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Are you apart of the problem? Or part of the solution? I don't see any recent contributions from you. Forums are mostly take with little give. The people complaining are usually the takers. They expect all give from the givers and when the givers don't feel respected, or their advice is ignored (not even a click thanks) or when their shit is stolen, they leave. Forums are like mini-socialist experiments... once everyone sits on the side of TAKE and there is no one left to GIVE, they die.
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I haven't contributed much here because I have been off executing my own processes and businesses. I have varied interest and spending time on forums is time that can be spent launching a new campaign, or recording in the studio, or looking for an investment property.<br />
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Money didn't change me, the process changed me. Money was the result of that process. I've been an entrepreneur my entire life. It's in my DNA and my character. And half of that life, I've been broke.
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I know it's taboo around here to disagree with you, cuz this is your playground, but... I know you didn't buy your Lambo with "process", you bought it with money.<br />
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I've had a similar conversation with 50 cent a while back. And you know what he said... "You damn right the money changed me. It makes people look at me different -- and that's power. If I went through all the shit I went through to make it in this game, and dropped an album that didn't sell, do you think people would love me or hate me as much as they do? Do you think they would listen when I speak? If I didn't blow, do you think they would've cared that I got shot 9 times, locked up, and stabbed? Nobody would've gave a f#ck about me. I'd just be another nigg@ try'na get on."<br />
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So here's the point: Sure you've always been an entrepreneur, but once you were able to measure your progress with money, that <u>changed</u> you into an entrepreneur with the power to tell people "take the fastlane." And more importantly, the "money" is what makes them listen to you. Makes them believe you. It's the reason why I listen to chapters 29-37 of your audio book in my truck.<br />
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But trust me, if you had gone through your "process" and had nothing but <b>a bag of grapes to show for it...</b> we wouldn't be having this conversation on YOUR (money making) forum , about YOUR (money making) book. In the words of 50, you'd "...just be another nigg@ try'na get on."<br />
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Like most of the dudes here.<br />
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<b>This is directly from your book:</b><br />
<i> "Some months I’d PROFIT more than $200,000. Yes, profit! A bad month was $100,000. I earned in two weeks what most people earned in an entire year. Wealth poured in and I was flying low on the radar . . . no fame. If you earned $200,000 every month, <b>how would your life change?"</b></i><br />
<b>When you sold your company the first time around for 1.2 mil, you said:</b><br />
<i>"For the next few years I lived a life of laziness and gluttony. Sure, I worked a few hours a month, but mostly, I worked out, traveled, played video games, bought and raced fast cars, entertained myself with dating Web sites, gambled—I was free because I had a <b><u>money tree</u> </b>that surrogated for my time and yielded a bountiful monthly harvest."</i><br />
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I don't recall any mentions of "process trees". And I know a person that is passionate about building a business is not "living a life of laziness and gluttony." That 1.2 changed you!<br />
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Anyway, I get it. You're a thought leader now and you have to say something more profound than: "find a niche, then put your head down and grind." <br />
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But I think that's accurate.<br />
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Btw, that's what 50 told me to do when I was just another nigg@ try'na get on. "Find your lane, Son. Then put your head down and grind hard. Don't look up till the world is screaming your name. That's when you know you came up."<br />
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But maybe that only applies to the rap game?</div>
