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Hi everybody,
Long-time lurker. I will use this thread to document my progress but also to write down random thoughts and ideas.
Let me start by saying that I have been passively reading posts on this forum since around 2017 (!) and did only post once every blue moon with my old account. Maybe 10 posts in 3 years. I wanted to start fresh and therefore created a new account.
Can you imagine…? 10 posts in 3 years?
Actually, let’s try something. Please imagine this: Let’s say you have been looking for like-minded (people for a long long time. People that understand you, people that share the same goals etc. One day you find this awesome „business club“, great bar, great food, thousands of interesting people, incredible stories and conversations. Life changing advise. So, now you go to this business club almost every day. You see different groups of people standing in circles, sharing their experience, advice, having a laugh etc. Wow, great people! So, now everyday after you enter the club you sit at the table with the other members of the club. You just listen carefully, you laugh, you sometimes give them a thumbs up and smile, you maybe make notes or you try some of the stuff out that they talk about. But you never say a word. Not one word. You never bring your view to the table. And so, you go there every day and never say a word. WOULDN’T THAT BE WEIRD??? Yet, I did this for years. And looking at the number of members on this forum and the number of people that actually participate in the conversations on a consistent basis…..I think, I am not the only one. Next time you log in, just imagine you are not behind the computer but at the TFLF club
. Would you meet everyday with a group of people and never actually contribute anything? Just CONSUME?
You are too busy, right? You don’t have anything to add. Tomorrow, you will answer that one question. Next week you will share that great story or advice.
One could now say: Man, you are really doing this community a disservice. You only take! This is a community. It needs everybody to contribute something.
But that’s not the point…! YOU ARE DOING YOURSELF A DISSERVICE. YOU ARE A CONSUMER. And consumers….they consume. They don’t produce. So, if you cannot „produce“ something valuable for this community, Do you think you can produce something for the market?
„But…but I am reading all this great advice! All this knowledge! This is going to make me successful!“ hmmm…no! Let me ask you this: How much muscle did you gain the last time you watched that incredible training routine video one YouTube? How many vitamins did you get by watching this awesome superfoods smoothie recipe video? Why do we all understand that we actually need to work out to get stronger? To actually prepare and eat a healthy meal to get healthier. I could go on and on with the examples….but when it comes to business we believe we need to read all 100 Tim Ferriss book recommendations, watch these super secret Social Media Marketing tutorials…the list goes on. STOP CONSUMING. STOP PROCRASTINATING. FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS. WRITE THEM DOWN. And do this: Every day write down at least ONE thing that you will do that will ACTUALLY bring you a bit closer to that goal…even if it is just a tiny, tiny bit. Do this everyday. And everyday or at least every week you will audit yourself and check if you are making progress. If the things you do, did actually brought you a bit closer. And in case you forgot to do that „one thing“ today…no problem….try again tomorrow. Not Friday, not next week, tomorrow. But if you forgot again? Ok, now take that piece of paper with your goal on it. Go to the closest trash bin, put the paper into the trash. This goal is not for you. You don’t want it. Forget it. Stop dreaming and just remove that goal from your mind….but if you do at least one thing a day which moves the needle…that’s 300+ steps to bring your closer every year….someday you will reach your goal.
OK enough of that. My next posts will be about my progress….I will try to post small updates at least every 2-3 days. Which does not sound like a lot…but at the moment I work 60+ hours a week in my day job, I work on one business and on a small web application on the side…I also became a father recently. Will think about how I can update this thread in a meaningful way and in general engage in the forum as much as possible with the amount of time I have left at the end of the day.
Cheers
P.S. English is not my first language. I hope the above is still understandable.
Long-time lurker. I will use this thread to document my progress but also to write down random thoughts and ideas.
Let me start by saying that I have been passively reading posts on this forum since around 2017 (!) and did only post once every blue moon with my old account. Maybe 10 posts in 3 years. I wanted to start fresh and therefore created a new account.
Can you imagine…? 10 posts in 3 years?
Actually, let’s try something. Please imagine this: Let’s say you have been looking for like-minded (people for a long long time. People that understand you, people that share the same goals etc. One day you find this awesome „business club“, great bar, great food, thousands of interesting people, incredible stories and conversations. Life changing advise. So, now you go to this business club almost every day. You see different groups of people standing in circles, sharing their experience, advice, having a laugh etc. Wow, great people! So, now everyday after you enter the club you sit at the table with the other members of the club. You just listen carefully, you laugh, you sometimes give them a thumbs up and smile, you maybe make notes or you try some of the stuff out that they talk about. But you never say a word. Not one word. You never bring your view to the table. And so, you go there every day and never say a word. WOULDN’T THAT BE WEIRD??? Yet, I did this for years. And looking at the number of members on this forum and the number of people that actually participate in the conversations on a consistent basis…..I think, I am not the only one. Next time you log in, just imagine you are not behind the computer but at the TFLF club
. Would you meet everyday with a group of people and never actually contribute anything? Just CONSUME?
You are too busy, right? You don’t have anything to add. Tomorrow, you will answer that one question. Next week you will share that great story or advice.
One could now say: Man, you are really doing this community a disservice. You only take! This is a community. It needs everybody to contribute something.
But that’s not the point…! YOU ARE DOING YOURSELF A DISSERVICE. YOU ARE A CONSUMER. And consumers….they consume. They don’t produce. So, if you cannot „produce“ something valuable for this community, Do you think you can produce something for the market?
„But…but I am reading all this great advice! All this knowledge! This is going to make me successful!“ hmmm…no! Let me ask you this: How much muscle did you gain the last time you watched that incredible training routine video one YouTube? How many vitamins did you get by watching this awesome superfoods smoothie recipe video? Why do we all understand that we actually need to work out to get stronger? To actually prepare and eat a healthy meal to get healthier. I could go on and on with the examples….but when it comes to business we believe we need to read all 100 Tim Ferriss book recommendations, watch these super secret Social Media Marketing tutorials…the list goes on. STOP CONSUMING. STOP PROCRASTINATING. FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS. WRITE THEM DOWN. And do this: Every day write down at least ONE thing that you will do that will ACTUALLY bring you a bit closer to that goal…even if it is just a tiny, tiny bit. Do this everyday. And everyday or at least every week you will audit yourself and check if you are making progress. If the things you do, did actually brought you a bit closer. And in case you forgot to do that „one thing“ today…no problem….try again tomorrow. Not Friday, not next week, tomorrow. But if you forgot again? Ok, now take that piece of paper with your goal on it. Go to the closest trash bin, put the paper into the trash. This goal is not for you. You don’t want it. Forget it. Stop dreaming and just remove that goal from your mind….but if you do at least one thing a day which moves the needle…that’s 300+ steps to bring your closer every year….someday you will reach your goal.
OK enough of that. My next posts will be about my progress….I will try to post small updates at least every 2-3 days. Which does not sound like a lot…but at the moment I work 60+ hours a week in my day job, I work on one business and on a small web application on the side…I also became a father recently. Will think about how I can update this thread in a meaningful way and in general engage in the forum as much as possible with the amount of time I have left at the end of the day.
Cheers
P.S. English is not my first language. I hope the above is still understandable.
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