Charlie's Blog

Nothing good comes out after 2AM !

This was a tough lesson I needed to learn.

I was approached on Instagram by an SMM ( social media marketer) and was proposed to get help growing my personal brand on social media. Majority of the time I use my logic and never really care to engage in these DM’s but this one was different. His approach was organic. It didn’t feel like an automated message and really felt genuine. So I entertained to listen to his proposal.

He told me everything I wanted to hear during our conversation. Just like any great salesmen, he sold me in and used my emotion to make an impulse buy on the spot. My judgment may have been slightly off since it was extremely late at night. But none the less, I made an impulse buy with the thought of hopefully taking the easier road.

What I mean by taking the easier road is that I wanted an out of putting in the hard work. His strategy of growing my social media platform was everything I already knew. TikTok algorithm is user based and puts the content in front of the targeted audience. Your Instagram needs to be re branded and targeted on a specific niche. You need to create video content targeting a specific niche and utilize all your other social media platforms to leverage your channel.

I knew all this. But deep down I wanted to pay the money down to get it all streamlined. Not putting in the effort myself. It was stupid mistake I made. It costed me $300.00. It’s not a crazy amount of money, but $300 is still $300.

A similar sort of events happened with Ethan’s Dropshipping agency. I signed up to his agency to get my Dropshipping business automated and working for me. WITHOUT ME PUTTING ANY FUCKNG EFFORT ONCE AGAIN. This time it costed me a total sum of $600.00.

Although it hurts to take this L…

I understand my mistake and learned a crucial lesson. I learned that nothing is given. Especially in business. There is no easy way out. Everything needs to be earned with sweat equity. That’s the only way you can succeed in whatever you do. My laziness costed me close to $1000 . lost. Gone. No getting it back.

But what I did get in return was the hard lesson that I will learn from this. I am glad I experienced this lesson at the earlier stage of my entrepreneurial journey. I will never make the same mistake again, twice.
foreverHUMAN .

The brand ‘foreverHUMAN’

As time passes. We humans will lose the essence of individuality and self power. Everything will be stripped from us. Every little true being of what makes us humans. Our voices. Our identity. Our unique perspectives and vision. The brand is going to revolutionize our entire world. Our generation is the age where we break down all the pre existing rules, and create a new sustainable thought rules. The great reset. The New Age.

But first things first. NO ONE can do anything great, move mountains, by themselves. Nobody. We as a collective, human beings of like minded individuals who are ‘vibrating’ at a similar frequency can change the course of every living human existence on this earth. For the better. For our children. Our grandchildren and so on.

This is a network. Do not forget this. This only exists as a funnel of individuals who are meant to see, what they see. Think, how they think. And the reason why we feel, as we feel. We need to think for ourselves. As individuals. We are currently living in the global enslavement of our time. The slavery is not physical anymore. It is mental. It has taken in the shape of electronics. Technology. Taking away our mind of what we ultimately want to apply too. YOUR MIND IS BUT A MAGNET OF WHAT YOU THINK.

Build powerful allies with like minded individuals. This is key. So that together we can move the mountain. Compliance is the root of control. Mass control. This is why I must emphasize again, think for your selves.

Unity.

foreverHUMAN.
“THE YOUNG AND THE BANGING” 🩻

A storyline of my college experience.

(Friends and brotherhood bond I’ve created while at University) 👥

First half : Interntional crew. Night life. smoke nights. adventure at night. (freshman-sophomore year)

Second half: ( business years) (clothing era) ( make some noise) ( Junior- Senior year)

Final chapter: Corona hit and everything thing came to a unexpected sudden end.

‘A SMALL COLLECTION OF STORIES AND MEMORIES REPRESENTED BY A GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN A SMALL TOWN OF CORVALLIS, OR. INSPIRED BY THE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THESE YOUNG AND CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS WHO YEARNED FOR RECKLESS EXPERIENCES AND STOIRES TO TELL. THIS BLOG BEST REPRESENTS THE LIFESTYLE AND BROTHERHOOD SHARED BY THESE INDIVIDUALS .’

A GOOD MAJORITY OF MY FRESHMAN YEAR WAS ME FIGURING STUFF OUT.

FIGURING OUT WHERE ALL MY CLASSES WERE LOCATED. FIGURING OUT WHAT TO EAT FOR LUNCH AND WHAT THE MOVE WAS AT NIGHT. A VIVID MEMORY I REMEMBER IS THE LATE NIGHTS WE WOULD WALK AROUND CAMPUS/ TOWN SMOKING BLUNTS AFTER BLUNTS AFTER BLUNTS SIPPING ON 40’S MALT LIQUOR.

FRESHMAN YEAR WAS SORT OF A PURGE FOR ME IN A SENSE. WEEKENDS FILLED WITH PARTYING WITH LATE NIGHTS AND BINGE EATING UNTIL THE MORNING. IT STARTED OFF WITH TWO FRIENDS OF MINE I MET. THIER NAMES ARE HAIGA AND DIMA. HAIGA WAS A JAPANESE AMERICAN THAT CAME TO THE STATES FOR FURTHER EDUCATION. HE WAS THE YANG TO MY YIN. WE SPOKE THE SAME. DRESSED THE SAME. AND PERCEIVED THE WORLD VERY SIMILARLY. MY FELLOW AQUARIUS BROTHER. DIMA WAS A UKRAINIAN WHO WAS A NATIVE FROM OREGON. SIMILAR TO ME, AS I WAS BORN IN ANOTHER COUNTRY BUT WAS RAISED IN THE WESTERN SOCIETY.

OUR WOLF PACK GREW IN NUMBERS AS WE RECRUITED MORE AND MORE INDIVIDUALS ONTO OUR TEAM. WE WERE ESSENTIALLY CREATING A FRATERNITY OF MISFIT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. EVERYONE WAS EITHER FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY (RUSSIA, JAPAN, KENYA, HAWAII, UKRAINE, MEXICO) WE ALL CAME INTO A NEW TOWN WITH NO FRIENDS AND QUICKLY DEVELOPED A BROTHERHOOD WITH ONE ANOTHER.

JUNIOR YEAR TO MY SENIOR YEAR WAS A DIFFERENT STORY ALTHOUGH. A LOT OF OUR CORE FRIENDGROUP HAS SPLIT UP THROUGHOUT THE FIRST TWO YEARS AND IT WAS BACK TO SQUARE ONE.

BUT THIS TIME I WANTED TO MAKE A NAME FOR MYSELF HONORING MY FRIENDS THAT MOVED BACK HOME LEAVING THEIR LEGACY BEHIND IN CORVALLIS AS WELL. WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY MY LAST TWO YEARS. I CHOSE TO TAKE TO THE FASHION/DESIGN ROUTE.

MIND YOU I WAS NOT AN APPAREL DESIGN MAJOR, BUT STILL MANAGED TO HOLD MY GROUND AND CONDUCT TWO FASHION SHOWS WITH NEW COLLECTIONS DROPPING EACH TERM. I MADE A NAME FOR MYSELF ON CAMPUS. IT WAS TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. I REALIZED SOMETHING ALTHOUGH IN THE PROCESS.

WHILE PURSUING THIS PASION PROJECT OF MINE, I REALIZED THAT I WAS PLANTING SEEDS WITHIN A CLOSE KNIT OF FRIENDGROUP ONCE AGAIN. MY OBSESSION AND VISION RUBBED OFF ON THESE TWO FELLOW KOREAN STUDENTS WHO WANTED TO PURSUE THEIR PASSION IN MAKING CLOTHES, BUT JUST HASN’T HAD THE NUDGE OF COURAGE TO DIRECT THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY.

BY WORKING W THEM DAY IN AND DAY OUT, I SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO STEP OUT OF THIER CONFORT ZONE AND PURSUE THIER INTERESTS. WHICH WAS MAKING CLOTHES LIKE MYSELF.

THEY STILL DO SO TODAY.

MY 4.5 YEARS OF EXTENDED UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS SOMETHING I WILL CARRY ON FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I GRADUATED IN THE YEAR 2021 WITH A BACHELORS DEGREE IN NEW MEDIA COMMUNICATION.

MY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE WAS DEFINITELY DIFFERENT FROM A MAJORITY OF MY PEERS WHO GRADUATED IN THE SAME CLASS AS ME.

I WAS NEVER THE ONE TO FOLLOW THE CONFINED RULES OF SOCIETY. I ALWAYS DID THINGS MY WAY AT MY OWN PACE.

THIS WAS THE START OF MY CALLING. AS I AM NOW APPROACHING A NEW ERA. A NEW STORYLINE, WITH NEW PEOPLE. I AM EXCITED TO LIVE AND EXPERIENCE WHAT MY FUTURE HOLDS.

TH E YOUNG AND THE BANGIN ..
Product of your environment 🧬

We’re back.

This week I want to speak about how you are truly a product of your environment, and how it molds you, more than you know. Whether you like it or not, the people you are around, how they act, how they speak, how they think… will rub off on you, the good & the bad.

Ask yourself, where do your beliefs come from? are they actually your own? or have you adopted them from others (without knowing)?

It would be the advice of a lot of “Woke” people to cut out the unambitious, they will have this superiority complex, and it’s very ironic. They freed their mind only to become a slave to their own ego.

We all know the quote..

“You are who you surround yourself with” or variations such as “show me your friends & I’ll show you your future”or “surround yourself with 4 millionaires or losers and you’ll be the 5th” or “you are the average of your 5 closest peers.”

Well, as it turns out, it’s not just a quote or cliché.

There’s soooo much truth in it.
Taking Risks 🏔
YOUNG MEN NEED TO TAKE RISKS IN THEIR 20’s

TAKE BIG RISKS WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG

3 most dangerous addictions when it comes to the downfall of young men in this day in age.
1. Pornography
2. Drugs
3. A yearly Salary
Imagine living your life the way that your mother wants you to play it. Being safe and never taking risks. You would never have those great stories of adventure, growth and challenges to tell your future self too. In a world of weak men, most of your peers will encourage you to never take risks. Find a steady job that pays well. Put a downpayment on a mortgage and work until you are 50 years old. Only to have 20 years of spare time to do whatever you want. Now is that the life you dream of? Is being comfortable that worth it?

Taking risks especially when you are young because the reward of those risks compound exponentially. There will always have to be some sort of sacrifice made in order for you to grow.

Equivalent Exchange in Alchemy. SACRIFICE MUST BE PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD! Just like in the gym, this concept applies in life.

In the year 2020, right before the COVID pandemic hit the global scale. I took a 8 day trip to Bali, Indonesia. Without even knowing, this trip has completely changed my perspective on how I wanted to approach my career. I saw first hand all the digital nomads living this extravagant lifestyle making money online. I quickly realized that this route was not the most traditional path one may take. But at the same time, taking this leap of risk separated you from the majority of people.

Fast forward 2022. Sitting here in my villa in Ubud, Bali in the month of June. It is Fathers Day today in the states. I finally have the vision and slowly developing my plan to make this goal a reality. Realistically, my goal is to be fully transitioned as a digital entrepreneur and start living this lifestyle by the beginning of 2024. This gives me about 1.5 years to make this happen.

Back to work
Calculated Deep thinking vs thinking to just ‘think’ 💭

Get a thought, think about that thought for minutes at a time, get another thought, rinse and repeat until you lived your entire life like a shell of a person.

You can literally tell who the people who live like this are. You can see it on their faces that they are deep in thought all the time. You see them unable to focus on you when you’re having a conversation, and it’s one of the saddest things you can see. They’re not even here, you struggle to connect with them. It’s a very sad experience when you meet someone who has so much potential, who you’d love to be friends with or even date, and you can just tell they aren’t present.

But what if you are that person for someone else? How many people have met you and just subconsciously been unable to truly connect with you because you weren’t really present in the conversation.

Will your future children see this in you?

Picture your son or daughter being unable to connect with you, to receive your unconditional love, because you aren’t present.

What about the people who do meditate? What are they like? The people who meditate or have some kind of mindfulness practice this very skill.

Be in the present.
‘Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket’ 💲

As I sit here in the taxi car heading to my next
destination. I think I have a better understanding on
what the definition of true wealth really is.

Although my mission out here was to find wealth in
the pocket. Money. There is a wealth far more
valuable.

Wealth in the heart and mind. A wealth that cannot
be bought with any amount of money. The ultimate
currency we humans yearn for. A sense of
community. A peace within the heart that brings
bliss, even in the most smallest things in life.

Maybe this is what I was called out here to
understand.

My tunnel vision and obsession of finding wealth
with the bank account has blinded me of what it means to LIVE. To
LOVE. To EXPERIENCE life at its fullest core.

I am thankful that this thought omen has popped into my mind and I get to understand what it was all about.

Back to work.
Bed bug infestation 🦟

Today I woke up w bug bites all over my body. Whether it was mosquitos or bed bugs, I am not sure. I woke to myself itches and scratching myself vigorously. Not the best way to start your day that’s for sure. While I was taking a shower I thought I need to get out of this place. It’s not clean. There are bugs on the bed. The bathroom smells constantly and the running water is so inconsistent.

But as I sit here looking at the bug bites, I remember the process of the journey is going to have rough patches. Just like in life and on this journey I have committed too. I knew coming into this trip I was going to have weeks where I will be sleeping on bug infested beds. Like how life will have weeks/ months of hard times and struggles .

I will learn to embrace the tough times. Even when I cannot see the other end of the light. Keeping faith constantly remembering that, this shall too pass. It is better to embrace and to be present. Accepting the harshness world will have to offer and coming out w a lesson learned.

The bed bugs have taught me a lesson today. And I thank the bed bugs marking their territory all over my body. SMFH.
Move w LOVE ۵

The world is in chaos. I can feel it. You can feel it. Your neighbors can feel it as well. We are living in a time where uncertainty lurks right around the corner. It seems like we see new destructive events happening every single day.

However, You. Me. We can train to master the world- financially, creatively , spiritually- by learning how to be free and loving in the chaos of the modern world. Standing your ground and loving so strongly that only love can prevail.

The game of life is to find each situation workable, to transform each occasion through the magnification of love, to give your fullest gift in every moment, and to have no attachment to the outcome, knowing it’s going to rise and fall, and rise again.

So let us move w LOVE.
Reacting vs Responding ♟

There’s key difference between responding and reacting, and how that can compound affect the circumstances of your life.

One is a orimal instinct, ingrained in you, an emotional retaliation you blurt out in an instant.

The other however is calculated. objective. calm responsed.

The former will result in consequences that could ruin what you were trying to achieve and the latter will put you ahead in this game of life.

Marcus Aurelius said the key to life is to keep an untroubled spirit and calm mind.

OBSERVE. ABSORB. and RESPOND…. DON’T REACT.

🗣 Reacting

Reacting usually is an emotional action, to re-act. Acting in a certain way to a situation on an emotional state.

An Emotional attachment is usually the beginning of a downward spiral.

Think about a time where you’ve been in an argument and have reacted to something that’s been said to you and instantly regretted what you’ve said.

It may have caused irreparable damage to that relationship, or revealed your true colors. Even worse, painted you in a different light to that certain individual.

Life is a game of chess. Try and think a few moves ahead, what would be the consequences from that certain reaction?

shouts out to the sorcerer supreme, mf see’s all timelines at once. I am trying to be like you.

When you compound in life ( as all things do ) the reactive nature of yourself, you will probably find that because you have this impulsive trait, it’s been a net negative for you.

just a thought..

A storyline of my college experience.

🗣 Reacting