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When you truly challenge yourself to level up life moves extremely fast.

I’ve changed my life situation completely and it’s still going to change as I continue to push. I want to let you all in on what I’ve been up to. It’s a crazy journey complete with failures, wins, blood, sweat and tears.

I’ve decided to release the juicy life details on a new platform called Substack. Surely, you’ve heard of it. It’s a great way to see how many people want to continue reading my writing and how many of you are willing to pay a small fee to do so.

I will have free articles and paid articles.

I’ve just launched my substack, so for now please subscribe if you’re interested in finding out what I’ve been doing, and the MAJOR life lessons I’ve learned over the past 4 years.

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The Truth About NFTs

For the last 3 – 4 months NFTs have been very hot, if you’re in the know. If you’re not in the know, you might have recently heard about them. You likely heard stories of people buying an NFT and becoming millionaires overnight, or at least 10X – ing their initial investment. Of course, there’s that one NFT that sold for 69 million. A lot of big celebrities are talking about them, such as Gary Vee, Snoop Dog, OBJ and many others.

I saw how NFTs worked 3 months ago. When every new launch was climbing in price if you were lucking enough to mint the right NFT. But, of course, you never are.

Here’s the truth about NFTs.

95% of the time only the guys/ girls with a massive bankroll are making the big money. Within each NFT launch, there are only a handful of NFTs that will fetch top bids. The rest will be at the bottom of the rarity list.

When you go to the website and mint a NFT from the new drop, you have zero control regarding which NFT you’ll receive. From what I experienced, you’re likely to get basic NFTs that will never go up in value every time. Only the guys/ girls with big money get the rare NFTs with the valuable traits, because they have the money to mint 10, 30, and even 50 NFTs! The little guy simply can’t compete with that. The big money mints 50 NFTs but he’s likely to land one that makes up for all the other shit NFTs he owns.

That’s how the game works.

The small money is simply wasting their money on a basic NFT that will never sell for more than they initially paid for the mint.

I believe NFTs are an even worse investment that cryptocurrency coins. Because when cryptocurrency coins drop in value, 50%+, you can at least sell them and get some of you’re investment back instantly. When NFTs drop 50%+ in value and you want to sell, you can’t. All you can do is list the NFT for sale and a lot of times, there will be zero buyers. So, your NFT remains listed and you never get any of your money back. Why? All the buyers are now onto the latest NFT launch, and your NFT is completely worthless.

And that the truth about how I see the NFT game playing out. It’s a place where small players simply lose their entire investment.

Yeah, you can create you’re own NFT, but do you have the skills to design, create and launch a proper NFT? Probably not.

If you’re into NFTs right now. Be careful because you’re not meant to win, unless you’re a millionaire already.

Levels In Life

There are levels in life. Many of them, and more than I can imagine.

When you’re pushing yourself to learn and improve it’s hard to imagine that there are higher levels that other people are at that would make your struggles look like child’s play.

I recently started a new job/ challenge. Door to door sales. I guess you can say I wanted to challenge myself, and make more money, while learning invaluable skills throughout the process. Learning how to cold sell in-person, and improving your communication skills, are great skills to have in life. It would put me on another playing field.

Before beginning the job I thought of myself as a disciplined guy. My morning routine is unshakable. My diet is unmatched by anyone I hang out with. I workout and read everyday. I work hard at my writing jobs and for my clients. I felt confident about my abilities to accept a difficult challenge.

But, life quickly showed me that there are levels in life. Levels in mental discipline. I might have thought I was at a supreme level, but the guys in my sales office are at levels miles above me.

Most of the managers and sales reps in my office are in great shape (visibly), earn 300K+ per year, drive badass cars, own multiple properties, and have beautiful wives and kids.

In my own world I was doing good, but in this office I’m at the bottom. The good news is there’s a lot of room for improvement, but the bad news is I’m still at the bottom!

Two months in and I can honestly say that this job has challenged me in ways mentally that I never imagined. I didn’t know that I would have to reach levels of discipline I have never thought of before. The stuff I did in the past is not even a blip on the radar of what is needed to become successful in this business.

That has humbled me and taught me a lot. Everyday is an all-out war mentally.

In this job there is no coasting. At your typical office job, you can have a few days a week where you’re completely lethargic and still manage to slide by and earn your money.

In this door to door sales business, the only way to earn money is to be 110% mentally locked-in. Anything less, and you won’t make money. This is everyday by the way. There’s no coasting.

That’s the challenge and that’s what I’m facing right now.

Stay tuned and I’ll post some more thoughts of what the last 2 months have been like for me.

New Announcement: Daily Emails For Newsletter Subscribers

I haven’t posted on Thought Of Art for a while.

Not happy about that because I still like this blog. It’s definitely not a failed project.

The point of it was to practice my writing and to share my thoughts with whoever happens to stumble upon my posts.

So, how can I fail at that?

I’ve decided to change things up a bit. I’m going to practice sending daily emails.

I want to make it a habit, and you know the best way to do that?

Send daily emails!

So, that’s what I’ll be doing.

If you’re subscribed to my email newsletter, then you’ve seen a few already. If you’re not subscribed, then you probably were wondering where I went.

If you like my writing and want to continue to hear from me and my thoughts, make sure you subscribe to my email newsletter. You can do so on the right side of this post.

I’ll probably still post blogs on Thought Of Art, occasionally, but I’m not going to commit to a time frame. I’ve been way too busy working, and getting more clients, so I don’t know when you’ll read something from me on here.

If you subscribe, then you’ll hear from me tomorrow morning. If you don’t, and procrastinate, then you could hear from me next week, next month or maybe 6 months.

Who knows!