Good morning from Greece,
I apologize in advance for the length of this post and my English. I will share with you my journey so far and the lessons I learned trying to build an online business in year one.
I had my first "F*ck this" event at age 25 in 2013. It was another shitty day in my job doing meaningless work when I realized that I hate what I am doing. I imagined myself doing the same thing for another 35 years and I was terrified.
Nevertheless, my mind managed to protect the status quo: “there is no better option”, “you should be grateful for your situation”, “Greece is the worst country to start a business”, etc.
After a few days I couldn’t find a better way to earn my living so I went back to the script and continued to live yolo: Eating and drinking a lot, seducing one beautiful woman after another and traveling with cheap tickets the world.
Three years later, in 2016, my stress skyrocketed. I couldn’t rest, I realized that I was a slave.
When you don’t control your income, you are a slave and have no real choices.
The thought that I don’t control my destiny made me insane and I began to read books on entrepreneurship. I hoped to find answers and for the first time in my life I have started to believe that it may exist a way.
So, I kept reading and reading one book after another and some months later I had in my hands the Millionaire Fastlane ! F*ck!!! I couldn’t understand everything from the book (my English was very bad then) but the book was a revelation!
The first time in my life I saw that I can escape my fate. The Millionaire Fastlane was the first book that spoke about mathematics, not some fancy theories or MLM.
After finishing the book, I joined the Fastlane forum at the beginning of 2017 and read every post from MJ DeMarco.
Now my a$$ was really on fire. I couldn’t wait anymore. I needed some real word experience in the online business. Nobody has ever learned to swim reading about it, but where should I start?
Everything looks so chaotic when you are new to this.
The first thing I realized was that I should make my first project in my native language (my English was really bad).
But where should I start? What can I offer to the world that is in need?
Then it hit me! I tried to write a book about dating but never finished it. I was great in finding and dating new women and a lot of men are looking for dating advise online.
It is already done, thus there is definitely a market for it. I will make a website, write some blog posts, write my book and sell it, I thought.
And so I began my journey in the online business world and it was not so easy as expected!
Money was scarce so I did the most by myself. My first task was to make a website. Shit!!! How the hell do I make a website??? It seemed like learning Chinese to me (no offense to our Chinese members).
The only things that I know so far about the internet are to watch movies, to play games, listen to music and to hang out on Facebook!
Fortunately, with the help of a good friend I managed to create my first WordPress site. I was so excited… and then horrified.
I learned that I must drive traffic to my site, write good content, learn SEO, copywriting, design my website, make a logo, find good images etc. and finish my book. Shit, I was overwhelmed!
Additionally, I couldn’t find any valuable information in my language. Therefore I understand that I must improve my English and fast! Shit…
I had my job that consumed 10 hours per day, thus there was little time to do all this.
Nevertheless I had made a choice to become a millionaire and when you make a choice you must find a way, there is no way back.
I changed a lot of my old habits to be more productive. I rarely left the house and have done everything possible to work more on my online project.
The first great change that happened was that I had less and less in common with my old friends. The most of them thought that I am crazy and that I am wasting my time.
Fortunately, I have learned not to give a F*ck about what other people think. The only person that I wanted to believe in me was my finance. I had I hard time to convince her that this could work, but after a few months she saw how determined I was and supported me totally.
I worked like crazy and a few months later I realized that it will take me another 99 years to become financially independent. I have done everything possible, lost 10 kilos from exhaustion, but nevertheless the process was going to slow… really slow.
The main problem was my stressful job. It consumed the biggest and best portion of my time. In addition, I worked in shifts, so I had to deal with insomnia problems very often.
To quit my job right now was not a choice. I provided around 70% of the housings income and with unemployment to the roof in Greece there were not really good alternatives. Shit…
But the must be a way. I must find a solution.
I thought about it for a while… and decided the best thing to do is to be transferred from the capital in a rural area in Greece. In these areas there is low criminality and the day is not very demanding for a police officer.
We talked with my finance about that. She was really upset to leave her family, relatives, and friends but decided we should try it.
I applied for a transfer and I was moved to a small island. She quit her job and followed me a week after.
The beginning of our new life was very relieved for me. I worked less, had fewer responsibilities and more free time! I used every minute I had to finish my book and grow my website.
In this time Unscripted was released! I bought the book and I fell in love with it. I read it twice and from now on I read some pages every night before I go to bet. This way I am staying focused on my path.
Until the first months of 2018 I managed to finish my book at 55.000 words, write some good articles for my website, and improve my English.
A year later, and after all this hard work I sold 3 copies of my book and made my first 15$ online. And these 3 copies were bought from friends so I think my real profit is 0!
This is not exactly what I was hoping for bud I don’t care… I will stick to my path, try and fail again and again and again until I succeed. Until I am financial free...
Because when you make a choice there is no way back.
I apologize in advance for the length of this post and my English. I will share with you my journey so far and the lessons I learned trying to build an online business in year one.
I had my first "F*ck this" event at age 25 in 2013. It was another shitty day in my job doing meaningless work when I realized that I hate what I am doing. I imagined myself doing the same thing for another 35 years and I was terrified.
Nevertheless, my mind managed to protect the status quo: “there is no better option”, “you should be grateful for your situation”, “Greece is the worst country to start a business”, etc.
After a few days I couldn’t find a better way to earn my living so I went back to the script and continued to live yolo: Eating and drinking a lot, seducing one beautiful woman after another and traveling with cheap tickets the world.
Three years later, in 2016, my stress skyrocketed. I couldn’t rest, I realized that I was a slave.
When you don’t control your income, you are a slave and have no real choices.
The thought that I don’t control my destiny made me insane and I began to read books on entrepreneurship. I hoped to find answers and for the first time in my life I have started to believe that it may exist a way.
So, I kept reading and reading one book after another and some months later I had in my hands the Millionaire Fastlane ! F*ck!!! I couldn’t understand everything from the book (my English was very bad then) but the book was a revelation!
The first time in my life I saw that I can escape my fate. The Millionaire Fastlane was the first book that spoke about mathematics, not some fancy theories or MLM.
After finishing the book, I joined the Fastlane forum at the beginning of 2017 and read every post from MJ DeMarco.
Now my a$$ was really on fire. I couldn’t wait anymore. I needed some real word experience in the online business. Nobody has ever learned to swim reading about it, but where should I start?
Everything looks so chaotic when you are new to this.
The first thing I realized was that I should make my first project in my native language (my English was really bad).
But where should I start? What can I offer to the world that is in need?
Then it hit me! I tried to write a book about dating but never finished it. I was great in finding and dating new women and a lot of men are looking for dating advise online.
It is already done, thus there is definitely a market for it. I will make a website, write some blog posts, write my book and sell it, I thought.
And so I began my journey in the online business world and it was not so easy as expected!
Money was scarce so I did the most by myself. My first task was to make a website. Shit!!! How the hell do I make a website??? It seemed like learning Chinese to me (no offense to our Chinese members).
The only things that I know so far about the internet are to watch movies, to play games, listen to music and to hang out on Facebook!
Fortunately, with the help of a good friend I managed to create my first WordPress site. I was so excited… and then horrified.
I learned that I must drive traffic to my site, write good content, learn SEO, copywriting, design my website, make a logo, find good images etc. and finish my book. Shit, I was overwhelmed!
Additionally, I couldn’t find any valuable information in my language. Therefore I understand that I must improve my English and fast! Shit…
I had my job that consumed 10 hours per day, thus there was little time to do all this.
Nevertheless I had made a choice to become a millionaire and when you make a choice you must find a way, there is no way back.
I changed a lot of my old habits to be more productive. I rarely left the house and have done everything possible to work more on my online project.
The first great change that happened was that I had less and less in common with my old friends. The most of them thought that I am crazy and that I am wasting my time.
Fortunately, I have learned not to give a F*ck about what other people think. The only person that I wanted to believe in me was my finance. I had I hard time to convince her that this could work, but after a few months she saw how determined I was and supported me totally.
I worked like crazy and a few months later I realized that it will take me another 99 years to become financially independent. I have done everything possible, lost 10 kilos from exhaustion, but nevertheless the process was going to slow… really slow.
The main problem was my stressful job. It consumed the biggest and best portion of my time. In addition, I worked in shifts, so I had to deal with insomnia problems very often.
To quit my job right now was not a choice. I provided around 70% of the housings income and with unemployment to the roof in Greece there were not really good alternatives. Shit…
But the must be a way. I must find a solution.
I thought about it for a while… and decided the best thing to do is to be transferred from the capital in a rural area in Greece. In these areas there is low criminality and the day is not very demanding for a police officer.
We talked with my finance about that. She was really upset to leave her family, relatives, and friends but decided we should try it.
I applied for a transfer and I was moved to a small island. She quit her job and followed me a week after.
The beginning of our new life was very relieved for me. I worked less, had fewer responsibilities and more free time! I used every minute I had to finish my book and grow my website.
In this time Unscripted was released! I bought the book and I fell in love with it. I read it twice and from now on I read some pages every night before I go to bet. This way I am staying focused on my path.
Until the first months of 2018 I managed to finish my book at 55.000 words, write some good articles for my website, and improve my English.
A year later, and after all this hard work I sold 3 copies of my book and made my first 15$ online. And these 3 copies were bought from friends so I think my real profit is 0!
This is not exactly what I was hoping for bud I don’t care… I will stick to my path, try and fail again and again and again until I succeed. Until I am financial free...
Because when you make a choice there is no way back.
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