<div class="bbWrapper">Oh shit...I don't think I found this thread when I first came in!<br />
This forum just gives me pleasant surprises now and then! Thanks <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/7501/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="7501" data-username="@The-J">@The-J</a> !<br />
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How did I find Fastlane?<br />
I have mentioned several times that I was desperately looking for ways to save my girl from the horrific suckages of a Slowlane education and career. In other words, I had to prevent the catastrophe and unmake the SCRIPT before it could take effect fully. <br />
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The first things I read on financial freedom, which was a 'mythical substance' not restricted to even the uneducated and the 'rejects of society was unashamedly Rich Dad. Bought lots of stuff. RDPD, Cashflow Quadrant, Guide to Investing, Retire Rich Retire Young.<br />
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But I never got anywhere. They were just motivationals (even Kiyosaki claims so in one interview!) which were designed to give you food for thought. I don't want food for thought! I wanted food for action, the only damnit life changing thing I need! I was miffed when I finally realised it, and even more incensed when later TMF validated it. No matter how many times I read those books again and again, nothing bloody happened. No miraculous spark of nirvana or eureka which would propel me to riches. Not a single shred of resulting action. <br />
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Anyone new reading this, I beg you. Please don't spend your time reading over and over again at the cost of taking meaningful action. Even if it's a good read, you didn't live to read. You live to succeed in creating VALUE.<br />
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So I went out to find new answers. One of the few gems I did take from RDPD was to continuously get new answers and increase my financial intelligence. While I never really got around the finance part, at least the technicals (and still am working on it!), I found a bunch of books on stock investing and real estate. But they also never led me anywhere.<br />
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Finally, I checked out Amazon (for the first time in my life embarassingly) and voila, TMF was one of the recommended bestsellers. I checked his website, the samples and the book. I spent WEEKS on that book. Digesting its content, everything! The scams of get rich gurus, the real suckage of jobs that RDPD didn't explain in detail, the true mechanisms behind successful businesses (which RDPD AND many other business books fail to explain well) and the Law of Effection. Till doay, TMF is on my top list of 'OMG! What a read!' books. My gut had been telling me similar things all along, but TMF made those voices grow louder, freeing them from the SCRIPT.<br />
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To speak metaphorically, it was as if MJ DeMarco marched into my SCRIPTED cell with the TMF sledgehammer, knocked out the guards of mediocrity and smashed the chains of ignorance. <br />
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But I didn't officially joined the forum until a bit later when I was starting my college life around August last year. I saw I had some time, so I thought, why don't I start now. MJ's basically given me what I needed to start. I could start working to save my girl. I could start making my mistakes, creating value and going further from the SCRIPT. I could begin to live, so why not now? So I joined the forum, found many new friends, learned new things and visited new worlds (read: copywriting, sales and marketing)....<br />
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If there was an event in my life in which I feel to be the most significant, this would be it. Not my graduation or reaching of adulthood. This.</div>
