Originally Posted by Ed Bundy consider yourself blessed that you have friends who made it ...you will have a much easier time getting to where you want to be when you are surrounded by millionaires and people who made it
my "friends" are mostly losers who dont even have cars, let alone millionaires...and its not the fact that theyre not rich, but its the fact that they never even attempted a business. theyre the typical go to college and get the 9-5 gig, smoke and drink at the club on weekends type...i wish i was surrounded by like minded creative people who were willing to take risks...its hard being alone |
Originally Posted by WeezyWayne @Ed Bundy - I wasn't always surrounded by people like this. 95% of the people I've encountered in my life are like you mentioned. I actively sought out different people and it took me a couple of years to change it. Get new friends man, you're the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with. I didn't start hanging out with millionaires, I started hanging out with people who had drive and determination and over the course of a couple of years, that got them success.
Do whatever you have to, search on craigslist for a finance group or a group of motivated people or business group or something. that's a start. |
Friends with determination are hard to find i recently gave up on finding them i dont need them in my eyes, most of my friends will talk about "making it in life" but never take any action, they rather play xbox, smoke weed to relieve stress and complain, never any action what so ever. I also see the trend in the classroom about people in general who just want to take the school route and go straight into a 9-5, party on weekends, smoke weed with the homies, chase !!es, i'm like a outcast compared to them i rather focus on creating my own path to success then waste it being fixed to another company on a salary that won't even keep me satisfied to live my life. I even got 1 friend who says he's majoring in engineering for a B.S then get a masters for he can get rich, me personally i think its the dumbest idea ever but hey thats what school teaches you, makes you think getting the highest degree is going to get you rich when you don't get rich working for somebody else all day and especially throwin money back into the system continuously(unless ur getting a free education do you). Then i got this other friend he shoots down everything and think's everything is "hard". I believe "everything is hard until its easy". basically everything is hard until you actually try it, learn it, master it and repeat the process. Programming is foreign to me but im reading it, im willing to learn it, im a master it. I remember listening to "Eric Thomas" motivational speech, i enjoyed how he said "your bad at math because you don't try hard enough" i personally think he's right, i suck at math i actually use to be top in the class at it till i stop gaf and the reason why i suck is just because of that, "i dont want it bad enough, im not even trying" to get good at it.
Originally Posted by WeezyWayne My two other friends started a website called, "Brotips" a year ago, it now generates a few million hits a MONTH. One is 17 and the other is 21. Because of the mass popularity, they now got a book deal and a condom endorsement. Goals are not crazy. I've seen this time and time again and there's a commonality between all of these successful people. I want to share it with everyone while I pursue it. I think that we can all attain the wealth we desire.
I just want to note that I'm not doing this for fancy cars or nice houses guys, I'm doing this for FREEDOM. no more 9-5 grind, travel when I want, be around higher quality woman, retire my mom, treat friends to vacations and cool events. Do things because I want to do them, not because I need to for money. |
I feel you on the "Freedom". Even though you say you dont do it for the fancy cars and nice houses in my eyes thats "freedom".I personally don't do it for stuff like Ferrari's and Lamborghini's because i think thats uncalled for imo lol. All i want in my life is the BMW, a condo, vacations, just being able to experience and reach certain destinations in life, and the higher quality women like you said and to be around like minded individuals. Just being able to afford those nice things to me is freedom and not have to scramble on "how im a pay ____ by this certain deadline and etc. Just looking at my parent situations, there not able to do none of that unless they want to get fired and thats why im just not the 9-5 type. I rather do my own thing then take orders, i like the challenge, it's too easy getting a job and it's too easy going to school and i hate not being in charge.
I really think your environment plays a role in how successful you are and your surroundings. Sometimes i browse the net just to see who else is out there like myself. It's some people out there who were smart enough to create businesses at 13 and lower. There's also kids out there who started working at age 15 to get that sports car at age 18-19 i wish i had that mindset at that age because things would def be different and i would of had more of what i wanted by now but i didn't develop the mindset till 18 and apply it at 19. I think playing video games is what kept me from developing the mindset earlier, entertainment is such a distraction.
Everything im driving i observe my surroundings, i see the thugs on the corner i see the man who uses public transportation to get around and i always like to wonder whats the difference between me driving this car and the man who takes the bus? Was i more fortunate? Was he born in the projects and i wasn't? Even if he was he,could of still gotten out of his situation and better himself but he chose not to, failure isn't an option. Or whats the difference between the 50 year old Caucasian women in the 87 ford escort and the 30 year old black women in the 04 lexus/bmw? Just stuff to wonder about, i see it everyday.
What alot of people dont understand is that it is so much money to make out there. I plan on launching my website by March(I already brought the domain name), the internet to me is a gold mine if you utilize it correctly and these people on social networks are tools. I've made 500$ in a week off mylikes doing PPC before they found out i was milkin it lol. Then i do cashcrate on the side for the extra cash im trying to learn more about Affiliate marketing for i can put it into my website once i launch it. Other then that i do the "acting" thing thats all i really want to do and im a make it happen.
Anybody ever heard of Andrew fashion? (how he got rich and lost it) Reading his story gives me alot of motivation, hes extremely driven, dude doesnt sleep, basically he made 2.5 million in a couple months before he went broke spending it on non sense but now he makes about 20-30k a month off affiliated marketing trying to get back to a million again.
I believe you only get 1 life & its to short to not live it to it's full potential. Do what you want thats going to make you happy, Good Luck @WeezyWayne hope you make that million before your 25.
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