“The Makings of a Million-Dollar Man”  

Feb 24, 2024 Ryan Kasa 

I’m broke AF. 

Well, not exactly, but I might possibly be dead broke soon.  

Very soon. 

Broke is actually a mindset so, really, I’ll never be broke. 

With all my knowledge and experience, there should be absolutely no reason for me to be financially broke. 

And that’s what I’m here to talk about today. 

I’m at the beginning of a new frontier in my life.  

A new adventure in uncharted territories. 

The scared little bitch inside me wants to go back to my old ways.

Ways I’m familiar with.

Ways I’m “comfortable in.” 

Those ways no longer serve my purpose here on Earth.

Those ways were ways of survival. 

I’m stepping out of survival mode and pioneering a new way of life for myself. 

It’s scary. 

As I evolve, it’s uncomfortable shedding my old identity that I held for so long, especially when that identity was part of my survival. 

Or I thought it was. 

I haven’t really “worked” these past few months. Work as in doing a job for someone else and getting paid for it. 

But I have been working a shit ton on myself and my own business endeavors. 

I have bills—rent, utilities, car insurance, phone, groceries, and a kid. 

I am by no means financially secure, and I find a sense of fulfillment in that. 

As I write this, I’m questioning my own sanity. 

My “survival” is at risk. 

Deep down in my heart, I know I’m making the right decision. 

When I was working for other people, I was able to save 20k, and I’ve been living off that money for a few months. 

Right now, I’m down to about 12k, so I only have another few months of reserves left. 

There’s no going back to working for other people. 

Fuck that. 

I have too much at risk doing that.

To me, it’s riskier to go back to my comfort zone than it is to pioneer a new path for myself. 

I know the direction I’m going is what I’m supposed to do. 

It’s forcing me to become a better version of myself every fucking day.

I can’t cower away and retreat. 

I have to sharpen my sword and continue the battle forward. 

It’s forcing me to grow stronger. 

When it comes to weightlifting, without progressive overload, you won’t grow stronger.

It’s the same with people and their character.

Their spirit. 

The human spirit needs new challenges to evolve. 

If we don’t evolve into new challenges, we degenerate into our own demise.  

We create problems that aren’t really problems. 

Humans are wired to be problem solvers. It’s part of our biology. We are built with the mental capacity to do so. 

When we don’t have any meaningful problems, we create problems. Most of these problems are trivial and have no value. 

It’s up to us to intentionally create challenges that engage our problem-solving abilities. 

Meaningful challenges.

Meaningful problems that we want to solve. 

Life is really just a game. 

A never ending game of problem solving and challenges.

We can choose to create our own game with our own rules and challenges, or we end up playing someone else’s game by their rules and their challenges. 

There are only these two options. 

I have a path laid out for me to do the former.  

I don’t know exactly the right directions to get there, but I have an internal compass and I’m drawing out a map as I go. 

It is an unbeaten path. 

That’s where the challenges arise.  

My challenges are creating an income by making an impact.  

Making an income with all my knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and experience I’ve gathered in my life thus far. 

It would be a shame for me to die with everything inside of me. 

It would be a shame for me to live with everything just rotting inside. 

I have to share it with the world.

I believe that’s what the purpose of life is. 

To live, learn, and share the wisdom gained with others who could benefit from it. 

“You live and you learn” and then you teach what you learned. 

What else is there really?  

Humanity came so far by this model.

It’s ingrained in our nature to help others and teach what we know.  

Why would it stop? 

To utilize the skills and knowledge we’ve acquired is self-actualization. 

To teach others the skills and knowledge we’ve acquired and how to utilize them is self-transcendence. 

It’s passing the torch. 

This is the essence of what humanity is.  

A network of receiving and transmitting information to each other.

This is how we’ve survived millennia and how we will continue to survive and evolve. 

Communication is the keystone of this system. 

And this is why I’m here writing this and why you’re here reading this. 

To put thought and vision into formation by use of words. 

Writing is a skill I’ve acquired to communicate my plans, knowledge, and insight with the world. 

Writing and distributing it through the internet makes it easy for me to spread my experience easily and effectively. 

Let me touch on my spirituality here for a second.

To me, spirituality is basically an awareness of a universal connection between all things. 

Within this connection is an awareness and connection to you, yourself first.  

Then with what most people call God, which I understand as Universal Consciousness.  

Then the awareness of and connection with all earthly elements and beings.

Humans, plants, animals, and fungi.

Mountains, jungles, deserts, rivers, lakes oceans, the air, the sun, and different metals.

Plus, energies like electricity and magnetism. 

Now let me bring in my current meaningful challenges I have chosen for myself. 

Business. 

I see business as a vessel to give my spiritual gifts to the world.  

My gifts are my universal awareness in physical form.  

Business and money are my spiritual energy manifested physically. 

The endeavors I have chosen, in a sense, really chose me.  

I’m not completely sure if I have had any real choice in the matter, although my ego would like to say “I” chose them; my spirit tells me I have been chosen for this work. 

My current business endeavors have been in domains I’ve been in since I could remember.  

Literally all from the age of about 4 years old. 

All of which fall into my field of expertise. 

If you need help in any of these domains I will gladly assist you in reaching your goals just reach out to me on my Instagram @theryankasa 

My business endeavors are: 

-Soccer.  

-Fitness/nutrition.  

-Microgreens/Plants.  

-Online Digital Writing.  

-Personal Branding. 

Really, it’s all these wrapped into one business. 

My one business is me. 

My personal brand.

My lifestyle. 

I have practiced all of these skills in some form or fashion for over 3 decades. 

With having mastered these skills, my current challenges are monetizing them. 

I refuse to work building someone else’s business.  

From here on out, I will only build my businesses. 

It’s crunch time! 

I’m forcing myself into this situation knowing it’s for my own betterment and the betterment of humanity at large. 

The fields that I have been called to work in have made a significant impact on my life and spiritual well-being.

My awareness/connection with myself, connection with Universal Consciousness, and connection with the elemental environment we call Earth. 

By forcing myself to manifest outwardly for others by providing products and services, it opens the opportunity to share my gifts with the world. 

It also forces me to become stronger as a person. 

Like progressive overload in weightlifting, It’s forcing me to become more physically, mentally, spiritually, and financially fit. 

To bear the responsibility of such endeavors is challenging my old ways of being and thinking.  

It’s forcing me to transform on all levels. 

I’m forced to shed the weight of old habits, mindsets/philosophies, environment, lifestyle, and people that don’t contribute to my goals. 

It’s not unlike physical fitness. It’s similar in many ways. 

Here’s the format: 

-Having a purposeful goal.  

-Making a plan to reach the goal.  

-Daily action to execute the goal.  

-Gaining strength and experience during the process.  

-Eliminating things that get in the way of the goal.  

-Adjusting and pivoting when needed. 

I believe entrepreneurship is the best form of personal development because you have to be the fittest you can be to perform and execute what needs to be done in business.  

Which is like a million things.  

And you’re constantly pushing beyond your own limitations.  

Progressively overloading the responsibilities you can bear.

Which forces you to evolve beyond what you’re currently capable of and beyond what you previously thought you were capable of. 

It tests your faith. 

It challenges who you are and who you want to become. 

It is by no means easy. 

But it’s rewarding. 

The profit is in the progress and in the process. 

The profit is who you become because of the challenges. 

Making a million dollars isn’t about making a million dollars.

It’s about the makings of an individual who can obtain a million dollars. 

“The Makings of a Million-Dollar Man” 

It’s about the habits, routines, skills, mindset/philosophies, character, commitment, discipline, courage, creativity, connections/relationships developed along the way. 

The profit/prophet is in the process. 

I added the prophetic “prophet” as a double entendre type of deal cus it’s true. 

You become a person that taps into Universal Consciousness, and you become a conduit to this high-powered energy.  

A vessel to manifest a divine vision at which point you just become a tool. 

The messenger and the message at the same time. 

That’s why I say I’m not broke.

I’m already a Million-Dollar Man.  

I just have to build a means of obtaining the actual $1,000,000. 

Day by day, brick by brick.

I’m building myself up. 

The million dollars ain’t shit.  

The million dollars is mine for the taking. 

The spiritual reward of serving others in a significant way is what I’m really after. 

Helping people to become the highest version of themselves so they can then help others become their highest version and so on and so forth. 

This is the spiritual essence of humanity. 

The purpose of mankind. 

If I could just live in the jungle and be one with Universal Consciousness, I would. 

I’ve lived a life like a monk. 

My personal definition of spirituality means to be connected to yourself, God and everything else that is. 

I’m only being selfish when I live for my own “spirituality” and by definition it is only part of the whole. 

I wasn’t happy living that way.  

I was broke.  

I hadn’t developed myself beyond my own scope of meaning.  

I was hoarding my gifts. 

Instead, I should have been offering them to the world.  

When I realized this, my life slowly began to change because I began to change. 

I chose to suffer in service of others.  

I slowly came out of the darkness of the cave I was in. 

The suffering gave me fulfillment because it has a purpose.  

It has meaning. 

A purpose beyond my “self.” 

Deep inside, I always knew my true self was this deep connection with all that is, but I lived under the illusion that I wasn’t. 

That we aren’t all this deep connection. 

But WE ARE indeed, all this deep connection. 

Once I awakened from the illusion and decided to step outside of it, the illusion became illuminated into a path of enlightenment. 

I’m still on this path. 

My path is to help light the way for others on their path. 

I am a living sacrifice to my people.  

I owe them. 

I owe “God.” 

My life is no longer my life.  

My life is a sacrifice. 

By sacrificing my life for my people, I will be financially compensated, but I will also be compensated energetically/spiritually. 

Money and business are only a demonstration of my mastery over the physical realm. 

Mastery over my own flesh and the material world. 

A demonstration of Spiritual Mastery. 

Going from financially “broke” to a millionaire is my demonstration of a living sacrifice. 

A demonstration I call “The Makings of a Million-Dollar Man”. 

Just watch as I demonstrate. 

Ryan Kasa