would be financial free earlier than most (and yes a lot of my friends made fun of me when I said I will become a multi-millionaire), I just never really had the right drive on moving forward with the first steps.

However, I just turned 20 years old and it really got me thinking. While I know I'm still very much young, I couldn't keep banking on that excuse. Currently I have a full-time internship at one of the biggest banks in the world and in a year and a half, I'll be fully graduating.

Once I fully enter the adult-world, will I ever start putting in the plans to become financially free? To do the things I want to do? To explore the exotic places I want to travel? To follow my passions? Or will I be like everyone else..?

Well... no better time to start then now.

So today I'm going to start to take the first steps (I'm currently writing this on Saturday). Now where to begin?

There's two simple ways of being in possession of more money. Spending less or earning more. And let's get this clear. I'm not trying to get wealthy slowly. I'm not looking at working the 9-5 every year, be smart with asking for raises and invest a good portion of my money to retire with a good chunk of money in my bank account.

The goal that I, and I know that you have too, is obtain wealth a pretty fast pace. Now I'm not talking about getting rich in a few months because truly that doesn't happen or figure out some way to never put in any work or have to put in work, even passive income requires some attention every week, but a path to making a high income by putting in the hours (not too many) and won't take me decades.

Of course we heard of 'side hustles'. There's a million of these easy 'side hustles' on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc, that gets promoted by all these creators, but after every video you get that vague feeling of that what these side hustles really won't be generating any money at all.

So let's turn away from those. But where to start? Come up with some revolutionary idea and become a billionaire..? Nah, that's not my style (I'm not creative enough or intelligent enough for that).

Well I've recently watched a YouTube video by the name of Iman Gadzhi called 'The BEST business to start in your 20s (2023)'. In this video he explains a type of business called an, 'Advertising Agency'. I found this type of business to be intriguing.

Now here's the thing with these 'Money YouTubers', they're always selling some course. Of course, Iman has a course on growing this type of business for the low, low cost of... $1499.

Yeah I'm not paying that.

I'm a broke college student. I don't have the money for that.

But would I even need a course to accomplish with this? These YouTubers promise that their course will supercharge your success if you pay them.

Well why not try to succeed without them. Now I have no idea how to start, but well... that's where everyone start isn't it. That's where you and I are. So let's figure this out then.

So starting today. I'm going to be figuring this 'Advertising Agency' business model out, and you'll be in for the ride.

Book Libraries: Master Your Emotions by Thibaut Meurisse

Earlier this week I started this new book: 'Master Your Emotions' by Thibaut Meurisse. It's apart of a seven book mastery series where you try to become a master in multiple areas of your life. As in the title, the mastery is emotion for the first book.

So here's are the key points I've learned this week.

1. The quality of your life will not be determined by what happens to you, but by the attitude to which you approach life.
2. Most of the things we do is an attempt, by the ego, to obtain the validation of others or to satisfy the identification, placed by the ego, that we've assigned ourselves
3. Emotions come and go, and how you interpret these emotions will change the viewpoint of your life

A/N: How many key points per week will be based on how many chapters that I've read.

A/N: Once I'm finished, I'll post a full blog of a detailed review of this book.

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Weekly Inspiration: "If you can get 1% better each day for one year, you’ll end up 37 times better by the time you’re done." - James Clear

In my old college dorm, I used to have a wall by my desk where I would put up quotes on sticky notes.

I would be listening to motivation videos (while usually playing minecraft...) and I would hear something I liked and then stop what I was doing. Scribble it down on a new sticky note and slap it on the wall. Then continue on what I was doing.

The truth is I barely remember any of the dozens of quotes on that wall. I would rarely re-read them and barely stuck in my mind.

We've all heard motivational quotes before that would give us goosebumps, make our skin crawls and for some moments make us feel like we were ready to conquer the world. Then you hear a buzz on your phone (who you're hoping is from your crush) and you forget all about it.

I believe that truly the most powerful quotes, are the ones that are forever etched in our minds. That we've subconsciously applied to our lives. I believe we all have those type of quotes.

It's why for this first segment of Weekly Inspiration I wanted to give you one of the few quotes that I always remember, and even often quote from.

"If you can get 1% better each day for one year, you’ll end up 37 times better by the time you’re done."

This is from a book I read called 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear. Now I'll eventually cover this book at some time in the future, but right now I want to focus on this quote.

See I currently say I'm a good place in my life. In relevance to who I was a few years ago and the path I was going to take. Now of course, I'm still only 20 years old, so over the past few years my life has drastically changed and I've been growing up.

However, a few years ago I wasn't in the best place of my life. I was out of shape. On a bad diet playing video games for 3, or 4, or 5+ hours a day, and watching YouTube or TikTok (when it became popular). I barely played any sports or do any outside activities.

While I had some good friends, I was usually the one to be picked on by them. Before I entered college, I never was apart of a romantic relationship or even have much interaction with the opposite sex. I was shy, timid and afraid to speak my mind.

I was a loser.

Luckily for me, a lot has changed. Unluckily for my younger self, it took years to improve. A very slow process. But that's how change works. Over the years I've slowly improved myself. It wasn't always a straight line up of improvement, but a lot of up and downs.

I would go to the gym for a few weeks but be eating fast food everyday. I would step out of my comfort zone at a social gathering and try to talk with new people (mostly guys but a few chicas), but the next morning be a blubbering mess on a presentation.

The key with this improvement is having more ups then downs.

Eventually I was finally consistent with the gym and my diet (diet I'm still improving to be honest but its better than what it was), and I'm in the best shape I've ever been.

I've been apart of a few romantic relationships and I'm not scared (mostly) of talking with women. I don't often play video games anymore and I've deleted a lot of my social medias including TikTok and Instagram, focusing more time on reading.

Now I'm not saying I'm some enlighten being who's done the impossible, a lot of this was growing up. However, I could have very easily been on the path of still a loser. Still playing video games, being out of shape and not having any interaction with women.

I can say that I'm proud of myself and I'm proud of where I'm heading. It was slow yes, and you can't change everything in a day. But even if its one thing you can do to improve your life today; do it. And do it tomorrow. And the next day after that. Then add something else, and so on.

You probably won't see it now, but I promise you, those slow improvements will eventually surprise you.

That'll be all for this Sunday's Journal. Have a fine week mis amigos!