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CENTS Commandments (or NECST) in Pictures

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I watched it last night. @wade1mil beat you in posting it, lol.

I now love the rearrangement of the commandments. CENTS makes it easier to remember and it... just make sense.

Was this a collaboration?
 

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That really helps make things a lot clearer! good job on this one, thanks MJ!

P.S At the end of the video when the angle zooms out and gives you a full few of the commandments, it would be really cool if people could have that in front of them while considering business ideas, to help them validate them more clearly. By the looks of it , some people don't fully grasp them on the forum, so a visual of them would probably help them a lot , depending on their learning techniques. Just an a quick thought anyway.

Thanks again.
 
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Was this a collaboration?

Yea, he simply asked me for a narration and I was happy to oblige. I enjoyed the first rendition which kinda covered the first 1/2 of TMF .
 

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Great anagram and video! I prefer the "cents" acronym. Btw... I too, would like a shirt with people holding the "We don't give a shit" banner :)

It seems like there is a lot of you could do with the word "cents" to help visualize morphing into the fastlane path, catchy statements like... How to turn cents into dollars, etc...
 

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I love it! Good job, MJ. Much easier to remember that way.

Don't know why I didn't think of that before. I want a t-Shirt that says "Fight Mediocrity"! :p
 
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Really neat stuff, MJ. Would you consider doing another one, but for your 2nd book? This style of teaching definitely would appeal to the visual learners.
 

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Yes, I think the same, it's much faster to aquire the most important informations by this way!
 

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Bump.. this is seriously some of the best advice I've ever had in my life. Every day I hear about a friends new startup business, or look at a new product/service I see launched, or watch a pitch on shark tank, and feel like screaming CENTSSSS!!!! at them haha.
 

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Bump.. this is seriously some of the best advice I've ever had in my life. Every day I hear about a friends new startup business, or look at a new product/service I see launched, or watch a pitch on shark tank, and feel like screaming CENTSSSS!!!! at them haha.
Same! I asked Daymond John yesterday if he'd read TMF and he said he'd heard of it! Haha so no...
 

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Haha I asked Mark Cuban on cyber dust when I was playing around with it, but no response :p (probably too busy doing youtube vids with Tai Lopez...)
 
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Same! I asked Daymond John yesterday if he'd read TMF and he said he'd heard of it! Haha so no...
Mj ... your beautiful pattern similar to a mind map or a entrepreneur's compass, can 'be completed by the following acronym: ...L U C K Labor Under Correct Knowledge. 'Cause if you apply it properly and with unstoppable methodologically so, you can' travel far on Your FASTLANE ... with a lot of CENTS!!!
 

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Thanks, reviewed just for the tenth(?) time that my business endeavor is according to CENTS. Again Time and Scale I hit in brackets, while I always feel "violating" those.

Time because managing the business is enermous effrort. I've got a product that could be leased too, so in this sense the checks keep coming monthly. Some recurring issues of course with the business customers have to solve.

Then the scale. An experienced craftmanship is required to manufacture the product. Filling like 5 orders at once takes weeks and weeks. Hiring someone to do it is possible, but comes with a cost. Then I feel operating like in the "lake" (=national), while international sales would not be profitable at all. Product requires fitters to place product into operation. In this case me and my business partner and a van / trailer.
 
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