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My name is Thomas, and I read the Millionaire Fastlane 5 years ago. The fires of entrepreneurship were lit that day. Unfortunately, my personal development was not were it needed to be as I was drinking everyday, not taking responsibility for my actions, and was around some awful people. Sometimes you have to learn life lessons through hard experiences to proceed forward.
I thought that smaller craft beer was so cool and that I was taking on big beer business made me feel like I was doing something right. I started out as a retail employee at a big chain alcohol store. I worked my way up to get a job at a brewery. The 80-100 hour sales weeks that I worked taught me a ton about sales and consumer behavior. Then I switched to a straight commission job at a smaller more boutique distributor as a sales and crushed it by leading a very big team in sales for years.
My "F*ck This" moment would happen shortly after. The company mismanaged inventory and had no idea what its customers wanted. I also felt that I was ripping off my customers every single day which is an awful feeling. Then I realized that all of this fancy alcohol was all the same AND WAS A COMMODITY and not a need. I was not helping people. The people I met in the industry were losers, and I became one of them.
I decided to make a change that day and quit drinking after 7 years of heavy alcohol abuse. For the next 8 months that I was at the job and actively handling/selling alcohol every day, I did not drink. Everyone in the industry laughed at me for not drinking and constantly pressured me to drink. AA was full of life long victims and not for me. I did not care. I took my time making active changes in my life while making money and educating myself. I had to change my entire friend group because my sobriety was not accepted. While everyone else was drunk I was searching everyday for a way out and getting "better" everyday.
Leaving the industry was an amazing feeling. I worked in real estate for 3 month period and did some wholesale deals, but did not have that feeling that I was creating value and helping people. I was still reading and learning everything I could. Eventually I came across the esports (competitive computer gaming) industry and met some cool people trying to change sports entertainment across the globe. Eventually, I started my own business and tried to find my opportunity. After a bunch of changes my last 2 months have been profitable and I have given a ton of value to my clients and helped people.
In one of life's weird twists I started reading Unscripted (almost finished) and was reminded of the Millionaire Fastlane again as well as this forum. I dusted off the book and looked through it again. I saw my notes and re-read a bunch of highlighted pages. Unconsciously, I had been following a bunch of practices from it. That's when the tears hit me hard. I was reminded of that drunk in the alcohol industry that lived in a tiny messy apartment, had social anxiety, was terrified, hated everything, but still wanted more from life. I'm now able to visualize myself telling that lonely person that life gets better if you work on it and that it is ok.
I still have a long way to go with many things to learn and will not stop now.
I thought that smaller craft beer was so cool and that I was taking on big beer business made me feel like I was doing something right. I started out as a retail employee at a big chain alcohol store. I worked my way up to get a job at a brewery. The 80-100 hour sales weeks that I worked taught me a ton about sales and consumer behavior. Then I switched to a straight commission job at a smaller more boutique distributor as a sales and crushed it by leading a very big team in sales for years.
My "F*ck This" moment would happen shortly after. The company mismanaged inventory and had no idea what its customers wanted. I also felt that I was ripping off my customers every single day which is an awful feeling. Then I realized that all of this fancy alcohol was all the same AND WAS A COMMODITY and not a need. I was not helping people. The people I met in the industry were losers, and I became one of them.
I decided to make a change that day and quit drinking after 7 years of heavy alcohol abuse. For the next 8 months that I was at the job and actively handling/selling alcohol every day, I did not drink. Everyone in the industry laughed at me for not drinking and constantly pressured me to drink. AA was full of life long victims and not for me. I did not care. I took my time making active changes in my life while making money and educating myself. I had to change my entire friend group because my sobriety was not accepted. While everyone else was drunk I was searching everyday for a way out and getting "better" everyday.
Leaving the industry was an amazing feeling. I worked in real estate for 3 month period and did some wholesale deals, but did not have that feeling that I was creating value and helping people. I was still reading and learning everything I could. Eventually I came across the esports (competitive computer gaming) industry and met some cool people trying to change sports entertainment across the globe. Eventually, I started my own business and tried to find my opportunity. After a bunch of changes my last 2 months have been profitable and I have given a ton of value to my clients and helped people.
In one of life's weird twists I started reading Unscripted (almost finished) and was reminded of the Millionaire Fastlane again as well as this forum. I dusted off the book and looked through it again. I saw my notes and re-read a bunch of highlighted pages. Unconsciously, I had been following a bunch of practices from it. That's when the tears hit me hard. I was reminded of that drunk in the alcohol industry that lived in a tiny messy apartment, had social anxiety, was terrified, hated everything, but still wanted more from life. I'm now able to visualize myself telling that lonely person that life gets better if you work on it and that it is ok.
I still have a long way to go with many things to learn and will not stop now.
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