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- Mar 13, 2019
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Hello All,
My name is River and I have about 3 hours remaining on The Millionaire Fastlane . I have a sales job that provides me a good amount of window time behind the wheel to listen to audiobooks so I'll be done by tomorrow. I have read many of the "self-help" books on business and overall lifestyle change (Robert Kiyosaki, Tim Ferris, Grant Cardone, Napoleon Hill, Donald Trump, and more) and this is the first one that has influenced me enough to take action in some kind of forum. It says introduce yourself and the more the better so I'll try to give you a good idea of who I am.
I have been on the wanna be entrepreneur train since about my Junior year of college (about 3 years) and I don't really know if I have as much to show for it as I should. I graduated from a 4 year university in central Texas in May of 2018. Upon graduation I started a sales job for a local but prominent A/C and Heating company in the same college town. I wanted to get experience in sales and this company gave me the opportunity to start selling within a couple of months. Although, I am already on schedule to do much better than most of my college buddies who graduated at the same time, it's still a slow lane job.
I have kind of tried a few business ventures but they burned out faster than I took action on them. Bottom line I was a broke a$$ college student and knew my parents were going to kill me if I didn't graduate again. They weren't fans of me stretching out the college life another semester than originally anticipated. Now that I have a job and started making my own money I am now working on a personal brand with the vision of it being an apparel line (shirts, hats, socks, multicolored sunglasses, shorts) that focuses on clothing with unique design that is to be eye-catching and fun (aztec pattern, hawaiian, tropical, floral, paisley, abstract, Etc). This originally started out as me slapping my brand on some multicolored wood sunglasses but this has proven to be a bust, or I just haven't taken enough of the right action. Either way the vision is to provide something people wear that makes them stand out. I've always been known for wearing the most wildly designed shirts, jackets, hats, etc. at parties and social events and people always ask me, "Dude, sweet shirt where did you get it or where can I get one?" So I thought to myself why not it be me? Right now the website is still the sunglasses because I am currently getting sample shirts and hats made for market testing, which maybe I should have done first?? This could be a failure/learning experience in the making but I don't think I have taken enough action on it to conclude it as that yet.
I also have a blog I have just started. To be clear from the beginning I'm not trying to be some kind of guru or anything like that. My goal is just to motivate people, starting with my friends, to do something different than what they are currently doing, which is the norm. I figured hell anything different is better than what most of the people I know are doing. We will see how it goes. It goes hand in hand with how I live. If you want to see my first blog post, which is the only one up right now, go to www.rivslife.com. Like I said, I'm not trying to be a guru, I'm just experimenting. If you take the time to check out the blog, yes I do live in the 1979 Winnebago Brave with a 90 pound Great Dane named Poncho. Also, I am terrible at writing so try to look past the stunted grammar and wording issues. I am way better at talking and sometimes even then words are hard.
I am originally a small town kid, grew up on a ranch in west Texas, and graduated high school with 9 kids in my class. My dad made pretty good money but I was definitely raised on the slow lane. I went to college to graduate and get a job. By the time I was half-way through my first internship I absolutely knew 40-50 years of that was absolutely not going to cut it. 2 weeks before I graduated college I got my sales job off a craigslist post because at that time I believed getting experience in sales was my next step. It has almost been a year and I am very close to hitting my goal so I am planning my departure from this job as we speak, but I am still trying to figure out where I need to put myself next. The goal is to build a fastlane business that makes a difference in people's self-confidence and self-perception. I really want to be screaming down the highway in my old vintage winnebago motorhome, old generator blaring (to run the a/c unit because the one in the dash doesn't work), with my dogs head poking out the passenger side window. That would be my version of a the Lamborghini.
Between the blog and what I listed here you should be able to get a pretty good idea of who I am. I like to be different, unique, inspiring, and whimsical. Unfortunately, I'm still not different than most everyone else because I still have not freed myself from the slow lane... Yet.
I may get blasted here but that's okay. I have never participated in anything like this but I figured I'd at least go all in to begin with and see where it leads. I am always open to feedback and discussion.
Online Store: www.rivstyles.com
Blog: www.rivslife.com
Like I said, these two websites are a working progress.
I know everybody's time is very valuable so I appreciate anybody who puts their time towards me in anyway form or fashion.
Thanks,
River
My name is River and I have about 3 hours remaining on The Millionaire Fastlane . I have a sales job that provides me a good amount of window time behind the wheel to listen to audiobooks so I'll be done by tomorrow. I have read many of the "self-help" books on business and overall lifestyle change (Robert Kiyosaki, Tim Ferris, Grant Cardone, Napoleon Hill, Donald Trump, and more) and this is the first one that has influenced me enough to take action in some kind of forum. It says introduce yourself and the more the better so I'll try to give you a good idea of who I am.
I have been on the wanna be entrepreneur train since about my Junior year of college (about 3 years) and I don't really know if I have as much to show for it as I should. I graduated from a 4 year university in central Texas in May of 2018. Upon graduation I started a sales job for a local but prominent A/C and Heating company in the same college town. I wanted to get experience in sales and this company gave me the opportunity to start selling within a couple of months. Although, I am already on schedule to do much better than most of my college buddies who graduated at the same time, it's still a slow lane job.
I have kind of tried a few business ventures but they burned out faster than I took action on them. Bottom line I was a broke a$$ college student and knew my parents were going to kill me if I didn't graduate again. They weren't fans of me stretching out the college life another semester than originally anticipated. Now that I have a job and started making my own money I am now working on a personal brand with the vision of it being an apparel line (shirts, hats, socks, multicolored sunglasses, shorts) that focuses on clothing with unique design that is to be eye-catching and fun (aztec pattern, hawaiian, tropical, floral, paisley, abstract, Etc). This originally started out as me slapping my brand on some multicolored wood sunglasses but this has proven to be a bust, or I just haven't taken enough of the right action. Either way the vision is to provide something people wear that makes them stand out. I've always been known for wearing the most wildly designed shirts, jackets, hats, etc. at parties and social events and people always ask me, "Dude, sweet shirt where did you get it or where can I get one?" So I thought to myself why not it be me? Right now the website is still the sunglasses because I am currently getting sample shirts and hats made for market testing, which maybe I should have done first?? This could be a failure/learning experience in the making but I don't think I have taken enough action on it to conclude it as that yet.
I also have a blog I have just started. To be clear from the beginning I'm not trying to be some kind of guru or anything like that. My goal is just to motivate people, starting with my friends, to do something different than what they are currently doing, which is the norm. I figured hell anything different is better than what most of the people I know are doing. We will see how it goes. It goes hand in hand with how I live. If you want to see my first blog post, which is the only one up right now, go to www.rivslife.com. Like I said, I'm not trying to be a guru, I'm just experimenting. If you take the time to check out the blog, yes I do live in the 1979 Winnebago Brave with a 90 pound Great Dane named Poncho. Also, I am terrible at writing so try to look past the stunted grammar and wording issues. I am way better at talking and sometimes even then words are hard.
I am originally a small town kid, grew up on a ranch in west Texas, and graduated high school with 9 kids in my class. My dad made pretty good money but I was definitely raised on the slow lane. I went to college to graduate and get a job. By the time I was half-way through my first internship I absolutely knew 40-50 years of that was absolutely not going to cut it. 2 weeks before I graduated college I got my sales job off a craigslist post because at that time I believed getting experience in sales was my next step. It has almost been a year and I am very close to hitting my goal so I am planning my departure from this job as we speak, but I am still trying to figure out where I need to put myself next. The goal is to build a fastlane business that makes a difference in people's self-confidence and self-perception. I really want to be screaming down the highway in my old vintage winnebago motorhome, old generator blaring (to run the a/c unit because the one in the dash doesn't work), with my dogs head poking out the passenger side window. That would be my version of a the Lamborghini.
Between the blog and what I listed here you should be able to get a pretty good idea of who I am. I like to be different, unique, inspiring, and whimsical. Unfortunately, I'm still not different than most everyone else because I still have not freed myself from the slow lane... Yet.
I may get blasted here but that's okay. I have never participated in anything like this but I figured I'd at least go all in to begin with and see where it leads. I am always open to feedback and discussion.
Online Store: www.rivstyles.com
Blog: www.rivslife.com
Like I said, these two websites are a working progress.
I know everybody's time is very valuable so I appreciate anybody who puts their time towards me in anyway form or fashion.
Thanks,
River
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