About The Author

Hi! My name is Dirk but you can call me Diggy.

I am 23 years old and born in Amsterdam but currently living in South Africa. Here is a short summary of what I am about:

• At 17 I graduated highschool top of my class
• At 18 I ran a supermarket with my dad for 2 years
• At 20 I started learning about forex markets and trading
• At 21 I started blogging and affiliate marketing
• At 23 I now work from home full-time and am building up my business empire

I am far from perfect and still have a lot to learn, but I also believe that I have a lot to teach to others.

My aim with Upgradereality is to share my experiences and provide practical tips, inspiration and motivation for the readers to live their life to the fullest and become their best selves. To remove those self-limiting beliefs that hold you back from achieving greatness and incredible success!

Longer Version

Heya! My name is Dirk and I’m the writer behind UpgradeReality. From when I was small my parents and friends called me Dicky. It wasn’t until I met my friend Glen, that he started calling me Diggy, and that is why online I call myself Diggy.

I am 23 years old and born in Amsterdam, the city of bicycles, weed and women as they say, but of course there is a lot more to Amsterdam than that. It truly is a beautiful city and a must see for everyone who is traveling.

After moving around a bit when I was younger, my parents decided to move to Cape Town, South Africa, where I have been living since I was 6 years old. My first language is Dutch, but as soon as I moved to Cape Town and started school, I had no choice but to learn to speak English. Currently I have no preference for either language and can speak both fluently.

I finished high-school a year earlier than all my friends (at 17 years old) because I opted to do the last two school years in one year and I graduated top of my school. (The school only had about 80 students).

After I finished high-school, my dad wanted to teach me how to be successful and a good business man by working in a real business in the real world. I did not go to university and started to work with my dad in a large supermarket that he had bought as a project to teach me how to work and how to do business. I learnt and incredible amount and did everything from cleaning floors to baking bread to working with accounts. I worked seven days a week, often more than 12 hours a day. This went on for just over 2 years until we decided to sell the supermarket.

Now that I had nothing to do, I needed to find something. I had no interest in pursuing a study or degree at a university or college, but I was definitely eager to learn. I came across forex trading while browsing the internet one day, and this is something that has kept my interest for the last 4 years. I teach myself about trading by doing lots of reading, playing with demo accounts and studying successful forex traders.

About 2 years ago I found out about blogging and internet marketing, and that is another thing that has really got my interest. It was the reason for me to start this blog and many other websites and online projects (some of which I speak about in my articles).

I even set up a free step-by-step tutorial for beginners how they can go about creating their own blog on their own domain and web-hosting. (Get the tutorial HERE).

I became really interested in self improvement a few years ago when I realized that there were many things in my life that I had no control over while there were other people who had total control. I knew I had the potential to do so much better and be a much better version of myself, and to this day I am always interested in finding new ways to get the most out of life.

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Best Regards,
Diggy