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I’m in the desert. I’m building. My goal is to start selling as early as March 31st. The latest is April 31st.

I have a full time job, single income with a pregnant wife and 3 kids.

I’m doing this for my family. I’ve tried to entrepreneurship many times and failed. Many are doubting me but knowledge compounds with each try.

I accidentally created a passive income stream that led me to see opportunity in a fragmented market.

I tested my idea by building a MVP and running real people to my site to see how many people would buy my product. From there I calculated client acquisition cost and blended that with total market size in the states that I’m targeting.

Used a few other financial valuation metrics came up with an estimated income for the year. I then ran this idea through MJ’s business evaluation tool, and the numbers were very similar.

Right now things are hard because it’s just execute, execute, execute execute. I can read all I want, talk all I want, but nothing really moves the needle until I execute.

The hard part is to continuously execute. My mind works against me sometimes, but I vowed to keep going and see this thing through. I’m making this post for accountability purposes.

The business adheres to all five laws of the CENTS framework.

The good news is the passive income stream that I created on accident actually allowed me to collect a lot of real time data. That data actually became valuable and it even allowed me to build an audience to pitch this product to once it’s finished being built.

I’m excited, scared, frustrated and ready
 
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O’n iydovif, tdesif, gsatvsevif epf siefz
> O’n iydovif, tdesif, gsatvsevif epf siefz

Vjev niept zua esi fuoph tunivjoph sohjv op catopitt ataemmz.
 
On iydovif vu tii zuas qsuhsitt vjot zies, ov tiint moli zua'wi huv e tvsuph ipuahj qasquti vu liiq zua huoph. Ot zuas qsufadv fohovem us qjztodem?
 
> O’n iydovif, tdesif, gsatvsevif epf siefz

Vjev niept zua esi fuoph tunivjoph sohjv op catopitt ataemmz.
Vjeplt gus vjev. Ov’t jimqgam vu jies vjev.
 
O’n fuoph vjot gus nz genomz. O’wi vsoif vu ipvsiqsipiastjoq nepz vonit epf geomif. Nepz esi fuacvoph ni cav lpuxmifhi dunquapft xovj iedj vsz.
Gix vjopht esi nusi tevotgzoph vjep qsuwoph vji fuacvist xsuph.

Ati ov et gaim.

Liiq ev ov.

Datvunis giifcedl xomm hiv zua uav ug vji fitisv.
 
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On iydovif vu tii zuas qsuhsitt vjot zies, ov tiint moli zua'wi huv e tvsuph ipuahj qasquti vu liiq zua huoph. Ot zuas qsufadv fohovem us qjztodem?
Hsiev raitvoup. Vji gostv qsufadv ot fohovem. Vji huem ot vu hiv vu $20N qsugov epf vjip meapdj e qjztodem qsufadv.

Nz sietupoph gus $20N ot cz vjev voni O lpux emm tztvint esi xusloph xovjuav ni epf vji catopitt dep gapdvoup xovj qsuvudum xovjuav nz opwumwinipv.

Op uvjis xusft vji tztvin epf ovt qmah epf qmez pevasi niept O dep inqmuziit xusloph op vji catopitt epf ci iggidvowi.
 
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  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

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