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  1. Donovon

    Been a few years.....reintroducing myself.

    INTRO 
    I'm not currently investing any more time in the original Youtube channel. It basically killed my love for music and made very little money. My audience was asking for information beyond and at the edge of my skill level and my heart just wasn't in it. The courses I made around it still generate...
  2. Donovon

    Been a few years.....reintroducing myself.

    INTRO 
    Hey folks, Used to come around here a few years ago. Here's a brief resume: Things I've done: - Grown a youtube channel to 12k subscribers, organic only - Sold courses on Udemy (fully passive, few hundred dollars a month) - Self-published a book on KDP (customer service) - Learned coding...
  3. Donovon

    New projects + I'll help you take action

    EXECUTION 
    Works for me. I'll shoot you a message. I understand where you're coming from. A coach like me is probably about the same need level as another personal trainer. There are lots of them. There are also lots of people who need help. Very competitive. I need to start by making sure I can get...
  4. Donovon

    New projects + I'll help you take action

    EXECUTION 
    That's the gist of it. The program is for one goal since you're less likely to get shiny object syndrome that way. I don't recommend people tackle multiple projects unless they're already executing one really well. And yeah, I found that 30 minutes was about right for most of the people I...
  5. Donovon

    New projects + I'll help you take action

    EXECUTION 
    Hey folks, it's been quite a while since I posted a progress thread. I quit my job recently to go all in. I have a runway of several years from squirreling away every dime I made from my job plus the handful of dollars from side projects. Now it's time to buckle down and get things figured out...
  6. Donovon

    CHALLENGE: Join me in a little mental exercise.

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Not Tasting Bugs Again, Only Dough.
  7. Donovon

    How do I stay committed to my decisions?

    @Spicymemer45 You haven't given a whole lot of information for us to work with, so I'm going to wing it a bit. You might want to try setting specific goals with timeframes. Ex. For one month, I'll work on my business idea to sell horseshoes (ok thanks brain, worst example ever). I'll work on it...
  8. Donovon

    Giving away my first book free

    PUBLISHING 
    Hey everyone, I get a lot of value from this site, but don't post too often. I figured since I was promoting my book on Amazon for free for 5 days, I might as well extend that offer to you folks. It's a short book about my friend and I trying new habits for 4 weeks and chronicling that...
  9. Donovon

    Chronic laziness. How to overcome?

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    I can tell you what I did to complete my last project, and I am incredibly lazy, so it may help. I wanted to write a book, so I got together with a friend every Sunday and we outlined our respective projects and goals for the week. Each week when we met, we outlined clear, actionable tasks that...
  10. Donovon

    Are People Wired To ENJOY Bad News?

    MINDSET 
    I'd be willing to say people have a tendency to remember and focus on bad things because, from an evolutionary standpoint, bad things are likely to be life-threatening. Your brain would benefit from remembering the details of almost being hit by a car more than the details of someone giving you...
  11. Donovon

    Taking adderall is the fastest way to fastlane

    OFF-TOPIC 
    It seems a lot of this conversation is focused on taking Adderall consistently compared against never using it, I don't see it as a binary decision. A lot of people are taking a hard line that it's never acceptable and some sort of character weakness? I don't see that as necessarily true. I...
  12. Donovon

    Music that Motivates

    HOT! MINDSET 
    How conceited is it if I listen to my own music to motivate myself? Ah well, it helps. Shameless plug: https://soundcloud.com/donotg/dirty-work
  13. Donovon

    29-year-old millennial rips 25-year-old Yelp employee who got fired after complaining about her sala

    FTE 
    I'm really glad I took the time to read this, I currently work at a tech company which has great benefits (like free food) and people constantly complain about it ("EW! Why do they always make Mexican food? Give us the good food we deserve!" That's a real comment from our monthly feedback...
  14. Donovon

    Is there something I can do to increase my views? Or is it just that my idea doesn't solve any need?

    IDEA MARKETING 
    I have some experience building a Youtube channel entirely from organic growth. It's not huge by any means but I get about 14,000 views/ month. It took me a few months of consistently putting out content to start getting some traction though. Here's what I learned off my channel: 1. Content...
  15. Donovon

    My Rap Boot Camp Business

    EXECUTION 
    Hey, sorry it's taken me eons to write a response. You're right on target with what you've said to Stiizy, for some reason a lot of people are under the impression this course is targeted in a way that says 'IF YOU TAKE THIS YOU'RE GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY FAMOUS' which it just plain is not. It's...
  16. Donovon

    How did I mess up?

    I think there's an important point that has been hinted at but not explicitly brought up. These are high school students, and I'd imagine Verge probably knows at least some of the girls he invited decently well. To someone in high school, friendship means you should be doing things at cost. They...
  17. Donovon

    My Rap Boot Camp Business

    EXECUTION 
    There's a ton of useful information in that post. Thanks a lot! I'll definitely incorporate that exercise into my next venture, as well as retro-actively in this venture. As far as video is concerned, I don't think mine are super high quality, I was balling on a budget. I shot in my home...
  18. Donovon

    Opportunity or waste of time?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Instead of trying to negotiate your aunt down and squeeze money out of her, why not try an alternative win-win situation? Hey auntie, I'll help you negotiate an additional $20,000 in your land deal if I can keep $19,000. You still make a good amount of money and she gets something extra out of...
  19. Donovon

    My Rap Boot Camp Business

    EXECUTION 
    Alright boys and girls, it's been a while since I last updated this. At the moment, I'm making about $50/month from this course, which is chump change, but I'm actually extremely excited. It's the first time one of my projects has made enough money to actually purchase a tangible object larger...
  20. Donovon

    Set me straight on my car purchase

    MINDSET 
    If you're at this point, are you really even going to feel that good about buying it? Or are you going to start the engine every day feeling guilty and thinking 'shit, this put me an additional year (or more) away from freedom'? That's how I feel about my car. If you need some gratification...
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