Thread by @BobStocks11

My life has changed dramatically in the last year.

I’ll admit it, I was a consumer on this product this year, but there was no reason for me to talk. I had to figure things out for myself.

A thread on my journey this year and how Twitter impacted me:

I’m writing this thread so people can realize how this side of twitter can impact yourself if you want it to.

Also to recognize the people that impacted my life.

I got here around a year ago, but didn’t really start taking action until this February so keep that in mind when reading this.

I only ask for a retweet if you think this may help someone.

I got sucked in at first for the get rich quick scheme of online business and on the way I’ve grown physically, mentally/emotionally, and financially.

Physically:

A year ago today I was 170 pounds and didn’t respect my body at all.

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I ate what I wanted, I worked out rarely.

This was the first year I didn’t play college b-ball and I fell off physically.

I was never big to begin with, but I never neglected my health.

@AJA_Cortes

He changed my thinking about fitness. It’s more than just getting jacked and trying to impress people.

It changes your world. You feel like you have two feet firmly on the ground after you start lifting.

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When your lacking mental fortitude, go hard in the gym. It likely will increase your physical and mental fortitude.

I bought his Thor program back in February. This happened to be the first time I lived on my own (not at college or my parents).

I bought my own food that would get me to my macro levels that I needed to gain weight.

I worked out 6 days a week and still played basketball once or twice.

Now at first it was tough, it was a chore the first few weeks, but then something changes at a certain point.

You start to like lifting weights and working out everyday.

Hell it doesn’t seem surprising when you think that humans were made to move.

This all helped me grow up

Over the course of the next 5 months I stayed consistent and got to be about 200 pounds.

Since then I have just ate healthy without focusing on macros as much and I’m down to 192 and feel great.

I remember at the beginning I could barely lift 135, and last week I just benched my bodyweight twice.

I don’t say that to boast, I say that because you don’t have to be working and eat healthy out for years and years to make a difference. It only takes 6 months honestly.

Also unrelated to fitness… he is unrelenting on who he is.

Hell I don’t agree with a lot of what he says, but I’ll be damned if I don’t respect him.

He made me realize you don’t need to say “fuck it, I don’t care what people think”, you just have to live a life where it won’t bother you what people think.

Huge difference.

Fitness and Health will always be a part of life and I realize that. Either use it to boost yourself up or tear yourself down.

Mentally/Emotionally:

It’s so funny looking back to who I was a year ago. A person who didn’t even examine who they were.

Now I’ve always been the type of person to try to think outside the box, but I never looked inside myself as much as this year.

It’s a scary process and the process is still happening.

I don’t want to say “woke up” because its seems like a trigger word these days, but its hard to describe it any other way.

I ended up throwing out many of my existing ideas and beliefs and started from the ground up.

I found @KapilGuptaMD and he changed the way I viewed life.

I always examined the the symptoms of my problems, but never the root cause.

What did I actually want? Who am I? What is causing this reaction?

These are questions I ask myself today that I didn’t a year ago. I do it because I feel the need to, but the inspiration came from somewhere so I wanted to recognize that.

So what actually happened from me doing this?

I did a semester long internship instead of going back to school. Realized that school wasn’t where I wanted to be and I didn’t need it.

I ended up dropping out before my Senior year.

People said “you got more year, just do it”, but then it turns into another year and then you get obligations.

If your going to take control of your life, do it now.

That’s the best advice I could ever give.

Your life is ending before your eyes and once you realize this then your natural reaction is to take control of what you have left.

so I dropped out to pursue something I was fascinated by and this leads me to the next part of my journey…

@LambdaSchool

I dropped out before my Senior year of college and I have to say most people thought I was crazy.

When you tell them its for a coding school they kind of chill out a little, but its always the initial reaction.

I’m about 5.5 months in and its awesome.

It’s literally absurd how much I’ve learned in such a short period.

I have the ability to create things. Literal applications people can use. 6 months ago I didn’t even know how to code a line.

And I’m not even paying for it right now!

That’s not even the best part of it though.

When you go through Lambda and struggle and then get through it over and over.

You realize you can learn anything.

It doesn’t even have to be code. If you want to learn something in this day and age, you can do it.

On the side I’m learning how to create algorithms for the futures market now. Something I used to be too intimidated to try.

Now Lambda helped me grow intellectually, but also @naval did that in a huge way. I became a child again in part because of his methods

I never read a book through high school.

I spark noted everything and even in College I got notes from others.

Essentially I never read anything longer than articles since middle school and I was in my Junior year of college when I found Naval.

I took on his method of reading multiple books at once.

If you don’t like what your reading, skip ahead. If you still don’t like it, move ahead.

People say I get obsessed with things.

I go 10 feet deep into it and I used to kind of think that was a downfall, but now I just follow my curiosity... wherever that may lead me.

Maybe it’s not the most efficient, I don’t know, but it definitely leaves me more fulfilled.

Financially:

If you’ve made it this far in the thread you realize that I went to college for 3 years. That means I went into some debt. About 35k in debt to be exact.

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it can by freedom.

If you examine it the slightest bit its very easy to tell

So with that firm understanding I had to do something about it.

I joined @RyanHolmer mentorship in February.

At this point I knew nothing about sales, cold calling, Facebook ads, branding, marketing, persuasion. Absolutely nothing.

Ryan gave me the path.

I started an agency to run Facebook/Instagram ads for people

I started LinkedIn outreach doing 100/day. I woke up before my internship at 6:30-7 AM to make calls to people who responded. At lunch breaks I did the same.

For almost 2 months I did this with no success. I was getting gradually better at sales, but I kept going and got my first client.

The funny thing is your just as scared of getting your first client as you are scared of never getting a client.

I really didn’t have any experience. I had never done Facebook ads. I watched videos and read about them, but never actually done them.

I did it anyway. I struggled, but I wanted the experience so for my first few clients I only charged them 500/month until I got them results.

April and May were awesome and I get about 3 clients at that point and they liked what I was doing at this point.

I wanted to start branching out to bigger companies and this is actually how I ended up getting my summer internship.

I ran Facebook ads for an e-commerce company. I was nervous and honestly frantically bought @AdsAlchemist ads course so I would have a solid guide on how to scale a business through FB ads.

I don’t want to get into all the details because there was a lot at this point

Let’s just say that ads alchemist course is insanely helpful and he fills the gaps if you ask him to.

My summer internship turned into a client after my internship ended and we have doubled their average monthly revenue since starting (60k to 120k).

Now I’m focusing on e-commerce clients because I realized I love it. It’s fun to figure out the strategy that works, the angle that resonates with your audience.

6-7 months ago I got my first client spending Facebook ads with and over Black Friday and Cyber Monday I spent over $60,000 on Facebook ads with over $250,000 in revenue.

I thank @RyanHolmerr for kicking my ass to start. And I think @AdsAlchemist for helping me know my shit.

People don’t realize how nice it is just to be able to financially carry yourself and now I realize I truly can do this. Like even if I started over I know I could do this.

I'm not rich by any means, but now by March I should be able to pay off all of my college debt based on my monthly income from my clients!

This is all while being in Lambda full time.

This thread went way longer than I thought it would, but I wanted to give people an honest journey of how you can change your life in a year and how you can use Twitter to your benefit.

I wanted to say thanks to everyone that helped me and is helping me in my journey.

There are so many others that I didn’t mention. @Pat_Stedman @mistermircea @ColbySerpa are a few that come to mind.

Most of you probably have no clue who I am, but isn’t that the best part of Twitter?

How you can never know I existed, but impacted my life so positively.

I end this thread by saying this…

You have to genuinely want it, you’ll quit if you don’t. No matter if it has to do with something physically, mentally, or financially.

So first ask yourself, what do you actually want? Or else your gonna find yourself getting what you “wanted” and realizing it wasn’t actually what you wanted in the first place.

And for god’s sake, think for yourself and take control of your life.

@RyanHolmer @RyanHolmerr
sorry I mentioned the wrong Ryan Holmer.