One single decision.
There was one business decision I made that literally changed everything. 🙌
I was travelling in Japan for the first time.
I hated the high prices there and I asked myself: How can I stop trading time for money?
At the time, I was based in Bali, Indonesia and was teaching English online. I couldn’t really call it a business - rather a modest source of income.
But since I had done it for a while, I had a small following in my niche market.
I remember sitting at my notebook, staring at the question: How can I stop trading time for money? (And be able to afford all the adventures that Japan has to offer).
✍️ And then, without much thinking, I wrote:
1. A membership site.
2. Multiple teachers.
3. Community.
I decided to get this done by the time I had left Osaka to head back for Bali (I had about a week).
1. I threw a quick landing page together.
2. Set up a payment system.
3. And emailed my small database.
20 people signed up immediately. Now, it was starting to look like a business.
💼 It then took me 4 years to actually turn it into a business, where I built:
1. A community of 1,000 learners.
2. 7 team members.
3. A bunch of teachers.
4. Multiple products.
5. Systems and processes.
This then freed me up to work with multi-million dollar companies in Asia and learn how to tell compelling brand stories for them (which soon appeared to be another business-in-the-making).
It also freed me up to start building my Personal Growth Curriculum (which included voice classes, samurai classes, training etc.)
You can sign up here and read more about how to build a Personal Growth Curriculum: https://www.dariuslukas.academy/weekly-story
And it was down to a single decision to set up a membership site and move away from trading time for money. The next time I was back in Japan was to train as a samurai and fully indulge in what the country had to offer.
📍 How can you stop trading your time for money today?
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