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  1. ZF Lee

    MJ, im 14 and is college worth it?

    It's actually FANTASTIC you are asking this question early at 14! At that age, I've never even thought of that-right until after high school. The reality is that most folks exit high school without truly having real-life skills, discipline or critical thinking. Not everyone can quickly learn...
  2. ZF Lee

    What's Worse than Death?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Yeah, whenever client work bends me over, I look back to see if: -my current research and work processes are methodical enough- that can be done whether or not I feel happy or sad -I have qualified/disqualified my clients well enough (e.g. I DO NOT write sales copy for clients without existing...
  3. ZF Lee

    Wish I had found this book 35 years ago!

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    Welcome to TFLF! While age certainly gives us some doubts, every effort you make in business will be worth it, as long it adheres to CENTS. Small successes? In what areas?
  4. ZF Lee

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yeah, even a simple website with decent blog content, good CTA and details of your services and testimonials help with the trust factor. Yet, there's another very important element to think of: Control. While I can set up a LinkedIn or Upwork profile to fill in the important details like a...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Alright, the group presentation was finished just now. We missed out a few parts like a VRIO table (which NO ENTREPRENEUR HERE ON TFLF USES), but I noticed we had much fewer complaints from our tutor. Our tutor mostly touched on a few minor details, namely sustainability elements and investors...
  6. ZF Lee

    Hello , I am a 16 year old from a third world country who has a dream of beating the financial game.

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    Welcome! This tale might interest you... https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/so-if-you-are-born-poor-in-a-3rd-world-shitpool-can-you-still-make-it-my-story.96438/ I'm doing freelance copywriting while studying in business school. My problem is not so much about the lie behind...
  7. ZF Lee

    TFF CONSISTENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY COLLECTIVE TRACKER

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    Update from 31/8-6/9/2020 (Mon-Sun) GOALS Wake up 8-9AM DAILY MET except for Tues to Thurs Sleep around 11PM-12AM DAILY Met except Sun 2X supplement intake a day MET Bible/prayer DONE ALL DAYS except Sat to Sun Now breaking into 1 Corinthians (You may be surprised how few folks actually read...
  8. ZF Lee

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Alright, some updates on that college group assignment. Here's the 'extras' I have done: -Offered to send my team's questions to clarify at a Zoom consultation call with my lecturer (70% of the team couldn't come together, for whatever reason) -Ended up going alone to that call, as my group...
  9. ZF Lee

    What are the benefits of being single for an entrepreneur?

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    Well @absybad, if you read UNSCRIPTED carefully, you'd know the answer. On a more educational note, here's something that stuck to me out from UNSCRIPTED (from Chapter 10): EDIT: MJ himself beat me to it as I was typing this lol. On the side note, I've been wondering if its more...
  10. ZF Lee

    Reverse yelp. Useful for contractors, service providers, big ticket clients, etc.

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    @Ocean Man, check this thread out. Could be of interest to you. Eek...I was talking about this with you last time, after you posed a similar idea. Not sure how I missed out this thread lol...
  11. ZF Lee

    TFF CONSISTENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY COLLECTIVE TRACKER

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    Update from 24-30/8/2020 (Mon-Sun) GOALS Wake up 8-9AM DAILY MET except for Mon, Thurs (woke around 11AM on those days) Sleep around 11PM-12AM DAILY NOT MET for Mon, Thurs and Sat (slept those days around 1AM+) 2X supplement intake a day MET except Wed and Thurs (only 1X on those days)...
  12. ZF Lee

    TFF CONSISTENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY COLLECTIVE TRACKER

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    Oh, I see. I think that no matter what old or new ways we want to do or toss away, we need to understand just because something is 'old'...it doesn't mean its bad. Example? Reading (good) copywriting books. Some folks might say real-life clients give you better experience. Others say the...
  13. ZF Lee

    TFF CONSISTENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY COLLECTIVE TRACKER

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    Thanks for the recommend! I see he has written the book Ultralearning. Odd that it's the first time I heard of it. I'll check it out! Loopholes in the rules?
  14. ZF Lee

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    @Mutant, thanks for the nuggets. Agreed. But like I said, the more I spend on these lower-reward assignments, the less time and energy I have for the other projects. Yet, work is work. There's many ways to be 'best' I can do here...for example over-delivering on my portion of work, maybe...
  15. ZF Lee

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Today, I truly underestimated how f*cked up college kids in business school are. How so? Enter my Integrative Business Practices unit in my current semester. It’s a fantastic unit, where you can research markets and channels to create products and strategy with the canvas model and stuff...
  16. ZF Lee

    TFF CONSISTENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY COLLECTIVE TRACKER

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    Update for 17/8/2020- 23/8/2020 Last Thursday, I caved in to join a family getaway to a nice hilltop place in Penang with NO Internet. Most folks cry and scream about zero Wifi, but I remembered how old-school copywriters used to seclude themselves and continue writing killer copy, even after...
  17. ZF Lee

    [PROGRESS] Bekit's Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for sharing! Thank goodness you made it through-especially with your husband. The burnout with the boss, the fear of opening emails...these are what I faced as well on the freelance copywriting trail. You described it all really well. And I've come to a point that doing YOUR OWN...
  18. ZF Lee

    Leadership Lessons From the Bottom: A Freelancer's Perspective

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    Great thread topic! I was wondering if I should post something like this, after doing freelance copywriting for a fair bit of time. You beat me to it haha. Yup, sincere appreciation helps...as long as you continue updating your work processes to make your employees/freelancers/ lives easier...
  19. ZF Lee

    I think after 5 years I quit but what's next?

    HOT! FTE 
    The ROAS numbers I shared meant they were getting sales and getting profits. But I wondered if they were gonna be just one-off buys, rather than repeat buys. That was for channels like emails to follow-up and nurture the customers into further upsells, once they handed in their addresses. But...
  20. ZF Lee

    Can't Hurt Me: by David Goggins, Review and Discussion

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    Well, its a medical no-no for those who haven't trained enough or at least tried out climbing mountains on a more regular basis. (in the case of non-Himalayan natives, climbers might work on conquering the highest mountains in their own countries or other mountains with a similar cold...

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