How I Retired At Age 27 [dHhUpaYCpyA]

Hello, today I would like to talk about

how I retired at age 27 and managed to

become financially free and independent.

I'd like to share my life philosophies

when it comes to money and financial

freedom and building online businesses.

Something I've noticed over the years is

that lots of people always ask in my

comment section, how come he doesn't have

to work? How come he doesn't get a job?

And how does he pay for his lifestyle? So

basically, I've been retired now since

2017. That was the last time I

had a proper job where I was an employee

at a company and I had a contract and they

paid me a monthly wage. And that was the

last time I was ever employed by a

company. So you might be asking, how have

I been paying for things? For the last 4

years if I haven't had a job in the last 4

years? Well, that is a very interesting

question. So I started my journey on the

path of entrepreneurship at a fairly young

age. I think I started my first online

business when I was about 18 or 17. When

other people my age were out clubbing and

drinking alcoholic drinks and having a

good time with ladies, I was working

really, really hard in order to find out

how can I make money using the internet

and my skills. I had to sacrifice my youth

and my teenage years when I could have

been out there clubbing and drinking and

having a good time as well. I decided to

sacrifice all of that in order to pursue

my dreams of becoming an online

entrepreneur. And one of my life mottos

that I stick by even to this day is, if

you don't make sacrifices for your dreams,

your dreams become sacrifices. And I

learned from a very young age that I

didn't like having to live my life by

other people's schedule. I didn't like

having to wake up early in the morning to

go and go to a place that I had to either

study in or work in. I wanted to have

ultimate freedom. I wanted to be able to

live my life how I wanted to live it. I

saw all these other people waking up early

in the morning and getting into their cars

and being stuck in traffic jams and having

to go to work and be there at 9 AM every

morning. And I thought to myself, I don't

really want to live like that. I want to

live my life how I want to live it. I want

to wake up at 10 AM in the morning. I

don't want to be stuck in a traffic jam.

I don't want to have to go outside and go

to some office if I didn't really want to.

So at the young age of 18, I decided that

I wanted to have online businesses that

would bring in revenue for me. My biggest

dream in life has always been to be able

to make money from the comfort of my

bedroom and my computer. And 14 years

later, I guess you could say that I am

enjoying the fruits of my harvest. My

first ever online business was an eBay

shop that I personally set up and built

from the ground up. And on my first eBay

shop, I used to sell these children's

watches and stationery, and I would use my

business knowledge that I learned from my

favorite TV show Dragon's Den to

ruthlessly undercut my competition. And it

wasn't easy in the beginning. I was living

with my parents at the time, and I wasn't

working any other jobs. My dad would come

home from work tired and stressed out,

and I remember he used to get annoyed with

me because I wasn't really making a lot of

money from my eBay shop. And one time he

came home and said, I'm fed up that I have

to work so long and so hard every day

whilst you just sit in your bedroom making

50p an hour. And when he said that to me,

I just, I felt so sad and it really hurt

me. And even to this day, I remember it

very clearly. I found it very upsetting

because it was my dream to be able to make

money off the internet. And even though my

eBay shop wasn't making loads of money, I

felt proud that I managed to find a way to

make some profits off of the internet.

And he just wasn't very supportive or

encouraging. I remember when my eBay shop

first made about £50 in a month,

and I felt so happy. I felt like I

did something good, and then he came home

and he was just angry at me. I just felt

like I worked so hard on that eBay shop

trying to make money, trying to turn a

and he was just not not encouraging or

supportive. He just wanted me to go and

get a job, anything. Working in a bar, in

a restaurant, in a petrol station. Just,

he just wanted me to, to get out there and

have a proper job instead of trying to

focus on my dreams of trying to become an

online internet entrepreneur. And that is

one of the biggest problems. That's the

biggest challenge you face when you want

to be an entrepreneur. Is everyone around

you is gonna laugh at you and not believe

in you and tell you it's gonna fail.

You've got to put up with so much

negativity from everyone around you, even

your family, your friends. They— it's

like they're not supportive, or they think

you're gonna fail. They kind of want you

to fail so you give up and get a job. And

when your own parents don't even give you

emotional support and they're not

encouraging, it's, it's really tough.

I think the sad thing is a lot of people

give up because they cave in from all

of this negativity coming in from all of

the people they know around them. And I

think that's part of the reason why I

don't really want friends, or I isolate

myself away from people, because I don't

want to be influenced by their negative

thinking. I remember when I worked at the

petrol station and I told my coworker that

I wanted to make YouTube videos and I

wanted to make vlogs, and he laughed at me

and mocked me. He said it was a silly idea

and it would never make any money. Some

people are just so negative. They'll try

and bring you down, they'll laugh at your

ideas, and it's, it's like they just want

you to be stuck in a job like they are.

The hardest thing I had to deal with was

just constantly being put down and told

that it's gonna fail, it's not going to

work, you should give up and get a job.

And I ignored everyone, and I did my best

to ignore all of this negativity. And

yeah, lots of things did fail. The eBay

shop failed. Many of my other projects and

ideas in the past also failed. I failed at

so many things, but I never let the dream

of making money off the internet slip away

from me. I was around the age of 28 when I

first realized that I don't really feel

like I need to get a job again. And I

don't really feel like I need to have a

job in order to survive. And I was able to

utilize my skills that I had built up and

acquired over the years to, to fund

my lifestyle. And it's been a really long

journey. It's been a long, long grind

since I was 18 and I had that dream to

become financially independent by making

money off the internet. It's taken 10

years to turn that dream into a reality,

and I've been living that reality for 4

years now. And even to this day, I'm still

surrounded by all these negative people

trying to bring me down, saying that this

is gonna fail and that's gonna fail and

nothing lasts forever. And I just carry on

ignoring them. And I just think it's so

sad that we live in a society where so

many people would prefer to bring people

down instead of trying to build them up.

And you've just got to ignore them and cut

them out, even if it's your own family or

your own friends. If people are having a

negative impact on your dreams, then

you've just got to cut them loose. And I'm

personally really glad that I never gave

up on my dreams. I never gave up on the

idea of becoming an internet entrepreneur.

I'm just so glad that I don't have to go

back to the petrol station and do night

shifts again.