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I don't get why advice on these matters is so often fluffy and abstract. Even that Dan Lok guy says "your first million is just mindset". And Tony Robbins said he got the money to buy a castle simply by buying it, because "then he had to make the money". What?
It is not just about mindset. It is about actual tangible steps. "You have to want it" and other platitudes are not enough to succeed by. And neither is hard work. The idea that people can fix a million dollar debt by just wanting it hard enough simply doesn't help.
The only hint I heard in there was "I had my Rolodex", which implies you somehow leveraged existing contacts and relationships to start digging yourself out of the hole, by calling them one at a time with some business proposition. Is that correct? In which case you didn't have zero, you had the accumulated investment of that network.
For someone who's been whacked back down to zero, what immediate tangible non-mindset-themed steps should they take to get back up?
First, if you think that podcast was fluffy and abstract I almost didn't bother responding. To trivialize something so initmate because it didn't give you a how-to guide (which wasn't the intent) is somewhat absurd.
There's a thread on the inside that I wrote that chronicles the entire journey from the inception of the business to the sale 6 years later.
However, if you are looking for a road map to follow, there isn't one.
You're looking for actual tangible steps to follow? If it was that easy, don't you think everyone else would be following them?
That is how businesses that sell "steps" prey on unsuspecting. While the INSIDERS thread outlays the steps I followed, you can't follow them. It's not replicatable any moreso than making a limo referral business. What worked for MJ isn't something you can simply re-do and expect the same results. It's already been done. The time has already passed.
So, what is important is exactly what you are skipping past. What's important is that you are not the first to face the mountains, nor will you be the last.
But it CAN be done. It starts with resolve. It starts with an unquenchable fire in your gut and a commitment to succeed in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
The OP has $110,000 in debt. In somewhere between a year and three years from now, the number could be zero, or positive net assets.
How? About a million ways. I can think of a half dozen off the top of my head.
People sometimes read the millionaire fast lane looking for the "answer." The answer is found within. Create a business that masters the subjects of NEED, ENTRY, SCALE, separates your TIME from your income, and gives you CONTROL. That's HOW.
Or, just stay in the crowd that hears a story like mine and rather than grabbing the lesson, focus on trivial shit. I'd love to sell you a course, but I don't sell courses.
Your screen name is GOGETTER. So go get it.
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