Hey guys, my name's Colton, I turn 22 in a couple weeks and I start university in the fall. I joined this forum because I just finished TMF and I'm hoping that a community of entrepreneurs and fastlaners is the missing ingredient that will help me turn my life around.
Ok- so where I've been:
I became one of those quiet types in school with no real social life. I'm still mostly the same way... while my brothers/peers party every other night, I'm the shut-in who stays home working on projects that my family cannot understand or relate to.
I read the 4 hour work week when I was 19 and that was the spark that made me absolutely determined to own my own business. I obsessively applied the advice but was never successful. In hindsight, I think the only benefit of reading that book is that now I will never settle for a "slowlane" job.
Over the last few years I have grown increasingly frustrated and desperate to move out on my own terms. I've had a few jobs but I don't last long because not because I have an aversion to hard work but because I despise authority and the feeling of someone having ownership over me. The things I hate most are bosses and gatekeepers- I think this deep routed feeling comes from my experiences in school (long story). The thing that forces me out of bed in the morning is the burning and painful desire to show the people from my past that they underestimated me-hugely.
Dark but honest.
Where I'm going:
After spinning my wheels on the entrepreneurial front for several years (I HAVE NOT AND WILL NEVER GIVE UP) I have finally succumbed the the pressure and enrolled in university. When my business takes off, I will leave school for good but until then I should at least be moving forward and "doing something with my life" I am enraged by my own impotence and I no longer have the patience to sit still.
I have the next 1.5 months to do nothing except build a business, eat, sleep, and go the gym a couple of days per week. Truth be told I find it difficult to even go to the gym or eat any more because I don't want to even take a moment off from building my business.
I had an idea for a business that came to me midway through TMF . I've evaluated it against the criteria in the book and it seems to satisfy them all. I've began taking action to bring it into reality. It's going to be tough and I have a lot of questions still.
I hope that this forum will be the missing link to my success- I am tired of bouncing ideas off my mom who tells me to go to college, make friends, get a mediocre job and find "the one", and then live my ideal lifestyle when I am old enough to retire (my dad is on track to retire at 70). I need constructive criticism from people who understand that mediocre isn't an option.
I am determined to build relationships with people who I can trust my dreams with. If I find that here then I will contribute back to the community in every way that I can.
Any questions? Ask and you'll get honest answers.
Ok- so where I've been:
I became one of those quiet types in school with no real social life. I'm still mostly the same way... while my brothers/peers party every other night, I'm the shut-in who stays home working on projects that my family cannot understand or relate to.
I read the 4 hour work week when I was 19 and that was the spark that made me absolutely determined to own my own business. I obsessively applied the advice but was never successful. In hindsight, I think the only benefit of reading that book is that now I will never settle for a "slowlane" job.
Over the last few years I have grown increasingly frustrated and desperate to move out on my own terms. I've had a few jobs but I don't last long because not because I have an aversion to hard work but because I despise authority and the feeling of someone having ownership over me. The things I hate most are bosses and gatekeepers- I think this deep routed feeling comes from my experiences in school (long story). The thing that forces me out of bed in the morning is the burning and painful desire to show the people from my past that they underestimated me-hugely.
Dark but honest.
Where I'm going:
After spinning my wheels on the entrepreneurial front for several years (I HAVE NOT AND WILL NEVER GIVE UP) I have finally succumbed the the pressure and enrolled in university. When my business takes off, I will leave school for good but until then I should at least be moving forward and "doing something with my life" I am enraged by my own impotence and I no longer have the patience to sit still.
I have the next 1.5 months to do nothing except build a business, eat, sleep, and go the gym a couple of days per week. Truth be told I find it difficult to even go to the gym or eat any more because I don't want to even take a moment off from building my business.
I had an idea for a business that came to me midway through TMF . I've evaluated it against the criteria in the book and it seems to satisfy them all. I've began taking action to bring it into reality. It's going to be tough and I have a lot of questions still.
I hope that this forum will be the missing link to my success- I am tired of bouncing ideas off my mom who tells me to go to college, make friends, get a mediocre job and find "the one", and then live my ideal lifestyle when I am old enough to retire (my dad is on track to retire at 70). I need constructive criticism from people who understand that mediocre isn't an option.
I am determined to build relationships with people who I can trust my dreams with. If I find that here then I will contribute back to the community in every way that I can.
Any questions? Ask and you'll get honest answers.
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