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I have just found a list of 22 fastlane-tips on my hard drive - Add your one-liners of FL wisdom

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The only impossible journey is the one that never begins

a hero is a mindset
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

Judge a tree by the fruit that it bears

The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul

Everyone is self-made. Its only the millionaires who admit it

The thing that you must do next is the thing that you are putting off

When you lie with dogs, you come up with fleas

Frustration results from exaggerating the importance of desires.

As you live your days, so you live your life

Your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group
 

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Anyone got some new good one-liners?
I keep my own list on a piece of paper on my desk and review it weekly, adding quotes as I find them. I should probably review it daily.

I may have gotten some of these from the forum, but I have forgotten where:
  • It doesn't matter what you know - it matters what you do.
  • You are the author of your own life.
  • Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. (something very similar to this in one of MJ's books).
  • The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
  • The word becomes flesh.
  • Sweat more in training, bleed less in war.
  • Sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
  • You must be the master of your own kingdom.
  • It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. (Occam)
  • Today's results come from last year's work.
  • You don't blow the interview that day. You blow it by failing to prepare in the days before.
  • He whose gaze is fixed upon a distant star will not falter. (DaVinci)
  • Success depends on systems - your day is decided well in advance.
  • Luck is the residue of design.
  • Do the thing, and you will have the power.
  • Make persistence your watchword, and failure will eventually grow tired of chasing you.
 
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Seriously, I don't get slightest amount ounce of bored when it comes to Demarco's books. Anyway, here are some fav sayings:

Fasteners understand that TIME is the gas tank of life

Look Big and Act Small

Life becomes about what you can't do
 

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One of my favorites from MJ is:

"Change your choices. Change your equation. And then you get to change your life."

If you really think about the simple beauty of that statement and try to comprehend that success is defined by math, it is the meat of all of our discussions. Don't get bogged down by things. Make a choice. Define the math of your life. Profit by the variables you can control. It's very elegant.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xMGoHAcJQ&ab_channel=MJDeMarco
 

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While I am not battle-hardened in business, for those who do not plan to start their own businesses, TMF still has lots of great quotes. (I do not re-cite all of them exaclty though.)

- Compound interest is a scam
- The 3-3 rule and lots of other great rules
- Act, assess, adjust
- Think before you act
- Always be responsible and accountable
- You should learn your entire life long
- Don't waste your time for hyperrealities

But my favourite quote is that you should never trust any financial advice that cannot be proven mathematically. The Law of Attraction is not proven. The Law of Effection is. I also recommend to utilize statistics and especially the Law of the Large Numbers if you are a Sidewalker who tries transitioning into wealth.
 
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I just found these notes I made on my iPhone while reading MJ's book about 4 years ago in Starbucks:

MNEMONIC SUMMARY: FASTLANE SUPERCHARGER

F: Formula! Wealth is a process, not an event! Macro Patience - Micro Speed

A: Admit that Getting rich quick is real and that luck is the residue of engagement!

S: Stop and Swop! Stop being a Consumer and become a Producer!

T: Invest time into a business system that can turns indentured time into free time!

L: Leverage: Leverage Wealth through a Passive Income System that can lead to Exponential Growth!”

A: Assets: Accelerate Wealth by using a system that can be Systemized and Sold!”

N: Number? How much money will you need to live a lifestyle of your choosing?
Determine the number, break it down, and start making it real today!
“What’s your passive income number? Make it real!”

E: Effection: Impact millions and you will make millions! Money reflects value

S: Steer: “Steer towards Fastlane ideology using WADM and WCCM. Your commitment to this forms your process. “ become responsible followed by accountable

Use WCCA and WADM to become responsible followed by accountable.

Make good decisions using WCCA and WADM pg 166.
Your commitment to the Fastlane ideology forms your process.
-Worse case consequence analysis
-Weighted average decision matrix

U: Uncouple: Uncouple from the slowlane equation by creating a company that pays itself first and the government last!

P: Passion and Purpose. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as the passion burns hot enough to burn a hole in your pants and get you embroiled into process!

E: Educate. Pledge never to stop learning. Seek Fastlane knowledge that fosters the construction and operation of business systems in an environment that you control!

R: Road: Get onto a Fastlane Road! Train your mind to see needs and problems and the road will choose you!!
Remember many of the best businesses in the world are based on products that already existed!

C: Control: Obey the commandment of control and “create your financial plan in an organisation that you fully control.” Swim as a shark, not a guppy! “Fastlane entrepreneurs are the control structure!”

H: Have: Honour the commandment of need and seek to have what your fellow man wants! “Focus on What attracts money!”

A: Automate: Adhere to the commandment of time by Automating your business and detaching your time from it! Remember the 6 money tree seedlings!

R: Replicate: Respect the commandment of scale and make sure your product/service can be replicated globally to tap into the law of effection.

G: Grow:
1.) Monogamy leads to Polygamy!
2) Build a brand not a business! Listen to the market for your best clues! Focus on one business and one business only! The richest people in the world got rich by focusing on one core purpose, not by diverting focus!
Avoid Tekel Syndrome: Shotgun Splatter

E: Exit: have an exit strategy! Know when it’s time to get off the horse and learn to ride a new one!

R: Retire, Reward or Repeat: whatever you do reward yourself for every victory and milestone achieved!

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Additional Notes:


Beware Tekel's Sundrome! (My own personal Achilles heel)
Beware of Action Faking instead of Action taking!
Isolate the Macro Process that builds the habit
ACT UNTIL ECHO! Take disciplined action until a feedback loop kicks in!
Stop hunting money and start hunting value
Create Value Vouchers
The Fiduciary Principle pg 144
Great Value precedes Great Wealth!
Beware Utopian Charts! Ch 25
Change must precede Change: Great change can only happen with a great behaviour change!
Your Perception is not the Reality!
Believing is Seeing!
Reward is found not in the pursuit of happiness, but happiness in your pursuits
We’re all Perfectly imperfect! And so are our heroes

Luck is based on Mathematical probabilities of an applied stimulus
Intuition is critical to luck!

Probability Principles: 5 behaviours:
1.) change your universe
2.) Take action!
3.) Use your Intuition
4.) Routine: more variety equals more luck
5.) Positivity

Other great Quotes:
Happiness page 217
You will overestimate what you can do in 1 year, and underestimate what you can do in 5
Learn More, Know Less
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness
Success is more about what you stop doing versus start doing!
When you heal your thoughts, you heal your life
Habits are the agents of permanent change!


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Sometimes when you’re starting out you’re not going to know which direction to go, but going with a suboptimal route is the optimal route if it gets you going.

Don’t compare your chapter 2 to someone else’s chapter 10.
This is exactly what I need to hear today
 
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"You can judge the quality of a Chinese factory by the quality of their bathroom".

-someone I met at a past Fastlane summit.

Has proven 10,000% true in my case so far.
Similarly, "Dirty seat trays means the airplane engines haven't been serviced."

How you do anything is how you do everything.
 

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"You can judge the quality of a Chinese factory by the quality of their bathroom".

-someone I met at a past Fastlane summit.

Has proven 10,000% true in my case so far.
I think this axiom is also true with any restaurant.
 

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You are what you practice. Want positive results? Do positive practice.
 

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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you results - it was on the wall of a gym, so I don't know from who this comes from
 

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I have just found a list of 22 fastlane-tips on my hard drive, which I saved from the forum some time ago and I thought the tips might be worth sharing.

What have you learned?

Let's add together a list of one-liners that compress fastlane wisdom which we have gained through the forum/MJ's books.

Here is my (incomplete) list.

Compilation of 22 short&quick FL tips that I have learned here:

1) The only enemy to victory is you.
2) Problems are challenges that need to be overcome.
3) Other people's opinions do not make your reality.
4) Focus only on one (1) thing and kick a$$ at it.
5) 10 businesses that make $1000/mo. aren't better than 1 that makess $10.000/mo. FOCUS
6) You have to eat, live and shit your thing.
7) Talent is not required, but desire and discipline are.
8) Your customer service must be the best in the market.
9) Don't be Guru'd.
10) Your answer to what you want to be must always represent a dream, vision and hope.
11) There are no experts in predicting markets.
12) Opportunity doesn't care about your timing.
13) Good money is $20.000/mo.; Big money is $200.000/mo.
14) The "How can I make money?" mindset will lead you nowhere.
15) Build system that generate money by filling needs and solving problems.
16) Do what you love and money will follow is BS if you don't fill a need.
17) Anything build on sand comes crumbling down.
18) Never stop learning.
19) Get rich quick is good / Get rich easy is evil.
20) What do I have to offer to the world?
21) Don't listen to those who have less than you for money advice.
22) Impact Millions.
The more shameless you can be, the thicker skin you have, the better.
 

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One that's really resonating with me at the moment is

"Sales is a screening process"

Andy tell that some times ago (I don't remember the author) but I think it will make my prospection easier

I was quite affected by the "no" because I beat myself that I wasn't able to convince more people, in fact it's a game number I just must find people that are already interested, and they are out there
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Ho and I just get this one:

A little less tests, a little more testicles (for all the perfectionnists out there ^^)
 
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Number 16 is a thought provoking quote that I have read. It’s changes your mindset very quickly.
 

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Some Jim Rohn-isms that I have to remind myself of:

The way to become brilliant is to figure out how it is and say “That is how it should be”.

Don’t be a follower, be a student.

Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day.

Use your past as a school, not a club to beat yourself with.

Do all you can with what you have.

Start with what you should be doing, but aren't.

If you should change, could change, but don’t, you’ve got accumulated disaster.

Let your results teach you about your own activity, attitude, and philosophy.

If you wish to be wealthy, study wealth.

What you have at the moment you’ve attracted by the person you’ve become.

Life is opportunity mixed with difficulty.

Life and business are like the seasons. You can't change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

Learn how to handle the winters.

Learn how to take advantage of the spring.

In the summer, learn how to nourish and protect.

In the fall, learn to reap without complaint or apology.

Vitality is a major part of success.

Don't be lazy in learning.

If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall.

Communication starts with preparation.

The same wall that keeps out disappointment also keeps out fulfillment.
 
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