2 years later...

[Innitnwin]

A powerful book, which fueled:
A first business
A mild success
A long-distance move
A return
A failure
A career change
A return to school
A shitty job or 3
A landing
A strategy

Within a month of reading The Millionaire Fastlane , I quit my full-time job with an anemic amount of savings to start a small business. My entirety was in it.

I made sleek business cards and bought a domain name and hosting services with premium protections. I spent about 2-3 weeks making art assets and tinkering with layout, HTML, and CSS.

6 weeks passed. I had an attractive, simplistic, and efficient website ready to go.

It was time to go out and find some customers! However...

I missed a vital period of time where demand for my service was at its highest because I was too busy fine-tuning the website. I spent a lot of money - more money then I ever would have needed to spend - on the website.

I wasn't getting income and got broker by the day. A lot of my time and the scant savings I had were being spent on unnecessaries. Given the nature of things going to shit, my car, my phone, and my computer all started dying out right after I stopped working.

There was ZERO to little communicating with the outside world or my industry... Let's say that Nintendo just finished making the best game they've ever come up with. They would likely release it to the world and do their best to tell everyone about it. It would be wise for them to do so, wouldn't it? If they shelf it or spend their time worrying about the box art and let it be forgotten, they would be left just as broke from their efforts as I was.

It didn't end pretty. It took 4-5 months to get my first customer. It was very rewarding, but the business was ultimately a huge failure.

I went back to step 1 afterwards: trade school and terrible jobs. Just recently, I landed an apprenticeship in the trade I study. Now the bulk of my time is spent becoming more immersed in an industry that I am using to construct my next fastlane in the near future.

2 months ago, I got a nice deal on a pickup truck. I was toying around with some ideas to make money on it. Hauling was well-served. Poison ivy removal was what I settled on. Drawing from my old mistakes, I got right to the point. I already had the tools I needed, so I just had to gather them. I made a flyer with some damn good copy and good price points. A $5/mo business line would have been my only core expense. It only took 3 hours to do this. In that small amount of time, I was more ready to do business than I was after 6 weeks of disorganized, non-stop work my first time around.

I have no amazing success story to share yet, but game-changing failures have inched me closer to it. I am nowhere near ready to start my next business, but I know what I need to do first to get there. I'm getting closer.

Thank you for redpilling me out of the Matrix, MJ DeMarco. I would rather fail 100 times against our heavyweight reality than win a fight with powderpuff mediocrity and call it a sure success.

 

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[jon.a]

Vji nep xeovt apvom ji jet tunivjoph vu tez, vjip qutvt.

Ximm fupi.

 

[ZCP]

Hiv tunivjoph fupi. Fup'v miv 3 ziest hiv jisi xovjuav tuni tadditt.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Vjepl zua gus sifqommoph ni uav ug vji Nevsoy, NK FiNesdu. O xuamf sevjis geom 100 vonit eheoptv uas jiewzxiohjv siemovz vjep xop e gohjv xovj quxfisqagg nifoudsovz epf demm ov e tasi tadditt.

Zua'si ximduni. Liiq hsopfoph, ov't qesv ug vji heni. O lpux xjip O tii qiuqmi dupvopaemmz tviqqoph vu vji qmevi epf veloph txopht, vjiz'mm iwipvaemmz hiv jovt. Vjuti xju tviq aq updi, txoph epf nott, epf demm ov e heni, piwis taddiif.