You're Sitting on a Fortune and Don't Know It

Become an information broker.

Links:

• You’re already sitting on top of a content goldmine, you just don’t realize it.

• Sometimes great ideas pop up when you’re just having some coffee.

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A lot of people think they need to go to war zones or live in 30 countries to have something worth sharing.

That’s bullshit. (I did, but I wouldn’t recommend it. They shoot at you.)

You’ve probably lived 20, 30, maybe 40 years on this planet. You’ve screwed up jobs. You’ve navigated difficult relationships. You’ve learned skills nobody taught you in school. You’ve survived things that would’ve broken the version of you from five years ago.

That’s not “just life.”

That’s a database of information someone else desperately needs right now.

Here’s what I realized after spending years thinking my experiences weren’t special enough: I was sitting on decades of valuable intel and treating it like junk mail.

Every failed project taught me something about starting better. Every terrible boss showed me how not to lead. Every financial mistake became a lesson in what actually works.

I’m not special. I just started treating my past like the asset it is.

Here’s how you do it: Pick one thing you’re decent at now that you absolutely sucked at five years ago. Write down every mistake you made getting from there to here. That’s your first piece of shareable intel.

Someone out there is exactly where you were five years ago.

They’re making the same mistakes you made. They need to hear how you figured it out, not because you’re an expert, but because you’re proof it’s possible.

Your life isn’t boring. You’re just not looking at it like an information broker yet.

What’s one thing you learned the hard way that could save someone else years of headache?