Week 39 - How is Yurii always so positive? 🤪

Recently, in the Freelance Unlocked community, Cihan wrote, “How is Yurii always so positive?”, and, of course, I answered with “Easy - mushrooms 😲😅😂”

Fun? Yes! Honest? Not really.

To be very honest, I’m constantly doubting myself and everything that I’m doing. Even when it looks like a bold, wise move, for me, it’s just a gut feeling that I have because of dozens and hundreds of similar situations, or some books I’ve read, or podcasts I’ve listened to (I guess that’s exactly what they call experience, huh 😏).

Still, no matter how much experience I have, I don’t know what I don’t know (if I could predict the future, I’d buy a lot of Bitcoin in 2017 😅), and with every decision and every move that I make, I’m kinda accepting the uncertainty, and taking a risk of fucking everything up, or, in a best-case scenario, getting some cool results and looking like a pro 😎

What helps me not be afraid of fucking everything up is seeing every mistake and loss I've had as an opportunity to learn and improve, so I won’t make this mistake again (hopefully🤞), even if I’ll make many other stupid mistakes.

Also, it’s about not taking things personally because my work involves hundreds of conversations with different humans, and all those humans have their own problems, challenges, and personal goals that are not always in line with mine. There are many times when we’re not aligned, and we’re just not clicking, but in a month, things can change, so that’s exactly why I never stop after only one message to someone, but keep following up until they answer me or block me 😁

So yeah, tl;dr, what is on a surface isn’t always what’s inside, and the difference between someone who may look positive and someone who is not is just the amount of risk we accept and are willing to take, and the story that we tell ourselves about the world and people around us 😉

On the other note, here is the photo my wife recently made:

I like it very much, and what I’m also amazed is how many random steps led to this photo:

• we randomly decided to go for a walk

• I accidentally chose this park

• we made random turns there to get to this place

• the rain started to drop, and I looked up

• I asked my wife to make a photo because camera on her phone is better

• she took it the way she saw it.

It’s just a very-very shortened list of all the actions we’ve made to go there, and I truly believe that that’s exactly how success in life looks - you make hundreds of different turns, sometimes not knowing they’re right, and at some point you see yourself having such a beautiful picture in front of you.

But it only works if you make steps, otherwise, nah, it won’t 🤷‍♂️

So yeah, just like that… I keep playing with small videos, and here is another one 😉👇

Thoughts of the week:

• Change will happen whether you like it or not. - John Winsor, The Independent Workforce podcast

• You should work the minimum amount that is necessary to achieve the maximum amount of success you can tolerate. - Daniel Fazio, Personal IPO podcast

• If information were everything that you needed, you’d already be rich. - Daniel Fazio, Personal IPO podcast

• People who buy stuff continue to buy stuff, and people who don’t, they don’t, so make your free lead magnet 1, 5 dollars. - Daniel Fazio, Personal IPO podcast

• The shorter the course, the more people get results, and the more testimonials you get. - Daniel Fazio, Personal IPO podcast

• Alex Hormozi newsletter 👇

Song of the week:

Book and quotes of the week:

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

“In childhood, all is new. With age, we see things as familiar.”

“Expertise leads to the ability to acquire more expertise.”

“Thigmotaxic, or thigmophilic—touch-loving—animals scurry along at the edges of the spaces we make. They feel most comfortable keeping in contact with something as they travel. Proximity to a wall limits the territory they must scan for possible dangers.”

Tools that I use with referrals:

• Descript - for anything around podcasting and video editing

• Manus - for building complex systems and projects

• Beehiiv - for a newsletter (that’s what you receive 😅)

• Text Blaze - to access message templates with shortcuts (like “/ty”)

• Exali - promo “FROMYURII” - indemnity insurance for independent experts in Europe

Daily actions:

• invite 1 person to give feedback about how I helped them

• tell 1 person what I’m thankful to them for

• read a self-development book/listen to a professional podcast for 15 minutes

• make a valuable post/comment on LinkedIn

• tag 30 people in my database

• participate in a secret LI support group

• invite 5 people to check my website and ask them for advice (postponed)

Weekly actions:

• transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight and Personal IPO (bi-weekly) podcasts, learn something from them, and connect with guests on LinkedIn

• transcribe two new DOAC videos, learn one thing from them, and make 1% posts in the DOAC community

• connect 2 people who I believe need to be connected.

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to walk The Road To $1M+ Freelance Business with me 👇

See you next week! 👋