What are you doing currently, and why haven't you been uploading content for a long time?
I've been recently traveling the world and shifting my focus toward health, more holistic relationships, and becoming the best version of myself. I hang out with a group of guys who share a view on holistic life satisfaction, which comes from balancing three spokes: health at the top, relationships on the right, and career. We've always described this balance as the spokes of a wheel. If any spoke is out of balance or broken, the wheel will break and collapse, leaving you screwed. In my life, I used this analogy like a video game character creation: for the last couple years my spokes were heavily concentrated on career, while health and relationship sides were small. So I spent the last about nine months buffing up health and relationships. Now that I think they're operating in balance, I can proceed.
I don’t watch Netflix; I prefer high‑quality entertainment like the anime Monster (I’ve read the manga). I occasionally do 3D design in Blender—about an hour a week—but my computer wasn’t strong enough when I started, and now I only do it sporadically. I used to play pickleball with friends, but nerve damage in my shoulder means I can’t do racket sports anymore. I meet friends for coffee or walks a few times a week and recently did a meditation retreat with a friend. I believe in balance: you don’t need to take massive breaks, but you do need to give your body and mind the rest they need to succeed long term, especially when work is mentally demanding.
You're worrying about the wrong thing—you're trying to solve a problem you don't have. Instead of trying to carve out the perfect life right now, first get to the place you want financially, then worry about carving that life out. In my case, scaling Left Click took us far beyond the point you're talking about; we hit $72k in one month. While scaling I saw varying degrees of work‑life balance and eventually worked 12‑14 hour days making $70k a month. Once I was making more money than 99% of people, I was in a better position to ask whether that life is truly what I want or just a hyper‑glamorized media image. From there I considered how to shave down the money I make per unit time to get a more reasonable workload. You’re approaching things backwards; start with the financial goal, then design the life you want. Rather than trying to get everything right at once, solve one problem at a time—career first, then balance and relationships. It’s much easier to tackle them sequentially than to try to get it all right on the first try; the probability of success is low if you try to do it all at once.
I'm not married; I've been with my girlfriend for over two years and I love her. Regarding spirituality, I consider myself agnostic—I don't claim to know whether God exists, and I think it's naive to assert certainty either way. I see the absence of evidence as not evidence of absence, and I believe many hardcore atheists fall into a logical fallacy by treating their belief as proof. While I don't follow any specific religion, I think there's likely some higher power that influences life. As for personal journey content, I have plenty of struggles and failures to share, but I avoid making my channel just about myself because I know people follow me for the value I provide. I try to help as much as possible, and the daily updates channel is a better place for that kind of personal storytelling. I don't want to become a lifestyle guru who just showcases gym routines and superficial wins.
I don’t think sacrificing my health was necessary; I took an all‑or‑nothing approach, and part of the sacrifice was outside my control—I was playing pickleball, got sick with a viral infection, and strained my right shoulder, which together gave me brachioraditis and kept me from doing the health activities I wanted. Instead I went “balls deep into work.” I procrastinate like the average person and mentioned the 20/80 rule (likely meaning 80/20). I understand where you’re coming from. My view on health versus success is that once people reach a certain level of wealth or income, they start investing in health because it’s all they have left to invest in, and many wish they’d done it earlier. Investing in health means different things for different people: for some it’s mental health, walks on the beach, or the right partners; for me it was literal physical health. I see a trend where, after hitting a certain number, people wonder what’s next—and that number varies per person. For me that number was reasonably low; I’ve observed others at ten times that level arriving at the same realization. Chris then asked about the book I referenced—it’s The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus, and I don’t expect a sequel. Casper praised the breakdown and congratulated me on winning the games, calling it cool and informative and thinking they’d already done it. Before moving on to delegating and outsourcing, I recommended Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell, which I’d just been tipped about and have in my Apple Books library. Benjamin said it’s incredibly interesting and highlighted the key insight that you don’t need to listen to Hormosi for two hours daily twice while working out because you’re already proficient at what he teaches; I’m doing that by listening to Hormosi at the gym, aiming to watch every long‑form video he’s published (he has too many shorts to count) to see his journey, since I feel mine is similar in a slightly different industry, noting Hormosi was bright‑eyed and young when he started seven or eight years ago and suggesting to check his early videos. I pointed out how funny it is to watch Hormosi walk through a sketchy, trashy gym with no lights, bad paint job, and hear him say, “Look at this thing—who would want to work out here?” while noting he turned that gym into $35,000 in five days, which I think is cool. I also said seeing his shift from management‑consulting style to bro‑gym marketing back to digital because of COVID is interesting and would illuminate my own path. Finally, Beyblade Knight remarked that I don’t have to follow that route.