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It's a really scary thought, I guess because of its conditioning.
I feels like its some kind of illusory safe boat.
I know the topic has been discussed 10 million times here, I guess I just feel the urge to talk about it somewhere.
After reading two success stories here where both of those guys dropped school and focused 10000% on their businesses and succeeded.... It makes every second I spend with a college textbook away from building my current project harder and harder.
People make decisions when the conditions in their head are right. I want to force those conditions in to place. That is, my vision is so clear, and I'm so confident I'll realize it, that it makes no difference what any of my family says or does.
I'm not there yet. I want to be there right now.
So I'm like balancing the pros and cons. Thinking of the possibilities. Thinking of all the reasons I should do it. What I'm going to say to my mother when she freaks the F*ck out and breaks out into tears every day.. that shit is going to be hard.
I need to trust myself and trust the process. I need to burn the boat. I need to burn it!!
Time to use everything I ever learned from Tony Robbins.
I know that once I take action and there's no turning back I'll have a fire under my a$$ and I'll also be free. AHH!!
My app is becoming more and more awesome every day.
Every second spent with college textbooks becomes harder and harder... nearly impossible for my brain to switch away from building my app.
I can easily spend from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed (without leaving the house) for 3 days straight working on my app and only peaking at my textbooks.
I'm either working on it directly to taking a break from coding to think about:
- How I'll market it. With a sales video or with regular adcopy. Will I use paid advertising or SEO, or both? If I go with paid advertising, where would I promot? If I go with SEO, what topics will I blog about, and how can I generate content automatically? These are the questions my brain will just munch on endlessly.
- Monetization strategies I could take. Subscription based, or sell lifetime memberships once for a single price and then focus on backend sales, building an email list to promote more products, selling ad space, and building an affiliate program to bring in more traffic.
I read a story from this one guy who makes over $100,000 every MONTH, starting from 0 all within 8 months with affiliate products!
LOL Imagine how much the creators of those products are earning, thanks to him?!
And then another dude who went with an ecommerce model and it took him I think 2-3 failed businesses before hitting his $100,000 in sales in a single month.
All this is leading me to want to drop school, damnit. Once and for all I want to break free from school and work on my millions. At least I have a plan. At least I spend my time, day in and day out working on it. At least I don't sit around working as a waiter, with no plan or direction, and spending my money on clothes and weed or guns alcohol or w/e bullshit like my friends do.
Ok, I bought a gun too, but that doesn't discount all my hard work. I turn pale from my lack of sunlight. My family knows the back of my head (because I'm on the computer so much working) than my face. Of course, I do spend quality time with them regularly. But still...
They tell me they believe in me, in a way that is like "dude, I don't think you understand. Everyone can see it. We just have this feeling you're gonna make it." but I'm not sure they can handle me saying "I'm quitting college with 1.5 years left."
If I could afford to leave my house, and THEN quit, so I don't have to see or hear my mothers bickering and crying and what not... that would make it so much easier to focus.
That's part of the plan then. Like MJ says in his book, I have to get the headwind out of the way to get tailwind behind me pushing me.
I feels like its some kind of illusory safe boat.
I know the topic has been discussed 10 million times here, I guess I just feel the urge to talk about it somewhere.
After reading two success stories here where both of those guys dropped school and focused 10000% on their businesses and succeeded.... It makes every second I spend with a college textbook away from building my current project harder and harder.
People make decisions when the conditions in their head are right. I want to force those conditions in to place. That is, my vision is so clear, and I'm so confident I'll realize it, that it makes no difference what any of my family says or does.
I'm not there yet. I want to be there right now.
So I'm like balancing the pros and cons. Thinking of the possibilities. Thinking of all the reasons I should do it. What I'm going to say to my mother when she freaks the F*ck out and breaks out into tears every day.. that shit is going to be hard.
I need to trust myself and trust the process. I need to burn the boat. I need to burn it!!
Time to use everything I ever learned from Tony Robbins.
I know that once I take action and there's no turning back I'll have a fire under my a$$ and I'll also be free. AHH!!
My app is becoming more and more awesome every day.
Every second spent with college textbooks becomes harder and harder... nearly impossible for my brain to switch away from building my app.
I can easily spend from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed (without leaving the house) for 3 days straight working on my app and only peaking at my textbooks.
I'm either working on it directly to taking a break from coding to think about:
- How I'll market it. With a sales video or with regular adcopy. Will I use paid advertising or SEO, or both? If I go with paid advertising, where would I promot? If I go with SEO, what topics will I blog about, and how can I generate content automatically? These are the questions my brain will just munch on endlessly.
- Monetization strategies I could take. Subscription based, or sell lifetime memberships once for a single price and then focus on backend sales, building an email list to promote more products, selling ad space, and building an affiliate program to bring in more traffic.
I read a story from this one guy who makes over $100,000 every MONTH, starting from 0 all within 8 months with affiliate products!
LOL Imagine how much the creators of those products are earning, thanks to him?!
And then another dude who went with an ecommerce model and it took him I think 2-3 failed businesses before hitting his $100,000 in sales in a single month.
All this is leading me to want to drop school, damnit. Once and for all I want to break free from school and work on my millions. At least I have a plan. At least I spend my time, day in and day out working on it. At least I don't sit around working as a waiter, with no plan or direction, and spending my money on clothes and weed or guns alcohol or w/e bullshit like my friends do.
Ok, I bought a gun too, but that doesn't discount all my hard work. I turn pale from my lack of sunlight. My family knows the back of my head (because I'm on the computer so much working) than my face. Of course, I do spend quality time with them regularly. But still...
They tell me they believe in me, in a way that is like "dude, I don't think you understand. Everyone can see it. We just have this feeling you're gonna make it." but I'm not sure they can handle me saying "I'm quitting college with 1.5 years left."
If I could afford to leave my house, and THEN quit, so I don't have to see or hear my mothers bickering and crying and what not... that would make it so much easier to focus.
That's part of the plan then. Like MJ says in his book, I have to get the headwind out of the way to get tailwind behind me pushing me.
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