PEOPLE The Odyssey: by Week

[max.crom]

9/2/2024 - Call to Action

My name is Max, I am 19 years old at a community college in Los Angeles. I love music and my dream is to record my own and tour off of it. I've gone with the idea that I'll become a therapist as my practical career because it seemed stable enough to give me time to work on music, but I know that isn't realistic. I've been sick with COVID the last couple of days, and while doing my once-typical YouTube crawl, I stumbled across a video by Jordan Welch, who advocated for reading The Millionaire Fastlane. I went into the description, bought it on Kindle, and had finished it by the end of the day.

Since then, I have joined this forum. Let me just say I am more motivated than I have been in a long time. This is a feeling that I have chased and chased but only now has it come to me. I want to keep this momentum cooking for as long as possible, so I'm hitting the ground running.


Current Circumstances

• Live with dad and his gf for ~$750/mo.
• Training for a solid serving gig. I have yet to receive my first paycheck, but as I understand it I will be making $250-$300 a night 3-4 times a week. Not bad, not amazing.
• Taking three classes at school with a relatively light workload (so far). I had $8k saved up when I came here and paying for those out of pocket quickly brought me down to about a third of that. I have $2.5k now, which I think is an alright sum, but I'm debating refunding the classes to make back that $4.5k I lost.
• I have no car: fewer payments but limited transportation.
• I have no friends here. I just moved to LA, but having limited distractions is good.
• I have a lot of free time.

Future Circumstances

• ≥ $20m/yr income
• Live in a penthouse in Manhattan
• Lakehouse in Maine
• A sizeable collection of great fine art
• Home studio
• Travel minimum 3 months out of the year
• Freedom

Traits:

+ Smart​

+ Creative​

+ Excellent with people​

+ Sober​

+ Active​

+ Driven​

+ Always learning​

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- Prone to procrastination and distraction​

- Overthinking​

- Questionable integrity​

- Doubtful at times​

- Low financial literacy​

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Idea #1: Flavored Honey

CENTS Requirements: Met, as far as I'm concerned.

Steps Taken:

• Positive feedback from dad's gf. "I actually want that, I would buy that right now."
• Skeleton draft for the website

Steps Ahead:

• Persist
• Design logo
• Print business cards
• Network with beekeepers at the farmer's market on Wednesday
• Create formula
• Design packaging
• Develop website further
• Test product with customers
• Register for a business

Parting Thoughts

Questions:

• What's a flavor you'd like to see mixed with honey?
• Any recommendations for the next step?
• I am unsure about the Entry requirement, what is your take on it?
• Should I refund my classes?
• Am I missing anything?

Conclusion
I am excited to start this journey. I know I need to work with what I have, and I think I have a lot inside. I won't quit ever. This is my promise. Thank you to this community, I haven't talked with many of you, but the few I have have reflected that this is nothing but support and positivity. See you all next week.

~ Max

 

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[Stargazer]

Hi

These people call it Infused Honey which sounds better than flavoured honey.

Infused Honey Archives - Bax Bees

A range of our raw Cheshire honey infused with organic herbs, spices, flowers and fresh fruit that in addition to tasting amazing make nutritious and effective all-natural remedies to alleviate symptoms of common maladies. Infused honey can be used like normal honey, on toast, waffles, crumpets...

baxbees.co.uk

No idea how much they sell, I just Googled to see what was out there as I usually see Lavender, Orange, Heather and Borage in some shops or markets but can't recall seeing anything else in a physical location.

Anyway you might want to make one of their flavours as an experiment.

Do you know what Mead is? They sell it too. You could make some of that as well for fun and see how that goes down.

Dan

 

[Awaken Study]

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