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Hello. I’ve been lurking this forum for about 2-3 years and now decided to make an account and here comes my introduction. I hope someone will read it, because it’s probably going to be long as a novel.
I am 21 years old guy from eastern Europe, really interested in entrepreneurship and business.
I discovered this forum when I read The Millionaire Fastlane and visited it now and then since.(I've also read Unscripted )
Even though I read amazing info and advice both in books and here on the forum, in terms of business, I’ve moved nowhere.
But I’ve tried several things:
- sold soaps on markets
- Imported and sold chocolate on markets
- crypto - made some money, lost even more
- After Fox’s thread about web design I tried that too
There were also several things I did as a child - sold sweets to classmates, crestig websites hoping to monetize them with ads (but honestly, I had no idea what I was doing ), etc.
At about the age of 16-17, I became extremely anxious and depressed. Finally I fought it mainly the past year when I was living on my own, which I will mention later. But since I moved back to my parents, I feel that it is slowly coming back.
As I said, I tried doing web design as Fox. Back then, I was in university, from which I dropped out.
I sent out hundreds of cold emails, did tens of cold calls, and closed just one client. Why? Well... price. Nobody was willing to pay me some rational amount of money. As I mentioned, I am from Eastern Europe and people are poor here and even most businesses see even 100€ as a big investment. I closed that one guy for 500€ which was great. The others weren’t willing to pay me even 200€.
Since then, I am in a rut. I moved out of my parents, lived one year abroad in a big city and worked as a salesman. I had a big problem in finding a place to live and was about to become homeless, so I came back to my parents.
Now I live with them, in a town that’s in the middle of nothing and I feel like I am rotting away. I am extremely bored and passive.
I want to go into some new venture but I am really stuck. At this point, I honestly just don’t know what to do.
I know this is going to sound stupid, because it is often said that ideas mean nothing, but I literally have zero business ideas.
I know that my business needs to be online centered and worldwide, because in my country I don’t see a point in starting a business.
I’ve cut out main distractions from my life - social media, netflix, etc... and I find myself with even more time that I don’t know how to spend productively. I am tired of reading books and doing “self development” over and over.
I need to somehow get moving. If I could just make 1000€ a month on my own, I could again move out and find some nice place to live.
I know that I just need to take some massive action, but don't know in which direction.
I don’t know what even I am asking here, but seeing the community here, how everybody tries to help everyone, I hope I can get some advice.
Thanks for reading.
(Reading this back, it's just "I, I, I, I,..." Don't want to sound selfish, but this is my introduction after all.)
I am 21 years old guy from eastern Europe, really interested in entrepreneurship and business.
I discovered this forum when I read The Millionaire Fastlane and visited it now and then since.(I've also read Unscripted )
Even though I read amazing info and advice both in books and here on the forum, in terms of business, I’ve moved nowhere.
But I’ve tried several things:
- sold soaps on markets
- Imported and sold chocolate on markets
- crypto - made some money, lost even more
- After Fox’s thread about web design I tried that too
There were also several things I did as a child - sold sweets to classmates, crestig websites hoping to monetize them with ads (but honestly, I had no idea what I was doing ), etc.
At about the age of 16-17, I became extremely anxious and depressed. Finally I fought it mainly the past year when I was living on my own, which I will mention later. But since I moved back to my parents, I feel that it is slowly coming back.
As I said, I tried doing web design as Fox. Back then, I was in university, from which I dropped out.
I sent out hundreds of cold emails, did tens of cold calls, and closed just one client. Why? Well... price. Nobody was willing to pay me some rational amount of money. As I mentioned, I am from Eastern Europe and people are poor here and even most businesses see even 100€ as a big investment. I closed that one guy for 500€ which was great. The others weren’t willing to pay me even 200€.
Since then, I am in a rut. I moved out of my parents, lived one year abroad in a big city and worked as a salesman. I had a big problem in finding a place to live and was about to become homeless, so I came back to my parents.
Now I live with them, in a town that’s in the middle of nothing and I feel like I am rotting away. I am extremely bored and passive.
I want to go into some new venture but I am really stuck. At this point, I honestly just don’t know what to do.
I know this is going to sound stupid, because it is often said that ideas mean nothing, but I literally have zero business ideas.
I know that my business needs to be online centered and worldwide, because in my country I don’t see a point in starting a business.
I’ve cut out main distractions from my life - social media, netflix, etc... and I find myself with even more time that I don’t know how to spend productively. I am tired of reading books and doing “self development” over and over.
I need to somehow get moving. If I could just make 1000€ a month on my own, I could again move out and find some nice place to live.
I know that I just need to take some massive action, but don't know in which direction.
I don’t know what even I am asking here, but seeing the community here, how everybody tries to help everyone, I hope I can get some advice.
Thanks for reading.
(Reading this back, it's just "I, I, I, I,..." Don't want to sound selfish, but this is my introduction after all.)
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