Since it’s Independence Day in the USA (the big 250)…
… with my own Independence Pay anniversary right around the corner…
… when I got my first paycheck online without a boss, without a job, and without waking up at 4 am in the morning only to get shuffled out into the freezing winter cold, just so I could line up for hours waiting for the next bus and train that finally got me to work on time…
… it calls for some fireworks…
… of timeless, but hard-earned, lessons on ‘real independence’ (which almost no one has anymore these days)!
The first of them being:
[ 1 ] When I first started telling my friends about how I planned to bank the big bucks by starting my own online business, one of the first things they told me was, “I’m not sure if that’s safe. I’ve read that over 95% of businesses fail.”
But the first thing I thought when I heard that though?
“Awesome! I’m going to be in the top 5% soon!”
Probably the first ‘independence’ you’ll ever get is ‘independence of thought’.
Meaning?
You don’t ever let what others think… decide what you’re gonna do, think, or feel. Instead, you independently choose what to listen to, and what not to listen to. Which doesn’t exactly make you popular with the crowd.
More:
[ 2 ] A couple more friends told me to “be careful because I’ve heard that that internet thing is a scam.”
That being the time when the internet wasn’t really a thing…
… and lots of people thought the same.
But my confidence in making money selling stuff online?
It came from the fact that:
Other people were doing it already! Most notably from a newspaper clipping. About a blogger who replaced his full time income just by blogging.
Real independence is about looking at results.
Not at opinions. Or research. Or data.
An idea that naysayers will criticize you for. Because it just ain’t profitable for the ‘data scientists’ out there.
But in the words of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, “When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.” Start with anecdotal results, from people who are getting the results you want to get… then reverse-engineer from there… and you’re most of the way to getting what you want already.
The hard part is independently ignoring all the ‘data scientists’.
[ 3 ] But perhaps independence starts much earlier.
Because I remember that…
… when I was a kid, I made one of the biggest decisions of my life.
After much thought, imagination, and analysis.
A decision that has shaped everything I’ve ever done, and without which I would never have enjoyed the success I have today.
What decision, you ask?
It was the decision to… stop watching what one of my earliest business teachers calls… ‘the idiot tube’!
A.k.a television.
Which was basically a staple in every home back in the day.
But after imagining a future without watching television, and discovering all the free time it’d save me… to learn, to read, to pick up new skills, and simply… to have fun… I stopped watching it when I was around 10 or 11… and decades later, am grateful for all the time and sanity it’s saved me since then.
Because I didn’t have to subject my brain cells growing up to all the crap spewed out by mass media, fake news, and entertainment-indoctrination.
And no, I don’t use any sort of social media.
Unless it’s to…
… repost my content for traffic!
Yet another stage of independence:
Independence of thought from mass, fake, and social media.
Which reminds me of one of my neighbors who just got back from Qatar… in the Middle East… after a trip of a month of two there to see her newborn grandkid. A trip she told me surprised her, because the ‘fake news’ said that people were fleeing and dying and there was massive unrest and fear in the area… but which she said was one of the most peaceful places she’d ever been to…
Go figure.
[ 4 ] Growing up, I had a lot of health issues.
Issues which, according to most doctors, were either hereditary or incurable.
And which I just had to deal with. Accompanied by a healthy dose of medical ‘drugs’.
But one day…
A doctor we met who treated probably every disease you could imagine entirely without a drop of drugs (because drugs never cured no one), showed us how… if you fix the root cause of the problem, you don’t have to waste your time dealing with the symptoms ever again. A fact that almost no doctor nowadays will ever tell you, because it just ain’t profitable.
But it was a fact that completely changed how I did things.
Whether that’s in health, or in business.
And which has been proven to be accurate time and time again, no matter what I’ve seen over the decades.
With even the most so-called hereditary or incurable issues simply vanishing once they’re ‘plucked up by the roots’.
Prompting me to start doing my own research, experiments, eventually studying to become my own ‘doctor’, who discovered that the body knows how to doctor itself perfectly fine. It doesn’t need your help. All you need to do is to know what to give it, know what not to give it, and do what it tells you to…
Which most people simply can’t anymore…
… because they’re so dependent on ideas and opinions…
… instead of independently listening to what their own body tells them to do or not to do…
… and doing their own research, experiments, and simply…
… sticking to what nature has proven for millenia works!
Independence from big industry, especially big Pharma, big Social, big Agri, Big Tech, Big Guroos, and all the Big Boys is a rare trait in today’s world.
[ 5 ] Dependency on tech is insane these days.
A practice which, risk scientist Nassim Taleb who authored the bestselling books Black Swan and Antifragile says… is often very fragile.
Because when your tech gets taken away…
… or you get ‘cancelled’ (which might happen to me today if someone doesn’t like what I’m writing right now)…
… or Big Tech simply decides to bump prices to a point where it’s no longer sustainable (which happens all the time)…
… or decides they no longer want you using their platform…
… or just stops working for any reason…
… or AI decides to delete your entire database for no reason whatsoever, which just happened to a big business the other day…
… you’re screwed.
And you’re screwed even more if it doesn’t.
Especially if you’re on the ‘tech treadmill’ constantly chasing after new tech, new trends, and the latest ‘AI flavor of the week’.
That bloats you to the point that…
… not only are you losing money…
… but you don’t even have time to make money because of all the tools you’re juggling.
A fact I talked about in my previous email.
Along with how I hardly ever even buy any tech these days.
Being as independent as I can from the ‘machine’, getting or building only automation or scripts that I actually need, if and when I need them… which gets me no ‘kinship’ with any of the AI guroos out there…
[ 6 ] Location independence.
Meaning being able to work from wherever you want, whenever you want.
And being able to effortlessly move at the drop of a hat.
Which takes time to build up.
But given the messages I’ve been getting from fretting subscribers who are pissed off at their evil Marxist governments, especially in Europe and South America, it seems that my practice of being as ‘independent’ as I possibly can from any country isn’t a bad choice.
And while no country will ever be perfect…
… it never hurts to have more than one home across a few different countries as soon as you’re able to.
And I talk about how to do this without getting scammed for hundreds of thousands in my latest work.
[ 7 ] But probably most important of all?
Independence from money!
Or in other words… being so good at starting new income streams and businesses that… you could effortlessly delete what you’re doing right now… start from scratch… and reach 6 or 7 figures within record time. Which I have done many a time.
Even if they kidnapped you, put you on a plane, and dropped you in the middle of nowhere.
With just a cellphone, laptop, and a couple hundred bucks.
Which is probably the theme of some fancy TV show.
“Millionaire Survivors: Will these millionaires survive when they’re stripped of everything they have and lose contact with all their family and friends?”
Or something like that.
But if you’re locked into your business 24/7, and if it dies right now, and your hope of ever making money again dies there along with it, you’re not truly independent.
Anyone can make a million bucks once.
But to do it again and again…
… any time…
… at the drop of a hat?
That’s true skill.
And one of the real signs of true independence.
A skill that begins with mastering the art of making maximum money in minimum time, and with minimum effort… all of which I talk about in my latest work on how to “Scam Your Brain Productive”, with (legal and ethical) copywriting hacks used by the world’s greatest scammers.
With what I reveal inside, based on my own personal experiences and expermentation over 2 decades, being the quickest and easiest way I know of to start doing so.
In as little as a minute at a time.
But if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can claim your first steps towards independence by starting here:
https://themysteriousmarketer.com/scam-your-brain-productive/
Allen Walker
The Mysterious “Somewhat Independent” Marketer
Allen Walker, the Mysterious Marketer, is the marketing genius who’s deleted more 6 & 7 figure businesses than anyone else on the planet (*all because he gets bored). He’s also known as the world’s most genius renaissance marketer. Visit his blog to read thousands of his ‘secret’ copywriting tips for getting paid to grow your email list.
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