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Recent content by fastlane_dad

  1. fastlane_dad

    Leaning into rejection: Asking for free coffee.

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Well...asking for a discount is just my 'natural course of doing business!'. I used to do plenty of this in my younger years. Every store I'd walk into with my GF (at the time) - I'd ask for a discount, sometimes going as far as throwing in a 'bluff' of throwing away their 30% off mailer I got...
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    Leaning into rejection: Asking for free coffee.

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I have many thoughts on this. As an exercise , this is totally OK to me, the other person can say 'NO' and you can build up your rejection quotas or whatever you want to call it. To me, the way I'm programmed - I don't feel like I 'deserve' anything where I'm not giving some value back now or...
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    What should I do from here and my midlife crisis?

    INTRO 
    First of all - getting to 7 figures + is no easy task (easily 1% of earners in the USA). Keep doing what you are doing and as others have said with a bit of planning + saving you could be well on the way to retire in 5+ years. Given that you have been in real estate for 16 YEARS, it is highly...
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    Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

    EXECUTION 
    @Lex DeVille Interesting premise, will be following to see where this goes. There is still definitely opportunity in apparel / tshirt business given the right marketplace and ad placement. I know several who have made fortunes recently through Tshirts. Additionally, I'm sure you probably...
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    Peak Fulfillment - Life After Exiting The Rat Race

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Awesome topic and thread, and I also echo many of @NeoDialectic sentiments. We are officially 2.5 years out from selling our business. We were at or very close to ‘financially free’ prior to our exit event, so there was no big revelations there. The ironic part is most if not all of our goal...
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    My mindset is suffering

    MINDSET 
    @Antifragile has a very well thought out response up above and I agree on everything he says almost to a T. Do you have a job? Consistent form of money coming in? Sure at some point you can start worrying and building up a fastlane business -- but it can take years to make something of it, or...
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    Defeat Your Nihilism: 3 Simple Steps

    MINDSET 
    All great points here a few things to keep in mind is the congruence you must achieve between what you are trying to 'achieve' and your identity. Just like you can't half a$$ entrepreneurship (it's a mindset!) - same goes for almost any other task on hand. You yourself must get into the head...
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    Feeling Stuck and Depressed

    MINDSET 
    I briefly skimmed this and there is some good advice sprinkled throughout this thread. Here are my 0.2c on your situation … 1 - You are doing extremely well financially. Not sure where you are living (not in USA)? But 150K in USA places you in the top 20% of household incomes. You work remote...
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    What's Your Best Mindset Advice?

    MINDSET 
    If you are persevering in failure for years, there are other things that need fine tuning. GRIT to me is one of the toughest to nail down. It's not so obvious to all. Maybe obvious in certain circles, or in a certain demographic. You'd be surprised how often I get inboxed messages and its...
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    What's Your Best Mindset Advice?

    MINDSET 
    I'd say one of the most important ones, that usually trumps many other factors is GRIT. Keep trying, failing, trying, getting back up again and pushing forward until it clicks. It can come down to trying different ideas, executing marketing in different ways or scrapping a year or two of work...
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    Hey 7 figure + club: If you had to do it all over again in 2023...

    MARKETING 
    All of our businesses were started with investments in that price ballpark (until they self funded them selves). Some went on to make 6 figures. Some ended up being 8 figure businesses. Yet several went dead into the ground. We primarily used physical products / goods, tested the market...
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    How to learn the things you don't know you should know

    QUESTION 
    The skill you will have to pick up very soon on is GRIT and PERSISTENCE. Honestly the only two words needed to survive the long term entrepreneurship game. Have you tested your product with any market at all? I'm not sure how much you have invested in your business - but be careful in giving...
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    Got laid off - start a business or get a new engineering job?

    INTRO 
    I suggest getting another job as your skills / experience will be highly valuable and applicable immediately to another employer. I assume you can also match your most recent salary, if not exceed it fairly easily (which is a GREAT place to start based on what you were making). Second to that...
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    Unpacking My Kettlebell After a 1000-Mile Flight: A Lesson in Urgency

    MINDSET 
    Great post + reminder as always. I think in order to 'act and move fast' - you need to be OK with some version of imperfect (slop), be OK 'wasting' time and/or money, and acting on incomplete information. It's almost a mindset you have to take on - and when mistakes are looked down upon by you...
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    Stop wasting time - Choose your advice carefully

    MINDSET 
    In my mind it almost goes beyond this... What I also pick up on is the topic of 'find work you enjoy and you never will work a day in your life' dogma - or more accurately follow your passion perhaps? Because -- then why would you ever 'retire from your passion'... I've been in camp of...
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