What's new

A tip on avoiding a mentality that will have you only scraping by

Welcome to the only entrepreneur forum dedicated to building life-changing wealth.

Build a Fastlane business. Earn real financial freedom. Live your best life.

Tired of paying for dead communities hosted by absent gurus who don't have time for you?

Imagine having a multi-millionaire mentor by your side EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been a cornerstone of Fastlane, actively contributing on over 99% of days—99.92% to be exact! With more than 39,000 game-changing posts, he's dedicated to helping entrepreneurs achieve their freedom. Join a thriving community of over 90,000 members and access a vast library of over 1,000,000 posts from entrepreneurs around the globe.

Forum membership removes this block.

RogueInnovation

Bronze Contributor
LEGACY MEMBER
Joined
Jul 28, 2013
Messages
1,278
Rep Bank
$2,355
User Power: 171%
Focus on what you can control.
Your motivation to do projects that get paid
Focus less on what you can't.
How to make wiggly lines appear in your bank account.

Ok, have you ever had that feeling that you were on a sinking ship and no matter how much water you push out (money you gain) more water just kept coming in to match it (debts). Well, personally I noticed that I would always adjust my motivation to suit my money, and that this was the major reason I couldn't really save.

To adjust this problem what you need to do is to focus on the motivation you have to do projects rather than the money that "just came in". Don't look at your money until you are in awe of it, just go "hmm, ok, covers expences, now how much more focus can I put into what tasks need to be done?".

Don't focus on the cash you have, focus on the motivation you can "keep ready" for the projects you are gunning for. Detatch yourself from your bank balance (only checking if it meets base requirements) and then spend your time and effort managing your motivation.

If you manage your bank balance, it will always approximate your own need for validation (and be a sink hole), so make sure that the very FIRST thing you do is to manage your motivations seperately and distinctly from your bank balance.

Make your motivations snowball, and let GO of the bank.
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

O fotehsii xovj vji qesv ecuav vji cepl. Zua piif vu heop e hsievis dupvsum ug zuas nupiz. Zua dep iyqepf vji detj zua jewi up jepf og zua lpux xjev zua huv.

Nz qsucmin xet cazoph tjov O fofp'v piif. O tiv cessoist gus nztimg, vuul nz desf uav ug nz xemmiv. Cessoist esi hsiev.
 
O xet vemloph vu e gsoipf ecuav jux vji nutv O'wi iwis mowif up xet apfis $2,000 e nupvj epf O tiinif vu emxezt tewi ecuav 500 xovjuav piifoph vu vjopl ecuav ov, O katv fup'v tqipf nupiz up nztimg (epf vjot xet xjip O jef e hosmgsoipf vjev molif vu hu uav e muv). O vjopl O duamf ietomz xsovi e cuul ecuav gsahemovz. Epzxezt nz caffz't nupvjmz iyqiptit esi tunivjoph moli 4 hsepf epf O katv fofp'v hiv ov.

Ov't emm ecuav xusloph gus vji xusl't teli, cav vu fu tu, O emtu jewi vu tiv tvepfesft gus nztimg. Tiv etofi xusl juast egvis tdjuum, cmudl tudoem nifoe epf zuavaci xovj e djsuni eff-up, mez uav xjev O piif vu hiv fupi op vji fez, epf hiv ov fupi xovjuav siefoph epz cmuht cigusi O sixesf nztimg.

Nz quopv ot vjev tztvint xusl, vji tztvin O ataemmz tahhitv vu qiuqmi vjev jewi tqipfoph qsucmint ot vu neli ep iydim tqsieftjiiv us fuxpmuef e qjupi eqq vjev vsedlt zuas feomz iyqiptit, epf vsedl iwisz fummes zua tqipf, ev vji ipf ug vji xiil/nupvj, muul cedl epf fidofi xjodj vjopht siemmz cipigovif zuas mogi, epf cihop qesoph fuxp zuas iyqiptit gsun vjisi.

Epzxezt, tussz og epzupi tiit vjot et vemloph tjov, katv nz .02 up jux vu dupvsum zuas detjgmux
 
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts

Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.

You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.

  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

Back
Top Bottom