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Know Your Worth By Thinking Much Bigger Much Faster

Donovan Vogel
7 min readFeb 20, 2020

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On Monday, February 10, 2020, after returning home to Philadelphia from a four-day business conference down in Miami at the American Airlines Arena, I had been fired from my job…over the phone.

And, to cap it all off that morning, I got to call AAA to tow my car to the nearest tire repair shop after coming home and seeing I had a flat tire.

Still, everything was alright. I spent the remainder of my day with my lovely girlfriend as her personal assistant (PA) as we had lunch at South Philly Barbacoa, we worked for a few hours on our Macbook’s and iPhones, I shipped an item out to an eBay buyer, and I helped Lynn pack up as I drove her to her photo shoot at Haven Wellness Center.

I’ve come to embrace and learned how to eat problems for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So, that’s what I did. Because you aren’t succeeding until you are solving more problems. Not just for yourself but for others too!

“You cannot bring a W2 mindset to a 1099 party.”

I used to spend 8+ hours doing shit I despised.

And that doesn’t even include the hours I spent traveling to and from work, or the time it took getting ready in the morning, just so I could get to the office on time, sit down all day which is the worst thing…

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Donovan Vogel
Donovan Vogel

Written by Donovan Vogel

Philadelphia based working in financial services & insurance | Prospering all other hours | Writer | Lifter | Reader | Traveler | Sports | Freedom & Wellness

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