Hey Guys/Girls,
I joined this forum a while back, some time after reading TMF .
I've not posted often so I'll catch up on myself...
I'm 27 and I've always been self employed in some sense, other than some part time work when I was 16-18 alongside education. Even then I had side hustle. I ran businesses in some capacity even when I was in kindergarten, and throughout school
I'm now married, baby on the way and own my mortgage on a renovation project I'm going to sell once completed.
After reading TMF , and in some sense even before, I realised I was bouncing around too often and juggling too many projects at once. I also identified that my business partners weren't working out, through lack of effort on their part, or lack of capability.
Around 6 months ago I cut ties with my business partners, but I work better with people so I approached a millionaire, who I met through business, who's still grinding every day, for investment.
We started a business which was a mixture of both of our experiences.
This has really changed things for me. He works every day, like I do. All day, every day.
I've got my drive back, and I'm creating processes to keep it going.
As part of his influence I'm now; going to the gym 4-5 times a week which I'm seeing big results from, mentally and physically.
I'm also getting up at ~6am and reading more books for motivation.
I've worked just on this one project (at least with not much distraction) solidly for months.
We're around 150 miles apart, so I work remotely while he works from our office in charge of the staff.
We've since brought on another business partner, who again is quite successful, and our business has pivoted to include his expertise/industry. We've got a really good team and the business is growing.
We speak as early as 6am, and as late as 1am, whenever there's something important to say. I'm an excitable (full ADHD) person and I thrive off having others with aligned goals to bounce ideas off.
My two business partners have invested all the money, for a slightly larger share, whereas I'm sweat-equity only.
Last month we covered our overheads, which are around £10k. Next month we're set to make £14k NET profit from a turnover of around £24k - these payments are scheduled with signed agreements!!
February and March should be (here's hoping!) the same again each month, on top of this (bringing March to around £72k t/o). Our business model is retained revenue, so each month we get last months (less any dropout) + next months.
We're now functioning, getting clients all the way from prospecting right through to payment and retention (so far!) and we have a scalable model to take this to new highs in March and beyond.
TLDR: I've tried a lot of things, usually all at once. Sticking in with one project and working with the right people is going really well.
I joined this forum a while back, some time after reading TMF .
I've not posted often so I'll catch up on myself...
I'm 27 and I've always been self employed in some sense, other than some part time work when I was 16-18 alongside education. Even then I had side hustle. I ran businesses in some capacity even when I was in kindergarten, and throughout school
I'm now married, baby on the way and own my mortgage on a renovation project I'm going to sell once completed.
After reading TMF , and in some sense even before, I realised I was bouncing around too often and juggling too many projects at once. I also identified that my business partners weren't working out, through lack of effort on their part, or lack of capability.
Around 6 months ago I cut ties with my business partners, but I work better with people so I approached a millionaire, who I met through business, who's still grinding every day, for investment.
We started a business which was a mixture of both of our experiences.
This has really changed things for me. He works every day, like I do. All day, every day.
I've got my drive back, and I'm creating processes to keep it going.
As part of his influence I'm now; going to the gym 4-5 times a week which I'm seeing big results from, mentally and physically.
I'm also getting up at ~6am and reading more books for motivation.
I've worked just on this one project (at least with not much distraction) solidly for months.
We're around 150 miles apart, so I work remotely while he works from our office in charge of the staff.
We've since brought on another business partner, who again is quite successful, and our business has pivoted to include his expertise/industry. We've got a really good team and the business is growing.
We speak as early as 6am, and as late as 1am, whenever there's something important to say. I'm an excitable (full ADHD) person and I thrive off having others with aligned goals to bounce ideas off.
My two business partners have invested all the money, for a slightly larger share, whereas I'm sweat-equity only.
Last month we covered our overheads, which are around £10k. Next month we're set to make £14k NET profit from a turnover of around £24k - these payments are scheduled with signed agreements!!
February and March should be (here's hoping!) the same again each month, on top of this (bringing March to around £72k t/o). Our business model is retained revenue, so each month we get last months (less any dropout) + next months.
We're now functioning, getting clients all the way from prospecting right through to payment and retention (so far!) and we have a scalable model to take this to new highs in March and beyond.
TLDR: I've tried a lot of things, usually all at once. Sticking in with one project and working with the right people is going really well.
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