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Fear and Action-Faking in Entrepreneurship-- a 19 year old's guide to askholing.

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I think this just became his personal diary.....
 
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-took the day off, passed my “25 hours in 5 days” target yesterday so I took the needed break

Ah yes, the "much needed" break from such a grueling work schedule.

But why stop there? 25 hours in 5 days? My GOD, isn't it time for a vacation in the Caribbean with first class accommodations!?

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-nothing

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
-no plans made

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-nothing

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
-no plans made

Strong work brother, you'll be a millionaire in no time.
 

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You need 1 of two things. To enlist in the military or get a script of Adderal.

You spent 2 whole days doing nothing but watching tv.

I don't have the patience to pull my punches here.

But your discipline and self control suck.

You need some discipline in your life. I honestly think joining the military would put some structure into your life.
 
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Eyy, the stickman gifs are back.

There is a book I've been reading with that exact title dr. carol dweck. Perhaps give it a read. I'm in your position with terms of commitment and it has helped me.

I own the book, haven't gotten around to reading it. How do you suppose it could help me with commitment? "Commitment" is sorta a vague topic so perhaps you could give some specifics?

Strong work brother, you'll be a millionaire in no time.

Coming from the guy who wrote a book on how to become a millionaire, I find this extremely encouraging. Lol.

I'll just have to prove you guys wrong.
 

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Eyy, the stickman gifs are back.



I own the book, haven't gotten around to reading it. How do you suppose it could help me with commitment? "Commitment" is sorta a vague topic so perhaps you could give some specifics?



Coming from the guy who wrote a book on how to become a millionaire, I find this extremely encouraging. Lol.

I'll just have to prove you guys wrong.


GOLD - Guys I Wouldn't Bet On.

@RHL

Here's number 6.

smh.
 
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Day 27 6/12/17
Current Goal:

PRIMARY: work 5 hours a day for 5 days (6/13—6/17)
AUXILARY: Start at least 2 new Facebook product ad campaigns a day for 3 days (6/13-6-15)

Current Ventures:

-a general shopify dropshipping store
-a social media marketing company *(essentially a job, no intentions of growing it)

Hours Worked on Business Today (breaks not included): 1.75 hours

Earnings: $8
$8= monthly profits ($240 monthly/30 days= $8/day) from my marketing company

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-woke up at 5PM
-did all the accounting for the past week
-did all the social media planning for the next week
-going to bed now at 5:42AM

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
-analyze my current ad campaigns and add 2+ more with new products to test

Grade for the Day: B- (80%) The good intentions were there. It just didn’t pan out too well in reality and I missed achieving what I’d like to have done (another product campaign, working out..) Got mired in making a rice and beans recipe that was pretty good.

Day 28 6/13/17
Current Goal:

PRIMARY: work 5 hours a day for 5 days (6/13—6/17)
AUXILARY: Start at least 2 new Facebook product ad campaigns in a day

Current Ventures:

-a general Shopify ecommerce store
-a social media marketing company *(essentially a job, no intentions of growing it)

Hours Worked on Business Today (breaks not included): 14.2 hours

Earnings: $8
$8= monthly profits ($240 monthly/30 days= $8/day) from my marketing company

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-woke up at 2:10PM
-absorbed a bunch of knowledge about ecommerce. I believed I had a knowledge gap that needed to be filled and I was sick of losing money on ads.
-got a big update done on my ecommerce site that made the mobile UI have an instantly better first impression
-did product research and found a more qualified product that the last (based on what I’ve been learning). Found also a few other products I’d like to try out.
-set up an ad campaign with the qualified product, made a video and image ad split test, with two audiences split-testing
-going to bed now at 2:23PM

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
-set up 2+ new product campaigns

Grade for the Day: C- (70%)—despite the volume of hours of work, I got sidetracked on reddit (of all things) as I was attempting to do niche research. Was on there for a few hours (not on the clock above). I feel like some things I was doing when I was working could’ve gotten done faster and that working out again (after this random few day hiatus) will help set things back on track.
 

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-did all the accounting for the past week

I've seen you post this a few times you've made it clear now you earn $8 per day. What is there to account for?

$8= monthly profits ($240 monthly/30 days= $8/day) from my marketing company

So this is bringing in a whopping $8 per day, so where does all the money you dump on your campaigns come from? Where does the money you need to survive come from?

You never mention how many sales you've made that day or how many potential customers you've gained, why is that? Oh wait.......

All this knowledge you are acquiring from all of these videos and market research you do what are you doing to execute on that?
 
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I'll just have to prove you guys wrong.

We would love to see that. We want entrepreneurs to succeed.

The problem is the disconnect with your actions: Your effort is not of a millionaire, but of someone who likes the comfort of living at home with his parents.
 

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Chuckled at the change of avatar pic.

You don't count the sit-ups huh? You only start counting when it starts hurting?

I'd stop counting 5 hours of work resulting in $8 of gain.

Although on second thought, that probably really hurts.
 
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I read this thread purely for the funny replies, 2-3 mins out of my day for a good laugh, now that really is GOLD
 

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Grade for the Day: B- (80%) The good intentions were there. It just didn’t pan out too well in reality and I missed achieving what I’d like to have done (another product campaign, working out..) Got mired in making a rice and beans recipe that was pretty good.

You worked less than two hours and gave yourself a non-F grade?

Your goal is to work five hours? The 60 year old Korean woman that made my eggs this morning puts in a solid 8 at that diner. You aspire to do 40% less work than a 60 year old woman?

Keep hoping you're gonna turn this around, and then you punish me for re-visiting this thread.

Raise what you expect from yourself. Turn this around. Gloat about how wrong we all were. I swear to god, if there's one more post where you worked 2 hours and then made beans I'm gonna go full movie villain and hire a team of Russian scientists to find a way to un-invent the internet.

Also, "niche research"? Is that what we're calling weird porn these days?
 

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you are more suited for a job/career. yes i know that this whole forum is anti job but at the end of the day we all need employees in this world. without them there is no life balance.
 
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but at the end of the day we all need employees in this world.

At this stage, he couldn't handle an employee work load ... getting up at 6AM, 2 hours of traffic, 9 hours of work...

If he thinks his "woke up at 1pm and did 2 hours of research" is hard... he's gonna have a rough life ahead of him, at least after the parents kick him out.
 

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I think this kid will make it... if he learns how to actually put forth more effort.

It's not really about the hours he's working a day. If he only had 3-5 hours of work a day to do and is make satisfactory progress, well that's fine. Problem is, he's got work to do and he's not F*cking doing it.

OP, you have action steps and things that you NEED to do in order to take your business forward. Test your ads according to your budget, find new products to sell, find other ways of getting traffic, outreach to get bloggers on board, get your products on whatever channels you can in order to sell them, create content to rank, research and get on email lists, and more stuff that will get you TRAFFIC and SALES.

You're just not doing it. You're not doing it despite the fact that it could reap rewards in the future.

You're doing fidget spinners. If you had put in the effort 2 months ago, you might be making 10k+ a month by now. But you F*cking didn't and you're still a $240/mo chump living with his parents watching documentaries about serial killers at 2am on a Wednesday. No job, no real business, no school, no nothing.

You're living your own worst case scenario now and you're OK with that? If your answer is yes, then I think you might as well leave, because you don't have the drive.
 

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I invested the time to read this train wreck........ Did I get rewarded? Absolutely!

1. I really missed the forum. Been too busy to put time in here. Threads like this let me know I need to budget some time...... Even if just for laughs.
2. I feel SO much better about only putting in 12 hours a day on my businesses.

My two boys just completed a deal to acquire another vending route that will make them $210 / month for ~1 day of work per month. They are 14 and 11 and do more per day than OP.

(+Rep to anyone that will PM me in 6 months if this wrecked train pulls a Thomas and finds a way to get back on track)
 
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Dude you are a glutton for punishment. Leave that shit out!

Every progress thread I've ever seen is just all about the good stuff. "Made X dollars on eBay last month", "Did X in sales", etc posting every few days without a real understanding of the important part, the day to day process behind it. The goal of this thread is to show the good and the bad and see the inevitable progression (or the degeneration as many of you think.) Nobody's really unapologetically shown their day to day wins an losses before so that's a big part of why I'm taking a lot of heat, some I believe valid and some invalid/misunderstood. I'm not embellishing anything and will fight to the bitter end.

where does all the money you dump on your campaigns come from?

Smart spending over many years, appreciated investments in sold bitcoin, my marketing company. Less than $2k in my bank is panic mode for me. If I had that little, I'd go short-term money making but I'm not and don't believe it will come to that point. I'm still in a kind of panic mode because my life is basically rock bottom shit rn.

at least after the parents kick him out.

Don't live with my parents, live with my brother with $500/mo housing subsidized by my parents. He makes 10k/mo doing affiliate SEO.

he's got work to do and he's not F*cking doing it.

3 product launches a day would be successful for what I'm doing from what I've seen. I'm not doing that right now but I believe I can get up to that daily number within this week.

My two boys just completed a deal to acquire another vending route that will make them $210 / month for ~1 day of work per month. They are 14 and 11 and do more per day than OP.

Congratulations to your sons and their good father who has taught them to start their first income stream legally instead of illegally.
 
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Day 29 6/15/17
Current Goal:

PRIMARY: work 5 hours a day for 5 days (6/13—6/17)
AUXILARY: Finish Adobe Premiere Pro Lynda.com course

Current Ventures:

-a general shopify dropshipping store
-a social media marketing company *(essentially a job, no intentions of growing it)

Hours Worked on Business Today (breaks not included): 10.5 hours

Earnings: $8
$8= monthly profits ($240 monthly/30 days= $8/day) from my marketing company

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-woke up at 11PM (6/14)
-did niche research, ingested a tiny bit of theory/mentorship, found a few potential products to sell. Wanted to edit a video with a product to make a video ad but didn’t know how. So I decided to go ahead and learn Adobe Premiere. Photoshop has served me in countless ways I couldn’t have imagined since I’ve learned it and now that video is taking over the web, I expect to use Adobe Premiere Pro a lot so it’s a good investment.
-worked 33% through the Lynda.com Adobe Premiere Pro course
-going to bed now at 7:56PM

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
- re-start a social media software and optimize some other applications I’m using surrounding that

-finish the Adobe Premiere Pro course

Grade for the Day: A- (90%) Overall solid day. 8PM is ideally when I want to be going to bed and I’m doing it. Did a lot of what I could possibly do. Only thing I regret was staying/reading at the beach for so long and not setting a timer.

Day 30 6/16/17
Current Goal:

PRIMARY: work 5 hours a day for 5 days (6/13—6/17)
AUXILARY: finish Adobe Premiere Pro course\

Current Ventures:

-a general Shopify ecommerce store
-a social media marketing company *(essentially a job, no intentions of growing it)

Hours Worked on Business Today (breaks not included): 5.8 hours (CORRECTION: 6/17, bad math)

Earnings: $8
$8= monthly profits ($240 monthly/30 days= $8/day) from my marketing company

Summary of Business Action Taken Today (Approximate)
-woke up at 5:50AM
-set up my social media software again and got that back up and working
-finished 33% more in my Adobe Premiere course. Speedlearning this with work supplements.
-Going to bed now at 8:27PM

Big Business Items for Tomorrow:
-finish Adobe Premiere course

Grade for the Day: A- (90%)—I think @Scot recommended I take adderall or join the army. So I decided to take drugs instead. Not Adderall (terrible side effects and fairly addictive), but another better work supplement. They usually dampen my creativity and stress me the F*ck out so I take them rarely, but today I had a lot of repetitive grinding and learning to do so F*ck it why not. I have no diagnosis of ADHD so don’t tell me to “take your meds more kid.” But perhaps I’ll take the supps a bit more and the stress I’m feeling while on them is what I SHOULD be feeling if I was working as hard as I should. Just a thought. I do feel like I got 20% more done that I otherwise would’ve today. Going to bed with the sun once again.
 
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Every progress thread I've ever seen is just all about the good stuff. "Made X dollars on eBay last month", "Did X in sales", etc posting every few days without a real understanding of the important part, the day to day process behind it. The goal of this thread is to show the good and the bad and see the inevitable progression (or the degeneration as many of you think.) Nobody's really unapologetically shown their day to day wins an losses before so that's a big part of why I'm taking a lot of heat, some I believe valid and some invalid/misunderstood. I'm not embellishing anything and will fight to the bitter end.

Are we on the same forum??

Lot's of the threads have their failures. The difference is those threads are related to business mistakes, and your's is:

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Don't live with my parents, live with my brother with $500/mo housing subsidized by my parents.

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Congratulations to your sons and their good father who has taught them to start their first income stream legally instead of illegally.

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You worked less than two hours and gave yourself a non-F grade?

Your goal is to work five hours? The 60 year old Korean woman that made my eggs this morning puts in a solid 8 at that diner. You aspire to do 40% less work than a 60 year old woman?

Keep hoping you're gonna turn this around, and then you punish me for re-visiting this thread.

Raise what you expect from yourself. Turn this around. Gloat about how wrong we all were. I swear to god, if there's one more post where you worked 2 hours and then made beans I'm gonna go full movie villain and hire a team of Russian scientists to find a way to un-invent the internet.

Also, "niche research"? Is that what we're calling weird porn these days?

Man your post was the funniest thing I have heard all day :D

Cheers
 
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-woke up at 11PM (6/14)
-going to bed now at 7:56PM

This is not normal in human physiology to only stay awake for 8 hours. You're either flat out lazy or you have some health issues (which u probably should test for) - in that case, it would explain some of the unproductivity.

He makes 10k/mo doing affiliate SEO.

Does your brother work the same schedule as you? Why won't he mentor you?
 

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