Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of no wealth with taste.
I’m currently waiting for my flight coming out of the Summit a changed man. I’m only 18 years old but I feel that the past few days will have drastic changes for the better.
Lets go back to the beginning before I really lay out the framework.
It’s March 11th, 2001. ‘Lil Haelios has just been born in Boston, Massachusetts . He’s had a nice life growing up in a town called Chelmsford but things change when he’s forced to live in England due to his dad getting a job in the Government there. He’s got no friends there and life changed drastically. ‘Lil Haelios was growing up in this new world, not really sure how to make friends, going to both British school and American schools in Great Britain. Eventually, not so ‘Lil Haelios meets @Tubs and @doot, and he makes some of the best friends he’s ever had in his entire life.
Things change once more as not so ‘Lil Haelios’s dad’s contract with the government expire, and he’s forced to move back to the U.S. but this time to a small town in northeast Ohio, in a small town called Kirtland. Haelios continued maturing in high school, thinking that college was the future and that he’d be a damn good electrical engineer! Haelios graduates his high school and goes to Ohio State University, albeit a side branch, but he technically made it to OSU! Things are fine at first, Haelios made plenty of friends and really enjoyed the parties, maybe a little too much. But then Haelios kept thinking about the book that @Tubs introduced him to, The Millionaire Fastlane and kept stewing on it.
It kept stewing on Haelios and eventually he fell into a slump. What the hell was he doing with his life? He had been wasting his time in college to only enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle of partying and football games, not learning anything valuable for $9000. It got so bad that Haelios wandered in the middle of the streets of Newark, Ohio hoping that he’d be struck by a car or that he would get mauled by a wild animal. Thankfully, his best friends @Tubs and @doot saw Haelios’s destructive lifestyle and offered him a place to stay in Charlottesville, Virginia, they’d even pay the ticket for the flight over! It was tough to make that call, Haelios’s parents were so let down, threatening to disown him and cutting all ties of communication, but Haelios had to make that call.
In Virginia, it wasn’t easy. Haelios had to borrow and mooch every cent that he got from his buddies as he couldn’t find a job for an entire month there. Left with only $0.33 in his bank account, Haelios finally found a job at a fast food restaurant. He’d earn $11/hr, work until midnight, but he got paid! Except... he didn’t get paid until 4 weeks after he got hired. After falling off his bike and having to check for any potential concussions (thankfully nothing like that happened), getting boiling oil splashed in his eye, and getting paid a measly $532.39 for 4 weeks of work, Haelios called quits at his only job and began to search again.
Things kept taking turns for the worse, rejection after rejection made Haelios continue to live in hell on Earth. He spent many nights with a gun pointed at his temple arguing whether or not he should just pull the trigger. Perhaps a saving grace, Haelios finally got a call back from a car dealership and continued to work there to this day. But no matter how much Haelios did, it didn’t bring satisfaction. He worked ridiculous hours, 9AM-8PM for 6/7 days of the week, his pay amounted a little over $11 an hour and while he did have a little more money under his belt, he’s constantly giving up his time for nothing worthwhile. Sure Haelios built up some sales skills, but he had no time to work on his skills outside of work or even had any chance to take some time to figure out where to go for the Fastlane!
That brings us to a few days ago, right before the Summit began. Haelios was riding shotgun in @Tubs car, heading down to the airport listening to MFCEO and Rocky music (great stuff, by the way) when suddenly, everything he had been listening to started making sense. It all clicked! Haelios had an adrenaline rush like no other, eyes wide open, anticipating the Summit!
The duo finally arrive to the Summit and it turns out, it was even better than expected! They reunited with @doot and learned so much they were brimming with confidence. They could not wait to use all that they’ve learned to their Fastlane ideas!
Enough with the third person act, I’ve unironically learned so much from my time spent with everyone from the Summit, both from a social and business standpoint. There’s so many great friends that I’ve talked to in my time spent in only 3 days!
Just to list them, there’s:
@Rabby
@ShamanKing
@CardinalFlame
@BizyDad
@FiftySeven
@RazorCut
@Primeperiwinkle
@Ernman
@lowtek
@Kak
@Rearden
@ZCP
...and so much more, but I’d rather not flood this post with practically everyone that I’ve met at the Summit!
Everyone, no matter how successful, how old, or even how committed to the Fastlane at the Summit, offered so much insight into what to do and what not to do. There wasn’t a single moment I didn’t enjoy at this event.
With all this said, I want everyone that I met at the Summit to hold me accountable. It would be a disgrace for me to learn this much but proceed to do nothing with this knowledge. When I get home from this flight, I’ll lay out my roadmap for the future.
To be continued....
I’m currently waiting for my flight coming out of the Summit a changed man. I’m only 18 years old but I feel that the past few days will have drastic changes for the better.
Lets go back to the beginning before I really lay out the framework.
It’s March 11th, 2001. ‘Lil Haelios has just been born in Boston, Massachusetts . He’s had a nice life growing up in a town called Chelmsford but things change when he’s forced to live in England due to his dad getting a job in the Government there. He’s got no friends there and life changed drastically. ‘Lil Haelios was growing up in this new world, not really sure how to make friends, going to both British school and American schools in Great Britain. Eventually, not so ‘Lil Haelios meets @Tubs and @doot, and he makes some of the best friends he’s ever had in his entire life.
Things change once more as not so ‘Lil Haelios’s dad’s contract with the government expire, and he’s forced to move back to the U.S. but this time to a small town in northeast Ohio, in a small town called Kirtland. Haelios continued maturing in high school, thinking that college was the future and that he’d be a damn good electrical engineer! Haelios graduates his high school and goes to Ohio State University, albeit a side branch, but he technically made it to OSU! Things are fine at first, Haelios made plenty of friends and really enjoyed the parties, maybe a little too much. But then Haelios kept thinking about the book that @Tubs introduced him to, The Millionaire Fastlane and kept stewing on it.
It kept stewing on Haelios and eventually he fell into a slump. What the hell was he doing with his life? He had been wasting his time in college to only enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle of partying and football games, not learning anything valuable for $9000. It got so bad that Haelios wandered in the middle of the streets of Newark, Ohio hoping that he’d be struck by a car or that he would get mauled by a wild animal. Thankfully, his best friends @Tubs and @doot saw Haelios’s destructive lifestyle and offered him a place to stay in Charlottesville, Virginia, they’d even pay the ticket for the flight over! It was tough to make that call, Haelios’s parents were so let down, threatening to disown him and cutting all ties of communication, but Haelios had to make that call.
In Virginia, it wasn’t easy. Haelios had to borrow and mooch every cent that he got from his buddies as he couldn’t find a job for an entire month there. Left with only $0.33 in his bank account, Haelios finally found a job at a fast food restaurant. He’d earn $11/hr, work until midnight, but he got paid! Except... he didn’t get paid until 4 weeks after he got hired. After falling off his bike and having to check for any potential concussions (thankfully nothing like that happened), getting boiling oil splashed in his eye, and getting paid a measly $532.39 for 4 weeks of work, Haelios called quits at his only job and began to search again.
Things kept taking turns for the worse, rejection after rejection made Haelios continue to live in hell on Earth. He spent many nights with a gun pointed at his temple arguing whether or not he should just pull the trigger. Perhaps a saving grace, Haelios finally got a call back from a car dealership and continued to work there to this day. But no matter how much Haelios did, it didn’t bring satisfaction. He worked ridiculous hours, 9AM-8PM for 6/7 days of the week, his pay amounted a little over $11 an hour and while he did have a little more money under his belt, he’s constantly giving up his time for nothing worthwhile. Sure Haelios built up some sales skills, but he had no time to work on his skills outside of work or even had any chance to take some time to figure out where to go for the Fastlane!
That brings us to a few days ago, right before the Summit began. Haelios was riding shotgun in @Tubs car, heading down to the airport listening to MFCEO and Rocky music (great stuff, by the way) when suddenly, everything he had been listening to started making sense. It all clicked! Haelios had an adrenaline rush like no other, eyes wide open, anticipating the Summit!
The duo finally arrive to the Summit and it turns out, it was even better than expected! They reunited with @doot and learned so much they were brimming with confidence. They could not wait to use all that they’ve learned to their Fastlane ideas!
Enough with the third person act, I’ve unironically learned so much from my time spent with everyone from the Summit, both from a social and business standpoint. There’s so many great friends that I’ve talked to in my time spent in only 3 days!
Just to list them, there’s:
@Rabby
@ShamanKing
@CardinalFlame
@BizyDad
@FiftySeven
@RazorCut
@Primeperiwinkle
@Ernman
@lowtek
@Kak
@Rearden
@ZCP
...and so much more, but I’d rather not flood this post with practically everyone that I’ve met at the Summit!
Everyone, no matter how successful, how old, or even how committed to the Fastlane at the Summit, offered so much insight into what to do and what not to do. There wasn’t a single moment I didn’t enjoy at this event.
With all this said, I want everyone that I met at the Summit to hold me accountable. It would be a disgrace for me to learn this much but proceed to do nothing with this knowledge. When I get home from this flight, I’ll lay out my roadmap for the future.
To be continued....
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