Excuse me while I introduce myself ...

[rumblestrut]

<div class="bbWrapper">I&#039;m not even sure how I found the book. Perhaps it found me. I downloaded the free chapters a few weeks ago, but hadn&#039;t even looked at them. I&#039;ve been too busy. Work, family, trading my 5-for-2. You know the drill. <br /> <br /> This Easter weekend, we were at my parents house, sitting around, chatting, talking about how our kids obsess about the strangest things. I half-joked &quot;I&#039;m glad I wasn&#039;t like that,&quot; and my mom reminded me about my youthful obsession.<br /> <br /> &quot;You always had posters of Lamborghinis on your wall,&quot; she reminded me. &quot;You always said you were going to buy one when you grew up and had enough money.&quot;<br /> <br /> That comment was all it took for me to do some hard thinking. I bought the book after we returned home and immediately began devouring it.<br /> <br /> In 2004, my wife and I started the process of working out way out of debt. We scrimped and saved, working our Slow Lane careers and did pretty well in a short period of time. In a couple of years, we managed to pay off about $20,000 of debt.<br /> <br /> Then in 2006 our first daughter was born. My wife, in her wisdom, wanted to get a part-time job and take advantage with as much time as she could with our daughter. &quot;I won&#039;t get these years back,&quot; she said.<br /> <br /> She was right and I begrudgingly agreed. I hated to see that hit on the income, but the reasoning was good.<br /> <br /> That was five years ago. We&#039;re basically in the same boat (with one more kid) as we were then. She runs a preschool out of our home, and I work full-time. We bought a basic starter house last May and have paid off cars, but we haven&#039;t made any progress on our debt. We have a very large amount of student loans left, and except for making the minimum payments on them, we&#039;re not progressing.<br /> <br /> It would almost seem like we&#039;re stuck. But now I see some hope. I&#039;m always thinking of ideas for websites/web products and have an Evernote account filled with them. Plus, I have a buddy who I&#039;ve been talking to about the book and he&#039;s come up with a doozy. <br /> <br /> Looks like it&#039;s time to get out of the Slow Lane and head into the Fastlane.</div>

 

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[Sparlin]

<div class="bbWrapper">Welcome! Thanks for posting the intro.</div>

 

[Russ H]

<div class="bbWrapper">Great intro.<br /> <br /> You may want to read Vaynerchuk&#039;s <b>Crush It</b><br /> <br /> In it, he talks about how 9-5 is for your job, 5-8 is for your family, and 8-2am is for BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS.<br /> <br /> He points out that 6 straight hours, 7 days a week, is a 40 hour week that you&#039;re building your biz.<br /> <br /> I thought it was a great perspective-- keeping your job so you can pay the bills/feed your family, spend time w/your kids each day (and all day on the weekends), and STILL have a ton of time left to build your biz.<br /> <br /> -Russ H.</div>

 

[rumblestrut]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hi Russ,<br /> <br /> Indeed, I have read Crush It. It&#039;s great. Sadly, it&#039;s only now I&#039;m finally &quot;getting it.&quot;<br /> <br /> I&#039;m totally on board with the Crush It mentality. I taught myself web development in my spare time after work and during my lunch breaks. Now, I just need to refocus that into developing a business. <br /> <br /> Thanks for the reminder!</div>

 

[mrhahn]

<div class="bbWrapper">Welcome! I&#039;m in a similar boat as you. I have to balance my dayjob, family, and buildiing my business. This is a great community and I&#039;m sure it&#039;ll help you keep motivated.<br /> <br /> @Russ H Thanks for the book recommendation as well.</div>

 

[Inphinity]

<div class="bbWrapper">Great intro, and welcome to the forum. In a similar position myself, and slowly working my way out, heh <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Hope we can be of some help!</div>

 

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[Knowledge Kick]

<div class="bbWrapper">Welcome to the forum man. I hope you stick around and accomplish everything you want to accomplish. You certainly won&#039;t be short on people willing to help you around here.</div>

 

[MJ DeMarco]

<div class="bbWrapper">Welcome and thanks for the great intro!</div>

 

[KittyWrestler]

<div class="bbWrapper">I remember when I was between jobs, I worked 16 hours a day, 7 days a week building my website... On the process of going on the fastlane, the work is gruesome... but you are driven by a burning desire to succeed and an enroumous amount of passion that keeps you going.. at the end of the day, my business funded my parent&#039;s retirement and they are running it now.. I went back to my corp world but doing a job I actually really love.. I think it&#039;s time for me to switch back to the fastlane again.. but those graveyard hours are pretty frightening, especially now I have a child to care for.. But I know once you kick start your engine, you will go down the path and not looking back.. the hard thing to do is to kick start that engine...</div>

 

[Ferrari Girl]

<div class="bbWrapper">Welcome! It sounds like you are in the right place, and on the right track.</div>