I'm scared that I won't have the balls to take life by the balls.
I'm scared that I will lose everything I've already worked for.
I'm scared that I won't have a good enough business model, or make a wrong choice, or miss a checkbox and lose.
I'm on a safe path (by slowlane standards) and feel as though I'm barely holding up here, so why would I be able to keep up in the fastlane?
-Emotion follows action. Do cool shit. If you feel it's high time you did something ballsy, do something ballsy.
-You don't have anything to lose. The college degree doesn't get revoked and it wasn't good for much anyways.
-You WILL have a shitty business model and you WILL make the wrong choices and you WILL miss a checkbox and you WILL lose and after all of that you WILL win because this is not a game of perfection. This is a game of doing it anyways.
-Man I was failing school and I even tried to do well! lmao. The secret is to have 0 reasons to believe in yourself and 0 evidence of past success and STILL be arrogant beyond belief because you know deep down you're worth more than what you've been getting. I remember telling people I was going to start a business and not have to worry about money. I was one annoying little shit who had -$200 in the bank. Well...fast forward a few years later and I work a couple hours a week, live on a lake and my income doubles every year.
If your goal is to be rich and free, you should write it down and mean it. Then, for right now... you should set up your life where you are more isolated than the average person. Be alone and you will fill the space with deep thoughts. Being alone allows you to change. Having people around you all the time pressures you to think like them and stay the same. Then, build a routine of discipline. Early morning exercise, writing down all of your ideas, eating a strict healthy diet, eliminating time wasting activities, etc. These are not action faking steps for you since you are at the beginning. You will feel like a sharpened steel sword instead of some dull stick in the mud. You will have more confidence, assertiveness, etc. And remember that emotion follows action. Do it first, feel like doing it afterwards. A great idea and all the tools you need could fall right into your lap tomorrow but if you are just some schmuck who has not changed himself, you will not do anything with it.
When I started out, I was living at home but we had a detached office-type converted garage and I would lock the door and spend 8 hours a day in there. If I had other work during the day I would spend evenings in there until midnight. I would write, read, think and work in there without distraction and it's where I had nearly every idea. I would get up at 5am and go lift, eat a strict diet, get right to work and follow a bunch of other 'rules' meant for discipline.
The problem for many who start out and don't have a family business to jump into, or some unique situation to take advantage of, or some special set of skills to put to work, is that they really are staring at pretty much a blank canvas, and a lot of ambitious young guys have this problem. I did too. They typically fall for some business model that everyone else tries and almost always fails because it's VERY oversaturated. They try to start a blog, or they try to start dropshipping, or they start day trading, or a clothing brand, or some other thing like that. What usually happens is they will fail that original "business" and possibly try something else, and that continues until they eventually find a different type of business away from those things and it finally works. I know because I see it happen with other people and even myself.
If you don't have any ideas, or a family business to hop into, or any unique situation to take advantage of, I would go get a sales job. Something that will be tough and teach you to communicate very effectively. I sold cars and it was the best first full time job I could've gotten. You'll learn to sell and if you hustle you can be making like 8 grand a month right out of the gate. I was doing around 6 grand a month still living at home but I could've tried a lot harder and pulled in 8. It's not entrepreneurship but it teaches you to start separating time from money. It changes your brain into thinking that you only make what you go out and hunt for, not how long you can pretend to look busy for.
Keep absorbing information and combining it with whatever actionable steps pop up into your head. If you want to strategically improve your ability to take action, give yourself 'comfort challenges' (from Tim Ferris in the 4 hr workweek). By doing things that make you uncomfortable, you will build the "just do it" muscle in your brain and it will pay dividends for you.
If you'd like, I've got some reading material that I can recommend for any man starting off who wants to be an a$$ kicker.