Hi everyone,
My names Jon and I am 34 from the UK.
I found out about this forum through MJ Demarco's GREAT book, I have spent the last few years in a strange funk not wanting to climb the corporate ladder. I have spent many a hour day dreaming about ideas and potential businesses anything that I could start myself and run myself, yet not taking action. Here is to name but a few........ Window cleaning business, gutter & facia cleaning service,
Carpet Cleaning Business, Car detailing service. Handy man services, Conservatory installation. House renovation and rental. All seemed like great ideas at the time. Im so glad I found this forum. I believe it has already saved me years of floundering around.
I am a Side Walker/ Slow Laner and want desperately to beat it out of myself!
In my 20's I managed to get myself into £27000 worth of debt due to poor choices, many cars and bikes and any other item that one might need to feel better about ones self 4 years of pain later and repaying that debt has lead me to now having no debt apart from the mortgage. I am in a slightly better position financially and mentally all be it living pay check to pay cheque. I have a small amount of savings but not much to show at this stage of the game.
I have a lovely wife and three lovely kids and want to do well by them.
I have been unregistered on the forum for the last 3- 4 months trying to take in as much of the information that has been kindly given as possible. I have stayed unregistered mainly due to the fact that I felt that I needed to try and build up a base knowledge level. Literally since school and my apprenticeship (aeronautical engineering) I feel that I have learnt very little In addition to this I find it mind blowing at some of the knowledge such young people posses and feel if I'm honest pretty low down on the IQ stakes. I have a lot to learn and relearn I know not to compare but i need to be realistic and I have most certainly wasted many years of my life not learning anything that would have been beneficial.
I amazed and humbled at the amount of time people take out of their lives to help others, I have definitely been learning whilst reading through this forum and think it is great that people are willing to share their hard earned knowledge.
My progress so far:
So far the first few months after first reading the book have been a bag of mixed emotions, frustration being one of the greatest. my mind has been spinning and everything has been up in the air and my day to day life as I know it has been on hold.
It has taken a few months of reading and consuming all of what I could to try and thrash out the ideas and find a vehicle to wealth. initially every article that I read was my next great idea! I listed all the vehicles I found and have gone full circle a few times. I have decided as a starting place I am going to focus on ecommerce to try and increase my savings to a point where I hope I will have gained enough knowledge on the journey to know what to do with it.
This does to me sound like flying blind but its the best I have come up with so far. I have an interest in property and if viable would one day like to acquire some properties to rent.
I have turned off the TV!! I now read every evening after the kids go to bed, On my journey's to and from my day job I listen to the audio version of MJ's book (Third time now)
I have started using the gym before work and at lunch as I am far from fit, I get up now at 04:45 Am opposed to 05:00 it gives me 15 Mines on a vario trainer + 25 mins of weights etc at lunch
I have set some life goals of what I would like to attain, next I need to figure out how much my business would need to cash flow or be sold for to allow for the lifestyle that I would like to reach.
I need to start to really plan my time out on a schedule so that I can fit everything in and to make sure it is not squandered.
I keep getting frustrated every time I relapse into non fast lane mind-set. A visit to the forum helps to get me back on track!
I want to contribute but don't feel of yet I have much guidance if any to offer, hopefully that will change with constant effort.
I think if my memory serves me correct I have only every posted one or two comments on a forum in my life in addition to that I have avoided social media like the plaque which has firmly placed me in the dark on many things.
I will do my best to get up to speed.
I am soon to start a LTD company and have been making some enquires into virtual offices so that I can have a registered business address which is not my home.
I am concentrating my efforts on importing and selling via ecommerce
I have stumbled across some posts/ threads pertaining to ecommerce so will spend some time to hopefully give myself the best start.
Lastly I would like to say thanks again to all the contributors and obviously to MJ De Marco.
I have made progress small it may be but Progress none the less.
My names Jon and I am 34 from the UK.
I found out about this forum through MJ Demarco's GREAT book, I have spent the last few years in a strange funk not wanting to climb the corporate ladder. I have spent many a hour day dreaming about ideas and potential businesses anything that I could start myself and run myself, yet not taking action. Here is to name but a few........ Window cleaning business, gutter & facia cleaning service,
Carpet Cleaning Business, Car detailing service. Handy man services, Conservatory installation. House renovation and rental. All seemed like great ideas at the time. Im so glad I found this forum. I believe it has already saved me years of floundering around.
I am a Side Walker/ Slow Laner and want desperately to beat it out of myself!
In my 20's I managed to get myself into £27000 worth of debt due to poor choices, many cars and bikes and any other item that one might need to feel better about ones self 4 years of pain later and repaying that debt has lead me to now having no debt apart from the mortgage. I am in a slightly better position financially and mentally all be it living pay check to pay cheque. I have a small amount of savings but not much to show at this stage of the game.
I have a lovely wife and three lovely kids and want to do well by them.
I have been unregistered on the forum for the last 3- 4 months trying to take in as much of the information that has been kindly given as possible. I have stayed unregistered mainly due to the fact that I felt that I needed to try and build up a base knowledge level. Literally since school and my apprenticeship (aeronautical engineering) I feel that I have learnt very little In addition to this I find it mind blowing at some of the knowledge such young people posses and feel if I'm honest pretty low down on the IQ stakes. I have a lot to learn and relearn I know not to compare but i need to be realistic and I have most certainly wasted many years of my life not learning anything that would have been beneficial.
I amazed and humbled at the amount of time people take out of their lives to help others, I have definitely been learning whilst reading through this forum and think it is great that people are willing to share their hard earned knowledge.
My progress so far:
So far the first few months after first reading the book have been a bag of mixed emotions, frustration being one of the greatest. my mind has been spinning and everything has been up in the air and my day to day life as I know it has been on hold.
It has taken a few months of reading and consuming all of what I could to try and thrash out the ideas and find a vehicle to wealth. initially every article that I read was my next great idea! I listed all the vehicles I found and have gone full circle a few times. I have decided as a starting place I am going to focus on ecommerce to try and increase my savings to a point where I hope I will have gained enough knowledge on the journey to know what to do with it.
This does to me sound like flying blind but its the best I have come up with so far. I have an interest in property and if viable would one day like to acquire some properties to rent.
I have turned off the TV!! I now read every evening after the kids go to bed, On my journey's to and from my day job I listen to the audio version of MJ's book (Third time now)
I have started using the gym before work and at lunch as I am far from fit, I get up now at 04:45 Am opposed to 05:00 it gives me 15 Mines on a vario trainer + 25 mins of weights etc at lunch
I have set some life goals of what I would like to attain, next I need to figure out how much my business would need to cash flow or be sold for to allow for the lifestyle that I would like to reach.
I need to start to really plan my time out on a schedule so that I can fit everything in and to make sure it is not squandered.
I keep getting frustrated every time I relapse into non fast lane mind-set. A visit to the forum helps to get me back on track!
I want to contribute but don't feel of yet I have much guidance if any to offer, hopefully that will change with constant effort.
I think if my memory serves me correct I have only every posted one or two comments on a forum in my life in addition to that I have avoided social media like the plaque which has firmly placed me in the dark on many things.
I will do my best to get up to speed.
I am soon to start a LTD company and have been making some enquires into virtual offices so that I can have a registered business address which is not my home.
I am concentrating my efforts on importing and selling via ecommerce
I have stumbled across some posts/ threads pertaining to ecommerce so will spend some time to hopefully give myself the best start.
Lastly I would like to say thanks again to all the contributors and obviously to MJ De Marco.
I have made progress small it may be but Progress none the less.
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