Hey anyone who is reading this!
My name is Braylon. I am 17 years old and I am a senior in high school. For most of my life, I have been a failure - well actually I never really even failed. Up until I was 14, all I did was play video games and eat junk food. I was overweight and had no real purpose in my life. During my freshman year of high school, I got rejected by a girl I liked. Twice. That was when I decided to start losing weight. For the first two years the same thing kept happening - I lost a little and then gained it all right back.
Only recently, at the end of my junior year of high school, I realized why - my mental health. Thanks to the help of my favorite youtuber, Hamza, I got my life back on track. I was finally happy. I was being productive. Instead of just losing weight on some random diet, I learned all about health and fitness. I started finding things I loved - music, nature, and art. He introduced me to the book "The Millionaire Fastlane ." I felt like this was a person telling me the truth. Everything MJ DeMarco said in the book really made me wonder. He revitalized all of the dreams I had when I was a kid. I began to make a plan - but for this plan, I would need some starting capital. I applied to the Menards near my house and I started working.
I quit after 4 moths. The fact that I had broken my arm literally the first week I started working didn't help, but either way it was just a horrible experience for me. I wasn't even getting payed bad. For being in high school, the pay was pretty decent. The issue was this - it was the same exact pointless thing every single day. I was contributing almost nothing - it was like a complete waste of 6 hours every day. That, on top of school starting AND a broken arm made me start to lose it. My manager scheduled me almost every day. I would wake up at 7 AM, go to school, go to work, get home a 9:30 PM and try to go to bed - though the giant cast on my arm made it quite difficult. My grades started suffering. All the work I had put on improving my mental health started to deteriorate which also lead to my physical health doing the same. My dreams started slowly dying. My drive and determination to become and entrepreneur started fading away. And all for what - a low end job that I hated? There was one Sunday in particular that pushed me over the edge. My mom came up to my room and woke me up to remind me that I had to work in a few hours. For some reason, just the though of work made me so angry. I said some things that I definitely shouldn't have said. She slammed the door to my room and left. Once the initial anger had washed away, I had realized what I had just done. That was when I asked myself what I was doing with my life. Was I really just going to live like this for like 50 more years? That was when I realized that I couldn't work a job like that ever again. I skipped work that day. The next day I quit.
Since then, I have corrected course. I started meditating and journaling again. My arm is still healing but I just recently started doing light workouts. My mood has increased. My grades going back up. My dreams have been revitalized - for a second time. Just a few days ago, I started reading UNSCRIPTED and I have already learned so much from it. I started learning web design. I even started a youtube channel (It isn't very good yet. Like at all.) I don't know where I am going to end up at the end of my journey, but every day I am making more progress. That is the reason I joined the forum. My goal is to share my journey with all of you guys. It gives me a feeling of connectedness. Not only that, I feel a level of responsibility now as I write this - if I quit now, what example is that setting? I believe that this forum will drive me even more to work hard and also help some of you guys out. So yea. That's all about me. If you read this far, I appreciate it because that was a whole lot to read. I look forward to hearing about your guys' journeys as well.
Peace
My name is Braylon. I am 17 years old and I am a senior in high school. For most of my life, I have been a failure - well actually I never really even failed. Up until I was 14, all I did was play video games and eat junk food. I was overweight and had no real purpose in my life. During my freshman year of high school, I got rejected by a girl I liked. Twice. That was when I decided to start losing weight. For the first two years the same thing kept happening - I lost a little and then gained it all right back.
Only recently, at the end of my junior year of high school, I realized why - my mental health. Thanks to the help of my favorite youtuber, Hamza, I got my life back on track. I was finally happy. I was being productive. Instead of just losing weight on some random diet, I learned all about health and fitness. I started finding things I loved - music, nature, and art. He introduced me to the book "The Millionaire Fastlane ." I felt like this was a person telling me the truth. Everything MJ DeMarco said in the book really made me wonder. He revitalized all of the dreams I had when I was a kid. I began to make a plan - but for this plan, I would need some starting capital. I applied to the Menards near my house and I started working.
I quit after 4 moths. The fact that I had broken my arm literally the first week I started working didn't help, but either way it was just a horrible experience for me. I wasn't even getting payed bad. For being in high school, the pay was pretty decent. The issue was this - it was the same exact pointless thing every single day. I was contributing almost nothing - it was like a complete waste of 6 hours every day. That, on top of school starting AND a broken arm made me start to lose it. My manager scheduled me almost every day. I would wake up at 7 AM, go to school, go to work, get home a 9:30 PM and try to go to bed - though the giant cast on my arm made it quite difficult. My grades started suffering. All the work I had put on improving my mental health started to deteriorate which also lead to my physical health doing the same. My dreams started slowly dying. My drive and determination to become and entrepreneur started fading away. And all for what - a low end job that I hated? There was one Sunday in particular that pushed me over the edge. My mom came up to my room and woke me up to remind me that I had to work in a few hours. For some reason, just the though of work made me so angry. I said some things that I definitely shouldn't have said. She slammed the door to my room and left. Once the initial anger had washed away, I had realized what I had just done. That was when I asked myself what I was doing with my life. Was I really just going to live like this for like 50 more years? That was when I realized that I couldn't work a job like that ever again. I skipped work that day. The next day I quit.
Since then, I have corrected course. I started meditating and journaling again. My arm is still healing but I just recently started doing light workouts. My mood has increased. My grades going back up. My dreams have been revitalized - for a second time. Just a few days ago, I started reading UNSCRIPTED and I have already learned so much from it. I started learning web design. I even started a youtube channel (It isn't very good yet. Like at all.) I don't know where I am going to end up at the end of my journey, but every day I am making more progress. That is the reason I joined the forum. My goal is to share my journey with all of you guys. It gives me a feeling of connectedness. Not only that, I feel a level of responsibility now as I write this - if I quit now, what example is that setting? I believe that this forum will drive me even more to work hard and also help some of you guys out. So yea. That's all about me. If you read this far, I appreciate it because that was a whole lot to read. I look forward to hearing about your guys' journeys as well.
Peace
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