A lot of people on this forum, eventually quit their jobs to start their entrepreneurial journey.
I wanted to provide a unique viewpoint that I used (and still am) to motivate myself to my goals.
My catalyst in wanting to start a business was when I was laid off- it was not immediately clear that starting a business was what I wanted to do. But after some time and introspection and realizing that it would be a continual exchange of hours for dollars until my death I decided to go down this path.
At the time, I was getting unemployment payments, and instead I faked myself into believing that I had a successful business and those payments were passive income.
As @AndrewNC would say: Emotions have the ability to change your habits.
Those emotions that I felt of being free and having residual income (even though they were fake) motivate me to push for the real thing
I wanted to provide a unique viewpoint that I used (and still am) to motivate myself to my goals.
My catalyst in wanting to start a business was when I was laid off- it was not immediately clear that starting a business was what I wanted to do. But after some time and introspection and realizing that it would be a continual exchange of hours for dollars until my death I decided to go down this path.
At the time, I was getting unemployment payments, and instead I faked myself into believing that I had a successful business and those payments were passive income.
As @AndrewNC would say: Emotions have the ability to change your habits.
Those emotions that I felt of being free and having residual income (even though they were fake) motivate me to push for the real thing
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