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    Your City, Your Destiny: How Your Environment Shapes Your Life Trajectory

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    I guess my perspective is that it's not about MY chosen location. More explaining how finding my ideal place has worked so well for me. I know multiple families who have moved to Denmark, Sweden, etc. for me the climates are not at all ideal, and neither is the cost of living or the tax code...
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    10 Years Later: From Success to Burnout to Building Again

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    How's it going @Concept ? Have you found your next thing yet? Some advice I was given that has really stuck in my mind: If you really want to succeed, it's your responsibility to create a situation that you want to stay in. What would this look if this was a game that you wanted to play for...
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    Reintroducing myself almost 10 years later. Nothing achieved yet. Set a goal to reach $1k/MRR by the end of 2027 with a SaaS

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    Couldn't agree more about this goal being too small. In business often we need to take massive action. When the goal is tiny, often this leads to a lack of real action. I have been there. Small goals keep us feeling safe, and often you will come up short, lose interest due to lack of progress...
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    Your City, Your Destiny: How Your Environment Shapes Your Life Trajectory

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    So I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of this thread, as I left Australia for greener pastures. I lived in one town for around 5 years and had some of the best years of my life there. It was then, that I realised "I want to live where everyone else goes on vacation". I've been in a...
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    Your City, Your Destiny: How Your Environment Shapes Your Life Trajectory

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    Yeah, I was interested in your take as I think we have similar values. "High quality" isn't Lambos to me, it's more a question of food quality, living in a walkable area with cafes and shops nearby, nature or your favorite activites nearby... I think your numbers are fairly accurate. Maybe...
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    Your City, Your Destiny: How Your Environment Shapes Your Life Trajectory

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    I'm not confident that this is the future reality of most middle class Australians. Everyone is being squeezed right now and while you are absolutely right, they're being squeezed to the point of having to choose between a jetski OR the moto (so life is still objectively better than many...
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    Got Success Anxiety? This Will Help

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    Ties into Neville Goddard's theory that wanting assumes lack. "But as long as you try to get it, you create resistance." Trouble is, these rules don't work for everyone. Some people need to want it less (they put in too much effort and self sabotage), whereas others don't want it enough (they...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    And swathes of glasses have been recalled across Spain as they don't protect your eyes whatsoever.
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    Opportunities in Pickleball?

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    Agreed on picking up these trends. One of our clients had zero experience in Padel but was very passionate about it. We built him a lead gen site and plenty of inbound. He now sells court kits (install your own), construction/conversion (done for you) and advisory group for management of the...
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    FIRE'd in my 40s: I still want to build, but am lost in the transition

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    It's not a current state. It's that it's how I've historically operated when trying to get a new business off the ground. Maybe this is the fear talking and I need to embrace the constraint of building my next thing with 20 hours a week or so. I do have a very clear vision of myself at 50. It's...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I get what people are saying about changing your environment and I agree... But there are also times where we can't (or shouldn't) change our environment. In that scenario, work on the skill or not letting your environment change your own attitude. Just keep your head down and focus on your...
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    FIRE'd in my 40s: I still want to build, but am lost in the transition

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    Hey everyone, I’ve been on this forum off and on throughout my Fastlane journey. TMF was one of the most impactful books I've read, Unscripted reinforced the thinking I'd gained from Harry Browne's How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, and Choose Hard, Live Easy reminded me that my hard...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! HOT! EXECUTION 
    The entrepreneurship Kool aid can be a bit much at times. In the end what we care about is leverage/asymmetry. If you can make bank working a job with fewer hours than the next guy, your effective hourly rate is high. Likely much higher than your first 3 years in business. The only downside is...
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    $2M net worth at 26: Here's what I learned so far...

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    If you want to bar yourself, bar yourself. It's as simple as that. I'm not religious but I learnt this in school: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Honestly even the fact that you are...
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    Ippei Kanehara and Local Lead Gen is it worth doing?

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    If you could make millions from lead gen, why make hundreds of thousands from coaching people?
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    The lifestyle, hobbies, and fun thread.

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    Come to think of it this conversation sounds like @MJ DeMarco 's heated pool that he mentioned in Easy vs Hard. Our equivalent is the Datsun or the Porsche that actually costs $5,000 every time you drive it, or the house that costs $2,500 per night. Hell, my nice car in my garage which I have...
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    The lifestyle, hobbies, and fun thread.

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    @Fox I've been very tempted to do this with a couple of Datsun 510s lately. I have family in Australia and the best models are RHD (coupe). I've found 1 mint/original sedan and a rarer coupe that is "restored" but probably needs some tidy up work. I can land both in Australia and get them on...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! HOT! EXECUTION 
    Not investment advice but I would ease into it while learning both how investing/markets work, and how I react emotionally. Getting used to "losing" on paper is hard for some people. The lesson is that you can be "right" but temporarily that looks "wrong". You only lose if you sell in that...
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    Looking for any feedback on my affiliate program sign up page:

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    40–50% of what? You have referred to the percentages all across the page but I don't see how much I make if I send 1 person to you and they buy. If that's variable, what is the typical amount an affiliate makes? What's the average conversion rate? How is this tracked? Do I get access? Who...
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    How Long Did It Take You To Start Your First Business?

    Too long. I wasted all the time on things that didn't matter. I can't agree with @Andy Black more. Just start selling. You will get feedback from "the world" aka your audience (people you think are your clients/customers)... Google, Reddit, socials, etc. Sales? Maybe you have validation. No...

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