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Thet - I am excited to see where this thread has gone and I am completely stoked for you at this moment! Why? Because I believe you are at an important moment in your life where you can choose to go one of two ways:

1) You can decide to become more. To be better. To achieve your goals and ambitions.
2) You can decide to be like everyone else and complain about your circumstances and life and never become anything. If you are afraid of looking back over your life with regret, THIS is how you do that.

Option 1 is so much better! "Don't wish things were easier - Wish you were better." It seems you are legitimately open to that idea.

Let's choose option 1.

You have made some great points in this post. Except for the last sentence. The last sentence is utter BS and head trash that you need to get rid of.

You can't tell me that janitor is stuck. There are just too many millions of people who have come from abject poverty, abuse, gangs, prison etc...and have risen to be wonderfully successful in every way. You can't make that argument with me here in front of these intelligent people.

Say he works 8 hours a day, 5 days per week. What does he do with all that other time? If he has been doing this for 20 years - my GOD! What has he been doing?????

If he only spent 1 hour per day learning something for 20 years - he could be a brain surgeon by now! What about his weekends? You telling me he couldn't have learned how to do any other job and made the switch?? He couldn't learn how to be an auto-mechanic and changed careers? After becoming a mechanic he couldn't learn about being a leader and become a manager at a larger shop? After that he couldn't learn about business and open his own shop? After that he couldn't learn about finance and opened many shops??? He's not a millionaire because he CHOSE not to be and wasted his life as a janitor. He went home at night, drank a beer and sat around.

The truth is, you know that attitude is wrong. This is a wrong belief you have in your mind that is holding you back.

I could tell you one bad story after another about my life. I used to tell everyone who would listen. "Oh whoa is me, poor me, look at everything I have been through." Eventually I realized that as long as I identified with victims, I would always be a victim. I immediately started working to eliminate all that from my way of thinking. After all, I want to make sure I never end up there again, so why ever think about it?

Great. Awesome goal. A worthy goal.

I want you to entertain the idea that right now, you ARE CEO. You are CEO of your own life. You are already self-employed. Every person in the world makes the choice of where they will sell their labor.

You are CEO of your life, and you are choosing to sell your labor to your current company.

If you run your own business, you will still be CEO of your life, and will be choosing to sell your labor to your customers. It IS NOT DIFFERENT.

Your current company enforces standards upon you because that is what it takes to succeed. If you try to run your own company without those standards - you will fail.

If the enforced standards bother you - it means you still do not know how to work correctly.

You must learn how to work so hard that the standards no longer matter. They no longer need to be enforced. You exceed them in every way. If you exceed them - no external enforcement is necessary.

Your internal standards are what drive success. If your internal standards are below what is necessary to succeed - the company will have to push you.

If your internal standards exceed the company standards - you will never hear a complaint from them again.

You need to raise your standards and begin to work like a CEO - because you are!

This is true with every line of work - no matter what it is. The CEO of Google does the same things every day. Jeff Bezos does the same things every day. Richard Branson does the same things every day.

This is about HABIT. Our habits drive our success. Stop looking for the work actions to be fulfilling - they never will. Instead - make the goals more fulfilling.

Success is never reached in a giant leap forward. It is reached one boring task at a time. Discipline. Habit. Repetitive motion.

Failure is reached the same way - one choice at a time.

How many hours a day do you think the home-run king spends in the batting cage doing the same thing over and over? As many as it takes - that's how much. He isn't worried about having fun swinging a bat - he considers it fun to be the home-run king.

How many hours of coding per day do you think the best programmers spend learning new things? As many as it takes. Typing the same boring shit every day. It isn't the coding that is fun, it's the result of being the best that they enjoy.

How many hours per day do the best musicians spend practicing? As many as it takes. Playing the same boring (to them) songs. For years. Over and over. They don't get fun from practicing - they consider it fun to reach the goal of being successful.

Prospecting is a damn valuable skill. Set goals that you will achieve with prospecting. Then chase them! One small discipline at a time. Everyday. Success is a process reached through hours of boredom and repetitive work.



Geez man you're killing me with this sad story stuff. I could make you cry with some of mine. So what?

The truth is, if you don't see any "next step" opportunities - it is because you have not maximised the current opportunity that you have.

You need to be so good at what you do, that you cannot be ignored. When you are at the top of your game, kicking ass every day, you get noticed. Opportunity shows up.

Opportunity NEVER knocks until you are ready. Well, that isn't true. The opportunities are always there, we just can't see them until we are ready.

The only way to be ready to take advantage of opportunity - is to always strive to be the very best we can be.

Have you reached your full potential as a prospector? Are you as good as you will ever be? Are there things you could do to be better? Start doing them. This is the key to your next opportunity.

Just like everyone else, you have a rhythm to your day. Each day looks like the other. No matter how successful you become, this will not change. The key is to build habits into your day that will support your goals.

I'm up at 5am EVERY day. 7 days a week.
By 510 I am meditating for 20 minutes.
At 530 I make a cup of coffee for my wife and take it up to her in bed. I wake her up, give her hugs and kisses for a few minutes, and tell her how much I love her. Just another habit that supports something important in my life.
By 540 I am in the basement working out. While I work out, I am playing videos and audios that inspire or educate me in the things I want.
By 645 I am up in my office writing in my journal. My journal is a yellow pad. On the page is my list of my life goals. There are 14 on there right now. I write them every single day, twice per day. If it comes between me and someone else who doesn't write their goals, who will get it? Me that's who. Why? Because I am absolutely focused on reaching the goals.
By 655 I am in the shower - I am listening to more empowering, motivating, and educating audio while showering.
By 8am I am working. The same things every day. I get distracted sometimes, sure. Like now, I should be doing something else. But that is OK because I am human and I know my goals will keep me on track. The time I spent typing this probably cost me $500. Damn, now I am going back to work!

You will ALWAYS do the same things every day. The rest of your life. They key is build things into your life that support where you want to go. You will always have to work. Make sure you know what you are working towards, and do things that support that goal.

In the evening I hang out with my family more. Then, I make one last trip to the office, write my goals again, and am in bed by 9. Why? Because I have an obligation to the world to reach my goals. My family needs me to reach them. I am duty bound to my ancestors who suffered so much - if I waste my life and never reach the goals I have set - I am failing them.

Reaching my goals is my absolute obligation and the temptation to be lazy will never be more important. My daily standards are in concrete. If I miss them, I consider it an total failure. Because failure is never something that happens suddenly. It happens one bad decision at a time. So I hold myself accountable to the goals and standards.

Now, go ahead and ask me if I have opportunites. And if I have opportunities and others are competing against me, who do you think will win? I will. I choose to win for the rest of my life. I work harder and prepare more. I feel pity for anyone who tries to take an opportunity from me because unless they work as hard as I do, they will lose. Maybe they could get lucky, but depending on luck is a bad way to live.

In the military we said "The more you sweat, the less you bleed."

In the other thread you referenced, I talk about how our lives are the result of the quality of our thinking. We become what we think about. Where you are is due to your past thoughts.

If you don't like where you are, you must know that you need to change your thoughts.

Thet - if you focus 100% on sales and become a master sales guy - best there ever was - you will have so much money and success that you forget about your side projects.

Not only that, but the habits you will need to develop to become the best, will drive you to ultimate success.

Becoming the best at what you are doing will impact your life in so many ways besides money. Until you learn to be the best, everything you do will be unfulfilling and boring.

Look at your own example of jumping from job to job, never mastering any. You have been letting yourself down. You expect the job to make you better. IT WILL NOT. YOU MUST DO THAT.

You can either decide to break this habit in your life and learn to truly become competent, or you can decide that you will continue repeating the patterns you have experienced so far. It is totally up to you.

Look at the last 5 years of your life. Do you want the next 5 years to be the same?

If not, what do you have to change? If you don't change, the next 5 will be just like the last 5.

If you will change, 5 years from now you can be fantastically successful.

Its your choice.

Thet,

There is a bit of a catch 22 going on here. you want more from life... but you have obligations. You have a Job... your time is consumed. you have no capital, but you want out. but you cant because you have a job and obligations.

I am going to share a bit about myself here. I am 46 years old. Grew up Upper middleclass. Had NOTHING given to me. I had my first job when I was 8 yrs old breaking down cardboard at a local grocery store. by the age of 10, I was doing that for 10 stores and making $100 a week. At the age of 13 I asked my stepfather to borrow $1.25 to make a $1000 purchase. It turned into a 2 hour "discussion" and he ended up not giving it to me. I went out to his car and took it from his ashtray ( and later put it back ) - that $1000 purchase turned into $5000 4 hours later. At 16 I was buying and selling rebranded ( Bell and Howell ) Apple II+ Computers. In the order of 10 a week.

At 18 I had my first car. It was brand new off the showroom floor - paid CASH for it. I Drove cross country to attend college. I completed a 4 year degree in just under 3 years, at MIT. I worked and paid for the education myself. I have in my entire life worked 3 yrs 225 days an employee to someone else.

I challenge you to read: http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...questions.html Do some background work on the OP. Read is prior posts on the warrior Forum... read his writing on his Portfolio page. and then look at what has taken place in the matter of 6 days.

Im not at all trying to beat up on you here, I am not trying to be some snobbish SOB, that has had everything go right in his life... I have without question had my ups and downs. Penthouses, to homeless brother... and I enjoyed life the most homeless.

Money is NOT an answer, at best it is a variable. HAPPINESS is an answer.

My life right now, I work way to many hours a day, I have a 5 year old that is the best thing to ever happen to me... im happy with what I do, and whom I chose to hang around ( my son mostly ).

so the question is.. what could you be doing that would make you HAPPY? How can you provide for your obligations and be happy at the same time? How can you turn Bitter into Better? Jarod B is doing it.. why not you?

Read it 6 times already

Now I just need the patience to actually do it, day after day, year in year out

I can understand you do not want to reinvent the wheel, and that is good, But there are two types of people, those that lead and those that follow, now a person who follows asks questions like what do I do next, they really never stop to work anything out for themselves, these people work for bosses, they roll up to work and it is in their nature to wait and be instructed to what to do by the boss, or ask what do I need to do next. / You have the picture.

Often People indicate that they want to be the Leader, and that is great, but then all they do is revert back to making noises or excuses that are common with a follower not that of a leader.

To make the transition people need to start making the choices of a Leader and that includes learning to think your own way through problems and unless they can get that move down, they will keep spinning your wheels in follow mode and will continue to try and reinvent the wheel to bridge the gap from follower to leader.

You may even surprise yourself and dont stress if you get a few things wrong along the way, it is part of the journey ?

Most People will just keep coming back asking more and more questions but always finding a reason not to move on and remain in the follower rut for life. People who cry leader and have all of the aspirations and good intentions in the world but remain a follower are dime a dozen.

Great - you feel the urgency - but YOU HAVE NO GOAL - you only have a wish - and therefore cannot get anywhere!

Make more money is not a goal. A goal is this:

I have made $300,000 in one year.
I have increased my Real Estate portfolio holdings by $4million.
I have taken my mother on a great vacation.
I have saved one year of cash, food, and energy.

Notice how they are written in the past tense - as if they already happened. They are clear.

Those are goals. You need to get some before you can make any real progress!

Thet,

Dan Is pointing out that the entry of the idea that it is unrealistic is self defeating. and no, it really isn't unrealistic. as far as skill level, this week alone, you have shown added skill in newsletter writing.. what's it going to be next week?

You simply cant base future expectations on current conditions. things WILL change.. they have to.. as you change your MIND.. your current conditions will change accordingly.

No, it is not weird. You are 100% correct in your thinking.

In fact, what you are thinking is downright normal.

And your experience will play out exactly as you believe it will.

And my experience will play out exactly how I believe it will.

As I said above - the only thing that is really impossible is for someone to do something they do not believe they can do.

Nothing is 100% - But, what if you did believe you could do it. How much more likely are you to hit your goal?

If you don't believe you can, you have 0% chance.

Let's pretend if you would believe you could, make a plan, and work hard, that you have a 25% chance of making it.

Isn't a 25% chance better than 0 chance?

Let's say you make your plan, and you work your ass off, what % chance do you have to reach your goal in year 2?

50% maybe?

If you don't believe you can, make a plan, and work your ass off, in year two you will still have 0% chance.

50% is better than 0%.

What about year 3?

I would lay $1,000 on it. If you truly believe you can, you make a plan, and work your ass off, that by year 3 you'd hit your goal.

If you never believe you can, make a plan, and work your ass off, you will never hit any goal.

So let's imagine your life 3 years from now. Will you still be doing what you are doing? Wish you had more?

Maybe you had some raises by then. But, which scenario is better?

Under which situation will you be farther ahead and closer to your ideal life? Should you believe, plan, and work or not?

I would bet another $1,000 - that if you truly saw your own potential, you would believe you could double your income this year.

Once you get your head right, you realize literally nothing is impossible. You realize that you are NOT stuck in this position you are in. The whole world is open to you.

There are 7 billion people - and many of them will double their income this year. It is happening all around you. Only you can keep you where you are.

I don't really know you - and I have more faith in you than you do in yourself. But as I said, it is impossible to do what you do not believe you can do.

If you do not believe you can do something, your level of action will not be correct.

If you believe you can't - you will act accordingly, and prove yourself to be correct.

If you believe you can - you will act accordingly, and prove yourself to be correct.

Think of the last time you were going for a new max clean and jerk or a new PR on the snatch. There comes a point where you must KNOW you can do a certain weight, and no matter how hard you must try, you will put your 100% effort, even more than 100%, and you get it done. Or, you don't get it done that day, and you train like a maniac for a few weeks, and then it happens.

If you never believe you can hit the PR, train like a maniac, and then put in 100% - you will never hit the PR.

Sometimes I have even wondered if I was about to injure myself. But, it didn't matter, I KNEW I could jerk that much weight. So I WENT ALL IN and got it done.

It is exactly the same with every single aspect of your life.

He great thinking. However, we are that team. We have 12 people. Mostly sales reps.


We just put all those processes in place, just before I got in the company.

Yes there is definitely victim speech in your posts.

It's not about positivity. Personally, I am trying to push you over the edge. You do not yet fully believe that you are 100% responsible for where you are, and therefor 100% responsible for where you will go. The only limits exist in our minds and are self-imposed.

Every single aspect of your life is the result of your past thoughts, beliefs, and actions. You had an idea, believed you could do it, and so you acted.

You thought about getting a girl, you believed you could, and so you acted on it.

You thought about having your job, believed you could, and you acted on it.

You thought about having your car, apartment/house, clothes - believed you could, and acted on it.

If this is true, then you can take absolute control of your future by deciding what you will think, believe, and act.

We become what we think about. If we can believe it, then set about doing it, we will have it.

What says you can't double your income???? WHO SAYS???? WHO IS SAYING THAT?

Is there some physical law that says thet can't make $50k? No!

WHO IS SAYING YOU CANNOT MAKE $50K????

I agree with you - I just can't get over the victim mentality so I'm making it clear that there are things that are not being admitted or faced.

Not saying this is thet - but some people go their whole lives feeling robbed and blaming others.

The biggest tragedy is that they don't know they are robbing themselves.

It's a bit funny to me (really very sad) that someone in an awesome, prosperous, developed nation like Germany feels limited to $25k a year.

I mean, he's been very honest here, but really - it's just a damn shame.

Anyone who can get on the phone everyday and prospect should make $100k MINIMUM.

He is obviously a very intelligent guy, and is just ignoring reality.

Going to W A Y agree with UMC here. Thet... Your world will not be corrected and conquered in a day. You need to let the messages of change marinate < I know its marinade - southerners say it with a T > for a bit. take them in, and self evaluate. In your own time, Truth will be seen as true.

Much like the movie Karate Kid. wax on wax off. Made no sense to the young man, how that was preparing him to be the best he could be. All he was seeing was that he was washing cars. In your case, its not what the information is looking like TODAY, it will be how it is applied TOMOROW that will count.

It is extremely easy to sit from the outside looking in and make the observations, and see what it is in a persons life that needs to be changed. But it is the person that sits in that reality, that has to see it and not us.

There is another person just a few threads over... as plain as day, I could see the route to making the Journey shorter. and the shorter Journey was offered. But they to are on a unwavering path. They are seeing what they have to do, and are not budging from those objectives. And that's great. There isnt and will never be anything wrong with conviction and staying steady towards a goal.

I know for myself in regards to YOU, and I believe many others here. We are saying let loose the blinders a bit. and see the whole picture from time to time. See the choices that may present themselves, and don't instantly shut them down, because they don't fit your model - your progression of goals.

There are literally MILLIONS of plausible choices for you, and right now you have simply set just ONE of those in motion.

OP's Line - What kind of business can be started with zero capital with the potential to build a company that gets costumers and make profit?

Human capital, comes before Financial capital.

You can have Zero dollars, and start a business.

Leverage partnerships, JV's, Ind. contractor, employee duties, find a new job with the long term (1 month- on),
to bank money), become an intern with a business you want to get into, etc..,
and then go and do your own business.

as Thet and UMC have shown, they are braver than me, and I would conclude their
personal assets are more valuable that money in the bank

Depending on your age, certain things become easier. Moderation is a choice. For example, with sport I give myself a minimum of 3 times a week. If it's more, fine, but 3 is the number.

Internet, I do less and less. However, here also comes some hyperdrive. I am active now at WF, but I can see it happen I won't be posting if this thread ends for 6 months to go in hyperdrive again.

However, being aware is the most important aspect. I already decided with WF that I am going to work towards a point where I use it to get advice on ACTION points. Less bla bla, more action.

Ive cut out social media, news, blogs etc for those hyperdrive reasons. To much discraction. Hard to control.

Work is the biggest challenge. I now I have some cool things ahead that will make a change for the better in my career. But now, I am still cold calling day in, day out. Its a means to an end. And I am terrible at that.