My name is Jensen.
I'm a 26-year-old entrepreneur and welcome to a day in my life.
I'm gonna show you my morning routine, Lambo collection, and I can't do this.
I can't lie to you guys like the fake gurus.
This isn't even my house.
Let me show you a realistic day in the life of an entrepreneur.
My day begins at 10am.
Not 5am like others because I'm a night owl.
Or at least, that's my excuse.
But when I get up, I get going.
I wash up, brush my teeth, get dressed, and check my email.
Once I'm all caught up, I head straight to my desk.
I don't eat breakfast because I practice intermittent fasting.
It helps me think more clearly and makes it convenient for me to dive right into work on my two businesses.
The first is my YouTube channel.
I make videos, work with sponsors, the classic content creator business.
The second is my full-service storage company.
We pick up, store, and deliver items for customers.
I'll bring you to my storage facility later.
But on my to-do list for today, YouTube is first.
My work as a content creator varies every day.
I'm either writing, filming, editing, negotiating.
There's always a lot to do.
To quote Jay-Z, I'm not a business man.
I'm a business man.
I typically do everything in my bedroom, but I recently got a laptop so I can work outside for a change of scenery, especially when the weather's nice like today.
Let's go write a video script at the park.
Three years ago in 2021, I made a day in the life video that a whole lot of you watched.
Back then, I was fresh out of university and just one year into being a full-time entrepreneur.
At that time, both my businesses were just getting off the ground and weren't pulling in much money yet.
As confident as I was in myself, I didn't know if I was going to succeed or not.
In the back of my mind, I constantly wondered how long did I have left before I had to hand out my resume?
Now, looking back three years later, in 2024, i'm happy that i can say i still haven't made that resume.
We've made it to the park.
The sun's out, there's fresh air, birds chirping this is a vibe to work.
I love that.
Entrepreneurship gives me the freedom to work anywhere anytime, on my own schedule.
Work is so much more enjoyable when you get to do it your way.
For myself, that's being alone and getting lost in the creative process for hours.
I just gotta geek out a minute and say i'm loving this new laptop.
It's the Asus Vivobook S15 and it's actually Asus' first Co-Pilot Plus PC.
If you haven't heard, Microsoft recently introduced this new category of PCs designed for AI, and they are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever.
This thing's got a Snapdragon X Elite processor with up to 45W of CPU power and an NPU, which is a dedicated AI chip that accelerates AI applications.
Over the past year, AI has seriously become a bigger and bigger part of my daily workflow.
This laptop adds to that with a bunch of useful AI features like live captions.
It can translate any audio across any app from 40 plus languages into real time English subtitles.
There's also Co-Creator, which lets me generate AI art directly on my device using text and drawing prompts.
It's pretty cool.
I really like the AI features on here that are designed for everyday work.
During my video calls with brands, clients and team members.
Windows Studio Effects uses AI to improve my video's lighting and blur distractions, and ASUS two-way AI noise cancellation reduces my background noise for clear audio.
When I'm editing, StoryCube automatically organizes my videos and photos and helps me find specific files much faster.
Even on the outside, the AI features continue.
Its Asus AI Sense camera can detect when you're away and turn off the screen to save power and protect privacy, and turn it back on when you return.
There's as well a dedicated co-pilot key, which I honestly find surprisingly handy.
Speaking of the design, this laptop is so sleek.
It's metal, ultra-slim, lightweight, and has a vivid 15.6-inch 3K 120Hz OLED display.
Its battery lasts up to 18 hours and it has full IO port, two USB 32 Gen, 1 Type-As, two USB 4s, one HDMI 21, one micro SD card reader and one audio jack.
It's even got RGB.
I'm excited to say that ASUS is today's video sponsor.
If you're looking for a laptop, definitely check this one out.
Link is in the description.
Okay, I just finished writing my script.
Let's check that off the to-do list.
Next up, we head to my storage facility.
Welcome to my storage facility where we store a whole lot of boxes.
Today's task is pretty simple.
I'm going to drop off some boxes to a customer for them to pack with, which we'll pick up on a later date to store.
To do this, I've learned a trick from the delivery cyclists in Asia.
I'm going to strap these on my back and hop on my e-scooter.
It's funny how my two businesses are so different from one another.
YouTube is online and digital while storage is offline and physical.
I kind of love it this way.
Whenever I need a break from staring at my computer screen, I can get in some exercise by lifting some boxes.
I started my storage company with my brother 2019 and it has been such a crazy journey, physically and mentally.
There were more times than I can count where we were this close to quitting, because of just how tough it was.
Somehow though, we always found a way to push through.
And thank goodness we did.
Having a second business has allowed me to diversify my income streams.
My storage company completely operates independently from my YouTube channel and has allowed me to reduce my risk as an entrepreneur.
I get to feel safe, knowing that if one business isn't performing well, I've got another to keep the bills paid.
While we have a team that handles the labor, I make sure to join the frontline as much as I can and get sweaty.
It lets me spot ways to improve the business, talk to customers, and honestly, stay humble.
My biggest fear is losing my humility, or rather humanity, as I achieve more success as an entrepreneur.
No money can buy that.
With the boxes dropped off, let's check storage off my to-do list.
The next task is to finally break my fast and grab something to eat with my friend who, at 26, just recently became a full-time entrepreneur.
Her business and day in the life is so different from mine.
I want you to meet her.
So this is my friend, Linda.
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
You just opened this store.
Can you tell us a bit about it?
Yes, we opened Little Pisces.
We're at Vancouver's first self-serving taiyaki shop.
We've been working on this for a year and just opened last month.
What does running your business involve?
Every day is pretty diverse.
It's everything from making taiyakis, cleaning up, throwing out the trash, all the way to making pretty important decisions like the ingredients that we use, as well as where we're going to spend our money on, how to manage people, how to do all the intricacies of what it takes to run this food business.
It's funny because back in university, I never considered myself to be entrepreneurial.
Before this, I was working in finance and then before that I was in consulting.
After spending a few years in corporate everyone, including myself, started to complain about not really enjoying their jobs.
It took me until now that I realized that if I cannot find a job that I think is perfectly crafted for what I want to do and makes me feel super fulfilled and happy from a holistic life basis, then I might as well try doing something for myself.
How are you finding entrepreneurship?
It's both tough and it's also really liberating.
Not having to answer to a boss every single day and being able to set up my own schedule has been something that I've never experienced before and that's been really awesome.
The tough part is that it's really just a black box having not run a food business before and the stats are really bad.
One in five food businesses go bankrupt within the first year.
But based on my market research that we did for this shop, I thought that this business would stand a chance at least.
What is the biggest life lesson that you've learned through entrepreneurship so far?
Making money in any way is super tough.
I always thought that there might be an easier career path out there, but in doing this I'm realizing that no, I think just living life and making money, no matter how you do, it is going to be hard to a certain extent.
But my belief at least is that if you work hard in the beginning, hopefully the seeds that you sow will eventually pay off over time.
As I head home to work some more, eat dinner and go to bed at 2am.
I want to confirm what Linda said.
Making money is hard, especially through entrepreneurship.
But from what I've learned over these past four years, if you can accept that and grind it up, your efforts will pay off over time.
Not only through the money you'll make, but through the freedom you'll gain to live life on your own terms.
The freedom to wake up at 10am, work in the park, e-scooter on the job or eat taiyakis with a friend in the middle of the day.
I've come to realize that it's the small things like these that are the true rewards of entrepreneurship.
Peace out.
