I read the book. Waiting for the French version to share it... Thanks!
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I don't have zero posts, but I just joined INSIDERS today, and made my first couple of posts today as well. I'll tell a little story, as I always like to
I was recently in hospital (a week ago), as a 22 year old, with a stroke scare. I sat down one night, and my face start sagging, and I called the ambulance. I spent 3 and a half days in a stroke ward, and thankfully, got cleared of everything. In that time, I read and finished the Millionaire Fastlane . When you are face to face with not "wealth in a wheelchair" but just "wheelchair", and you see the stroke patients in that ward, it really lights the fire under your a$$ to go out there and get it.
Just prior to going into hospital, I had gotten about halfway through the Millionaire Fastlane , and got my idea for a start up. I'm in the execution phase after about 2 weeks since I picked up the book. I've gone from never really coding, to coding my landing page, bought a domain, and I'm currently reading a Napoleon Hill book (Outwitting the Devil) and cramming books related to copy from the Gary Halbert Letter site.
If you check through my threads made, I made a thread about how I'd been depressed for almost 7 years. It was mainly due to (I think) not knowing what to do. I always knew, growing up, that the Slowlane wasn't for me, but drifted from this to that, with no purpose. I had a "Reverse Lamborghini" moment - my father retired after 40 years of work, and talked about buying a new 22 thousand dollar Toyota, because he "deserved it". This scared me. Someone gives the better part of their life for work, and all they have to show for it is a car. I knew then, I DEFINITELY wouldn't ever Slowlane.
However, it wasn't until I read The Millionaire Fastlane that I was granted purpose. I found myself smiling and nodding throughout the book..."I'm not crazy!", and finding various things that I already knew but didn't live by. So now, I've shifted my life towards the Fastlane. I'm coding, learning and researching every day, I sleep 5 hours and work and work and work on my idea. I've got no idea where I'm going at times, in an overwhelmed sort of way, I just keep piecing my vision together. Honestly, I get butterflies sometimes now, because this is like wading in the deep end - I'm taking it one step at a time, because it can be overwhelming to look at it all. Despite that, I have never been so focused or never felt like I have been on the right track until the last couple of weeks.
Even if my idea crashes and burns, I don't care. I would have developed so many skills that it would just be a mere roadbump in my journey. Right now I'm just developing a team of focused friends who have their own projects they are working on, so we can move out together. I need a good platoon to carry with me. It feels a little scary at times, but I love it.
I'm incredibly eager to soak up what ever wisdom I can from people here who I consider my superiors in some regards, and perhaps a mentor to point me in the right direction. Just wanna shoot a thanks to MJ, I've finally found where I fit and my path. Thank you, and thank you to anyone else who may in the future help me on my path.
Action. Take action. Try something. Fail. Try again.Read the book. Been lurking through the forums for a couple weeks. Still absorbing information and figuring out what to do with it.
Now that there are tens of thousands of copies out there in the wild, multiple language translations, etc. this is the thread to let me know that you've read The Millionaire Fastlane .
If you read the book, post here and you will get an icon under your screenname and additional forum privileges. (Private forum, more PM storage, etc.)
Feel free to post your comments about the book as well!
Thanks, MJ
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