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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETThis is really great. I read a book recently called "Simple Rules" about how we live in a complex world and you've got to make super simple rules to guide yourself through all the options out there. So one rule I came up with for myself, is that whatever I chose to work on "it's got to be...- Don David
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- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETThank you to everybody for the advice. This is a great community. My slow lane relatives think I'm insane. Or lazy. I tell them I am working hard. But they think I'm playing around on the computer.... Oh well. I watched an interview recently with Robert Kiyosaki and he says that his family...- Don David
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- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETThis is helpful. Thanks I did the 5:00-9:00 days. Wake up at 4:55, use the bathroom and be working at 5:00 AM and wouldn't stop until my totally understanding wife would draw me a bath at 9:00 PM exactly. I would dream about my checklists. I am totally burnt out and guess that 9-5 job won't...- Don David
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- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETGood point. I have read it. Affiliate has no control. I think I followed the commandment of control too closely I think. I waited and waited for the necessary licenses from the state and tried to do everything by the book but it was all pointless actions in the end. Now can someone help me...- Don David
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- Forum: Mindset and Self-Development
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETThat's what I'm saying. Everyone's making a million dollars online...wave of the future and all that... But where is the 60-70 hour week option for hustlin online (that then could one day catapult you up into fastlane) Instead of just accepting the slowlane job offered me at $19.95 an hour...- Don David
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETI know but what? I spent everything I had on the last venture. 100's of hours of research. Licenses from the state, incorporated. But there were just too many moving parts... I have some savings left and ready to push again but tired of the old industry I was working on. One thing I learned...- Don David
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETOh man I can't! My entire family is saying the same thing. But when you research guys making 40k a month writing ebooks and creating funnels, it warps your mind.- Don David
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Gun to your head...what would you do?
HOT! MINDSETWhat would you do if you had to make say 3,000 a month to support your family? I tried and failed my last venture. I was trying to make a million...the next big idea. But who/where to focus to get just enough to live on? I have no problem taking action. I can focus and do things for hours on...- Don David
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1 year working on 1 idea? Check! Credit cards maxed out? Check! Sold the family car? Check!
IDEAOh I do agree 100% entirely. I'm amazed at how much it's costing just to get a site that looks this bad. There are also a ton of broken parts to it. But I pushed some clients through to close with just the map you see on "Search now for free" and none of the other things. I'd like to have it...- Don David
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- Forum: Ideas, Concept Feedback
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1 year working on 1 idea? Check! Credit cards maxed out? Check! Sold the family car? Check!
IDEAI'm loading a Uhaul at the moment. I'm moving my wife and I and our 2 small kids into a spare bedroom in my parent's house at the end of the month. The money we were spending on rent/utilities is going to fund the ad campaign. I do blame myself for letting it get down this far. But I've told...- Don David
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1 year working on 1 idea? Check! Credit cards maxed out? Check! Sold the family car? Check!
IDEAYeah R.W. founder is an interesting case-study too. I love his Linked in profile, Gave me a great idea. I don't have much formal education, but on his Linked in he show's how he went to Harvard Business School and MIT. If you look into it, he did go to these places. But their $10,000 weekend...- Don David
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1 year working on 1 idea? Check! Credit cards maxed out? Check! Sold the family car? Check!
IDEAHi everybody! Long read, but this post pretty much represents the past year of my life! Two years ago I was working as a real estate agent in Phoenix/Mesa. I realized an interesting fact; that not many agents wanted to go and show Rentals (They would still list them though.) Because it was the...- Don David
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Tip on Getting Discovered/Media Coverage etc: One is Greater Than Zero
Everything about this guy's POV is just amazing. He gets it. The future is going to be social. In some interview he says that when he's got 10 minutes free in a limo before a taping he'll tweet out to his fan base "Hey whoever sends me their phone #, I'll give you a call." So he makes a few...- Don David
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What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!
NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHATThis morning I read; 30 minutes in "The Thank You Economy" 30 minutes in "Crush It" and 30 minutes in "Jab Jab Right Hook" all by Gary Vaynerchuck. I'm on a social media kick at the moment...- Don David
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- Forum: Books and Educating Yourself
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How to go from 0 to 1
Don't put money into ideas, make your ideas make the money. Like the title of your post, Peter Theil (the founder of paypal, first investor in facebook) in his book "Zero to One" talks about how all rewards go to the monopolists and not to people competing one another. He also says that...- Don David
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Why do i feel like shit
HOT! MINDSETThis is really spot on advice. I find I cannot even talk to many members in my own family any longer. We're just on divergent life paths. It's like we don't even speak the same language/ have the same vocabulary any longer. I'll say something very mild about goal acquisition, some great tidbit...- Don David
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Sharing my lifetime experience in export/import. Product sourcing specialist.
GOLD! SOURCINGHi thank you for doing this. Lot's of great first-hand info to unpack here. Would you mind commenting on an idea I've been toying with? I am able to start a SDVOSB (service disabled veteran owned small business) The federal government has pledged to award a certain percentage of all government...- Don David
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- Forum: Product Development, Importing, Sourcing
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Business ideas don't happen in a vacuum
IDEAI see this going both ways. When I was a real estate agent there were always agents in the office, the so called movers and shakers, lot's of heat, noise and movement, people I looked up to as "in the know" of success. As time went by, however, I realized, they're here every day! They're all...- Don David
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- Forum: Ideas, Concept Feedback
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My Journey To $5,000
EXECUTIONI like your POV on this. I too am looking for modest goals. I'm not going to say that I'll make a million or a billion dollars right out of the gate. I just want to see, that I can actually create, by virtue of my own ideas (and then implementation) alone, to make out of thin air, a thousand...- Don David
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- Forum: Process and Execution
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Helping fellow fastlaners?
INVESTINGI don't like the idea of showing support with money. It's like throwing jetfuel on the flame of foolhardiness. My friends grandpa just backed 10,000 dollars to an acquaintance who makes the best salsa in the world. They gave the whole 10 grand to a factory that "makes your prototype" and they...- Don David
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- Forum: Investing, Crypto, Personal Finance
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