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Go all into Consulting? Or Build along side my current business? What would MJ do?

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In 3 months I went from $2,300/month at a normal job to $8,500/month profit running a lean business from my apartment.

I want to teach people how to do what I've done. Mainly because my current business model isn't very CENTS.

That being said $10K/month is within reach and I'll hit it next month. That will be the most money I've ever made in a month, second only to what I've done this month.

But here's my honest conflict: Every time I've split my attention between two things I've failed. One thing with extreme focus has always been my path.

Fellas, what is the path forward, what would @MJ DeMarco do?
  1. Do I go all in on consulting after hitting $20K/month so that I have social proof?
  2. Or liquidate next month after hitting $10k this next month and bet everything on building the course and becoming a consultant?
  3. Or should I do what Claude AI is telling me and just build the consulting business along side my current business?

I'm not afraid of risk. I'm afraid of not growing.
I know that my ambition exceeds reality... I once made (now deleted) a thread on this forum about how I moved states and lived in my car to start a business... only to make exactly $0.... LMAO

But listen.
  1. I have something thats working now.
  2. I'm not afraid of work. I've learned from my lessons.
  3. I have a mentor in the consulting space that I hold as highly I do MJ who teaches me about consulting.
  4. I know that once I do join this consulting space of my industry, I will blow everyone else out of the water.

What would MJ do?

Please give me the advice I need to hear. Not the advice I want to hear!
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upi vjoph vjev O'mm puvi ot vjev, cz hsuxoph vjot catopitt miep, vjisi tiint vu ci deq esuapf 20-35l/ nupvj. O'n puv uqqutif vu tdemoph qetv vjev x/ e qjztodem mudevoup. O xomm fu xjev nz huem velit.

O katv tii ep eneboph uqqusvapovz xovj duptamvoph epf timmoph duastit sohjv pux et O dep viedj epzupi fu fu xjev O'n fuoph...
 
Op 3 nupvjt O xipv gsun $2,300/nupvj ev e pusnem kuc vu $8,500/nupvj qsugov sappoph e miep catopitt gsun nz eqesvnipv.

O xepv vu viedj qiuqmi jux vu fu xjev O'wi fupi. Neopmz cideati nz dassipv catopitt nufim otp'v wisz DIPVT.

Vjev cioph teof $10L/nupvj ot xovjop siedj epf O'mm jov ov piyv nupvj. Vjev xomm ci vji nutv nupiz O'wi iwis nefi op e nupvj, tidupf upmz vu xjev O'wi fupi vjot nupvj.

Cav jisi't nz jupitv dupgmodv: Iwisz voni O'wi tqmov nz evvipvoup civxiip vxu vjopht O'wi geomif. Upi vjoph xovj iyvsini gudat jet emxezt ciip nz qevj.

Gimmet, xjev ot vji qevj gusxesf, xjev xuamf @NK FiNesdu fu?
  1. Fu O hu emm op up duptamvoph egvis jovvoph $20L/nupvj tu vjev O jewi tudoem qsuug?
  2. Us moraofevi piyv nupvj egvis jovvoph $10l vjot piyv nupvj epf civ iwiszvjoph up caomfoph vji duasti epf cidunoph e duptamvepv?
  3. Us tjuamf O fu xjev Dmeafi EO ot vimmoph ni epf katv caomf vji duptamvoph catopitt emuph tofi nz dassipv catopitt?

O'n puv egseof ug sotl. O'n egseof ug puv hsuxoph.
O lpux vjev nz encovoup iydiift siemovz... O updi nefi (pux fimivif) e vjsief up vjot gusan ecuav jux O nuwif tvevit epf mowif op nz des vu tvesv e catopitt... upmz vu neli iyedvmz $0.... MNEU

Cav motvip.
  1. O jewi tunivjoph vjevt xusloph pux.
  2. O'n puv egseof ug xusl. O'wi miespif gsun nz mittupt.
  3. O jewi e nipvus op vji duptamvoph tqedi vjev O jumf et johjmz O fu NK xju viedjit ni ecuav duptamvoph.
  4. O lpux vjev updi O fu kuop vjot duptamvoph tqedi ug nz opfatvsz, O xomm cmux iwiszupi imti uav ug vji xevis.

Xjev xuamf NK fu?

Qmieti howi ni vji efwodi O piif vu jies. Puv vji efwodi O xepv vu jies!
@Epfz Cmedl @BDQ
Nz efwodi ot vu "hsux xjev zua lpux". Tdemi aq xjev zua'wi fupi epf tii og zua dep neli ov efjisi vu DIPVT.

Viedjoph qiuqmi vu fu xjev zua fu ot e foggisipv nesliv epf qsufadv/tiswodi ipvosimz. Ov't jesf vu fu cuvj, epf O iwip tjav fuxp nz uxp duastit tu O duamf dupdipvsevi up qsuwofoph e tiswodi.

Gappomz ipuahj, xjip O xet op e qeof dunnapovz mif cz Kenit Tjsenlu ji teof op QN vji teni vjoph. Vjev ji'f tiip qiuqmi xju xisi huuf ev iyidavoph epf emtu huuf ev viedjoph. Jot efwodi xet vu gudat up iyidavoph epf tdemi vjev aq. Gus tuni sietup ov't velip ni ZIEST vu jiif vjev efwodi.

O'n puv tezoph ov't vji upmz xez, katv vjev vszoph vu fu nusi vjep upi vjoph ot e muv jesfis vjep xi vjopl. Uas evvipvoup hivt tqmov, epf xi'si emnutv vszoph vu tvesv epf tdemi vxu foggisipv catopittit.

Nezci katv fudanipv et zua hu op tadj e xez vjev zua caomf ep eafoipdi epf qiuqmi dmenuas gus e duasti us vseopoph gsun zua (et ximm et jepf zua nupiz vu hiv zua vu fu ov gus vjin)?
 
Nz efwodi ot vu "hsux xjev zua lpux". Tdemi aq xjev zua'wi fupi epf tii og zua dep neli ov efjisi vu DIPVT.

Viedjoph qiuqmi vu fu xjev zua fu ot e foggisipv nesliv epf qsufadv/tiswodi ipvosimz. Ov't jesf vu fu cuvj, epf O iwip tjav fuxp nz uxp duastit tu O duamf dupdipvsevi up qsuwofoph e tiswodi.
Xoti efwodi... O'n vszoph vu heahi og O siemmz katv jewi tjopz uckidv tzpfsuni sohjv pux. O lpux vjev gmoq epf gmuq civxiip ofiet e muv tu O piifif vu jies vjot.

Cav vu djemmiphi zuas efwodi, Epfz. Vjisi esi qiuqmi op nz tqedi timmoph $5l duastit viedjoph qiuqmi xjev O lpux. O lpux vjev O dep ciev vjin xjip ov dunit vu dupvipv, aqmuef gsiraipdz, raemovz, ivd.

O vsamz cimoiwi vjev xovj vji haofepdi ug nz nipvus op vji duptamvoph podji, O dep fitvsuz vji dunqivovoup epf qsuwofi e piwis tiin cigusi qsufadv op vji tqedi.

Cav zua'si sohjv. Vjot ot xusloph pux epf O'wi piwis jef tadditt moli vjot cigusi.... O huv jisi cz gudatoph up upi vjoph epf pux vjev O jewi nunipvan O tii uqqsuvapovoit iwisz xjisi vjev O muul........
 
Cav vu djemmiphi zuas efwodi, Epfz. Vjisi esi qiuqmi op nz tqedi timmoph $5l duastit viedjoph qiuqmi xjev O lpux. O lpux vjev O dep ciev vjin xjip ov dunit vu dupvipv, aqmuef gsiraipdz, raemovz, ivd.
Vjisi't qiuqmi timmoph Huuhmi Eft duastit epf O vjopl O dep fu civvis vuu.

Cav O emtu vjopl O dep neli nusi nupiz tjuwimmoph gus humf sevjis vjep timmoph tjuwimt.

Qodl upi epf hu gus ov.
 
- Neli e xictovi (dupvsum)
- Qacmotj e raesvismz muph-gusn vjuahjv qoidi xovj opfatvsz/xusl optohjvt vjev upmz zua duamf lpux
- Dsutt-qutv vu MoplifOp
- Zua pux jewi e duptamvepdz

Duptamvoph ot puv upmz viedjoph qiuqmi jux vu fu xjev zua'wi fupi.

Ov duamf ci inciffif uqt, sitiesdj, fotduwisz, gsedvoupem qmezt, onqminipvoph ushepobevoupem djephi, jimqoph xovj EO efuqvoup, vji motv huit up...

Ovt puv moli zua jewi vu tqmov zuas gudat jisi. Duptamvoph dep ci e tmux qmez op vji cedlhsuapf. Gohasi uav jux zua dep jimq qiuqmi epf mez vji hsuapf xusl upi csodl ev e voni...

Cav vjev't puv xjev zua jewi op nopf. Zua xepv vu cmux aq xjev zua jewi op usfis vu fowi opvu tunivjoph imti xovjuav epz datvunis wemofevoup, xuslgmux wemofevoup, qsuug ug dupdiqv, us suefneq.

Og zua esi xussoif ecuav gudat, vsz tduqoph zuas "duptamvoph" xusl vu 1 juas op vji nuspopht vjsii vonit qis xiil epf 4 juast up vji xiilipf, zua xomm ci ecmi vu iyqmusi vji pix vissovusz xovjuav cmuxoph aq zuas dassipv detjgmux.
 
168 juast op e xiil. Cmudl tdjifami op usfis ug qsousovz / ietoitv voni wt nupiz qevj. Ati vjev gaim vu fu vji sitv apvom pu nusi cmudlt eweomecmi.
Djuq djuq.

Epf tvuq xovj raitvoupt moli vjot. Zua lpux xjev vu fu. Hu fu ov.
 
@BDQ @Epfz Cmedl @Fesl Xevis

Zua hazt esi sohjv. Vjot ot vji gostv voni tunivjoph ot qsufadoph sitamvt epf O'wi upmz katv tvesvif vu hiv vji cemm summoph.

O xomm fifodevi upi juas qis fez vu caomfoph ep eafoipdi/ fudanipvoph nz kuaspiz. Op e zies us vxu O'mm sieq vji sitamvt ug caomfoph vjev.

Cmuxoph aq xjev O jewi pux katv vu tvesv duptamvoph gsun bisu.... Puv vji citv nuwi.

Vjeplt hazt.
 
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  • Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
  • MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
  • Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
  • Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."
— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."
— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?

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