Walking the Lyme - Running a 7-Figure Business While Living with Lyme with TJ Nelson

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Today on the show we have an old friend, TJ Nelson. TJ and I both got our start building online businesses, wanting to move out to Thailand to grow our online businesses and travel the world. Over the last 8 years, I have had the opportunity to witness TJ grow a business online and begin to start suffering from a chronic disease.

Despite going through some of the hardest challenges I have seen almost anyone go through, he’s been able to grow a thriving 7-figure business. Leading teams, inspiring people, and most recently in his book, Walk the Lyme. In his book, he shares some of the hardest and most challenging moments from this misunderstood condition and how he got through some of the darkest moments in his life.

We discuss:

[02:39] TJ shares his defining moment.
[04:06] Lyme keeps him humble. It gave him an appreciation and gratitude for not being in that suffering anymore. We are on this journey and it is going to come to an end - whether that is next year or in 50 years.
[06:26] With habits, it is really important to not skip it for a single day. Your habits define your behaviors which define your life. If you skip one time, you are going to skip two times.
[08:08] The most important time to do the behavior is when you don’t want to do it. You are training your brain to do things you don’t want to do. If you have your habits right you’re doing the behaviors right and success is really just a bunch of small actions repeated over time.
[12:00] People are wired differently and are not the same. Recognizing that difference and actually loving that difference is key.
[13:37] If you just have a work ethic you are already ahead of the game.
[15:30] No leverage, no accountability, no chance.
[17:29] No electronics at ten, read and journal for an hour and then go to sleep is enough to get you ahead of 90% of the people.
[20:19] You can do anything with 30 minutes a day - so he would write at the end of every day.
[21:52] He wrote the book to give back to other people with Lyme disease. It is the loneliest and roughest thing he ever went through.
[23:32] Being a friend and understanding is important for people suffering from Lyme disease. Being understanding and keeping it real is very helpful.
[26:40] TJ shares about his future.
[29:43] I am extremely grateful I didn’t give up and I kept going and struggling even though it was very rough. It is possible to get better.
[30:35] Even when you are in the forest and you can’t see and it is dark don’t give up no matter what keep trying new things, it might take 6 months or 5 years but you can get better.