How I Overcame Crack Addiction and Hit $50,000 a Month

My parents struggled with crack addiction.

I used to live in a motorhome as a kid.

I was a college dropout.

Here’s how I overcame it all and hit $50,000 a month by writing tweets: pic.twitter.com/wtBwYCYPDm

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

I was the kid who was lower class.

My father wasn’t in my life because of crack addiction and my mother worked 2 jobs to support me.

I didn’t have any self-confidence or direction.

I knew I had potential, but didn’t know how to channel it.

I was aimless until the age of 22.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

From ages 16-22 I bounced from job to job.

• Electrician
• Server
• Medic
• Security

I looked at the people working these jobs for years.

Lotta them looked dead inside, filled with regret.

If I didn’t make a change, this was my future.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

On December 4th, 2020, I knew there was no going back.

I was on the brink of depression and feeling hopeless for my future as a 22-year-old.

I quit my job as a Domino’s delivery driver and dropped out of my 2nd year of college.

“Fuck it, I’ll make it work I told myself.”

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

For the past 2 years up to this point, I tried many side hustles:

• iPhone repair + flipping
• Selling on eBay
• Amazon FBA
• Blogging

I failed at all of them because I couldn’t stay interested and I’d quit.

But everything changed September 24th, 2020…

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life at 22, so I was in my 2nd year of college at the time to become a high school English and psychology teacher.

One day I was scrolling Twitter and came across something I never expected.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

A Twitter growth course promising to show you how to grow your Twitter account and make money online.

It was $40, so I figured, “Screw it, what do I have to lose?”

I wish it was sunshine and rainbows, but it didn’t turn out how you think: pic.twitter.com/mrqDWvAGU5

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

My first 3 months trying to grow on Twitter:

• I got ratio’d
• I only grew to 750 followers
• I spent hours writing every day, only to watch my content flop

It was demoralizing.

But I knew if I didn’t make this work, I’d never make anything work.

But then I met someone.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

Around the 3 month mark on my Twitter journey I came across a copywriter who grew to 1000 followers in 30 days.

“How tf is this dude growing so fast?” I asked myself.

I got chatting with him in the DMs and hopped on a call.

That conversation changed my entire trajectory…

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

He explained he was in my position a year ago.

Tweeting basic self-improvement takes that the typical growth guides taught.

…and failing to grow.

So, he gave up, started studying copywriting, and came back with a new approach to Twitter that exploded his account:

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

With his new strategy, he was teaching others the lessons he learned from copywriting.

Breaking it down into simple pieces of actionable advice.

What happened next?

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

Surprise surprise, he grew his Twitter.

He wasn’t tweeting stuff that sounded nice, he was sharing valuable information.

And that’s when it clicked for me…

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

To be valued, I need to give value first.

Actionable advice that either:

• Makes people money
• Improves their relationships
• Improves their health

And even though I had 12 years of weightlifting experience, I chose a different niche:

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

Writing.

It was my best subject in school and interested me because:

If you can write, you can think.
If you can think, you can persuade.
If you can persuade, you can make a change.

So, I made the biggest decision of my life…

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

December 4th, 2020, I made the biggest bet of my life.

No master plan.
I restarted my Twitter account to 0.
I dropped outta college and quit my job.

All to focus on growing my Twitter account and make money from writing online.

If I didn’t make this work, I’d be hopeless.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

So I rebranded as a writer, became obsessed with writing, and tweeted like crazy.

And whereas before I only grew to 750 followers in 3 months…

This time I grew to 1000 followers in 40 days.

I was growing my account steadily.

I was onto something.

But there was 1 problem.

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023

I knew how to grow my account, but I didn’t know how to monetize.

I procrastinated with creating content and was scared to take action with business.

There was so much information out there, I didn’t know what to do.

Thankfully, this 1 thing got my ass in gear:

— Dakota Robertson (@WrongsToWrite) June 9, 2023