🎾 Hobbies, remember those? 🪄

Hi ,

I LOVE Gary Vee! 😍

Not in a sexual way, I mean, he’s not ugly, he’s a nice-looking dude, but I love him for his message. I find myself agreeing with him on almost everything he says;

“Go after it.”

“Stay humble.”

“Empathy first.”

“Everything is your fault.”

“Passion is more important than skill.”

“You’re not lost, you’re early in the process.”

“Be a good person and good things will happen.”

But there's one big thing I disagree with him about, it’s actually an entire book he wrote, which goes by the title: “Crush It!  Why now is the time to cash on your passion”

When someone approaches Gary and asks: “What business should I start?”

Gary will say: “What do you like doing? Do more of that and make money that way.”

Do you like drawing? Be a painter

Do you enjoy playing video games? Be a gamer

Do you enjoy yoga? Be a yoga instructor

Gary Vee’s suggestion is to “become an influencer” in any of the hobbies you enjoy doing.

As a kid, I loved doing magic tricks to people. I couldn’t get enough. It started by doing tricks for my family and friends but was quickly something I loved doing in front of strangers on the street.

What’s the next logical step? To become a professional paid magician.

When I started doing magic professionally, I lost something.

I didn’t enjoy it as much as before. I also felt like I should only perform “strong” magic instead of constantly trying new tricks or things I might enjoy doing more, but maybe not everyone will like.

I believe this is true for anything when you turn a hobby into a profession - You need to serve the masses, so you compromise.

Here’s what I found - Hobbies are important and many times should just stay that way - Hobbies.

As entrepreneurs, we tend to think everything we do can have a payoff on the other side of it. While that’s true, it doesn’t mean you should always go that route.

Let’s say you capitalize on your hobbies and turn all of them into money.You grow your business and finally reach the point where you can sell it for life-changing money - And you do.

What then? You have all of this free time to do whatever you want, and then what?

I’ve seen this many times with Amazon sellers after they sold their business - After a few weeks they launched another brand. Why? They don’t even know why. I believe the main reason is that they’ve neglected everything else. All of their hobbies got pushed aside in order for them to build their empire. Now that they’ve sold their business, they don’t have anything else going on. The only thing they feel they’re “good at” is business, so they start another one.

It’s important that you have something you have a passion for and that you can do in your free time. The more free time you have, the more you can do that thing. That thing can’t have an agenda of getting paid behind it. It’s about having fun and rewarding yourself with something you enjoy.

If you’ve read this far and your goal is to exit your Amazon business for $5M or more in the next 1-3 years, I can help. Email back with the word “EXIT” and one of my team members will reach out with details.

Tomer

P.S

Just to be clear, I’m not attracted to Gary Vee. I’m a married man. Married to a woman. We have 3 kids for god’s sake!

And yes, watching Seinfeld reruns is one of my hobbies.

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