Hello to everyone. Nice to meet you. You can call me Miru.
I want to present myself in this forum. I decided that I'm going to definitely post and compromise myself to be active in this forum while I can to at least say 'thank you' to those who provide value with their posts.
I was writing something really long... but... I don't want to waste anyone's time so I will keep things simple!
I want to say sorry if my English is not very good too.
My story getting to know the fastlane:
I'm a 20 years old woman from Chile, South America, I turned 20 recently.
I read MJ's books when I was just 19 years old.
Reading his books changed 100% my vision of life.
Before knowing MJ books, I read R. Kiyosaki books but I felt like something was missing... he didn't inspired me enough to understand why becoming financial free was important, but, at least I can thank and recognize the fact that he made me wake up and realize things.
He planted the seed, MJ DeMarco grew it.
For me, MJ DeMarco is different from everyone I have ever read.
His books were FULL of value, I rapidly saw that he was genuine and he cared about telling the truth to people.
I'm grateful to him for the value he provided to all people and for this forum he created.
And I need to thank Hamza Ahmed too, a youtuber, who recommended this book (in some of his videos some months ago) and inspired me to read it too.
Some words about the Fastlane...
I used to think that for being rich I needed to know how to invest so before knowing The Millionaire Fastlane book so I read a bunch of books about it.
I thought that becoming rich was a science that not everyone could understand or know but, MJ DeMarco opened my eyes.
Basically give value to the world, fill a need, do it correctly and people will give you money for it.
It made so much sense, becoming rich turned now an experience of giving SOMETHING to the world and not just something selfish...!
I see things clearly now.
Every time I give my money to someone or some company I make the mental process of trying to understanding why I'm doing it. Now I'm an analyzer, I can't ignore this significant part of exchange (value, money and time) anymore.
I can see things outside my old box of thinking and it made me realize how many people is still sleeping in the scripted mode.
We're so conditioned to just consume and NEVER ever question about why we decide to exchange our money or do what we do... answers are in some way in front of us!
Knowledge is there, but our mental barriers are limiting it.
That's why reading books is so important... aren't it?
MJ DeMarco figured it out and shared it to the world and saved a lot of time for us who were in this same search.
I will continue learning and developing myself until the day I die.
And I appreciate the many realizations that MJ DeMarco made me have while reading his book.
A little bit of my background:
I didn't exactly grew up poor, but I wasn't even middle class to start with.
My mother worked as a domestic worker at 569 km away from home (8 hours and 30 minutes away) in the capital.
She worked for extensive hours (approx.12) doing various demandant jobs such as cleaning, raising kids & babies and cooking for rich people.
She had to work during 27 days (sometimes holidays weren't extra paid) and only was allowed to come home only for 4 days (sometimes for just 2-3 days).
My mom was abused, suffered humiliations and they stole her money from her jubilation.
She worked for more than 23 years away from her family and her jubilation is just miserable... around $2000 in total and she will receive just around $18 every month, it's disgusting!.
A hard worker woman, devoted to her family... she deserves more.
My mom was so focused with working that never realized about these abuses until very late...
My father was an old man and he was getting blind... he couldn't work because of it but he raised me and provided me value.
My brother was doing his life away from home.
Our home only had the money from mom and a 'misericord jubilation' (it means the state gives this money to someone who doesn't have his own jubilation - my father worked informally during his youth).
My father received less than $100 for month and my mom was only getting paid around $500-$800 a month.
We had enough to life and just that. Never fancy things. Never trips/vacations.
I don't even know what's a vacation, guys... I've never traveled outside my hometown for vacations!
What this background did to me:
I have this mindset of obtaining benefit even from the negative.
Things can't be changed, we can't revert the past.
My parents couldn't revert their past. I understand this.
But I also understand my own power of decision as a young woman. I can make a difference.
I can break this chain and do something for my family. I have the opportunities they didn't have.
I'm grateful for that.
My mom had some resentment towards rich people (it's understandable considering the abuses and humiliations she lived), but, she also LEARNT a lot of things from them!
And she told me about those things.
Rich people... they weren't working hard their university degrees.
They were all entrepreneurs.
They owned business.
Slightly, this stayed subconsciously in my mind.
She told me about how they lived in abundance - traveling, buying a LOT of things, eating whatever they wanted and about that precious freedom.
I wondered, in my immature little girl head...
'why we can't have that?',
'why we live like this and they live so good?',
'how can I be more like them?',
'how they did it?'
As a little girl, those answers were far from me... but they stayed in my mind.
But, I'm pretty sure it was a motor for me to search those answers.
The mindset that I used to have:
My parents wanted me to go to university and I wanted it too. For them, it was the only way to scape poorness.
My father had less than primary school finished. My mother too (she had to work since very young, since 12 years old). They had faith on me.
I had good grades, future was bright. I was the hope for my family.
I thought this was the ONLY way for us.
How my traumas contributed to CHANGE:
I wanted to go to university, but not exactly follow my family's path.
I wanted to study abroad but I didn't have the money to do so.
My father died during 2019 because of medical negligence. I was disappointed. I broke (huge depression).
Public health was bad. I hated the system of my country.
I hated that they didn't cared about my father.
We saw many abuses in the public health system.
Trying to do something was pointless, they cover each other's back.
I hated my school. I was stressed because of it. I couldn't spend enough time with my father.
They day he fell in coma I was asked to go with him to hospital. I refused because I was stressed with school work.
I lost the opportunity to be with him.
I hated myself too.
I started to get negative towards education system.
I didn't wanted to study here. I wanted to leave my country.
I putted my heart and soul for a scholarship. It didn't worked (huge depression again).
I lost my way in life. I wanted to commit suicide.
Hamza youtuber gave me hope (even if his channel is directed to young men). I recommend his channel!
I worked hard to improve my mental health. I was a tough and difficult personal journey.
But I managed to fight my depression.
My brother offered me an opportunity to leave this country. A new hope came to my life.
The Millionaire Fastlane book appeared.
Hope and direction was there again.
Plan & story so far:
I don't have money to start a business.
But I have some ideas. They might not be the best, but I will not give up.
I will keep doing my best and trying to scape the rat race until I achieve what I want.
I prefer to die trying that living hiding.
I'm learning programming.
HTML & CSS was my starting point (they're not programming languages, I know... or are they? lol).
It was really confusing but in less than two months I had my first prototype of web.
At first it was ugly, with horrible code.
I redid it several times. I archived something decent.
But... I needed MORE.
Basically, backend.
PHP came, it was too hard for me and tutorials weren't very good. (I needed a login system).
JavaScript came as an option to backend. (I thought it was only used to frontend to animate and make beautiful webs).
Anyways, I also want to make a beautiful web.
Now I'm following a tutorial on how to create a login system while I study JS watching free videos.
It's confusing but I'm learning and learning and just learning.
If others can build a web, I can too.
And I will do it whatever it costs.
And I will learn SEO, how to host it and how to monetize it.
Whatever it takes!
I will fail, be frustrated... I'm not perfect. I don't know everything.
I have the humillity to admit it.
Don't think I believe I have everything figure it out.
But I have developed my patience and the most important skills for success
CONFIDENCE and THE DECISION OF NOT GIVING UP.
Yes, I will fail many times.
I want it. I need it, it's part of the journey. (Grow mindset)
It's expected as a entrepreneur to fail until reach success.
The key is to learn, try a better plan and continue.
I will do that.
Programming is a valuable skill.
If something doesn't work I can try with another idea.
But the knowledge of coding acquired will allow me to try again another idea using what I know.
Plus, MJ DeMarco learnt by himself how to code and it inspires me to continue.
Today there are a lot of resources. What's stopping me? What's stopping you?
Internet is BEAUTIFUL. Full of knowledge. Don't waste it!
My motivations:
My motivations are a lot.
I will list some of them:
How many time it will take? I wonder...
I don't know. Maybe years, maybe months...
I don't want to stop. I will not. I want to stay in this forum and eventually make a post where I say 'I made it'.
I may sometimes lack confidence. I may sometimes lack time.
But I will keep trying.
I just wish it happen fast enough so my mother can see me success.
I want to find people like me and support each other.
I want to make it so I can show to other people this is possible, and more important, show it to myself... to show myself that I can make it.
I will give value. I will find needs.
I will try my best to fill them.
If it doesn't work, I will keep trying.
Whatever happens. I will be posting my significant progress.
Thank you so much if you read it since here.
Sorry for writing too much, I tried to keep things short.
Wish me best luck and I wish you best luck.
I want to present myself in this forum. I decided that I'm going to definitely post and compromise myself to be active in this forum while I can to at least say 'thank you' to those who provide value with their posts.
I was writing something really long... but... I don't want to waste anyone's time so I will keep things simple!
I want to say sorry if my English is not very good too.
My story getting to know the fastlane:
I'm a 20 years old woman from Chile, South America, I turned 20 recently.
I read MJ's books when I was just 19 years old.
Reading his books changed 100% my vision of life.
Before knowing MJ books, I read R. Kiyosaki books but I felt like something was missing... he didn't inspired me enough to understand why becoming financial free was important, but, at least I can thank and recognize the fact that he made me wake up and realize things.
He planted the seed, MJ DeMarco grew it.
For me, MJ DeMarco is different from everyone I have ever read.
His books were FULL of value, I rapidly saw that he was genuine and he cared about telling the truth to people.
I'm grateful to him for the value he provided to all people and for this forum he created.
And I need to thank Hamza Ahmed too, a youtuber, who recommended this book (in some of his videos some months ago) and inspired me to read it too.
Some words about the Fastlane...
I used to think that for being rich I needed to know how to invest so before knowing The Millionaire Fastlane book so I read a bunch of books about it.
I thought that becoming rich was a science that not everyone could understand or know but, MJ DeMarco opened my eyes.
Basically give value to the world, fill a need, do it correctly and people will give you money for it.
It made so much sense, becoming rich turned now an experience of giving SOMETHING to the world and not just something selfish...!
I see things clearly now.
Every time I give my money to someone or some company I make the mental process of trying to understanding why I'm doing it. Now I'm an analyzer, I can't ignore this significant part of exchange (value, money and time) anymore.
I can see things outside my old box of thinking and it made me realize how many people is still sleeping in the scripted mode.
We're so conditioned to just consume and NEVER ever question about why we decide to exchange our money or do what we do... answers are in some way in front of us!
Knowledge is there, but our mental barriers are limiting it.
That's why reading books is so important... aren't it?
MJ DeMarco figured it out and shared it to the world and saved a lot of time for us who were in this same search.
I will continue learning and developing myself until the day I die.
And I appreciate the many realizations that MJ DeMarco made me have while reading his book.
A little bit of my background:
I didn't exactly grew up poor, but I wasn't even middle class to start with.
My mother worked as a domestic worker at 569 km away from home (8 hours and 30 minutes away) in the capital.
She worked for extensive hours (approx.12) doing various demandant jobs such as cleaning, raising kids & babies and cooking for rich people.
She had to work during 27 days (sometimes holidays weren't extra paid) and only was allowed to come home only for 4 days (sometimes for just 2-3 days).
My mom was abused, suffered humiliations and they stole her money from her jubilation.
She worked for more than 23 years away from her family and her jubilation is just miserable... around $2000 in total and she will receive just around $18 every month, it's disgusting!.
A hard worker woman, devoted to her family... she deserves more.
My mom was so focused with working that never realized about these abuses until very late...
My father was an old man and he was getting blind... he couldn't work because of it but he raised me and provided me value.
My brother was doing his life away from home.
Our home only had the money from mom and a 'misericord jubilation' (it means the state gives this money to someone who doesn't have his own jubilation - my father worked informally during his youth).
My father received less than $100 for month and my mom was only getting paid around $500-$800 a month.
We had enough to life and just that. Never fancy things. Never trips/vacations.
I don't even know what's a vacation, guys... I've never traveled outside my hometown for vacations!
What this background did to me:
I have this mindset of obtaining benefit even from the negative.
Things can't be changed, we can't revert the past.
My parents couldn't revert their past. I understand this.
But I also understand my own power of decision as a young woman. I can make a difference.
I can break this chain and do something for my family. I have the opportunities they didn't have.
I'm grateful for that.
My mom had some resentment towards rich people (it's understandable considering the abuses and humiliations she lived), but, she also LEARNT a lot of things from them!
And she told me about those things.
Rich people... they weren't working hard their university degrees.
They were all entrepreneurs.
They owned business.
Slightly, this stayed subconsciously in my mind.
She told me about how they lived in abundance - traveling, buying a LOT of things, eating whatever they wanted and about that precious freedom.
I wondered, in my immature little girl head...
'why we can't have that?',
'why we live like this and they live so good?',
'how can I be more like them?',
'how they did it?'
As a little girl, those answers were far from me... but they stayed in my mind.
But, I'm pretty sure it was a motor for me to search those answers.
The mindset that I used to have:
My parents wanted me to go to university and I wanted it too. For them, it was the only way to scape poorness.
My father had less than primary school finished. My mother too (she had to work since very young, since 12 years old). They had faith on me.
I had good grades, future was bright. I was the hope for my family.
I thought this was the ONLY way for us.
How my traumas contributed to CHANGE:
I wanted to go to university, but not exactly follow my family's path.
I wanted to study abroad but I didn't have the money to do so.
My father died during 2019 because of medical negligence. I was disappointed. I broke (huge depression).
Public health was bad. I hated the system of my country.
I hated that they didn't cared about my father.
We saw many abuses in the public health system.
Trying to do something was pointless, they cover each other's back.
I hated my school. I was stressed because of it. I couldn't spend enough time with my father.
They day he fell in coma I was asked to go with him to hospital. I refused because I was stressed with school work.
I lost the opportunity to be with him.
I hated myself too.
I started to get negative towards education system.
I didn't wanted to study here. I wanted to leave my country.
I putted my heart and soul for a scholarship. It didn't worked (huge depression again).
I lost my way in life. I wanted to commit suicide.
Hamza youtuber gave me hope (even if his channel is directed to young men). I recommend his channel!
I worked hard to improve my mental health. I was a tough and difficult personal journey.
But I managed to fight my depression.
My brother offered me an opportunity to leave this country. A new hope came to my life.
The Millionaire Fastlane book appeared.
Hope and direction was there again.
Plan & story so far:
I don't have money to start a business.
But I have some ideas. They might not be the best, but I will not give up.
I will keep doing my best and trying to scape the rat race until I achieve what I want.
I prefer to die trying that living hiding.
I'm learning programming.
HTML & CSS was my starting point (they're not programming languages, I know... or are they? lol).
It was really confusing but in less than two months I had my first prototype of web.
At first it was ugly, with horrible code.
I redid it several times. I archived something decent.
But... I needed MORE.
Basically, backend.
PHP came, it was too hard for me and tutorials weren't very good. (I needed a login system).
JavaScript came as an option to backend. (I thought it was only used to frontend to animate and make beautiful webs).
Anyways, I also want to make a beautiful web.
Now I'm following a tutorial on how to create a login system while I study JS watching free videos.
It's confusing but I'm learning and learning and just learning.
If others can build a web, I can too.
And I will do it whatever it costs.
And I will learn SEO, how to host it and how to monetize it.
Whatever it takes!
I will fail, be frustrated... I'm not perfect. I don't know everything.
I have the humillity to admit it.
Don't think I believe I have everything figure it out.
But I have developed my patience and the most important skills for success
CONFIDENCE and THE DECISION OF NOT GIVING UP.
Yes, I will fail many times.
I want it. I need it, it's part of the journey. (Grow mindset)
It's expected as a entrepreneur to fail until reach success.
The key is to learn, try a better plan and continue.
I will do that.
Programming is a valuable skill.
If something doesn't work I can try with another idea.
But the knowledge of coding acquired will allow me to try again another idea using what I know.
Plus, MJ DeMarco learnt by himself how to code and it inspires me to continue.
Today there are a lot of resources. What's stopping me? What's stopping you?
Internet is BEAUTIFUL. Full of knowledge. Don't waste it!
My motivations:
My motivations are a lot.
I will list some of them:
- I want my mother to finally rest and feel proud of me.
- I want my father to feel proud of me wherever he is even if I didn't go to university.
- I want to have enough money to pay for the surgery from my mother's hip (she has arthrosis).
- I want to take my mother and brother to a beautiful trip in Europe.
- I want to know new places around the world.
- I want to experience mobility freedom. (I don't know how vacations feel like, I don't even know the sea... I have lived all my life here. I don't know the world. I want to know the world.)
- I want to give the experience of my brother of having luxury things (he experienced real poorness as a kid).
- I want my mother to visit beautiful places before she dies. (I don't want her to live like my father, he never knew amazing things from the world).
- I want to give my family a beautiful opportunity.
- I want to be happy with my family.
- I want to be a good mother in the future, provide opportunities for my future kids.
- I want to give value to the world once I reach some good level of financial freedom. I want to use part of my money for something valuable and wise.
- I want to taste delicious food without worrying about money.
- I want to have money to protect my family and give them opportunities to access to good health systems.
- I want to invite my real good friends to a vacation trip to another country.
- I want to visit Japan.
- I want to buy good and quality food for my pets.
- I want to feel proud of myself and break poor chain in my family.
- And MORE!
How many time it will take? I wonder...
I don't know. Maybe years, maybe months...
I don't want to stop. I will not. I want to stay in this forum and eventually make a post where I say 'I made it'.
I may sometimes lack confidence. I may sometimes lack time.
But I will keep trying.
I just wish it happen fast enough so my mother can see me success.
I want to find people like me and support each other.
I want to make it so I can show to other people this is possible, and more important, show it to myself... to show myself that I can make it.
I will give value. I will find needs.
I will try my best to fill them.
If it doesn't work, I will keep trying.
Whatever happens. I will be posting my significant progress.
Thank you so much if you read it since here.
Sorry for writing too much, I tried to keep things short.
Wish me best luck and I wish you best luck.
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