I was kinda in building mode the last year and today I woke up to this view: (attached below) Yeah it looks beautiful I know, and no, this post won't be about some bullshit of work hard or anything like that. The truth is I was afraid to come to Bali, I was in "monk mode" for so long, and not the 2-8 week sprint type of monk mode, it wasn't even monk mode anymore it was just my life... I consumed so much self-improvement and business content that everything has to be filtered thru the question: is this beneficial? Will this make me better? and when I mean everything I mean EVERYTHING, I was afraid to come to Bali because I knew I had this filter and I wanted to do stuff here that I just love to do and it doesn't necessarily make me "better" I forced myself into this optimizer identity and I lost my creativity, personality and playfulness towards life. ​ But this made me stuck... I stopped having great ideas, that aliveness left me and I even forgot what was the reason I was working for. One day on my YouTube feed some random channel came up about some guy documenting his "monk mode" I was curious about the video and I made a prediction about the guy's personality before clicking: "he will probably lack aliveness, will have that sleepy voice and will talk about his routine" I said to myself and I was 100% spot on, I knew this because practically this is how I lived... but the truth is that after a while it started to have diminishing returns, not even diminishing returns it's just practically got me nowhere. ​(I touched more on this in my new video)​ ​ so I decided to reverse engineer the times when I achieved the most, made the most money, had great connections and was the most fulfilled and I realized that at that time I was just being myself, sharing, consuming and creating stuff that I just enjoyed. I think now I understand what Naval meant by saying "escape competition thru authenticity"

Today I had my first group call with my community and a whole 2 people showed up. And no I am not disappointed because I had an amazing 1.5h talk and got to know who is interested in my content on a much deeper level. And I realized: "damn, the people in my community are actually like me, I love them." ACTIONABLE ADVICE: I got this strategy from Tim Ferriss. Instead of wasting people's time at meetings, allow them to do what they are here for. Talk about themselves. Get value from others. So the introduction I ask from them is to share: -Who are you, Where are you, What do you do -Shamelessly brag about one thing -Openly ask for something specific you need help with I am more than excited to do this every single week and to make the rest of the community so jealous of the good time we're having that they can't help but want to join the next time.

My latest video I published 10 hours ago has a CTR of 11.4% (my highest ever) and an AVG of 14:08 (the footage is 15:55m long) so the metrics are crazy good but the video gets almost 0 impressions (149) in total and 0 in the last hours. Im a bit confused...

I am starting a YT channel about traveling and sharing my journey from 0 to $10K/month now. Besides that, looking into which business I should start to reach financial freedom. Looking for like-minded individuals. Originally from Prague, Czech Republic. Reach out to me here or on IG: david.solar1 if you connect online and potentially meet up

Over the last few months, I have put all of my time into growing my audience mastering ideation, writing, and editing. But things go slow when doing them right... I am not planning on stopping my audience growth, but I am focusing more and more on taking care of my community Mental Cortex here on Skool. The "issue" is that I want to play the long game with this and therefore don't: -Overtly mention Mental Cortex in my videos -Mention it a lot in my newsletter -I only put a link to my external landing page which I made for the community I simply drop a little crumble hinting at its existence here and there, because I know that especially in the beginner position I am in the main thing to focus on is building long-term good will. I want to hear what you guys think about this and if you think I'm being too careful @Andrew Kirby some input would mean the world.