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Your claims:
- there is nothing there
- there is no way to get around
- you are unable to hustle buying / selling local
- there are no opportunities
- there are no jobs
- internet access sucks

If we dropped you in the middle of the desert with no food, water, or shelter. You would just sit there and say 'i can't do it'??

Change your mindset. Change your location. Change your language. Then you can change your beliefs.
@Kung Fu Steve can help.
 

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I'll put the market resarch documents to the thread.

Pleas note, this was all before, I joined the fastlane or had read the book. This is part of my process rather than the event. I was trying to be too disruptive, rather than concentrating on money making events

PROBLEM
For cross border commuters who have their income in one currency but
expenses in another (for instance work in Switzerland but live in
Germany/France/Italy), every time the exchange rate changes they are
exposed to volatility
SOLUTION
A simple app to provide forward
s as a service that allows them to offload
the exchange risk to counterparties, giving them a stable and secure
income against their expenses. (forwards as a service)

25 respondents (Frieburg)
Half had already encountered this problem. 70% said they thought it was useful. Few similar options were available. (One individual was reliant on friends)

Nobody, wanted to buy, but around a third stated they would consider it in the future, if they changed their job.
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Sie ist sinnvoll aber mit Problemen behaftet. Der
Drittanbieter möchte ja auch nicht auf dem
Wechselkursrisiko sitzen bleiben, deswegen wird das
denke ich teuer.

Macht ihr mal, es ist eine gute Idee

Machen Sie weiter so


Bei positiver Entwicklung des Kurses hätte der Kunde
nichts davon


Warum nicht, klingt gut

Die
I
dee ist sicherlich nicht ganz uninteressant, aber
ich denke es wird doch bei Betroffenen eine hohe
Skepsis gegenüber der Drittparteivorgehen geben.
Die Grenzpendler entscheiden sich oft bewusst dafür
auf der anderen Seite zu arbeiten um monetäre
Vorte
ile daraus zu ziehen. Bei dem beschriebenen
Vorgehen entsteht zumindest das Gefühl
Wechselkursgewinne zu verpassen. Weiterhin müsste
man ja sein Einkommen offen legen

Das Angebot sollten Firmen ihren Mitarbeitern
anbieten um attraktiv zu sein bzw. zu blei
ben


Gute Sache

Eventuell auch für Urlauber anbieten


reason I gave up on it. Inadequate German and no more money for hostel.

Now, I need to push most things on to the back burner, and wait till I find something smaller and more practical.
 

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You need to look into relocating & finding a steady job, without a steady income you are just making life harder.

Anything is better than nothing

I agree. I'm applying to jobs elsewhere. I think I mentioned the one in Boston.

However when they do respond, they tell me that they don't think I can get in (I will relocate for a dishwasher job, if it means being in a better area) (although a stop overnight can make that expensive, and then if I need 100 interviews to get that 1 job, I go broke before getting it. So in order to relocate, I need a steady job, so my main challenge is to convince them to do a skype interview. Or to get an online steady job. This is why I'm hopeful for appen. Online income, means I can move/travel for short time, to look for a steady job. I'm hoping that my internet will be fast enough for them and they will take me on.


Your claims:

- there is no way to get around


@Kung Fu Steve can help.

Untrue. I said I'm reliant on my own two legs and the public transit which is poor. Walking is a method of getting around. The opportunity for me is different than for someone in say new york or
Vancouver

Your claims:
- internet access sucks

Nope, I just said this is the speed and that skype videoconferencing doesn't work well. I'm not complaining, I'm just telling you that is true. Now if I can come up with a solution, that works with internet at that speed, then great! If the idea needs fibre optic then its not for me right now.(unless it is a remote job that pays enough for me to move/travel)

Your claims:
- you are unable to hustle buying / selling local

True, is it possible I could hustle in Birmingham, while being unable to hustle in Holbeach Hurn though?

Your claims:
- there are no jobs
.

no jobs here. The pub is not hiring. Nobody wants me to wash their windows or (btw, the caravans are all owned by the pub, so that is one largish business) (4.5 acres) You would think supplying caravaners with something might be pocketmoney, but apparently not.
Why not move?

As soon as I can, I will do so.

Your claims:
- there is nothing there
.

OK, you got me there. I know I said, there is no garage. I might
have sad there are no business, rather than there is only one. Now I'm all open to anything that I can do supplying just one pub(who are not recruiting)

Although, I still think online is my best bet.
 
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If we dropped you in the middle of the desert with no food, water, or shelter. You would just sit there and say 'i can't do it'??
@Kung Fu Steve can help.

I don't know, how close to Las Vegas am I? :) That is in the middle of the desert right? Being 200 yards from there, would be a very different situation.
 

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Guess what, I moved to Vancouver

You are in control of your life 100%

Why don't you try offering to help with yard work for your neighbors or cleaning? I doubt businesses bother with traveling to remote locations like you are in, my first customer I landed for $20 and I didn't even have a lawnmower.

Go around the area and knock on doors offering some service like grass cutting, cleaning, yard work, shingle cleaning, window cleaning, garbage removal whatever.

If you don't even have a lawnmower find one, ask to borrow it for a commission of $10 bucks with a free cut.

Suddenly you have 10 customers that pay you $20 you got $200 in your pocket, now you can use that money for bus fare into the city.

If you get rejected by someone **** em. Do the job for free and come back in 2 weeks & let them know you charge ____ for a re-cut.

I've lived out in the middle of nowhere before and I imagine it would be insanely easy to get customers for a service industry.
 
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Do call me out if you get a negative tone, and please try and tell me which words give a negative toner. I've got a good list, and can keep building it.

Excellent! Nice find about looking for alternative wording that might seem to say thing, but it comes across in a more positive emotional tone.

I seem to struggle at finding an online audience and engaging with them, possibly because I don't have much in the way of social media presence.

When you are clear on what you want to say, and who you want to say it to, then it will be easy to get clear on what communication channels to use. "I want to say something, I'm not sure what, to someone, I'm not sure who," can't be cleared up by a course on Twitter or blogs or whatever. Once you have that clarity, then it will become so much easier to choose relevant tactics.

I do possess a fairly below average EQ, although I have a higher EQ (Not trying to humblebrag or whine, just state facts)

Whatever your EQ it looks like a proofreading mistake?

I am not suggesting that you're on the autistic spectrum or have Asperger's syndrome. I am pointing out that some people who are very smart, very analytical, and who've been very successful in business and technology, are within this range. I also point out that there are online forums specifically for people in this range. I recommend you do a web search for autism business forums and so forth, visit a few and see if there might be helpful advice there about how a very smart and analytical person, who doesn't find that "socially standard" emotional cues come easy, can better succeed in business. If it turns out that this idea is not helpful or relevant for you, please feel free to discard it!

This is what has lead me to the conclusion , my fastlane must be online.

I think that's reasonable. Online you can serve at least a national market, perhaps international. Online you can look for buyers among at least tens of millions of people, rather than just the local population in your village.

My internet connection is currently 5.1Mbps and 200ms latency. I've no idea what qualifies as "fast". However this is rarely enough to run videochat on skype without constant stuttering and freeze framing (Voice is just fine though)

Given your constraints, especially the hearing issue, I recommend you look for business model where you are seldom required to have real-time voice or video conversations with clients. You could still be extremely active on Twitter or a chat/instant message platform if you wanted, an extra half second delay to type a message should be no big deal. Or you could decide that you want a business model where everyone agrees that you'll write back within a day and that's good enough for everyone.

I'm a very analytical person, when people tell me to stop over-analysing this can be rather taxing for myself, as it is just natural, quick and easy to analyse things.

It's unpleasant to be told to "just stop" doing what comes most naturally and easily, just because other people find it difficult and tiring for them to do it. For you, the better question might be, have I done enough analysis so that it's reasonable to take a more tangible action step now?

I have some small limited funds, I'm investigating the idea of buying in an audience or a small blog or whatsapp group or something in a niche I can appeal towards.

Once you're clear on message and audience, Andy Black's advice on Adwords might help. But the problem with unclear message for unclear audience, isn't solved by paying for a higher-velocity communications channel.

At the moment, I'm doing day labour work.

I've done that. It was sometimes okay, as when they had us use big brooms to clean up a newly paved shopping mall construction site before it opened. It was sometimes miserable, as when I stood on an unsafe platform outdoors all night picking debris off a conveyor belt. You have my true sympathy. It's good you have some money but this is work where you can't stop to write down an idea, and it can be too physically tiring to do much of your own thing at the end of the day.

I completely agree with your desire to stay within the law. No matter how exciting some newly decriminalized opportunities might be in other countries, that doesn't help you do what's still illegal in your country.
 

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Why not move?

He's answered that: literally no money and no credit to be able to make a move without arriving homeless. I think it's reasonable for him to want to do an online business to make enough money to move. He's made clear he's willing and eager to move as soon as it's realistically feasible. I think hammering on him more about this point isn't productive for anyone. As someone who one time was forced by circumstances to move while totally destitute and arrived literally homeless, I wouldn't wish that on anyone and I can say it's a virtually impossible circumstance to build a business.
 

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This is basically a technical manual! If dry convoluted precise, pedantic, and phlegmatic prose can be valuable, maybe I can make a six integer a month salary.

I withdraw my recommendation of copywriting and replace it with a recommendation you consider technical writing.

Ad copy is writing to create an emotional appeal with an audience, so that they feel more eager to buy. Many reasons this isn't coming easy to you now, but no worries. Technical writing is writing to provide an intellectual resource for an audience, so that they understand because they are more informed.

Manuals, help files, product data sheets, proposal documents, information-based rather than emotional-appeal speeches, scripts for documentary videos, programmer's reference manuals for software libraries. These are the kind of things that technical writers work on. Here's an entire site from Microsoft that is full of technical writing. Learn to Develop with Microsoft Developer Network | MSDN Except for occasional "hooray for the development business" emotional appeal, everything in MSDN, forums, blogs, training videos, is technical writing. Many companies don't have an in-house department that can do all this stuff, many do but hire freelancers. Could this be a good fit for you?

I recommend you look into this, especially see if some of Bob Bly's material helps you. (I mean the Bob Bly who used to be a chemical engineer and now does business writing, not the Bob Bly who's in the men's movement of sociology and interpersonal psychology.)

A technical writer typically takes extremely dense, technically detailed "what it is and how it works" type of material that's already created by engineers or designers, and turns it into "here's how you can use it" kind of material. Usually there is not an urgent need to have a video call about this kind of project. Explaining that you'd rather write correspondence by email or chat because you're somewhat hard of hearing, might be good enough.
 
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Guess what, I moved to Vancouver

Curious, did you move first then get a job/income in Vancouver or did you move to Vancouver first then look for work? In the latter case how did you pay for rent while looking for work?

garbage removal

Now that might be something. I'll look to see if harnahe handling comes under the waste processing license requirements.

Why don't you try offering to help with yard work for your neighbors or cleaning?.

I couldn't get that. I had a scythe rather than a lawnmower, but I couldn't even get cut grass for free work or window washing work. You would think people would prefer free work to keep paying the guy they have, but nope.

You are in control of your life 100%

Cool, I will just sprout wings and jet engines and fly to better places :):p problem solved. I'm in 100% control, right?
 

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[I continue because I want to help those coming behind .... the ones reading this years from now....]

@LittleWolfie if you were attempting to give advice to someone new on the forum, someone trying to get started, and they provided some of the responses and answers you have been to me; what would you do? Would you continue? Would you see progress? Would you feel your time was being respected?

This isn't a game. Your responses are wasting my and your time.
Quit being obstinate and trivial. GET TO WORK.

What are your next 3 goals (each in one sentence form)?
What are your 3 biggest challenges (as few words as possible)?
What particular action can you take to remove / defeat / overcome each challenge (one to two sentences each)?
How will this move you toward your goal (one or two sentences)?

Be succinct. Be particular.
 

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He's answered that: literally no money and no credit to be able to make a move without arriving homeless. ........
Excuses.

He MUST change his mindset. If he wants it bad enough, then there is nothing that could stand in the way.
 
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I've moved twice both on gambles that worked out, its irrelevant... go execute, I already gave you ideas.

@ZCP you have way to much patience, must be a monk or something
 

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Curious, did you move first then get a job/income in Vancouver or did you move to Vancouver first then look for work? In the latter case how did you pay for rent while looking for work?
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I couldn't get that. I had a scythe rather than a lawnmower, but I couldn't even get cut grass for free work or window washing work. You would think people would prefer free work to keep paying the guy they have, but nope.
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Cool, I will just sprout wings and jet engines and fly to better places :):p problem solved. I'm in 100% control, right?
Self pity. Defeatism. Excuses.

You have to want it more than you want to breathe.

If you do, you will find a way.

You have been given the tools. It is now up to you to use them.
 

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I've moved twice both on gambles that worked out, its irrelevant... go execute, I already gave you ideas.
@ZCP you have way to much patience, must be a monk or something
I'm not doing this for him. There are 1000's coming behind us that need this kick in the a$$ ....... we all must do our part to make this world a better place. If you are here 2 or 3 or 10 years from now reading this post, PM me. Let me know if it made a difference.
 
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Good point actually
 

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[I continue because I want to help those coming behind .... the ones reading this years from now....]

@LittleWolfie if you were attempting to give advice to someone new on the forum, someone trying to get started, and they provided some of the responses and answers you have been to me; what would you do?
I'd point them to the books and writings I've found about learning to write with different tones of their communication as a method of changing their mindset.

Would you continue? Would you see progress? Would you feel your time was being respected?
.

Yes, yes and yes. In fact I've been in this position on autism forums.

What are your next 3 goals (each in one sentence form)?
What are your 3 biggest challenges (as few words as possible)?
What particular action can you take to remove / defeat / overcome each .

Goal 1

I need to be able to write in a more positive tone.

Goal 2

Identify where and to whom I can best add value right now.

Goal 3

Make some money online

Move

Challenge 1

Inabilty to identify if words have negative,positive or neutral tones.

Challenge 2

Inabilty to market my self and my skills.

Challenge 3

Local transport options.

Action

Read the resources, I have and have ordered on tonight of words. Apply and get feedback form mindset focused people, if it feels negative or positive.

Action 2

Complete copywriting threads/books this will help me market myself better.

Action 3

Find a niche, then add enough value and take enough that I can move to somewhere that has a tram.
 
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I withdraw my recommendation of copywriting and replace it with a recommendation you consider technical writing.

I'm willing to give it another go, however I need to gain more confidence in the ability to sell my technical writing.(Or find a copywriter form upwork to do it for me) It's not usually the target audience that I'm appealing to whom are paying out money.

You need to make the biz guy feel that you can connect with the developers.

It was a typo and should have been low eq and high iq.

I'm not quite on the spectrum, but I can see where you got that idea. In fact nowadays I get called "Sheldon" a lot.... looking for business forums set up for them might be more useful for me than here.

As for the law, the point I want to emphasise is if I'm doing something locally it's local laws not US ones that matter and they are not always the same.

Now I can move on or make a decision without analysing, for instance roll a dice if their is insufficient data. The challenge comes in knowing how long I can spend.

It's interesting how here I've got go deep really think on things and don't over anaylse.

I have to admit when people say don't over anaylse my first question is well how much time is enough analysing? How do I know if I'm under-analysing which I realise is a rather analytical approach.
 

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I'm willing to give it another go, however I need to gain more confidence in the ability to sell my technical writing.(Or find a copywriter form upwork to do it for me) It's not usually the target audience that I'm appealing to whom are paying out money.

You need to make the biz guy feel that you can connect with the developers.

One of the developers might also be a "biz guy." Or, the company or the department might be run by technologists. This is a big difference from the advertising/promotions department.

For emotionally based ad copy, you need to convince an ad manager or client that you can emotionally connect with their customers. These are likely people who are different than the client.

For intellectually based technical copy, you need to convince someone who's technical that you can convey technical info to technical people such as yourselves.

And you don't need to make a case, you only need to show samples. There's an endless supply of really great free software projects that need better documentation, user guides, cheat sheets, manuals, etc. It's in your control to just pick something, say hi to the documentation lead, check out some files, and write a new version. Examples from some open source tools I use daily:
Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People
Contribute | MX Community (Note that unlike your earlier effort to promote Linux in general, this site is for people who've already chosen Linux and want to use this particular distribution)
Contribute to the project - VideoLAN
This is within your control as a way to build a portfolio!

It was a typo and should have been low eq and high iq.

That was my guess, but I didn't want to assume.

I have to admit when people say don't over anaylse my first question is well how much time is enough analysing? How do I know if I'm under-analysing which I realise is a rather analytical approach.

There are two purposes for analysis. One is that it can be interesting and fun to figure something out. The other is that it can give you more clarity than if you hadn't done the analysis, so you can take better action.

Someone with an active, analytical mind should always take some time each day to enjoy intellectual concepts. But that's not the primary goal here, it's clarity so you can act more effectively.

If the analysis doesn't give you further clarity, then it's time to stop that particular analysis... at least, until you have some NEW information or perceptions.

When you have gone as far as you can to think about something in an empowering way, then think about something else for a while as you switch into action mode, based on what you know so far.
 

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Perfect example of emotional state.

No matter how intelligent someone is or what opportunity is sitting in front of them -- you can't access those resources in a down emotional state.

If you change someone's focus for a minute or change their physiology (ideally), you can get them to see things they don't normally see. It's clear to you in this moment because 1. your experience, but 2. your emotional state :)

For our friend here, these challenges won't be solved behind the keyboard -- get up, go for a run, get pumped, then start asking better questions.

What is going right in my life?

What opportunities are around for me?

What opportunities COULD be around for me?

Where can I help?
 
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or change their physiology (ideally),

I love this approach. I'm more than happy to add in a change to my exercise as the next goal.

How can I establish what is a specific, measurable , achievable and realistic (physiological) target for changing mindset?

I have success exercising to lose 2 inches of stomach fat and to lose a couple of pounds (both of those are have different process,as any PT guy will tell you. Sometimes, I do it because I enjoy it, and fancy a jog. However, what I actively avoid is just doing exercise for "losing weight/doing exercise/looking better".

Is there a certain level of serotonin/Adrenalin I should be targeting? Perhaps I need to double my daily exercise? Or maybe I should only post questions after doing a set number of reps or running? Perhaps I should concentrate on running 5 minutes or on running a 1/4 mile?


@ZCP


For our friend here, these challenges won't be solved behind the keyboard --

Do you believe positive-affirmations in conjunction with physiological routines can assist? What I love about it is, I can instantly test and see how many times I used the positive list and how many times, I used the negative list.

Write 1 positive sounding piece of work a day, is a SMART target, "change mindset, think positive" etc is not.

Heck, psychologists work online now. That seems like a pretty effective way of changing your mindset behind the keyboard.

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-- you can't access those resources in a down emotional state.

Presumably, then when I succeed you will have to admit the problem was tonal communication rather than mindset. I've not posted much, because I'm busy working on that, which I believe is the major item blocking me.
 
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How can I establish what is a specific, measurable , achievable and realistic (physiological) target for changing mindset?

"If I was significantly more physically energetic and tuned-in right now, would that make me significantly more alert, focused, adept and ready to move forward on my next career steps or plans?"
 

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IMHO, you should also try meditation. Good book to start is the one from Mathieu Ricard. It's definitely the best way to improve emotional well-being and focus.
 

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IMHO, you should also try meditation.

I already do, I find most of them have rather nebulous change mindset goals which pushes me down the wrong emotional path. However I've had success with breath counting and that's Buddhist so there might be something in that book. I count ten concetratred breaths most days, I've not got to the concentrated on the great is without counting yet because I don't know how many I have had without counting.
 

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I was Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousily pleased to find the following information.

"Other studies with similar setups showed that people with money on their minds didn’t use as many emotional words in written communication"


This is very interesting, I wonder if my natural emotionless writing style would naturally change with money and if so how much would cause that change. In the meantime I'm working on adding emotional words as well as a more positive tone in my writing, as this should shift other's perception of myself from miserable money chaser to happy value adder. Either way it's a worthwhile experiment.

Guess what, I moved to Vancouver
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I've moved twice both on gambles that worked out, its irrelevant.

Awesome, looking for the progress thread. I was surprised to see you say that it is irrelevant, I thought the idea was to follow people who had done want you were looking to achieve.

I must be missing some context there, I do that a lot!. I am delighted with my tone progress so far, plenty of room for improvement though!

On the monetary front, resubmitted CV+ cover letter with revised tones. Looking to optimise for what kind of job I should be applying for which has the most realistic chance of me adding value above all other candidates.

I quiet fancy the idea of being a technical recruiter, so I found a company recruiting (technical recruiter and developer jobs) and dropped off the details of a few candidates that matched their job descriptions. (adding value, right?)

I pushed up a quick and dirty design on teespring (donate the money, because I didn't want to money chase, and I wanted to see if it was a success first), I guess I there is a lack of the design resonating with anyone.

There is certainly demand for a better waste collection service, however that runs up against the cost of licensing being the E in entry.

I wonder if there is any demand for rich people to post comments that sound like poor people? It should be simple, just write like I do avoid emotionless words,and add in lots of can't and won't.
 
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ok. show me where you have done each of the following:
- done some initial mkt research / sales work to get the 'echo'

I've tried getting someone to do interviews for me, looking for the target markets on forums(Just come across as someone pumping an app and spammy) adwords and facebook.

I haven't got time to post all the ideas, however they all suffer from be fastlane business, not one that is a quick simple money maker.

I've tried to push out some marketing copy for myself locally based on another thread here. "Hardworking guy looking for work" similar to what I had in newspaper/forums/groups before but just with a better tone. I posted above what the people I interviewed said to me on whatsapp. However their is a long way between, I like this idea, and here is my money. I find it very easy to get responses, I can just buy those or spend money on train ticket. However I have yet to monetise this. Who wants to pay someone else to go do their research for them or with them? The people who can't do it, don't have money and those who can, have gone off and done it already. It doesn't lead itself to a free offering, if you have to spend a fortune on trial tickets for a free client.
 

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I was Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousily pleased to find the following information.

This is because my course said just add in emotional words. So that should sound better than my usual writing.

@ZCP


you can't access those resources in a down emotional state.
That's just an excuse. Of course you can access them in a down emotional state, I have done so previously.
The conductor doesn't give a flying f**k what my emotional state is when I board the train. They don't come round asking "are you happy?" it's "tickets please". Now I do notice that (in-person)people think I'm angry when I'm actually just hungry, sad when I'm just tired (So being well-rested and eating good food solves both of those) For some reason that can be hard to impart online.

@ZCP

, then start asking better questions.
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I can ask and answer them right now, although I find it hard to figure out what the questions are.

@ZCP


What is going right in my life?

I'm not dead, I'm likely to survive the next winter, I'm not starving, I have not died of heatstroke in the last heat wave. I've a good chance of being alive till the next 24 June. It is not Christmas yet.

@ZCP


What opportunities are around for me?

Anything on the internet. Maybe some kind of remote contracting work, perhaps research? Maybe some crypto stuff? Dunno

@ZCP

What opportunities COULD be around for me?

No clue

@ZCP

Where can I help?

Good, Question. I've come up from I have no idea to this is what I can do well. The next question is where is that kind of help needed?

Who needs the help of someone who is
  • confronted with constant obstacles and have to deal positively with regular feedback and criticism.


Who needs help with conflict resolution? Should I try to be an arbitrator or marriage counsellor?
Hopefully, given what I'm particularly suited to , where could I help and add value will be a better question.
 

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