The Opportunities Are Bigger Than You Think

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I’m a high school dropout.

I had a difficult upbringing that involved a lot of physical and mental abuse. At 17, I chose homelessness over being beaten with a lamp cord. To survive, I had to get three jobs, and that meant dropping out of high school.

My dream was always to be a writer. I had written since I was young and had big plans for my words. During the survival period of my life, I gave up my dream of being a writer. In fact, I hated writing because it was a dream that I could never do anything about.

I did get off the streets and met the love of my life while working at Burger King. We got married and started a life together. The next 12 years weren’t great, but better than how I had grown up. In 2011, everything in my life fell apart.

The debtors were coming for their money, my bread business was falling apart, and my marriage was collapsing before my eyes. It was during this time when I couldn’t talk to anyone else that I found writing again. Once I started, I couldn’t stop.

Today, almost five years later, I’m the author of four books—three of which have been traditionally published. My books have sold over 100,000 copies and counting. I also have the opportunity to write for major media publications—some free and some paid.

Think about that: a high school dropout who writes for the largest websites in the world. Each month, my words are read by millions of people. This exposure took my lifestyle business from $50,000 in 2014 to over $200,000 last year (2015).

Dream Bigger

I don’t share any of this to brag—I’m trying to demonstrate a point. I didn’t build some great connection that got me into all these publications. I didn’t luck into. I identified the opportunities and put a plan in place. Once in, I leveraged them to grow my business. Guess what? This can be repeated, and in fact, there are many who read my words that are doing the same thing.

You can never land these opportunities if you don’t believe it’s possible. Personal development starts with your mindset—you probably know this. But, knowing and living it are two separate things. You have to see that with some work, you can land bigger opportunities and leverage them.

In fact, one of the best ways to build your lifestyle business is through the bigger opportunities. There’s a lot of “same audience syndrome” happening in the online space right now. It’s better and more profitable to go after the untapped audience that comes from getting exposure.

Getting featured on the largest websites in the world can lead to income, email subscribers, and the social proof you can leverage for cool opportunities such as speaking. I’ll be in nine countries and three states speaking this year, and all of it came from articles I’ve written for various publications. You can do this, too, if you take action.

My goal today is to open your mind. Over the next several posts, I’ll be teaching you how to land these opportunities. At the end of this month, I’ll tell you how you can get deeper help through my Exposure through Large Publications class.

For now, I want you to look around you. Identify some bigger opportunities that you’ll chase this year. It can be international speaking, coaching more people, booking consulting work at a company, or selling thousands of your book through exposure.

I don’t know where you are in your life and business; I do know what’s possible. This former homeless, high school dropout is landing bigger opportunities. It just goes to show that it’s not always about who you know, but what you’re willing to do.

Audio version:

Will you dream bigger? How?