Motive In Motion

It was a blistering hot day in Saigon, Vietnam One of those days you can actually feel your face sweating. Below my apartment, the streets were a buzzing sea of motorbikes, car horns, vendors in sun hats pushing ice cream carts thick humidity enveloped every inch of my skin. A typical street jam-packed with motorbikes in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Id dropped out of college two years prior, to chase my dream of traveling, building an online business, and living abroad. I simply cut the cord and hopped over to the East alone, with a suitcase and a one-way ticket. Because I knew there was a massive opportunity to learn from entrepreneurs living and working abroad anywhere with wifi, designing their ideal lifestyles. But at this time (yet again) I was punched in the face with a right hook of adversity. I had just $64 left in my checking account. Worse than that, you can see the other bank linked was out of date, and I was borrowing money from my credit cards to pay my advertising and shipping costs for my brand I was in a foreign country, alone, in a strange home setup. I was so broke I had to negotiate weekly payments with the house owners, so I could hold on to what little I had left. Plus most of my network was spread out across the rest of the world, because Id just started to network in Vietnam. You can imagine how I felt. Hopeless, desperate, and anxious to see some results. When I flew out to Asia bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as a 20-year old, I never expected or anticipated the sheer level of lows and inevitable struggles. The hardships. The loneliness. The confusion of what to do next. Oddly enough, this was well after Id already earned my first $25,000 or so online. I was confused how I led myself into my current mess, for I was not much of a newbie anymore. In hindsight of this event, I see it was simply a case of over-investing in a product in which Id tested the river with both feet. A cardinal sin in investing, but well get back to that in a second I was always in the game from the moment I started, ...