Are you working smart or hard?

If you ask me, traveling may be one of the most enriching parts of life as we know it.

From being able to absorb different cultures to seeing breathtaking monuments, experiencing greater parts of the world is part of the human experience.

However, despite how great traveling can be, it can come with its own set of problems.

Like when you’re traveling from the Rome train station to your hotel, and your luggage wheel falls off after hitting a rut in the cobblestone street.

How do I know this?

Because this happened to me not that long ago.

As I was carting both my wife’s and my own luggage through the streets of Rome, the wheel on her pink suitcase broke, requiring me to now carry one bag and wheel the other.

Even though I try to get in three to four workouts per week, this was quite the physical feat that I had to pull off.

After watching me struggle for a couple of blocks, my wife then said, “Why don’t you just put one bag on top of the other?”

And from there, I ended up pushing her pink suitcase on top of my blue one all the way to our hotel, saving myself a ton of strain and probably a back injury.

Now here’s the embarrassing part for me personally:

If my wife wouldn’t have recommended doubling up our bags and using one as a wheelie for the other, I probably would have carried that luggage all the way to the hotel, which was over 20 blocks away.

And sadly, that’s a trap that many people fall into on a day-to-day basis.

In order to get ahead, they simply focus on working hard.

They get up earlier or work later at night, picking up extra work at their job where they can, or even doubling up on jobs to finally start seeing their bank account rise month after month.

This equates to me thinking I could just pull both bags at the same time, even though one of them was severely broken.

But very often in life, there is a better and smarter way of doing things.

In the case of my luggage fiasco, it was loading one bag on top of the other.

In terms of getting ahead financially, the greatest opportunity we all have is making money online.

And trust me, as someone who has their CPA designation and has taken the traditional approach to making money, I can tell you firsthand that making money online is the shortcut or cheat code that you’ve been looking for.

It’s not a shortcut or cheat code because it’s easy.

It’s a shortcut or cheat code because it allows you to earn money whether you’re awake or asleep while still leveraging the immense amount of reach that the internet offers.

It’s this new way of making money that allows you to spend 5 to 10 hours making a YouTube video that then pays you $20,000 over time.

There aren’t too many people in this world that are going to get paid $2,000 an hour to trade their time for money.

But with the power of the internet, making outsized returns on your time is more than possible.

And the best part is that with YouTube in particular, you don’t even have to have all the traits required to make this happen.

In fact, many of my students in Tube Academy have never edited a YouTube video in their life and are steadily growing and monetizing their channels day after day.

Because unlike at your job, where you must obtain all the skills required in order to get your work done, in the world of online business, whatever skills you’re lacking can easily be outsourced in order to complete your final product.

Which, in the context of YouTube, are videos that people want to watch and that will earn you ad revenue for every single day that they’re on the platform.

Therefore, let this be your weekly reminder that there’s always a different way of doing what you’re already doing.

I know this is not new information to you, but as the saying goes, we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught.

And if you made it this far in the email, then you’ve got the reminder you needed—just start taking action.

Until tomorrow,

Adam

Note: Tomorrow I will be opening up 3 new spots inside Tube Academy. If you want the details, reply back “Tube” and I’ll send them over.