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I read the the posts from @Get Right and @GuitarManDan and they motivated me to start my own (thanks for sharing guys).
So I'm starting, or have started on two journeys for the last 2 years; for trading it's been a little less than a year. It's been an up and down time on my own and luckily I haven't quit when times got tough.
My intention with this post is to share my journey, tools I come across and as a way to hold myself accountable. The other added pro I see is that by consistently showing up here I'll be able to connect more with the community here as we work towards making life changing money.
I'll share a little about both journeys here and in later posts I'll share more details about what's worked for me and how things are going.
Web Design
Web design started as a hobby helping out a friend's business. They had a pretty bad website and I asked them if I could build one for them. I didn't have any coding experience background or design work, but I was looking for a new path for making money.
Prior to this I had a really amazing opportunity to work overseas for a financial company, whose owner would be my first mentor on making life changing money. Seeing him was a great eye-opener to see what it takes to make life changing money. It was an uncomfortable experience.
The work was revolved around sales, my weak-point, and after some time I left the company on good terms as things didn't work out; in some ways I buckled under pressure, but it was a learning experience. My weakness in sales will come up again.
So back to web design...I came back to California after that work and was putting the pieces back together.
I asked my friend if I could design their website for free and they were up for it. It took me a few months and a lot of research, but I managed to built a really nice website for them with WordPress.
They were so happy with it, that their partner asked me if I would be interested in designing their businesses websites. They ended up paying me 2k for the job. So started the journey, although fear and a lack of commitment stagnated my progress greatly.
I struggled for a little over a year and a half, not having consistent projects and income. I had all of my projects come through referrals. I wasn't comfortable marketing myself.
Fast-forward to this year. I took a Freelancers Workshop with Seth Godin back in March of 2020. It was a great experience and helped me level-up my clarity in my work and also connected me with a great group of other professionals. I highly recommend the workshop if you're into it (feel free to ask me any questions about it).
That helped fast-track a lot of things by learning from others who were already successful. My issue was still sales. So this month, in August, I signed up with @Fox sales program for web designers.
I knew of Fox from a killer reddit post he shared on reddit since last year. I would come back to it a few times for motivation. Basically he shared his success in web design after a few months at it. In a nutshell is was: if you can sell, you can make good money in web design.
I wasn't making that much money, so it resonated with me and somehow I found his YouTube channel. Fast-forward to this month and I signed up with the Fox group to take care of my sales problem.
The journey is still in the works for that, so I'll post more details on this in another post.
Trading Stocks
Before reading TMF , trading stocks was my vehicle to make life-changing money.
In 2018 I came across a book that planted a seed about day traders. I knew nothing about them and started to research them for a few weeks. Web design took most of my focus, trying to figure that out, but I would spend some time on trading and finding more about it.
Over the last 12 months I have been going deeper into the community of successful traders. I've become more committed studying the material and dvds, watching them a multiple times and getting a feel for it.
This month is the first month I've taken the leap from studying to actually trading. Actually it will be next month that will be the first month. This month I signed up for the community, my brokers and the platforms I'm using (the foundation).
I'm not treating this as a get-rich-quick thing. It's more of learning a skill and seeing if I'm any good at it.
Like with web design, I'll share more about trading and what I've found so far in a later post.
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These two vehicles are what's on my plate right now. I'm open to what happens down the road. Maybe I drop both or I hold onto them and keep riding them. Reading TMF opened my eyes and I'm happy to connected with a group of like-minded people. Thanks for sharing this @MJ DeMarco
My focus is to live on my terms and earn life-changing income over the next couple of year. I'm now 30 and by my late 30's I'd like to be able to retire from the rat race.
I'm going to do my best to be as transparent as possible with my posts. Feel free to ask any questions on anything I mention. I'd love to help out if I have the time or maybe you feel you need to challenge me on my thinking (which I would love to hear).
All in all, I'm happy to be here and looking forward to connecting with the community more.
- Farid
So I'm starting, or have started on two journeys for the last 2 years; for trading it's been a little less than a year. It's been an up and down time on my own and luckily I haven't quit when times got tough.
My intention with this post is to share my journey, tools I come across and as a way to hold myself accountable. The other added pro I see is that by consistently showing up here I'll be able to connect more with the community here as we work towards making life changing money.
I'll share a little about both journeys here and in later posts I'll share more details about what's worked for me and how things are going.
Web Design
Web design started as a hobby helping out a friend's business. They had a pretty bad website and I asked them if I could build one for them. I didn't have any coding experience background or design work, but I was looking for a new path for making money.
Prior to this I had a really amazing opportunity to work overseas for a financial company, whose owner would be my first mentor on making life changing money. Seeing him was a great eye-opener to see what it takes to make life changing money. It was an uncomfortable experience.
The work was revolved around sales, my weak-point, and after some time I left the company on good terms as things didn't work out; in some ways I buckled under pressure, but it was a learning experience. My weakness in sales will come up again.
So back to web design...I came back to California after that work and was putting the pieces back together.
I asked my friend if I could design their website for free and they were up for it. It took me a few months and a lot of research, but I managed to built a really nice website for them with WordPress.
They were so happy with it, that their partner asked me if I would be interested in designing their businesses websites. They ended up paying me 2k for the job. So started the journey, although fear and a lack of commitment stagnated my progress greatly.
I struggled for a little over a year and a half, not having consistent projects and income. I had all of my projects come through referrals. I wasn't comfortable marketing myself.
Fast-forward to this year. I took a Freelancers Workshop with Seth Godin back in March of 2020. It was a great experience and helped me level-up my clarity in my work and also connected me with a great group of other professionals. I highly recommend the workshop if you're into it (feel free to ask me any questions about it).
That helped fast-track a lot of things by learning from others who were already successful. My issue was still sales. So this month, in August, I signed up with @Fox sales program for web designers.
I knew of Fox from a killer reddit post he shared on reddit since last year. I would come back to it a few times for motivation. Basically he shared his success in web design after a few months at it. In a nutshell is was: if you can sell, you can make good money in web design.
I wasn't making that much money, so it resonated with me and somehow I found his YouTube channel. Fast-forward to this month and I signed up with the Fox group to take care of my sales problem.
The journey is still in the works for that, so I'll post more details on this in another post.
Trading Stocks
Before reading TMF , trading stocks was my vehicle to make life-changing money.
In 2018 I came across a book that planted a seed about day traders. I knew nothing about them and started to research them for a few weeks. Web design took most of my focus, trying to figure that out, but I would spend some time on trading and finding more about it.
Over the last 12 months I have been going deeper into the community of successful traders. I've become more committed studying the material and dvds, watching them a multiple times and getting a feel for it.
This month is the first month I've taken the leap from studying to actually trading. Actually it will be next month that will be the first month. This month I signed up for the community, my brokers and the platforms I'm using (the foundation).
I'm not treating this as a get-rich-quick thing. It's more of learning a skill and seeing if I'm any good at it.
Like with web design, I'll share more about trading and what I've found so far in a later post.
-
These two vehicles are what's on my plate right now. I'm open to what happens down the road. Maybe I drop both or I hold onto them and keep riding them. Reading TMF opened my eyes and I'm happy to connected with a group of like-minded people. Thanks for sharing this @MJ DeMarco
My focus is to live on my terms and earn life-changing income over the next couple of year. I'm now 30 and by my late 30's I'd like to be able to retire from the rat race.
I'm going to do my best to be as transparent as possible with my posts. Feel free to ask any questions on anything I mention. I'd love to help out if I have the time or maybe you feel you need to challenge me on my thinking (which I would love to hear).
All in all, I'm happy to be here and looking forward to connecting with the community more.
- Farid
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