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(01-04-2015 03:56 PM)NonConformer Wrote: [ -> ]Guys, don't beat yourself up about the past.
"Coulda woulda shoulda... booo f.uckin' hooo" <--- stop that whiny shit
You can literally change your life in a single decision, so do that right now. Make a plan, take action and BE PERSISTENT. Don't let anyone or anything get in your way. F.uck em' all and no regrets, understand?
Many people here have your back and you know d.amn well I will call you out on your excuses so:
No distractions and no excuses!
No wishing, hoping, dreaming, thinking, talking, only DOING.
This is the road you need to get on and stay on:
Do not let ANYTHING get in your way. NOTHING!
(01-02-2015 12:00 PM)Quasar Wrote: [ -> ]Quasar drops one of the most valuable posts ever.
Thanks to NC for starting this thread!
Like most of his threads, he has posted some awesome info and resources. This one has been an interesting read and hits home with me on several levels too.
I have read all the posts and see a couple of people that will do some great things – and sadly, I also see most will continue doing what they’ve always done.
Most will stay in the mode of being a “perpetual student” and never do anything. They will never believe they know enough to move forward or get any farther than they are now. They will continue to hunt for that one gold nugget – that mythical tiny edge – they “think” they must have to just get started!
Anytime I see someone post about all the stuff they got in ANY of the threads here, and how much they learned last year – then stop – I know these aren’t the words of an action taker. It’s unlikely they’ve made their first dollar and others are rudderless ships that are making a few bucks, but they won’t grow beyond making small money.
Yeah, your posts tell me a lot about who you are and what you’ve done.
NC and I have one more thing in common I didn’t know. I have been homeless (and penniless) too. Surprised? Don’t be.
Bad things happen to people every day and overcoming adversity can enlighten you more than all the education in the world.
I have both fond and frightening recollections of that time. Divorce can do this to you, but that’s another story.
I am so thankful it happened to me. I walked away from a fortune I had made because staying in that golden cage was so distasteful and miserable – being poor and homeless was a far better alternative. I walked away from the land of platinum watches, Porches, a big home and all that kind of stuff.
And it was great for my soul. I knew I had done it once and could do it all again. Perhaps this explains why I don’t understand why anyone is unable to find a way to make money. It is just so ridiculously easy!
How many ways do you need to hear the same message?
It is all about taking action.
You have heard that axiom hundreds if not thousands of times so you know what you have to do. Nothing in this message will be any different.
One of the things I am most grateful for during that time was the immediate and overwhelming urgency to act. There was no time for talking about what I was GOING to do. If I didn’t make money, I didn’t eat that day or have money to travel the 1.8 miles to the back of the church.
I have vivid recollections of walking into a Walmart one day and having enough money to buy bread and peanut butter – but not the jelly. (Until I found peanut butter and grape jelly mixed in the same jar.) I can remember having to fight-off not just one street thug but 3-4 with my wits or fists or both – several times.
One day, I found a 6-foot length of industrial grade (and very hard and thick) PVC pipe and studied how to use it as a bo. You martial arts guys know what that is. (A lot of guys in the U.S. know this as the staff.) I sparred and beat the hell out of lots of trees, but also got very good with it.
One night, four young gang dudes came up to me while I was asleep and wanted to take the little bit of stuff I had. One of them even said to another:
“Let’s kill this dude!”
I was scared as hell and got out of my car and only said:
You guys will get me and kill me. Only, which two of you are willing to die to do it?
I was pretty sure then (and positive now) that I could have handled all four of them, but if I told them that, I might not be writing this now. The fight would have taken place and people (maybe me) would have died. I made them pause to think about the reality – and moving towards the uncertainty of which of them might die.
All I wanted was for them to back away. In the real world and in a real fight, you don’t think about hurting anyone – survival instincts kick-in and dictate you think only about how to kill as many and as fast as you can with lethal blows. (Those were the only kind I was thinking about too.)
I was gauging distances and movements needed to hit eye sockets, noses, throats – gruesome images to be sure. Fortunately for me and them, they walked away mumbling to themselves, and nothing happened.
They came back a few nights later and I was their best buddy. They offered me booze, grass – hell, one even offered me a “ride” in the back seat with one of their gansta’ gals.
To this day, I still get a great workout with a bo, and carry a real one made out of polished white oak everywhere I go. (I don’t like guns.) I have received great formal training from a world master since that time.
Anyway, I camped out and slept in my car behind a church and my new life began. I was close to a public library and used their PCs or my old laptop and got online and did what I knew I could. I only knew that I had to stir a mass of activity – activity that paid me – and fast!
Between a beat-up pay-per-minute flip phone and staying anyplace for as long as I could, I accessed the Net and sent email once or twice a day. I started my new mission, and stayed online only as long as it took to get work for the day.
This meant I spent more time offline than online, which proved to be a blessing. You never realize how much you DON’T accomplish while you are plugged in to the Internet. This is when I found out that productivity increases by hundreds of percentage points when you walk away from being hard-wired to the web.
I called my existing network of clients and prospected for new ones. I started writing content from inside of McDonald’s and other places like that – mostly because I could eat for a $1 a meal.
My immediate mission was to get to $1000 a week. I knew that once I got to that number, I could maneuver and get out of the situation I was in. It took a while – a trickle at first and later – I began to get as much business as I could handle.
I did it using the public library, McDonald’s – and while sleeping in my car behind a church. Don’t EVER tell me you can’t make money online and in any situation if you want it bad enough.
I got to over $50k in projected annual earnings sleeping in my car and using a f*cking McDonald’s as my office!
It got to the point that I knew everyone in the places I went to by first name and they knew me too. (Obviously!) They were incredibly curious about what the weird guy in the corner was doing from morning until closing – banging on his laptop the whole time and hardly looking up.
Yep, it took pounding on that keyboard all that time and eating lots of $1 hamburgers, but I got to my goal. (I even eventually graduated to doing this at Starbucks!)
I got to know the manager at that McDonald’s. His name was Al. I don’t know if you know what the head managers get at McDonald’s, but they get paid very well. Al was a super-smart guy from the Middle East somewhere. (I think he told me Morocco, but it wasn’t important.)
One day, he finally came over and asked me what I did. So I took a few minutes and showed him. He sat right next to this homeless guy and I showed him in real time how much, where and a little about how I did it. He acted kind of stunned, but the next day he came to me and asked me if I could show his out-of-work daughter how to do what I did.
His just out of MED SCHOOL and unemployed daughter!
I got lots of free hamburgers after that, but she makes well into six-figures a year now too!
I had lots of crazy (and scary) adventures and many really good stories I will remember forever from that time – but I hope you get the point. This experience was the best teacher I ever had.
It doesn’t take getting cute, knowing everything or being all things to all people. You need to take ONLY ONE thing you know how to do – and even if you’re penniless and homeless – you can make money.
I am willing to bet many of you are smarter and know more about the technical side of things than I do. As a few of you know, I don’t care about any of that shit!
I measure everything online and in business by the ROI. How much and how fast – I leave the other stuff to people that know it better.
In fact, the Internet allows you to make money even faster and easier because anyone can look like a big dog. You would be surprised at who is often behind that successful avatar that is selling you stuff, and has you convinced they are a superstar.
It’s all about action – it doesn’t matter how much you know or what you can do. I only knew how to do one thing at that time. I was 110% sure I could write content and especially – sales copy – like no other human alive.
Almost all those books NC has posted? I downloaded them during the day or checked them out at the library. I would read a lot of them for as long as my battery would hold-up at night.
I wrote in dozens of spiral notebooks about my thoughts and what I was going to do with all the gold in those books. Some of them I had already read, but I still read lots of the books and resources he has posted today and again, but the difference is:
I put everything I learned to work! I do not believe in wasted thought or action and neither should you.
Many of the richest and most successful people on earth came from dirt-poor beginnings to get to where they are. Just research people like Oprah, Madonna, 50 cent, LeBron James – lots of people in lots of places had adversity teach them that it only takes one thing and committing to it as if your life depended on it. (Sometimes, it does.)
Read what NC has posted for you to read – then stop talking and wandering around this forum or others like a lost puppy – action and the results are the only things you need to communicate to anybody!
Taking massive, imperfect action is the only consideration that should be on your mind in 2015 or any year!
All the learning you think will make you money, the slick software, graphics, shiny new toys, quickie methods – and most especially – being in “perpetual student” mode – will only keep you poor!
If I can do it – twice – with almost nothing – there is not one of you can tell me you cannot do the same or better than me – at least once.
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