Richie Young

New dad talking about fatherhood -- fitness, self-improvement, and building a business. Former college athlete building a business creating email funnels.

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4 years ago to the day, I sent this text to a girl I was pursuing at the time.

We hung out the night before and she texted me in the morning that she wasn’t ready for anything.

I earned myself a second date.

This past December, I married that girl.

We’re expecting our first in December.

My wife calls it “the bamboozle text”.

Best text I ever sent.

It’s funny what a few words can do for you.

Send the text.
Write the post.
Share your story.

It might change your life…

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@CliftonSellers It’s awesome

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@CliftonSellers Those lights are extremely useful. Got a few of them that float around te house. Portable lamps

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@Nicolascole77 Social

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My neighbor was out playing with his kid yesterday.

He said whenever it goes above 65 degrees, he takes at least two hours from work to go out and hang with his child.

Then he said he stays 4 weeks ahead of his workload to be able to do that.

And it also helps when fire drills come about. That way he's never freaking about out multiple deadlines.

Great commitment to himself, fatherhood, and all life's responsoibltiies -- both professionally and personally.

Inspirational.

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Been strugging with sleep this week. Tired as hell.

So much so that I just read the word 'rested' as 're-sted'.

Looking at the screen wondering what 're-sted' meant.

I think I need some 're-st'.

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Last week, I was speaking with a guy whose company runs fiber optic cable for Amazon data centers.

The process:

Drill a hole.

Pull the pipe.

Then fiber optics through the pipe.

A Quick google search on fiber-optics:

Fiber optics transmit data as light pulses through thin glass or plastic strands, offering extremely high-speed, high-bandwidth communication. Key benefits include immunity to electromagnetic interference, minimal signal loss over long distances, and superior speed compared to copper.

Anyway, it's expensive and fragile to install (per the next sentence on the google search listed above).

With the boom of AI, fiber-optic drilling is booming as well.

The funniest part of all...

The drillling company doesn't use AI.

At all.

They don't even have a ChatGPT or Claude account.

I laughed.

The people building the infrastrcuture for artificial intelligence aren't even using AI themselves.

Not much of a message here other than me wanting to share a story of a company whose AI-proofed themselves.

AI probably isn't ever going to be able to core through a mountain.

But the person who knows how to do that is making AI possible for the rest of us.

So either get with the times and learn AI.

Or find an industry that can't be touched by articifical intelligence.

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Sometimes you just need to X out of all your browser windows and start fresh.

De-clutter the screen and start anew!

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Not protecting sleep. Need to be better.

https://t.co/5G7Yb3DrpM

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Some days are just about staying alive.

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@melefante6 Tax

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Saturday Evening Journal - up all night with the little one.

And a new content strategy I'm using moving forward.

Saw it on YouTube this week.

Speaking over top of a long-form post/outline.

Then uploading the long-form video into OpusClip to get a bunch of clips from the video without having to do it yourself.

It's a great way to create a variety of content with a long-form written post as the backbone.

https://t.co/PsdN9ShsCm

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@OSheaSEO Thanks brother!

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IG DM from my wife turned my day around

https://t.co/cXnG3M7pbY

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A comforting part of creating content:

Nobody cares about you...

When you're just starting out, nobody pays any attention.

Then you get one or two people who cheer you on.

And you start creating with them.

Just having a fan or two keeps you going.

As long as you start...

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Knocking things out to start the day.

Need to be more efficient and intentional early.

Knocking out the video before 630.

Gotta get better at LinkedIn formatting as I mention in the video.

Next focus with that platform.

https://t.co/Z2W3iA3hKP

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Build the habit of doing things. https://t.co/9PfHpycUbA via @YouTube

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@Zephyr_hg Ideas

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I’m not nearly as efficient as I should be, but it seems certain actions bring more return.

Seeing some of that now.

But that being said, I will be in a much better position once I master this new system in trying to build across the board.

Showing up though. Giddy up.

https://t.co/v5sHbsMhXl

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Excited for Monday.

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Organized All My files in Google Drive & Set up Next Week

Two videos today.

The first talking about what I'd be doing today.

This one speaking about how much I ended up doing.

Knocked out most of it.

Got a good grasp on what needs to happen this week.

Happy Sunday!!

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