I read Fastlane Millionaire several months ago and like many it was a wonderful course correction and FUMA (fire under my a$$). I read Unscripted immediately after and recently have been listening to the audiobooks during exercise.
I love the unabashed honesty that @MJ DeMarco delivers.
Finally, after several months I decided to actively join this forum.
So far? It's f*cking awesome.
I've always loved entrepreneurial communities and this forum seems by in large to be filled with successful and aspiring entrepreneurs. There's a quote that captures my sentimentality for the people and posts I've gone through so far:
I'm due to leave my job in about 1.5 months and focus on fastlane full-time for no less than a year. I've got my LLC, products, lead list, website, all that jazz.
My profile explains a lot of the why, I'll put in a quote box so you can read it if you want to. Though, it is kind of long.
Suffice it to say, I've been after it for a couple of months now and I'm stoked for the wisdom and grateful for the common mindset shared across this forum. In only a couple of days, I can tell that I've barely scratched the surface.
I'm always open to discussion, arguing, brainstorming, etc.
Looking forward to having company on this journey of mine.
If you're seasoned, *high five*
If you're new, *high five*
If you have some questions regarding software engineering/website building/etc that's my day job and I'm happy to offer perspective.
Let's get on it!
I love the unabashed honesty that @MJ DeMarco delivers.
Finally, after several months I decided to actively join this forum.
So far? It's f*cking awesome.
I've always loved entrepreneurial communities and this forum seems by in large to be filled with successful and aspiring entrepreneurs. There's a quote that captures my sentimentality for the people and posts I've gone through so far:
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” - Jack Kerouac
I'm due to leave my job in about 1.5 months and focus on fastlane full-time for no less than a year. I've got my LLC, products, lead list, website, all that jazz.
My profile explains a lot of the why, I'll put in a quote box so you can read it if you want to. Though, it is kind of long.
I grew up in a hicktown to a loving family that straddled the sidewalk and the slowlane.
After my dad lost his job, it was missed meals and poverty and I had my first FTE - I decided in the 8th grade while working a fruit factory line (terrible, terrible job) to go to an Ivy League and go for free. Shit education be damned, financial impossibility be damned, odds be damned.
8 Years Later, I'm the proud owner of an Ivy League degree (C's and B's get Degrees!), have almost no debt (will be clear by my birthday this year), have started (and failed/killed) 5 companies through college, and was out of the gates with a coveted Software Engineering Job at an awesome company.
"That's nice, so what have you done lately?"
I've been working at my job, aggressively attacking my debt, saving, helping family where and when I could. The salary was great, the co-workers awesome, the company wonderful as a whole.
But the shoe doesn't fit. The cushy life of a Software Engineer has me firmly planted in the Slowlane. After a couple of years, finding Fastlane, a spur of the moment YC interview, and meeting someone on a plane who was young and FI, I realized just how jaded and unhappy I was with my current situation.
It was uncomfortable to try and complain about how my 'awesome' life wasn't in my eyes. No one, outside of entrepreneurial circles, could fathom how a 6-figure a year salary, 6 days o' slavery a week life could be looked on with such scorn.
Fast forward to today... my last day is Jan 01, 2019. I have my LLC, website, products, an 8000 call lead list that I generated myself, and a raging focus on wealth generation.
None of what I want in life comes without freedom. None of it comes without wealth. None of it comes on the Slowlane (no matter how soft and cushy the ride).
Why Do You Want It?
Because I want to pay my parent's mortgage.
Because I want to be an investor and to breathe life, advice, and money into the brilliant and zany ideas of others.
Because I want to start a private aerospace company.
Because I want to be able to travel anywhere in the world with my family and friends and not worry.
Because I want to be able to comfortably and painlessly support a family (should I opt for that route) and still have nice things.
Because F*** Slavery
Because I will do better.
Because the slowlane, no matter how well traveled, under no circumstances intersects with my aspirations.
Because producers create value in the world for others and push the human race forward.
Because I can and I will
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This works one and only one way.
So f*ck it, I'm all in on this. I'm going to succeed at Fastlane Financial Freedom or I'm going to die trying. No exceptions. No giving up. No bullshit.
Suffice it to say, I've been after it for a couple of months now and I'm stoked for the wisdom and grateful for the common mindset shared across this forum. In only a couple of days, I can tell that I've barely scratched the surface.
I'm always open to discussion, arguing, brainstorming, etc.
Looking forward to having company on this journey of mine.
If you're seasoned, *high five*
If you're new, *high five*
If you have some questions regarding software engineering/website building/etc that's my day job and I'm happy to offer perspective.
Let's get on it!
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