Changes I’m Making To My Business (And Why I’m Making Them)
Last Tuesday was the first time in almost 4 years I didn’t publish my newsletter. Usually, when I fall short on a personal objective, I feel bad about it and it bothers me a lot. This time, not so much …
The truth is, I’m rethinking what I’m doing on TimStodz.com.
I’m recalibrating. I’m trying to discover my true creative expression and I’m thinking a lot about what the true value is when creating a personal brand for yourself. What’s the point? What’s the end goal?
Recently, I find myself wanting to write about topics that are outside of business. There are so many new adventures, experiences, experiments, and insights that I want to share with you.
This week, I am going to open up and share some of the ideas that are going through my head. I’m not quite sure where this is going to end up.
LFG.
Holistic Wellness
I’ve recently partnered in a peptides company.
The experience has created a deep interest in new age health and wellness techniques. I want to learn as much as I can about holistic wellness.
Look, I’m not an anti science weirdo. Western medicine has created the most successful lifespans in the history of the world. Antibiotics are a miracle and vaccines work.
With that said, I am completely aware of the fact that westernized healthcare is a for profit business. 99% of the time, healthcare is designed to treat sickness as opposed to promoting health.
I want to live in the solution. I want to always actively protect my health and avoid getting sick.
I’m learning so much about …
hormones
nutrition
gut health
sleep
mindset and mental health
and more
I would love to start writing about these new health techniques I’m learning about. I’m 38 years old and I’m in better shape than almost anyone I know. My health is the biggest advantage I have.
*Insert subtle flex here.”
Why doesn’t everyone take care of themselves? Is it education? Are they afraid? Do they simply not know?
I want to learn more, and the best way to learn is to write.
Parenting
Being a parent is an intense experience.
Last night, my little dude was throwing a temper tantrum so bad that I went to bed feeling like he hated me and like I was doing something wrong as a parent and father.
Then, this morning he wakes up and runs to me like I’m his hero. He opens his arms and gives me a big hug and a big kiss on the lips.
The range of emotion I feel as a parent is indescribable. It weighs on me (in a good way) because I know there is so much on the line.
My son and my daughter see everything. All they know is what they learn from Jules and I. It’s no joke. The future of the world is blossoming in my living room.
I would love to be more open about parenting, raising kids, going on adventures with my wife, and the lessons I learn from navigating fatherhood.
The best line I ever heard about parenting is that “kids don’t listen, the imitate.” Everything they learn, they learn by WATCHING their mother and me. So what does that say about the way I behave?
I learn just as much from them as they learn from me. I would love to start sharing these lessons, thoughts, and experiences. Because nothing in life is as intense as the responsibility of creating and raising a human.
Life, Insights, Spirituality
I’m a spiritual person.
When you’re a drug addict like I was, what you really are is a spiritually bankrupt person. People do drugs because they are trying to fill a spiritual void in their lives. Inner voids are always spiritual, because you can’t fill that hole inside of you with anything else other than connection. And spiritually is nothing but connection to others.
Getting sober forced me to become spiritual. There’s no alternative, because you can’t get sober in isolation.
As such, I live my life based on spiritual principles. There’s layers of myself that I never share with my readers, because I’ve convinced myself that you follow me because you want to learn how to make money.
What’s funny is that making money is a spiritual process. Money only exists as a spiritual exchange. Money is a representation of value, and generating value is a spiritual act. It must be, there is no other way.
I would love to write more about my life, the lessons I’ve learned through my experience, and the joy I feel by living within spiritual principles.
This Is The Problem With Personal Brands
This has always been my argument that turning your personal brand into a business is a mistake.
Your personal brand is an opportunity machine. The more you put yourself out there, the more opportunities will come your way.
But building “a business of you” is extremely limiting because you are so many things.
For instance, I am a …
husband
dad
muay thai practitioner
entrepreneur
comic book nerd
history buff
hiker
investor
traveler
person who live on the planet earth
How could I possibly limit myself into being only one thing? And what’s more, how could I possibly ignore all my other interests in passions such that I create a lane for myself to build authority so that I can sell courses?
That doesn’t interest me.
I don’t want to be a guru. I don’t want to sell products through my personal brand. Rather, I want to express myself and form partnerships so that I can create other businesses that are brands within themselves.
I am a person. I am not a business.
Businesses are businesses. That’s the way it should be.
In Closing
Thanks for reading. I’m not sure how I got here and what the “main message” behind this week’s essay is. I’m working through the next generation of my work. I want to get more serious about my writing and my videos. I want to level up. But if I’m going to put in the work to level up, I want to do it in a way that feels real.
So to summarize, I fully intend to continue writing about business and sharing my experiences in investing, marketing, sales, and more.
But my work is calling for me to expand and to broaden my horizons. I have no choice but to follow the message in my heart.
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