I am a doctor and I was dying
Editor's pick | Date: June 20, 2017
The Crisis!
I am a doctor. And I was dying.
Breath by breath, hour by hour, I was dying. I felt like the very life was being choked out of me.
Strange thing was… there was nothing wrong with me physically. But mentally, I was falling apart.
To understand why this was happening, like with every one of my medical cases I needed to go back to the beginning and get a proper history.
How it all Started...
Back when I was in high school I had made up my mind that I would become a doctor. I had the aptitude and I had the desire. I wanted to save lives, I wanted to take away people’s pain and I wanted to make a real difference. Armed with nothing but this passion I set out on my journey to become a doctor.
And after spending the best years of my life dedicated to medicine, I finally got the degree. I got certified and became a doctor. I thought I made it. But as it turns out, reality was not quite the same as what I had expected.
The Great Deception
Several years into the profession, I had started to feel uneasy, like something was missing, like somehow something was very wrong. Over time I felt like there was a volcano building up inside me that was waiting to erupt. What I did on a daily basis at the hospital was NOT what I signed up for.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved helping patients, saving lives. It gave me a deep sense of happiness like nothing else I have felt. But it turns out, that was only a tiny fraction of what I did. It turns out the majority of my time was consumed by the tyranny of paperwork and bureaucracy. I found myself constantly burdened with a mountain of paperwork.
It's Official. The Con is Real
In fact in a recent article in Forbes magazine, it turns out doctors spend 2/3rds of their time dealing with paperwork. Two-Thirds! I wanted more of the deep fulfilment that I got from working with and serving my patients, but the twin peaks of paperwork and bureaucracy stood in between me and my patients, dictating what I would do with my every minute of my time.
Due to the nature of my work, I started to realize that I would spend very little time with my family. I used to rationalize to myself that I was serving my patients and community with that time. But a little voice in the back of my head, my guilty conscience, kept reminding me that this was all just a lie I was telling myself. That really I was not spending my time with my family on account of bureaucracy and paperwork. I hated this paperwork and bureaucracy more than anything and they did nothing to help my patients.
I had become the one thing that I promised myself in med school that I would never become. Just another cog in the wheel, a jaded doctor whose family barely knew him. A person who lied to himself about the contribution he really had on society.
Then one year back an incident happened in my life that led me to reflect on all this. I realized that if I continued down this road, someday, when I’m on my deathbed, I would be full of regret. My truthful tombstone would say here lies just another doctor, another cog in the wheel whose family barely knew him. His life barely mattered. That day I swore to myself I would change the direction of my life.
The Fight back Begins
So I sat down at my study after coming home and I took out a piece of paper. I furiously wrote down all that I wanted to do with my life. The things that I would regret not doing. I wanted to work with patients on the kinds of cases I was interested in, I wanted to work with them regardless of their ability to pay, I wanted to do the research that I was interested in doing without worrying about the grant applications and the frightening amount of paperwork associated with that. I wanted to travel the world with my family and I wanted to serve patients in different parts of the planet where great healthcare is not available.
The Greatest Discovery of my Life
As I stared at this list of things that I wanted to do, I realized one common thing with all of these. The reason I couldn’t do all the things that I wanted to was because I didn’t have the money for it. I realized that my current existence was a compromise that I had made to keep up my family’s current lifestyle, to have enough saved for future needs.
I had settled for the same boring everyday regular life trap and I had given up my dreams, my contribution to the world and my time with my family at the altar of mediocrity.
"That was it! I was going to break out"
That was it, I was going to break out, if I had the financial resources, I wouldn’t have to care about the hours I work, I wouldn’t have to care about grant applications, I would be able to spend more time with my family, I would be able to travel around the world and I would be able to help those without great healthcare around the world. I wouldn’t have to give up anything I wanted to do. So it was settled, what I needed was financial freedom.
But I couldn’t just quit my practice and leave. What I required was a source of true passive income that would pave the way to my financial freedom even as I continued working in my current capacity.
The Search Begins
With this intention, I threw myself into a furious search for my path to financial freedom and trust me, I looked at about every conceivable way to financial freedom. I looked at investing in new businesses with rapid growth potential. Just to discover that it is a high risk proposition, and it took a lot more time and care than I could dedicate to it, not to mention the steep learning curve on how to do it right. I then looked at the classic source of creating passive wealth: the stock market. But dependable returns of 13% a year for the next 20 years would take too long to get me to financial freedom. Not to mention the trouble of mass Wall Street manipulation that could crater the vehicle to my dreams at any given moment.
I needed something that could work better, more reliably and fast. My search was going nowhere fast. I started doubting with every passing idea, that maybe what I wanted was too good to be true. If it was that easy, everyone would already be doing it. Just when I thought there was nothing that could truly meet my needs, and that I was condemned to this life of mediocrity, I came across the prospect of creating a digital product.
I’ll be honest, when I first looked at it, I thought this was going to disappoint me like everything else. But as I started to look at it further, I saw that I could create a product once and then it would be online 24/7 and people could buy it with no added work on my part. It was truly passive income, but surely, this had to be a scam. People don’t just buy digital products online. But then I saw it was a strategy that was making thousands of regular people millions of dollars in passive income. As these facts sunk in, I felt like a dead man brought back to life. I was pumped. This was what I was looking for. I was finally going to be able do this. But my troubles were far from over.
Once More into the Fray
I bought a lot of books and programs on how to successfully create a digital product and I set out trying to create a digital product of my own. I got my fingers burnt several times. I wound up spending six months of my life creating a product that fell flat on its face. I had worked hard, followed instructions and failed.
But I had come too far to give up now. I was going to make this work. No I had to make this work. It was either make this work or go back to a life of mediocrity and die disappointed. So I got back up from the loss. I was going to do this no matter what and this time I was going to do it right.
I set about looking for the foremost experts in the field. Not pretenders, but the people who had the right qualifications, people who had been there and done that. After acquiring an enormous library of books and courses, I learned from tens of experts, dedicating all the time I had outside of my hospital and piecing all the knowledge together. And I finally put together something that could work. It was a long and arduous journey, but it was worth it and today, I do exactly what I want on a daily basis.
The Promised Land
I finally am proud to say that I don’t have to do any more of that stuff, now I live life on my own terms. I work the hours I want to, I get to spend time with my family, I finally get to do the research I want to. Sometimes, I feel like it’s all a dream and I’ll just wake up from it all. And why wouldn’t it? Because just a short while ago, this was the life I dreamt of.
If I look back at my decision, I would say I did the right thing and if I had a chance to do it all over again I would. Although I would wish I didn’t have to go through all the hunting and assimilating information from tons of different books and courses that cost me a ton of time and a modest fortune.
The trouble with information on creating a digital product was that you wouldn’t find everything you needed in one location. I had to endure the agony of spending a ton of time learning and then creating a product just to discover that some piece of the puzzle is missing and I had to start all over again. It is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone else. And that’s why I’ve put this out for you guys. So you have the choice to get where I am, but without having to go through disappointment after disappointment. Without wasting thousands of dollars and precious months, even years of your life.
As it Turns out...
It seems like I wasn’t the only one who had these frustrations because finally, one of THE top experts in the field that I’ve personally learned a ton from has put together a free webinar on how to create a digital product from A to Z. He assumes you know nothing and goes from there to how to build a complete product. So, basically everything I spent a ton of time and money on, he shows in a webinar. Thanks… Where was this when I needed it? If only he had created this earlier, it would have saved me so much time, money and heartache..
Still, I was lucky to get my wake up call. I am living the life that I used to dream of. I do the research that I’ve always wanted to, I work my hours, I can help patients around the world, I get to spend plenty of time with my family. Hey, for you it might be different. Whatever it is that you want, I want you to think about it for a moment. No really, think about it. Is it more time? money? the ability to fulfil your desires? spend more time with your family? If you really want them, trust me you’d want to create your own digital product.
Your Chance
It’s just the best path I know to create the financial freedom you need to stop dreaming and actually live your dreams. And don’t put it off for tomorrow. Don’t put it off till retirement. You’re a doctor, you know what happens after retirement. If you feel less than satisfied with what you are doing now, if you have the time to dream, just pull the trigger. One of my greatest regrets is waiting several years and letting the dissatisfaction fester, and to keep wishing and dreaming. Just create your product already.
You can get the details on how to actually create your product in Eben’s webinar. He has sold over a 100 million dollars worth of products online, so he really knows what he’s talking about. You literally couldn’t ask for a better teacher, and the webinar’s free! But for obvious reasons the seats in his webinar will get booked up quickly, people won’t just pass by the chance to attend such an event.
"He has sold over a 100 million dollars worth"
If the dates and time when the webinar is being held don’t work with your schedule for whatever reason, do yourself a favour and take a day’s sick leave and just attend it. You’ll thank me for it. And get to the webinar 5 minutes before the scheduled time, these things get fill up fast and you don’t want to miss any of it. At the end of the day, you’ve got to see it in perspective, this one hour, hour and a half could be the difference living a boring, regular life where you die full of regret and living a rich, fulfilled life on your own terms.
The link to the webinar is given below this. You’re welcome... All the best with your dreams and good luck.