Sovereign
University

You’ve probably used Instagram, or facebook, or twitter. You’ve posted “content”

And you’ve never considered that the potential audience for content is INFINITE. (Paradigm)

You’ve not considered that the website you went of the local auto shop, someone had to build that website. (Skillset)

You’ve never learned the concept of creating something where the value increases with time. You’ve never learned how NOT to think like an employee. You’ve not done work where the value of the work exceeds the hour in which it was created. (Mindset)

You’ve not had to think creatively at all. You think in terms of a “job” and getting paid hourly, and not in terms of skillsets and talent stacks that scale up and have network effects.

I know you haven’t because I didn’t think that way either when I first started using the internet.

I wrote facebook posts for years, and never considered the value in writing articles, or recognized that value in that I could write well and people liked to read what I wrote.

I bought training education products, programs, ebooks from individuals, and never considered being one myself and how they became an educator that way to hundreds of thousands of people.

I made recommendations to people on what to read, and I knew nothing about affiliate marketing.

I was like everyone else, I consumed.

But then over time, I noticed the rise of people who produced. I paid more attention to my internet usage. I realized how vast the infrastructure of the digital world was. I realized the levels to it, and how at every level, there were people working and creating.

So my Mindset then gradually changed, and my paradigm shifted, and my skill set improved.

I learned how Soft skills like being able to write, speak, listen, and learn, they have “hard effects” that can be weaponized online

I realized how the vastness of the digital world made people more likely to trust INDIVIDUALS, not companies.

I realized that opportunity existed at every level of the system, but you had to be able to SEE it to know it existed.

When I made the decision to work “online” it wasn’t to make passive income, be a digital nomad, and live for cheap in Thailand or Bali.

It wasn’t to build a “7 figure business” or “8 figure business” and present myself as a digital god of SUCCESS.

My reasoning was simple: I did not want to work for someone else, I wanted total control over my work.

And I believed that my working for myself, being self-made and self-paid, with all the skillsets I’d learned, that created MORE opportunity and Freedom for me than anything else I could do.

I wanted to become a “Sovereign Individual”. Someone in complete control of their own destiny. A “business of one”.

I knew it could be done, because I had seen people do it. And I knew that as hard as I worked for others if I applied that same work ethic to myself, I would be a “success” after a few years.

I didn’t consider this a risk. I had Case Studied people for years online. I had watched many many many people do the exact same thing, and I was aware of the struggles and pitfalls.

In 2016, I started working for myself online, I had an email list of 0 people, a following of less than a thousand people on twitter, and I had zero sales revenue profit to speak of.

In 2018, I had 17,000 email subscribers, a following of Fifty thousand on twitter, and my sales were over $100,000 for my “business” of my being myself.

What did it take to get there?