Mini Stories #2: Thinking Big

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So this is going to be a summary of me realizing a few things in the last week or so.

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Writing this while watching Bayern vs Dortmund, at 1.30am. We’ve got our first surfing lesson tomorrow, and spending a few more days here before we get back to Pune by late 16th.

Spending a week here made me realize that thinking big-ger is needed at every level.

Whether it’s my agency, brand or the journey club.

I was talking to Ritesh and Akshat today, as we were hanging out at Morabito, Uluwatu. And I said, “I think we’re at a really complicated/bad position in our careers”.

“Because we have done something that majority cannot, and now that we know of the possibilities, we know that 10xing the whole thing is so simple.”

“There’s not much difference between the both, it’s just the minute changes that are needed.'“

This was all a build up of what has happened since the last week.

Us going to Sawaya, arguably the best rated club in Asia. Me seeing Iman Gadzhi’s ex cofounder there. (Was not able to chat to him).

Talking to people wearing RMs, running 500cr per year businesses, exchanging numbers with a guy wearing an AP royal oak who made his money with poker & running 7 restaurants & a nicotine patch company. And a lot more.

Of course, meeting Daniel Dalen, meeting Jamie Robbins and other guys doing 10s and 100s of millions of dollars.

All with different businesses.

Firstly, the guy is jacked. That is the goal.

I need to work a lot more on my body, I saw that I’m in nowhere near the shape I want to be in.

So that is a big focus.

Continuing,

We ended up thinking, “Bro this agency stuff is great, but it’s not the thing that will make us big”.

Our brands, and the journey club are the biggest projects we’ll build.

So going all in on documenting our journeys on YouTube, building the JC community, scaling our brands alongside the agency.

This is what we need.

Not just this, hanging out with Sagnik, Sahil, Ritesh and Akshat showed me that there are too many possibilities.

And I was missing out by not traveling much.

Too many people to meet, new connections to be made, experiences to be lived.

I have to make more money, with bigger projects in a shorter period so I can travel the world like this.

Not putting myself under too much pressure, it’s more about not taking the mundane so much for granted that we end up in a comfort zone.

Mainly related to my agency as well. Even if I felt like I was doing enough,

Gaining new perspectives around how I probably am keeping people in the team that I know aren’t driven and half assing things because I care too much about people.

That has changed. I feel like I have changed with my approach.

Thing is that making enough progress to be ahead of a lot of people, and yet feeling not enough while being able to see that people are out here operating at absolutely different planes, was eye opening.

Made us rethink our approach on our brands, and building our businesses.

Action will tell. Whether we’re pretenders or real ones. Putting this out there so you all keep me accountable.

So, takeaways and next plans:

We have decided to go in a direction where we will seriously build the journey club as a lifestyle brand.

Doing things that are scalable.

Brand will be focused on more and more long form.

I now need to get the dji osmo pocket 3, and a new lens. The osmo is seriously a cheat code for us creators.

Traveling and meeting more people.

Doing bigger things.

It’s all within our reach, we just have to execute relentlessly.

Let’s lock in. The world is ours for the taking.

Now that Bayern is winning 2-1. I’ll watch the match, pack up and go to bed feeling a bit of cold and ready for my surfing class tomorrow. (lol as I finishing this, it’s 2-2. Now I have to lock in)

Love.

~ Saksham.