Businesses that can realistically get you to $100k/year:
* agency
* therapy
* software
* teaching
* coaching
* content creation
* YouTube
* streaming
* mentoring
* consulting
* freelancing
* meme pages
* niche media pages
* eCommerce
* ghostwriting
* digital products
* dropshipping
The opportunities are everywhere.
The hardest part is simply starting.
You need to force the pace
Because nothing good ever comes from waiting to pull the trigger
It's always best to just do it and figure more things out on the go
Start a business, make mistakes lose some money but get rich from it later
Talk to girls even if you're a virgin, make mistakes then get good and date hot girls
Taking the risk first matters the most
Without it you'll stay a loser
Nobody taught me how to run a business.
I googled half of it and learned the rest by getting it wrong in real time.
Managing money
Marketing
Selling
All foreign to me at some point.
That's the part people forget.
Every skill you admire in someone was learned.
... usually badly at first.
"I don't know how" just means you haven't started yet.
Whatever you don't know, you can learn.
I'm proof.
So is everyone you look up to.
Pick the thing. Go learn it.
My senior at the office always shows up at 7 a.m. Before everyone else
His bag is neat. His desk is clean. During briefings, he's the most detailed. The most prepared
I thought it was because he's ambitious. Turns out it's not .....
at 23, i was backpacking around southeast asia.
working random jobs. saving money.
traveling. repeating.
at 27, i was living in a van in australia.
working as a scuba instructor. exploring the country.
at 30, i learned how to code and started working in corporate.
at 35, i live from my apps and answer to nobody.
if you’re in your 20s stressing because you haven’t “made it” yet…
relax.
most people don’t get where they want to be at 22.
or 25.
or even 30.
i had very little money through most of my 20s
and they were some of the happiest years of my life.
don’t rush into the next decade.
don’t try to live your 30s when you’re 23.
enjoy the age you’re in.
you don’t get it back.
stressing about becoming a millionaire in your twenties won’t give you your twenties back.
Failure prepares you for success
Don't think you can always win as that only happens if you don't take huge risks
And if you play it safe you'll never get where you want anyways
So accept you will fail at times
But every failure comes with a lesson which you can use to win the next time
Know this and bravely take more risks
As that gets you closer to success
When you get that urge to walk away from everything — the job, the city, the routine — I highly recommend you actually listen to it. That feeling does not usually show up randomly. It shows up when some part of you already knows the current setup has run its course. Most people ignore it because change is uncomfortable and the current life is familiar even if it is no longer fulfilling. But familiar is not the same as right for you. Sometimes burning it down and starting fresh is exactly the move your life has been waiting for.
Stop being a loser. Get up early. Make your bed. Go train. Eat clean. Do your laundry. Pay every bill on time. Save till it hurts, then save more. Pick a craft and get obsessed. Pick a person to become and start acting like them today. Care more than everyone around you. Push till you break, then get back up. Knowing when to quit isn't weakness, it's strategy. Stand up straight. Speak up. Go all in. Smile anyway. Life is short and then it's gone. Misery is a choice. You're not the first to suffer and you won't be the last. Someone with less than you made it. So will you. Nobody's special. Everybody is. Keep moving.
Most underrated way to make $500k a year:
Become a broker
You just connect two people who need each other and cash in on the transaction
Insurance
Businesses
Loans
Commercial real estate
Car Sales
Freight
Mortgage
Massively underrated way to make a good living...
There are people in this world who will pay you twice or thrice your monthly salary without asking for your degree, your resume, or where you went to college.
Because you helped them solve a painful problem. Your job is to find 100 of them.
Kunal Shah's family went bankrupt when he was 14.
Started working at 15. Delivery boy. Data entry. Freelance coding gigs to survive.
Picked Philosophy at Wilson College — not passion, just the only course with class timings that fit his work shift.
Dropped out of his MBA in 2004. Found it pointless.
First venture, PaisaBack, didn't take off as planned. He pivoted it into FreeCharge in 2010.
Sold FreeCharge to Snapdeal in 2015 for ~₹2,800 crore.
Built CRED in 2018 with $1M of his own money.
This month, June 2026 — Meta invested $900 million in CRED and named Kunal Shah the global head of WhatsApp.
A philosophy degree picked for its class timings. Now running the world's biggest messaging app.💓💓💓
Use the 9-5 to:
- Cover bills.
- Learn new skills.
- Invest & build wealth.
Use the 5-9 to:
- Study money.
- Learn investing.
- Plan to escape 9-5 life early.
Be a guy in his 20s. Build an online business. Make wifi money. Grow a personal brand. Travel the world. Read books. 10K steps a day. Make $10k - $15k/month. Do one thing that scares you every day
Be so psychotically locked in that your current self has no choice but to keep up.
There is a guy in my flat who completed his https://t.co/WLFysD5zog in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2012. After graduation, he got a campus placement offer of 10 LPA, but he rejected it and started preparing for UPSC. He belongs to the general category.
In the first year, he went to Delhi for coaching and gave his first attempt with serious preparation. Unfortunately, he could not clear the prelims. Then he came back to Hyderabad and prepared seriously for his second attempt. This time, he cleared prelims but could not clear mains.
After two attempts, he felt exhausted. He used to play badminton a lot, so he thought badminton could become his career. He started playing at district and state levels. Though he played very well, there was a lot of politics in the field. Some people even offered him money to lose matches. Disappointed by all this, he left badminton too, wasting another year.
Then he returned to UPSC preparation again. During this phase, he met a girl and fell in love with her. In his third attempt, because of all these distractions, he failed again. During the fourth attempt, he went through a breakup and failed once more. After that, he became addicted to drinking and cigarettes.
He took his 5th and 6th attempts lightly. After spending almost 12 years in the UPSC journey and badminton, he was 35 years old, unmarried, and jobless. From being an IIT Madras graduate, life pushed him through many failures.
But eventually, he learned trading through online resources. Now he does day trading and has become a SEBI advisor. He earns around 2 lakhs per month, though it depends on market trends. Recently, he got married, and honestly, I feel really happy for him. Life finally gave him a fresh start.
NEVER GIVE UP💪🏻
Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in.
Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting.
Consistency is magic.
It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.
This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits hard:
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”