How to escape the 9-5 and start an online business? | Q&A with Alex

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everyone how’s it going it’s out today and I’ll back into the video today I’m doing a different set up over doing different we just filmed Mimi’s Q&A in the other room and it was really hot it’s like one of the hottest days here in London is like 30 degrees there’s no air conditioning in London so we decided to come to the shady room and film here so Mimi can get a little breather alright so let’s do this so I’m going to do Q&A I asked you guys to submit your questions on Instagram video I really appreciate it a lot of you guys ask questions I’ll do my best to get through as many as I could right now so let’s get started you know with their family be able to travel more instead of like I said forgiving and you know just not being in a job that they absolutely love get started thank you thank you swatch to this question I think some poor question I think it’s a layered question so there’s lots of layers that it I might even just end it my Q&A with this question we’ll see what happens but I want to address certain different things but because what I believe is the question she just asks is what a lot of people have certain conceptions about work about business about online business so there’s a lot of layers in so that’s why I really want to get into it so the main question of really how do I create a business for myself an online business were I can escape the nine-to-five and a book that really inspired me to really start our own business as well it’s called the 4-hour workweek escape the nine-to-five beaten the rich and do whatever it’s a great books the bestseller to this day Tim Ferriss and think Tim Ferriss as well because he also supports 500 really uses it which is incredible so thank you so much Tim for inspiring us and letting us inspire you as well so I’m really grateful to Tim but that’s a great start that’s a great book that’s what inspired musical because I used to be like you I used to believe in 9:00 to 5:00 as a grind I have to escape it this whole corporate thing is a smell or whatever I have to escape I truly that wasn’t my same idea that you have right now here’s my thinking that I really want to share with you guys I think it’s very important number one I work now even more than that five so let’s get to that straight the whole idea of even of online business where people sell you on the reality is yes to an extent you will be able to create something on the side that might be able to create some passive income for you and that’s why I think at the beginning you really have to identify for yourself to what level of life that you want to be living in so realistically the life that we live that you see on Instagram and we live in central London that we traveled or whatever that’s pretty you know it’s different if you want to live in maybe in some third-world country in Bali and and survive off 500 2000 bucks that can be pretty doable so that’s why at the beginning it’s very important to identify to what extent of what if you want to live and it’s travel really your thing that you want to do because for personally what we’ve discovered as we did it that’s why I want to address that it’s a personal discovery thing you want to be able to identify your vision and what you want to live and the reality is you might get to that vision and realize it’s not for you that happened to us and meaning meaning we’ve got four hour work week and having that freedom will give us the life and when we actually reach that four hour work week as I’ve talked about in my one of my videos called the truth about the 4-hour workweek I’ll link down below it’s a longer video where I’ll go really deaf but we really got really depressed by achieving everything and not having lost freedom and that’s when we realized to ourselves how important is have purpose and to do self of purpose and to create and to actually have a routine and to work so now my thinking on nine-to-five is not so bad meaning I actually think that if I was really great like I wish I could have a nine-to-five what I mean by that is like it’s very balanced lifestyle so even as I’m growing myself it’s something that um as a business you know owner I want to actually get to because once you get too passionate about the business you that work-life balance just goes out the door and you’re living your life and at the same time this can be also really inspiring what I mean by that is I think you want to be able to do work that you’re truly passionate about and that you don’t feel like you’re working so if you access meaning I don’t really think like we work like that’s why sometimes we feel guilty because society’s makes us feel guilty because we were like we feel like we’re working all the time but the same time we’re not it’s just it’s just part of what we do it’s kind of become like our lifestyle so I really want to get that out the door because a lot of people have that misconception I think if you have a business if you have online business you have all this freedom that’s not true and especially at the beginning you will have to work a lot just to create anything – to create freedom for yourself to create systems for yourselves to be able to generate income for you that might take time I’ll talk about years and once again it all depends on on the extent you want to create income for yourself the thing is were part human us humans it is that we still create more meaning if you can’t be that cool that you just get to a certain level you know hey I’m cool with this that’s me great for you but the reality of business and this is one of the truths about business businesses don’t stop you can just get to a start level be like hey peace out I’m good I really like this level because the reality of business is that you will still have to even maintain the business and in order to maintain the business you have to grow the business if you’re having success with the business means other people will try to go in your territory and be part of your success as well because when there’s an opportunity others want to be part of it as well that’s why you owe in business in general one of the biggest things that I really want to get help you get across is if you are in business any business and you want to be successful and grow and it can be even two-person right now maybe washer has a business and maybe being able mediocre level but if you want to have a successful business be able to provide for you that freedom you have to understand that you always have to work what I mean by that is you have to always either have people that help you work and grow your business and part of your team and you establish that team you establish those systems which will take time or you yourself will have to do the work and grow the businesses and think of new ways and new opportunities that you can do to help the business grow because times change things change and people want to go by from a purchase from business which is doing something exciting which is providing values that’s what business is really all about but to really summarize it surely right – how do you actually do that how do you start that how do you then do the escape 95 if you want to do that you do that by actually following people who have already done it and that’s why it’s important to even at first get inspired by even watching this kind of video or reading a book like the 4-hour workweek that’s your initial inspiration and the reality is most people won’t tell you the actual like tactics like the day-to-day what you have to do you’ll have to forgive them for yourself and it’s important to get this main inspiration where these four bits of your summary LS however then you actually start doing the work the fast is what you’ll learn is really just jumping into it and you’ll learn the fastest then just being adapting how it is that’s how we did a lot of our business and of course always being absorbing information like I’m constantly listening or reading podcast books and giving ideas for how to grow the business and and that’s what I want to come across you is that you have to love it like there’s so many people are like yeah I want to keep in that five a day the reality is it’s gonna be harder I’m just telling the truth but the exciting thing about having your own business is that if you love it and if it’s really for you it won’t seem like work and I think this is the most important message that I really want to come across you because there’s so many people that go out even make this jump and then they realize after some time that it’s not really for them and sometimes a there they’re too afraid to even admit that it’s not for them right but the way you get excited about anything is you do it and you see and you get around people that are passionate as excited about this but the reason I’m just ranting on this and I’m going to end this video and on this question is that it’s so important so many people now have this expectations because we see on Instagram Facebook everything else all these streams are being sold right and I understand I was part of that but when I jumped over and I committed myself to creating that freedom for myself I realized that it’s not gonna be just the vacation and the reality is that’s what actually excites me about life in general right now is that that in business I constantly have to learn I constantly have to be a student I content to be just learning and that’s what’s so exciting because in school I never liked school but now business I get to be in the classroom every day and that is my big that I get to actually see the furies test them out and ceased actually work or not so I’m really passionate about now about people about actually creating and be part of work that they actually love that they’re actually excited about what they’re producing and creating to this world because I believe that will create that will give you way more purpose and happiness other than just be on a beach somewhere traveling you mean say that yeah it’s easier for you to say because you do that well yes I do that but that’s the only a small portion of my time the day today is I’m still a year in the office and Mimi and I saw your office Mimi’s 39 weeks pregnant she’s still in the office and you might ask her why she here and she’s behind the camera almost 40 weeks and why are you hearing me because he if you’re pretty behind the camera she loves what she doesn’t she’ll rather be here than just hey I can just take any time off and just do whatever well it’s different that’s why I really want to communicate to you you may not be for you right but I just really wanted to steal that idea of like just doing nothing and I guess it just all depends on what level that you want to format it personally me mean I guess we’re little to the next level we want to reach you know and keep reaching are potentially be learning I think that’s the greatest thing about living room right it’s be able to learn and see how you can challenge yourself and how you can grow because I think especially business business is one of the greatest teachers as Mimi just did inner QH you watch her Q&A as you just saying business is a reflection of you right and it’s you will have to do a lot of self work in order to grow the business so meaning when you’re hiring people that’s kind of like parenting and it’s kind of like building relationships so if you want to be able to grow the business you will have to understand how you can be a better person how you can communicate better hi more empathy and things will always go your way and you’ll have to learn so that’s why I really want to rant here on this because I think there’s so many people that look at our photos or look at other photos or listen to other people and think that is just going to be a breeze and you can see then Tim Ferriss you can listen this podcast which I really recommend and read this book and you’ll see the guy doesn’t work four hours a week and the only reason he did that was just to help people to understand that you can be more efficient with your time so you can get more done so you’re not just doing stuff that you know just for the sake of doing stuff and you’re actually designing your life to how you want it to be and that’s what we’re doing now we really are have designed our life to be where we are now I were constantly designing and and figuring out what works what doesn’t what do we want to keep what we don’t want to keep and reiterating so what I really want to get you excited about where I want on such iran is to help you watch it right now understand that a nine-to-five work is actually not so bad meaning working for somebody to be a lot less stressful especially if you here in europe or other parts of world where you get six weeks vacation or four to six weeks vacation that’s amazing like as a business owner you don’t even get that an ability to actually turn off and right now if the rant that i was just talking about if you’re not turned on by that if that’s not exciting to you then it’s a good sign that business most likely it won’t excite you either because you won’t succeed unless you’re so excited and passionate about actually doing the work and it’s another great book but it’s the impress will call do the work and that’s what we have to do Bailey you just do the work and just figure things out grow go step by step that’s what I’m really excited about being on this journey right now I’m filling this for you I know that in ten years time I’ll be able to watch this video go look at it young Alex you know thinking like he’s growing I remember I’ll remember that stage don’t be saying they’ll be exciting – what stage where we’re at so you can look in right now we have two businesses you know or in Toronto right now where there’s people there’s salaries that we pay for people I’ve never in my wildest dreams that I’ll be able to pay somebody’s salary I’ll be stripping honest with you I thought if I’ll be able to pay for myself I’ll be like ecstatic but now I’m able to actually provide livelihood to other people and there’s nothing wrong about being able to be on the supporting side and being part of a team and to be able to help another efficient come to life and that’s why it’s so important to if you even do nine-to-five work or eight to five work or whatever that may be that you’re actually doing something and you’re part of the team that you’re excited about and you love and then and most importantly I really want to communicate to you really get that thing out of your head about nine-to-five work what I’m saying by that is if you just think of your worker comenta five and there’s really nine to five minutes and one piece out and I’m not gonna worry about it you’re not gonna go for it because I understand the idea of this what you may want to create and it’s healthy for you to work 9:00 to 5:00 but especially when you’re young you really want to be able to give your all to be able to grow and to learn whether in that career position maybe to come to the next level because otherwise you won’t grow that’s why most people you know they’re just they’re segment and it’s okay to be at that level something wrong with it but if you’re watching this right now you most likely want more for yourself and if you want more for yourself you have to understand that you have to expect more of yourself and a lot of times media these are other YouTube videos or anything else they’re not we couldn’t want you to be more they just want to be a simple stupid and each one of you to buy stuff that they’re selling that’s just strictly honest with you and if you here right now watching this video at this point most likely you’re not that person so if you’re not that person this is this is time right now you have to raise yourself to do this for a different standard you have to commit you have to commit that you know what I want more out of my life and now if I want to be able to see the world you know if I want to be able to create a design light life which you have the opportunity of because you’re now living in this world where technology and everything these tools were given to you not to just watch cat videos but they’re actually given to you to be able to create Steve Jobs didn’t create Apple and all these tools with his team that helped them create these businesses they didn’t create these tools for you just entertain yourself I think at their vision especially Steve Jobs – watching a lot of those videos their vision is to be able to really help the humanity excel and be at a different level and it’s your choice do you want to be at a different level you you want to rise humanity as a whole and make it your purpose in your vision or do you want to watch cat videos it’s your choice but I will tell you one thing and one thing only your commitment and your responsibility for yourself starts with you no one else is going to do it not your boss not anybody else so either if you want to start a business or if you want to succeed in working in a work environment it will take that commitment from you and I can assure you both of those things can be just as good as that freedom business you have just as fun also working for somebody else and you go flood justice funds at being in business but regardless you’ll have to make that choice so this is why a long rant so that question I only took two questions one of that question was really important I really appreciate you asking that question I really appreciate you wherever you are right now sticking around to this video and Washington’s point because I truly just I’m challenge to you what I feel and what I really feel the reason why I’m here right now in this chair be able to answer and two questions that people are asking me and have thousands of people watching is because I’m speaking from the heart and something I really want to bring to you today so thank you so much having they it’s you next time right and there’s nothing wrong with watching cat it is sometimes sometimes that all all right so I have to be honest here I’m not a super early riser anything like that although it is one of my goals so I’ll tell you just my tips that I’m implementing right now in my own life to try to help me wake up early because I believe that your most productive time is actually the morning I know people can say hey I’m on a vowel I work better at night and if by the fact it might be I used to be a person like that too you guys love working till 2:00 3:00 in the morning however now I realized how important it is to create a routine and follow it and especially I find that now my most productive time is before lunch so it’s more influential if I can get into the office or there I get way more work done and then after lunch is usually when I tend to schedule my calls and other stuff that doesn’t require a lot of focus and that’s actually scientifically proven that you do have more focus in the morning and your energy level kind of goes down as you go throughout the day so something to just remind yourself and something that I personally remind myself however was why you’re asking this question how do you actually do it so I’ll see the most important thing I like like it has it for me it’s a journey it’s a journey to switch you won’t because anything in life is your habits you won’t be able to just switch like that in a day so that’s what happens a lot of people you try to change those natural things you know waking up early and you’ll just get will get disappointed it if you start even going to know days weeks months because I may even think sometimes years like it even has been in my case I’m still working like I said I went from going to sleep there like 3:00 in the morning to be now going to sleep around eleven twelve which for me is a big record because before I do like I said go to sleep very late so my biggest tip that I found for myself and it’s helped me out the most is have dinner earlier so eat your food earlier because this is very important a lot of us eat late and then you can’t go to sleep and you can’t go to sleep you can’t wake up early that just makes sense and then another thing is don’t use electronics after a certain time so this is something that I personally myself practice on and off but when I actually do this I’m just way better so what I mean by this is sudden alarm on your phone and will say you want to go to some about 11:00 or let’s say that is your time or even 12 whatever it might be set an alarm on your phone to turn off electronics and your phone line stop watching you need that time to line down and to just relax go so take you at least for most likely half an hour to an hour to kind of go to sleep and if you’re just on your phone and you’re right there you won’t be able to go to sleep so that’s kind of my tips to be honest with you is lying to be like hey just wake up earlier just do your best because you’re still going to crash so what I found you really is to be able to work on creating your scene over time and then making those changes anyways that’s what I’m doing right now I’m just being straight honestly I’m not 100% there but I’m working myself and these are the exact tips that I’m practicing myself to improve my own work or routine balance so let’s go to the next question