GRAB A CUPPA, TAKE A SEAT, MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME.

 

Have you ever come across an article/book/YouTube video of some polished business guru offering ‘5 easy steps’, to ‘work only 4 hours’ and ‘make your first million’? Well, so have I… This idea of becoming a successful entrepreneur is glamorised all over the place as a life accessible to absolutely everyone if you just ‘put in the work’. It’s especially glamorised if you started out broke, couch-surfing at mates places, and eating nothing but cardboard. But is any of it actually true? After all, these guru’s are only telling tales of their existing successes. Who knows how their fantasies actually came to fruition!? Did they practice what they preach, or are they just banking on our viewership and hunger for a hero’s victory; selling a dream via methods that they never used.

I’m sure at this point you get the gist, and are probably just as curious as I am to find out what is real advice and what is not. If that’s the case, then you’re in the right place – welcome, take a seat, grab a cuppa, and make yourself at home. Let’s open this journal together… 

My Objective

My objective here is simple – I am going to put myself through the test of finding out what it’s really like to step out from the comfort of employment, and try to walk a path other than the ones prescribed. This journal is my commitment to you. I will share everything here: the ups, the downs, the lessons learned along the way, and most importantly, a raw insight into my life after full time work and my pursuit of a passion project. It might look ugly, or turn into a beautiful adventure. Either way, I will hold nothing back. 

WHO AM I AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

If you’re asking yourself this, then you’re missing the point. I’m not here to sell you a personality or some success story. There’s plenty others doing that elsewhere, feel free to keep fantasising. 

The thing about me is that I am a pretty ordinary bloke. Yes – I’m a professional with a fancy title in my late twenties based in a major city. BUT what does that actually mean? It means that I have done nothing out of the ordinary to get to this point in my life. I have simply done as I was always told – got good enough grades in school to get into uni, and then I did well enough in uni to get a good job, and I have worked hard at that job for several years. I have followed the prescribed path with almost no imagination of my own. Call it a quarter life crisis, but is this it? For the next 30-40 years? Working towards the next promotion, the next title, the next pay rise, saving/investing 10% of my monthly pay check with all hopes on compound interest until financial freedom at retirement, when I’m no longer young, fit or ambitious enough to pursue life’s real adventures? Yep, definitely a quarter life crisis. 

Well, I have a passion. That passion is to help people – it’s why I became a doctor in the first place. But over time, I’ve realised that helping people doesn’t have to be confined to a hospital ward. There’s a whole world out there, and I want to explore how I can make a difference beyond the boundaries of medicine.

SO HERE WE GO… 

So, I’m stepping off the well-trodden path and into the unknown. I’m chasing a dream that’s been quietly simmering inside – a dream of creating, innovating, and building something of my own to help the masses. Maybe it’s maybe it’s business, maybe it’s music, or maybe it’s something else entirely. I don’t have all the answers yet, and that’s the exciting part.

This journal is my way of bringing you along on this adventure, and hopefully inspiring/teaching something with it. I’m not here to preach, but to discover. If you’re curious, skeptical, or just want to see what happens when an ordinary guy with a ‘secure’ job decides to take a leap of faith, then stick around. Together, we’ll figure out what it really takes to forge a new path – no polished gurus, no easy steps, just raw, unfiltered reality.

So, welcome to my Journal. Here’s to finding out what’s on the other side of the comfort zone. Let’s dive in and see where this journey takes us…