Hi everyone! My name is Calum, I live in London, and I am currently 4th year MSc student reading mathematics. Nice to meet you all! I stumbled across MJ DeMarco's second book, Unscripted , and I gave it a read. Really enjoyed and it totalled widened my perspective. After that, I went ahead and bought the Millionaire Fastlane and read it! I knew there was a way to live other than depending on a job. I never understood the concept where you have to work for 40 years and continuously trade your time for money.
I read a few books like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and A Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins. Rich Dad Poor Dad introduced the general concept to me by talking about how rich people lived off their assets and kept referring to property business, but it just left me confused. And A Simple Path to Wealth was straightforward, but it's a Slowlane path, and I wasn't too keen on putting money away in index funds as the growth is rather slow.
There's a lot of obstacles down the Fastlane roadmap, which I am sure you all are aware of but there's also a barrier right in front of my face. I am Deaf, and I only grew up using British Sign Language. So, I can't get started by cold calling and providing customer service by telephone - obviously, I can delegate those tasks to hearing employees, but I'd need to have a substantial profit margin before I can even consider getting one. But also, I think there are businesses where you don't have to work with people? (Maybe, someone would be happy to point me in the direction to anybody who has experience running a business independently and creating a money system?) And, my deafness is not an excuse not to start a business, there are plenty of Deaf-led companies out there, like this one, that one and another one (well, all of these are UK-based since I'm not too familiar with American ones). I want to own a Fastlane business one day, and my exit strategy would be either selling it off or using it for passive income.
Nice to meet you all!
I read a few books like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and A Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins. Rich Dad Poor Dad introduced the general concept to me by talking about how rich people lived off their assets and kept referring to property business, but it just left me confused. And A Simple Path to Wealth was straightforward, but it's a Slowlane path, and I wasn't too keen on putting money away in index funds as the growth is rather slow.
There's a lot of obstacles down the Fastlane roadmap, which I am sure you all are aware of but there's also a barrier right in front of my face. I am Deaf, and I only grew up using British Sign Language. So, I can't get started by cold calling and providing customer service by telephone - obviously, I can delegate those tasks to hearing employees, but I'd need to have a substantial profit margin before I can even consider getting one. But also, I think there are businesses where you don't have to work with people? (Maybe, someone would be happy to point me in the direction to anybody who has experience running a business independently and creating a money system?) And, my deafness is not an excuse not to start a business, there are plenty of Deaf-led companies out there, like this one, that one and another one (well, all of these are UK-based since I'm not too familiar with American ones). I want to own a Fastlane business one day, and my exit strategy would be either selling it off or using it for passive income.
Nice to meet you all!
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