Life is a game.

The challenges are hard but the rewards are endless.

I have always had an obsession with games.

For 20 years of my life, I spent most of my time and energy on video games.

From Minecraft to Halo, Call of Duty to Runescape...

You name it — I've played it.

Wake up, go to school, play video games, repeat.

But 3 years ago, everything began to change.

As I sat on my disgusting couch in my musty college apartment, I thought to myself...

What am I going to do?

I graduated college last week.

I didn't have a job lined up.

And I was getting married in 3 months.

And because of these circumstances, I would have to give up the one thing that made me happy…

Video Games

I realized that my video game skills weren't going to get me very far in the real world.

I starting binging business content from people making millions of dollars each year.

I began to notice patterns from watching these men.

One pattern in particular, began showing up again and again...

They played real life like a video game.

• They leveled up skills

• They searched for valuable information

• They built cool stuff

• And they stacked up tons of resources. (money)

And they were having a blast doing it.

So I started thinking...

I've had no problem putting in thousands of hours into many different video games. (5000+ in Runescape alone)

What level of success could I reach if I put thousands of hours into leveling up my real life?

So that day I decided...

I was going to start playing real life.

It's been 3 years since that day and I have seen insane improvements in all areas of my life:

• I made enough online income to quit my 9-5 job

• I do what I love for a living

• I’ve learned more in the past 2 years than I have in the previous 20

And most importantly: I have grown in my relationship with God.

The best part is — This is only the beginning.

That is why I am starting this newsletter.

As I level up skills and unlock new information, I want to share what I learn with you.

But you might be thinking:

That's great for you KJ, but how do I even START playing real life?

• I don’t much money.

• I don't have any valuable skills.

• And I’m not enjoying life like I want to.

Well that is the topic for today’s letter!

Let's go over 3 steps that completely changed my life.

3 Steps to start winning in life

1) Attention

In most video games you have a "mana" or "energy" bar.

When your bar is full, you can perform special moves or attacks.

When your bar is empty, you lack the ability to perform attacks and you must wait for your bar to recharge.

Real life is no different.

Each day we have a certain amount of attention that we can devote towards doing things. (Your real life "mana" bar)

Most people spend their attention points like this:

• 70% building someone else’s dream (working a job they hate)

• 25% on mindless entertainment

• 5% feeling angry/sad because they haven’t made any progress.

So how do we fix that?

• Avoid spending any attention on meaningless entertainment.

• Start investing your attention into your goals.

But KJ, how do I invest attention into my goals?

Well that brings us to step #2...

2) Goals

Once you have you attention back, you need somewhere to invest it.

This is where your goals come in.

Video games keep us hooked because they give us concrete goals and a clear path to reach them.

If you don’t have concrete goals for your life, you won’t know where to invest your attention.

If you don't know where to invest your attention, you will end up wasting it on TikTok.

If you are serious about changing your life, do this now:

• Write down 1-3 meaningful goals that you want to achieve in 1-3 years.

• For each goal, write down 1-3 small actions you can take daily to start making progress.

• Do the actions daily.

For example:

Goal: Make $10,000/Month

Small actions:

• Read 25 pages of a financial success book.

• Research business models for 30 minutes.

• Practice sales/copywriting for 30 minutes.

Over time these actions will compound into massive progress towards your goals.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

That being said, we can fast-track our progress with step three...

3) Hunt & Level Up

• You’ve gotten rid of distractions.

• You’ve set 1-3 concrete goals.

• You wrote down small actions you can take daily to make progress.

Now it’s time to turbocharge the process.

We do that by doing 2 things:

• Going on “Hunts"

• Leveling Up

You aren’t where you want to be in life because you lack:

• Information

• Skills

Once you have a goal, you need to “hunt” for new information that will help you reach that goal.

Let’s say you chose Make $10,000/Month as one of your goals.

Here are some examples of some hunts you could go on:

• Consuming entrepreneurship content. (videos, books, and podcasts)

• Studying successful businesses.

• Researching different business models.

• Researching the most valuable skills for making money.

• Brainstorming a business/side hustle you can start.

As you are hunting, you must begin “leveling up” skills by taking action.

This is where most people get stuck.

Information isn't useful without action.

Let's look at how this would work with our example.

Goal - Make $10,000/month

As you're "hunting" you realize you need to learn copywriting for your online business.

Now, you need to start learning the skill by actually doing it.

You need to write copy. (Online Ad's)

Instead of reading copywriting books, go write copy for 10 imaginary stores.

This is the secret to making actual progress.

As you take actions you will begin leveling up that skill,

AND

You will have somewhere to apply the information you learn from your hunts.

Doing this over a long enough time scale will ensure you make progress towards your goals.

So to recap:

1 - Stop wasting your attention.

2 - Set concrete goals for the next 1-3 years.

3 - Invest attention into your goals by:

• Going on “hunts” for new information.

• Leveling up skills by taking action.

This framework has changed my life forever and it has the power change yours if you let it.

Thanks for reading. - KJ

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