For those who haven't made a sale yet...

[Skroob]

Let me briefly walk you through my week just to show how much time/effort/thought/money I spend on this sport:
- I work 7 days a week, mostly to fund bodybuilding
- I eat about $200USD of food a week, none of that is eating out nor eating steak and caviar
- I ride a bus for about 3 hours a day going from home to work, work to gym, gym to home
- I go to the most expensive gym in the area as it has the most diverse equipment that I'd like to have access to
- I leave the house at 7AM and don't get home until 1030PM from work and the gym most days
- On my off day from the gym I meal prep for an entire week and I take my wife out on a date to keep her happy

From an outsider's perspective, here's what I read. Your entire life revolves around bodybuilding. Everything you're doing is 100% in support of that. That's fine, you have a passion. I think we've all been so obsessed at one point or another.

But that is all you're doing. You're stuck in a pattern, work/gym/sleep, and nowhere in there is anything that moves you forward in your goal to make a living from your bodybuilding passion. You say give it two years (God, you must be young! Two years feels like forever to us over-40s!) and you'll be out, but how if you're just doing the same routine?

I think what people are suggesting to you is that you have no reason to wait two years to start making moves. My guess is, you're probably already ripped. You could start picking up personal training clients today. You have an off day, use it. You're tired; man, so am I. Everyone is. Power through, it'll hurt for a bit but the rewards are worth it. Just like working out, right?

 

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[Xeon]

People here don't seem to truly understand JLE's true concern after all these pages.

The gist of his trouble is that if he stops training even for just an hour and use that time to throw up a one pager site, it'll make his muscles shrink and physique shrink. This is a very real disorder that affects a lot of people who gym. This is a psychological issue and not so much of a physical one (there's no shrinking of muscles identifiable by the naked human eye if you don't gym for 3 days). If you're the regular gym goer, I'm sure you've started worrying about losing your gains and your muscles shrinking visibily after 2 days of no gyming. Let's be honest.

The solution for him is not to make more phone calls or pivot. It's to reassure him that he'll still look awesome even if he reduces his gyming by 20% and that he'll look much better than 99% of the human population.

 

[Guest931Xfjyx]

1) What currently keeps a roof over your head?

I work 7 days a week as a Security Guard, making barely above minimum wage. Split rent with my wife.

2) If someone had a gun to your head and said you need to make a sale this week then what would you do?

Have professional photos taken of me working out. Develop a simple landing page with testimonials and a clear CTA with one-click checkout. Paid ads leading to the landing page.

3) What do people already come to you for help with?

At least once a week in the gym I have someone coming up to me and complimenting my shape or asking for advice. Oftentimes more than once a week.

4) If money was no object what work would you be doing?

I'd be bodybuilding full-time. Competing in bodybuilding competitions and the grind it is to get in stage-ready shape. Spending time with my wife and dog. Enjoying some sunshine. Good food. Relaxing. Reading. Helping my parents financially. Quality time with my family. Maybe an occasional excursion to somewhere tropical a few times a year. Sounds like heaven...

Yet again. Same story for me. I don't feel ready yet. Still want to give it 2 years time or so.

 

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[Kak]

I'm open to something better, but again, not at the expense of my "hobby" being eradicated from my life.

Got it, so this is the only job on the planet you could possibly have and still go to the gym. You’re totally internal...



According to Henry Ford, you’re right. Carry on for two years.

 

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[Antifragile]

Point being: I'd love a better job. You guys are speaking to a brick wall. I know you have good intentions and I appreciate the effort, but as it seems, it's a worthless effort. I hope to have a success story in time.

That’s why I chose to engage with you over DM.

Do better!

“I’d love a better job” = find a way to get it.

“I hope to have …” = don’t hope! Create the circumstances where hope isn’t needed. Where you create that success story.

How?

As I told you: expand on the list of options in front of you. But you are one stubborn person.

My suggestion remains: load up on audio books and reframe your own mind. Today your mind is external locust of control. Your language used in your posts gives that away fast.

 

[Kak]

I am probably in an emotional state where I should not write such a comment, but the whole JLE vs the world discussion is really getting to me.

It is so easy to say the issue are excuses and that it is a mindset issue. My whole experience with mindset is that it is a result of your circumstances.
Yanking your mindset elsewhere gets you excited for 10 seconds and you are back in the gutter once reality catches up again.

The suggestions I see here are non actionable bs advice. All I see is virtue signalling, nobody who really takes the profound issues seriously.

You have brought this attitude to the forum for years. Over and over you are rubbed the wrong way by advice such as this. Why does that keep “happening to you?”

Has anything changed for you in these years? Could it be that aren’t taking the advice you continue to dismiss?

 

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[Lex DeVille]

I can't get any closer to a product I could launch.

Weird.

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[xShepherdx]

Weird.

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www.thefastlaneforum.com

If I was to 100% restart today with zero knowledge, cash, or ideas, I would steal @biophase gummy bear/art idea that was detailed in the thread and just get something going using the framework that Lex has provided.

In my experience, taking that first step and getting something out there for people to buy is the hardest part. Once you do that, the experience begins to pile up and the next steps start to become clear.

Heck, I'm a few years into this and that thread kicked my a$$ into overdrive. It's a goldmine!

 

[Skroob]

It would only take me 11 online clients charged at $200USD a month to entirely replace my current 7-day-a-week income from my job.

Can't you do that now? Why do you need a specific body fat percentage before you feel like you're ready? At least you can start!

I feel terrible for you, you have all the pieces in place but you want take the smallest step forward because you have this limiting belief that you need to hit some arbitrary number.

I promise you, you do not need it. You are likely in better shape than 99% of people out there. You. Are. Ready. And you to not need permission from anyone, including me.

 

[Antifragile]

OKay, so this thread seems to be about establishing that it is possible and yet another place for bragging by those who have already done it. If you can't figure things out you suck.

Fine. Whatever.

If you can’t figure it out, stop trying, start bitching about how hard it is… then yes, you suck!

If you had a newborn, how long would you give it to learn to walk? 12 months? 5 years? When do you’d say “F*ck it”? Never! Same with business.

No one has given up on you and here you are butt hurt with strong emotions.

We’ve all had more fails than wins. By a large F*cking margin! You don’t want me to tell you all the shit I had to do. That’s why I am trying to tell you what worked after I was done with self-pity.

Trying one more time… see how this lands…

What is the secret to success in business?

• Work harder?
• Wake up at 4am?
• Meditation?

No

Will. It’s an attitude.

I have willed deals to happen after they died many times!

Your turn

 

[Isaac Odongo]

Let's help those who haven't made a sale yet.

For those who haven't made a sale yet, reply below with what you're struggling with.


In the meantime, here's some questions for you to ponder:

1) What currently keeps a roof over your head?

2) What do people already come to you for help with?

3) If someone had a gun to your head and said you need to make a sale this week then what would you do?

4) If money was no object what work would you be doing?

Fastlaners,

This thread is about selling something in a week. Or something of the kind. Selling anything that can be sold. In a week.

@Andy Black dropped me this thread on PM.

He asked me a few questions on PM too. Gave him some answers I won't deliberately repeat here because they were more thoughts than decisions.

The point he made was, instead of starting something from scratch, why not grow what you know. I have been busy blowing my head learning to code. I probably will continue to but I must first make a sale, any sale.

I am a teacher of English Language and Literature and a creative writer with a number of short stories and poems. And a long manuscript.

How can I get paid outside school ?

Which of my skills can I use immediately to make a sale?

First, I need to be willing to help others solve their problems even if they don't pay me immediately or as a result. In time I may get paid.

I have decided to help the learners at my school more. I am paid to do this job but there are aspects of it that my salary doesn't cover and yet these aspects are vital to the students. For example some students need extra and specialised remedial teaching. I have decided to enhance this more. Details left out of post.

Second, I could design a book for revision of English grammar structures which is learner friendly and rigorous and current. The ones in circulation don't meet those qualities. This may go beyond a week, maybe months. Therefore, with it, I cannot make a sale in a week. As the grammar aspects are relatively broad and the accompanying activities on comprehension may need additional time. This will therefore come up later.

I Could also design a book explaining literature to high school students and teachers in such a way that eases the understanding of literature concepts and terms. I could as well proceed and write thorough explanations of the books(novels, short stories and plays) set at end of cycles to candidate classes. And those notes to learners.

I could give these books terrific titles.
Ear to the ground. I will see about this.

I could even offer to teach people outside school English, but this number is highly limited as English is a widely spoken language in my city.

Third, I have short stories and poems that I have kept in written manuscript for up to five years now. I have all that's needed to revise them in a few days and package them on one of the self publishing platforms and get them out to sell.

I see my writing is the fastest product I may sell, in a week or so. I have resolved to taste these strange waters of self publishing and see what it has to offer. I have also resolved to publish fiction and poetry, which have no physical contribution to anybody, yet they have been produced and enjoyed for hundreds of years now.

Hence, I have resolved to package first my short stories into a collection and having them sold on some of these platforms and distributors out there. Then I will package my poems in another collection and sell them that way too.

Steps
Edit and revise the stories in 2 days
Organise the stories thematically in the above 2 days
Get a great title for the collection in the above 2 days
Get an appropriate platform for my stories in a day
Determine the price of the collection some point in the week
Design a cover page 1 to 3 days
Format the book for easy readership in I don't know how much time.
Publish
Spread the word in Act, Assess, Adjust
Make my first sale

I Have identified some self publishing platforms using ChatGPT
Amazon KDP, huge crowd but issues with control
IngramSpark, requires my payment which I don't have, I crossed it out
Smashwords seems to be great. I will see it more. I may use it.
Draft2Digital is small crowd. I don't like this
Kobo Writing Life is okay with royalties like the others but has design problems. I may pass.

Are there other platforms I may need?

Are there things I may need to know?

Are there warnings or cautions?

TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO HEAR NOW.
I WANT TO MAKE A SALE AT THE END OF THE WEEK
~Isaac~

 

[Andy Black]

My son is in Senior Four. Tag me when you need a beta reader. Good luck. I might become your first sale.

Ss

@Isaac Odongo ... I encourage you to PM every person who's expressed an interest. Get on a Zoom call and see the person behind the avatar. Understand the people you can help, what you can help them with, and how you can do it. Help them on the spot. Figure out why they can't get that help elsewhere. Etc.

 

[Andy Black]

I don't know why that thing with the gun over the head, doesn't quite work. Probably only at the beginning, but after that because of the everyday patterns, it dissapears.

Figure out a way that works for you.

The goal is to do the work that matters, not to be "busy".


Other ways of looking at it are:

Does it serve my clients or customers?

Can I invoice someone for it?

 

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[Kak]

Sometimes hearing something isn’t enough. Experience will teach him better than any word you or I put down here.

I honestly hurt for him. Two years is a long time to just blatantly embrace mediocrity. Wow.

The guy must be healthy. Can string a sentence together. So he can communicate. He’s just refusing be bold.

 

[Guest931Xfjyx]

That’s why I chose to engage with you over DM.

Do better!

“I’d love a better job” = find a way to get it.

“I hope to have …” = don’t hope! Create the circumstances where hope isn’t needed. Where you create that success story.

How?

As I told you: expand on the list of options in front of you. But you are one stubborn person.

My suggestion remains: load up on audio books and reframe your own mind. Today your mind is external locust of control. Your language used in your posts gives that away fast.

I appreciate you @Antifragile. I apologize for being so stubborn. It's both a burden and a boon. I like people with a default how can I solve this sort of mentality and all of you have shown that here. There is a way out of my current situation and it falls on me to solve how to get out, I just can't see it yet.

Let me briefly walk you through my week just to show how much time/effort/thought/money I spend on this sport:
- I work 7 days a week, mostly to fund bodybuilding
- I eat about $200USD of food a week, none of that is eating out nor eating steak and caviar
- I ride a bus for about 3 hours a day going from home to work, work to gym, gym to home
- I go to the most expensive gym in the area as it has the most diverse equipment that I'd like to have access to
- I leave the house at 7AM and don't get home until 1030PM from work and the gym most days
- On my off day from the gym I meal prep for an entire week and I take my wife out on a date to keep her happy

So if you see that kind of a routine you'll begin to understand how little time I have and how much time/effort/money I sacrifice for this sport. I'm quite literally afraid to miss the gym in fear of regressing from the hard-earned progress I've made. I have put too much into this, far too many sacrifices already expended to ease up now. I've devoted my life to it. I cannot ease off of the gas pedal. Due to this I have basically no free-time aside from the time I spend with my wife on a date or the ample free-time I have as a Security Guard.

Question is, how do I best use the free-time I have as a Security Guard towards building a better income? You've suggested audiobooks several times to me now. I still don't know really what to listen to or how that will help me... I really don't know what to do. All I think about is becoming such a phenomenal bodybuilder that it would be foolish not to hire me. I obsess over that as it's all I've got. That's my all or nothing.

 

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[mikecarlooch]

All I think about is becoming such a phenomenal bodybuilder that it would be foolish not to hire me. I obsess over that as it's all I've got. That's my all or nothing.

I am nowhere near @Antifragile 's or kaks range of success in business (yet) however I just had a thought when I read this I think you may find useful..

Some questions to ask yourself -

Why is it your all or nothing? Are you physically/mentally incapable of acquiring new knowledge or skills? Obviously not. It's just a decision that you decide to make or not to make.

What will it cost you if you don't take the direction that Kak and Antifragile are pointing you in?

What could life be like if you do take their advice to heart?

You say that bodybuilding is the only thing you've ever done however I'd like to challenge that. If you were to sit down and challenge yourself to write out 20 references that link to things that can provide massive value to people, that you are ALSO good at, no matter how big or small, would that change your mind about what's possible?

 

[Antifragile]

I’ve been $1 million in debt. I woke up one day, having the company that I built ripped out from underneath me in a hostile takeover, leaving me with a child on the way to college, a second one in the house, a wife who was a stay at home mother. All my money was in the company. I was $1 million in debt. And on that morning, the company was gone. It took me three days to get out of the fetal position and be able to breathe again.

Tell me more about having a shitty mindset and how nobody understands or has real world actionable advice.

Did you start from zero? Cool. You’re $1 million ahead of where I was when I had to restart. I don’t know anybody at this forum that I have met that was handed anything.

You’ve been here five years. If you’re going to cry over somebody who can’t get their shit together, that’s a pretty good indicator that you can’t get your shit together either. That’s not even what the thread was designed for.

You rip on the people trying to help. Meanwhile, you ignored the original post.

So let’s hear it. If you had to start making money today… If you lost everything… If you started from zero or $1 million in the hole, what would you do?

There’s only one answer that won’t work here. That’s taking a job as a security guard and telling your wife to wait two years while you watch YouTube videos.

You sir, I'd like to get to know you in real life! I tip my hat off to you.

 

[Skroob]

Weird.

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www.thefastlaneforum.com

Every time I see this thread posted, I get a little bit closer to pausing the project I'm on and knocking out some authority guides. I think I'm an authority on everything I ever talk about anyway, may as well write it down...

 

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[Vas87]

I do have a plan. It's less vague than "2 years" from now but I use that time frame as an example as it's easier to understand from the outside looking in. In the meantime I intend on improving my shape and competing at least once. I'm willing to let this take time.

Do you have an Instagram account? Show people your workouts, your diet, and your mindset. You can coach people online to get a healthy body. An extreme example is Wes Watson, look him up.

 

[biophase]

Point being: I'd love a better job. You guys are speaking to a brick wall. I know you have good intentions and I appreciate the effort, but as it seems, it's a worthless effort. I hope to have a success story in time.

You want a better job that pays more but you don’t want to learn any new skills. If you don’t want to physically demanding job, so you have more time at the gym, then you will have to get a job that requires your brain. Which means you need to learn something new which you don’t have time for. I guess we are just going around in circles.

 

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[BizyDad]

But I also don't find a problem with where I'm currently at if it still pays the bills and allows me to pursue my bodybuilding ambition.

I can't help but notice that time spent your with your wife is not a priority in this comment. She must be a long suffering woman.

So maybe I approached it wrong. If more date nights isn't motivation enough...

Less time on the job does mean more time in the gym. More money in your pocket means better supplements. Better food.

Maybe you can afford to live in a bigger place. With a home gym. No need to spend 3 hours on a bus anymore.

It would mean being able to buy a car for Pete's sakes.

But you'd rather live a 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. grind. And you don't have a problem with that even when there's a better way.

Somehow, someway, you are too comfortable.

Your current life satisfies you.

There is a way out of my current situation and it falls on me to solve how to get out, I just can't see it yet.

I took away this excuse.

Now what do you have?

We're complete opposites.

No you're not. Your response to me proves you're not.

It would only take me 11 online clients charged at $200USD per month to entirely replace my full-time 7-day-a-week job.

I pay my trainer $800/mo for 3 one hour long sessions a week. You can't find three guys like me in all of Ottawa? Do you have to wait 2 years to find THREE GUYS LIKE ME?!?!

My trainer doesn't even have Instagram. And I've already sent him two other customers.

What's your excuse again?

-----

Imagine training a really truly hard working guy, and watching him get zero results. He swears he's getting stronger though. But you know he's not. You know there's something under the surface that isn't right.

When you dig a little deeper you find out his diet is crap.

And every time you point out his diet is crap. His friends tell him his diet is crap. His dad tells him his diet is crap, but his dad's diet is crap too. Other trainers have told him his diet is crap.

He doesn't listen to anybody though. He's too stubborn. He's not going to give up pizza and beer every night. He likes pizza and beer, cuz he doesn't have to spend time on meal prep or actual cooking and can just sit back and watch YouTube videos instead.

And he says to you, I'm just not ready to eat healthy. I'll start eating healthy IN TWO YEARS, because that's my plan.

Until then, I'm comfortable in my life.

Keep training me @JLE

That guy obviously knows more than his trainer does, because it's his life right? So he's right, right?

 

[Isaac Odongo]

I am probably in an emotional state where I should not write such a comment, but the whole JLE vs the world discussion is really getting to me.

It is so easy to say the issue are excuses and that it is a mindset issue. My whole experience with mindset is that it is a result of your circumstances.
Yanking your mindset elsewhere gets you excited for 10 seconds and you are back in the gutter once reality catches up again.

The suggestions I see here are non actionable bs advice. All I see is virtue signalling, nobody who really takes the profound issues seriously.

Time can always be spared for something else.

Stop excusing excuses.

Spare sometime for something.

Take time and think about the goddamn things discussed here.

Nobody putting you on gunpoint to follow them. It is your life.

Why do you think these guys are in earnest with advice?

They mean well.

 

[heavy_industry]

Said the man who passionately wanted a personal trainer and then ghosted once he was actually given a routine.

You're not above it.

Please be kind with those that have tried to help you.

@Spenny can get any personal coach that he wants. But he decided to get in contact with you just to show you that what you're trying to achieve with your business is possible. You can get clients, or at least can get in touch with them.

The fact that he did not follow up is completely irrelevant. He, or any of your future clients can change their mind at a drop of a hat, no questions asked.

Be grateful. You're not entitled to anything.

Its ironic you're giving this as advice.

^ And what he said here is completely accurate.

You are doing the talk but not walking the walk.

It's very easy to give advice to other people, while your own life doesn't go according to plan. It's the perfect action fake. The perfect distraction from reality.

How about taking small steps to lift yourself from your own situation, which you consider sub-optimal (by your own definition)?

And perhaps then try to help others. Just like you have been receiving hundreds of positive encouragements on the forum yourself.

With kindness, instead of this vitriolic shit:

What does this have to do with the fastlane at all? Get a diary.

 

[Isaac Odongo]

Hello Fastlaners,

I hope you are great

I published my collection of poems on Draft2Digital.

I published on Draft2Digital yesterday afternoon.

Now my task is to gain sales.

That's where my focus now is.

I also began to read The 7 Day Startup. Very practical for Fastlane. Can be applied in any field of interest.

 

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[Andy Black]

@Isaac Odongo ... Start simple. Get something out there and test the market. Follow the echoes.

I posted this video on Facebook and it got a lot of good feedback. I didn't follow it up because that's not the route I wanted to go down. My goal was just to help people, so I recorded it, edited it, and published it.

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I've been doing Maths grinds to help local youngsters with their "leaving school" Maths. If it helps them pass, then I consider it an incredible ROI on my time. I'm going to do some videos for them of stuff we've already covered, so they can review them and we can keep moving forward to new...

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[The-J]

Possible, but this is not actionable advice. It is just one way of saying: other people figure this shit out, you obviously suck.

There's nothing to "figure out", the fact is you lack the right beliefs, traits, and skills for success. Judging by your posts, it's mainly your beliefs. You're trying to crack the wrong nut. You don't want to change what you believe because you think you're right. You want to keep your complex mindset and succeed when it's actually your complex mindset that's keeping you from doing the things that result in success.

If that's the case, then there are no magic words that anyone can say to motivate you to do the right things. You have to admit to yourself that you were wrong all these years and do the things that the "old you" would never do. But if you're not ready to do that, and I mean honestly look at yourself in the mirror and do that, then you'll never get anywhere.

And by the way, this by no means makes you abnormal. Most people would rather be right than successful because they can be right today, but they can't be successful today. But most of those people don't hang around on forums like these. What does that say about you?

 

[heavy_industry]

Everybody here is telling me to move my mindset away from reality into fairytale land.

No.
You already are in fairytale land.

You cannot see reality as it really is.

There are billions of people around the world that live in abject poverty, that are old, sick, or severely disabled, and would do anything to live the life that you are living. Being in a first world country, with food, clean water, a programming background, and still relatively young.

You are blind and cannot see the amazing opportunities that are all around you.

Keep playing the victim, and more problems will come.

You will stay trapped in your own psychological game, while blaming the world and the forum for not understanding your "complex mindset".

Then explain to me how my mindset is wrong (detached from reality) and what awesome advice I refuse to follow.
Name an example.

You know perfectly well why things are going the way they are.

It's because this is how you made them.

Why are you doing this to yourself, is something that you will have to discuss with the man in the mirror.

 

[Andy Black]

I am beginning to get irritated by this discussion of mindset and not mindset. Why can't it be taken somewhere else. To a thread about mindset for example. This thread is about making a sale.

I think this is a good place for mindset dicsussions actually.

I'd say mindset is the biggest hurdle to making that first sale.

 

[Artiom O]

Some questions for you to ponder:

1) What currently keeps a roof over your head?

2) If someone had a gun to your head and said you need to make a sale this week then what would you do?

3) What do people already come to you for help with?

4) If money was no object what work would you be doing?

I don't know why that thing with the gun over the head, doesn't quite work. Probably only at the beginning, but after that because of the everyday patterns, it dissapears.

 

[Boogie]

Punch list : there isn’t a house in America that doesn’t have a need for a handyman, but getting organized to get one over to the house and get shit done is some thing that most people have a punch list for, but don’t do. there are 28 houses in my neighborhood. If I went door to door with a checklist of 10 services, I could probably schedule 28 appointments. on my Services list? Touch up painting. Weeding. Plumbing. Electrical. One and done home cleaning. One and done pool cleaning. Palm tree trimming. 10 or 15 services on the checklist. We will get the Services schedule and get back to you with an appointment time. Subcontract with a 20% override. You’ve now just made it easy for people to do what they need to do anyway, and you’ve given a group of services to a subcontractor. You change the value proposition, and you don’t do any of the physical work yourself. As you scale this, you’re not even the one carrying the checklist around. You’re simply paying a commission to the sales person for securing the jobs. Now scale.

To expand on what Vigilante said, this licensed contractor gave a lot of info on performing home handyman services. He generally just does videos about DIY projects and skills. (Great DIY channel, BTW) He did several episodes on making money with service offerings using skills you have or can learn easily in some of his videos. He explores projects that don't require permits and he gives some tips on checking for licensing requirements. These could be scaled up to larger businesses after you've done them.

Here's his series on handyman and painting services:

View: https://youtu.be/H_fr2Fl0b1s



If you're looking for job ideas to keep a roof over your head while you're building something else, this list is very good and some great tips were given along the way:

Launching Points : 50 Careers That Don't Require A College Degree by Mind Your Business Radio Show

College is the not right choice for everyone. It wasn't for Bill Gates, who dropped out of college with Paul Allen to launch Microsoft. It wasn't for Karl Rove, who was the Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush. College wasn't the right path for Rush Limbaugh, Tyra Banks, or Simon Cowell...

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