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Hey everybody,
I'm a 20 year old guy who is about to finish up community college in a couple months, and then skip university... but there is one issue...
My plan for the past 7 months has been to learn copywriting and freelance... so I have been following Gary Halbert's "hands on experience" course. It took me about 4 months to finish up the 8 or so books he recommended, and I am about halfway through re-reading them and taking useful notes (all while reading other books on productivity/psychology/useful stuff + part time college student).
My work ethic and "grind by myself" ability is alright, but the issue is that I haven't taken action. That's my weakness-- I need to take action and start forcing my goals!
Anyway, some days ago I saw somebody who I greatly respect recommend The Millionaire Fastlane , and I started reading it, and here I am.
If I'm being honest, I feel a bit "out of my element" here. I've always been more of a creative dude... my earliest memories were of drawing, and everybody knows me as "the art guy". One of the biggest value-defining moments in my life was appreciating the amazing artist called Endless Jess--one of the craziest, most brutally honest and creatively uncompromising dudes I've seen. I got artistic integrity and creativity ingrained in my bones.
Yet, the weird thing is that my life has mostly been defined by me suppressing my core values and forcing myself to do what I need to do. I hated school (cause it represented mediocrity to me) and was super depressed for my beginning highschool years... but then forced myself to change my mindset and attitudes. I dropped art and became Mr. Social-- and it worked beautifully!
The same thing happened when college started, then when I discovered freelancing and copywriting-- I just changed my mindset to "everything in the world is art if done well enough. Thus I can enjoy anything the same way I enjoy art: so why not specialize in the things that will make me the most money?"
And now I joined The Fastlane forum. This forum might actually be the polar opposite of how I used to view the world lmao. Yet, in a way, it's almost the same. Like two ends of a horseshoe... sometimes opposite extremes attract (that's an Endless Jess line
).
Anyway, when it comes to that issue I mentioned-- that I'm not taking action-- what I need to do is make "getting money" (edit: giving value) mine. What I mean is, I need to make it a key part of my ego... a key part of my values, my identity. I've gotten pretty good at a lot of things, but mostly random, not-useful stuff. The only real useful thing that I massively improved at in a small amount of time was socializing... because I deliberately changed how I viewed myself (to become a social person).
So maybe I just need to become Mr. Money (Mr. Gives Value) and completely take the plunge.
Anyway, that's my mostly incoherent intro post. Glad to be here
I'm a 20 year old guy who is about to finish up community college in a couple months, and then skip university... but there is one issue...
My plan for the past 7 months has been to learn copywriting and freelance... so I have been following Gary Halbert's "hands on experience" course. It took me about 4 months to finish up the 8 or so books he recommended, and I am about halfway through re-reading them and taking useful notes (all while reading other books on productivity/psychology/useful stuff + part time college student).
My work ethic and "grind by myself" ability is alright, but the issue is that I haven't taken action. That's my weakness-- I need to take action and start forcing my goals!
Anyway, some days ago I saw somebody who I greatly respect recommend The Millionaire Fastlane , and I started reading it, and here I am.
If I'm being honest, I feel a bit "out of my element" here. I've always been more of a creative dude... my earliest memories were of drawing, and everybody knows me as "the art guy". One of the biggest value-defining moments in my life was appreciating the amazing artist called Endless Jess--one of the craziest, most brutally honest and creatively uncompromising dudes I've seen. I got artistic integrity and creativity ingrained in my bones.
Yet, the weird thing is that my life has mostly been defined by me suppressing my core values and forcing myself to do what I need to do. I hated school (cause it represented mediocrity to me) and was super depressed for my beginning highschool years... but then forced myself to change my mindset and attitudes. I dropped art and became Mr. Social-- and it worked beautifully!
The same thing happened when college started, then when I discovered freelancing and copywriting-- I just changed my mindset to "everything in the world is art if done well enough. Thus I can enjoy anything the same way I enjoy art: so why not specialize in the things that will make me the most money?"
And now I joined The Fastlane forum. This forum might actually be the polar opposite of how I used to view the world lmao. Yet, in a way, it's almost the same. Like two ends of a horseshoe... sometimes opposite extremes attract (that's an Endless Jess line
).Anyway, when it comes to that issue I mentioned-- that I'm not taking action-- what I need to do is make "getting money" (edit: giving value) mine. What I mean is, I need to make it a key part of my ego... a key part of my values, my identity. I've gotten pretty good at a lot of things, but mostly random, not-useful stuff. The only real useful thing that I massively improved at in a small amount of time was socializing... because I deliberately changed how I viewed myself (to become a social person).
So maybe I just need to become Mr. Money (Mr. Gives Value) and completely take the plunge.
Anyway, that's my mostly incoherent intro post. Glad to be here
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