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Hey Everyone. My name Dan, I'm a 29 year old from Canada and I just finished reading the millionaire fastlane . I'm a little blown away by how much a book can change your perspective on how you treat your life.
In all fairness I'm not completely new to the idea of not wanting to trade time for money and creating passive income etc I have read a lot of self help book when it comes to money and I've attending the infamous MLM meetings and seen all the sales pitches.
Up until now I have been chasing my dreams of being a professional musician and even with some minor success if you can call it that. From the outside it would appear as if I was doing great for a while. (signed with a major label and had a very aggressive fan-base) But when you strip away the appearance of success I was broke and breaking a lot of the rules discussed in the book. I had no control over the business from the position I was in and was in a very saturated market with low margins on profit. Not to mention I had no way to liquidate even if I did build the business up to one day consider an exit plan.
Needless to say my eyes are now open to the fastlane and I'm ready to buckle down. I do have varying degrees of experience with marketing, branding, and basically anything I could have gotten from trying to run a successful band over the years, so hopefully that will help. I also have minimal debt (<6K) and minimal expenses as I'm living back at home with my parents currently. I'm also currently single and have no kids. A lot of people probably see me as that 30 year old living with his parents again but in 5 years they will think different!
Now after saying all that I still haven't decided on an idea to pursue. My mind is actually going crazy with lots of different ideas from reading the book and everywhere I look I am now looking to fix peoples problems. I know for myself doing something on the internet is what I'm leaning towards as I am fairly tech savy and have some experience with online marketing already.
I do have a few questions since I'm just getting started. If anyone would take the time I would really appreciate it because I honestly do get how valuable time is.
Should having no starting capitol make a difference on what I choose?
While locking down a solid idea what should I be doing in the meantime? I know execution and action are important but I do believe having a solid plan and process can save time that may be wasted otherwise.
Since I don't know how to code should I purposely stay away from any business that would require me to either learn/hire someone seeing how I don't have a lot of starting funds. I have already read through a thread and decided it would probably not be in my best interest to learn myself.
Thanks for all the advice or just for reading my introduction! Hopefully I can make this my new home and gain some like minded friends. I hear success is contagious
Dan
PS don't hold back guys brutal honesty is what I'm after here!
In all fairness I'm not completely new to the idea of not wanting to trade time for money and creating passive income etc I have read a lot of self help book when it comes to money and I've attending the infamous MLM meetings and seen all the sales pitches.
Up until now I have been chasing my dreams of being a professional musician and even with some minor success if you can call it that. From the outside it would appear as if I was doing great for a while. (signed with a major label and had a very aggressive fan-base) But when you strip away the appearance of success I was broke and breaking a lot of the rules discussed in the book. I had no control over the business from the position I was in and was in a very saturated market with low margins on profit. Not to mention I had no way to liquidate even if I did build the business up to one day consider an exit plan.
Needless to say my eyes are now open to the fastlane and I'm ready to buckle down. I do have varying degrees of experience with marketing, branding, and basically anything I could have gotten from trying to run a successful band over the years, so hopefully that will help. I also have minimal debt (<6K) and minimal expenses as I'm living back at home with my parents currently. I'm also currently single and have no kids. A lot of people probably see me as that 30 year old living with his parents again but in 5 years they will think different!
Now after saying all that I still haven't decided on an idea to pursue. My mind is actually going crazy with lots of different ideas from reading the book and everywhere I look I am now looking to fix peoples problems. I know for myself doing something on the internet is what I'm leaning towards as I am fairly tech savy and have some experience with online marketing already.
I do have a few questions since I'm just getting started. If anyone would take the time I would really appreciate it because I honestly do get how valuable time is.
Should having no starting capitol make a difference on what I choose?
While locking down a solid idea what should I be doing in the meantime? I know execution and action are important but I do believe having a solid plan and process can save time that may be wasted otherwise.
Since I don't know how to code should I purposely stay away from any business that would require me to either learn/hire someone seeing how I don't have a lot of starting funds. I have already read through a thread and decided it would probably not be in my best interest to learn myself.
Thanks for all the advice or just for reading my introduction! Hopefully I can make this my new home and gain some like minded friends. I hear success is contagious

Dan
PS don't hold back guys brutal honesty is what I'm after here!
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