The Weekly Startup #3

Welkom to your weekly dose of content. We did the hard work for you and made a selection of the content that's actually worth your time. That is if you still want to level up your hustle game and start living life on your own terms.

In today's email:

• How to figure out yourself (by looking back at - and learning from - your childhood)

• a great video explaining the economy in 30 minutes. Because understanding the systems helps us to identify opportunities.

• A 10-minute meditation I use when my monkey brain takes over.

• A FREE course if you want to learn web design with WordPress.

• From Rock Bottom to a 100k Dream Job in 12 Months. (The mental model my friend used to get there)

• 3 ways you can help me (that cost you nothing and which I would appreciate a lot)

Essential For Personal Growth — Get To Know Yourself

Some people read books because they think they need to change something. While in fact, they don’t need to change. They need to find out who they are and build upon that.

Self-assessing helps you to create a better understanding of your past failures. It helps us build a foundation for personal growth. But where do you start?

One step to figuring yourself out is to find out if you fight, flight, freeze or please.

(My website is pretty slow, give it some time to load. I'm working on its speed.)

How The World Works.

I watched this video about 5 times. It's a 30-minute tutorial about the economic machine. It not only explains what's currently happening (inflation, recession signals etc) but it also explains a cause-effect system.

In order to prepare yourself for growth, I find it essential to understand how the world works. Eventually, it's not about 'how you want things to be', but about the actuality. The sooner you understand how things work, the sooner you'll be able to identify opportunities.

Doing nothing in order to keep moving forward.

When we are busy we often get sucked into the process. One way successful people get unstuck is by doing absolutely nothing! This could be a day off without any stimulus (no TV, no Phone, just nothing). Or it could be by walking through nature.

What I personally love to do is this short 10-minute breathing exercise by Wim Hof.

Before I go to sleep I love to tune out with Wim. Make sure you're comfortable and focus on nothing but your breathing. Thank me later.

Learn A New Skill - WordPress Webdesign

I am on a mission to provide basic knowledge to as many people as possible. Recently I bought this slightly outdated course about the basic skills when building websites with WordPress.

It's slightly outdated but the basics are pretty much the same.

At first, I thought about using it as an upsell. Since the mailing is free I'm looking for ways to monetize going forward. After all, we all need to pay the bills in the end.

When I thought about it, asking for money kinda goes against my vision of providing free knowledge. And because I don't want to limit anyone from learning I've decided to make it available for free.

If you like it you'll do me a great favour by subscribing to my YouTube channel. In the future, it will enable monetization options by showing ads before my videos. This way I can work on a way to get paid and still offer all the information for free.

Ps. The videos are hidden so you can only access them via this link. Feel free to share it with your friends and family who could benefit.

From Rock Bottom to a 100k Dream Job in 12 Months.

When working on this mailing I looked at the people close to me. I like to look at people who are living life on their own terms. And how they got there. We don't learn from people by looking at their current whereabouts, we learn by looking at the things they did to help them get there.

For this first in-depth interview, I talked to a good friend of mine. He hustled ever since I knew him. 2 years ago he hit rock bottom. But he crawled out of it and is now crushing it.

It's a long read but worth it if you feel you're stuck. From it, I subtracted 10 steps (or a mental model) that helped him get on track.

Enjoy.

(My website is pretty slow, give it some time to load. I'm working on its speed.)

Help me. (If you like this mailing)

First of all, thanks a lot for reading. It motivates me to create and find more content going forward.

I want this information to be free for everyone. The world will only be a better place if chances are distributed more evenly. Inequality is already growing too fast. It's up to us to tighten the gap.

You can help me grow this educational platform I'm building in 3 easy ways (that cost you nothing).

1. Share this newsletter with friends who could benefit.

2. Subscribe to my YouTube channel: (This way I can earn some ad money in the future)

3. Follow me on Medium (I need 100 followers to get paid by Medium for my writing)

Thank you!

You made it to the end. I hoped you liked the insights provided in this mailing. This email is brought to you by Startup Library, a brand of The Growing Investor. I intend to shift my cheezy quote game on Instagram to a more serious game where I share with you the resources I use to keep myself updated and motivated. If you got any suggestions feel free to reply to this mail or send me a DM on Instagram. If you found value for a friend I would appreciate it if you'd share this mail with them and have them sign up as well.

Thanks again and I'll see you next week with new resources to shake your professional world.