Nick Bibeau✍🏻

I Write to leave a Legacy for my Daughters: Ghostwriter//Blue-Collar Philosopher//Podcast & Space Host// I show you how to Write Already// More in my SubStack

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

9 Months ago I walked into a Coffee Shop...

I saw the most stunningly beautiful girl I'd ever seen.

My heart beat out of my chest.
I had to know her name.

Flash forward to last night.
By the bay
At sunset.

I'm down on one knee.
Asking her to marry me.

And she said YES!

When I first saw her 9 months ago...

Making espressos.
Wearing a work apron.
Her long jet-black hair pulled back into a ponytail.

I had one thought:

"I need to talk to this girl."

I started going to that coffee shop every chance I could...

But every time I went this mystery girl wouldn't be at the register to take my order.

Until one day (visit 20 or so) I caught her.

I was nervous but managed to ask:

"How's your day going?"

"Good. How about you?"

Her voice was as beautiful as her face...

"Really good. I finally get to order with you."

She smiled, blushed, and laughed.

"I'm Nick. What's your name?"

She told me her name.
It was 15 letters and 5 syllables long.

"Wow! That's the longest name I've ever heard."

"I'm Mongolian. We have long names."

Then I did something ballsy.

I handed her my phone and asked: "Can you spell it?"

She typed her name into my contacts.

"Put your number in there too. I want to hear your stories about growing up in Mongolia."

To my amazement.
She did.

After 2 weeks of texting and more coffee shop visits...

I talked her into going on a date.
We ended up talking for over 3 hours.

Despite the laugh barrier, we seem to really understand each other at a deep level.

And the understanding and love have grown exponentially since.

She's the most...

Interesting
Beautiful
Feminine
Loving
Kind

...woman I've ever met in my life.

And by some strange miracle...

She loves me.

...

Here's the thing y'all.
I'm gonna keep it real.

I know I'm not "The most desirable man" out there.

I'm not tall (5'7")
I'm not the best-looking
I have a divorce and 2 children
(I have a good career) but I'm not rich

But I was...

Open
Hoest
Genunie

...with my girl from the first moment.

I use all the courage I have to...

Open my heart
Tell her my true intentions
And take care of her as best I could

... every time I interact with her.

She fell in love with me for who I really am.

I fall deeper in love with her the more she shows me her true heart and soul.

I can't put into words how blessed I feel that she came into my life.

I'm looking forward to building a life and family with her more than I could ever capture in this short post.

I want to share our story in the hope that it's a testament to the real, raw, beautiful love that is out there for all of us.

God bless.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@redimameti I am becoming more like Duncan in my old age

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

Yesterday was my best friend’s birthday.

Here’s the text I sent him.

His response was my favorite part.

(Written with zero AI)

👇

A rock. Flying through emptiness 100,000 miles an hour around a ball of nuclear fission exploding and collapsing in on itself for the last 4 billion years.

It’s spun 34 times since a tiny delicate action figure was shot through a portal into this dimension of light and sound.

His soul decided to incarnate into an interesting story. One with loss, laughter, love, misfortune, connection, responsibility, and experiences.

It called him to fly around the rock and see environments and history this rock has to offer.

Eat the food, the entheogen, and wisdom this dimension has to enjoy.

Expand his perception to see the edges of how God wants to experience itself through these particle eyes.

And feel the weight, love, and connect of his tribe turning to him for comfort, direction, and wisdom.

There’s an unknown number of circles this rock will make until his meat suit melts back into the soil. But before it does, there are more stories to live, struggles to triumph, and seeds to plant that will grow into trees he may never sit in the shade of.

But the feral hippy child who’s writing this to him feels indescribably blessed to have crossed paths and taken up arms to travel this dimension together.

To help build our own little piece of this rock, and this story, together.

To laugh to tears at the absurdity. And to pass the time until we eventually walk home.

Happy Birthday Guruby.

Here’s to many more and whatever God wants to write into your story next.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@Constance1212D Oh… how I longed of the bed 🛌 on those all night emergencie jobs 😴

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

At 21 I became an electrician.
At 32 I became a writer.

Millions of people have read my words since.

The gap between those sentences is the whole story.

I was born into a cult.
Homeschooled.

At 15 years old I tested at a third-grade spelling level.

I had every reason to believe writing wasn't for me.

So I became an electrician.

I was good at it.
I worked hard.

40 hours a week, sometimes 70+

I told myself this was my life and I was fine with it.

But there was something I couldn't shake.

Since I was 12 years old, reading J.R.R Tolkien for the first time, I knew I wanted to write.

Not as a hobby.
Not as a side thing.

As THE thing.

It was my WHY.

My calling.
My purpose.

I just kept talking myself out of it.

Too busy.
Not educated enough.
Who was I to think I had something worth saying.

So I kept wiring buildings and burying the thing my soul kept asking me to do.

Until I hit a breaking point.

On January 1st, 2022, I finally stopped arguing with myself.

I made one decision"

I was going to write every single day.

No exceptions.
No excuses.

Not for an audience.
Not for money.

But for my two daughters.

To leave something behind for them in case my time ran out before I was ready.

I woke up at 4am every morning before my workday started and I wrote for one hour.

And I've done that for over a thousand days.

Personally:

200+ articles.
300,000+ words.
A complete manuscript.

Professionally:

A ghostwriting career.
Working with incredible people.
Words in front of millions of readers.

None of it happened because I was the most talented writer. I'm not.

But it happened because I finally stopped letting my starting point decide my ending point.

You don't need the degree.
You don't need the perfect background.
You don't need to have figured it all out before you start.

You just need to start.

What's the one thing you've been talking yourself out of?

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@bodefreelance Loyal subscribers. All day everyday.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

If this resonated with you, I just published the first chapter of my book for free on Substack.

It starts with a gun pointed at my face on the streets of Oakland at 2am.

It ends with why I felt peace.

Everything I’ve learned about writing, starting, and leaving something behind is going into this book one chapter at a time.

Read it here: https://t.co/cJ5rhfvoxW

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@GregLuntX Looks go back
Back again

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@SamaHoole Fact check: True ✅

Married at Mongolian.
Been to Mongolia.

The health and strength of their people, particularly the men that live nomadic on the countryside, is unparalleled.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@JustinRFrench Sending positive healing vibes brother ❤️‍🩹

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

“Beyond all polarities, I am

Let the judgments and opinions of the mind

Be judgments and opinions of the mind

And you exist behind that

Ah so, ah so

It's really time for you to see through

The absurdity of your own predicament

You aren't who you thought you were

You just aren't that person

And in this very lifetime

You can know it

Right now

The real work you have to do

Is in the privacy of your own heart

All of the external forms are lovely

But the real work

Is your inner connection

If you're quiet when you meditate

If you truly open your heart

Just quiet your mind

Open your heart

Quite the mind, open the heart

How do you quiet the mind? You meditate

How do you open the heart?

You start to love that which you can love

And just keep expanding it

You love a tree
You love a river
You love a leaf
You love a flower
You love a cat
You love a human

But go deeper and deeper into that love

'Til you love that

Which is the source of the light behind all of it

Behind all of it

You don't worship the gate

You go into the inner temple

Everything in you that you don't need

You can let go of
You don't need loneliness
For you couldn't possibly be alone
You don't need greed
Because you already have it all
You don't need doubt
Because you already know

The confusion is saying
"I don't know"

But the minute you are quiet

You find out that in truth you do know

For in you, you know

Plane after plane will open to you

I want to know who I really am

As if in each of us
There once was a fire

And for some of us

There seem as if there are only ashes now

But when we dig in the ashes
We find one ember

And very gently we fan that ember

Blow on it, it gets brighter

And from that ember we rebuild the fire

Only thing that's important is that ember

That's what you and I are here to
celebrate

That though we've lived our life totally

involved in the world

We know
We know that we're of the spirit

The ember gets stronger

Flame starts to flicker a bit

And pretty soon you realize that all we're going to do for eternity

Is sit around the fire”

-Ram Dass

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@DAVIDFE13995094 Texas does have Cali beat on steak and less taxes…

But personally I’ll still take the most beautiful coastline in the world, legalize, psilocybin mushrooms, Asian food and culture, 1000% better weather…

You get the idea.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

Texas has California beat when it comes to steak 🥩

And it’s not even close.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@ElifUnfiltered I would agree with one exception: Mongolia 🇲🇳

( 🤫I have to put that out there in case my wife see this… I don’t want to end up with an arrow through my chest 🏹)

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

https://t.co/H55PpqTbsW

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

I’ve been working on this book for three years.

Today I’m sharing the first chapter for free on Substack.

It starts with a gun pointed at my face.

And it ends with the one decision that made me ready to die.

If you’ve ever felt called to write but kept putting it off, this one is for you.

Link in the comments. 👇

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@m13v_ Yeah man. Watching AI try to do a formulate post about something so Personal it’s pretty cringe.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

Just spent 2 days in Dallas Texas for a video shoot with a client.

He’s an incredible guys with an insane story.

We stayed up till 1AM telling stories and laughing to tears by the fireplace on his front porch.

The deeper I get into the personal brand business the more I see…

The most valuable skill is your ability to be person people like to be around.

Talk with.
Laugh with.
Tell stories to.

Basically, create the environment where they can beat themselves, and then really see the person behind it.

That’s half the skill.

The other half is translating that to the rest of the world.

It sounds too simple to be true but…

If you want to build amazing personal brands, you just need to be a personal person.

The world is starving for authenticity.

Your ability to connect with another human…

See them for who they really are…

And reflected back to them…

Is actually becoming a rare valuable skill.

I never could’ve imagined there was a way to make a living from that.

But that’s the life I find myself and now.

If you’re trying to make money as a ghostwriter here’s my stupid simple check list:

✅ listen to people

✅ Find what’s interesting about them

✅ Put in the work to learn how to translate that to the rest of the world

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

It’s depends on the post. I’ve written some deeply personal post for clients.

Posts about death of love ones, suicide, cancer diagnosis, divorce, deep insecurities.

Ultimately my jobs to translate their story and voice into content that serves to build their brand in the way that will serve them best.

But some clients brand is to serve others as best they can, often the best way to do that is with the true story.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@Power_WithinU

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

A good view always widens my perspective.

When I’m too close to my struggles, they seem to suffocate me.

Like I have no escape.

But the moment I rise above them, so many solutions become clear.

And the best way to zoom out is to remember this…

I’m going to die.

And I don’t know when it’s going to be.

But I pretend like I have forever to get around to being at peace again.

👉 All my seeming problems that are stealing my ability to be happy and present.

👉 All the important conversations I know I need to have and things I should do.

Are lies I tell myself to justify my inability to BE here and NOW.

Here’s the hardest truth.

If I were to pass away today, all my worldly problems would disappear.

Some of them would become other people’s problems.

But what I would also lose is the ability to be with the people I love and experience everything this brief, beautiful human life has to offer.

When I zoom out to the end of my lifetime, I see that every situation I find myself in is truly a gift.

And so are you 👉 reading this right now, still here, still capable of choosing presence, love, gratitude.

Don’t wait for the view from the end to appreciate where you are today.

[Nick Bibeau✍🏻 @WriteAlready]

@Power_WithinU My calf’s were sore for five days from walking up all the those stairs… just to get that photo 😜

Glad you like it.