Have you ever dreamed so big, that it would change the lives
of so many others, and end up changing your own, forever?
Charlie Jabaley wasn't your typical kid from Georgia
(United States). Sometimes labelled, "the chubby kid", Charlie was a
dreamer. Knowing that he needed to use his imagination as a weapon to survive
the playground, Charlie created his first persona, CEO Charlie. He had other
ideas. Like pursuing the life of an athlete. But, that had to wait.
As a young CEO millionaire of Atlanta Hip-hop management
company, Street Execs, he sold millions of records, changed the trajectory of
how to market to millennials, and guided the careers of influential artists
like Grammy award winning 2Chainz. However, while all the success was pouring
in, he battled depression, binge eating, crippling insecurities and a brain
tumor. To everyone on the outside, CEO Charlie was crushing it. On the inside,
he was dying. Unhealthy, unhappy and unfilled, Charlie retired in 2017 at the
age of 29 from both the music industry and the name “CEO Charlie”. He made the
decision to reinvent his life in pursuit of his childhood dream to become an
athlete.
Charlie Jabaley is a globally-recognized serial
entrepreneur, speaker, and influencer on a mission to transform millions of
people worldwide. Charlie is the former manager of 2Chainz (Grammy nominated
& winning rap artist) and the previous founder of Street Execs - an Atlanta
based hip hop firm managing megastars such as Travis Porter, Young Dolph, and
BankRoll.
At the age of 29, he made the decision to reinvent his
life in pursuit of his childhood dream to become an athlete
"When I became successful in business, I was fortunate
enough to become a millionaire. But when I got sick, that meant absolutely
nothing to me. I told myself, 'I want to become a new type of millionaire, one
that transforms a million people's lives.' "
AND FROM THE FLAMES EMERGED CHARLIE ROCKET,
Charlie Rocket inspires those around him. He’s lost 135
pounds. Became vegan. Ran 3 marathons. Reversed the growth of his brain tumor.
Became an Ironman. Just finished his nationally known Dream Machine bike tour
across America. Is currently on the cover of Runner’s World Magazine and
secured partnership with Nike. Charlie has rerouted his ambition of making
millions of dollars into his current mission to TRANSFORM 1 MILLION PEOPLE’S
LIVES.
Never one to do things halfway, Jabaley made several drastic
changes. (His upcoming book is titled "The Life and Death of CEO
Charlie.")
He left his company and moved to California. He adopted a
plant-based diet. He started training with his best friend, Scott Cameron, who
challenged him to run his first marathon. Running gave Jabaley something to be
proud of, and that, along with his eating habits, resulted in a 120-pound
weight loss within a year. He felt great. His brain tumor was under control.
Jabaley made a contract with himself to pursue his dream of
becoming an athlete. While he was at it, he planned to touch a million people's
lives. Four marathons and an Ironman Triathlon later, he set out on his Dream
Machine Tour, a bike ride from Los Angeles to New York. He wanted to inspire
people to pursue their dreams with vigor. He wrapped up the cross-country ride
this week.
It's not clear how many people he affected, but Jabaley is
well on his way to becoming a different kind of millionaire, and fulfilling his
ultimate role as inspiration to others.
“They said I’m crazy to try this! They said it’s virtually
impossible! I have 65 days to train for the hardest achievement in all of
running! My heaviest weight was 305 and to qualify for the Boston marathon is
3:05 (3 hours 5 minuets) I’m 40 lbs overweight. My legs are short! My stride is
bad! But what I do have IS MY HEART!!!! I WILL DO THIS!!!”
He is a man of extremes: a self-made millionaire, an athlete
who biked across the country and a former brain tumor patient who once weighed
300 pounds.
“An average person spends four years of his life looking at
his cellphone”
Let that sink in for a second……
Psychologists and therapists are noticing a massive
increase in anxiety and depression partly because we’re constantly filling
every single second we have alone on our phones and so a few weeks back I asked
myself the question , as we have gained through the invention of social media
what have we lost?
Today 3.4 billion people use social media every single
day in just 2019. We spent on average over 3 hours per day on social networks
alone.
Time is the most valuable resource we possess so its
important that we pay attention to how much of our lives we trade for the
various activities we allow to claim it and so to finally make time for the
daily habits that I know will significantly make me happier and healthier I
decided to take a drastic approach QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR 30 DAYS…
## HOW
I STARTED
An average
Millennial spend more than three and a half hours on their phone every day. A
majority of that time is spent on social media. My question: what benefits
could you receive from stepping away from social media?
Would
you be more productive? More focused? In what ways might your life change?
So I
quit social media for 30 days to find out.
The
first few days were the most challenging. I knew without taking extreme
measures I would slip back into my old routines and check my phone frequently
throughout the day. So I deleted all social media apps from my phone. I logged
out of all accounts on my computer
But that wasn’t
enough, like many people I had hardwired into my brain this compulsive
checking.
But it
wasn’t the content that I was addicted to. It wasn’t the likes, comments and
Direct Messages
It was
the anticipation of what could be. Maybe that potential client messaged you
back.
Maybe
one of your posts went viral?
But it’s
almost always nothing.
## WHAT TO EXPECT
But before I started
this journey I asked myself: what do I want from this? And, more importantly
what have I lost from the last decade of my life in exchange for a whole bunch
of likes and memes that I came across obsessively checking my facebook and Instagram.
Have I failed myself
in other areas of my life as a consequence? Am I reading less, building fewer offline
connections, or even being too lazy because the pull of the social mediastatus update felt too great?
Well, there are a few
ways to find out. Starting right now. I love to do experiments and learn more
about myself, my patterens and my habits. Im a guinea pig for things that teach
me more. Because at the end of the day, what’s the worst that can happen?
That I miss facebook??
C’mon I’ve missed far
many more things so much more greatful.
The most important thing I wanted to do this month was to live
with intention, I hadn’t had any kind of set routine before. So I wanted to use
all the time that I saved from this experiment to live and create my dream
morning routine. First I decided to wake up before I have to every single
morning by getting up before 6 am , I wanted to start my day watching the sun
rise, it always felt calming, something about sunrise being pure.
Okay, I struggled with that the first week, but I eventually
adjusted my body to it.
My goals were to reflect and journal every single day, keep
my room clean and organised, start the habit of working out and most
importantly to read more
So the first thing that I noticed when I started
this challenge was “Time”,
all the free time in the world, it felt unreal to
me how long a day actually lasted. I could see each minute passing
And the next thing
you realize is how you have built this need of constant need for checking your
phone and the first day was the hardest. I would grab my phone without even
thinking, unlock it and start to swipe through screens looking for something to
preoccupy my wandering mind.
Then I'd snap back to
reality and realize I had deleted all my social apps.
Every time I went to the bathroom, I would sit down
and pull out my phone and I just stared at the empty spaces where my social
media apps used to be, with nothing to do I would just put it back in my
pocket.
I started checking my phones data on my usage for
the past few months, it turned out I spent around 28 hours a week and 60 days a
year on average on my phone mostly on apps like Instagram, YouTube, is that
even possible?!?!?!
So I had to come up with a plan to do with all this
free time that I have now got,
I started listing things I’ve always wanted to try
Its pretty crazy to see that after already 3 days
ive saved at least 3 hours of my day from my phone.
With the additional
hour every day,
I was able to be a
little bit more productive, which meant that I woke up early, did some running,
some meditating, started the habit of reading for the first time in my life,
along with the habit of maintaining a video journal of the whole 30 day period.
I even made time everyday to spend some time with my family.
The people in my life
definitely noticed the change in me, I was happy a lot, and went to bed evey
night feeling fulfilled as I had seemed to have replaced my free time with productive
tasks.
Since my 30 day challenge, I’ve found a few free
helpful tools (and had a few recommended) to keep you off social media if you
embark on a detox of your own:
·StayFocusd Chrome Extension –
This is the perfect tool if you use Google Chrome as your web browser and want
to remove the temptation of checking Facebook, Twitter, etc.
·Facebook News Feed Eradicator Chrome Extension – This is less about your full detox, and more just
keeping your usage of Facebook more sane by removing the News Feed and
replacing it with a quote.
·Self Control App – A Mac App that let’s you block certain websites
(similar to StayFocusd, but not just for Google Chrome).
·OurPact –
Block social media apps from your phone! Made for parents to control their
kid’s phone usage, but good for adults who can’t help themselves.
My productivity, attention span and clarity of thought all
increased greatly with living without social media for a month. I felt like I broke
bad habits(refreshing feeds and checking notifications) in a short period of
time
Taking a break from social media frees up time and mental
space you didn't know you'd lost. Doing a social media detox puts you back in
control of how you use these platforms.
After weeks of not
using social media I wanted to get an even better understanding of what was
actually going on mentally so i decided to do a little research on the man who
actually
inspired this entire
idea Cal Newport
Cal is an associate
professor of computer science at Georgetown University and in addition to
researching cutting-edge technology
He's the author of
six books including the New York Times bestseller digital minimalism in his
book
He challenges the
audience to do what he calls a digital Decluttering which means deleting all
the optional apps off your phone for 30 days, which is exactly what I did He
argues that we should be much more selective about the technologies we adopt in
our personal lives
He says ” we're
short-circuiting the drives
That are supposed to be
pushing us into the discomfort”
It's been an
incredible experience. I honestly don't really miss it, which is a little bit
strange. I guess I thought I would miss it more at this point I'm like really
not looking forward to it. Like I've saved so much time and it hasn't caused
any Real
inconveniences overall this month honestly changed my life
30 days ago. I was
honestly not in the best headspace at the start
of this challenge I was anxious on a daily basis I didn't feel like I was
actively pursuing any of the goals I had set for myself this year and I never
felt like I had any time for myself, but in this month that it first started as
an experiment I ended it feeling more alive more present and fulfilled than I
ever had in my entire life There were several times throughout the day where
I'd stop and catch a breath of fresh air just to appreciate How calm I felt?
Summary,
My productivity, attention span and clarity of thought all
increased greatly with living without social media for a month. I felt like I broke
bad habits(refreshing feeds and checking notifications) in a short period of
time. If all of that can be done in just 30 days? Its well worth trying.
I won’t be completely quitting social media and im not
suggesting anyone do that. But I do hope if you’re reading this you’ll think
about taking a break from social media to see how you feel. Start with a
weekend or a week, but aim for 30 days. Give yourself a chance to feel how I just
felt after just one month.
We all care what people think of us. We all want to
feel accepted. We all want to feel liked. Social media multiplies those
thoughts and feelings without us even realizing it. It’s not healthy to always
be under the knife of criticism. In a digital world we need a break from having
our lives judged and commented on (often times by complete strangers who we
don’t align with).
Have you ever given
the excuse "I don't have enough time to do ____". I know that I've
definitely done it in the past.
Whether you want to
start reading more, go to the gym or start a business, a lot of times
We think we just
simply don't have enough time to do it when in fact, maybe it's our priorities
that aren't really in check.
Maybe we need to think about where we're spending our time to begin with, like
social media.
Once you start to
identify the things that you value in your life, the things you really want to
bring into your life
you have to get rid
of those distractions. And for me, at least, it's become social media.
“There’s a sense of clarity that u get when you take a step
away from the compulsive checking.
Its really hard to explain, its really hard to quantify but I
can tell you that I simply felt better by being away from it and it became much
harder for me to see the benefits of social media to begin with. The urge to
get back on Instagram and apps like it is mostly fuelled by the fear of missing
out
For some reason we’ve convinced ourselves that it’s
important, that It’s necessary, but once I got connected again, I realized one
simple truth. I didn’t miss a thing.”
So basically at the end of the 30 days ;
*I had read about 11 books.(for a guy who hasn’t read a book since his teacher asked him to read one in school)
*Had created the habit of waking up early and cooking
*Started a blog
*Created the perfect workout plan
It was the most productive 30 days of my life and I had never felt so happy.
I one thing I know for sure is that There's no freaking
way I'm going back to my old ways
and now I Challenge
you to make a list of all the things that you've been wanting to pursue
but just haven't had
time for then delete social media off your phone for Seven days to replace the
time you saved by pursuing one or several of those things for a week Coming
from someone who just did this. I promise you………….
Sorelle Amore is a well-known photographer, filmmaker,
influencer, and savvy businesswoman who inspires her millions of followers
around the globe on how to maximise the human experience and live a life of
wonder.
She is a recognisable global
media personality who interweaves art wwith informative content .she is known
for creating messaging around the subject of travel, photography, and human
optimisation.
In 2017, sorelle rose to the
top of the global “best job on the planet” competition beating 17,000+ other
influencers to win a five figure cash prize, three months of luxury travel and
a two year position as the ambassador for ThirdHome.
A while ago ABC news covered
her story titled “meet aussie woman sorelle amore whos got the best job in the
world”
Do you fancy getting paid
to stay in some of the world's best holiday houses?
Coz that was the reality for
this 28 year old former Balllina High School student who got paid around 30
thousand US dollars to Instragram her way around the world staying in 5-star luxury
villas.
“The Minimalist YouTuber Making Over $300k Traveling The World”
-FORBES
With hundreds of thousands of fans across the
social media platforms, YouTuber Sorelle Amore has built an empire on
sustainable living and travel. Using her photography skills, she shoots videos
in remote locations, advocating for a minimalist, zero-waste lifestyle or
explaining how to take a perfect selfie.
“She believes in Beautifully Building Better
Beings”
Learning the art of talking beautiful images is what
paved her way to soe pretty incredible things like , a life of travel,working with brands. All of this
because she learned to captureherself confidently on camera in
a visually stunning way, with absolutely no outside help. All the photos u see
below were taken by her.
She is a Youtuber, entrepreneur, creator, and an artist.
Her content on YouTube is what made keep tabs
on her. Ever since then
Although
I was introduced to Sorelle by that article on Forbes , her content on Youtube
is what really me admire heras an entrepreneur,
creator, and an artist. A seasoned backpacker and adventurer who
brings so much light and positivity into all her videos.
Over the last few years, she has attracted an audience on
social media of around 1.5 million people. Over 50 million people have viewed
her content on Youtube. Generated over $225,000
USD on Instagram alone in the last 12 months alone.
Her name has been featured in publications like Forbes, BuzzFeed,
Business Insider, ABC news and many more.
She has been paid to travel the world and work with brands
like Samsung, Porsche, adobe and been the face of several international
campaigns.
She has created a business that works for her even when
she’s asleep. And she now has the luxury to focus on sustainable enterprises
that will help the world move forward in a positive way.
In short she has achieved a life of absolute freedom.
“I'M THE GIRL BEATING KYLIE JENNER AND GARY VAYNERCHUCK AT THE
INSTAGRAM GAME”
She mastered the art of becoming a public figure online, and
built a powerful business around her passions.
None of this happened to her by accident.
However, success wasn’t instantaneous for the millennial influencer.
A native Australian, Amore bounced around different careers during her
twenties. She worked in marketing, launched her own online fashion business,
even landed a gig at a high end photography agency.
But nothing felt right. And so when she was 27 she bought a
one-way ticket to Europe, moving to Iceland to jumpstart her career on YouTube.
Once in Iceland, she was both scared and
empowered by her decision to move when she received an email from her brother
about ThirdHome’s “Best Job On The Planet” contest.
Beating out around 17,000 other inflencers, Sorelle
was hired to travel around the world for three months, creating videos and
photographing luxury homes in 12 different countries. The gig paid $10,000 a
month.
And so her journey began….
What she is upto now:
Having worked wih brands
like skillshare , sorelle has extensive experience partnering with companies to
successfully promote their message to a broad range of audience.
She has built an online following on social media of over 1.4
million people across multiple platforms, in a large part due to knowing how to
take beautiful portraits of herself.She calls this style of self
photography the “Advanced Selfie”, a term that she has coined to describe her
special process of taking studio like images of herself using nothing but a
camera and some simple photography hacks .She has created the advanced
selfie university so she could teach people how to seriously boost their
confidence.
While traveling around the globe for ThirdHome,
She became adept at living out of a suitcase.Continuing the nomadic lifstylr
for the next two yyears, she soon realized how freeing it was to have less
stuff. Her interest in minimalism was born.
“The key to minimalism is choosing what you love
and focusing on that, rather than getting caught up in buying tons of things”,
says Amore.
In “Public figure bootcamp”, she hands over everything she
has learned in an online career spanning more than 12 years, when it comes to
creating, branding, growing, monetising, and automating and online business.
Whether you have a desire to become a change maker in ur industry, start a
business around your skill or passion, grow your existing online business,
spread a powerful message online, or create a business as an influencer or a
public figure with yo as the face of it, this is the course for you.
She believes we all have a powerful message or a special
skill that the world needs from us.
This bootcamp is for artists, business owners, influencers,
musicians, doctors,models, videographers, photographers, or anyone with an
idea, passion, or a skill that they ant to create a business around online.
If she can do all this from ground zero, imagine what
you can do without having to make the same mistakes she made along the way
Let me ask you something when was the last time you felt truly alive?????
if you cant remember its because as we grow we have created a routine for ourselves.
We go to schools , work every day, we eat the same food have the same conversation with the same people day after day and we quickly loose sight of what we truly wanted out of life.
We live within our own bubble and look at the world through our phones and in fact the only time we hear about the world is when we hear of all the bad stuff happening around the world making us more scarred and wanting to crave our bubble even more so…..the biggest danger of living like this is life just flies by.
"we think we have to go to school, get good grades and think by the time you graduate from college you will have figured out exactly what you want but like most of us that’s the time we are the most confused "
If you spend your life with searching for meaning as you're sole purpose to live, let me tell you something you are gonna miss out on the best possible years of your life.
Too many of us settle for mediocre lives, we settle for safety, stability which is ok but not at the expense of our happiness. we sometimes fail to realize that life isn’t just a series of goals to be achieved but rather a journey to be experienced with the people you love.
We fail to travel the world and experience its cultures nd we stop listening to what our gut truly tells us all because we’re afraid off switching off our autopilot and we fear what we can’t predict.
I understand that along the way we get caught up in commitments and before you know it you're asking yourself what did I really spend the best years of my life doing.
But life is like a quick sand the deeper ur in it ..its harder for you to get out.
"The biggest regret one can have while lying on their deathbed is not living life to its fullest."
live your life outside your comfort zone, you will be surprised what life has to offer you.
Anders Hoffman, from Denmark who two years ago decided to
drastically change his life.he quit his job as a management consultant and
committed himself to one of the most audacious feats any human has ever attempted.
Finishing an Iron man Triathlon on the only continent where no one has ever
dared to try before, Antarctica.
Just so you know, that’s a 3.8 killometer swim, 180
killometer bike ride and a 42 killometer run, dodging leopard seals and all this
under sub-zero degree temperature and he calls it “The Iceman”
“while completing the Iceman
$10,035.46 was raised for Plastic Change ”
It all began, when Anders went online and watched “the
jump”, the jump is a documentary film about a Nick Jacobsen who attempts to
kite jump from the top of the iconic 321 metre high Burj Al Arab in Dubai. He
is internationally recognised as one of the world’s very best and most
attention grabbing kite surfers. Watching this man living his dream he wanted
to challenge himself and run the Iron Man.
He considered whether an Ironman
distance triathlon had been completed in all continents. Antarctica was the
only one remaining and when people had told him that it would be impossible,
the limitations
are perceptions moto was born.
Anders
finished third in 3:22:20 at the World’s coolest marathon, the Polar Circle Marathon in Greenland, which was not only his first marathon,
but also the first proper test and preparation for the Iceman in regards to the
physical impact and equipment when running in extreme and cold conditions.
‘The main challenge is actually not being able to train in
Antarctic conditions – I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, so it’s difficult to find
snow and ice and there are no inclines. Project Iceman will be on a glacier in
Antarctica which has lots of steep slopes, and obviously it will be freezing
cold, so it’s hard to imitate the conditions.’
Today, we often put
boundaries on ourselves or other people, making up limitations of what is achievable.
But Anders has shown us that even the ordinary can achieve the extraordinary
through passion, extreme dedication, supreme planning, and an immense belief in
yourself.
“DREAMS ARE MEANT TO
BE ACHIEVED, ESPECIALLY THE CRAZY ONES”
Have you ever had a dream that you were willing to risk everything for a
dream so big that every person in your life tries to talk you out of it, they
call you crazy and tell you that its impossible
Few months ago I came across Project ICEMAN.
Project Iceman was the documentary of the first ever, long distance
triathlon in Antarctica . It was a one time event which was first intended to
promote public awareness towards climate change and the vulnerable nature of
Antarctica but the purpose soon shifted to inspire other people to dare to
pursue their biggest dreams.
And the ultimate goal was to create a platform big enough for people to inspire each other achieve their own ”Iceman”
This idea goes hand in hand with what I am trying
to be a part of, a community of Dreamers that are not afraid to dream their
biggest and wildest dreams ..
Alexis Rose Alford, also
known as Lexie limitless is a 22 year old American women who holds the official
Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to have visited all 196
countries before reaching the age of twenty-one.
Like you saw in the video, she
graduated from high school early at the age of 18 as she realized that at that
time she had already traveled to about 72 countries and that when it dawned on
her that she could actually break this world record. She was determined to show
everyone that the world around isn’t as scary as we see it in the news and
there’s kindness everywhere.
Personally I love travelling
just as much as anyone but the real reason I was amazed by this young women’s
journey was because ….it wasn’t EASY.
The most famous question she
has been asked is how did she afford her dream, how does she afford to travel
especially from such an young age, In word she compromised.
It takes a lot to live a
life of travel unless you are lucky and fortunate enough to be born in a billionaire’s
house. Saving money at a young age is extremely difficult, you learn to stay
clear from expensive materialistic things, fancy degree sometimes you even have
to sacrifice the people in your life and the things you grown accustomed to you
wanna reach someplace. These are the challenges she had to overcome to
experience what other places in the world had to offer.
For all the travelers who
want to know more about her experience you can check her out
she has written about some
interesting topics that are worth hearing, like
*Travel tips for solo Female
(male!) travelers
*how does she afford to
travel
*Her teenage years
“I’ve been money hungry since I was 12 years old.”
Over the years she has had
many hustles, she started as a construction rat on her dad’s job sites, mostly
painting houses. She eventually moved onto landscaping, mowing lawns. She even
ran a successful lemonade stand until she was old enough to legally work,
currently she holds three very different jobs , you see it isn’t always easy
N don’t waste it on things
that aren’t important (to you).
This is something you can
expect from someone who is determined to see their dreams come true and its
safe to say it wasn’t her dream to one day hold the Guinness world record but
was just to see everything the world had to offer her. But you see, every great
accomplishment starts with that one single Dream
And We need more dreamers in this age
of robots, dreamers like Lexie who are defying the odds and doing things people
never thought was possible. Dreamers who don’t let doubt or question the
possibility of their dream but just DREAM.
So the next time you ever have a dream so big
that everyone in your life tries to talk you out of it and they call you crazy
and tell you that its impossible, don’t let it go so easily.
