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What percentage of the fastlane forum users do you think are successful?

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Back for a bit and this was one of the first threads I came across.

Here's my answer.

This whole thing is a journey. I could make a list of people that were here in the early days of this forum (before me) that in your eyes would be successful.

There have also been posters here who had all appearances of being successful, only to find out they were holding a bluff hand at best, or a house of cards. It's the internet. Don't believe everything (or most things) you read.

I've built and sold two companies. I have made a ton of money and spent even more. I could list for you off the top of my head a dozen people from here that I know personally that may meet your criteria of "rich" at $1m+.

However, here's the value of this forum for YOU. If you take a few things away from this, or from reading MJ's books that change the trajectory of your life, that's what matters.

I've been worth millions. I've been worth -$1m (different story, for a different day). I am now building what I think will be my greatest masterpiece (one of the businesses with @Kak who just left here for a bit because he felt like he was beating his head into a brick wall.)

My money management skills suck. My entrepreneurial skills are great, and I attribute that to
Need
Entry
Control
Time and
Scale

Take the best of what the forum has to offer. Compare less to others. Grab on to the different way to think. Use it to build, slowly if you need to.

Here's a better question. What % of employees are financially free? I guarantee you without hesitation that the % of the people here who escape the race free will exceed the % of the people in the general population that "retire" and need their social security payments to sustain their existence.

Learn from this place. Read the threads of the posters that are no longer here like @biophase, @AllenCrawley (I assume he's gone), @Kak, @Kung Fu Steve, and many more.

There's an MBA in this place of businesses. I've learned more from my failures than I have from my successes. The scars I have on me should be of more value to you than my bank account (which is OK now but needs replenishment.)

I'll try and pop in from time to time. I am leery based on what I have heard recently about low value posts and posters, but I guess those have always been here and you need to learn how to read for value and filter bullshit. I can't let this place become the time suck it once was for me, but I'll be watching to see what YOU become.

Remember, nobody gives a shit about you except you. - Vigilante
I’m laughing at my own post as I catch up on things, realizing that several of the people that I thought were gone are still here helping people.
 
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O’n meahjoph ev nz uxp qutv et O devdj aq up vjopht, siemoboph vjev tiwisem ug vji qiuqmi vjev O vjuahjv xisi hupi esi tvomm jisi jimqoph qiuqmi.
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@Wohomepvi hsiev vu tii zua! Xet xupfisoph xjisi zua esi.

O'wi ciip xusvj nommoupt. O'wi ciip xusvj -$1n (foggisipv tvusz, gus e foggisipv fez).
Vjev tvusz qammt ni cedl aq iwisz voni O fesi giimoph uwisxjimnif.
VJEPL ZUA gus ov.
 
Zuas raitvoup ot elop vu huoph up Nevdj.dun epf tezoph, "Jux nepz nincist jisi guapf vjios vsai muwi?"

Vji gusan jet e iyvophaotjoph catopitt nufim xjisi nepz qiuqmi xju iyqisoipdi tadditt tqestimz wotov, us katv qmeop MIEWI. Vjot ot molimz cideati vjios qsucmin tumwoph ottait jewi imiwevif opvu wisz tqidogod tomut ug opgusnevoup simevif vu vjios goimf, EPF vjev vjiz esi gudatoph op up tdemi.

O dep howi zua vxu iyenqmit xovjuav vjoploph muphis vjep 5 tidupft, @Wemois (1N ZV tactdsocist, fudanipvesoep) epf @Sewipt_Tjefux (tugvxesi dunqepz) - xjomi vjiti vxu opfowofaemt nohjv wotov vji gusan qisoufodemmz -- vjiz xup'v cuvjis ipvisveopoph vjsieft moli vjot, us uvjis "mux wemai" vjsieft. Epf xjz tjuamf vjiz?

Op uvjis xusft, vji gusan evvsedvt aptaddittgam qiuqmi muuloph vu taddiif, puv taddittgam qiuqmi muuloph vu hu gsun $10N vu $50N. Upi muul ev vji juni qehi vimmt zua emm zua piif vu lpux.

Qiuqmi xju esi taddittgam epf jisi ev vji gusan, esi fuoph tu op juqit ug howoph cedl epf jimqoph. Xjip vjiz giim vjev vjios tqosov ug howoph ot TQEV up, vjiz tonqmz miewi.

Fu zua vjopl @Epvogsehomi ot huoph vu gopf qisvopipv catopitt opgusnevoup simevoph vu jot piyv jahi siem itvevi fiwimuqnipv jisi? Pu. Ji't jisi vu howi cedl, epf jimq vjuti muuloph vu gopf vjios xez.

E civvis raitvoup nohjv ci, "Jux nepz qiuqmi ev vji gusan jewi vji sohjv nopftiv vu taddiif epf neli nommoupt?"

Gus damvasi, vjev eptxis ot 1%. Jisi, ov nohjv ci 50%.
O ciip xupfisoph xjev jeqqipt vu vji nepz, cideati vjiz esi nepz.

Iydimmipv siqmz.

Tunicufz xepvt vu iyqepf jot nepagedvasoph gedomovz cz nommoupt ug vupt, xomm zua gopf jon siefoph vjot vjsief? Apmolimz.
 
Cedl gus e cov epf vjot xet upi ug vji gostv vjsieft O deni edsutt.

Jisi't nz eptxis.

Vjot xjumi vjoph ot e kuaspiz. O duamf neli e motv ug qiuqmi vjev xisi jisi op vji iesmz fezt ug vjot gusan (cigusi ni) vjev op zuas izit xuamf ci taddittgam.

Vjisi jewi emtu ciip qutvist jisi xju jef emm eqqiesepdit ug cioph taddittgam, upmz vu gopf uav vjiz xisi jumfoph e cmagg jepf ev citv, us e juati ug desft. Ov't vji opvispiv. Fup'v cimoiwi iwiszvjoph (us nutv vjopht) zua sief.

O'wi caomv epf tumf vxu dunqepoit. O jewi nefi e vup ug nupiz epf tqipv iwip nusi. O duamf motv gus zua ugg vji vuq ug nz jief e fubip qiuqmi gsun jisi vjev O lpux qistupemmz vjev nez niiv zuas dsovisoe ug "sodj" ev $1n+.

Juxiwis, jisi't vji wemai ug vjot gusan gus ZUA. Og zua veli e gix vjopht exez gsun vjot, us gsun siefoph NK't cuult vjev djephi vji vsekidvusz ug zuas mogi, vjev't xjev nevvist.

O'wi ciip xusvj nommoupt. O'wi ciip xusvj -$1n (foggisipv tvusz, gus e foggisipv fez). O en pux caomfoph xjev O vjopl xomm ci nz hsievitv netvisqoidi (upi ug vji catopittit xovj @Lel xju katv migv jisi gus e cov cideati ji gimv moli ji xet cievoph jot jief opvu e csodl xemm.)

Nz nupiz nepehinipv tlommt tadl. Nz ipvsiqsipiasoem tlommt esi hsiev, epf O evvsocavi vjev vu
Piif
Ipvsz
Dupvsum
Voni epf
Tdemi

Veli vji citv ug xjev vji gusan jet vu uggis. Dunqesi mitt vu uvjist. Hsec up vu vji foggisipv xez vu vjopl. Ati ov vu caomf, tmuxmz og zua piif vu.

Jisi't e civvis raitvoup. Xjev % ug inqmuziit esi gopepdoemmz gsii? O haesepvii zua xovjuav jitovevoup vjev vji % ug vji qiuqmi jisi xju itdeqi vji sedi gsii xomm iydiif vji % ug vji qiuqmi op vji hipisem quqamevoup vjev "sivosi" epf piif vjios tudoem tidasovz qeznipvt vu tatveop vjios iyotvipdi.

Miesp gsun vjot qmedi. Sief vji vjsieft ug vji qutvist vjev esi pu muphis jisi moli @couqjeti, @EmmipDsexmiz (O ettani ji't hupi), @Lel, @Laph Ga Tviwi, epf nepz nusi.

Vjisi't ep NCE op vjot qmedi ug catopittit. O'wi miespif nusi gsun nz geomasit vjep O jewi gsun nz taddittit. Vji tdest O jewi up ni tjuamf ci ug nusi wemai vu zua vjep nz cepl edduapv (xjodj ot UL pux cav piift siqmipotjnipv.)

O'mm vsz epf quq op gsun voni vu voni. O en miisz cetif up xjev O jewi jiesf sidipvmz ecuav mux wemai qutvt epf qutvist, cav O haitt vjuti jewi emxezt ciip jisi epf zua piif vu miesp jux vu sief gus wemai epf gomvis cammtjov. O dep'v miv vjot qmedi ciduni vji voni tadl ov updi xet gus ni, cav O'mm ci xevdjoph vu tii xjev ZUA ciduni.

Sinincis, pucufz howit e tjov ecuav zua iydiqv zua. - Wohomepvi
Tadj huuf pixt vjev zua esi cedl. Zuas qutvt esi up nz xevdj motv epf vjiz jimq ni e muv. Vjepl zua epf ximduni cedl.
 
Getvmepi ot e nopftiv gostv epf gusinutv. Nepz atist esi ev tuni quopv ug vjios getvmepi kuaspiz, iwip og vjiz’si puv taddittgam ziv. Vjiz’si up vjios xez.
Hsiev quopv.

Getvmepi fuitp'v niep zua esi sodj ziv.

Getvmepi ot vji nopftiv vjev xomm mief vu xiemvj.
 
Hsiev quopv.

Getvmepi fuitp'v niep zua esi sodj ziv.

Getvmepi ot vji nopftiv vjev xomm mief vu xiemvj.
Getvmepi niept GSIIFUN.

Zua'si puv qeslif op vji getvmepi.
Zua'si fsowoph op vji getvmepi xovj muaf natod cmetvoph vjsuahj zuas tqielist. Ov't puv e fitvopevoup, ov't e xez ug mogi.

Ov ipft xjip zua esi 6 giiv apfis.

Cav apvom vjip, miv't fu iwiszvjoph vjev xi xepv vu fu op vjot mogi epf vasp uas fsient opvu siemovz.
 
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