Wow. I finished TFM last night, then spent a good two hours reading through this forum. Then I started reading TFM again this morning.
I have been blown away, shocked to the core, smacked around the face with a fish. I suddenly have a name to my pain, and it's the 'slowlane' and 'sidewalk'. I also have a name for the place I've wanted to be all my life, the 'fastlane'.
A little about myself - I'm Steve, I'm 37, and I'm from the UK. I got a degree, got the corporate job. I then spent all my twenties on the sidewalk - fancy clothes, sportscar's, and nights out. Man, if I could go back I'd slap myself around the face so hard...
I had an emptiness and no idea how to fill it. I longed to be free of work, to earn more money, to 'make it'. Except, I had no perception whatsoever that it was in my power to do so. I couldn't see beyond an 'event' to make me rich. The only avenue open to me was to increase my intrinsic value, get a better wage. Unbelievable how the description from the book fitted me perfectly.
In the end it all blew up. After ten years of partying and wasting my life, I was diagnosed with severe depression. I quit my job and got through it with the help of my lovely wife. Unable to face the corporate wall again, I taught myself web design, with the aim to being freelance.
This didn't work and after a year I got a job as a web developer for a start up company. For a year or so this was good, I was learning every day, I felt I was moving somewhere.
But then it was back - the drive, the feeling that I need more, that there is more to life than exchanging my precious time for pittance at the hands of people who couldn't care less about my dreams or desires.
So what have I done about it? Well, I have put together a website last year which is technically pretty good, but hasn't made me any money
... I've also built a rough prototype for a snowboarding accessory that has sat in my garage for the past four months - even though a snowboarding seasonaire friend of mine ( who lives in the fastlane thanks to his web sites ), wants to buy a finished article, as well as suggesting he tout it round the Alps for me to other boarders...
I'm a perpetual starter but don't know how to finish. It's almost as if I don't really believe I can make money off my back, without a job. I have much to deprogram, and I hope this is the place to do it, with the help of other wonderful fastlaners!
Anyway- if you've read all that, thank you very much! I will be posting about my two efforts so far in the relevant forums, and am looking forward to becoming part of this community - one where I finally feel amongst people who understand my need to improve my life!
Thanks,
Steve.
I have been blown away, shocked to the core, smacked around the face with a fish. I suddenly have a name to my pain, and it's the 'slowlane' and 'sidewalk'. I also have a name for the place I've wanted to be all my life, the 'fastlane'.
A little about myself - I'm Steve, I'm 37, and I'm from the UK. I got a degree, got the corporate job. I then spent all my twenties on the sidewalk - fancy clothes, sportscar's, and nights out. Man, if I could go back I'd slap myself around the face so hard...
I had an emptiness and no idea how to fill it. I longed to be free of work, to earn more money, to 'make it'. Except, I had no perception whatsoever that it was in my power to do so. I couldn't see beyond an 'event' to make me rich. The only avenue open to me was to increase my intrinsic value, get a better wage. Unbelievable how the description from the book fitted me perfectly.
In the end it all blew up. After ten years of partying and wasting my life, I was diagnosed with severe depression. I quit my job and got through it with the help of my lovely wife. Unable to face the corporate wall again, I taught myself web design, with the aim to being freelance.
This didn't work and after a year I got a job as a web developer for a start up company. For a year or so this was good, I was learning every day, I felt I was moving somewhere.
But then it was back - the drive, the feeling that I need more, that there is more to life than exchanging my precious time for pittance at the hands of people who couldn't care less about my dreams or desires.
So what have I done about it? Well, I have put together a website last year which is technically pretty good, but hasn't made me any money
... I've also built a rough prototype for a snowboarding accessory that has sat in my garage for the past four months - even though a snowboarding seasonaire friend of mine ( who lives in the fastlane thanks to his web sites ), wants to buy a finished article, as well as suggesting he tout it round the Alps for me to other boarders...I'm a perpetual starter but don't know how to finish. It's almost as if I don't really believe I can make money off my back, without a job. I have much to deprogram, and I hope this is the place to do it, with the help of other wonderful fastlaners!
Anyway- if you've read all that, thank you very much! I will be posting about my two efforts so far in the relevant forums, and am looking forward to becoming part of this community - one where I finally feel amongst people who understand my need to improve my life!
Thanks,
Steve.
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