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So.... I read the first book and loved it, everything made sense and I told myself I can do this and I just need that great idea... I made lists of what business ideas I thought would make the most sense from writing a book, to app development, to online retailing....
I did some retail arbitrage and sold about $500 worth of items on Amazon then bought Walters importing book and read it, but after a few weeks of searching for the "right" product to import and resale I gave up to focus on my daytime job and figured I'd come back to it later (shocker, I haven't).
Next I decided that since I have well over $550 Million in retail sales management experience that I would write a book on how to do that for other slowlaners... I have written roughly 60% of that book and then got bored with doing it so stopped again to focus more on my daytime job telling myself I would get back to it and start writing at least 3 times a week to finish it up (shocker, I haven't)
In the meanwhile I have done some small real estate investing deals (financing flip renovations for a friend) but those were minor and not what I really want to do. I also have been invested pretty heavily in the stock market to keep money at least slightly working for me and happily have stayed steady at about a 19% annual gain but that's not enough to make true life changing events like we all hope for with a fastlane path.
Basically I have taken a bunch of small steps and stopped for focusing on my daytime job (granted I make over $160k a year there but it takes up a LOT of my time and I really despise my boss) I want to leave it to go full time into something on my own but have but am apparently more afraid of losing that high income than confident that I can make it or more on my own. I have a low mortgage, paid off cars, and a couple years worth of salary stocked away for emergency living expenses and/or investing into my business plans when I decide to get serious so I do have that going for me....
I post this mostly as a wakeup call to myself as well as a cautionary tale to some of the newer members that say "I'll get to it later", or "I'm comfortable enough where I am that there is no rush" because if you allow yourself to fall back on these thoughts then you will be right where I am lurking the forums randomly, watching TV instead of working on a business plan, trading time for money, and not moving ahead in life.
I am about 26 chapters into Unscripted and hopefully after reading that I'll kick myself in the a$$ and finally get off the couch and get going and stop being one of the people written about in the books
I did some retail arbitrage and sold about $500 worth of items on Amazon then bought Walters importing book and read it, but after a few weeks of searching for the "right" product to import and resale I gave up to focus on my daytime job and figured I'd come back to it later (shocker, I haven't).
Next I decided that since I have well over $550 Million in retail sales management experience that I would write a book on how to do that for other slowlaners... I have written roughly 60% of that book and then got bored with doing it so stopped again to focus more on my daytime job telling myself I would get back to it and start writing at least 3 times a week to finish it up (shocker, I haven't)
In the meanwhile I have done some small real estate investing deals (financing flip renovations for a friend) but those were minor and not what I really want to do. I also have been invested pretty heavily in the stock market to keep money at least slightly working for me and happily have stayed steady at about a 19% annual gain but that's not enough to make true life changing events like we all hope for with a fastlane path.
Basically I have taken a bunch of small steps and stopped for focusing on my daytime job (granted I make over $160k a year there but it takes up a LOT of my time and I really despise my boss) I want to leave it to go full time into something on my own but have but am apparently more afraid of losing that high income than confident that I can make it or more on my own. I have a low mortgage, paid off cars, and a couple years worth of salary stocked away for emergency living expenses and/or investing into my business plans when I decide to get serious so I do have that going for me....
I post this mostly as a wakeup call to myself as well as a cautionary tale to some of the newer members that say "I'll get to it later", or "I'm comfortable enough where I am that there is no rush" because if you allow yourself to fall back on these thoughts then you will be right where I am lurking the forums randomly, watching TV instead of working on a business plan, trading time for money, and not moving ahead in life.
I am about 26 chapters into Unscripted and hopefully after reading that I'll kick myself in the a$$ and finally get off the couch and get going and stop being one of the people written about in the books
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