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  1. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks Freedom61 - not exactly my situation, but some broad similarities. This is not my shot at making money, it's a home for some I've already made, and I like that it's got people and machinery (although it is more capital intensive than I'd like). I'm happy to put in a day a week, two days...
  2. Learner Guy

    Improving Yourself, Everyday. What Are Your Habits?

    MINDSET 
    Know your strengths and weaknesses, what's easy and what's hard for you. Exploit the strengths, shore up the important weaknesses. I'm doing well at the moment tracking '$1000 per hour time' (80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall) and buying myself sushi for lunch if I've already clocked...
  3. Learner Guy

    Is Selling Shovels Always a Better Idea?

    IDEA 
    Someone's got to be digging - not everyone can sell shovels! I know what's rational for YOU is the most important thing, but eventually selling shovels looks a lot like the latest goldrush in any case. I read Getty's autobiography a while ago and was struck by the fact that his success came...
  4. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Mike, care to share a bit more about your industry and your business? Sounds like you've accumulated a lot of sometimes painful experience!
  5. Learner Guy

    Making Money For Dummies (And In a Crowded Market)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Thanks ICK, great thread.
  6. Learner Guy

    Internet addiction

    MINDSET 
    I'm much less likely to procrastinate if I'm very clear on my big picture goal, and especially if I am tracking the action I'm taking every day towards it. Squeeze out the time wasting activities by doing worthwhile stuff. 'Trying to stop XYZ' can be like trying not to think about a pink elephant.
  7. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    Timezone... I'm a dad, remember, so I had to be very restrained - no drunken typing ;)
  8. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    Ummm, that athlete only needed ONE vasectomy to prevent 1000 babies. It's insurance - people don't get rich by getting multiple policies on their car, they do it once and they're covered against nasty happenings. Anyway, have a great New Year all.
  9. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    Humor! Try investing in multiple vasectomies to increase your net worth by $244K a time ;)
  10. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    A vasectomy fails as a Fastlane investment, on scalability at least! I'm not going to get into the other aspects e.g. need ;)
  11. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    Not trying to be disrespectful, just to provoke some thought and discussion! It's a different perspective from some, and as I said it's been my journey and a source of some regret to me that I changed my views comparatively late. I think the Fastlane / Slow lane / Dead end angle is very...
  12. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    And if Elon can find time, so can we all.
  13. Learner Guy

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    The original post made me think of a CS Lewis quote - paraphrasing, he said that kids can't imagine anything better than chocolate because they don't know yet about the sex impulse (he was making a bigger point of course). I was once the 'I will not let kids get in the way of my enormous...
  14. Learner Guy

    Collecting 762k in X Months?

    EXECUTION 
    Sell the debt to someone, or get a debt collector working on it for a share (if you get anything more than 30% I think you'd be doing well although I have no knowledge about Albania whatsoever)
  15. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    That's the basic idea, as well as wanting to be able to employ people locally.
  16. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks, appreciate the input. The business is a good fit for me in many ways. Freedom61, would appreciate any comments about your experiences in the landscaping business... LG
  17. Learner Guy

    What business would you buy/start in a developing country to generate income?

    I don't have a handle on Serbia's level of prosperity, but I imagine capital is relatively limited there? If so, there are probably lots of opportunities to finance other people in their businesses e.g. bankroll them for a 20-50% stake. If I were investing there I'd want a good return from the...
  18. Learner Guy

    What business would you buy/start in a developing country to generate income?

    Need to know a bit more about the country eg what sort of 'developing', what are the key risks, stability etc? Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
  19. Learner Guy

    Software in my industry doing $1M+/mo.

    EXECUTION 
    Freedom61, I just logged in to see who'd talked about landscaping companies - can't believe you posted this yesterday! I'm not in the United States, and I'm looking for a business to buy in my town (70k population, 150k in the region). I met with a guy recently to see his business, which...
  20. Learner Guy

    Scaling my fitness infoproduct biz to $30k/month by June 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Any update piesandak47?

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