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Hi guys, my name is Eyal and I'm thrilled to join your community.
I've had anything but a conventional- or scripted- lifestyle. I grew up moving house to house (16x to be exact) over the course of my youth. My parents were house-flippers. I never had any extra-curricular's and I was always a crappy student except for the few courses that interested me. Hell, I never made it through high school. Then one day a girl got me into my first organized extra-curricular, competitive ballroom dancing. Very out there I know, but it was such a different experience to be in an organized environment where teachers "cared" about me and showed me a systematic method of self development and learning. It was from this that I was able to start believing I can make changes and ultimately be in control of my life. I started working with a trainer at the gym at a pretty young age and had such incredible results after 6 months that they were echoed to me. I'd bump into friends who I haven't seen in months and they wouldn't believe I wasn't on steroids lol.
Growing up I always rejected everything the teachers at schools would teach me. All the scripted perceptions of success. I remember my guidance councilor in a comforting tone explain to me that it's okay if I don't want to or can't do the work at school. There's a lot of jobs for people who don't want or can't go to post graduate school. There's always a need in society for construction workers and so on.
I've had so many types of jobs (just-over-broke) that I gained so much interesting experience from them as well as perception. I saw the faces of those who have succumbed to the realities of scripted life, the demeanor of "I give up, there's nothing else". I remember one year even taking on a summer job in construction, for all the opposite reason of what I was recommended for though lol. I was in a state of perpetual self-challenge. I was in the gym with my trainer 4 days a week, I was practicing 2-4 hours a day of competitive dance with my dance-partner and I want to up my physical game so I'd start every morning demolishing a house (with my shirt off in the blazing summer of course) from 6am - 2pm.
I've been reeled into the MLM world of WFG (World Financial Group) where despite the frowned upon model, I learned really interesting things in sales and boot camps and how the mind works in that respect.
So why am I here, on this forum, currently reading UNSCRIPTED .
I've what many in the world would say have had great success in the ballroom dance industry, what champions in my industry would consider a great failure. More importantly than all, what I consider in one perspective view as a success, and what I still consider an incomplete action to the goal, therefore it ended with mixed feelings. To be clear on an international scale my wife and I made it to the top 75 in the world of over 300+ couples and top 48 in the rising star. My wife, who has an MBA in business at one point had enough and took a great opportunity for herself as a director of marketing. We moved to Montreal for her to take on the job (She's originally from there and had moved to Toronto to dance with me). As for myself I find myself in a new city, not making almost any income, spending 4.5 hours each morning in a class learning french, and importantly above all else, unable to identify who I am anymore. I was once a dancer in a niche industry, at a high national and international level, now I can hardly find work, I cannot continue competing with another woman due very much to the nature of the dance style and mentally circling ideas of re-skilling and re-educating myself. Thoughts of GED swam to my mind with extreme dread.
I've known that I will never be the slowearner, the sidewalker, I MUST do whatever it takes to win at this competition called life. I must own mine by any means. I will learn whatever skills I need, endure any pain or discomfort necessary, adopt whatever mindset and direction of thought necessary. I will bring value to this world, I will bring something the world absolutely needs and I will share my journey of failure and ultimately success as I come across it, with all of you. I also hope that along my journey your advice, your documentations of your success and failure, will aide me on my quest to claim discover and bring to the world the actual values that I know I can and must deliver.
Also I am bad at keeping things brief and there's tons of gaps in my story from one thing to the next, happy to fill them in for anyone with any questions. Naturally, very thrilled to receive recommendations or advice!
Best,
Eyal
I've had anything but a conventional- or scripted- lifestyle. I grew up moving house to house (16x to be exact) over the course of my youth. My parents were house-flippers. I never had any extra-curricular's and I was always a crappy student except for the few courses that interested me. Hell, I never made it through high school. Then one day a girl got me into my first organized extra-curricular, competitive ballroom dancing. Very out there I know, but it was such a different experience to be in an organized environment where teachers "cared" about me and showed me a systematic method of self development and learning. It was from this that I was able to start believing I can make changes and ultimately be in control of my life. I started working with a trainer at the gym at a pretty young age and had such incredible results after 6 months that they were echoed to me. I'd bump into friends who I haven't seen in months and they wouldn't believe I wasn't on steroids lol.
Growing up I always rejected everything the teachers at schools would teach me. All the scripted perceptions of success. I remember my guidance councilor in a comforting tone explain to me that it's okay if I don't want to or can't do the work at school. There's a lot of jobs for people who don't want or can't go to post graduate school. There's always a need in society for construction workers and so on.
I've had so many types of jobs (just-over-broke) that I gained so much interesting experience from them as well as perception. I saw the faces of those who have succumbed to the realities of scripted life, the demeanor of "I give up, there's nothing else". I remember one year even taking on a summer job in construction, for all the opposite reason of what I was recommended for though lol. I was in a state of perpetual self-challenge. I was in the gym with my trainer 4 days a week, I was practicing 2-4 hours a day of competitive dance with my dance-partner and I want to up my physical game so I'd start every morning demolishing a house (with my shirt off in the blazing summer of course) from 6am - 2pm.
I've been reeled into the MLM world of WFG (World Financial Group) where despite the frowned upon model, I learned really interesting things in sales and boot camps and how the mind works in that respect.
So why am I here, on this forum, currently reading UNSCRIPTED .
I've what many in the world would say have had great success in the ballroom dance industry, what champions in my industry would consider a great failure. More importantly than all, what I consider in one perspective view as a success, and what I still consider an incomplete action to the goal, therefore it ended with mixed feelings. To be clear on an international scale my wife and I made it to the top 75 in the world of over 300+ couples and top 48 in the rising star. My wife, who has an MBA in business at one point had enough and took a great opportunity for herself as a director of marketing. We moved to Montreal for her to take on the job (She's originally from there and had moved to Toronto to dance with me). As for myself I find myself in a new city, not making almost any income, spending 4.5 hours each morning in a class learning french, and importantly above all else, unable to identify who I am anymore. I was once a dancer in a niche industry, at a high national and international level, now I can hardly find work, I cannot continue competing with another woman due very much to the nature of the dance style and mentally circling ideas of re-skilling and re-educating myself. Thoughts of GED swam to my mind with extreme dread.
I've known that I will never be the slowearner, the sidewalker, I MUST do whatever it takes to win at this competition called life. I must own mine by any means. I will learn whatever skills I need, endure any pain or discomfort necessary, adopt whatever mindset and direction of thought necessary. I will bring value to this world, I will bring something the world absolutely needs and I will share my journey of failure and ultimately success as I come across it, with all of you. I also hope that along my journey your advice, your documentations of your success and failure, will aide me on my quest to claim discover and bring to the world the actual values that I know I can and must deliver.
Also I am bad at keeping things brief and there's tons of gaps in my story from one thing to the next, happy to fill them in for anyone with any questions. Naturally, very thrilled to receive recommendations or advice!
Best,
Eyal
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