Endurance Philosophy

Share this post

30 Things It Took For Me To Become A Creator On The Internet

ryandreyer.substack.com

30 Things It Took For Me To Become A Creator On The Internet

And speak a brand new career and lifestyle into existence

Ryan Dreyer
Mar 5
5
1
Share this post

30 Things It Took For Me To Become A Creator On The Internet

ryandreyer.substack.com

For the past two weeks, I’ve been struggling with an extreme internal desire to tell the world how emotionally taxing the past 3 years of my life have been.

Some recent milestones are making me reflect:

  • I just crossed the 4 year anniversary of buying my bike, which marks the official start of my journey as a creator on the internet

  • I’m 6 months removed from leaving Corporate America and going all in on the endurance coaching business I brought to life along the way

My business is stable and I’m looking around thinking..

I wanted to create a new life for myself.

I was fucking terrified of doing it and doubted my ability to pull it off.

I did it anyway.

It actually worked.


Space To Think

I’m currently in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with my wife, Chels.

The trip is a joint Baby Moon and getaway to celebrate my 30th birthday.

It’s literally the first time since I started my creator journey that I have actually relaxed for more than 1 consecutive day.

That’s not a brag on hard work.

It’s a reflection of how head-down obsessed I’ve been bringing this ever-evolving dream to life.

I’ve been giving myself space to read, think, write and just let my mind process the wild ride my life has taken.

In an effort to not be a writing perfectionist, I’m sharing an entry from my notebook that I wrote today.

I posted this picture of my espresso-fueled writing set up and my writing coach, Dickie, rated it a 10/10.

Twitter avatar for @dickiebush
Dickie Bush 🚢 @dickiebush
@theryandreyer Straight up 10/10 💯💯💯💯
3:56 PM ∙ Mar 4, 2023

Why I’m Sharing This

  1. to continue building in public

  2. to teach my future kid about what it’s taken for me to create a truly meaningful life

  3. because reading something like this, written by someone else, would have helped me immensely

I hope it helps you.

Everything below is copy/pasted


What Did It Mean For Me To Start Creating Online?

(I broke up the bullets into 5s for easier reading)

It meant…

  • listening to my heart

  • following my curiosity

  • talking publicly about my interests

  • sharing things that could be made fun of

  • risking humiliation


  • occasionally sounding like an idiot

  • being patient with my growth

  • trying things that may not work

  • committing to the process

  • playing a long term game


  • learning in front of other people

  • teaching those behind me

  • putting some relationships on pause

  • creating friendships on the internet

  • taking a lot of pictures


  • documenting most of what I did

  • living a more interesting life

  • admitting that I’m afraid of judgement

  • taking action in the face of fear

  • realizing most people aren’t even paying attention


  • investing in coaches and mentors

  • playing a different game than 99.99%+ of people

  • paying less attention to pro sports

  • understanding that I have what it takes

  • sticking to my plan when I was pressured not to


  • having faith in my intuition

  • accepting that I don’t need to know the outcome

  • leaning on Chels more times than I can count

  • building new expectations with the people around me

  • giving everything I had to create something that DID NOT EXIST

- RVD


Did you enjoy this? Share it with a friend here:

Share

1
Share this post

30 Things It Took For Me To Become A Creator On The Internet

ryandreyer.substack.com
1 Comment
Lesley Warhurst
Mar 5

❤️love you

Expand full comment
Reply
TopNewCommunity

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 Ryan Dreyer
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing