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Thank you, Vig! I think it is pretty powerful feeling that power, that every project I take on is a new entity in the world that I have to mold and create. With me being so young, I'm pissing myself with excitement.
While I'm on here, I wanted to spill a little bit about my emotions during this past week. I'm turning 19 in 5 days. 5 DAYS! I haven't created a business in this past year, but I've learned a long list of things over the past year that have drastically helped me. I've read MJ's book for a second time, and really committed alot of it to memory, and many things surfaced that didn't before. Here's what I've learned in a year of wantrepreneuring.
1) Do not pretend what you love solves a need! The very beginning of this thread began with my adventures for writing fiction ebooks. I had been a writer for most of my life, and I made the silly assumption that people would want my writing. I WAS WRONG. People don't give a shit, what they need is value. @JasonR 's thread proved to be the most valuable lesson I could have learned all year, and that is being agnostic towards products and markets.
2) Excuses Kill. "I'm too young", "I don't know", and "I won't make it" have been plaguing my plans for the Fastlane ever since I started. I continued to search for ways to stop the symptoms of these problems, but like MJ says in his book, stopping the symptoms doesnt solve the problem. I felt too young because I haven't done anything yet. I didn't know because I wasn't scouring google for knowledge. I didn't think I would make it because I was interested, not committed. I've done a lot of reflection over the 18th year of my life, and my gears have been switched around a lot to pursue the problems, not the symptoms.
3) Fear is a great arguer! Everytime that I've come to the point where I have an idea, and I've developed the idea, of course the next steps is to start your operations and make sales. I froze. I froze almost everytime, and immediately doubt would fill my head. Instead of solving problems, I let the problems in my head pile up. It became so burdensome that I'd let go of the idea because "I won't make it". For my 19th year, I want to do something. I am looking for a failure, and I hope it burns, because I want to get my feet in the water somehow.
4) Ice Cream or Celery? Making the right choices every single day becomes very hard. Especially in college, where more opportunities fly at you faster than you can think about them. It gets really hard to go against that headwind of society and push towards what you know needs to be done. That ice cream is tasty, but its bad in the long run, and let me tell you, Ice cream is everywhere. I've learned this year that I need to move move move. Every moment that I spend lounging, or stalling on my business system, someone else could just as easily swoop down and take it.
5) STOP Plan Hopping!! Ladies and gentlemen, my #1 flaw for the 2014-2015 year of my life. It was pathetic. I expected myself to be invincible, and I was trying to create 3 different websites for 3 different products in 3 different industries, all while writing ebooks for passive income, inventing the next wheel (twice) and trying to start a magazine company at my college town. I juggled 5-10 different projects around, bouncing back and forth between them, hoping one of them would show promising results. It wasn't the projects, IT WAS ME! As soon as I began reading MJ's book again, I stopped all of the projects, and I decided to focus on one. This is my goal for this year. Pursue one and either hit it big or fail. But pursue one.
I'm learning a lot again through this forum and MJ's book. I'm also reading a couple of other books to try to really get my head in gear. I'm researching how to license and I'm learning how to do a sales funnel (whatever that is). I've got so much more to learn, but I'm not giving up until something happens.
Thanks for this community!
While I'm on here, I wanted to spill a little bit about my emotions during this past week. I'm turning 19 in 5 days. 5 DAYS! I haven't created a business in this past year, but I've learned a long list of things over the past year that have drastically helped me. I've read MJ's book for a second time, and really committed alot of it to memory, and many things surfaced that didn't before. Here's what I've learned in a year of wantrepreneuring.
1) Do not pretend what you love solves a need! The very beginning of this thread began with my adventures for writing fiction ebooks. I had been a writer for most of my life, and I made the silly assumption that people would want my writing. I WAS WRONG. People don't give a shit, what they need is value. @JasonR 's thread proved to be the most valuable lesson I could have learned all year, and that is being agnostic towards products and markets.
2) Excuses Kill. "I'm too young", "I don't know", and "I won't make it" have been plaguing my plans for the Fastlane ever since I started. I continued to search for ways to stop the symptoms of these problems, but like MJ says in his book, stopping the symptoms doesnt solve the problem. I felt too young because I haven't done anything yet. I didn't know because I wasn't scouring google for knowledge. I didn't think I would make it because I was interested, not committed. I've done a lot of reflection over the 18th year of my life, and my gears have been switched around a lot to pursue the problems, not the symptoms.
3) Fear is a great arguer! Everytime that I've come to the point where I have an idea, and I've developed the idea, of course the next steps is to start your operations and make sales. I froze. I froze almost everytime, and immediately doubt would fill my head. Instead of solving problems, I let the problems in my head pile up. It became so burdensome that I'd let go of the idea because "I won't make it". For my 19th year, I want to do something. I am looking for a failure, and I hope it burns, because I want to get my feet in the water somehow.
4) Ice Cream or Celery? Making the right choices every single day becomes very hard. Especially in college, where more opportunities fly at you faster than you can think about them. It gets really hard to go against that headwind of society and push towards what you know needs to be done. That ice cream is tasty, but its bad in the long run, and let me tell you, Ice cream is everywhere. I've learned this year that I need to move move move. Every moment that I spend lounging, or stalling on my business system, someone else could just as easily swoop down and take it.
5) STOP Plan Hopping!! Ladies and gentlemen, my #1 flaw for the 2014-2015 year of my life. It was pathetic. I expected myself to be invincible, and I was trying to create 3 different websites for 3 different products in 3 different industries, all while writing ebooks for passive income, inventing the next wheel (twice) and trying to start a magazine company at my college town. I juggled 5-10 different projects around, bouncing back and forth between them, hoping one of them would show promising results. It wasn't the projects, IT WAS ME! As soon as I began reading MJ's book again, I stopped all of the projects, and I decided to focus on one. This is my goal for this year. Pursue one and either hit it big or fail. But pursue one.
I'm learning a lot again through this forum and MJ's book. I'm also reading a couple of other books to try to really get my head in gear. I'm researching how to license and I'm learning how to do a sales funnel (whatever that is). I've got so much more to learn, but I'm not giving up until something happens.
Thanks for this community!