Been living the SlowLane most of my life. While most of my friends that are my age are focusing on retirement, I’m trying to start a business. I started working on my business almost 4 years ago, but just read The Millionaire FastLane recently. To be honest, I don’t know if a younger me would have listened to the advice in the book. I enjoyed my career in Engineering. It really is a slow lane though, MJ couldn’t make that point any clearer and I’ve lived that life. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m older or times are that much different than they were 30 years ago, but things feel real different now. I’m 55 and I feel like I have a big target on my back each time layoffs come around. I don’t believe I’ll be allowed to retire when I wanting unless I do something to speed that up and decide for myself. Maybe it's too late, but I'd like to be in the FastLane!
About 4 years ago my wife and I were really trying to watch our weight. One problem we noticed was that we didn’t have room to leave a bathroom scale out without it being in the way. We found we skipped weighing ourselves instead of getting it out of the cabinet. We were talking and we realized that we’ve never lived in a place we could leave a scale out. It didn’t matter how big or small the bathrooms were, the floor plan or traffic patterns just didn’t allow a place for a scale without it being a tripping hazard. I thought that if I could make a mechanism that could attach to a scale and allow it to store the scale above the baseboard and tight to the wall, it would be convenient, easy to use and out of the way. It could even attach to the back of a door and work in pretty much any bathroom, even a tiny ½ bath.
I was excited about the idea, but the idea was the easy part. It took years working on my invention after work and weekends to finally create a usable product. I’m close to having it ready for sale. I have a website (shopify), but it’s not complete. I haven’t enabled the add to cart buttons, they don’t do anything as of yet. Hopefully I’ll have it ready for sale in the next few weeks.
Even though I read The Millionaire FastLane after starting my project, it has given me many ideas and peace of mind. I had a gut feeling that I really wanted to do this, but the book clearly stated why I needed to start my own business. I understand that getting to the fastlane would statistically be better attempting it when I was younger, but I would have terrible regrets if I didn’t follow through on this idea. I welcome any feedback, comments, criticisms and suggestions on my product I call “UpScale”. UpScale Your Bathroom
About 4 years ago my wife and I were really trying to watch our weight. One problem we noticed was that we didn’t have room to leave a bathroom scale out without it being in the way. We found we skipped weighing ourselves instead of getting it out of the cabinet. We were talking and we realized that we’ve never lived in a place we could leave a scale out. It didn’t matter how big or small the bathrooms were, the floor plan or traffic patterns just didn’t allow a place for a scale without it being a tripping hazard. I thought that if I could make a mechanism that could attach to a scale and allow it to store the scale above the baseboard and tight to the wall, it would be convenient, easy to use and out of the way. It could even attach to the back of a door and work in pretty much any bathroom, even a tiny ½ bath.
I was excited about the idea, but the idea was the easy part. It took years working on my invention after work and weekends to finally create a usable product. I’m close to having it ready for sale. I have a website (shopify), but it’s not complete. I haven’t enabled the add to cart buttons, they don’t do anything as of yet. Hopefully I’ll have it ready for sale in the next few weeks.
Even though I read The Millionaire FastLane after starting my project, it has given me many ideas and peace of mind. I had a gut feeling that I really wanted to do this, but the book clearly stated why I needed to start my own business. I understand that getting to the fastlane would statistically be better attempting it when I was younger, but I would have terrible regrets if I didn’t follow through on this idea. I welcome any feedback, comments, criticisms and suggestions on my product I call “UpScale”. UpScale Your Bathroom
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