as silly as this may sound, my degree caused me a great deal of pain knowing that I didn't enjoy one bit of university life and it was all self-inflicted
"Burning the boats" can either be the greatest indicator of entrepreneurial seriousness, or the strongest indicator of looming entrepreneurial failure, depending on what precipitated it. For the serious entrepreneur, burning the boats is a harrowing but calculated decision taken once ones "armies" are in place and readied for battle, to force victory with the seriousness of Damoclean circumstances. Read @JackEdwards "1000th Post" if you want to get a feeling for what that "scared sh**less determination" looks like.
For the wantrepreneur, it's another action fake, a chance to do what they do best-give up on something that is mildly unsatisfactory, or difficult, or does not please them. For the wantrepreneur, it's all about them-"I didn't like (the job, the school, the degree, the trade), It wasn't for me, It didn't fit me, I don't want to spend my life doing that." Great. Most people are unhappy with what they're doing, deep down, or at least wish for more freedom. But where, in those statements, was the declaration of a way to add value to others that is the key to moving from bondage to freedom?
Being a dropout does not a success make. For every one of this guy:
There are a hundred of this guy:
The one dropped out because he could meet the needs of more people faster that way. The other dropped out because he wasn't at his "dream" job or in his "dream" field, only to find that five years later, it didn't help him get any closer to his dreams. Your dream has to be to make someone happy. Otherwise, if you're in it for you, you're not going to go fastlane, you're going to build someone else's. Someone else got up this morning thinking "How can I get Sweetland what he wants today?" And because that guy set out to take care of you, he will. You'll buy this guy's headphones, stream his movies, eat his food, or drive his cars, and he'll be in the fastlane while you're on the sidewalk, cleaning his drive-through sign to pay for it all.
Don't let that be you. Start with a plan that puts other people's needs first. Use your promoter money to buy only things other people need, even if it's just reselling on ebay for now.
Also, this is the forum's most significant source of value:
I clearly overestimated the value of TFF
We don't sugar coat things. You are, right now, simultaneously in either the best or worst position of your life to affect your net worth and have a shot at spending most of your life on a beach with your spouse rather than behind a desk going blind from the florescent lights. Which it is depends on your choices, so you might want to spend some time reading the Mindset, Motivation, Choices section of the website, or MJ's book again.
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