Is this "you can do anything in life" thing only a lie?

[MidwestLandlord]

Work, work, work and never stop! that's right!!

Think of the fastlane like comments on this forum.

Every time I log in, I see that people have liked comments I left days or even weeks ago.

Those likes put reps into my forum rep bank, from "work" I already did way earlier. I've found that the more quality comments I make, the more likely previous comments are to be liked as well.

I have real life processes in place that do the same. Not fastlane yet, but close.

I make money 24hrs per day, because of work done days, weeks, months, even years ago.

Make sense?

So work hard, yes. But work on the right things.

 

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[MidwestLandlord]

Get to know self made rich people in real life and you'll realize a few things:

1) they are normal people. The only thing they do different from 99% of others is they don't quit and they adapt when things don't work

2) Wealth is a rather simple formula when you get down to it. People here tend to over complicate things. The math is simple!

3) it's the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life, but absolutely possible

Most people find it easier to talk about wealth, because actually doing it is hard. That's why the world of entrepreneurship is so noisy

 

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[thinkandgrowrich]

No.

How many people have you heard of or seen that has proved that "anything in life is possible"? Countless.

Dude look around you, life is crazy man it's completely irrational. Anything really is possible, who knows what the limitation of human potential is.

We've been to the moon, we're about to go to mars, we're about to have self F*cking driving cars, etc.

Shit look at the Sistine Chapel, a single man made that with his hands.

You're telling me you can't become successful?

Is all of this stuff hard? Of course, it will be the hardest thing you've ever done in your life. Sometimes I look around me and I just think, "Man, when are the results going to start coming?". But a voice inside tells me to keep going, because it's going to come. Persistence makes failure impossible, eventually you are going to get it right.

Is it logical or reasonable for me to think like this? Probably not, but you have to be crazy to succeed in something like this. In this case, being crazy is a good thing.

Keep going man because one day it will all be worth it, there will be no sweeter joy. Reflecting on your journey will make you cry. Try to make yourself enjoy the struggle.

"In retrospect, the years of struggle seem most beautiful".- Me

 

[PureA]

You can do anything you want in life, but you can't do everything you want in life.

Priorities, choose carefully...

 

[Runum]

Yep, it's all a lie.

Now get back in line for your portions and follow the rules. You can speak and do when we say you can.

 

[wade1mil]

Only if you believe it is.

 

[Waspy]

Firstly, you are confusing wantrepreners with actual Entrepreneurs. The people who chat shit all day long with motivational quotes are not the Bill Gates' of the world, they think they are (so cause an upward trend in Google), but they aren't. The people who are going to get the life they want are the ones who are going out and working for it.

As for "this just being a trend and we are all going to realise it doesn't work" ... Well, it does work. Look around you at all the successful people you know. They all went out and worked for it.

Build a business that largely makes CENTS and work HARD to make it happen and you WILL be successful. It's not new or revolutionary, but it DOES work.

Stop focussing on others. Go out and earn the life you want.

 

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[ZF Lee]

Hi everyone


So, I realized that "entrepreneurship", "work hard", "blabla motivation bla, work bla, success bla" is something like a trend. No really, look up the subject entrepreneurship in google trends from 2004 to now and you will see what I mean. There are even 14-16 year old KIDS who want to tell you how to get successfull and live a life in freedom etc. So many of the gurus who know so much about success and business and money an blablabla never had a business themselves, in spite of talking the whole day. Everybody is becoming a motivation coach and entrepreneur!

As I think of this, I have the fear that I'm only in a trend and soon it will go down and everybody including me will see that it doesn't work. That would be a really shitty situation because I'm working my a$$ off. There are so many people who know all the wisdom like "do something today that nobody does to have the things tomorrow that nobody has" but they don't do shit except of talking. That's quite frustrating being part of this "movement".

Than I think of the sick-successfull people like Bill Gates etc.: Why don't they ever say those things? Why don't they ever say you can do it too, you have to work on your mindset you have to work hard and so forth?
Sometimes I think they only made it because they were geniuses. Sure they worked hard, but could some normal guy like me do something like them? I doubt it..

Did you heard of somebody who became rich and said: Yeah I read all the "start-up"-books, listened to all the motivators, worked hard an then I became rich?

Don't worry about other people...they can take care of themselves.

I have learned that nothing is ever original. The best things super-successful Fastlaners come up with are not brand new. Dell and Microsoft were simply repackaged, modified and remarketed better. Uber is a taxi service with an online channel. Facebook is the magnification of existing relationships.

Cars were around during Henry Ford's time. But they were only sold for the rich at first. Ford started selling cars to the lower-class, and he became an immortal.

Coffee and bread have been a mainstay of human consumption. Yet countless franchises and brands have resulted from them, that have made countless millionaires.

In other words..you think that geniuses are those who do things that seem impossible for the average person.
To me, a genius is someone who solves NEEDS and PROBLEMS. So anyone can become a genius, if they want to.

And geniuses don't even need to create new things. All you need to do is to make an old thing better. Simple, but hard.
Hard because the world doesn't understand that. It wants new things. So you would have to present your Fastlane product (modified old thing) as the new solution.

Speaking of original, our thoughts and opinions were never new in the first place.
We held on to the Slowlane principles of going to school and getting a job, the ideal passed down since the Industrial Age.
Our ideas and dreams used to be someone's..and I have a hunch they were passed down because it either worked or it didn't.
But I don't let anyone influence me...my world is not theirs. Their world is not mine.

Books are just tools. I use them, take what I need and move on. But do stay out of motivationals...they are rubbish. I can assure you, a poor father working for his family's survival is more motivated than any of those cushy life coaches...

Don't worry about failure, opinions, difficulty and gurus. Just walk on the path towards your Fastlane destination.It is your journey, not theirs, not anyone else's, not mine. Yours.

Do they matter anyway?

 

[RHL]

 

[Runum]

To me that is not the question that you should be focused on. Your question leads to binary answers(yes/no) and really distracts you from your life.

The yes/no represents the extremes. Either you can be anything you want or you can't. The truth is somewhere in the middle and it's not provided to you by do nothing gurus.

You can be and do pretty much anything you want provided you are willing to work and sacrifice for it. Your dream will not come easy and you may not ever reach it.

If you may not reach it should you even try? There are no guarantees of goal attainment, whether you try is entirely your call. No placing blame here if you don't make it. Man up, take responsibility.

If you are focused on what do nothing gurus are saying then you are not focusing on your life and your goals. This is noise, a distraction. Listening to them and reading them makes it feel like you are getting stuff done. Action fake.

In the beginning you may need external motivation and reassurance. However, intrinsic motivation has to kick in at some time.

The true question should be "is this truly worth my time?" "If I try and fail, where will I be?" "If I don't try where will I be?"

Good luck with your decision.

 

[jsk29]

 

[IchiBan]

Than I think of the sick-successfull people like Bill Gates etc.: Why don't they ever say those things? Why don't they ever say you can do it too, you have to work on your mindset you have to work hard and so forth?

Really?

Listen to Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech. Isn't that exactly what he did there? He didn't stand up there and talk about how amazing he was, how only his "genius" and "brilliance" allowed him to get to achieve what he did. He didn't use the opportunity to tell students "the harsh truth of life".

No.

He talked about his challenges: being born to parents who never wanted him, going to a college that his parents couldn't afford, being diagnosed with cancer etc...

He humanized himself. He showed that he's just, like the rest of us, a person. A person who had to struggle to overcome challenges and make the best with what little he had. And even gave a little glimpse on how he managed to get past them. The message was there, but it's not necessarily clear, you just have to read in-between the lines.

This is just the first example I found after a quick google search. Who knows how many other CEO's Presidents, and other guys at the top of the world have given a talk in a similar vein?

You have to remember that motivational speakers earn their living by inspiring people. While what they say is usually true. They have to make it seem sweet and easy and magical.

What really matters is what do you do when you get home from that seminar, and the weeks and months following.

Do you get rid of bad habits? Start searching for problems to solve for yourself and others, take action while applying the speakers' words to your life?

Or do you do things exactly the same way you've always done, while waiting for some golden unicorn to come out of the sky and carry you out to Successland?

 

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[B-qiri]

Hi everyone

I want to share some thoughts with you, this is the first one. I will also share my great progress because of TMLF in 2016 in another thread.

So, I realized that "entrepreneurship", "work hard", "blabla motivation bla, work bla, success bla" is something like a trend. No really, look up the subject entrepreneurship in google trends from 2004 to now and you will see what I mean. There are even 14-16 year old KIDS who want to tell you how to get successfull and live a life in freedom etc. So many of the gurus who know so much about success and business and money an blablabla never had a business themselves, in spite of talking the whole day. Everybody is becoming a motivation coach and entrepreneur!

As I think of this, I have the fear that I'm only in a trend and soon it will go down and everybody including me will see that it doesn't work. That would be a really shitty situation because I'm working my a$$ off. There are so many people who know all the wisdom like "do something today that nobody does to have the things tomorrow that nobody has" but they don't do shit except of talking. That's quite frustrating being part of this "movement".

Than I think of the sick-successfull people like Bill Gates etc.: Why don't they ever say those things? Why don't they ever say you can do it too, you have to work on your mindset you have to work hard and so forth?
Sometimes I think they only made it because they were geniuses. Sure they worked hard, but could some normal guy like me do something like them? I doubt it..

Did you heard of somebody who became rich and said: Yeah I read all the "start-up"-books, listened to all the motivators, worked hard an then I became rich?

I'm really not trying to say that it isn't worth it to work. I still got up at 5am today and I do it every day so that I can read and work a little bit. I still work, read and train my a$$ off. Because even if I'll never get rich, it was totally worth it and much much better than wasting my time drinking alcohol in nightclubs and watching TV. I also wan't to mention that this Forum and MJ surely are not one of the many Gurus out there because here are real people with real businesses, maybe not all but many. I just want to hear what you guys think about this; Is this only a movement, something like the "attraction, think of it and it will become reality" trend?

 

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[ZF Lee]

In my opinion, motivation must come from you, and it must be inexhaustible!
It's a necessary ingredient for the recipe of the great entrepreneur

I feel motivated to stay up till the wee hours of dawn when I see anyone receiving shitty service in my domain that I can replace

 

[B-qiri]

No.

How many people have you heard of or seen that has proved that "anything in life is possible"? Countless.

Dude look around you, life is crazy man it's completely irrational. Anything really is possible, who knows what the limitation of human potential is.

We've been to the moon, we're about to go to mars, we're about to have self F*cking driving cars, etc.

Shit look at the Sistine Chapel, a single man made that with his hands.

You're telling me you can't become successful?

Is all of this stuff hard? Of course, it will be the hardest thing you've ever done in your life. Sometimes I look around me and I just think, "Man, when are the results going to start coming?". But a voice inside tells me to keep going, because it's going to come. Persistence makes failure impossible, eventually you are going to get it right.

Is it logical or reasonable for me to think like this? Probably not, but you have to be crazy to succeed in something like this. In this case, being crazy is a good thing.

Keep going man because one day it will all be worth it, there will be no sweeter joy. Reflecting on your journey will make you cry. Try to make yourself enjoy the struggle.

"In retrospect, the years of struggle seem most beautiful".- Me

Aah I totally know that voice, wonderful. You reminded me of my own father who took refuge in Switzerland, had nothing, couldn't speak a word german but with hard work he got self employed since 2006… Thank you for your motivation!

 

[Gareth]

Anything is NOT POSSIBLE for me.

I cannot and will not be able to run faster than USAIN BOLT
I will never be President of the United States
etc.

But I do have the capacity and ability to do things far beyond the limitations that I have put upon myself.

Beware the generalizations : anything, everyone, always, never, nobody....

 

[Young-Gun]

You can't do "anything" you put your mind to (I can't flap my arms and fly) - but, you almost certainly can do 100x more than you believe you can (I could try to design, build, and market a personal jetpack/flying machine).

Beethoven composed - while deaf, destitute and physically miserable - the 9th Symphony, the late String Quartets, the late Piano Sonatas.

I have no excuse, for ANYTHING, for ANY whining, while the memory of that Man still exists in human knowledge.

What a God.
Never give up.

 

[Jonathan Polley]

No.


Shit look at the Sistine Chapel, a single man made that with his hands.

You're telling me you can't become successful?

And you miss out the most inspirational part, that man wasn't even a painter, he was a sculptor. So yes, if you have some talents and a lot of dedication and hard work you can achieve more than you could ever imagine (A slightly more tempered wording than "achieve anything")

 

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[B-qiri]

Get to know self made rich people in real life and you'll realize a few things:

1) they are normal people. The only thing they do different from 99% of others is they don't quit and they adapt when things don't work

2) Wealth is a rather simple formula when you get down to it. People here tend to over complicate things. The math is simple!

3) it's the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life, but absolutely possible

Most people find it easier to talk about wealth, because actually doing it is hard. That's why the world of entrepreneurship is so noisy

Work, work, work and never stop! that's right!!

 

[Silverhawk851]

Life is what you make of it.

 

[thinkandgrowrich]

 

[G-Man]

Is it possible to do anything you want in life? No. There's opportunity cost to everything and your life is finite.

Is it possible to do things you cannot currently imagine yourself doing? Yes. Is it possible to create things that no one has dreamed of yet? Yes. Is it possible to positively affect the lives of incomprehensibly large numbers of people? Yes.

The people that post those damn "you can do anything quotes" on social media to get you to join their MLM probably won't, and I give them till about mid February before they stop wearing the Fitbit that was supposed to help them keep their New Year's resolution.

If you're not the stop 6 weeks into something guy, you can do the aforementioned things, though.

 

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[TheDillon__]

Hi everyone

I want to share some thoughts with you, this is the first one. I will also share my great progress because of TMLF in 2016 in another thread.

So, I realized that "entrepreneurship", "work hard", "blabla motivation bla, work bla, success bla" is something like a trend. No really, look up the subject entrepreneurship in google trends from 2004 to now and you will see what I mean. There are even 14-16 year old KIDS who want to tell you how to get successfull and live a life in freedom etc. So many of the gurus who know so much about success and business and money an blablabla never had a business themselves, in spite of talking the whole day. Everybody is becoming a motivation coach and entrepreneur!

As I think of this, I have the fear that I'm only in a trend and soon it will go down and everybody including me will see that it doesn't work. That would be a really shitty situation because I'm working my a$$ off. There are so many people who know all the wisdom like "do something today that nobody does to have the things tomorrow that nobody has" but they don't do shit except of talking. That's quite frustrating being part of this "movement".

Than I think of the sick-successfull people like Bill Gates etc.: Why don't they ever say those things? Why don't they ever say you can do it too, you have to work on your mindset you have to work hard and so forth?
Sometimes I think they only made it because they were geniuses. Sure they worked hard, but could some normal guy like me do something like them? I doubt it..

Did you heard of somebody who became rich and said: Yeah I read all the "start-up"-books, listened to all the motivators, worked hard an then I became rich?

I'm really not trying to say that it isn't worth it to work. I still got up at 5am today and I do it every day so that I can read and work a little bit. I still work, read and train my a$$ off. Because even if I'll never get rich, it was totally worth it and much much better than wasting my time drinking alcohol in nightclubs and watching TV. I also wan't to mention that this Forum and MJ surely are not one of the many Gurus out there because here are real people with real businesses, maybe not all but many. I just want to hear what you guys think about this; Is this only a movement, something like the "attraction, think of it and it will become reality" trend?

Yes and no. If anyone is peddling the law of attraction and the whole "believe it and so it shall be" sentiment, run. This is a lie.

However, here's the hidden truth. There are people that are on the Slowlane. Several millions of them. There are also multi-billionaires, celebrity chefs, and astronauts. What this tells me is that anything between ordinary and leaving the planet and walking on the next rock are all humanly possible.

Now. Notice that language there. It doesn't guarantee anything in terms of success or future concreteness. All we know is that it's humanly possible.

Should we want to put up the effort required to visit the next rock over, we can all do that. But the kicker is, most people are too lazy for that.

It's not a question of "is anything possible," rather one of "am I willing to put forth the effort."

 

[Rickchise23]

So this may be a but different from the other posts but here is what I have to say on the topic.

Don't pay attention to gurus too much... if you want to get pumped up to work and watch a Gary V video or a Grant Cardone Snapchat that's cool if it gets you going.

A lot of folks on here are saying try hard and don't quit but honestly for me it was knowing when to quit that enabled my success. I stepped out of a 6 figure income working 65 hours a week and moved to a different state with my family with a one person startup with a monthly income of around $2000. I knew however that if I stopped doing dumb shit and focused my time and energy on a business that didn't require my physical presence 12 hours a day, I would have room to grow and live the life I wanted to live.

I grew that business from 2k a month to 12k a month in monthly net profit within a year BUT it is only because I QUIT and redirected my focus to what actually made sense. Don't be afraid of quitting and changing course if what your doing no longer makes sense. Just as you wouldn't buy a horse buggy company the year after Henry Ford invented the Model T, or your not keen on buying a taxi company today, reserve your right to change course to a lane that makes sense.

Sometimes a pivot is the only way to move forward in a meaningful way. Twice in the past five years I was making over 10k per month and while that felt comfortable I innately knew it was time to pivot. Fast forward 5 years both of those businesses are out of business and I'm making more than I ever have while working less that I'd even prefer too. As an entrepreneur complacency is your enemy and you have to know your market like no one else and see the trends before anyone else. Knowing when to quit or when to push through is vital. Don't be afraid of doing 2 or 3 things at once In The beginning and just following what feels the best.

Lastly, just get out there and break shit. Motion creates emotion. In the absence of a firm direction just do something, pitch somebody. The more you do
This the more you will understand your own business and how to relate it to other people. No one here can tell you what is right for you. Just go fail your way to success. A broken clock is right twice a day and if you can match that metric and hit 2 sales a day you just might have a real awesome business here in the next 6 months

 

[dave773]

Sometimes I look around me and I just think, "Man, when are the results going to start coming?". But a voice inside tells me to keep going, because it's going to come. Persistence makes failure impossible, eventually you are going to get it right

This. ++

 

[andrewhook]

Did you heard of somebody who became rich and said: Yeah I read all the "start-up"-books, listened to all the motivators, worked hard an then I became rich?

Reading books (=STUDYING and ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE) and working hard (and of course, SMART) are two mandatory laws, but probably no one tell you that because it is so obvious that there's no need to.

And about "motivators"...

In my opinion, motivation must come from you, and it must be inexhaustible!
It's a necessary ingredient for the recipe of the great entrepreneur

 

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[B-qiri]

Don't worry about other people...they can take care of themselves.

I have learned that nothing is ever original. The best things super-successful Fastlaners come up with are not brand new. Dell and Microsoft were simply repackaged, modified and remarketed better. Uber is a taxi service with an online channel. Facebook is the magnification of existing relationships.

Cars were around during Henry Ford's time. But they were only sold for the rich at first. Ford started selling cars to the lower-class, and he became an immortal.

Coffee and bread have been a mainstay of human consumption. Yet countless franchises and brands have resulted from them, that have made countless millionaires.

In other words..you think that geniuses are those who do things that seem impossible for the average person.
To me, a genius is someone who solves NEEDS and PROBLEMS. So anyone can become a genius, if they want to.

And geniuses don't even need to create new things. All you need to do is to make an old thing better. Simple, but hard.
Hard because the world doesn't understand that. It wants new things. So you would have to present your Fastlane product (modified old thing) as the new solution.

Speaking of original, our thoughts and opinions were never new in the first place.
We held on to the Slowlane principles of going to school and getting a job, the ideal passed down since the Industrial Age.
Our ideas and dreams used to be someone's..and I have a hunch they were passed down because it either worked or it didn't.
But I don't let anyone influence me...my world is not theirs. Their world is not mine.

Books are just tools. I use them, take what I need and move on. But do stay out of motivationals...they are rubbish. I can assure you, a poor father working for his family's survival is more motivated than any of those cushy life coaches...

Don't worry about failure, opinions, difficulty and gurus. Just walk on the path towards your Fastlane destination.It is your journey, not theirs, not anyone else's, not mine. Yours.

Do they matter anyway?

Thank you very much for the time you took, I appreciate that! I just have to keep being focused and keep working hard to bring my solution out.

 

[B-qiri]

Reading books (=STUDYING and ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE) and working hard (and of course, SMART) are two mandatory laws, but probably no one tell you that because it is so obvious that there's no need to.

And about "motivators"...

In my opinion, motivation must come from you, and it must be inexhaustible!
It's a necessary ingredient for the recipe of the great entrepreneur

I agree with the necessity of the inner motivation. Books are very important to read but I think using the knowledge and working hard is even more important.. Thank you!

 

[B-qiri]

To me that is not the question that you should be focused on. Your question leads to binary answers(yes/no) and really distracts you from your life.

The yes/no represents the extremes. Either you can be anything you want or you can't. The truth is somewhere in the middle and it's not provided to you by do nothing gurus.

You can be and do pretty much anything you want provided you are willing to work and sacrifice for it. Your dream will not come easy and you may not ever reach it.

If you may not reach it should you even try? There are no guarantees of goal attainment, whether you try is entirely your call. No placing blame here if you don't make it. Man up, take responsibility.

If you are focused on what do nothing gurus are saying then you are not focusing on your life and your goals. This is noise, a distraction. Listening to them and reading them makes it feel like you are getting stuff done. Action fake.

In the beginning you may need external motivation and reassurance. However, intrinsic motivation has to kick in at some time.

The true question should be "is this truly worth my time?" "If I try and fail, where will I be?" "If I don't try where will I be?"

Good luck with your decision.

I had to take that decision not a long time ago. My decision is that it is totally worth it even if it does fail. It certainly is not bad to work hard and it is a 100% better than doing other nonsense like laying around and do nothing the whole day; impossible to me
Thank you!

 

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[B-qiri]

Think of the fastlane like comments on this forum.

Every time I log in, I see that people have liked comments I left days or even weeks ago.

Those likes put reps into my forum rep bank, from "work" I already did way earlier. I've found that the more quality comments I make, the more likely previous comments are to be liked as well.

I have real life processes in place that do the same. Not fastlane yet, but close.

I make money 24hrs per day, because of work done days, weeks, months, even years ago.

Make sense?

So work hard, yes. But work on the right things.

I'm really happy to hear that and hope that you get fastlane soon. This totally makes sense;
I don't get any money for my work at the moment but I still got some very very big rewards for working/learning a few months or years ago. 2017 is very promising for me and I had some great opportunities because of things I did much earlier.

Also "the right things" is critical you're totally right. Unfortunately I lost considerable time doing things which really weren't important.. but I think that's how you learn it, by experience.

Thank you