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SJuan9

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2019 has been challenging, but a great and awesome year; definitely one of the most transformative and successful ones in my book. For 2020:

1) Publish ebook by end of January 2020

2) Launch initial MVP (out of various), incorporate and acquire first customers by mid-February. Late winter timing is perfect.

3) Continue to grow customer base. Grow and diversify service/offers in a sustainable manner if appropriate

4) Have business income at par with job income by end of 2020

Been working on this for a few years, and finally got myself to a position where I can finally execute with the amount of leverage necessary to not neglect some of the most important things in life.
 
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- Provide enough value to surpass my job monthly earnings with a fastlane business by the end of the year

- Consistently be a disciplined, resourceful and adaptable entrepreneur

- Develop a recurring money system with more than a dozen satisfied clients

- Attend the gym at least 3 times a week when on membership

- Bench press more than 225 pounds

- Have a gym membership for 9 or more months in total

- Listen to at least a thousand hours of audiobooks to learn an expand my knowledge

- Save most of my salary but also invest in education

- Achieve significant progress towards my goals every week in order to become an habit
 

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If it was only that easy to repo. lol I have several friends in the business. One friend had his son shot in the face about 10 years ago. He lived and is leading a 'normal' life now. Another guy got out of the repo business and bought several wreckers to do regular towing. My other buddy used to head up one of the companies that would take control of houses when the lender would repo it, well, long story short, 3 years ago those companies started getting in to the vehicle repo business because there are so many people not making their payments these days. Good luck and I hope you keep us updated on it.
That's one of the reasons we'll install a kill switch on each vehicle. And yes, I know the difficulty and the dangers. I'm in the low to moderate-income rental business. I'm doing an eviction right now. He must out on Sunday at 5 PM. Monday my rit--assistance kicks in where I can call the authorities to help me. Thanks.
 
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  1. Double revenue to 1.5 Mio Euro
  2. Hire two new developers
  3. Serie A round for a Startup we invested two years ago with 5 Mio euro
  4. No more Projects below 100k, ideal Projects above 250k euro
  5. Run a half Marathon in Summer
  6. Get a golf Handicap of 46 or better
  7. Three afternoons each week with the Kids

Stretch Goal: buy our First Appartement
 

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Q1:
Finish the print version of my book.
Start a beta test program for my software.

Q2-Q4:
Have 500 copies printed of the book and sell them all by the end of the year.
Launch the software and have at least 50 active users by the end of the year.
 

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Not a New Year's Resolution thread, but a mere proclamation of what you will accomplish in 2020.

List one thing, or many.

Whatever you resolve to do.

Please keep your proclamation measurable!

Lose weight is not measurable, lose 50 lbs is!
Start a business is not measurable, sell X units is!

This time next year, we will bump this thread and see how things went!

Also, if you posted in this thread AND have a progress thread, please include and link to it!!

Thank you!

For me, my 2020 objective is of a personal nature, so it isn't something I'm willing to disclose here.

Finish what I started in 2019 my GASI (General Artificial Super intelligence) Algorithm + implementation (yes we're not done yet) + Move to Bahrain (before Deutsche bank collapses). But that is a little hard as I've as a matter of fact got a rare neurological condition. (Panthonate Kinase associated neurodegeneration) But F*ck that The GASI (if it works) will cure me as easy as people who don't mind getting fail phobia passes an university exam.
 
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I finally finished college classes and am authorized to work so I will be starting my business (finally!).
Specifically, I will
1. Release at 5 iOS apps. I have tons of ideas, some with validation, some just better than others.
2. Test out at least 10 different software product ideas. This could be for the web, desktop, mobile, or other and be in the form of presales, email collection, etc
3. Make a video game. I've been thinking about it for a decade and I've been sorting out the details.
4. Finish and take action on at least 10 courses I've purchased on programming, business, and self improvement.
5. Make at least $10K in profit
6. Find a job (due to visa situation)
 

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1. Write and publish three ebooks
2. Build out my blog
3. Build up my email list
4. Join some solid affiliate programs (yes I know this isn’t fast lane)
5. Create printable s & short courses to sell
6. Start freelancing to help fund it
 
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This time I'll list the goals for each major area:
  1. Health
    1. Make exercise a daily habit for real
    2. Keep eating healthy food, but get more variety
  2. Wealth
    1. Save up to 40K+ GBP
    2. Have 100-200 GBP/month of recurrent/passive income - Not sure how yet. Either from investments or from side projects, but even this amount it's going to be hard if I don't have a clear idea
  3. Lifestyle
    1. Spend half a day at the weekend to exclusively spend time on my hobbies
    2. One trip to somewhere in Europe
  4. Relationships: Blank - I know, I need to fix this
  5. Spirituality
    1. Go through Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World again and make it stick, making meditation a daily habit

Apart from that, I want to publish at least 2 mobile apps (ideally 1 app and 1 game).
 

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1. Get more guitar students
2. Release an album of guitar and cello duets
3. Write the next album
4. Study with a great teacher
5. Figure out how to move my income online and travel while I do all the above
 

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There are some people, I want to support in 2020 personally.
Than I want to get many people using some things I have invented and I want to make some people read some books I have written and I want to write.
I want some people to be happy about my service I provide for them.
If there’s some money for that finding me, I ll not mind.

Sports: I ll try to keep up with my 10 years younger sportsfriends, as I did this year, and not hurt doing this.

Iwant to meet some interesting people, maybe out of this forum. But only, it the dring beer! ;)
 

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1) 3.5m brand 1
2) 1m brand 2
3) 20 mf units
4) 5 big amazon clients
5) Continue building my team and train them to be specialists
6) Start a podcast
7) Trip to China/Bali/Thailand
 
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- If my visa goes all well and good, complete my forms and move to Canada (Vancouver) in November.
- Build my fitness nutrition blog/website to a professional standard.
- Gather 5000 Instagram followers on my nutrition/fitness account.
- Do a roadtrip from Melbourne to the Barrier Reef
- Self Publish 5 books on Kindle KDP.
- Read 30 books.
- Get to around 7% bodyfat before August then continue to leanbulk.
- Work in Ibiza for a month (could be a messy month haha)

These are just some of my goals but these are the ones that I 100% want to set out and do.
 

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This is the year, which will define my the rest of my life.

2020 Themes
  • I will not allow myself to be another cog, but I will produce the F*cking machine and have cogs making me money
  • MAN THE F*ck UP AND GET SHIT DONE
  • Stop planning, talking, and analyzing, start executing, failing, learning, and succeeding
  • Average is not an option.
I’ve come close to taking the leap, investing in my ideas, doing what I want to do, being confident that shit will go sideways but being confident I can survive it, and believing that I am meant to do more than working the corporate life rat race.

All in all- in 2020 I will offset my current income by investing in two international vacation rentals and developing a SaaS platform that I’ve conjured up this year. This will allow me to man the F*ck up and listen to that little voice I’ve neglected for way to F*cking long. These are my 11 steps, which will get me there; starting with...
  1. Buy my first vacation property in Ambergris Caye by the end of March; generating minimally $1,000 monthly profit
  2. Pay off all Consumer debt (credit cards/ personal loans) by the end of March; reducing $750 reoccurring [monthly] costs
  3. File for stateside biz license by the end of April
  4. Sell house by the end of June, freeing up $90,000 in post-tax capital; rolling over $35,000 to 2nd property down payment.
  5. Buy 2nd vacation property in Ambergris Caye by the end of July (27th birthday present to myself); generating minimally $1,000 monthly profit
  6. Acquire and revamp, or develop SaaS platform by the end of September
  7. Generate first $1 in sales, by the developed SaaS, NLT end of October
  8. Sell off half of awarded vest stocks at the end of November freeing up $60,000.
  9. Scale SaaS gross revenue to $2500 by the end of December; achieving ~$2000 net profit.
  10. Obtain business Belize biz license, for 2nd company, kicking off step 11
  11. With the extra passive income (~$4,000), reduced monthly costs ($2,000), and nest egg money ($120,000)- put in 2 weeks notice last week of December and take my son on a vacation to Belize to go Snorkeling, eat lobster burritos at the local breakfast shack, read UNSCRIPTED at Secret Beach with a Jack and Coke in my hand, and reflect on how epic 2020 was....
 
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1) Pass my A Grades and be accepted into a prépa or post bac university.
2) Get a girlfriend.
3) On a business side, have at least 1$ in profit from any of a business and 10$ in valuation!

Good luck!!
 
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1. Pay off car
2. Buy 1st property
3. Wrap my head around software engineering + make 2 apps I want to use
4. Sell 150k in marketing business
5. Document my journey
 

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1. I want to hit 1000 MRR (around 10 customers @ $100 a mo) for my web design business providing value through maintenance, revisions, etc. (credit to somebody for this idea, forget what there name is but thanks)
2. I want to provide enough value that I can sell sites worth at least $1000 or more to my clients. I'm currently on my first client for an art gallery and I feel like there is a big need as most of these owners are boomers and computer illiterate (mostly)
3. I want to continue my food desert business ( snowcones specifically) and go to more events like running races.
 
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In 2020 I will accomplish:
-Community of at least 10,000 people.
-Online products, at least start the 3 I've already have in my mind.
-Help people with my Sesions 1 to 1 (at least 750 sesiones)
-Love-live partner.
-Be the best versión of my self ( find the balance between Learning, waking up early, rest properly, exercise and healthy food)

For my business I've already started a calendar of how to achieve 10,000 people comunity + launch the first of the online products.

I want to do a year, quarter and monthly review to check of how things are going more often.

I will guys let you know when I have a Draft of my reviews.
 
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I will..

-grow my local Estonian business as much as possible in the next 2-3 months and then sell it (nothing to get me or you excited about - it's hard to scale here so I'm not looking for a payday. Just a small profit and selling to someone who wants to start out and have a small side income).

-work hard on my new project - same niche as the local one, but digital products. Selling worldwide. Want to get at least 10 customers in February. Would love to be profitable after 6 months and get more organic customers. Just starting this now and spending money on ads to get traction and followers. 2 clients so far, I'm happy with it.

-test new physical products I designed in the first months of 2020. I will get the samples next week and by March I should know if I should pursue it or walk away. Pretty excited about this one anyway.

-quit my job abroad in February-March and get a new one in Estonia. Will lose a lot of money with this move, but I need more time to work on business. I have savings for maybe a year at that point and if I get a new job here I don't have to use my savings. Only for business purposes maybe. I'm also getting more and more unhappy travelling all the time and I want to be home with my family.

-meet new people who are interested in entrepreneurship and self-development. Currently not a lot of people like this in my life. Hoping to meet some of the forum guys when I work in Oslo in the next couple of months!

-learn new platforms to use for my business - FB is now my main thing, but I'm just starting with IG and Pinterest. For physical products I will also use Etsy, E-Bay, Amazon. So a lot of learning!

-compete in at least one half-marathon competition. Time will be under 2 hours.

-make 2020 the last year I work for someone else (maybe being a bit naive with this one).

Wishing you all the best!
 

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I haven't managed to achieve much in 2019, even after receiving a huge help. It totally feels like failure for me. In 2020:
1) Stop behaving like victim.
2) Cut off from hyperreality.
3) Make at least 2000 pln from any side hustle.
4) Read at least 15 books.
 

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Came up with this tonight, may refine later...

- $150K USD gross sales on Amazon (December 31st)

- Hire at least 1 VA, possibly more if needed (Jan. 1st)

- Close on 1st rental property before current apartment lease is up to begin journey of building RE empire (May 27th)

- Sign up for Fastlane INSIDERS which I should have done a while back (Jan. 1st)

- Become semi fluent in Spanish, (have not figured out the best way to track this and how to be specific so any ideas welcome)

- 1 International Trip, with credit card points I really don't have to come out of pocket for this (Dec 31st)

- Read 12 books, 1 per month (Dec. 31st)

- Continue to eat healthy and increase body weight to 200 pounds. Currently at 185 so this comes out to a bulk of 1.25 pounds per month... still need to figure out bench press and squat goals in the next few days. (Dec. 31st)

- Develop 3 genuine friendships locally with people that have similar mindsets and have goals that align with mine. While some people will say you will naturally attract people that think similarly when you reach a certain level of success, I think it is important to cultivate and find these relationships along the journey. (Dec. 31st)
 
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Must-Do
- Hit A$10K/month with my consulting business (currently $4800)
- Fix 1 health problem through a small operation
- Visit my family and friends on the other side of the world
- Learn to validate business ideas relatively fast
- Read TFF at least one per week
- Read at least 3 business-related books
- Buy a new MacBook + Blackmagic eGPU Pro
- Do gym 4 times p/w on average
- Make people around me happy
- Master the flexitarian diet (started 2 weeks ago and doing great already)

Optional (depending on future business opportunities)
- 1 business trip to China
- Visit Thailand once (where I would like to live for two years in the future)
 

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Not a New Year's Resolution thread, but a mere proclamation of what you will accomplish in 2020.

List one thing, or many.

Whatever you resolve to do.

Please keep your proclamation measurable!

Lose weight is not measurable, lose 50 lbs is!
Start a business is not measurable, sell X units is!

This time next year, we will bump this thread and see how things went!

Also, if you posted in this thread AND have a progress thread, please include and link to it!!

Thank you!

For me, my 2020 objective is of a personal nature, so it isn't something I'm willing to disclose here.
 

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