THE LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEUR

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Welcome to your very first Lifestyle Entrepreneur!

To get things started I want to lay out my primary content pillars - the big buckets I talk about, and why I think they’re important.

My overall philosophy revolves around living the best life we can - and to do that we need to work consistently on a few key areas:

1. Health/wellness

2. Mindset & habits

3. Building businesses

4. Community/relationships

5. Play & self expression

I think of these as a five ball juggling act where where are few are always in the air while a few are resting. If they’re all getting similar amounts of airtime everything flows smoothly.

If we miss one though, the rest eventually come tumbling down and we have to regroup.

We all have times and phases where we miss a few balls and have to regroup. That's the nature of life, pulling us towards chaos, and ultimately towards death.

Our jobs are to figure out a flow in life so we can keep the juggling act going smoothly.

And having durable physical and mental health practices allows those phases to pass more seamlessly than if we let everything fall off the rails when things get tough.

That’s one of the underlying themes you’ll regularly hear from me - discipline in all aspects of our life allows for excellence and more joy in all aspects of life.

And what about the title - The lifestyle Entrepreneur?

I learned through trial and error, that designing your ideal lifestyle and future self, and then aligning your life to achieve that lifestyle, is a much better way to go through life than just jumping from opportunity to opportunity.

Trust me when I say I learned this the hard way.

In my 22 years since graduating college, I’ve done multiple combinations of strategic and opportunistic career and business development that have led to a rollercoaster of ventures and wins/losses.

Through painstaking trial and error I’ve slowly, and now successfully, settled into a philosophy towards lifestyle that allows for a meaningful and joyfilled life.

So everything I write about is tailored towards finding and living the ideal lifestyle for each of us.

And entrepreneurs are generally who I write to. I’ve lived as a full-time entrepreneur since 2009, and I think being an entrepreneur is the ideal way to live life professionally.

That doesn’t mean never working for others. Working for others is a necessity at multiple phases of everyone’s lives, and is the desired case in many fields and life situations.

BuIt means you’re building things that are aligned with your purpose and curiosity. And for most people who are seeking to maximize their time on this earth, that means some kind of entrepreneurial ventures.

That can look infinitely different for each person. Because each person is infinitely unique.

We all have to find our own ways.

But there are better ways to do this entrepreneurial thing, so my focus is usually around how to build or buy entrepreneurial ventures that are aligned with a lifestyle goal and defined purpose.

I’m not interested in building unicorns. I’m interested in how we can build businesses that align with our interests and give us enough money to live the lives we want.

What can you expect from me?

Each week I’ll email you actionable ideas and tools that can help you live the lifestyle you desire. I’ll keep them short and practical - academic studies are for academics, and I’m definitely not that.

These first few will dive into my main pillars, and the core beliefs I’ve developed in my 43 (almost 44) years so far.

Thanks for reading along, I’m excited for what’s to come.

My only ask for now - if you ever have a topic you want me to hit, please reply and ask.

Talk to you next week,

Mike