Thread: Premium Fastlane Journey

Motivations


Procrastination, and continuously desensitized motivation is my biggest vice right now!


I absolutely hate the fact that, with all this ambition, drive, and extroversion, I am succumbed to being nonsensically tired, and pathless, way too often!


The Fastlane Millionaire makes sense!


I've never been under the impression that a salary, 9-5, cubicle job was ever going to build wealth. Furthermore, I've always been keen on the 'passion to perform', following what I enjoyed doing, rather than going with the social norm.


From Introvert to Passion-Oriented Exec


I am 23, a college graduate, living in Toronto with a serious ambition of becoming successful!


Graduating highschool with honors, and the highest grades being in biology and chemistry, my father thought it would make sense to go to college for science in September of 2006.


In the first month of school, I had the 'belief that women loved to dance', so I started my own salsa dance club in school (non-paid), with the purpose of meeting women (university girls)!


This actually taught me some fundamental knowledge on direct marketing (person to person), social media marketing, public relations, and leadership.


2 years of college science later, I failed, and dropped out of the program... choosing this program was based on an assumption that I would be good at it, without ever actually enjoying it.


So I switched to a computer systems program in September of 2008, for 2 more years (based on a hobby, and intuition).


Taught salsa for 2 more years, and ended up teaching easily 400+ students at least the basics, developed an 8-person exec, learned how to make websites, an audio commercial, and ultimately became really suave with women. The level of experience in having your own team is absolutely immense!


The Tear-Jerking 9-5 rat-race


Then did 1 more year of Business studies during a time that seemed like a huge vacation (the course work was a joke). During this time, I was introduced to the 'Forex' investment world, and this shot me into a HUGE tangent of being self-employed! Manual trading, into automated trading, into researching, and researching, into finally, losing a cool $4,000 of government loan money within 4 months (not the whole loan)...


Upon graduating in January 2011 (with 5 years under my belt), right out of the gate, I managed to score an internship at one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies as an I.T. monkey with a really great wage! I did everything right during the interview. Studied, interviewed, called back to thank them, and bam, got the job!


Yet, this was a real eye-opener. The employees here were making easily something in the low 6-digits, yet were unhappy... couple that with doing seemingly pointless work... and tons of coding (which I learned to hate) I had enough!


After my 4 months were over, I jumped into my first job at a small I.T. company that just had major lay-offs. During the interview, it seemed like I was the perfect candidate! Everything was great! Then one month into the job, I realized that 'coding' was a HUGE element of my work... something I now realized that I hated to a really high degree (what took me 2 days, took my computer-science co-workers 5 minutes).


The Forex Bandwagon Vacation


Now, during the last 5 months (internship + 1 month on the new job), I was STILL in the forex investment world. I thought I had finally found the right system! This time I was investing my internship money, and this time around, everything was working relatively well (imagine earning a nice 20%+ compounded/month on your invesment, every month).


So I quit my job after only 1 month, and went to the beach, and just... well... relaxed, and Premium23 was born! Day after day, month after month, I would wake up, earn about 1-5% on my investment, and just go out and enjoy myself.


Learning how to pick up women became one of my biggest achievements. I became incredibly amazing at it (pushed myself really hard). Couple this with warm sunny weather, a great positive personality, and a cash-flow that magically created itself... I thought this was the way to go... a time investment... millionaire no time!


The plan was to take my system, find investors, get them to invest, I would take the 20/2 (20% of profits, 2% management fee), and scale had been reached!


After developing the entire front-end (accounting practices, website, IT-backbone, legalities, marketing content), I went to my first major investor! Everything was great, he was ready to invest!


And then it happened (just like any ridiculous cliche!). Literally, the same day I met the investor (end of September 2011), the market hit me... HARD! My summer profits had completely disappeared! Gone! Like a sharp knife to your gut, the market (rather the broker), took it all back! I was left with only initial investment, and a good 4 months of absolutely no income!


At this point I had to take a long, meditated look at the whole process of the markets, and decided it was time to take my remaining chips and leave. I had small loses during the summer, but this really put the nail in the coffin. I thought I was out.


Listen Carefully to What They Say


October 2011 came and out of the blue, I met this older fella who said he wanted me to be his I.T. guy for startups. He was really impressed at what I had achieved with my forex business (system, front-end, backend, etc) He would be an investor, and pay me a cool $4,000/month, get me an awesome office space, even provide networks!


Wow... only days after losing it all, so I jumped at the opportunity, and we started meeting casually to discuss his ideas.


October passes, and we continue to meet into November 2011, then something starts to smell fishy. I get warning signs that this dude may not be the real deal. No money has been paid yet to myself. I start pushing harder for payment, and finally by the end of November, this dude disappears, and his entire facade (smoke and mirrors) fades. He was just some dude waiting to cash in on a major billion-dollar investment, yet got nothing from it.


He even had the audacity to berate me with negative nonsense, despite my nonchalant attitude.


Re-Assessments and Business Potential


My first experience with this kind of behaviour, but definitely a learning experience. During this time, I did not sit on the side-lines. Early november, during my first hint of fishiness, I decided it was time to revamp my abilities, and re-brand, and create my product-line.


Creating websites using CMS-systems was a breeze, and I always knew that someone, somewhere out there had no idea, and didn't want to know, but simply wanted someone to do it for them. So my site became a web-solutions business.


A very slow trickle of referential business has started coming in, yet most of my finances are tied in credit-card debt (absolutely evil!). I have lowered my financial spending, yet still enjoy life when I can. My nights are spent in debauchery, yet my days are spent working, and learning.


Goal


As stated at the top, my goal with this thread, is to get things back in gear! To internalize what I have learned, and repower myself. I will be successful! I know it. There is no doubt.


My plan is to find that idea, the 'effection' idea. The idea that will reach at least several hundred thousand people, and provide a conversion. The idea that will develop a successful brand. The idea that provides a recurring income, month after month, and provides high relative value to the customer.


My name is Leonidas, and I would like to thank you for reading my journal.

Service Contract Followup and Continued Meditation
Jan 28th, 2012

Went to a clients location to discuss their web-solutions contract. This nonsense is taking longer than it should, since the client isn't technically savvy (in regards to computers), thus offloaded the communications channel to his nephew whom is in highschool... Assuming kids in highschool are aware of what goes into a website.

Either way, this client will provide a fantastic testimonial, although the time to completion seems like it will take forever...

Afterwards, I came home, watched the 'Rum Diary' (sucked), and fell asleep. Then woke up, studied some IM, then fell asleep.

The reason I'm sleeping so much is that, servicing someone isn't my goal. In fact, it's more of a hassle. That, and I'm trying to figure out a need to provide a product for.

Aside from creating posts related to cloud business entrepreneurship, these are not yet million dollar ideas.

Frustration.

"THIS IS SPARTA!"

Couldn't help myself...

Good luck! It sounds like you've got a lot of experience to build upon.

For a moment, ignore the product/service/'idea'. Instead, ask yourself who you want to work with. Do you want to work with local mom & pop businesses? Fortune 500 companies? Individuals? Now narrow it down even further to a small handful of groups that you would enjoy working with. Once you have the customer identified, you just need to ask what could improve their lives/jobs - then find a match with your skill set and provide it!

Originally Posted by Cparsons

"THIS IS SPARTA!"

Couldn't help myself...

Good luck! It sounds like you've got a lot of experience to build upon.

For a moment, ignore the product/service/'idea'. Instead, ask yourself who you want to work with. Do you want to work with local mom & pop businesses? Fortune 500 companies? Individuals? Now narrow it down even further to a small handful of groups that you would enjoy working with. Once you have the customer identified, you just need to ask what could improve their lives/jobs - then find a match with your skill set and provide it!

That is an interesting take on it. So target the level of income, and then find a niche... I will look further into this. Thanks Cparsons!


Jan 29th-Feb 1st

Last couple days have been a blur. I continue to go to the gym, sleep a couple hours more than I should, but part of my plan has been revitalized. A new business idea perhaps has arisen though.

I plan to create event-targeted facebook pages, then use facebook advertising to gain fans at a low CPC using CPM that is optimized.

On the facebook page itself, I will feature the usual content to hook fans, as well as an amazon webstore to monetize.

Luckily amazon features a 3-month free trial of their webstore.

Should be interesting.

Also, I have decided to start my first 'bootcamp' in teaching men how to pick up women. It's free for the moment, and is highly targeted. My aim is to further develop my 'managerial' and 'leadership' abilities in the school of hardknox. Should be fun.

Create Event-targeted facebook pages... okay, so pages around a specific event, like I suppose a concert - Then pay to get fans and try to sell them stuff from amazon webstore...?

So, as soon as the event is over, that page is trash. And you've got to start all over on a new event...

Let me know if I'm off base, but sounds terrible. There's no value to the customer (as you'll have to do a ton of these so you'll just be ripping off info they could find other places) - and the customer has no lifetime value to you (because a month or two later there will be no reason for the page to exist).

sounds good, we have some similarities in our backgrounds.. will follow your thread, keep it up! speed+

Jan 31st to Feb 5th

Woke up at 2pm every day, with a low desire to do much work, and then went out every single night to go and practice the art of seduction. Opened dozens of women, but my mind always tells me its just a huge distraction, especially at the age of 23. Yes, I'm great at it, but it's not fastlane, its just an ego boost, and the sex is ultimately anti-climatic...

Thursday, Feb 9th

Went to my gym, and got in contact with the gatekeeper to get a web development nicely priced contract. The gate keeper asked me to come back again on tuesday.

Feb 10 to 11th

2 days of consistent work done. Working with a client whom is taking much longer to get their shit together than I expected. Once again, service contracts suck. Learning this very quickly.

No big idea yet, but getting closer to determining my niche. Web 2.0 Solutions. This can still be anything though.

Feb 12th to 29th
Still struggling with finding my deep-inner centred motivations. Since Feb 10th, I've continued to play the field in debauchery, but this goal has quickly lowered in priority as I continue to establish a goal.

In the mean time, I've downloaded various WSO's (Warrior special offers), only to avoid reading them. Let's make this our mission perhaps?

I've also completed 2 additional websites, and continue to work on a 3rd, as well as, completely rehauled my own site to become more of a service-oriented website.

www.premium23.com

Struggling to establish a motivation in life. It's definitely not money. Will see where this goes.

Based on your skills in seduction, I think you should seriously consider pursuing that business model... Sure, there are others in that space, but there is a lot of room for you to give it your own twist and lots of ways to make it fastlane.