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Free registration at the forum removes this block.I downloaded that and started listening to it on the flights home. Too many people mentioned it to keep ignoring it.8. I need to read Ready, Fire, Aim. Apparently.
I just realized I only took one picture of a freakin palm tree that I sent to my wife....post some of the photo's from your weekend
Folks, here is the Official FB group for the 2015 Summit so we can keep in contact.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/508758542598409/
Please note, this is not the group from the old meetups. It's a newer one, however, anyone from the past meetup(s) can join.
Please join the group if you'd like and post some of the photo's from your weekend. I took several with people and would love to see them!!
I'm bummed you couldn't make it. Yours was one of the presentations I was really looking forward to.I didnt get to make it, hope someone was able to stand in for me.... bummed I paid and was ready but the snow kept me in.. gonna try to read notes from page 19 on
GREAT question. The Wife and I wished to lose no momentum and so on the plane flight home we laid out the entire plan for moving forward over the next 12-18 months with our product-centered business. Thanks to the folks at the meetup (especially @thorn, @throttleforward, @enΔeka, @Travis Phipps, @Eskil (from your talk) and @Milkanic) for the discussion and advice about how to source, package, test, market, and deliver a product, as well as how to advertise and get traction. We've got a serious must-do family thing on Monday (with an attendant week of preparation) and then we'll be launching. The Wife and I plan to have a compelling (and successful!) story to tell at next year's B&P and we'd love the opportunity to speak again. That's our plan for guaranteeing a ticket.Now what? Are you going to marry the girl, or are you going to be like most of the attendees and just look back at it as a fond memory and moment in time?
Now that you are all back where you started from, now what?
was really hoping for some notes, but I kinda knew there wouldn't be any. looks like it was a great time.
How in the world does someone do the alt code to make the "D" in your name, man?@Thenernsauce You too!
I'm going to be putting some stuff up related to mine in the coming days. I've slept about 12 hours in the last 96 though, and an opportunity just came across my desk as I got home, so it'll probably be at least a week minimum, maybe not until April if things get away from me and I go to India first :-\ Sorry you couldn't make it, speakers were mega valuable to me.
How in the world does someone do the alt code to make the "D" in your name, man?
How in the world does someone do the alt code to make the "D" in your name, man?
I didnt get to make it, hope someone was able to stand in for me.... bummed I paid and was ready but the snow kept me in.. gonna try to read notes from page 19 on
Got home late last night and have finally gotten the kids settled.
First, I want to thank @MJ DeMarco for writing the book, starting the forum and basically being the foundation for this whole enterprise. Both of your talks were outstanding, and my Wife had never heard the last talk you gave. It was eye-opening and mind blowing for her, and has already led to some fundamental changes in our own financial plans. So thank you. In addition, it was refreshing to meet you in person for the first time. Thanks!
Next, thank you @Red for one of the BEST organized and RUN conferences that I have ever attended. I've been to many and this was nearly FLAWLESS. Next year I want you to give a talk about the dos and don'ts of RE and hear about your journey.
@AllenCrawley: thank for the wonderful MC job and for the great advice.
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@Vigilante, you posted
GREAT question. The Wife and I wished to lose no momentum and so on the plane flight home we laid out the entire plan for moving forward over the next 12-18 months with our product-centered business. Thanks to the folks at the meetup (especially @thorn, @throttleforward, @enΔeka, @Travis Phipps, @Eskil (from your talk) and @Milkanic) for the discussion and advice about how to source, package, test, market, and deliver a product, as well as how to advertise and get traction. We've got a serious must-do family thing on Monday (with an attendant week of preparation) and then we'll be launching. The Wife and I plan to have a compelling (and successful!) story to tell at next year's B&P and we'd love the opportunity to speak again. That's our plan for guaranteeing a ticket.
I/We would also like to thank:
- @Y.B. for one hell of an idea. I'll be in touch shortly.
- A special thank you to @Maverick 1000 for another powerful story as well as kindness, genuineness, a wonderful offer, and for showing that failure/adversity is just the beginning of the journey. I'll be in touch.
- @Arrabista for a powerful presentation, powerful personal story, and for being a wonderful human being.
- @The Duc for expanding our minds. We've been thinking of the "homeless" lifestyle for a while and your example and story were a powerful push in that direction.
- @GlobalWealth for another life altering (for us) presentation; you've shown us a way forward (financially) that no one else in the "financial sector" ever has. Plus your personal story is fascinating.
- @Esquire: thanks for one of the funniest presentations that I've ever seen. Who knew that vasectomies were fastlane? And that Ferrets could be the daddy?
- @Travis Phipps for an outstanding presentation and product. Hope to see you here next week!
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This was such a powerful weekend in so many ways. It's difficult to wrap my mind around the massive change that has already happened as of today (Monday). But let me try and list it out:
o The Wife is FULLY ON-BOARD with the entrepreneurial journey. It's not just something that I do and that she supports - it's now personal for HER. She's all in on a cellular level. More importantly, we're a team in the truest sense of the word. No more disconnect between one of us wanting to be an entrepreneur & the other being "most of the way" there.
o It's been said multiple times, but we have found our tribe. Neither of us has found such a consistently positive, supportive, and yet challenging group of people, EVER. We both now know at the gut level who we are and what success really looks like. It's not just an idea anymore.
o We went from a couple of possibilities for moving forward to a laser-like focus on a product/niche that could be very promising. We'll have to test it and see if it works but we're going.
o We started several incredible friendships.
o We feel accountable. How awful would it be to get there next year and not have tried? To not have taken action?
One final note: as we were flying home and mapping out the next 12-18 months of our Master Plan, the Wife said to me: "Okay, starting Monday you have four weeks to TAKE ACTION on this before going back to work."
"TAKE ACTION."
A two word combination never used by her ever in my presence. But now? Lessons seen, experienced, absorbed and integrated.
"TAKE ACTION."
This is what this weekend has done for us. Deeply, seriously life changing.
Gotta get to work. Thanks again guys!
Had an awesome time as well. It was interesting to speak with the ones in the group that had already achieved their freedom. You could just see it in the way they carried themselves. Gave me even more motivation to get out of my 9-5! This year - fingers crossed.
Man, I am dying on the inside right now - and I have nobody to blame but me.Gave me even more motivation to get out of my 9-5! This year - fingers crossed.
Fingers crossed conveys luck. You don't need luck. You need resolve.
The Wife is FULLY ON-BOARD with the entrepreneurial journey. It's not just something that I do and that she supports - it's now personal for HER. She's all in on a cellular level. More importantly, we're a team in the truest sense of the word. No more disconnect between one of us wanting to be an entrepreneur & the other being "most of the way" there.
Understood. I didn't mean to convey that it is based on luck. My wife and I have been hard at work on our business for 18 months now. She has been able to leave her full time job and is now working the business full time. Just a few more hurdles to clear and I will be right there with her. It was just exciting to see others that have achieved their freedom because I am almost there!Fingers crossed conveys luck. You don't need luck. You need resolve.
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