Greetings from London

[kevani]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hello World!<br /> <br /> It&#039;s been the 3rd week since I&#039;ve been out of work after losing my clients due to the current economical situation. Initially, I was happy, as I thought that I&#039;d finally be able to focus on a business system that&#039;ll lead me to be financially free. But 3 weeks later, I haven&#039;t done much progress and sadly, I wasted a lot of time watching the news and binging on a lot of stupid Youtube content. However, I did some amount of soul-searching and listened to the Unscripted audiobook and still listening to the fast lane millionaire one. This made me realise that I truly believe in principles preached in those books, but I&#039;m lost about how to achieve them in a confident manner. <br /> <br /> Let me give you a bit of background about me, I&#039;m in my late 20s, I&#039;ve been working as a software engineer in big data for the past 4 years switching from one company to another to increase my salary. I used to be a permanent employee. A year ago, I set up my limited company and I&#039;ve been helping companies as a contractor in London, the U.K. since then. As you can assess from this description, I&#039;m a money chaser and I see my tech skills as a way to achieve financial goals. However, 4 years later, I&#039;m realising that the process is slow and just achieving basic comfort such as buying a property is very hard and it&#039;ll mean that I&#039;ll be indebted for life. Having my company gave me the benefit of having more control over my income, but in the end, I&#039;m aware that it&#039;s still a job and that getting financially free this way is still slow. <br /> <br /> Now, my issue is that every time I have an idea, I discourage myself directly and don&#039;t even try to implement the idea, e.g. I&#039;ve been thinking to start a youtube channel but when I see the number of people already doing it, I just get discouraged immediately. The main blocker to me is really analysis paralysis. I don&#039;t want to start working on a business idea or project until I&#039;m sure that it&#039;ll lead to something that is economically viable, scalable and that will bring value to a lot of people. <br /> <br /> By writing here, I&#039;m hoping to reach out to people who want to achieve the fast lane path. Hopefully, we can collaborate on a fast-lane idea!<br /> <br /> Thanks, <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/1/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="1" data-username="@MJ DeMarco">@MJ DeMarco</a> for the value you provide to everyone!</div>

 

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[kleine2]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 82266" data-quote="kevani" data-source="post: 885005" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=885005" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-885005">kevani said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Hello World!<br /> <br /> It&#039;s been the 3rd week since I&#039;ve been out of work after losing my clients due to the current economical situation. Initially, I was happy, as I thought that I&#039;d finally be able to focus on a business system that&#039;ll lead me to be financially free. But 3 weeks later, I haven&#039;t done much progress and sadly, I wasted a lot of time watching the news and binging on a lot of stupid Youtube content. However, I did some amount of soul-searching and listened to the Unscripted audiobook and still listening to the fast lane millionaire one. This made me realise that I truly believe in principles preached in those books, but I&#039;m lost about how to achieve them in a confident manner.<br /> <br /> Let me give you a bit of background about me, I&#039;m in my late 20s, I&#039;ve been working as a software engineer in big data for the past 4 years switching from one company to another to increase my salary. I used to be a permanent employee. A year ago, I set up my limited company and I&#039;ve been helping companies as a contractor in London, the U.K. since then. As you can assess from this description, I&#039;m a money chaser and I see my tech skills as a way to achieve financial goals. However, 4 years later, I&#039;m realising that the process is slow and just achieving basic comfort such as buying a property is very hard and it&#039;ll mean that I&#039;ll be indebted for life. Having my company gave me the benefit of having more control over my income, but in the end, I&#039;m aware that it&#039;s still a job and that getting financially free this way is still slow.<br /> <br /> Now, my issue is that every time I have an idea, I discourage myself directly and don&#039;t even try to implement the idea, e.g. I&#039;ve been thinking to start a youtube channel but when I see the number of people already doing it, I just get discouraged immediately. The main blocker to me is really analysis paralysis. I don&#039;t want to start working on a business idea or project until I&#039;m sure that it&#039;ll lead to something that is economically viable, scalable and that will bring value to a lot of people.<br /> <br /> By writing here, I&#039;m hoping to reach out to people who want to achieve the fast lane path. Hopefully, we can collaborate on a fast-lane idea!<br /> <br /> Thanks, <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/1/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="1" data-username="@MJ DeMarco">@MJ DeMarco</a> for the value you provide to everyone! </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>One of the things that MJ talks about in his book is that there is no easy to do never done before super valuable idea just waiting around. <br /> There will always be big challenges along the way. If there weren&#039;t then you would have no asset since anyone else could just as easily compete with you.<br /> You will probably never know whether something is economically viable until you have people buying it.<br /> A good attitude to cultivate is one of experimentation. Start working on something or a few things and see what the first few steps are and how you can learn more about the industry, whether it might be economically viable or not, and whether it&#039;s something you see yourself really going a lot deeper into and committing to.</div>

 

[tonibob]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 82266" data-quote="kevani" data-source="post: 885005" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=885005" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-885005">kevani said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Hello World!<br /> <br /> It&#039;s been the 3rd week since I&#039;ve been out of work after losing my clients due to the current economical situation. Initially, I was happy, as I thought that I&#039;d finally be able to focus on a business system that&#039;ll lead me to be financially free. But 3 weeks later, I haven&#039;t done much progress and sadly, I wasted a lot of time watching the news and binging on a lot of stupid Youtube content. However, I did some amount of soul-searching and listened to the Unscripted audiobook and still listening to the fast lane millionaire one. This made me realise that I truly believe in principles preached in those books, but I&#039;m lost about how to achieve them in a confident manner.<br /> <br /> Let me give you a bit of background about me, I&#039;m in my late 20s, I&#039;ve been working as a software engineer in big data for the past 4 years switching from one company to another to increase my salary. I used to be a permanent employee. A year ago, I set up my limited company and I&#039;ve been helping companies as a contractor in London, the U.K. since then. As you can assess from this description, I&#039;m a money chaser and I see my tech skills as a way to achieve financial goals. However, 4 years later, I&#039;m realising that the process is slow and just achieving basic comfort such as buying a property is very hard and it&#039;ll mean that I&#039;ll be indebted for life. Having my company gave me the benefit of having more control over my income, but in the end, I&#039;m aware that it&#039;s still a job and that getting financially free this way is still slow.<br /> <br /> Now, my issue is that every time I have an idea, I discourage myself directly and don&#039;t even try to implement the idea, e.g. I&#039;ve been thinking to start a youtube channel but when I see the number of people already doing it, I just get discouraged immediately. The main blocker to me is really analysis paralysis. I don&#039;t want to start working on a business idea or project until I&#039;m sure that it&#039;ll lead to something that is economically viable, scalable and that will bring value to a lot of people.<br /> <br /> By writing here, I&#039;m hoping to reach out to people who want to achieve the fast lane path. Hopefully, we can collaborate on a fast-lane idea!<br /> <br /> Thanks, <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/1/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="1" data-username="@MJ DeMarco">@MJ DeMarco</a> for the value you provide to everyone! </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Hi Kevani,<br /> <br /> The first you would need to do is stop chasing money. That never works, just makes you more miserable!<br /> <br /> I live in Bromley and will be happy to help out. My background is more than 25 years as an IT Consultant as well as running my own construction business. I got plenty of experience, but find it almost impossible to surround myself with ambitious people, with people who want to make a difference.<br /> <br /> I will be happy to have a conversation to see if we can benefit from each other.<br /> <br /> Please, let me know how to reach you?<br /> <br /> Best wishes,<br /> Pete</div>

 

[df1992]

<div class="bbWrapper">Love seeing a few others from London on this forum! <br /> <br /> <blockquote data-attributes="member: 82266" data-quote="kevani" data-source="post: 885005" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=885005" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-885005">kevani said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I discourage myself directly and don&#039;t even try to implement the idea </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> One of my best friends is in this similar situation. He&#039;s a really smart guy with a great idea but he&#039;s talking himself out of it and is just thinking about all of the things that could go wrong (rather than the things that could go right).<br /> <br /> I think mindset is incredibly important. I also think that people can overthink an idea. Just take a first step, then another, then another... and soon enough you&#039;ll have small snowball which you can start thinking about rolling down a hill. <br /> <br /> That first step will give you an incredible amount of energy!</div>

 

[kevani]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 82408" data-quote="tonibob" data-source="post: 885201" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=885201" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-885201">tonibob said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Hi Kevani,<br /> <br /> The first you would need to do is stop chasing money. That never works, just makes you more miserable!<br /> <br /> I live in Bromley and will be happy to help out. My background is more than 25 years as an IT Consultant as well as running my own construction business. I got plenty of experience, but find it almost impossible to surround myself with ambitious people, with people who want to make a difference.<br /> <br /> I will be happy to have a conversation to see if we can benefit from each other.<br /> <br /> Please, let me know how to reach you?<br /> <br /> Best wishes,<br /> Pete </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Hi Pete, thanks for your message I&#039;ll PM you!</div>

 

[LordGanon]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 82266" data-quote="kevani" data-source="post: 885005" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=885005" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-885005">kevani said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Now, my issue is that every time I have an idea, I discourage myself directly and don&#039;t even try to implement the idea, e.g. I&#039;ve been thinking to start a youtube channel but when I see the number of people already doing it, I just get discouraged immediately. The main blocker to me is really analysis paralysis. I don&#039;t want to start working on a business idea or project until I&#039;m sure that it&#039;ll lead to something that is economically viable, scalable and that will bring value to a lot of people. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> I&#039;m totally on the same page. The thing is: I got so many business ideas, I just can&#039;t decide with which one to go forward. And they just stack up.<br /> <br /> I read somewhere that ideas are &quot;a dime a dozen&quot;. And that&#039;s true. It&#039;s the execution that is valuable. Although some people might frown upon the comparison, I think it might help in your situation:<br /> <br /> While writing my PhD, something happened to me that happens to a lot of scholars. During research, I always found the next best topic or aspect of my research I wanted to focus upon because it seemed so interesting. This led to me having a bunch of open threads. You could call it &quot;academic shiny object syndrome&quot;.<br /> <br /> This went on for 2 1/2 years, and I barely had anything to present. In the end, I did achieve summa cum laude. But how did I do that? I simply forced myself to write at least two pages a day. No matter what topic. I soon realized that a lot of the threads just had to be tied together, and then it was just a question of discipline and some writing talent.<br /> <br /> The important thing is that you do the work.<br /> <br /> While you&#039;re working, you might even find other interesting ideas or ideas that might make you more money. But EXECUTION IS KEY. Should you really run into a dead end, you can always come back to these ideas. You can always &quot;pivot&quot;, to use a word that has been dealt out like Ambrosia in the startup scene for a while.</div>

 

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[kevani]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 82397" data-quote="LordGanon" data-source="post: 886064" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=886064" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-886064">LordGanon said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I&#039;m totally on the same page. The thing is: I got so many business ideas, I just can&#039;t decide with which one to go forward. And they just stack up.<br /> <br /> I read somewhere that ideas are &quot;a dime a dozen&quot;. And that&#039;s true. It&#039;s the execution that is valuable. Although some people might frown upon the comparison, I think it might help in your situation:<br /> <br /> While writing my PhD, something happened to me that happens to a lot of scholars. During research, I always found the next best topic or aspect of my research I wanted to focus upon because it seemed so interesting. This led to me having a bunch of open threads. You could call it &quot;academic shiny object syndrome&quot;.<br /> <br /> This went on for 2 1/2 years, and I barely had anything to present. In the end, I did achieve summa cum laude. But how did I do that? I simply forced myself to write at least two pages a day. No matter what topic. I soon realized that a lot of the threads just had to be tied together, and then it was just a question of discipline and some writing talent.<br /> <br /> The important thing is that you do the work.<br /> <br /> While you&#039;re working, you might even find other interesting ideas or ideas that might make you more money. But EXECUTION IS KEY. Should you really run into a dead end, you can always come back to these ideas. You can always &quot;pivot&quot;, to use a word that has been dealt out like Ambrosia in the startup scene for a while. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> Thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity, are you apply the same to the fast lane? How is it working? <br /> My issue is to convince myself to start working on something because even if I see it&#039;s a good idea, I&#039;m not passionate about it.</div>