When I open my eyes in the morning I'm usually looking at a wall that contains (I just counted) 60 small pictures, each of which depicts a happy memory from the past five years or so.

Last week was rather exhausting for me, so I'm relaxing in bed before heading for the gym in a little while, and one of those pictures caught my eye.

It shows my wife and me in the ocean at a stingray experience in the Bahamas. I went primarily for her sake, but the experience was enjoyable enough.

At one point everyone was given a chance to touch a stingray. I politely declined.

Then the kind of thing I can never understand happened:

The event organizer, along with the other attendees, started insisting I do it, thinking that maybe I was frightened or nervous. Nope, just don't want to.

I have no idea what difference what I do makes to anyone else there, but man did they want me to. They insisted again. Again, I politely declined. I did not make a spectacle of myself, I wasn't a drama queen about it, nothing. I simply declined.

For some reason this episode left my wife very impressed. She couldn't believe I had simply stood my ground.

From then on, whenever there's been pressure on me from any group at all to do something I prefer not to do, she recalls the episode with the stingray.

Sometimes people hear about an incident like this and wonder if I'm just a contrarian by nature -- particularly given my views on politics and many other subjects. But I'm not.

However, doing the opposite of what's expected of me has generally served me well.

I send my Supporting Listeners a physical newsletter in the mail now: 16 pages every month, all original, never-before-published material. Nobody else does that.

I send my School of Life members a completely different physical newsletter in the mail. Another 16 pages every month. Again, practically nobody does that.

I don't use Patreon or Locals.

My email marketing is different from that of 98% of the world.

I hold murder mystery dinner parties for my supporters: WoodsMystery.com.

I don't do all these things just because they're different from what everyone else does. I do them because they work, and because I enjoy doing them.

The same goes for the multiple income streams (way beyond just my podcast) that constitute my living.

I don't follow the Standard American Expectations, which involve trading time for money. You can make a fine living that way, to be sure, but time is limited and there is only one of you, so there will always be a ceiling on your income.

It's true that things are tough in 2024, but in 2024 you now have the massive advantage of not having to trade time for money, and this one difference makes up for all the problems. (It even makes up for inflation.)
 

So I created a program that explains how I do this, and how you, dear reader, can do likewise.

They're teaching us how to succeed in 1977 but it's 2024 now, and it's time to act accordingly.

Your older teenagers need to learn what I'm teaching in this program, too, unless we want them knocking on your door at age 30 with no clue what to do.

The price triples at midnight, so click and grab, and you will thank me:

https://www.WoodsMasterclass.com

Tom Woods

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