Share your big wins: business, life, fitness, anything.

[WillHurtDontCare]

Anyone have some win that they want to share?

It could be anything - business, fitness, chess competition, hot date, whatever.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Anyone have some win that they want to share?

It could be anything - business, fitness, chess competition, hot date, whatever.

I think this is a great thread to stand on its own, so I moved out of the Random thread.

 

[Sirrom]

This will be the first week where I will make €10k+

Persistence pays out eventually <3

 

[S.Y.]

Ahh... Thanks for the opportunity to be grateful.

(1)
During the summer of 2020, I read a book on breathing that totally changed how I view it. After I finished the book, I decided to work on my breathing and aimed then to be able to do HIIT while breathing with my nose. It was freaking hard in the beginning, mainly in finding the proper rhythm of inhaling and exhaling. Now, almost two years later, I am very proud to say that it is the norm for me. I do heavy HIIT sessions while breathing through my nose 95% of the time.

(2)
As with many, when Covid hit, it forces me to pause, reflect and rethink where I am going in life. When the first lockdown happened, even though I was taking time to muse, those pockets of time were not enough to work through certain personal areas. I worked through many experiences I avoided facing because of the emotional load I knew it would bring.

Through that exercise, it dawned on me how important stories are. The stories we tell and our narratives are extremely powerful. Steve Jobs said that storytellers are the most powerful people in the world. And boy that's true.

I have been on a journey to crafting and sharing better stories, both to myself and to others. It made me a better friend and a better family member. It made me better at connecting with others. It made me better at sharing information and influencing others. And above all, it made me a better father. I am far from where I'm aiming to be. I continue to work almost every day on my stories and on the craft of storytelling. But I am grateful for the opportunity to pass empowering stories to my son and help him in turn craft his own empowering stories.

 

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[Xpo]

Around two years ago when I was 16 I met of one of the biggest singers in Israel that makes millions of dollars every single year, literally EVERYONE here knows him. I actually met him through a friend of a friend that invited me to a nice party in Tel Aviv. When arriving to the party, I saw this guy and my face immidiatley went red due to SHOCK! In my head I was like WTF IS
-HE- DOING HERE!
Anyways, half an hour into the party I got the courage to start talking to him. Not as a fan, but as a human being just like him, without thinking of how much money he makes a year or how succesful he is. I was actually shocked to see him talk to me back as a normal person being LOL. Anyways, Ive started talking to him with some of his friends and he actually showed a lot of doubt in himself while talking to some of his friend because of a recent show he had that didnt go as planned.- This made me even more shocked than I was beacuse what was in my head at that moment, was that this dude is like a F*cking GOD or something (Very typical 16 y/o thinking dont judge xD)
Anyways, this made me realise that everyone shows some doubt in themselves here and there, that everyone fails sometimes, and that no human being is actually a god .
I had read a story a few months ago similar to mine that stated a kid that thinks that his teachers do not poop. This made me laugh and remember my own story, so basically yeah, everyone poops- no matter how cocky, confident, rich, succesful, or WHATEVER they are, they ALL poop!
Elon Musk, Lewis Hamilton, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and even Obama. They all poop.

I was greatful to realise this simple principle young, because it helped me a lot in business meetings, job interviews and HELL, even helped me in some dates with some hot chicks

Thanks for the oppurtunity to share my story, please excuse me for any typos itz cuz im typing from my phone..
HOPE MY STORY HELPED SOMEONE!

 

[watchopt]

In an attempt to not live off the imagined security of the nation/community/person I went on a relentless pursuit of truth. Unfortunately some relationships were severed. I lost almost all my possessions, and had very little desire to do much of anything except to give away my time and money. The years before all this, what I believed (religion, politics, work, relationships, business) seem to be the source of all the problems. I always wondered why so many problems and eventually just forgot about the life I once knew. It turned into problems to solve. With that said, interestingly enough, while I was reading/relating to the fastlane material I got the idea that solving problems (no matter how) was what you would manifest if/when you start down the road of entrepreneurship. More problems would manifest! How in the world or earth can that be? This time, my wants/expectations (I eventually equated to fear) was not strong enough to get me going. Eventually, really this meant to me and most of the worlds population that we are already an entrepreneur of LIFE because in this existence there is mostly problems to solve.

For whatever reason, in each of our paths, the common denominator appears to be fear. Fearing death (physical) but that compounds. We fear, or I did, experiences happening and even changing from the way I am (i.e. I enjoyed someone calling me a nickname, so I continued the behaviours to get that). At some point, we fear 'not being able to solve' problems, because we were good at it.
Whatever, you name it and it manifests problems. Change. The fear of change. So what did I do, I changed and even then (following months/year) that too was strapped with a fear, eventually. Why do we fear so much? I want to meet someone who changes easily or I will become it, is what I began to think.

To make this a bit shorter. I found out in my experiences that I was mainly living in the 'past' or 'future' and not to much in the present. Because of various fears that manifested into emotions. It still happens but now I am aware of it. One author put it this way: Existence is here to make us more conscious. Conscious of life/now or the present. Where when we are unconscious we are probably deep in some rabbit hole (past or future).

My energy is back. Everything around me appears clear. I have clarity. The confusion is understood and only last for a bit (usually when a change is taking place).

 

[No.1]

This will be the first week where I will make €10k+

Persistence pays out eventually <3

Do you mind elaborating on that achievement? I'd like to reach there some day. Do you suggest any posts over here to reach that point?, concrete or abstract, I'll find a way to take away some key-points and integrate them into my path.

 

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[WillHurtDontCare]

yesterday I learned that I can balance on one leg with a woman sitting on my shoulders

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Over the weekend I gave a talk to over 4,000 people in a European self-development conference.



I was one of the headliners of the event which was cool.

However what I found really awesome and inspiriting to myself was this: When I was a teenager I read many Robert Allen books. And then right after I moved to Arizona and was building my company, I read Kiyosaki. And now I was headlined at the same event with them. For me, it feels like playing as an unseasoned rookie in an NBA game with and older NBA star that you used to watch as a kid.

Had you told me this 10+ years ago after I wrote TMF that I'd be a featured speaker along side these mega-authors, I would have not believed you. First, I hate live public speaking, even via Zoom, second, as a self-published book, it is very hard to "break into" a space that is dominated by corporate publishers and big seminar providers, so my expectations were pretty low. (Low Expectations Principle anyone??)

Anyhow, for me, this was a big win.

If you have a book inside of you, write it -- and live with no regrets as the market can chew on it, or not.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

Over the weekend I gave a talk to over 4,000 people in a European self-development conference.

View attachment 42868

I was one of the headliners of the event which was cool.

However what I found really awesome and inspiriting to myself was this: When I was a teenager I read many Robert Allen books. And then right after I moved to Arizona and was building my company, I read Kiyosaki. And now I was headlined at the same event with them. For me, it feels like playing as an unseasoned rookie in an NBA game with and older NBA star that you used to watch as a kid.

Had you told me this 10+ years ago after I wrote TMF that I'd be a featured speaker along side these mega-authors, I would have not believed you. First, I hate live public speaking, even via Zoom, second, as a self-published book, it is very hard to "break into" a space that is dominated by corporate publishers and big seminar providers, so my expectations were pretty low. (Low Expectations Principle anyone??)

Anyhow, for me, this was a big win.

If you have a book inside of you, write it -- and live with no regrets as the market can chew on it, or not.

You've changed a lot of lives MJ - always happy to see you succeed.

 

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[Bing]

March was the first month my company broke $100k in revenue.

 

[MTF]

Over the weekend I gave a talk to over 4,000 people in a European self-development conference.

View attachment 42868

I was one of the headliners of the event which was cool.

However what I found really awesome and inspiriting to myself was this: When I was a teenager I read many Robert Allen books. And then right after I moved to Arizona and was building my company, I read Kiyosaki. And now I was headlined at the same event with them. For me, it feels like playing as an unseasoned rookie in an NBA game with and older NBA star that you used to watch as a kid.

Had you told me this 10+ years ago after I wrote TMF that I'd be a featured speaker along side these mega-authors, I would have not believed you. First, I hate live public speaking, even via Zoom, second, as a self-published book, it is very hard to "break into" a space that is dominated by corporate publishers and big seminar providers, so my expectations were pretty low. (Low Expectations Principle anyone??)

Anyhow, for me, this was a big win.

If you have a book inside of you, write it -- and live with no regrets as the market can chew on it, or not.

That's super cool.

Was it worth it for you financially as well or did you do it mostly for the fun/challenge of it?

I think that despite theoretically selling your time for money public speaking can be an excellent Fastlane as you can steadily increase your rates and get to something like five-six figures for an hour of your time (plus of course some hours to prepare for the talk). This, plus I think it must feel pretty good to share your knowledge with so many people and do it live like that (even on Zoom).

 

[MJ DeMarco]

That's super cool.

Was it worth it for you financially as well or did you do it mostly for the fun/challenge of it?

I think that despite theoretically selling your time for money public speaking can be an excellent Fastlane as you can steadily increase your rates and get to something like five-six figures for an hour of your time (plus of course some hours to prepare for the talk). This, plus I think it must feel pretty good to share your knowledge with so many people and do it live like that (even on Zoom).

I got paid to do it as I started charging for my speaking time. However, relatively speaking, I got paid a small amount. @Fox was telling me that most mainstream speakers (NYTimes validated best-sellers) charge $50K-$100K per event.

I did it for A) The challenge and B) To support my purpose to spread the Fastlane message. The extra $ was nice too.

 

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[MTF]

@Fox was telling my that most mainstream speakers (NYTimes validated best-sellers) charge $50K-$100K per event.

Wow I thought they charged more. But I guess that once you get good at it maybe you don't need more than a few hours to prepare for each talk. $10-20k per hour of work wouldn't be so bad.

 

[Antifragile]

In spite of the pandemic, supply chain issues, labour shortages and a flood here… we are delivering our 108 unit rental building on time and on budget. Last week we passed the final inspection.

Director of Planning said he wants to talk to us, how we are the only developer who managed to pull this off in his municipality.

This is a big win for our team, they are rockstars at producing results.

 

[Xavier X]

yesterday I learned that I can balance on one leg with a woman sitting on my shoulders

Hopefully, you were each facing North and South respectively..

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Wow I thought they charged more. But I guess that once you get good at it maybe you don't need more than a few hours to prepare for each talk. $10-20k per hour of work wouldn't be so bad.

Yea, it still is pretty stressful for me to speak including prep time, even at on podcast that has 20 people watching. But the stress level has declined over the years from a 10 of 10 (terrible) to 6 of 10. I've never been a good extemporaneous speaker. I hope as I do more of them, that drops to a 3, 2, 1, or better none.

 

[BlokeInProgress]

Nothing entrepreneur about this one but at work, was able to setup an entire site. Setup, Clean-up and Tidy-up before it opened. That means carrying around about 260 monitors, setting up 130 desk with connection and testing majority of it before opening the site.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

Yea, it still is pretty stressful for me to speak including prep time, even at on podcast that has 20 people watching. But the stress level has declined over the years from a 10 of 10 (terrible) to 6 of 10. I've never been a good extemporaneous speaker. I hope as I do more of them, that drops to a 3, 2, 1, or better none.

Some anxiety is good to be honest because it means that you actually care. 3-5 range is probably ideal for performance.

 

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[Aditya Gunjal]

Over the weekend I gave a talk to over 4,000 people in a European self-development conference.

View attachment 42868

I was one of the headliners of the event which was cool.

However what I found really awesome and inspiriting to myself was this: When I was a teenager I read many Robert Allen books. And then right after I moved to Arizona and was building my company, I read Kiyosaki. And now I was headlined at the same event with them. For me, it feels like playing as an unseasoned rookie in an NBA game with and older NBA star that you used to watch as a kid.

Had you told me this 10+ years ago after I wrote TMF that I'd be a featured speaker along side these mega-authors, I would have not believed you. First, I hate live public speaking, even via Zoom, second, as a self-published book, it is very hard to "break into" a space that is dominated by corporate publishers and big seminar providers, so my expectations were pretty low. (Low Expectations Principle anyone??)

Anyhow, for me, this was a big win.

If you have a book inside of you, write it -- and live with no regrets as the market can chew on it, or not.

sir you said Robert kiyosaki's advice are not good in unscripted (roasting rich dad poor dad). But maybe back then u didnt know about the script, thats why you read his books or there is another reason?
Aditya Gunjal( from utube channel comment)

 

[MJ DeMarco]

sir you said Robert kiyosaki's advice are not good in unscripted (roasting rich dad poor dad). But maybe back then u didnt know about the script, thats why you read his books or there is another reason?
Aditya Gunjal( from utube channel comment)

Great first post.

Anyhow, I never said that, or “roasted” RDPD. Yes, I don’t agree with everything he says and will be happy to say so.

Generally speaking, I always thought RDPD was a good book. Better than good. I haven’t read any others.

My issue with RK has nothing to do with his books.

 

[MTF]

Yea, it still is pretty stressful for me to speak including prep time, even at on podcast that has 20 people watching. But the stress level has declined over the years from a 10 of 10 (terrible) to 6 of 10. I've never been a good extemporaneous speaker. I hope as I do more of them, that drops to a 3, 2, 1, or better none.

It'll definitely get easier with practice as everything else. 6 out of 10 sounds manageable. I think that public speaking is a cool retirement gig and I'm glad to see it's working out well for you. I soon expect you to join the ranks of those charging $50-100k per talk

 

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[Aditya Gunjal]

Great first post.

Anyhow, I never said that, or “roasted” RDPD. Yes, I don’t agree with everything he says and will be happy to say so.

Generally speaking, I always thought RDPD was a good book. Better than good. I haven’t read any others.

My issue with RK has nothing to do with his books.

Great first post.

Anyhow, I never said that, or “roasted” RDPD. Yes, I don’t agree with everything he says and will be happy to say so.

Generally speaking, I always thought RDPD was a good book. Better than good. I haven’t read any others.

My issue with RK has nothing to do with his books.

Yes sir, sorry didn't meant (roasting) in actual meaning but like you said " dont agree with it" and your sarcastic (double dad) was funny(thats what i called roasting).
Nice to hear u spent time with people u admire.

 

[woken]

Yea, it still is pretty stressful for me to speak including prep time, even at on podcast that has 20 people watching. But the stress level has declined over the years from a 10 of 10 (terrible) to 6 of 10. I've never been a good extemporaneous speaker. I hope as I do more of them, that drops to a 3, 2, 1, or better none.

Bet you have no issues with posting something on the forum, right?

The more you’ll do, the better you’ll become.

Also, close your eyes now and imagine you’re giving a speech. Still 6/10, right?

Now imagine every person in the audience is sitting on the toilet.

Now you can’t be stressed cause you’re focused on not laughing


Might sound like incredibly bad advice but it does help me.

 

[BrunoRastablasta]

Had my highest Quarter ever. Made $19K which is like 3 times as much as I regularly make. Still not in the CENTS range, but I'm getting there

 

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[izraelinspired]

Over the weekend I gave a talk to over 4,000 people in a European self-development conference.

View attachment 42868

I was one of the headliners of the event which was cool.

However what I found really awesome and inspiriting to myself was this: When I was a teenager I read many Robert Allen books. And then right after I moved to Arizona and was building my company, I read Kiyosaki. And now I was headlined at the same event with them. For me, it feels like playing as an unseasoned rookie in an NBA game with and older NBA star that you used to watch as a kid.

Had you told me this 10+ years ago after I wrote TMF that I'd be a featured speaker along side these mega-authors, I would have not believed you. First, I hate live public speaking, even via Zoom, second, as a self-published book, it is very hard to "break into" a space that is dominated by corporate publishers and big seminar providers, so my expectations were pretty low. (Low Expectations Principle anyone??)

Anyhow, for me, this was a big win.

If you have a book inside of you, write it -- and live with no regrets as the market can chew on it, or not.

You've changed the life's of millions, this wisdom you've shared will be the bedrock of many success in this millenia. Thanks MJ

 

[wyattnorton]

In spite of the pandemic, supply chain issues, labour shortages and a flood here… we are delivering our 108 unit rental building on time and on budget. Last week we passed the final inspection.

Director of Planning said he wants to talk to us, how we are the only developer who managed to pull this off in his municipality.

This is a big win for our team, they are rockstars at producing results.

What's the plan for it? Hold or are you selling? Was it a ground-up development?

 

[Antifragile]

What's the plan for it? Hold or are you selling? Was it a ground-up development?

I've pre-sold it to a REIT, it'll be handed over in 45 days per our agreement.

 

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[BizyDad]

Got my lending client another national #1 ranking in Google.

He just hired 3 more salespeople on his team. He turned them from interns into full-time people.

And he just took on five more interns.

When we started working together he was a one-man show. Now he has eight full-time staff, a virtual assistant, and five interns. He's about to open his third office, with plans to open up fourth before the end of the year.

Laying down the foundation for job creation feels amazing.

 

[andyhaus44]

I’ve been 16/8 fasting for awhile now but a couple of days ago I finally started fasting 16/8 the way it’s supposed to be done, and started tracking all of my food again. Already feeling better.

Also, my wife and I had our biggest income month ever in March and we’re more excited now than ever about our financial future