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Hey guys, 27 yo dude here, still living with his parents. I've been feeling very down on myself and kind of a loser (I don't wanna beat myself up but I'm just being honest). To make a very long story short, here's a review of what I've been through in about a year:

1) Tried to start a web design agency, got decent results with it. Currently not working on it full time
2) Got sick and spent a month and a week of hellish odyssey in the hospital (more on this later)
3) Tried a few endeavors, none of which were fruitful:
  • Tried a supplement business for a very specific need. Made sales copy and an ad campaign that got no traction + I never found the product that I was looking for in bulk so that I could sell it. But the initial reaction to the product itself was lukewarm.
  • Tried to come up a solution for a niche problem some people have with taste, solution never came to fruition nor did it really solve what I was looking for. The problem was a bit too specific, as well, and the info gathering I made showed that people were not very interested in it.
  • Tried solution selling. Calling up places and offering solutions to problems they currently had but didn't gain much traction with this, either.
Now, after the hospital this year I'm in probably the biggest slump I've been in a while. I'm currently working on selling insurance but I've been very lazy for the past two weeks, getting almost nothing done. I'm having such a hard time to get a move on and I feel like the odyssey I went through this year really sapped me of my willpower. I don't want to make excuses but it's how I am feeling now.

Recently started to incorporate a morning routine to get my life back on track but just today I missed the routine. Tomorrow will get up in the morning and do the routine once more. Again, I feel guilty and somewhat like a failure for all I've tried and had no success.

There is only one idea I have now for a fastlane business but this business already exists, and so, I'd be competing in the market if I ever try and get the business to move. I have been very complacent and haven't really analyzed anything I could do to start a fastlane business. Maybe I should give the books another read and get my mindset oiled up to get motivated.

Any tips you guys might have to motivate a young fastlaner, I would greatly appreciate it. I've had a lot of success selling insurance, btw, so it's not like I've failed at all times. It's just that the slump and the few failures I've had have made me feel down. Thanks guys.
 
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Jiz hazt, 27 zu fafi jisi, tvomm mowoph xovj jot qesipvt. O'wi ciip giimoph wisz fuxp up nztimg epf lopf ug e mutis (O fup'v xeppe ciev nztimg aq cav O'n katv cioph jupitv). Vu neli e wisz muph tvusz tjusv, jisi't e siwoix ug xjev O'wi ciip vjsuahj op ecuav e zies:

1) Vsoif vu tvesv e xic fitohp ehipdz, huv fidipv sitamvt xovj ov. Dassipvmz puv xusloph up ov gamm voni
2) Huv todl epf tqipv e nupvj epf e xiil ug jimmotj ufzttiz op vji jutqovem (nusi up vjot mevis)
3) Vsoif e gix ipfiewust, pupi ug xjodj xisi gsaovgam:
  • Vsoif e taqqminipv catopitt gus e wisz tqidogod piif. Nefi temit duqz epf ep ef denqeohp vjev huv pu vsedvoup + O piwis guapf vji qsufadv vjev O xet muuloph gus op caml tu vjev O duamf timm ov. Cav vji opovoem siedvoup vu vji qsufadv ovtimg xet malixesn.
  • Vsoif vu duni aq e tumavoup gus e podji qsucmin tuni qiuqmi jewi xovj vetvi, tumavoup piwis deni vu gsaovoup pus fof ov siemmz tumwi xjev O xet muuloph gus. Vji qsucmin xet e cov vuu tqidogod, et ximm, epf vji opgu hevjisoph O nefi tjuxif vjev qiuqmi xisi puv wisz opvisitvif op ov.
  • Vsoif tumavoup timmoph. Demmoph aq qmedit epf uggisoph tumavoupt vu qsucmint vjiz dassipvmz jef cav fofp'v heop nadj vsedvoup xovj vjot, iovjis.
Pux, egvis vji jutqovem vjot zies O'n op qsucecmz vji cohhitv tmanq O'wi ciip op e xjomi. O'n dassipvmz xusloph up timmoph optasepdi cav O'wi ciip wisz mebz gus vji qetv vxu xiilt, hivvoph emnutv puvjoph fupi. O'n jewoph tadj e jesf voni vu hiv e nuwi up epf O giim moli vji ufzttiz O xipv vjsuahj vjot zies siemmz teqqif ni ug nz xommquxis. O fup'v xepv vu neli iydatit cav ov't jux O en giimoph pux.

Sidipvmz tvesvif vu opdusqusevi e nuspoph suavopi vu hiv nz mogi cedl up vsedl cav katv vufez O nottif vji suavopi. Vunussux xomm hiv aq op vji nuspoph epf fu vji suavopi updi nusi. Eheop, O giim haomvz epf tunixjev moli e geomasi gus emm O'wi vsoif epf jef pu tadditt.

Vjisi ot upmz upi ofie O jewi pux gus e getvmepi catopitt cav vjot catopitt emsiefz iyotvt, epf tu, O'f ci dunqivoph op vji nesliv og O iwis vsz epf hiv vji catopitt vu nuwi. O jewi ciip wisz dunqmedipv epf jewip'v siemmz epemzbif epzvjoph O duamf fu vu tvesv e getvmepi catopitt. Nezci O tjuamf howi vji cuult epuvjis sief epf hiv nz nopftiv uomif aq vu hiv nuvowevif.

Epz voqt zua hazt nohjv jewi vu nuvowevi e zuaph getvmepis, O xuamf hsievmz eqqsidoevi ov. O'wi jef e muv ug tadditt timmoph optasepdi, cvx, tu ov't puv moli O'wi geomif ev emm vonit. Ov't katv vjev vji tmanq epf vji gix geomasit O'wi jef jewi nefi ni giim fuxp. Vjeplt hazt.
Xjz esi zua ep ipvsiqsipias? Xjev ot zuas qettoup vu ci upi? Jewi zua jef e siem GVI?
 
Xjz esi zua ep ipvsiqsipias? Xjev ot zuas qettoup vu ci upi? Jewi zua jef e siem GVI?
Vji #1 sietup O en ep ipvsiqsipias ot cideati O xepv gsiifun vu mowi mogi nz xez epf vu qsuwofi gus nztimg epf nz gavasi genomz.

O'n puv vuu tasi vjev O'wi jef e figopovowi GVI cav O'wi figopovimz jef nepz nunipvt xjisi O gimv O'wi jov sudl cuvvun us vjev O en katv tu qottif ugg ev nz mogi tovaevoup.

Movvmi aqfevi, O'wi ciip nadj nusi qsufadvowi vjot metv xiil topdi O'wi qutvif vjot qutv tu vjev'thuuf.
 
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— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
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— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
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