HELP! ONLY GOT 3 MONTHS TO MAKE IT. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

[1step]

Move to a cheaper city where cost of living is half of what LA is

 

[Kung Fu Steve]

Suck up your pride and get a job or two. We've all done it.

 

[Johnny boy]

I'm 22 and own a lawn care company. I have a few things to tell you.

You need to ask yourself what you really want. Life is long. Do you want a have a comfy life within the next year or two or do you want to grow this cleaning business to be making millions? The fact you've automated it tells me you're more focused on a lifestyle. But I'll give you a couple options anyways. You can do any one of these things.

Raise money
Tell someone you've got a business consistently bringing in 1k a month in profit and show them that you'll use an investment to grow the business. Use their money to grow the business but use a piece to buy yourself some time in an apartment. Get the business bringing in more money and continue on. (Don't go telling me this is wrong or unethical. Just make sure these people get a return on their money)

Hustle
This comes in two forms. Hustling to find clients to make at least 3k a month (that is so easy and I could teach you how to do it no problem). And the other way is to just roll up your sleeves and do some of the work yourself for your cleaning business. Are you too good to clean? You said it's automated. Automation is expensive. I've got a lawn care company that I can automate, but guess what? I'm trying to buy land and build a custom house, so I'm out mowing lawns myself for now because otherwise I'd be sitting around enjoying the automation but taking home a lot less money. The automation should come much later than when you're only bringing in 1k a month.

Move
My vote is Thailand or Bali. You sound like you want to have a nice lifestyle. You could live off of 1k a month in those places and not have to do a damn thing. Imagine that... Just living near the beach and free to do as you please. I think if you move it should be to somewhere like that. You can already afford it and since you're computer savvy you can build up a nice SEO agency without having to worry about paying the bills.

Get a job
jk, F that. And F driving for uber. That's such a bad idea especially since you don't have a car...

It all comes down to where you want to be in the future. That determines the best action to take.

What would I do? It depends on what I saw in the cleaning business. I believe my lawn care company will be a national franchise. It's my baby. I spend all my time on it. So if I believed I could grow a cleaning business to be a massive size, I would roll up my sleeves and start doing some damn cleaning. I bet you'd bring in enough money right there. But I wouldn't want to maintain, I'd need to grow. I would probably build a few relationships and use other people's money to grow the business. "Hey Trust Fund Tony, wanna see me turn your 50k into 65k this year?" Get another cleaning crew out there making you more money and keep it going. Give Trust Fund Tony his money back and see your 1k a month business start bringing in 10k a month in profit. Keep it rolling and build up something big.

If I didn't see it turning into something big I would pack up a backpack of stuff and move to a cheap country and live on the beach doing internet work and practicing how to surf.

If you make money online, why live in the most expensive areas? Look up "geoarbitrage" or read the 4-hour workweek.

 

[Insidious]

As everyone else is covering the 'how to make money' aspect, here's a different perspective.

What you need: A place to live that isn't your parents house.

You don't need your 'own place'. You could rent a room, or couch surf, or crash with a friend, or make a deal with one of your employees, or get a job as an apartment manager, or buy a car and live out of it (google it), or...

Work the actual problem. $, while lovely, is not the end all be all answer and solution to all problems.

What's the shortest distance solution?

Solve the simple problem (a roof over your head) and then switch that focus/drive back to business/income.

Ask a better question. How can I get a place to live for free? How can I get paid to live somewhere (manager example)? Is there a place I could live that will supercharge my entrepreneurial game (roommates who are on the path, stacking functions)?

 

[minivanman]

As for the job you have done so far...... I applaud you! Most people are all talk and never bust a grape yet you are making $1000 a month!

The part you probably left out is the part where it seems to your dad as if you never do anything at all and on top of that.... you was late to pick up the kids. So I'm with him, you deserved a knee to the nuts so you never forget again! You might not have known it, but he probably thought that.

You do need to move. Not really a question.

Now as for the cleaning company. Do you have it 'based' in LA or where do the cleanings take place? It's already up and running.... let's try to see if we can make it profit 10x more than it is. I'm not asking for all of the down sides..... just where is it based?

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[AgainstAllOdds]

Why is your health insurance only good in LA? Who is paying for it?

My vote, move somewhere else, quit complaining about the weather, get a job, work on your business. Easy life.

This.

Suck up your pride and get a job or two. We've all done it.

And this.

Go somewhere cheaper. You're 21. If you have a serious health issue, you can come back to LA.

Go to Vegas. You're saying Uber/Lyft is more expensive there. Get a car on credit that qualifies for Uber/Lyft. Start driving as many hours a week as you can. Save up money after paying rent/food. Invest whatever you can into your cleaning business or getting SEO clients. Move back to LA when you're self-sufficient.

 

[Ecom man]

So I’m not trying to jump on you but it seems to me all you have is excuses of why you can’t or shouldn’t do something when someone gives you their opinion.

Honestly you have to decide if your life currently sucks enough to do something about it or if you are happy being mediocre in your current situation. Based on your responses I would say you haven’t had a FTE yet. If you would have had a FTE you wouldn’t be thinking about maybe doing something... you would be doing it.

My opinion? Move to another state where it is super cheap to live. There are tons of places in the Midwest where you can easily live for 1k a month or even less.

You then have the freedom to work a job part time to invest that money into building up a cleaning business in another area, build a different business entirely, or just laze around and do nothing for most of the week.

You could also take your time and learn a trade or something like that. If running a businesses at 1k a month is stressing you out then maybe being a business owner isn’t for you.

As an outsider you seem like about 75% of the rest of the US population. They don’t like their current situation but are too scared to make the big decisions to make their life truly better.

They are stuck weighing the pros and cons and can’t do this or that because of this reason or that reason. The truth is that they haven’t had a FTE. They are only uncomfortable in their current situation but not enough to do something about it.

Sounds a lot like you.

 

[biophase]

Why is your health insurance only good in LA? Who is paying for it?

My vote, move somewhere else, quit complaining about the weather, get a job, work on your business. Easy life.

 

[Lex DeVille]

In an ideal world, it'd be a sales job that's part time and allows me to make 2k/mo just to cover the bills and still tons of time left in the week to work on the business.

Car salesman.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[beast3146]

So, I'm in a very weird sticky situation & I need help or some second opinions because my head is about to explode with panic & stress....


I'll give you a quick rundown.

Background story: Grew up in dysfunctional household. Have a horrible abusive father that pretty much didn't do shiet for me and was just abusive. At age of 19 I started my first real service business online which is a cleaning company. It took alot of work from me. So much to learn. I learned everything from scratch.... hiring contractors, managing contractors, advertising, seo, adwords, accounting, everything you name it.

Made lots of mistakes as well from blowing money in vegas to all types of shenanigans that slowed down my growth but all lessons learned

Where I am now: Fast forward 2 years later and I'm 21 years old. My business is automated by VAs but unfortunately I only net max about 1k/mo after expenses in my pocket. This business taught me alot but have no passion to continue it nor do I have the time. Also 1k isnt much especially in a city like Los Angeles.

THE CRAZY EMERGENCY I NEED HELP WITH: About 6 months back, my father kicked me out of the blue. And had no where to go but stay temporarily at a cousin house. I worked my a$$ off until and started putting together an seo agency since I realized this would be the fastest way to make some $$ to move out. just 3-5 seo clients would mean I can live on my own in an expensive city like los angeles. I did do a couple one time projects for clients which let me save about 7-8k fast in the bank. Keep in mind I was starting from scratch with barely any money in savings (Yea I know I f*cked up in my earlier years while trying to figure out this whole business & money stuff and not having saved correctly)

Right now I'm back in my house. My father is out of the country & doesn't know I'm at the house with my mom. He comes back this august or september.

So I have a very limited time to make it work and actually get my own place. (Also dont have my own car)

Between now (May) & August I have to make atleast 3k/mo after taxes minimum to afford living on my own.

What would you do?


Do I continue focusing 100% of my time on getting atleast 3-5 seo clients and go balls to the wall, finger crossed I get those clients before end of summer? (I start mass cold calling hard next week + network event meetups & other things)

I'm also thinking out of 2 weeks of the month doing some sort of uber or ubereats and the other 2 weeks fully on business. That'd make me an extra 1k/mo to save in the meantime. Maybe I'll save about 3k by august if I do uber on the side and make 1k/mo from it


I did the math for uber . One full week would maybe be about 1k-1200 on 50-60 hours of work. Then after taxes, gas, & car rental expense I'm left with like $500 for the week.

TIME IS SUPER LIMITED &SO I HAVE TO ACT FAST.

What do you guys recommend?

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[minivanman]

Great! So, now that you are making $1000 a month profit in LA, what is stopping you from making $1000 a month in Vegas with the cleaning company? Could it be done again, and how easy was it to do the 1st time?

 

[SteveO]

The healthcare I have is under some sort of family plan or low income shiet. Basically its free for me until age 24 then after that I gotta get my own.
But its literally called LA Healthcare lol. And only works here from what I understand.

But from having gone to the doctor in the past year for alignments, illness and injuries that require antibiotics or some sort of treatment,etc...I know for a fact I cant afford any of that over priced shiet if I ever get ill like with some bacteria that requires antibiotics or things like that. antibiotics from a doctor are like $100 or some shiet a pill. its ridiculous

Basically riding the tax payer's wallets. But, why wouldn't you take it if it is offered.

I second the ideas of finding a job regardless of pay and figuring out a creative path for living arrangements.

I lived in my car for a while at the age of 18 because there was no other option. Don't remember stressing about it.

 

[beast3146]

You don't have a car cross out the last paragraph.

Father kicked you out of the blue?

For the car, I was thinking of doing one of those care rentals fr uber/lyft or even turo whe re you rent from other car owners.

Father kicked me out of the blue.

As in long story short, I was working all day on my cleaning business tasks & was about to pick up my little brothers. He got mad, I was late to pick them up from school. Got crazy, tried to fight me over it physically while my mom held him back. Went in my room & tried to throw my laptop on the floor. But I quickly grabbed it out from his hand. He then got all my luggage and threw it out. And my mom was trying to calm him down...going like wtf relax. But yeah thats pretty much how I got kicked out. Happened in a blink of an eye.

But nothing she can do. Its a f*cked up situation. My mom is the one that pays the rent for the house, does all the housework as he chills back like a king and does nothing at this point. But he's the higher power in the house. I always tell my mom to stand up to him but she doesn't...so powerless there.

So that's a summary of that in a nutshell

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[BlokeInProgress]

@beast3146 - So is the suggestion below out? It's a solid suggestion.

Suck up your pride and get a job or two. We've all done it.

 

[Johnny boy]

I updated my last post but yea forgot to mention I posted my clenaing biz for sale, got a couple leads but never got any real converts.
If I can sell this fast it'd be a god send.

Maybe I should lower the price I listed it for sale, I had posted it for 35k on bizbuysell lol

either I need a business broker or something.

But if you have any tips on selling a biz asap, I'm all ears.

If I can sell this biz and have atleast 20k+ in the bank after taxes & expenses associated iwth selling the business I'd be in a good spot. That saving money would buy me time

Find out who would want to buy a business and go to them.

Post ads, put up bandit signs around your town "business for sale. automated. location independant. make 1k+ a month", go to local business meetups like the chamber of commerce and BNI meetings.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[rjrobbins2]

I would definitely consider moving. LA is crazy expensive. While it would be hard to live on 1K pretty much anywhere. You could move to a midwestern city for less than half the cost. For example, Kansas City is 60% less than LA for living expenses. If you want to build a digital agency, it is a good place to do it. They have been calling KC the Silicon Prairie for a reason. Google Fiber was the first to come here and companies like Sprint and Cerner are based here along with a lot of smaller tech companies. But, that is just one option.

 

[beast3146]

Move to a cheaper city where cost of living is half of what LA is

I have considered a city like vegas or phoenix temporarily.

I have some family that live in vegas. they are the ones that let me stay over at their house last time.

But ofcourse I wouldn't want to do that again & overwelcome my stay.

Vegas is crazy weather thou. I can not rely on bus/car transportation. Its one of those cities you NEED to buy a car for sure to get around. In the winter its freezing and summe rits hot. Walking a block is a mission in vegas. So either have to uber around or buy your own car. Uber/lyft is also expensive there from what I noticd.

And another downside of moving out of los angeles is that I'd lose healthcare coverage since my healthcare only works in LA. my healthcare literally covers everything with NO FEES. But I mean if it has to be done, I'll go to another state. It's still on the list of options to consider.

Right now I'm fortunate in Los angeles in the meantime. Im using the family car without my father knowing while he's out of the country. And if I really need to, I can use public transportation since its huge in LA & also lyft/uber to get around. Lyft is also pretty cheap in LA since there are so many drivers vs like a city in vegas where lyft/uber is expensive since its not as packed and not enough drivers/customers.

 

[beast3146]

Great! So, now that you are making $1000 a month profit in LA, what is stopping you from making $1000 a month in Vegas with the cleaning company? Could it be done again, and how easy was it to do the 1st time?

Hmmm,

You're talking about expansion.

I pretty much have the exact system down.

But here is how it'd end up wokring if I try in a new city.

I have to get page in las vegas ranked on google, might take a while (3-4+ months maybe?) I also would have to spend money on backlinks for that page (so more marketing money needed)

I can start advertising on craigslist in the meantime for some initial bookings in the las vegas market.

Adwords is out of the question, too costly and margins aren't there to make it worthwhile.

But I still have to go through the whole process of hiring new cleaners.

But I see where you'r going with this

The more I look at it, the more it seems doable. But I'd need a solid 6 months to be honest If I have any ideas of expanding to other cities, getting setup, waiting for seo to kick in, having a solid set of teams, having a solid set of reviews,etc

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[Private Witt]

Ive been driving Uber up in Seattle for a few years and at first it was great, but after destroying my car and creativity Im so excited to be getting out in July to do business FT.

If you do 50 - 60 a week on a rental, Id just focus on that 100% as you are going to be hating life. Your going to suck at it too at first and need to learn some shit. i have no idea how u would do two weeks out of a month, with a rental I think thats not gonna work out, unless a program that lets u switch it on and off weekly.

Id get on the ball as the background check and other things take time.

I also drive in a great market, LA sucks, be prepared for a really rough few months and make sure you create a solid schedule and stick to it.

 

[Johnny boy]

Yea I have considered cleaning the houses myself. Granted I don't plan on making the cleaning business my main focus. This isn't the business I want to grow any longer. Just kind of tired of it.

I could do the work myself by removing the contractors from the work. But man I have zero clue on how to clean a house professioally even thou I run a company on it lmao. If I had started a commercial cleaning business, I'd have done the work myself. Cleaning is usually at night, and the type of cleaning is more basic and easy vs cleaning in people's homes and dealing with all types of crazy shiet in homes.

Then sell the business for 15 grand, hop on a plane and GTFO and start making some online cash. I did some marketing consulting and got a thousand bucks from a 2 hour phone call with nothing else other than a few craigslist ads posted and a decent website. You could do 4 grand a month no problem within the first month. All remote. Maybe start flexxing on the IG and get some people to buy your course on how to do it too lol.

 

[Matt Hunt]

You may not want to do the cleaning business long-term, but you've already got a good start on it. I would say just hustle over these next few months. If you can't afford ads, then use your time to go find business. Go knock on doors. It's not glamorous, but I bet if you went out and spent 8 hours a day knocking on doors instead of at some low-paying job, you'll be in a position to be on your own in 3 months. Since you already have operations automated, your focus should be on getting more customers. That's the only thing stopping that $1k from being $10k.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[ZeroTo100]

Actually yea I have helped people on here. I lost my forum login since I hadn't logged in so long.

So made a new account. Granted I wasn't as active in my other account and always lurked without logging in.

And in response to "nobody cares, why should anyone help?"

At the end of the day, that is what forums are about. I'm in a group of many different types of forums and Facebook groups. It is community where you share insights and ideas.

But it's also a community where people ask a question or struggle they're currently going through (assuming its related to the topic of that forum) to answer each others question.

When you have a question or problem in your business, finance situation that you just can't seem to crack after researching & thinking about it or want a 2nd opinion on...I assume you post on here to ask or another finance/business,etc forum.

That's how I have seen FB groups, Forums and any online community work from my years of being on them. People come in, ask questions people help them out. They continue to engage. And over the years, those people become experts or more experienced and they help other members as well as other people coming in/starting out.

As an example...Let's say If you had fitness question, I assume you'd do your due diligence research online but you'd also ask on a reputable fitness forum for a 2nd opinion or insight.

If someone was to answer back with..."dude who cares, have you helped anyone yet. Why should anyone help you. You already gained 10lbs of muscle. That's more than some people. You'll figure it out"

That would be silly.

That's the whole point of this community. People helping other people

Apologies, never answered anyone on here that strongly before but lately (at least from my opinion) I have been seeing posts like this and I just cringe. There’s a lot of members on here that provide help and value - more than you know. I have personally asked people for help via private messages. I personally think these types of threads do more damage than good to the community and I believe many people here agree.

This forum isn’t about getting help so that you can make your bills next month. This forum is about executing your own vision and opening up to the community so that others can contribute to your success (even if you fail) on your way up. We will all learn that way.

It’s somewhat awkward seeing some random come to a community and say hey, help me make my bills next month. It’s actually kind of ballsy - no disrespect.

If you needed to make your bills next month - signup for an Upwork account and serve people. Get your hands dirty!

 

[Remiremi]

TIME IS SUPER LIMITED &SO I HAVE TO ACT FAST

You seem like a hard working young guy, your only problem is Time.

Wanting to succeed on a short time frame is very stressful and you will make strategic mistake.

If you had one year, you would probably be able to reach a better kind of financial independence. But the time pressing issue is a the problem.

I think your first issue to solve is How not to be pressed by time so that you can get sure that you can keep trying and will eventually succeed at one point .

Some in this thread talked about getting a cheap place to live in. I second that.

I will suggest you an example of poison that allows you to work on your projects, get your place and still not work a job for more than necessary. So that you can keep trying at any business wou want until you are ready to make a big leap.

Bartending during night shift:

it allows you to work during the day on the project you care about and once your mind is tired after working for yourself, you go work for someone else at night to make money.

Just do the maths that work for you: youcan work as many night as you want.

Maybe you only need to work 3 shifts to buy food and shelter.

In a nutshell:

1. You can probably get started in less than a week.
2. You can work on your personal project first during the day (when you are fresh) , then go make standard income at night.
3. You can choose to only work enough to pay rent, to keep as much free time as possible.
4. When your business grow, you can then choose to work less shifts. Until the point where you can afford to quit.
5. It's less tiring than you think because you won't use your brain in the same way than during the day.

 

[BlokeInProgress]

Not completely out.

What kind of job would you guys recommend?

I wouldn't want a job that sucks 40+ hours of my day for small pay & then have no energy left to work on the business.

In an ideal world, it'd be a sales job that's part time and allows me to make 2k/mo just to cover the bills and still tons of time left in the week to work on the business.

If it was a sales job, what's a good sales job to get into with good money potential but also part time/flexibility

Or any other jobs you guys recommend?

Not sure anymore what type of side hustle or job you want. Honestly, seems you already have a set of steps in your mind due to the conditions you throw back to some of the suggestions.

If you're desperate, you'll knock off this conditions aside and just hustle, if not, then conditions remains.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[beast3146]

Not sure anymore what type of side hustle or job you want. Honestly, seems you already have a set of steps in your mind due to the conditions you throw back to some of the suggestions.

If you're desperate, you'll knock off this conditions aside and just hustle, if not, then conditions remains.

Hmmm, for example the car salesman by Lex was a good reccomendation.

I don't have much experience in the work force, so if you guys know some work ideas that allowed you to work on your business on the side without having to work a minimum wage job.

Forexample from what I've heard, most people have told me doing telemarketing jobs are hell and I can only imagine. I'd hate to do cold calls all day for 8 hours/day 5 days a week. I remember someone recommending a while back to only do outside sales.

So tips and tricks like that for jobs to apply for.

 

[beast3146]

This.



And this.

Go somewhere cheaper. You're 21. If you have a serious health issue, you can come back to LA.

Go to Vegas. You're saying Uber/Lyft is more expensive there. Get a car on credit that qualifies for Uber/Lyft. Start driving as many hours a week as you can. Save up money after paying rent/food. Invest whatever you can into your cleaning business or getting SEO clients. Move back to LA when you're self-sufficient.

Yes that is a very viable option I'm considering.

For this option I'm going to ask my family that lives out there more info on how the health insurance works & ask some family members that have worked there how much they made form uber when they were doing it to understand the market there.

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[beast3146]

I'm 22 and own a lawn care company. I have a few things to tell you.

You need to ask yourself what you really want. Life is long. Do you want a have a comfy life within the next year or two or do you want to grow this cleaning business to be making millions? The fact you've automated it tells me you're more focused on a lifestyle. But I'll give you a couple options anyways. You can do any one of these things.

Raise money
Tell someone you've got a business consistently bringing in 1k a month in profit and show them that you'll use an investment to grow the business. Use their money to grow the business but use a piece to buy yourself some time in an apartment. Get the business bringing in more money and continue on. (Don't go telling me this is wrong or unethical. Just make sure these people get a return on their money)

Hustle
This comes in two forms. Hustling to find clients to make at least 3k a month (that is so easy and I could teach you how to do it no problem). And the other way is to just roll up your sleeves and do some of the work yourself for your cleaning business. Are you too good to clean? You said it's automated. Automation is expensive. I've got a lawn care company that I can automate, but guess what? I'm trying to buy land and build a custom house, so I'm out mowing lawns myself for now because otherwise I'd be sitting around enjoying the automation but taking home a lot less money. The automation should come much later than when you're only bringing in 1k a month.

Move
My vote is Thailand or Bali. You sound like you want to have a nice lifestyle. You could live off of 1k a month in those places and not have to do a damn thing. Imagine that... Just living near the beach and free to do as you please. I think if you move it should be to somewhere like that. You can already afford it and since you're computer savvy you can build up a nice SEO agency without having to worry about paying the bills.

Get a job
jk, F that. And F driving for uber. That's such a bad idea especially since you don't have a car...

It all comes down to where you want to be in the future. That determines the best action to take.

What would I do? It depends on what I saw in the cleaning business. I believe my lawn care company will be a national franchise. It's my baby. I spend all my time on it. So if I believed I could grow a cleaning business to be a massive size, I would roll up my sleeves and start doing some damn cleaning. I bet you'd bring in enough money right there. But I wouldn't want to maintain, I'd need to grow. I would probably build a few relationships and use other people's money to grow the business. "Hey Trust Fund Tony, wanna see me turn your 50k into 65k this year?" Get another cleaning crew out there making you more money and keep it going. Give Trust Fund Tony his money back and see your 1k a month business start bringing in 10k a month in profit. Keep it rolling and build up something big.

If I didn't see it turning into something big I would pack up a backpack of stuff and move to a cheap country and live on the beach doing internet work and practicing how to surf.

If you make money online, why live in the most expensive areas? Look up "geoarbitrage" or read the 4-hour workweek.

Yea I have considered cleaning the houses myself. Granted I don't plan on making the cleaning business my main focus. This isn't the business I want to grow any longer. Just kind of tired of it.

I could do the work myself by removing the contractors from the work. But man I have zero clue on how to clean a house professioally even thou I run a company on it lmao. If I had started a commercial cleaning business, I'd have done the work myself. Cleaning is usually at night, and the type of cleaning is more basic and easy vs cleaning in people's homes and dealing with all types of crazy shiet in homes.


Moving to thailand. Damn haha going on the list. Makes me super nervous to do so far from home in completely different country out of the U.S

The more I read my own posts the more I sound like a picky F*ck but man alot of these options do have their fair share of risks/cons/stresses that come with the pros of saving $$.

To put it out all on the line.

I'm willing to risk/sacrifice alot of things to make this happen. But things that make me nervous is anything that includes sacrificing health, or well being. (moving to bad neighborhood, moving to a third world country I have no idea about but although its doable ..risks of crime, health,etc...being in a situation I have no healthcare access/insurance)

Those are the things that make me rethink.

Action plan so far I have in mind:

• Start applying for part time sales jobs starting next week as well as maybe marketing agency jobs
• Continue to work on acquiring seo clients
• Save as much penny/money. Save $$ from cleaning business..from seo gigs...Do postmates/uber while at home with rental to save $$ until I move out. Sell as much stuff from my house that I dont use anymore,etc to save as much as possible in the next 3 months
  
• Sell Cleaning business (acquire more cash) (have posted it for sale so far, got a couple inquiries but not much has converted. Might need to get a business broker or lower price for sale or both)

Now the biggest struggle I have next is deciding on what city to actually live in, this one is a constant struggle I'm still having internally

Should I try to buy a cash car now or wait it out?

That's where I'm at so far

 

Dislike ads? Remove them and support the forum: Subscribe to Fastlane Insiders.

[Insidious]

On the 'stressed out' thing. You don't think well when you're stressed. So standard stuff, are you working out regularly (hard workouts)? Do you meditate?

Quick stress relief: hit something until you relax (heavy bag, not a person). Batting cage, driving range, or pound nails into a stump. You can build something like hitting a tire with a sledgehammer into your workouts (believe me, you will be too tired to be stressed).

If you have a thought running around in your head that keeps re-stressing you, get it out.

Method 1, from The Sedona Method (abbreviated version, grab the book or Google if it appeals), Steps:

1) Focus on the issue you'd like to feel better about, allow yourself to REALLY FEEL how you are feeling in this moment.
2) Ask yourself one of these questions (whichever you like): Could I let this feeling go? Could I allow this feeling to be here? Could I welcome this feeling? What you answer doesn't matter (yes or no are both fine), be honest.
3) Ask yourself: Would I? Again, just answer honestly.
4) Ask yourself: When?
5) Repeat until the feeling is gone. Even for really intense emotions this is usually only 2 or 3 passes.​

This will usually be answered: No, No, Never in the first round =) Then you find yourself softening until you get to Yes, Yes, Right f'n now.

Method 2, EFT. Takes a little longer, and is usually for ingrained issues rather than acute stressors, but works for both. Just google Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution. He has everything you need on his website.

 

[beast3146]

On the 'stressed out' thing. You don't think well when you're stressed. So standard stuff, are you working out regularly (hard workouts)? Do you meditate?

Quick stress relief: hit something until you relax (heavy bag, not a person). Batting cage, driving range, or pound nails into a stump. You can build something like hitting a tire with a sledgehammer into your workouts (believe me, you will be too tired to be stressed).

If you have a thought running around in your head that keeps re-stressing you, get it out.

Method 1, from The Sedona Method (abbreviated version, grab the book or Google if it appeals), Steps:

1) Focus on the issue you'd like to feel better about, allow yourself to REALLY FEEL how you are feeling in this moment.
2) Ask yourself one of these questions (whichever you like): Could I let this feeling go? Could I allow this feeling to be here? Could I welcome this feeling? What you answer doesn't matter (yes or no are both fine), be honest.
3) Ask yourself: Would I? Again, just answer honestly.
4) Ask yourself: When?
5) Repeat until the feeling is gone. Even for really intense emotions this is usually only 2 or 3 passes.​

This will usually be answered: No, No, Never in the first round =) Then you find yourself softening until you get to Yes, Yes, Right f'n now.

Method 2, EFT. Takes a little longer, and is usually for ingrained issues rather than acute stressors, but works for both. Just google Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution. He has everything you need on his website.

Yes I workout. Been working out since age 16...biggest part of my stress reliever and self improvement journey.

I also do BJJ & wrestling at a local mma gym so it has been a god send. Biggest stress reliever. Probably one of thw only places where all my problems disappear.

It's pretty much like my drug. Everytime I'm there its an escape from my mental struggle and current situation. So yup you're right working out, & doing physical activity helps.

I'm probably not eating right thou. diet is pretty shiet. I'm eating enough calories just to bulk up..about 200+lbs now. But the food I'm eating is not quality food. I have reintroduced juicing green smoothies in the morning again so its a step in the right direction in terms of eating quality food.

 

[loop101]

Join the military?