Hello,
I’ve always had dreams of owning a business since middle school. I always told everyone, studied business as I grew up and told myself that I would pull the trigger when an opportunity presented itself.
Fast forward to age 27. An opportunity presented itself to open a new restaurant in an area that desperately needed one. After years of trying network marketing, outside sales, retail and numerous other jobs and scams, I finally decided to pull the trigger on it.
I knew that it was going to take a lot of work and I would be a slave to the business for the first year at least, but I had plans to scale it and was excited to get going. Before it even had a chance to open, I found myself in the middle of a divorce between the two other people I went into business with. I wound up with a ton of debt on top of my current student loan debt and eventually decided to file bankruptcy. This was the toughest decision of my life and really set me back mentally for awhile.
Fast forward to today and I am now in a position with a company where I make a salary that covers my bills and some. I was just coasting and loving the slow lane life until I read TMF and it completely shattered my mindset.....for the better. I have since read unscripted as well and now I find myself hating my job everyday and I can’t stand it anymore. Thankfully, I am in a position where I could quit my job entirely and be able to afford the bills with money I have saved for about 2 years. However, I am struggling to actually put that 2 week notice in and begin my entrepreneur journey. I think what is making it the hardest is that I just don’t have 1 idea that I feel is good enough to invest time into yet and make a business out of it.
I will be making a decision very soon, but I feel like I am in a better place than before reading both of MJ’s books. Cheers to the future.
I’ve always had dreams of owning a business since middle school. I always told everyone, studied business as I grew up and told myself that I would pull the trigger when an opportunity presented itself.
Fast forward to age 27. An opportunity presented itself to open a new restaurant in an area that desperately needed one. After years of trying network marketing, outside sales, retail and numerous other jobs and scams, I finally decided to pull the trigger on it.
I knew that it was going to take a lot of work and I would be a slave to the business for the first year at least, but I had plans to scale it and was excited to get going. Before it even had a chance to open, I found myself in the middle of a divorce between the two other people I went into business with. I wound up with a ton of debt on top of my current student loan debt and eventually decided to file bankruptcy. This was the toughest decision of my life and really set me back mentally for awhile.
Fast forward to today and I am now in a position with a company where I make a salary that covers my bills and some. I was just coasting and loving the slow lane life until I read TMF and it completely shattered my mindset.....for the better. I have since read unscripted as well and now I find myself hating my job everyday and I can’t stand it anymore. Thankfully, I am in a position where I could quit my job entirely and be able to afford the bills with money I have saved for about 2 years. However, I am struggling to actually put that 2 week notice in and begin my entrepreneur journey. I think what is making it the hardest is that I just don’t have 1 idea that I feel is good enough to invest time into yet and make a business out of it.
I will be making a decision very soon, but I feel like I am in a better place than before reading both of MJ’s books. Cheers to the future.
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