What does your days look like?

[GuestUser8117]

Random question. Curious to know how your typical day look like. As for me I do pretty much the same things everyday lol. Maybe that's not good.

I wake up at 10-11. Sometimes stay in bed a little longer. make coffee, breakfast while browsing the fastlane forum, shower.

After Go walk 30-40 minutes near the river or go downtown or hike in the mountains some days. 1-2 pm is usually lunch time.

2-3 pm, I read some magazines on real estate or travelling or a book in the backyard.

3-4 pm , learn guitar/violin techniques, improve my playing.

4-6 pm, cook, eat, talk with my family, wash the dishes.

6-7 pm, call friends if they wanna hang out or play pool, otherwise I go on the computer, educate myself or work on my projects. When I'm tired of the screen, I go lie in my bed and do some introspection, write in a journal, or listen to music. Sometimes read.

After if I'm hungry I might go out eat something or go get a scotch at a bar. Then come home, and get to sleep. In short, I do pretty much what the F*ck I want. However I find I don't have enough diversification in my life. Working on that.

Let's hear about you.

 

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[AmyQ]

Is this some kind of joke?

Weren't you recently complaining about how you live with your parents who don't understand your "fastlane" goals?

If this really is what your day looks like, you have to know you are going to get flamed for this post. People who are genuinely pursuing their own business do not have a schedule anything like what you have posted, even during their "time off." What gives?

 

[TJPB]

Is this some kind of joke?

Weren't you recently complaining about how you live with your parents who don't understand your "fastlane" goals?

If this really is what your day looks like, you have to know you are going to get flamed for this post. People who are genuinely pursuing their own business do not have a schedule anything like what you have posted, even during their "time off." What gives?

X2......

 

[Era]

Shouldn't this thread be posted in the sidewalk section of the forum...

Your schedule looks strikingly similar to the rest of the 99% percent.
You might want to schedule some time in there to work on a fastlane plan. Just a suggestion.

 

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[Runum]

Reads like "I do whatever I want, whenever I want and my mean dad that doesn't understand me pays for my leisure lifestyle."

To you and all the other young bucks out there:

Fastlane does not mean easy lane. Get yourself to work on your dreams

 

[GuestUser8117]

Oups. Bad thread idea.

 

[TJPB]

This forum rarely makes me laugh.....but this thread has me just about keeled over. If the OP is serious.....that's some funny sh!t right there....I don't care who you are.

 

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[DeletedUser394]

Well, I wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy, then I get my glasses and I'm out the door, because I'm going to hit this city. But before I leave I ALWAYS brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack, because when I leave for the night I'm usually not coming back!

 

[DeletedUser394]

Oups. Bad thread idea.

Not a bad idea for a thread, but an extremely bad utilization of your time.

I'd burn the violin and guitar, tell the friends I'm busy, and get to work.

 

[GuestUser8117]

I was asking the question to people who have made it. Who really are fastlaners.

 

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[DeletedUser394]

I was asking the question to people who have made it. Who really are fastlaners.

ooh, burn.

Why, have you 'made it'? Because your schedule looks like someone that's retired.

 

[GuestUser8117]

Not a bad idea for a thread, but an extremely bad utilization of your time.

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

 

[GuestUser8117]

ooh, burn.

Why, have you 'made it'? Because your schedule looks like someone that's retired.

Lol. Never said "I've made it". Far from it. But I'm considering all the responses even if people laugh at me.

 

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[Runum]

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

Omerta, great topic for this thread. I tried retiring once and was bored out of my mind. I am a project person, always got a hustle going on.

In your case, your quality time is temporary and dependent. It is temporary because one day you will be out of your dad's house and in the cruel, tough world. It is dependent totally on your dad's finances.

In all fairness, good points for you. You started a thread and put your input in first, bravo. Second, it's tough to compare your life and where you are to someone like myself or any of the other more experienced members. You are still learning to walk. Enjoy your time at the place in life you are now. It won't last.

 

[DeletedUser394]

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

Okay, but unless you do something you realize you're going to have to get a 'j.o.b.' eventually right?

'Entrepreneurship is living a few years like most people won't, so that you can live the rest of your life like most people can't.'

Good luck man. The lifestyle you're living now is fine, nothing wrong with it, but if you have bigger goals and are supposedly unhappy with certain aspects of your life, you gotta do something different. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

 

[AmyQ]

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

Really?

A lot of people here with jobs are leveraging their time for money so that they can fund their business and eventually leverage other people's time or their product/service for money. They are providing value to their employers now and will provide value to their customers and employees in the future.

You seem to be trading your parents' time for money. What value are you offering in return for their time?

 

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[GuestUser8117]

it's tough to compare your life and where you are to someone like myself or any of the other more experienced members. You are still learning to walk. Enjoy your time at the place in life you are now. It won't last.

Now, that's some uncomfortable truth and love to hear it. I heard you. Thanks for the response.

 

[Runum]

I can give you a few things I might do in any given summer day. School teacher 10 months of the year. I won't bore you with those details.

Up at 7:00ish, check emails, news, breakfast.

8:00ish check online stores/sales

9:00ish check on rental properties and other real estate

Spend most of the day interviewing renters and dealing with contractors/repairmen and checking for material prices and availability. Also deal with upset renters sometimes, spend morning in eviction court, supervise trash out of rental unit. Looking at new properties. Selling other properties. Talking with Realtors and bankers.

This may go on until 3:00 -4:00

4:00 check online stores/sales/fulfillment. Solve any customer problems. Check on overseas shipments.

5:00 look for new products to buy/import/list on stores

8:00ish skype with suppliers in China about import products

11:00 read

12:00 sleep well

Mixed in all that I skype/text/talk with friends, get on forum, eat lunch/supper with wife friends

repeat most days each week.

I like to sit around sometimes, but I do like being busy too. My mind won't let me sit still long.

 

[ChickenHawk]

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

This may be true, but you're doing it on someone else's dime, so it's not exactly be something to be proud of. The good news is that when you're living this life because you've made it on your own, it will be a totally different story.

To answer the original question, I get up at 6:30 a.m., work out, shower, help get my gradeschooler ready for school/summer camp, go to that ol' slowlane job 8 to 4:30, come home, make dinner/housework, spend quality time with the husband and son, get the gradeschooler off to bed sometime around 10-ish, and work on my fastlane stuff from around 11 p.m. until 1 or 2 in the morning. I sleep five or six hours, then get up and do it again. Thank God for weekends.

I'll say one thing for the slowlane. Living it seems like a great way to fully appreciate fastlane success once it's earned.

To all you unattached, people without a mortgage and family to support. For heaven's sake, reach for the fastlane now, while you have the free time to make it happen, and still get some sleep.

 

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[GuestUser8117]

Omerta, great topic for this thread. I tried retiring once and was bored out of my mind. I am a project person, always got a hustle going on.
.

Hustling is very good. And there are plenty of things/hobbies out there not to be bored. Music, business, travel, sports, swim, writing, painting,sculpting,drawing, learning about the world, learning a new language, flip cars/houses, carpentry, wine/beer making, hunting, fishing, boating, photography......the list is never ending. But if you are happy with your job as a teacher, I'm happy for you. The thing is we have to exercise our freedom fully.

 

[InLikeFlint]

Omerta I am about to give you some tough love, so be ready for it...

I have observed you on the forum for quite some time. One thing I notice is you have the smallest attention span of everyone I know. You probably start the most threads too, which often times I suspect is you fishing for reputation. I think you need to pick something and stay with it. Even your schedule hops all over the place, "Maybe I will call some friends, maybe I go to the scotch bar, maybe I lay in my bed and stare at the wall...". You need to have some sort of structure in your life and you need to stick with it.

There is nothing wrong with having free time and relaxing or doing things completely unrelated to business, but there IS something wrong with calling yourself a business person, posting threads about people not understanding your 'fastlane mindset' yet I see one hour in your day allotted to business stuff and it shares time with "Hangout with my friends". Do you really expect to free yourself from your career if every once in a while you put somewhere around an hour of work into your ventures?

My advice for you would be to take a serious look at your life and your goals and then evaluate your schedule and make changes where needed. My guess is your current lifestyle contradicts your goals for the future.

I also have plenty of time on my hands. I am a student and am currently on summer vacation, and I don't work, but does that mean I lounge around all day and do whatever tickles my fancy? NO! I wake up no later than 8am daily and get to work. If I am not on the forum or working on my business ventures I am outside doing yard work for my parents, or I am writing articles for some extra cash. Not to mention I have a daily workout routine where I fit in healthy eating, cardio, core, and weight training. I spend lots of time daily doing things for my parents to make their lives easier, would you like to know why? Because they pay for me and they support my business ventures, they work on a daily basis and the LEAST I can do for them is clean up the house without being asked.

Maybe if your parents don't "understand" you it probably has to do with you lounging around for 90% of the day. I recommend you start by taking some of your "do whatever I please time" and spend it asking them what you can do to make their lives easier. Trust me it means a lot and it will show them you are hardworking and responsible, and it will also show that you aren't wasting your life away. Even if they don't understand your business interests now it will help show your work ethic and your compassion for them. I'm almost positive that once you prove to them you are able to do work and handle things on your own they will be able to accept your business hopes and dreams.

Just my two cents, I advise you to take this as constructive criticism and I apologize if I seem harsh, but I really dislike when people act hypocritical. If you want me to elaborate on my schedule and how I delegate my time, feel free to ask.

 

[AmyQ]

Hustling is very good. And there are plenty of things/hobbies out there not to be bored. Music, business, travel, sports, swim, writing, painting,sculpting,drawing, learning about the world, learning a new language, flip cars/houses, carpentry, wine/beer making, hunting, fishing, boating, photography......the list is never ending. But if you are happy with your job as a teacher, I'm happy for you. The thing is we have to exercise our freedom fully.

Agree with you completely on exercising our freedom. Freedom for me results from not having to work for money. Freedom for me does not result from depending on other people for money. I do not want to depend on an employer for the money I use to live. I have even less of a desire to depend on my family for money to live. In fact, I would consider that dependance, not freedom. If your parents kicked you out on July 10th, how much freedom would you have? That is exactly how much freedom you have now.

 

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[RBefort]

Slowlane perspective...I'll bite

6:00am, wake up or get up after being woken up by the dog 60x during the night. Dress, brush teeth, comb hair, grab breakfast. Pissed off mood about all of this.

6:35am, out the door and in traffic going to the cube...faggot in the right line speeding past me 15 over the speed limit because he will be late to work...think to myself how dumb he and all of this is, and why I can't get out of it

7:00am, arrive to my cube before anyone on my team...learn I like the quiet more and more each day, excited now because I am excited to accomplish my tasks. I don't like the tasks, just excited about accomplishing things and hoping for free time to do what I wat.

9:00am, why the F*ck isn't it lunch already? Watch the couple of hot ladies walk past my company; listen to my boss laugh her dumb laugh and bitch on the phone.

11:00am, LUNCH TIME! favorite part of the day besides going home. If boss is gone/working from home, go to Wendys. Dream about how I become successful and can just relax my my mind and scratch ideas down on paper over lunch; not in a hurry. I read a book/take notes while I eat.

Noon, only supposed to be half hour lunch, but haven't gotten in trouble yet.

3 pm, freak out because I need to get work done so I can go home the instant I feel able.

315 pm, leave work 15 min before scheduled, deal with same traffic as before work.

345-5pm dink around online because I feel entitled....sometimes work out, sometimes forced to walk the dog.

5pm-dinner! another favorite of mine.

6pm after dinner and dishes, more comp time whether learning real estate, reading, doing a time waster I shouldn't

8pm gf goes to bed and i'm stuck with dog. dog sleeps, I am online.

10pm I fail and get sleepy, take dog out to piss. Put dog to bed and listen to him whine in the kennel, thinking about sex because I haven't gotten any in awhile.

Life in a nutshell.

 

[SeanKelly]

Wake up/Eat breakfast
Grow Landscaping Business
Sleep

 

[goodfella]

lol your almost wasting your time man. You should be working on something if you're free all day because if you're not you might as well just get a job because you'll probably learn far more from that.

 

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[FionaS]

Not quite fast lane here either, but a different perspective from everyone else so far. Mom of 2 under 2 with a incommunicado husband at the moment (Ranger School).

0530 - daughter wakes up, I wake up and rush to get her out of the bedroom before she wakes up her brother.

0630 - feed daughter, get a drink, try to work on business stuff while I'm holding her or as she naps.

0830 - feed daughter again. Grab a snack. Clean spit up from floor and take a quick shower.

0900 - son wakes up. Make him breakfast and play with him while daughter naps. Grab a fast breakfast while son is hanging on me to get my attention.

1000 - son wants to go outside/draw/watch tv. I get him set up and run in between the kids feeding them and playing with them.

1200 - clean up the house a bit, try to check email and relax a little.

1500 - feed daughter, start working in getting son to nap - he's laying on me as I rock the bassinet with my foot.

1600 - son falls asleep. I start thawing food for dinner and mess around on the computer. Eat dinner while feeding daughter.

1900 - son wakes up, feed him and daughter. Play with son. Work when he plays independently for a couple minutes. Fingerpaint and bath time. Read fast lane forum on phone.

1030 - start putting son to sleep. Feed daughter. Son falls asleep. Daughter starts crying. Son wakes up. Daughter falls asleep. Son starts crying. Repeat. I play with phone and go on forum and Facebook so I don't go crazy.

1130 - both kids are asleep. I try to study but fall asleep.

0130 - feed daughter. Put her back to sleep.

0300 - son has nightmare. Calm him down and get him to fall asleep.

0400 - feed daughter


And it starts over again.

Can't wait till my daughter doesn't need to be fed quite as much and they can play together.

 

[SBS.95]

Part of the reason I like this forum so much is that stupid posts, the kind that would annoy and frustrate me on similar forums, tend to get filtered out. Sometimes there are exceptions though.

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

What a loser I must be because I'm working a slowlane job I hate, where I am trading my time for money. Never mind the fact that at the moment I need that job in order to fund any business endeavors, as well as my current lifestyle (which is to say, basic necessities like gas/phone bill/car insurance.) Yes, at least you have more "quality" time than me, but let's be clear that quality time does not mean productive time.

It seems like you're trying to act like you've made it already. But not only have you not made it, you aren't even working towards making it.

In short, I do pretty much what the F*ck I want.

That's straight up fastlane, F-U money, in your face attitude. Coming from someone like MJ, that attitude- it works. In fact, there are several members on this forum where it works. When Vigilante ends posts with "because I can", it's exactly the type of motivation I need to reinforce that whole idea of "this is what I want to be able to say."

That same attitude, coming from you, comes off as arrogant. Most important rule of the book- have control. You have none. There's nothing wrong with mooching off your daddy's money. But for god's sake use your time wisely while you still have so much opportunity. It pains me that you have so many chances to get something going, and you're playing the violin.

 

[liquidglass]

My day in very short order.

Used to get up at 5 or 6 and no longer have the need to because I employee people to do that for me, haha!

Get up about 9 or 9:30

Get ready
Mediate on the day or read
Work
Work
Work
lunch if time allows
work
work
work
Get home about 8pm-9pm
Enjoy dinner the wife cooked
relax with wife
read
get to bed at 1am-2am


The difference between you and I are I have the option to work or take time off but I choose to work because I'm F*cking driven. This does and will lead to more "quality" time as you put it. When you start your journey (if you do) you'll look back on your days currently and wonder why the hell didn't I start working on this earlier?

In your case, your quality time is temporary and dependent. It is temporary because one day you will be out of your dad's house and in the cruel, tough world. It is dependent totally on your dad's finances.

Enjoy your time at the place in life you are now. It won't last.

AMEN!

The way I like to put it for fastlane is it's a marathon, you can walk to rest in the beginning but you're going to have to run at some F*cking point.

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

Quality time is relative, is it quality if it's temporary and a continuum of mindless activities or is it just laziness? You may not trade your time for money now but you will. If your parents fund your lazy days that means they've done something to be able to and will expect you to do the same. Figure that out now before they demand it.

 

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[Vigilante]

OP- Take your day. Imagine if you can the most opposite extreme from your day. Take every action item you posted and imagine what the exact opposite thing would be. That's my day.

 

[Thriftypreneur]

Agree, but at least I have more quality time than all the people who don't like their jobs and trade time for money.

LOL What!?

You mooch off your parents and attempt to justify it by saying you have a "fastlane mentality" and won't trade your time for money? What the hell is this?

Shake. My. Head.