follow your dreams, pls


this weekend i spoke at an event

there, i met a friend i've known since i started my first marketing agency, four years ago

an OG

three years, when i started my first coaching business and started sharing content online, he told me he'd start posting for his personal brand too

nothing happened

two years ago, when we both lived abroad, we had a catch-up call

my coaching business had scaled fast, so my content and brand had grown accordingly

he said, "cool, i've just been busy scaling the agency, but i'll definitely start posting content now that i have some better cash flow."

nothing happened

6 months ago, he'd read my post about moving back home to denmark, so we texted back and forth

we talked about a day to catch up, now that I was living home again

he said, "yeah, then when we meet, i'd love to talk about content and getting it going"

yeah, you guessed it

nothing happened

this weekend, after my speech at the event where a big part of it was around content, he dabbed me up and said the same thing again

i just paused...

standing there, hearing it the FOURTH TIME, all i could think was

"fuck man, when are you going to allow yourself to follow your dreams?!"

we are only on this planet once

deep inside, he knows what he wants to do

and yet, he's not doing it

yeah, it's gonna suck. it's gonna be overwhelming. it's gonna be cringe

but he knows within his heart that this is what he wants

to share content. to build a brand. to get clients who are like him and who work with him because of the way he is, not because of some stupid guarantee, cold ads or a no-brain offer

imagine waking up every single day knowing exactly what you want

only to do the opposite

it's called life man

there are constant tradeoffs

to gain one thing we must get rid of another

to get in shape we must trade comfort

to run our business we must trade security

to follow our dreams we must trade potential embarrassment

i can promise you one thing

it's worth it

but you're only going to accept it when you're living it yourself

when are you going to allow yourself to start doing the things you want?

best, fred


Frederik Pahuus

I write about unique mechanisms, my marketing philosophy "Show Don't Tell" and content ecosystems. I send an email every morning on how im going from $513k profit in 2025 to $1m profit in 2026. Check it out!

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