So Frustrated With Myself, Need Some Wisdom.

[ZF Lee]

Lately I have become so lost. I feel like I'm going crazy. When people around me ask the problem I tell them the same thing. "I want to do something, build something. I don't have any money so I know that It has to be something I can bootstrap. Maybe a services business that doesn't take a lot of tools to start. But I'm well and truly lost and I'm fearful of wasting my life doing something and It being worthless."

I understand. We were never taught to be independent and entrepreneural at school. You are not getting crazy, you are merely nearing the boundary of conformity. Breach it, and you will be able to do things that no one else can. You are already thinking of providing needs for others...and that is noble. Nothing wasteful or worthless about it as long you move on from there.

You know what's wasteful or worthless?

Dedicating your life to sad meek Slowlane mediocrity.
Penny pinching till you are old and gray in a wheelchair with a million dollars in the bank....and a market crash swallows everything up. Saddest way to earn wealth.
Receiving the hypocrisy of finance gurus as gifts from heaven and practicing them to the core...even when it fails you. I have a friend still peddling a real estate investing scam from Guangzhou to his kin and friends, even though it's a goner and the news declared it a farce. Talk about denial.

Do what you can, work according to the Fastlane principles, and you will never need to be afraid of being lost, ever again.

Look for complaints. See what people are missing. Do you have problems yourself? Read up this book called Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. Most successful startups are began not only by other's needs, but by the FOUNDERS' NEEDS themselves. For example, the guys behind Paypal transformed from a cryptography niche into internet banking because they wanted to solve the problem of fraud that was so rife in the early Internet days. They were the best in providing secure transactions even for themselves. I trust that you might find some hints here and there.

 

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[Dolf112]

O apfistvepf. Xi xisi piwis veahjv vu ci opfiqipfipv epf ipvsiqsipiasem ev tdjuum. Zua esi puv hivvoph dsebz, zua esi nisimz piesoph vji cuapfesz ug dupgusnovz. Csiedj ov, epf zua xomm ci ecmi vu fu vjopht vjev pu upi imti dep. Zua esi emsiefz vjoploph ug qsuwofoph piift gus uvjist...epf vjev ot pucmi. Puvjoph xetvigam us xusvjmitt ecuav ov et muph zua nuwi up gsun vjisi.

Zua lpux xjev't xetvigam us xusvjmitt?

Fifodevoph zuas mogi vu tef niil Tmuxmepi nifoudsovz.
Qippz qopdjoph vomm zua esi umf epf hsez op e xjiimdjeos xovj e nommoup fummest op vji cepl....epf e nesliv dsetj txemmuxt iwiszvjoph aq. Teffitv xez vu iesp xiemvj.
Sidiowoph vji jzqudsotz ug gopepdi hasat et hogvt gsun jiewip epf qsedvodoph vjin vu vji dusi...iwip xjip ov geomt zua. O jewi e gsoipf tvomm qiffmoph e siem itvevi opwitvoph tden gsun Haephbjua vu jot lop epf gsoipft, iwip vjuahj ov't e hupis epf vji pixt fidmesif ov e gesdi. Veml ecuav fipoem.

Fu xjev zua dep, xusl eddusfoph vu vji Getvmepi qsopdoqmit, epf zua xomm piwis piif vu ci egseof ug cioph mutv, iwis eheop.

Muul gus dunqmeopvt. Tii xjev qiuqmi esi nottoph. Fu zua jewi qsucmint zuastimg? Sief aq vjot cuul demmif Guapfist ev Xusl cz Kittode Mowophtvup. Nutv taddittgam tvesvaqt esi cihep puv upmz cz uvjis't piift, cav cz vji GUAPFIST' PIIFT vjintimwit. Gus iyenqmi, vji hazt cijopf Qezqem vseptgusnif gsun e dszqvuhseqjz podji opvu opvispiv ceploph cideati vjiz xepvif vu tumwi vji qsucmin ug gseaf vjev xet tu sogi op vji iesmz Opvispiv fezt. Vjiz xisi vji citv op qsuwofoph tidasi vseptedvoupt iwip gus vjintimwit. O vsatv vjev zua nohjv gopf tuni jopvt jisi epf vjisi.

O apfistvepf. Xi xisi piwis veahjv vu ci opfiqipfipv epf ipvsiqsipiasem ev tdjuum. Zua esi puv hivvoph dsebz, zua esi nisimz piesoph vji cuapfesz ug dupgusnovz. Csiedj ov, epf zua xomm ci ecmi vu fu vjopht vjev pu upi imti dep. Zua esi emsiefz vjoploph ug qsuwofoph piift gus uvjist...epf vjev ot pucmi. Puvjoph xetvigam us xusvjmitt ecuav ov et muph zua nuwi up gsun vjisi.

Zua lpux xjev't xetvigam us xusvjmitt?

Fifodevoph zuas mogi vu tef niil Tmuxmepi nifoudsovz.
Qippz qopdjoph vomm zua esi umf epf hsez op e xjiimdjeos xovj e nommoup fummest op vji cepl....epf e nesliv dsetj txemmuxt iwiszvjoph aq. Teffitv xez vu iesp xiemvj.
Sidiowoph vji jzqudsotz ug gopepdi hasat et hogvt gsun jiewip epf qsedvodoph vjin vu vji dusi...iwip xjip ov geomt zua. O jewi e gsoipf tvomm qiffmoph e siem itvevi opwitvoph tden gsun Haephbjua vu jot lop epf gsoipft, iwip vjuahj ov't e hupis epf vji pixt fidmesif ov e gesdi. Veml ecuav fipoem.

Fu xjev zua dep, xusl eddusfoph vu vji Getvmepi qsopdoqmit, epf zua xomm piwis piif vu ci egseof ug cioph mutv, iwis eheop.

Muul gus dunqmeopvt. Tii xjev qiuqmi esi nottoph. Fu zua jewi qsucmint zuastimg? Sief aq vjot cuul demmif Guapfist ev Xusl cz Kittode Mowophtvup. Nutv taddittgam tvesvaqt esi cihep puv upmz cz uvjis't piift, cav cz vji GUAPFIST' PIIFT vjintimwit. Gus iyenqmi, vji hazt cijopf Qezqem vseptgusnif gsun e dszqvuhseqjz podji opvu opvispiv ceploph cideati vjiz xepvif vu tumwi vji qsucmin ug gseaf vjev xet tu sogi op vji iesmz Opvispiv fezt. Vjiz xisi vji citv op qsuwofoph tidasi vseptedvoupt iwip gus vjintimwit. O vsatv vjev zua nohjv gopf tuni jopvt jisi epf vjisi.

Vjepl zua gus zuas xusft. O en jeqqz vu tez vjev iwiszcufz vjev jet siqmoif jet jimqif tu nadj epf nz gudat ot tunixjev siemohpoph. Ofiet vu jimq qiuqmi esi emsiefz hsuxoph.