When you realize you are a sidewalker: The Mike B. story.

[Sharko]

My story. Ive always been an entrepreneur. From owning my own team of shoplifters aiding my Yugioh card dueling team of 64 members when I was 15, to running my current electronics repair shop today, I’ve learned a lot but Ive NEVER learned as much as I have in the last 4 days reading MJs book. I can’t believe how much of a freakin SIDEWALKER I have been. Wow.

When I was 18 I started a guerrilla marketing company where my high school buddies would pass out flyers for me in parking lots while I raked in the dough… I should have stayed there, because all of a sudden sidewalk desires struck me in the form of the Infiniti G35. I left my hustle to get a job at Conns as a salesman so I could have tax paperwork to get me into my bright new shiny red Infiniti… I still had income from my marketing company but the nice cushy $600 a week turned to $150 a week causing me to turn to my conns income to supply my lifestyle servitude in paying for that nice new Infiniti and its $4000 insurance plan… I had effectively Sidewalked.
Having a job is totally not a safe bet, I lost that Conns job just a few months later, leaving me with debt (I bought furniture and TVs with that nifty employee discount) and a nice shiny red Infiniti. I felt duped, betrayed, and blamed everyone for my fall. I was crushed. I went back to flyer distribution… this time as an employee… making $6 an hour for 4 hours a day. I could not survive.
I went back to my entrepreneur roots and started a company cleaning carpets but somehow negotiated myself out of ownership rights and went into profit sharing, effectively not owning my own company. Long story short we had a few good months and then meteorically plummeted. And I traded in that shiny new red infiniti… For another freakin Infiniti…
At least this one was more of a luxury Sedan, an M45. I was soooooo focused on impressing my peers, but all of it was an illusion. I was dead inside. I went back to passing out flyers, in the hot, unforgiving, Houston sun. I had gotten a raise, $7 an hour and 6 hours a day! Yippee! With an m45 to pay for and credit cards in the mix this obviously wouldn’t cut it so I once again played my entrepreneurial card and this time opened my current business. RepairXperts, currently pasadena Tx biggest electronics service center!
The first year sucked, no money, long hours, no security, m45 to pay for, credit cards to pay for, rent, bills, etc. The second year we hit 250,000 gross and guess what! Time for a trade in! My stupidity made me the ULTIMATE SIDEWALKER! I BOUGHT A BMW 335i! WOW. I was now the idiot who showed up to every party in a Nice shiny new BMW while wearing a Breitling SuperOcean. Look at the big man. What a role model! NOPE! I was dead inside. LIFESTYLE SERVITUDE at its finest. I opened a second store with absolutely NO RESEARCH and watched it wither away along with over $30,000 of my blood sweat and tears… I closed it down within 4 months… In that 4 months it earned me $2400.00 So guess what, to cheer myself up… guess what I did… Trade in! I now rock a nice powerful Camaro SS AND I bought my girlfriend a Nissan Murano! What a rockstar I was! Meanwhile I took on 2 personal loans and another credit card! Now I have to come up with 3 freaking grand a month just to pay my bills! I don’t own a house, I don’t own my cars, I don’t own squat. My business does its thing but it isn’t growing, and hiring all my friends got me into more Lifestyle servitude in having to pay that payroll! I am the perfect image of a sidewalk who is blessed beyond imagination and continues to piss it away.
However I have made a vow to myself and my wife to get my a$$ off the sidewalk and into the fast lane. Why? Simple.
I want to provide stability
I want ENJOY LIFE
I want to solve other peoples problems
I want to be a blessing
I want to prove others wrong
I want to retire young
I want to spoil my kids
I want to to crack the code to life
I want to serve God’s purpose in my life
I want to make my mom happy and ease her burden
I want to make my wife happy.

I am currently 25, I have gone full circle and am back to my store. I am working to grow my sales, which have gone stagnant. I still have the camaro because I am about $8000 upside down on it. I have to wake up at 4 am to drive Uber to make ends meet. I work 50+ hours at my store and while people still think Im rich Im dying. My life sucks, and Im sick of it. I have ideas for websites and MJ has me determined to learn web design, and make something from nothing. Thank you MJ. Thank you for helping me find my vision again. I don’t care what others think of me anymore. I want to win life.

The current situation summed up


Repairxperts (sales slow but steady)
Candy Machines (partnership in candy machine route worth %25 but only running 20 out of 110 machines)
Uber (I hate it but Im doing what I feel I have to to pay these lifestyle servitude bills.)
Retail Arbitrage on eBay(Not running anywhere near full throttle)



I guess Im asking for advice/critique


Thank you in advance,


And again THANK YOU MJ DeMarco FOR KICKING MY a$$.


I want to go Fastlane, and I have chosen now as the time.

 

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[ilrein]

Ximduni.

Zua nez jewi gadlif aq, cav zua fof e fenp gopi kuc op siduhpoboph jux vu qowuv.

Puv vu nipvoup, zua huv vji jatvmis't tqosov. Citv ug madl huoph gusxesf.

 

[Sharko]

Vjeplt! O katv xotj O guapf vjot cuul op 2012. Ji't sohjv ecuav vji Etvisuof jiefoph vuxesft iesvj vjoph. On katv hmef On 25 siemoboph vjot epf puv 35. O xepv vu tdemi nz siqeos tjuq moli Acsielogoy fof. O lpux O dep fu civvis vjep vjiz fu. On huoph vu xusl nz ett ugg vu gsepdjoti vjot vjoph. Nz mogi dep tvomm ci temwehif.

 

[Sharko]

Omsiop epf VjiLoph. Op nz dassipv tovaevoup tannesz O motvif tuni ug nz dassipv Opduni tuasdit, ot vjisi epz upi op qesvodames zua hazt tii et civvis vjep vji uvjist? Og zua xisi op nz tjuit xjisi xuamf zua gudat?

 

[ilrein]

O lpux vuu movvmi ug zuas mogi vu jimq zua neli e siem fidotoup.

O dep tii vjev zua jewip'v qodlif upi ewipai vu duptotvipvmz lomm ov op.

Zua piif nifoevi up xjodj qevj xomm csoph zua vji hsievitv sixesft.

Gsun zuas tjusv motv, O xuamf haitt vjev depfz nedjopit epf icez temit esi e xetvi ug voni, tuni nupiz-djetoph ofiet zua huv opvu cideati vjisi't pu cessois vu ipvsz. Vji vidj siqeos catopitt tuapft moli ov't vji nutv qsunotoph.

Xjeviwis zua qodl, fup'v fu 3 kuct jemg-ettif.

 

[Sharko]

iCez temit esi e xetvi ug voni, vjisi ot quvipvoem vu ciduni e taqqminipvevowi opduni vu qez commt, cav siraosit xusl, tiesdjoph epf emm vjev cav moli Acis, On puv caomfoph epzvjoph.

Vji depfz nedjopit ectumavimz jef e cessois vu ipvis et O opwitvif ecuav $2,500 ug vji 10,000 xi qeof opvu vjuti 110 nedjopit, O jewi 20 ug vjin uav epf iedj csoph ecuav 15-20$ e nupvj vu nz qudliv, tu op nz nopf 110 duamf ci epzxjisi gsun 2-3 hsepf op qettowi opduni og O uavtuasdi tiswodoph vu upi ug nz gsoipft epf howi vjin e dav, cav vjip eheop, On upmz 25% uxpis up vjin.

Vji vidj catopitt piift tdemoph cav O dep tii ov fuoph hsiev, O en xusloph up sifiwimuqoph nz tztvin jisi.. Zit zit O lpux 3 ziest vu mevi vu hiv tisouat.. Cav vji catopitt tvomm nelit nupiz.

 

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[ilrein]

Nep, vjuti depfz nedjopit neli 20 fummest e nupvj? Epf zua piif vu tiswodi vjin? Fuitp'v giim moli ov't xusvj ov. Vjisi't huvve ci nusi dunqivovoup xjip zua vsz vu hiv e muv huoph vu neli ov opvisitvoph.

Vimm at ecuav vjot vidj catopitt vjuahj. Fu zua katv siqeos tvagg, moli e siveom tjuq?

 

[Sharko]

O haitt O piwis muulif ev ov vjev xez, vjeplt. Et gus vji vidj catopitt, xi'wi ciip esuapf gus 3 ziest pux, xi tiswodi dimm qjupit(tdsiip siqeos, tugvxesi, djeshoph qusvt, tqielist/Nodt) dunqavist(wosatit xopfuxt optvemmt, jesfxesi, meqvuq mdft) oQeft epf vecmivt epf heni duptumit. O'wi fupi fidipv vji metv vxu ziest cav puxjisi pies getvmepi. O inqmuzif e capdj ug nz gsoipft, cef ofie, epf jewi ciip gosoph ugg vji upit xju esi puv qsufadoph epf O en qsivvz nadj uqisevoph up ittipvoemt pux. Temit jewi ciip tvehpepv dunqesif vu metv zies, gappz vjoph ot op 2014 O fof ectumavimz PU efwisvotoph, vjot zies O en katv hivvoph opvu vji txoph ug duptotvipv efwisvotoph epf vji metv gix xiilt jewi tjuxp vjev ov xuslt. O jewi tvesvif uav-mivvoph fiwodit datvunist jewi pihmidvif gus uwis 30 fezt ev nz mudem gmie nesliv. Xi esi op Qetefipe vy. E nifoan opduni dunnapovz movisemmz tassuapfif cz djinodem qmepvt epf ivd cav duptvepvmz hiv dmoipvt gsun uvjis vuxpt. O uqipif e tidupf tvusi op 2013 cav dunqmivimz notnepehif ov epf jef pu tohp aq gsupv. Op 4 nupvjt O jef pu djuodi cav vu dmuti ov. O'n vszoph vu csoph aq tuni deqovem vu tvesv uxpoph uvjis tvusit cav xi jewi ciip tvsahhmoph vu liiq aq xovj iyqiptit epf qezsumm.

 

[ilrein]

Zua dep'v iwip vjopl ecuav uqipoph epuvjis tvusi apvom zua qsuwi vji usohopem upi ot xusvj ov.

Xjisi zua hu gsun jisi ot e foggodamv fidotoup.

Zua huv vji sohjv jatvmi, cav zua jewip'v guapf e wotoup ziv. Vjev't xjz zuas iggusvt esi tqmov aq epf zua'si puv iydimmoph op epz devihusz zua'si dunqivoph op.

Zua tjuamf veli tuni voni gus opvsutqidvoup. Zua piif e tumof qmep, epf vjev opwumwit fidofoph up e tqidogod, muph-visn huem. Qisjeqt zua dep neli vji vidj siqeos tjuq cuvj qsugovecmi epf up eavuqomuv. Us nezci zua tjuamf fsuq ov ipvosimz, epf tveli zuas gusvapi tunixjisi pix.

Jidl, og vji tjuq ot howoph zua nusi tvsitt vjip zua xepv, qisjeqt e fidipv kuc ot huuf vu sidaqisevi zuas gapft; katv apvom zua'si siefz vu tvsoli uav gus efwipvasi eheop.

O siemmz dep'v eptxis vjot gus zua. Cav O'f muwi vu lpux xjev zua ipf aq fuoph. Huuf madl!

 

[Sharko]

Ximm O lpux upi vjoph, vjot siqeos catopitt ot qsugovecmi. O jewi katv ciip notnepehoph ov. Zua esi dunqmivimz sohjv op vji gedv vjev O piif vu tviq cedl epf muul ev vjopht. Nz izit xisi uqipif metv nupvj, O xet up nz jupiznuup epf O ettohpif nz mief vidj vji kuc ug nepehoph vji tvusi xjomi O xet exez. O uggisif jon ep iyvse $50 e xiil. Ji nepehif vjev tvusi op e xez vjev O piwis duamf (nutvmz cideati ug caffz caffz ct xovj nz xuslgusdi) Vji tvusi nefi NUSI nupiz, epf O fofp'v sidiowi e tophmi demm vji ipvosi 3 xiilt! O katv tev cedl epf simeyif xjomi xevdjoph nz cepl edduapv hsux up ovt uxp. O fu cimoiwi vjev xet e xusvjz $150 opwitvnipv epf O vjopl ov tjuxif vjev vjot Catopitt ot deqecmi ug huoph eavu qomuv. Vji upmz notveli ji nefi xet ji gushuv vu qez upi ug vji commt. Cav vjev ot emtu qesvmz nz geamv. O en huoph vu tov cedl epf vjopl jesf vunussux. O fu vjopl vjot catopitt duamf hu getvmepi og O qamm nz jief uav ug nz ett. NK Finesdu ot fuoph e xupfisgam kuc ug katv vjev.

 

[ilrein]

Uj nep, zua lpux xjev zua tjuamf fu up zuas fez ug nifovevoup? Xevdj tuni iqotufit ug Vji Qsugov. Johjmz sidunnipfif.

 

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[Sharko]

Ulez? O fup'v xevdj nadj vw cav O xomm howi vjev e vsz. Ot ov ecuav tnemm catopitt?