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Actually I'm from Europe but I've been living in Chicago past 7 years.
I've been lurking here for some time and I think it's about time to introduce myself.
The Millionaire Fastlane was a real eye opener for me, it perfectly put together things I'd known from personal experience with some ideas so obvious that I had to slap my forehead wondering how it had never occurred to me.
The book made me realize that I was born for the fast lane I just never had a road map! I never really saw myself working for someone for the rest of my life, I never cared about saving for retirement and I always tried to save money for more important things like starting my own business or moving overseas. I'm fast learner and I excelled in every job I had (I'm not bragging here, I'm just trying to honestly evaluate my strengths and weaknesses here). I'm also a risk taker. 7 years ago I turned down an amazing job opportunity, salary that was 4 times higher than average in my country and decided to come to USA instead, country where I'd known nobody, armed only with basic knowledge of English and ready to do any menial job until I finally find my road to success.
So I went from a delivery driver to a shift manager. I didn't like it so I quit and started driving a cab. I saved money and started my own business which I now realize was somebody else's fastlane. I've made many mistakes along the way.
I had a taste of a dream coming true, at least for a little while. Just like MJ had a dream of owning a Lambo some day, I had a dream of owning an E46 coupe. You don't seem many Lambo's in my country but BMW 330Ci was a car I drooled over as a kid and thought I would never be able to afford it. at the time buying a 16K car for cash was a little victory for me. I few years later I lost the car when my girlfriend left me. we split everything we owned together and she got to keep the car while I kept bigger chunk of our savings. it was a hard decision to make because I loved my car but I had this business going and I needed money to invest in it.
then everything went straight to hell! the business failed, I got married, my wife got sick and stopped working, savings disappeared, credit cards got maxed up and I stopped paying them... Just like that I ended up driving a cab 12-16 hours a day just to pay my bills. but I needed this failure to wake me up, to give me a push in the right direction to throw me out of my comfort zone.
then I came up with a great business idea! it's very simple and original, cheap, scalable, there is need for it and there is hardly any competition. while researching ways to bring my idea to life and ways to market it I discovered MJ's book and that was much needed confirmation that I'm on the right track.
the only problem is TIME. I need time to learn necessary skills to bring my idea to life and at this point my life is basically work-eat-sleep. even when I have some free time I'm so exhausted that I can't even think straight. I guess I'm asking for advice here, I don't know. My eyes are shutting down as I type this and I don't know why I needed to write my biography as introduction. I just wanted to say hi.
sorry for the long post, I'm going to knock out...
I've been lurking here for some time and I think it's about time to introduce myself.
The Millionaire Fastlane was a real eye opener for me, it perfectly put together things I'd known from personal experience with some ideas so obvious that I had to slap my forehead wondering how it had never occurred to me.
The book made me realize that I was born for the fast lane I just never had a road map! I never really saw myself working for someone for the rest of my life, I never cared about saving for retirement and I always tried to save money for more important things like starting my own business or moving overseas. I'm fast learner and I excelled in every job I had (I'm not bragging here, I'm just trying to honestly evaluate my strengths and weaknesses here). I'm also a risk taker. 7 years ago I turned down an amazing job opportunity, salary that was 4 times higher than average in my country and decided to come to USA instead, country where I'd known nobody, armed only with basic knowledge of English and ready to do any menial job until I finally find my road to success.
So I went from a delivery driver to a shift manager. I didn't like it so I quit and started driving a cab. I saved money and started my own business which I now realize was somebody else's fastlane. I've made many mistakes along the way.
I had a taste of a dream coming true, at least for a little while. Just like MJ had a dream of owning a Lambo some day, I had a dream of owning an E46 coupe. You don't seem many Lambo's in my country but BMW 330Ci was a car I drooled over as a kid and thought I would never be able to afford it. at the time buying a 16K car for cash was a little victory for me. I few years later I lost the car when my girlfriend left me. we split everything we owned together and she got to keep the car while I kept bigger chunk of our savings. it was a hard decision to make because I loved my car but I had this business going and I needed money to invest in it.
then everything went straight to hell! the business failed, I got married, my wife got sick and stopped working, savings disappeared, credit cards got maxed up and I stopped paying them... Just like that I ended up driving a cab 12-16 hours a day just to pay my bills. but I needed this failure to wake me up, to give me a push in the right direction to throw me out of my comfort zone.
then I came up with a great business idea! it's very simple and original, cheap, scalable, there is need for it and there is hardly any competition. while researching ways to bring my idea to life and ways to market it I discovered MJ's book and that was much needed confirmation that I'm on the right track.
the only problem is TIME. I need time to learn necessary skills to bring my idea to life and at this point my life is basically work-eat-sleep. even when I have some free time I'm so exhausted that I can't even think straight. I guess I'm asking for advice here, I don't know. My eyes are shutting down as I type this and I don't know why I needed to write my biography as introduction. I just wanted to say hi.
sorry for the long post, I'm going to knock out...
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