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  1. NMdad

    Lots of new faces here since I was active. What's your why?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Life is short, and none of us knows if we have 1 day or 10,000 days left. I want to emphasize your quote, since it touched a nerve for me: If I died today (at [insert your age]), I think my last thoughts would be "Well, that was a waste."
  2. NMdad

    Fastlane High School Business Academy

    Sure thing! Those simulated activities should--hopefully--get them excited about doing a business in the real world, which would be the next step for them.
  3. NMdad

    From Entrepreneurial Virgin to Conquerer

    EXECUTION 
    Of course!
  4. NMdad

    Fastlane High School Business Academy

    I did an activity with 10-year-olds that they really got into & helped them conceptualize businesses in a simple way: First, I briefly introduced the business model canvas, and showed them how a couple businesses they're already familiar with (e.g., breakfast restaurant, landscaping business)...
  5. NMdad

    From Entrepreneurial Virgin to Conquerer

    EXECUTION 
    To answer your question/clarify what I meant by minimizing YOU being the bottleneck to your progress: For example, say you're building a website (just an example, but the principle is the same regardless of your business). There are lots of things to be done (design, create content, configure...
  6. NMdad

    REAL resources on self image and self belief

    NOTABLE! 
    Started listening to the MFCEO podcast in the car every day, every time I'm in the car. A few things I've learned (& started implementing): Success is the result of (often) tedious tasks repeated consistently over time. You must do more than is comfortable to create change in your life. Success...
  7. NMdad

    From Entrepreneurial Virgin to Conquerer

    EXECUTION 
    Married with almost 3 kids, and you're the sole provider--there's some motivation. The good news is it sounds like your day job has potential for boosting your income more than the paltry 2-3% annual raises of most jobs, and earning more doesn't necessarily mean working more. "Selling" your...
  8. NMdad

    Want to help a friend expand her business

    You might want to look at Jay Abraham's "Getting everything you can out of all you've got" and Richard Koch's "The 80/20 Principle". Jay Abraham's book will give you tons of actionable strategies for growing a business. It's a friggin goldmine.
  9. NMdad

    Fastlane High School Business Academy

    This is a great challenge & opportunity. Speaking as someone who's worked with & designed/delivered experiential education to kids ages 2-18, you might want to consider the following: How much time will you have with each kid? E.g., a 1-hour session vs. 6 weekly 1-hour sessions vs. 1 full...
  10. NMdad

    Odd woman out?

    INTRO 
    Ha! Back when I had a day job, I used to get flak from my boss when I took a time off if one of my kids was sick or to attend a one of their school events. F the job--your family is your why. Your irritation with your job & coworkers' treatment is fuel to energize you to take action so you...
  11. NMdad

    How can you work full time while growing your business ?

    HOT! 
    How much do you want it? And how long do you want it to take (before your business can support itself and pay your bills)? Some jobs have more wiggle room so you can do a little work on your biz during your day job. If not, you have to make time outside your day job for your biz. Yes, you...
  12. NMdad

    Foundations, the trigger, reaching olympus

    EXECUTION 
    How many non-friends/family have you talked to or presented your idea to?
  13. NMdad

    So I've been a wantrepreneur for some time..

    INTRO 
    Congrats on the tiny little one! They'll supercharge your motivation to get out of your comfort zone. Glad you didn't sink any cash into a franchise--in TFLF, we're pretty negative on franchises (unless you're the franchiser--not the franchisee), MLM, and chasing what others are doing...
  14. NMdad

    Creating my first information product

    EXECUTION 
    That's great soft validation. A couple questions: How can you get hard validation (i.e., people paying actual money for it)? What's the fastest way you could do that? (Maybe an MVP ebook?)
  15. NMdad

    Running around in circles

    Agree. When you pick 1 thing & start taking action on it, you'll find a couple things happen: Your mind becomes focused on that thing, so you get more & better ideas for other actions to take for it. By taking action, you'll learn more & progress faster than doing a bunch of theoretical analysis.
  16. NMdad

    How to overcome distractions

    MINDSET 
    This. Feel like watching YouTube? Excellent! Now do the task you were about to do instead of YouTube; your future self will thank your present self for getting sh*t done instead of time-wasting.
  17. NMdad

    Spoiled Millennial Developing Self-Discipline

    EXECUTION 
    Who do you surround yourself with? Even if you're completely isolated socially, you can still surround yourself with the kind of people acting the way you want to become--by reading books (like "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink & "Relentless" by Tim Grover), podcasts (highly recommend the...
  18. NMdad

    HELP! ONLY GOT 3 MONTHS TO MAKE IT. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

    HOT! 
    If you rank on page 1 for cleaning company keywords, what about selling the leads?
  19. NMdad

    Quitting my 80k job, moving out of state to start a consulting business from nothing

    EXECUTION 
    Quick backstory: I started consulting on the side when I had a day job. Since I had no idea what I was doing, it took a while to get clients--like 5-6 months. I gradually got more clients & work, so that I was making more part-time than I made at my day job--that took about 10-12 months. When my...
  20. NMdad

    Quitting my 80k job, moving out of state to start a consulting business from nothing

    EXECUTION 
    OK, so week 2--how many prospects have you contacted? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely concerned. You quit a decent-paying job to do consulting--without having any clients. Even though you have some savings, you definitely won't want to burn through that--and without paying clients...

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