Month: January 2024

It’s indisputable. 20 years from now, I’d look back to today and think, wow, I was so young in 2024!

What I want is to be able to look back and say, well done! Well done at life! Well done at making the most of it!

What would be the coolest things for me to do for the upcoming 10 years?

1. Travel and see more of the world with people I love
2. Meet more people, make friends who are genuine, kind, funny, smart
3. Get really good at something – spikeball, volleyball, surfing, surfskate
4. More freedom and less stress – have a team, mentally be more free and relaxed, physically too!
5. Make good use of my healthy body – have fun! Be active! See the world!

The thing is, as I get older, I feel that travelling is overrated. People are what matters. But then, I feel that people are overrated, friends are overrated, and so is a boyfriend. I feel that there’s no point in making an impact on the world. People are not worth it.

 

6 years ago, at 40, he lost almost all his money (2018). I had about $1.4M

5 years ago, he started investing for me, $100k.

4 years ago, COVID hit. I listened to his advice and tried to short Shopify. Made a mistake, bought 10x the options. Lost $150K. Revenge traded for a while, made $20K back in 4 days. Bought some stocks based on his advice and surf-traded daily. Fat fingered again, bought 10x the SPG than intended. This turned out to be the best mistake.

3 years ago, the money I made, $3M – he started managing it.

2 year ago, set up Mom’s IBKR for him to manage too.

1 year ago (2023), at 45, his net worth is $1.4M, and mine is $7.1M ($6.5M after paying him $600K)

Amazing!

He is gonna soar from here!

He’s bought a Porche. He is moving into Kengo building in the West End with $4800/month rent.

I’m so happy for him!

Now I just hope that his health improves.

 

After saying Merry Xmas to Brian, we started talking again.

He is visiting Taiwan and Thailand these days.

I learned that he went to see a doctor in Taiwan for a. mild hernia, and a dentist in Thailand for root canal. Wow. Very unsexy haha.

I’m definitely a lot less attracted to him this time around. If last April he kept the convo going, I would’ve felt a lot for him. Let’s revisit reasons why I would never, ever make out with him or date him:

1. Not reliable / bad etiquette – Didn’t show up to my Noveween 2022 party and didn’t say anything.
2. Bad temper / blunt – When I joked about it months later, he got mad and expressed it without holding back
3. Not a thoughtful person – Didn’t warn me about crossing the border for ECF Live in 2023
4. Not a grateful person / took my idea without acknowledgement – Used my idea of hiring an agency while doing things in-house to speed up TT success, and totally forgot that he copied my idea
5. Conceited – thinks he is smarter, thinks he is a visionary
6. Negative / cynical
7. No affirmation / no compliments – dismissive
8. No physical touch
9. No quality time – never wants to hang out one on one
10. Hardly laughs or smiles
11. Cold personality
12. Doesn’t seem to have a strong sex drive
13. Wants kids
14. Wouldn’t dedicate time for a relationship, from the looks of it
15. Has a ton of health issues, including bad eye sight, root canal, hernia
16. Disappears when there’s discomfort/conflict between us
17. Doesn’t take much of an initiative to show that he is interest – not asking me out, invites me to his event and doesn’t talk to me

Smart, funny, successful – but how undatable he is!

New Year is here!

Day 1!

I’ve been seeing a lot of New Year Manifest New Life type of content on social. Who do you have to be, to get the life you want? That kind of stuff.

The cool thing is, I have what I want, and if I don’t, I can get it. I feel very blessed.

For example, I’m looking forward to going to Costa Rica. I don’t need to save up money for it. I don’t need to ask my boss for permission to take time off work. How amazing!

If I like Costa Rica, I have the money to buy a place there. How amazing!

And if I want to take 3 months a year to stay in Costa Rica, I can! Mom wouldn’t like it, but maybe she can visit!

 

1. How many sales does Minimalist Caitlin do? Check its traffic too, and if it’s growing
2. Should I just acquire a custom jewelry company? Are there local ones for sale?
3. Should I expand into customization? Seems to be very unscalable. 150 staff for $75M a year. Study what that Hamptonites’ 3 websites are about
4. Comb through Hampton and ECF for people in jewelry
5. Biz opportunities: What are the things I need and want in life? Wig with tacky but glue-free underside
6. What kind of lifestyle do I want? What does the end game look like? What kind of business is best for that?
7. What trends are rising? Moissanite
8. Any downside / risks / threats to my idea of breakable rings?
9. Opportunities for breakable rings? Who would I market to at first? How can I test this out?
10. Are there better businesses to go into? What are the best businesses to be in right now?
11. Is there anything that I have an advantage for? For example, I have better insight into what a small DTC biz owner needs. Or aging as a woman. Or being an female entrepreneur. Being an Asian female. Being an alopecian. Aspiring nomad. Someone wanting to be ready for another mandate.

 

 

Thing I want to do in the new year

1. Drink collagen and other good stuff daily
2. Check calendar daily
3. Time block time to work out (or stretch) daily
4. Skin and hair routine daily
5. Infrared daily