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Motivations
Procrastination, and continuously desensitized motivation is my biggest vice right now!
I absolutely hate the fact that, with all this ambition, drive, and extroversion, I am succumbed to being nonsensically tired, and pathless, way too often!
The Fastlane Millionaire makes sense!
I've never been under the impression that a salary, 9-5, cubicle job was ever going to build wealth. Furthermore, I've always been keen on the 'passion to perform', following what I enjoyed doing, rather than going with the social norm.
From Introvert to Passion-Oriented Exec
I am 23, a college graduate, living in Toronto with a serious ambition of becoming successful!
Graduating highschool with honors, and the highest grades being in biology and chemistry, my father thought it would make sense to go to college for science in September of 2006.
In the first month of school, I had the 'belief that women loved to dance', so I started my own salsa dance club in school (non-paid), with the purpose of meeting women (university girls)!
This actually taught me some fundamental knowledge on direct marketing (person to person), social media marketing, public relations, and leadership.
2 years of college science later, I failed, and dropped out of the program... choosing this program was based on an assumption that I would be good at it, without ever actually enjoying it.
So I switched to a computer systems program in September of 2008, for 2 more years (based on a hobby, and intuition).
Taught salsa for 2 more years, and ended up teaching easily 400+ students at least the basics, developed an 8-person exec, learned how to make websites, an audio commercial, and ultimately became really suave with women. The level of experience in having your own team is absolutely immense!
The Tear-Jerking 9-5 rat-race
Then did 1 more year of Business studies during a time that seemed like a huge vacation (the course work was a joke). During this time, I was introduced to the 'Forex' investment world, and this shot me into a HUGE tangent of being self-employed! Manual trading, into automated trading, into researching, and researching, into finally, losing a cool $4,000 of government loan money within 4 months (not the whole loan)...
Upon graduating in January 2011 (with 5 years under my belt), right out of the gate, I managed to score an internship at one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies as an I.T. monkey with a really great wage! I did everything right during the interview. Studied, interviewed, called back to thank them, and bam, got the job!
Yet, this was a real eye-opener. The employees here were making easily something in the low 6-digits, yet were unhappy... couple that with doing seemingly pointless work... and tons of coding (which I learned to hate) I had enough!
After my 4 months were over, I jumped into my first job at a small I.T. company that just had major lay-offs. During the interview, it seemed like I was the perfect candidate! Everything was great! Then one month into the job, I realized that 'coding' was a HUGE element of my work... something I now realized that I hated to a really high degree (what took me 2 days, took my computer-science co-workers 5 minutes).
The Forex Bandwagon Vacation
Now, during the last 5 months (internship + 1 month on the new job), I was STILL in the forex investment world. I thought I had finally found the right system! This time I was investing my internship money, and this time around, everything was working relatively well (imagine earning a nice 20%+ compounded/month on your invesment, every month).
So I quit my job after only 1 month, and went to the beach, and just... well... relaxed, and Premium23 was born! Day after day, month after month, I would wake up, earn about 1-5% on my investment, and just go out and enjoy myself.
Learning how to pick up women became one of my biggest achievements. I became incredibly amazing at it (pushed myself really hard). Couple this with warm sunny weather, a great positive personality, and a cash-flow that magically created itself... I thought this was the way to go... a time investment... millionaire no time!
The plan was to take my system, find investors, get them to invest, I would take the 20/2 (20% of profits, 2% management fee), and scale had been reached!
After developing the entire front-end (accounting practices, website, IT-backbone, legalities, marketing content), I went to my first major investor! Everything was great, he was ready to invest!
And then it happened (just like any ridiculous cliche!). Literally, the same day I met the investor (end of September 2011), the market hit me... HARD! My summer profits had completely disappeared! Gone! Like a sharp knife to your gut, the market (rather the broker), took it all back! I was left with only initial investment, and a good 4 months of absolutely no income!
At this point I had to take a long, meditated look at the whole process of the markets, and decided it was time to take my remaining chips and leave. I had small loses during the summer, but this really put the nail in the coffin. I thought I was out.
Listen Carefully to What They Say
October 2011 came and out of the blue, I met this older fella who said he wanted me to be his I.T. guy for startups. He was really impressed at what I had achieved with my forex business (system, front-end, backend, etc) He would be an investor, and pay me a cool $4,000/month, get me an awesome office space, even provide networks!
Wow... only days after losing it all, so I jumped at the opportunity, and we started meeting casually to discuss his ideas.
October passes, and we continue to meet into November 2011, then something starts to smell fishy. I get warning signs that this dude may not be the real deal. No money has been paid yet to myself. I start pushing harder for payment, and finally by the end of November, this dude disappears, and his entire facade (smoke and mirrors) fades. He was just some dude waiting to cash in on a major billion-dollar investment, yet got nothing from it.
He even had the audacity to berate me with negative nonsense, despite my nonchalant attitude.
Re-Assessments and Business Potential
My first experience with this kind of behaviour, but definitely a learning experience. During this time, I did not sit on the side-lines. Early november, during my first hint of fishiness, I decided it was time to revamp my abilities, and re-brand, and create my product-line.
Creating websites using CMS-systems was a breeze, and I always knew that someone, somewhere out there had no idea, and didn't want to know, but simply wanted someone to do it for them. So my site became a web-solutions business.
A very slow trickle of referential business has started coming in, yet most of my finances are tied in credit-card debt (absolutely evil!). I have lowered my financial spending, yet still enjoy life when I can. My nights are spent in debauchery, yet my days are spent working, and learning.
Goal
As stated at the top, my goal with this thread, is to get things back in gear! To internalize what I have learned, and repower myself. I will be successful! I know it. There is no doubt.
My plan is to find that idea, the 'effection' idea. The idea that will reach at least several hundred thousand people, and provide a conversion. The idea that will develop a successful brand. The idea that provides a recurring income, month after month, and provides high relative value to the customer.
My name is Leonidas, and I would like to thank you for reading my journal.
Procrastination, and continuously desensitized motivation is my biggest vice right now!
I absolutely hate the fact that, with all this ambition, drive, and extroversion, I am succumbed to being nonsensically tired, and pathless, way too often!
The Fastlane Millionaire makes sense!
I've never been under the impression that a salary, 9-5, cubicle job was ever going to build wealth. Furthermore, I've always been keen on the 'passion to perform', following what I enjoyed doing, rather than going with the social norm.
From Introvert to Passion-Oriented Exec
I am 23, a college graduate, living in Toronto with a serious ambition of becoming successful!
Graduating highschool with honors, and the highest grades being in biology and chemistry, my father thought it would make sense to go to college for science in September of 2006.
In the first month of school, I had the 'belief that women loved to dance', so I started my own salsa dance club in school (non-paid), with the purpose of meeting women (university girls)!
This actually taught me some fundamental knowledge on direct marketing (person to person), social media marketing, public relations, and leadership.
2 years of college science later, I failed, and dropped out of the program... choosing this program was based on an assumption that I would be good at it, without ever actually enjoying it.
So I switched to a computer systems program in September of 2008, for 2 more years (based on a hobby, and intuition).
Taught salsa for 2 more years, and ended up teaching easily 400+ students at least the basics, developed an 8-person exec, learned how to make websites, an audio commercial, and ultimately became really suave with women. The level of experience in having your own team is absolutely immense!
The Tear-Jerking 9-5 rat-race
Then did 1 more year of Business studies during a time that seemed like a huge vacation (the course work was a joke). During this time, I was introduced to the 'Forex' investment world, and this shot me into a HUGE tangent of being self-employed! Manual trading, into automated trading, into researching, and researching, into finally, losing a cool $4,000 of government loan money within 4 months (not the whole loan)...
Upon graduating in January 2011 (with 5 years under my belt), right out of the gate, I managed to score an internship at one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies as an I.T. monkey with a really great wage! I did everything right during the interview. Studied, interviewed, called back to thank them, and bam, got the job!
Yet, this was a real eye-opener. The employees here were making easily something in the low 6-digits, yet were unhappy... couple that with doing seemingly pointless work... and tons of coding (which I learned to hate) I had enough!
After my 4 months were over, I jumped into my first job at a small I.T. company that just had major lay-offs. During the interview, it seemed like I was the perfect candidate! Everything was great! Then one month into the job, I realized that 'coding' was a HUGE element of my work... something I now realized that I hated to a really high degree (what took me 2 days, took my computer-science co-workers 5 minutes).
The Forex Bandwagon Vacation
Now, during the last 5 months (internship + 1 month on the new job), I was STILL in the forex investment world. I thought I had finally found the right system! This time I was investing my internship money, and this time around, everything was working relatively well (imagine earning a nice 20%+ compounded/month on your invesment, every month).
So I quit my job after only 1 month, and went to the beach, and just... well... relaxed, and Premium23 was born! Day after day, month after month, I would wake up, earn about 1-5% on my investment, and just go out and enjoy myself.
Learning how to pick up women became one of my biggest achievements. I became incredibly amazing at it (pushed myself really hard). Couple this with warm sunny weather, a great positive personality, and a cash-flow that magically created itself... I thought this was the way to go... a time investment... millionaire no time!
The plan was to take my system, find investors, get them to invest, I would take the 20/2 (20% of profits, 2% management fee), and scale had been reached!
After developing the entire front-end (accounting practices, website, IT-backbone, legalities, marketing content), I went to my first major investor! Everything was great, he was ready to invest!
And then it happened (just like any ridiculous cliche!). Literally, the same day I met the investor (end of September 2011), the market hit me... HARD! My summer profits had completely disappeared! Gone! Like a sharp knife to your gut, the market (rather the broker), took it all back! I was left with only initial investment, and a good 4 months of absolutely no income!
At this point I had to take a long, meditated look at the whole process of the markets, and decided it was time to take my remaining chips and leave. I had small loses during the summer, but this really put the nail in the coffin. I thought I was out.
Listen Carefully to What They Say
October 2011 came and out of the blue, I met this older fella who said he wanted me to be his I.T. guy for startups. He was really impressed at what I had achieved with my forex business (system, front-end, backend, etc) He would be an investor, and pay me a cool $4,000/month, get me an awesome office space, even provide networks!
Wow... only days after losing it all, so I jumped at the opportunity, and we started meeting casually to discuss his ideas.
October passes, and we continue to meet into November 2011, then something starts to smell fishy. I get warning signs that this dude may not be the real deal. No money has been paid yet to myself. I start pushing harder for payment, and finally by the end of November, this dude disappears, and his entire facade (smoke and mirrors) fades. He was just some dude waiting to cash in on a major billion-dollar investment, yet got nothing from it.
He even had the audacity to berate me with negative nonsense, despite my nonchalant attitude.
Re-Assessments and Business Potential
My first experience with this kind of behaviour, but definitely a learning experience. During this time, I did not sit on the side-lines. Early november, during my first hint of fishiness, I decided it was time to revamp my abilities, and re-brand, and create my product-line.
Creating websites using CMS-systems was a breeze, and I always knew that someone, somewhere out there had no idea, and didn't want to know, but simply wanted someone to do it for them. So my site became a web-solutions business.
A very slow trickle of referential business has started coming in, yet most of my finances are tied in credit-card debt (absolutely evil!). I have lowered my financial spending, yet still enjoy life when I can. My nights are spent in debauchery, yet my days are spent working, and learning.
Goal
As stated at the top, my goal with this thread, is to get things back in gear! To internalize what I have learned, and repower myself. I will be successful! I know it. There is no doubt.
My plan is to find that idea, the 'effection' idea. The idea that will reach at least several hundred thousand people, and provide a conversion. The idea that will develop a successful brand. The idea that provides a recurring income, month after month, and provides high relative value to the customer.
My name is Leonidas, and I would like to thank you for reading my journal.
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