Life isn't meant to be easy

But that's life and that's the magic of living - the beautiful chaos of a life well lived.

I wish I could say it's gonna be easy going after your goals.

There will be ups and downs in moments you feel like you can't possibly go on.

But that's life and that's the magic of living - the beautiful chaos of a life well lived.

No plans

When I first started out on my own after college, I had no plan. I got married to the girl I was dating during college. So I worked a job that I thought was good for the money. There were mornings where I was unloading trucks in the freezing cold and then mindlessly running machines inside the warehouse for hours on end.

I wondered to myself, is this it?

Wake up every day, go to work, and try to shut out the inner voice that is screaming inside?

Does my life matter?

Hope

And then one day, when I was driving home from work, I came across a YouTube video about a young kid who was making money on the internet. I knew immediately that I had to do something different.

I had to figure out how I could do the same—how I could have a sliver of freedom in a world that had seemingly told me what my life was going to be.

The kid in the video was earning money by doing dropshipping. So I thought I’d give that a try, and I experimented with 10+ different products. I didn’t sell anything, but I became really good at building and designing websites.

Every time I built a website, I had so much hope that maybe I’d sell something and my life would start to change, but it never did.

It was a constant battle of ups and downs, trying new things and hoping that it would work out.

Figuring it out

Doing all this led me into social media marketing, where I am today. I make good money doing things that I really enjoy. I get to create new things every single day and share them with the world.

Currently, I do freelancing on the side, and I lose clients and gain clients all the time. I get referrals, past clients come back, and long-standing clients cancel.

I know I focus a lot on work in this article, but work takes up a significant amount of our lives.

Outside of work, I’ve lost some of the closest family I had, including my brother. Every year, there’s a list of new opportunities and peaks where I’m making really good money, my family is healthy, and the future seems so full of possibility. But along with that comes a long list of pain, loss, and sickness.

The lessons within the pain

This long list of ups and downs creates us and molds us into the people we are today, and if we choose to let them build us into something better, we become something incredible.

You see, I could have resigned myself to a life of a material handler in a warehouse, working alongside people who had given up and resigned themselves to never trying to be anything more than they are—people who were locked into the mindset of “it is how it is and nothing can change.”

I look back on my life so far, and I would say:

There is beauty in that chaos.
Good stories in that pain.
Lessons to be learned in that loss.
Skills to be learned in that failure.
A person worth looking in the mirror because I didn’t give up.