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Completely Finished Reading The Millionaire Fastlane!

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Hi All,

I hope you're doing well! Yesterday, I completely finished reading The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. Definitely, an amazing book, turned my world upside down. I felt like I was sitting in a coffee shop with a millionaire giving me genuine life advice. I have even recommended it to my family.

I even loved the part where MJ talks about how you should stop doing what you "love" in terms of a career. I have always been in the Information Technology field. Computers use to be my thing, something I loved doing in my early 20s. But it has now become something that I hate due to working in the IT Field. With the help of the book, I will be changing how I generate income on a monthly basis.

Also, this is not necessarily a big deal, but ever since I read the book and speak to my family. The concepts I have learned from the book, I try to speak to them about they don't completely understand it. For example, I have a half-sister who Is thinking about building up credit to buy a house in her name and car for example. Now I built up credit for this exact reason, but with the knowledge that I have equipped thanks to MJ's book. I see how you can purchase a car and house without credit. But in this case, we are playing the long-term game, which I am completely okay with. Buying it in cash instead of credit. So I am accumulating this feeling like I am the outsider of my family who genuinely wants to help people what I've learned, but when I tell them what I learned. I just get brushed off.

I am not really sure where I stand on credit, but being a user who has used it and mismanage it. I try to help people stay away from it. You are building someone else's backyard instead of your own. I no longer use credit because of this reason.

So I just wanted to create a post to MJ and to thank him for writing this book and giving me the knowledge to better equip myself and to better for my future. I see the world differently than how I use to.

The next book will be Unscripted : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship.
 
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Cool, congrats. There is actually a thread “I’ve read MFL” already
… might want to move this note there.
Read up on the forum, enjoy the company and tell us more about yourself.
 

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Cool, congrats. There is actually a thread “I’ve read MFL” already
… might want to move this note there.
Read up on the forum, enjoy the company and tell us more about yourself.
Will do!
 

ZackerySprague

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Cool, congrats. There is actually a thread “I’ve read MFL” already
… might want to move this note there.
Read up on the forum, enjoy the company and tell us more about yourself.
Is there anyway to delete this thread lol?
 
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I even loved the part where MJ talks about how you should stop doing what you "love" in terms of a career. I have always been in the Information Technology field. Computers use to be my thing, something I loved doing in my early 20s. But it has now become something that I hate due to working in the IT Field. With the help of the book, I will be changing how I generate income on a monthly basis.

I wouldn't give up on your domain experience in IT. It can open up a lot of doors, passion or not.

Glad you enjoyed the book. I think Unscripted (Books 1 and 2) are better books. Of course, I'm biased and 10 years older. ;)
 

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Thanks, MJ! I know Unscripted : Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship is the first book, but what's the second?

I hope you do a meetup one day! I would love to meet you one day.

For my IT domain experience, I will necessarily give it up. I am just burned out working in the field for someone else. I mean I could create a SaaS that solves a problem. But with where I am at current in my career, my skills are rusty and I wouldn't even know where to begin to find problems within the industry.

I have found in the past that others wanted me to help teach them about IT. Possible opportunity? Haha

EDIT: I will not give up my IT experience. But reading a little bit of Unscripted , I think I know how I can use my It experience for the better!
 
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