I built and designed a life I do not have to escape from, and that's what we're talking about on today's walk and talk video. It's normal to celebrate people when they get promotions,
and they can change their LinkedIn
job title, but we don't celebrate enough when people actually build their own success. They're able to escape the nine to five because everyone says that business is risky and, oh, you shouldn't do that. And what if it doesn't work out? Well, here's the truth.
It did work out for me, and it can work out for you. And do know what? We are gonna celebrate all the perks that come with it when you build a modern online business
that gives you autonomy
and freedom. And,
as you all know, if you ever watched my walk and talk videos before,
this is one of the things that I love doing. I've set my outside stepper
on my Apple Watch. So I've already been to the gym, but I'm getting in some extra steps while we do this. And, we are gonna celebrate entrepreneurship.
It's not all about clapping
for the people who got the next promotion
for the golden handcuffs
and the shinier cage
and the shorter puppet strings. So here we go. I'm gonna share with you my favorite 14 things
that I get to do and benefit from because I'm no longer in a job. So number one is going to the gym
when everyone else
is at work. So I go to the gym every day
around about 09:30,
09:45.
Reason being is I really like that time because basically the rush has been in the morning,
no one's there. I get to go on all the machines
and it's quiet,
and I absolutely love that. Unless I'm doing a split where
I might get up and go at, 5AM,
do my cardio,
and then I might go back for, say, 1PM when it's still pretty quiet, to be honest with you.
And I'll only really do that if I've got, like, a busy day ahead. Right. Let me just switch hands. Number two
is I avoid driving
during rush hour. This is one of my favorite things is that I do not have to be on the road at, say,
8AM,
and let's just call it 5PM.
I don't have to be on a train. Haven't got to be on a bus. I haven't got to compete
with the chaotic
peak times of rush hour people to and from work. And this
I'm very grateful for because I witness it too much. I was a part of it once upon a time. I've been into London during rush hour where people are barging into each other, actually being dangerous all because they're rushing to a job. And I like to be able to
take a step back and not involve myself in that rush hour. I don't think it's necessary
to drive dangerously
just because you're scared of being late.
And the reason most people are scared is because then they don't wanna be told off
by their manager, get put on report,
or be grassed up
by a brown nose
coworker. And believe me, haven't we had many of those? Right? I I've had many, and I'm sure you have that
one coworker that sees you come in late, and then you look at them thinking,
oh god, you're gonna grass on me.
Absolute nightmare. Number three. This one I love because I've literally just done it. So just to let you know, it's 12:47
at the moment. Oh,
let me just carry on with my
Apple Watch, my outdoor walking.
Is going shopping
when no one's in the supermarket.
So I've just come back from the supermarket buying all my weekly food for my diet. There's no one in there. Haven't got to compete for the fresh apples,
the fresh raspberries, the strawberries.
Haven't got to do any of that. It's just peaceful.
And really, like, that's all I want for my life now, me and my family. I just want contentment
and peace. So being able to go to the supermarket,
which actually ties into one of my other points, is being able to
park
wherever I want
without thinking that someone's gonna dink my car or knock it. That's one thing that's always bothered me is having to fight for a car park space. And what is nice is during the day, I haven't got to do that. You've got so many more options.
And I'll be totally honest, I'm actually guilty
even if I'm not with my family or we haven't got our son in the car.
I actually do park in the family spaces because I like to make sure no one's gonna knock our car. Number four, going to the cafes
after the mad rush where people have been queuing up twenty minutes.
So I love a cafe. I'm like a real big fan of coffee as some of you might know now.
Gotta change my hand. You know, it's tiring holding up this
DGI
Osmo Mini. So for anyone, yeah, wondering, I get asked that normally on these videos. What camera is it in it? Yeah. It's the DGI Osmo.
Comes with a mic if you buy the Creator Pack, which is what I've got. And I've got it on the head tracking at the moment as well. It's a really good budget camera.
I think mine was like
£700 for the entire package. It's well worth picking up. So, yeah, being able to go to the cafes when I haven't got a queue up for ages,
and I don't like sitting in cafes now when it's really busy and noisy. I'm very much a hermit.
I'm only 33, but I think where I've been out of a job for so long and I have minimal
human interaction,
which is actually one of the points I'm gonna share with you in a minute, I just like to go to places where it's quiet and it doesn't really disrupt my peace. I'm very, very big
on protecting my energy.
Again, you may have picked up on that by watching some of my videos. Number five, again, it was parking
becomes so much easier. So I mentioned about parking in a supermarket
and having so much more, um, you know, options on where I can park. But even if we go into, the city center or we need to nip somewhere, we can just park up on a high street.
There's not loads of people about. It's not like it's a Saturday or a Sunday, and I can just freely move about. Number six.
This is by far one of my favorite perks
of working for myself, is I can book a holiday
whenever I want without having to request holiday,
essentially asking permission from another adult
who may
wanna cause me some problems.
They might wanna deny me my holiday.
They might just be feeling a bit of an idiot that day and think, no. I'm not gonna grant it. I might grant it tomorrow.
I haven't got to deal with any of that. You know, we're heading off to Tenerife soon. We just booked that holiday in an afternoon, and then next thing you know, we're just going to Tenerife for ten days.
It you know, like last year,
we did Disney,
Mallorca,
Tenerife. We went to a lovely cottage in The UK. So, yeah, we just we we just book holidays whenever we want, and that is one of the biggest perks. Number seven,
building income that pays you when you step away from it. So this is one of the benefits of the world that we live in. You know, I can't even hold this camera up for too long. I did arms at the gym today, so my arms aching. But being able to embrace the online world, which I'm in, and I know there'll be some people in the comments that will say, well, Aaron, not everyone has the capabilities to do what you're doing, build an online business. We're not all built that way.
No one can say that unless they've tried. And the thing is everything is freely accessible,
so it's not like there's an excuse that you can't do what I do.
Again, I have to remind everyone,
I'm no one special.
I haven't got some ability that other humans can't instill.
You know, this is the thing that we've got to remember. Right? We all have these possibilities.
We all have social media at our fingertips.
So, you know, if you embrace it, you learn about it, you can do exactly the same.
But I am able to step away from what I do, and the likes of my businesses,
consulting,
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that you can step away from is just an absolute blessing of the times that we live in. Number eight, never having that feeling of I've got to go back to reality. That depressed sort of, oh god, our holiday's coming to an end. I know too many people who live that life where,
you know, essentially
they fear.
We'll turn around here. Essentially, they fear
going back to the job that they really don't wanna be in. It's a really, really nice and blessed feeling to be able to go on holiday,
enjoy every single day,
but also look forward to coming back. You know, I used to work with many people who would say, oh, god. Yeah. I can't wait to go on holiday.
They'd go on holiday,
and then it'd be like that Sunday dread feeling. It'd be the last couple of days
of their holiday,
and they'd be thinking,
oh god. I gotta go back to my job.
Oh, man.
You know? And reality kicks in, and then they don't enjoy the last couple of days of their holiday. And as soon as they get back to their reality,
they're already thinking about the next holiday holiday that they can book to escape that reality.
You know? And if you've ever felt that, I have as well by the way, you have to change, like, let that be an indicator.
That right there, that emotion, that feeling,
as I said in my previous video, that is life saying do something.
I'm testing you,
I'm pushing you, I'm prodding your pain points, I'm pouring vinegar on the wound,
What are you going to do about it? That's what life is saying. Don't continue and just accept it. I think that's the problem. When you've been in a job for so long, you become quite submissive.
You know, your
people become very good at doing as they're told and just accepting
what is considered in the eyes of society as normal.
This,
honestly,
this to me is life.
I I absolutely love this, and I I want more of you to have this. And I and the reason I want more of you to have it is because you can, and I think more of you need to believe that you can because this type of freedom where I'm being paid right this very moment as I record this YouTube video doing something that I love. And as soon as I stop, I'm gonna carry carry on being paid. When I go to sleep tonight, I'll carry on being paid.
This can be your life as well. Again, remove yourself from the life that you've been assigned
that was given to you by default.
Start designing one that you truly want.
Now the next one, eight. Oh, no. Sorry. We've done eight. Number nine, more peace in everyday life.
So this is something
I touch on all the time is that
by having less drama, less noise, I'm not involved in all these external happenings,
office drama,
politics,
who said what, who did what,
having to compete with other people, feeling like you're in survival mode, being able to remove yourself from what I call society's
norm, their reality. When you start forming your own bubble of protection and you put yourself
in a state of peace or as I call it contentment,
not only does your mental health clear up, and I've never had any mental health issues or anything like that. I've never suffered in that way of panic attacks, anxiety. But if you are someone who's quite anxious and apprehensive about your life and what's coming around the corner or what is around the corner,
when you are able to remove yourself from a nine to five
and you understand what you truly want in life and what makes you happy,
you suddenly start finding peace,
and that's a really big thing for me. Now number 11.
Sorry. Number 10, never missing moments
with my son.
This is really important.
My dad worked a lot when I was younger,
so there were times during the week I'd only see my dad at the weekends. I've been able to be there when my son has had a Christmas play at his school,
a football match, his training,
his boxing training. When I grew up, I used to love and actually, this is still one of my favorite Christmas films, is Jingle All the Way. Now if you've ever watched Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger
and his son, when he plays turbo man, is that Alex, his son,
would always want his dad to be there, but his dad was always working.
When his son had a karate lesson or he was getting a certificate or, you know, upgrading
within his belts,
his dad, oh god, what was what was Arnold Schwarzenegger called?
Howard. Yeah.
I said Howard. I always remember that because I remember the wife going, Howard?
Yeah. He would never be there, and I never wanted to be that dad that when my son had a play and he was like, dad, are you gonna be there? And I would say, yes, but something would happen at work. And my son would look out into the crowd,
and he wouldn't see his dad there. And we've been very, you know, very blessed in the sense that both of us as parents,
my myself and my partner, is that we've been able to be there every play. So when he looks out,
he he always sees us. And the the smile on his face is, I mean, it's priceless. You you can't buy it. It's, you know, something that I'll always remember is how mad he goes when my son would see me, you know, and he'd be waving, and he'd just be so pleased that, you know, his parents are at his play, and and that really means a lot to me. So that's something that really kept me on my toes and, you know, really drove me to be able to create that sustainability
so I didn't have to go back. Now number 11.
I don't even know where we are with the numbers, so I'm just gonna carry on reading them. Not having to work with people I don't want to. This is a big one for me because as I've said, as I'm getting older, I'm not becoming a grouch.
I'm I'm really not a grouch.
I
I'm so close to eating a fly. I have to talk like this and they're on. I don't have to work with people I don't want to. We've all been there. You've been there. I've been there.
You know, the workplace, you didn't pick these people.
You didn't go out one day and your employer said, right. You got before you start your job,
you can hand pick. Here's a list of all the people you can work with. Choose the ones that you like.
Yeah. We don't get to do that. You get thrown in the mix with people that you would never associate with
on a normal day,
and you've got to try and make it work. You've all got to try and get on. I
wasn't really keen on that to be honest with you. I was very picky on I am quite picky on who I like to be honest with you. I have a very small social social
circle.
So
that's one thing that I love. I don't work with anyone I don't want to. I don't collaborate with people that I don't want to. I recently turned down a brand deal offering me thousands
for a YouTube video. I said no to the YouTube video.
They wanted me to do a TikTok and an Instagram,
and I had I just had no interest. I just had no interest. The amount of brands that I turned down,
um, just because I just don't wanna work with them. Not because they're bad companies, but I just think
I just can't be bothered.
And I know that might seem silly, but I literally have been offered thousands and thousands of pounds.
And I just say,
just honestly, I just can't be bothered. I can't be bothered to sit down and create that type of video, especially when banks reach out to me like NatWest.
I've turned down NatWest in the past because of, you know, how many words you have to say and AER percentage and all of these scripts that they want you to follow, and I just think,
honestly, it's just disrupting my peace going back to whatever number that was. I don't wanna disrupt my peace. So next one is being able to say no
without feeling guilty,
which just ties into what I said. I say no all the time.
Um, I've been invited to two events in London.
One on the eighteenth,
the other one on the June 13. I haven't decided whether I'm gonna go yet,
but what's holding me back from saying yes is the thought of
I gotta get on a train.
Granted, one of them is gonna pay for my travel.
Can I really be bothered to go to the train station?
Am I really gonna meet people that I wanna see? Me and my business partner, Paul, for Peak Performance, we went to an event,
um, a couple of months ago,
and I just said to him, I just can't be bothered.
I just said I really don't wanna be there.
This is when I got there, and he was laughing about it because people were wanting to talk to me, and I I just had no interest.
Again, I probably came across as a bit of a grouch. I'm not, but when people were saying to me, oh, so, you know, what what is it you do? I I just my answer was
not a lot.
And they were like, what do mean not a lot? I said, well, I just do what I want really. And they went, yeah. But what what is that? And I said, sit in my garden, do a bit of gardening every now and again, and I record content.
I run a couple of small businesses.
That's it.
And they were really wanting me to, like, to elaborate on it, and I just I just didn't have the energy. So but that's just the way that I've become. The next one is and this, again, they're all flowing into each other quite nicely.
Don't judge me on this one
because it's a bit weird based on there we go. They obviously follow me.
I avoid
I I like to avoid all human interaction.
So
I know that sounds crazy. I have said this before,
but I I literally do. I avoid all human interaction.
I'm
not interested in meeting people I don't know. I don't really want to expand on my very, very small social circle.
I'm not really interested in having conversations
outside of the topics that I like, which is business,
you know, entrepreneurship as a whole, content creation,
management of money,
impacting people's lives,
personal development, fitness, and family.
And if it doesn't fall into those categories,
I actually have zero interest,
which is why I avoid human interaction because I understand that around about 99%
of society
doesn't have interest in dieting, health, fitness,
money management, business, growing, personally developing.
So I just don't involve myself in many social circles
even when I'm at the gym.
I don't talk to anyone.
You know, which is again, I suppose weird in a way because I'm doing this YouTube video, which goes out to thousands of people.
I you know, I'm very blessed that I can impact thousands of people's lives,
but you're not walking with me?
Now don't get me wrong.
If someone was here walking, we were having a chat
about, you know, things that we both enjoy,
sure. Why not? But
I'm just very particular on time. I would always think, well,
why would I walk
with, say, someone I don't really know when perhaps I can either go on my own, give myself some headspace, or go out with a family member.
I quite like being on my own with doing stuff like this. Like, when I finish this YouTube video, I'm probably actually gonna do
another lap back and forward because I know it takes me around about twenty minutes to do where I go and then come back. So, yeah, those are all the perks. We need to celebrate entrepreneurship.
It's not all about getting the promotion,
and I'm not gonna feel bad
for anyone that perhaps this did, you know, get their back up a little bit, that I am singing the praises of people who are able to escape their job and create their own form of success. And I have to remind you as well, it's not about the amount of money you make. Like, don't worry about how much money I make a month. It it it's neither here or there. It really doesn't matter.
What matters
is
what that money allows me to do, and that is live a life of freedom. It allows my family to live a life of freedom.
We don't have to ask permission.
It's not about the number that you make.
You have to have full clarity on your number because if you don't know what your target is, what your goal, and your north star,
you end up floating around trying to just make money for the sake of it. You have to assess and analyze
what your end goal is, your life. What do you want it to look like for you and your family? And when you understand that number, and by the way, all of these assessments, all of these measurements,
these evaluations
are all done in exit nine under the first phase and the second phase of what we call our staple feature,
the exit, is that once you have that clarity,
then you can start to reverse engineer how you get to that point.
So when I was in my twenties,
I've always had an interest in money. I didn't come from a family that had money, but money was gonna be my escape. So I really immersed myself into learning about money. And when I started investing and saving and managing it, it actually gave me a buzz.
And I gotta be honest with you, for most people, money is actually quite boring.
I never stop thinking about it.
And if you have an entrepreneurial flair about you, you'll understand what I mean by
I never stop thinking about money. Not because I wanna be flashy.
I mean, my god, you these glasses are battered.
I've had my Apple Watch for years. I'm wearing my Primark joggers again in the boiling heat. I've got my own company t shirt on Exit 9 here.
I've got my events company hat on.
Uh, you know, I'm I'm not about flexing materialistic things I couldn't give a monkeys.
What's the point in having a Rolex if you're only telling the time when your workplace lunch finish when when it finishes?
What's the point in driving a big Mercedes Benz on finance when you gotta drive it to a corporate job? I'll say this. Um, I will be mentioning it in my videos because it's important because it was built and designed for you.
I just stress now, if any of what I've just said to you has resonated,
take two minutes
to click the link of Exit nine in the description. Go check it out. Head on to our Instagram, which will pop up on screen here. Have a look at the highlights section of what people are saying. We're two weeks old today,
and it is the
May 21.
By the time this video comes out, it'll probably be a few days later than that. But two weeks old today, we've already had a huge impact.
It is
it's just incredible. I'm not even gonna talk about it too much. I've said I've said enough. Anyway, listen. I am rooting for every single one of you to achieve more in life.
Take action.
Ignore the noise. Stop worrying. Do not overthink. Learn from failure. Get going. Until the next video, let me know in the comments what resonated with you. Are you building a life by design, or are you sticking to the one that was assigned to you? Until next time. Peace out.