Journey to €10.000 per month

[Butters]

Day 225:

What if life is always a spiritual journey, no matter which path you take? I haven't done stand-up in a while and my mind is now fully focused on business as I slowly become more emerged in this vision. It's a journey of becoming more disciplined, a journey into the self. It's tremendous. 

Imagine what I could do 5 - 10 years from now if I just stuck to the discipline of ruthlessly working on my personal brand, my business and myself. 

Dopamine detox:

Personal brand:

 

[Butters]

Digital Nomad:

I've made my first important step on the journey and have started living as a digital nomad this year. 

So far it's been more challenging that I had anticipated. My theory was that I could just live anywhere I want, not realizing that travel comes with all sorts of additional problems and distractions from my work. 

Like it rains here every day, even though I came here for better weather, but they don't have central heating. I got really sick with the flu. Am slowly starting to hate this place. 

All my mental strength and optimism was appearantly just grounded in the stability of my living situation. Without it, I'm a different person, not for the better. I almost miss the stability of my old life, but there's no turning back. 

It's annoying because in the Netherlands I was so comfortable that I didn't feel motivated enough to try harder in my business. Now I am super annoyed, perhaps I will try harder but is that worth it? 

In Porto now, really sick of this place already, will travel to Bangkok and Bali soon. 

Edited January 20 by Butters

[Fountainbleu]

On 1/20/2026 at 11:55 AM, Butters said:

Digital Nomad:

I've made my first important step on the journey and have started living as a digital nomad this year. 

So far it's been more challenging that I had anticipated. My theory was that I could just live anywhere I want, not realizing that travel comes with all sorts of additional problems and distractions from my work. 

Like it rains here every day, even though I came here for better weather, but they don't have central heating. I got really sick with the flu. Am slowly starting to hate this place. 

All my mental strength and optimism was appearantly just grounded in the stability of my living situation. Without it, I'm a different person, not for the better. I almost miss the stability of my old life, but there's no turning back. 

It's annoying because in the Netherlands I was so comfortable that I didn't feel motivated enough to try harder in my business. Now I am super annoyed, perhaps I will try harder but is that worth it? 

In Porto now, really sick of this place already, will travel to Bangkok and Bali soon. 

Keep us posted on Bali 🙌

[Butters]

@Fountainbleu I definitely will! After the misery of last week some very interesting things came on my path that I will be posting about. 

My safety was stagnation, now is time for growth. 

And to grow, I have to let go of control sometimes. Let go of what's familiar to make room for progress.

Currently on a bus from Porto to Lisbon 🚌🇧🇫

Edited Monday at 02:33 PM by Butters

[Butters]

Challenging Shit:

Feeling a bit exhausted. Finally did a proper 5x5 workday yesterday, which was satisfying but also not really. This is probably all the old frequency just saying hi. Made a blanket sale on Etsy yesterday, that was pretty cool. Emailed more retreats yesterday, this time in Madeira, for volunteering my tech skills in exchange for a stay.

Did 25 Whatsapp messages yesterday. This could be quite scalable. If you make a bot that scrapes Google Maps, then verifies the Whatsapp accounts, then builds the websites and send the messages in bulk then you're golden.

I'm doing super challenging shit, no fucking shit it's challenging. Not only am I starting my business, I am also doing it with no money and no income. That absurd. But not only that, no, I am also traveling. Not only that, but I am traveling and staying at hostels so I have no stability. No fucking shit it's challenging - I have to balance finding my next place to stay, finding customers, building systems, managing my routine while dodging these unexpected situations. Then I have to manage my own mindset, regulate my sleep in an unpredictable envoirment. God, it's a miracle I haven't gone insane yet. I mean, I have to keep an abundant mindset while not being able to pay for a workspace where I can sit quietly, not being able to do my laundry, the list goes on and on.

The main challenge is noise, but if I have more income I would stay at private rooms, so really the main challenge is income.

Either way, I wanted this. When I was in my comfort zone I barely made any real moves. I chose to live with my fantasies about business instead of doing business. I would have never done this Whatsapp outreach back home - too scary and not aligned with my fantasies. Now I'm doing real shit.

Let's look into Madeira again. Is it possible to live there at the same cost as here? Roughly €20 per night with similar grocery expenses. If so, then I can stay there until the Ram Das retreat. Of course I prefer a place to stay for free in exchange for volunteering work.

Cheapest private I could find on Booking.com = €28 per night, with others at €30 and €35.

Hostels: €26 on Airbnb or €12 per night for a tent lol

But really, this is just filler. I wanted to go to South East Asia, not Europe. It costs €519 to get to Bangkok:

That layover it too tight. But you get my point. Once in Bangkok I'll have a much cheaper time. You can get a freakin studio for €11 per night!

So I just need to get to Bangkok, then I'm in a much better spot cuz it's 3 to 4 times cheaper. 

 

[Butters]

Complaining about Chaos:

So I must like the chaos or something, i don't know. I am creating massive chaotic challenges for myself and then I complain about them. At the same time others would describe me as quiet and restful person. It's just strange how life works. I've done more in the past 30 days than I have in the whole 2 years before that, in the sense of travel and challenges. At home things were much more peaceful, predictable, here it's not. 

I figured I could exchange my skills for a place to stay. This Ram Das ashram said I was welcome. I thought I could stay there immediately, but with all the paperwork and processing it could take up to a month. I don't wanna sit in Lisbon for another month, I wanna go to Bangkok. Yes I want to live at retreats in exchange for my services while I build my business online, but I don't think I'm ready to do full sacrifice at an ashram, which is what I think they expect me to do, especially if I need to wait another month in expensive and rainy Lisbon. 

Anyway who cares. My point is that I do all this shit, but when my ego kicks in it solidifies reality into that specific moment, through that specific lens and says "this is how reality is and it sucks". But that's false. Again I've done more the past month than the 2 years prior. So at least I'm doing shit that will be fun to think back on when I'm old. It just doesn't seem fun right now. 

Even just the fact that I am now complaining and focusing on this instead of just working to grow my income is the old frequency trying to keep my energy in place. 

Manifestation:

The principles of manifestation are so simple: live in the outcome, don't react emotionally. But in practice, that's not how it always goes. When my money gets dangerously low, to the point where I can't pay for my hostel anymore or buy food, I don't become more calm and living in the desired outcome. No, I usually react to that emotionally. 

Now weirdly enough, things always work out. If they didn't, I wouldn't be here. Money never runs out, it always comes back, or else I would have ran out of money years ago lol. But no, it's always there somehow. I think the trick to building stability is by having emotional stability. I'm getting better at it, but nowhere near perfect. 

Really these challenges are perfect. When I got to my hostel in Porto a few weeks ago I just started socializing, even went out drinking and got sick. But the game is so empty, so hollow, nothing good comes from that. I just stopped working on my business and on myself and for what? Feeling slightly worse afterwards. I'd rather be alone, introspective and growing than be social, outwards and left with nothing. 

Measuring My State:

The good thing about staying at hostels is that I am constantly around other people, so I can easily measure my internal state. Am I open, spacious and kind? Then my energy is probably expansive. Am I reserved and sort of treating others as obstacles? Then I'm probably  going in the wrong direction emotionally. So there's a balance where I am still introspective and working on my shit while also being open enough to allow for the outside world. 

The game is not: work more. It's not about getting more hours in. It's about expanding my awareness to see what's really going on and where the opportunities lie. I just need 700 euros to get to Bangkok. That money is already there and very easy to obtain. All I need is for my mind to align with that reality, that's literally the whole game. But step 1 is to see that that's the game in the first place. 

What is life but some movie being projected upon my consciousness? But it's infinitely more dynamic than a movie. There is a reality right now where today I make the 700 euros needed for the flight and I fly before Monday. I just need to energetically align with that reality, but that's the whole challenge. Knowing this is one thing, embodying it is another.

This applies not just to the 700 euros, but to making $10K pm, or $300K pm. To consciousness it's the same thing! Same consciousness, different movie. Same consciousness, different beliefs, different reactions, different images. Same thing.  

Edited 2 hours ago by Butters