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Ravens_Shadow

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The master plan this year is to hit $1m in revenue.
The pieces to make this work:
  • Launch our new educational + news hub
  • Launch 4 planned pieces of software
  • Hone in on our marketing and really focus on the entire customer journey in all stages
  • Relentlessly network within the industry
  • Attend atleast 3 major trade shows this year
 
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- Finally launch the startup that has taken two years to build (Jan. 5th, 2019).
- Visit/live in at least 20 new countries (visited/lived in 10 countries over the last 12 months).
- Buy a house in New York for cash.
- Have even more fun! Life isn't forever.
 

The Abundant Man

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The goal I want to accomplish that I have not achieved until now is to build my business in 2019, but to be measurable and say how many sales I want to make, I need to know what my vehicle will be, what business I'm going to build, the idea, if it is digital.

How to set a goal for the ideas phase? Because to establish sales I need to know what business I'm going to build.
It's not about ideas. It's about value and execution. Listen to people's problems and solve their problems.
 

The Abundant Man

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Run a 5K each and every day. Listen to over 180 hrs of audiobooks while doing so.
I would not be able to pay attention while I'm running.

During the run, I'd be thinking, "This is the best thing ever!"

After I run a 5k I'd be thinking to myself, "What was that about again? What did they say? I forget..."
 
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The Abundant Man

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Commit to my morning routine.

January-June
Meet 20 ppl a week to increase my small business.
Watch all the video training I have in my stockpile. (This is easily a hundred videos.)
Build out five websites (2 of mine plus three for customers) get them all ranked and earning income.
Write a blog post 2x a week.
Have ten exquisite meals that I can cook perfectly in my Instant Pot.

July-December
Leave my second supplemental job because my own business supports me in 3 days a week.
Use the other 3 days a week to replicate whatever worked for the SEO business and then start grinding hardcore.
Compile my first ebook.
Wrestle MailCheat(Chimp) down to the ground and develop my newsletter.

Some other cool stuff. Lol.
What does Primeperiwinkle even mean?
 

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1. Read more books.
2. Lose 20lbs by getting back on strict Keto Life Style
3. Get to $10,000 gross reselling
4. Finish Unscripted
5. Relocate to a new environment
 
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I will be on the keto diet for 360 Days(No Carbs No Sugars)

I won't do any drugs (caffeine, sugar, nicotine) for 360 days

I will be on no fap for 360 Days

I will lose 70 pounds

I will pay off my car

I make $50k+ in income.

I will have 100 posts on my blog.

I will sell 100 products that I made with my own hands.

I will go to 25 social events.
 

Rivoli

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My first year in business (2018) I did $2 million in sales, but I actually lost money from January to August.

In September I completely turned around the cost structure, and every month was profitable since then.

My goal for 2019 is to take this further

1. Increasing gross margin from 30% to 40%
2. Increasing sales from $2 million to $3.2 million
3. Increasing net margin from 8% to 15%.
4. Improving cash flow by generating a big cash reserve, increasing my credit score and getting Low interest business lines of credit of around $300,000
 
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  1. Complete my morning routine (customized routine based on The Miracle Morning) every day.
  2. Select an industry and begin contact with the industry for the purpose of finding problems to solve by February 4, 2019.
 

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What does Primeperiwinkle even mean?

You better be saying this with a smile, in a friendly exasperated male type of way.

It’s my girl super hero/ feminine mystique/ beautiful poetry name of awesomeness!!!!

Sheesh. It’s totes obvious. Rofl.
 

The Abundant Man

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You better be saying this with a smile, in a friendly exasperated male type of way.

It’s my girl super hero/ feminine mystique/ beautiful poetry name of awesomeness!!!!

Sheesh. It’s totes obvious. Rofl.
I was saying it with the meanest face possible
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It is an awesome name so you keep doing you Supergirl!

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
 

Andy Black

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Q1 goals:

Health:
  • Move every day: jogging, walking, skipping, or kick-boxing.
  • I’ll introduce free weights again when I’ve lost the 6 pounds I gained in December, and after the craziness of January dies down at the gym.
Family:
  • Get my mum moved into a rental apartment and sell or rent her house.
Wealth:
  • Spend $10/day generating leads for local service businesses.
  • Figure out a customer acquisition process out of it.
 

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- get to 175 pounds through keto (220 now)
- get my mini website with 4 custom made products launched and profiting at least $1000 per month
- be able to quit the 9-5 for good via freelance video editing.
 
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Wealth:

- Make 4-5k in monthly revenue by 1st of March from my FB ads agency
- Hit a 20k month by the end of the year!
- Get rid of my debt (around 10k)

Health:

- Become fit again. Need to lose around 10 kilos.
- Drink less wine and beer (already been cutting down on this in 2018)
- Treat myself with massages!

Family:

- Help my wife make at least 1k a month from her drawings by the end of 2019
- Help my mom grow her agriculture event/business-trips business
- Help my dad translate his books into English and create a little living for him through his books

Travel:

- Spend at least 2 months in Asia (never been there!)
- Spend at least 2 weeks in Iceland
- Go to at least 8 new countries I have never been to
- Find a place to settle for a more long-term period

Looks like it will be a busy year! Have a great 2019 everyone!
 

Jonathan S.Diaz

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Flexible destination: To gain the necessary assets, network, signal and capability necessary to join a start up out of high school

Flexible chief aims:
* Build a successful online game with other talented programmers to build skills, experience and overall CAPACITY to GSD (get sh*t done).
* Build a powerful NETWORK of entrepreneurs, software engineers and innovators to have the best opportunities and thinking available to me.
* Begin building an online reputation and brand to SIGNAL the value I can create for others
* Create ASSETS from my game and brand.

Main Books to read:
- Can't Hurt Me, by David Goggins

- UNSCRIPTED , by MJ DeMarco
- The Way of Men, by Jack Donovan

- Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts
- The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
- Gateless, by Sebastian Marshall & Kai Zau
- The Culture Series, by Iain Banks
- War of Art & Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries & Jack Trout
- So Good They Can't Ignore you, by Cal Newport
- The Startup of You, by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha

Best of luck and success to you all in this new year
 
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I will 10x my goals and 10x my effort to:
1. Get my business to $10,000 in sales a month
2. Lose 30 pounds
3. Get my run time back to 7 minutes a mile
4. Read 52 books, 1 of those being Unscripted
5. Go to 5 new countries

Good luck with your goals everyone. I know baby steps really help me get a new routine started and turned into a habit.

Happy New Year!
 

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  • Pay off debt - 6k
  • Change ONE persons life in my product or service
  • Acquire 10 contacts or connections through meetings for my next business
  • Support family completely online 4k /mo
  • Recover my knees and start playing soccer/volleyball by next fall/winter
 
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  • Finish first investment property by February 2019
    • Find, screen, and sign a tenant by March 2019
  • Decide on the SaaS or E-commerce venture by April 2019
    • Launch by September 2019
  • Find a new hobby and develop 4 new friends by June 2019
  • BJJ Blue Belt by December 2019
  • Down to 165lbs @ 12% body fat by December 2019
  • Learn one song on the guitar by December 2019
 

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1. Debt free. Done yesterday as I paid off my home.
2. Increase profit from 2M to 3M (that is a very large jump in my business, a more realistic increase would be to 2.5M
3. Have new facility up an running by July.
4. Continue to build the business to not need me (cogwheel).
5. Listen to Unscripted as many times as I have Fast Lane (at least 10).
 

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  1. Drop weight to 190lbs and less than 12% body fat by May.
  2. Create $500/mo extra outside work by 6/1, $1500/mo by 12/1.
  3. Finish my product and make first sale. Fastlane Biz.
  4. Move to new location and job in January.
  5. Find and join a new martial arts gym (BJJ/Krav) in new location.
  6. Read and contribute to Fastlane Forum weekly.
 
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Let's see:

1) Quit my job and never go to another one
2) Make over $100,000
3) Go to gym or exercise at least 5 times a week
4) Live as an expat in another country by the summer, somewhere warm like Thailand
 

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Happy New Year Everyone!

All goals to be complete by the end of the year:

1. Add at least three more products to my brand.
Do 50k in revenue and at least 15% in profit. The main goal, however, to get positive feedbacks from costumers on all three new products. Revenue that is acquired with negative (3 stars or lower) feedbacks/reviews will not count towards the general pool of revenue; e.g 1000 items sold with 80% positive feedbacks, the revenue of 800 only counts towards 50k.

2. Build my own website to display and sell products, as opposed to selling on Amazon only.

3. Compete in two MMA/Kickboxing tournaments.

Can't wait to read MJ's new book btw! No pressure though..
 

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I will be on the keto diet for 360 Days(No Carbs No Sugars)

I won't do any drugs (caffeine, sugar, nicotine) for 360 days

I will be on no fap for 360 Days

I will lose 70 pounds

I will pay off my car

I make $50k+ in income.

I will have 100 posts on my blog.

I will sell 100 products that I made with my own hands.

I will go to 25 social events.

Your goals give me chills. No coffee, no sugar, no carbs...
Good luck! You've got this.
 
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Great that this thread has actually allowed us to peak into a lot of different lives and stories. Some of happenings here, I had no idea! Awesome to hear it what's already happening, and what will happen.

Done yesterday as I paid off my home.

Wow, congrats! We need to hear your story!
 

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Publish 3 works of fiction, finish setting up my 50 domains and document processes, outsource the content creation, exercise at least 4-5 times a week. And continue planting and using stuff from my backyard veggie garden, planning tomorrow at the end of today, walking daily. I will stop spending time on social media when I could be doing something productive, and I will stop buying things that I don't use within a month after purchase.
 

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