Thank You MJ DeMarco, Commandment of Time

[TonyStark]

Almost always my bedtime story maybe it's rubbing off on the guys either side of my room, ha.

But seriously, isn't time and freedom the most important. And my new goal. Would likely have been stuck working 80 hour weeks for the next 15 years and thinking I was making bank if not for MJ and his book.

Same!!

 

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[MotiveInMotion]

You want to thank @MJ DeMarco ?

LIVE IT. Make it happen. Escape the grind. Then let him know.

Build a CENTS escape hatch. Then let him know when you break through the other side.

He doesn't need any more fanboys. His currency - his life blood now is success stories.

Beyond that. Paying it forward. Once you get there, get other people there.

Bring this full circle. It's not enough to "like the book." He gets that every single day.

So what? I like the Dilbert cartoon book I read a few years ago. It didn't change my life.

What are you going to DO about it? That's where the new currency is. That is how you finish this.

That is what MJ is looking for.

@Vigilante thanks for putting up this post! I wholeheartedly agree and am thankful for the contribution that MJ has made.

I read TMF the first time around pretty early after I had already dropped out of college, packed my bags and moved to Thailand, and every moment of reading it brought a new change in my mindset, but also my immediate actions. From that point on, I would always be operating, working, and building towards the CENTS principles.

Since then, I've started my site in order to help other young people achieve the mindset of what it takes, and self-dominance, which is (to me) controlling the way you think, add to others, and steer your life.

There's a conglomerate of resources and opportunities that have been molding me to who I stand as today at 22, but TMF was definitely a chunk of the puzzle. I learned that my parents are self-employed, though they own a business, I looked at every single business opportunity through the filters of CENTS and whether they were Fastlane or not. I analyze everything I can and see the many pitfalls of certain paths and the potential high-roads for others.

I'm not anywhere close to where I want to be, but I am heading there every day. I am taking the action and keeping control of my own path just like the book says, and I'm putting this in motion in my life instead of just being "inspired" and then going back to what everyone else does.

I am focused on how I can use my unique talents like MJ has exhibited, for the benefit of potentially millions of other people too.

Thanks again fellas, for everything

 

[Vigilante]

Bump. I am writing a few words for hopeful inclusion in MJ's new book, and came across this post.

Freedom gave me the ability to relocate to the coast. Freedom gave me the ability to keep a house in Minnesota, which we now use as a vacation house for months at a time. Freedom will put me on the Pacific Islands for a month over the summer.

I take my freedom for granted, but when I slow down enough to smell the plumeria flowers, I am reminded that I owe the freedom to the paradigm shift found within the Millionaire Fast Lane by MJ DeMarco. I'll be tipping back a coconut rum drink in a few weeks in your honor, boss.

http://www.fastlaneentrepreneurs.com/2011/the-simple-picture-that-can-make-you-millions/

 

[Andy Black]

Bump, since it's a great example of Giving Thanks.

 

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[Torobaro]

This is just a quick shout out and Thank You to @MJ DeMarco.

I have started several businesses, each of which demanded that I work my a$$ off. Some were successful, some were colossal failures.

And because you didn't, I am FREE. I am free to travel. Free to watch E play in the ocean while workers work. Free to live. Free to follow what ever whims or dreams I come up with. (MJ, do me a favor and reread this paragraph slowly, because you would understand what many of the words within mean to me. Don't read over this paragraph quickly. It has eternal value for me.)

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I´ve never built a successful business and you´ve built several successful ones so I may be speaking from a place of ignorance but what about the desire to keep on working on your businesses? the vision of future achievement? the excitement of having a goal?

I think this quote from "the one thing" explains the point I am trying to make:

"I can not believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all"
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[Yoda]

but what about the desire to keep on working on your businesses?

It's moreso about having the choice.

Of course many of us will continue to work forever.

 

[Vigilante]

I´ve never built a successful business and you´ve built several successful ones so I may be speaking from a place of ignorance but what about the desire to keep on working on your businesses? the vision of future achievement? the excitement of having a goal?

I think this quote from "the one thing" explains the point I am trying to make:

"I can not believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all"
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I still own a business, and still work. Some days a lot. Some days less. Thanks to @Kung Fu Steve kicking my a$$, I am working more now than I have in a long time. The difference is I am doing it on my terms. I do what I want, when I want. Where I want. How I want.

Freedom creates unlimited opportunities. I will be in Asia next week, presenting an award to my favorite vendor. However, it's on my schedule, at my leisure, and I'll be back when I want to be back.

Your quote is all about legacy. How do you build one? What footprints do you leave? MJ's paradigm shift creates the freedom to work on the things you want to work on. The things that are bigger than you. The things that cause legacy.

I couldn't leave a legacy when my existence was working 60 hours a week for someone else's fast lane. I barely had time to breathe.

I don't desire to work on a business. I desire to change the world, to affect people for their betterment, and to leave a legacy that outlasts me for the betterment of society. None of those are tied to specific business initiatives. Business is just a means to an end.

 

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[GMSI7D]

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all"

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exactly

when we look at society, most people are here to be part of a system made for them, whether it be capitalism, communism or whatever

but these sytems are means to an end, not the end.

the official end as said by the leaders are : to be happy

i don't want to be happy in an economic system but to stand for my understanding of life and fight for it.

 

[Torobaro]

I still own a business, and still work. Some days a lot. Some days less. Thanks to @Kung Fu Steve kicking my a$$, I am working more now than I have in a long time. The difference is I am doing it on my terms. I do what I want, when I want. Where I want. How I want.

Freedom creates unlimited opportunities. I will be in Asia next week, presenting an award to my favorite vendor. However, it's on my schedule, at my leisure, and I'll be back when I want to be back.

Your quote is all about legacy. How do you build one? What footprints do you leave? MJ's paradigm shift creates the freedom to work on the things you want to work on. The things that are bigger than you. The things that cause legacy.

I couldn't leave a legacy when my existence was working 60 hours a week for someone else's fast lane. I barely had time to breathe.

I don't desire to work on a business. I desire to change the world, to affect people for their betterment, and to leave a legacy that outlasts me for the betterment of society. None of those are tied to specific business initiatives. Business is just a means to an end.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! I totally get it now!

 

[Kung Fu Steve]

I still own a business, and still work. Some days a lot. Some days less. Thanks to @Kung Fu Steve kicking my a$$, I am working more now than I have in a long time. The difference is I am doing it on my terms. I do what I want, when I want. Where I want. How I want.

Freedom creates unlimited opportunities. I will be in Asia next week, presenting an award to my favorite vendor. However, it's on my schedule, at my leisure, and I'll be back when I want to be back.

Your quote is all about legacy. How do you build one? What footprints do you leave? MJ's paradigm shift creates the freedom to work on the things you want to work on. The things that are bigger than you. The things that cause legacy.

I couldn't leave a legacy when my existence was working 60 hours a week for someone else's fast lane. I barely had time to breathe.

I don't desire to work on a business. I desire to change the world, to affect people for their betterment, and to leave a legacy that outlasts me for the betterment of society. None of those are tied to specific business initiatives. Business is just a means to an end.

You freaking rock.

 

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[hellolin]

I still own a business, and still work. Some days a lot. Some days less. Thanks to @Kung Fu Steve kicking my a$$, I am working more now than I have in a long time. The difference is I am doing it on my terms. I do what I want, when I want. Where I want. How I want.

Freedom creates unlimited opportunities. I will be in Asia next week, presenting an award to my favorite vendor. However, it's on my schedule, at my leisure, and I'll be back when I want to be back.

Your quote is all about legacy. How do you build one? What footprints do you leave? MJ's paradigm shift creates the freedom to work on the things you want to work on. The things that are bigger than you. The things that cause legacy.

I couldn't leave a legacy when my existence was working 60 hours a week for someone else's fast lane. I barely had time to breathe.

I don't desire to work on a business. I desire to change the world, to affect people for their betterment, and to leave a legacy that outlasts me for the betterment of society. None of those are tied to specific business initiatives. Business is just a means to an end.

Freedom also absolute frightens the vast majority of people out there, that's the real problem.

 

[townhaus]

Freedom also absolute frightens the vast majority of people out there, that's the real problem.

Imagine a world where everyone embraced freedom.

No way! It would be anarchy!

 

[OldFaithful]

No way! It would be anarchy!

Get back in line, slave!

 

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