I added up how much money my skills made my last employer. Then I looked at what they paid me. I have never been the same since:
It was not even close.
I was running projects, solving problems, and bringing in results that were worth multiples of my salary.
And my reward was a 3% raise and a “good job” in a hallway conversation that lasted about eight seconds.
I did not get angry that day. I got curious.
If my skills were generating that much value for someone else’s business, what would happen if I used even one of those skills for myself?
So I started paying attention to what I actually did all day.
Not my job title. The real work. The problems I solved. The things people leaned on me for.
The stuff that came so naturally I never thought of it as special.
Turns out it was special. Just not to my employer.
I took one of those skills and built a simple product around it. A template.
Charged a small amount. Somebody bought it. Then another person. Then it kept going.
Not because I was some genius. Because I finally stopped giving all my best work to one place for one paycheck.
I started sharing what I was building on social media and that is when I realized how many other people were sitting on the same thing.
That path is what led me to build creatyl so I could help others do the same thing with what they already know.
This infographic is the map. The top half is every trap I stayed stuck in. The bottom half is what got me out.
Save it. You don't have to quit your job or build some massive business.
Just pick ONE skill. Find ONE problem you can solve. Create something useful and see if people will buy it.
I put together a free toolkit to help you figure out what you could sell and take those first steps.
👉 Grab it free here: https://t.co/eF9iPETUHU
Your skills are already making someone money.
The only question is whether that someone will ever be you.
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No matter how much you love someone, if they cannot show vulnerability in front of you, engage in difficult conversations, or talk about mental health issues, then in the long run, they are not the right person for you.
Rob is a 50-year-old lawyer.
He started Apex skeptical.
12 months later:
“Worth far more than I pay you.”
→ Visceral fat: down 72%
→ Fat mass: down 8.9kg
→ Body fat: 24.4% to 14.9%
3 DEXA scans. Cleveland Clinic verified.
Here’s the journey and how we did it:
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I've coached over 400 people through fat loss. The ones who kept it off had the most boring plans.
They got a handful of basics right and kept doing them on the weeks when everything went wrong.
Here's what those basics look like: