Brah what business field to go in these days? (e.g. eCommerce)

eCommerce is a legit way to make great money. I havent officially made money yet, so I'm speaking a little outside my circle of knowledge. I personally know people making very good money because they identified a trend and branded early. Low start up cost, just sourced some cheap stuff from china and sold online for crazy margins. One of his best sellers is $18., he buys it for .25 per unit. It took him 4 years to find the hit, until he found the trend he was making a little here and there but nothing substantial.

What kinda life do you want? What are your skills? What do you care about? What do you like to do?

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IDK brahs. I've tried to be positive, but it hasn't really paid off. i consider myself mostly realistic. I try not to be too negative about things, but I evaluate the situation as it is. It's kept me going. I haven't achieved my dreams, but I'm not dead at least .

Looks like youre on the right path to me. Just keep your mind sharp and take some time to review why you do what you do.

Nobody can tell you what industry to get into, you have to check em out and pick the one that will give you the life you're after. Software sales is big $$$, so is programming to a lesser extent. My cousin just started working software sales and one guy at her company made 1.5 mil in commission in 2 months. I'm actually looking into this as a possible career move.

Thanks brah, I can resonate with what you have done, but im still just getting started

What do you mean by software sales? And do they own their business or work for others?

Software sales is just selling software. For example, One company makes a medical or banking software that is better than the others for whatever reason, and the salesman tries to sell the banks or hospital the software his company makes. These software purchases can be hyooge when implented in a large chain nationwide, you're talking thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of licenses in one software. Premium software can be well over $100 per license. If the salesman gets 20% commision, thats a LOT of money in their pocket. Im sure a software salesman will be able to correct me where I'm wrong, I dont know much about that industry.
Can be freelance or can be employed as far as I know. But unless they developed the software or hired the developer, theyd technically be working for others in some aspect. The guy who made 1.5 mil in commission in 2 months gave up his salary to be able to work when he wants, how he wants, from wherever he wants. He's pure commission now, selling as much or as little as he wants. But until this year he was a 40+ hour a week employee at a desk or at meetings.

The life I want is typical, get a hbb wife, make chit loads of $$$ with various businesses, success, wealth, money, power, luxury, significance, freedom, happiness, wealth, love. Pretty much everything.

My skills are primarily programming, both web and software. Bit versatile and rounded elsewhere, but thats my main strength

What do you mean what do I care about? Things that benefit me I guess as a priority, then everything else

I like to come up with loads of ideas for anything, my mind doesn't stop.


Heres what I've been doing so far:

-The past month I have been writing a diary, pretty much a todolist of every day, with hours assigned, to help me get on track. I also have a diary
-Been reading for about 2 months now various books, on business, self improvement, motivation, psychology, etc
-Working on 2 business ideas, since I got no job prospects. I'm on "death grounds" so to speak, so its been helping me
-Been working on them since a few months ago, but only til last month have I been working on them full time, about 10 hours a day, because i finished uni exams
-First one is a consulting business for some web application im building. The scope is very high, and it will take me about another month or two to get most of the core features done, if I focus on it
-Second one is an ecommerce drop shipping website. Found a niche, but still talking to suppliers. Sent proposals to 16 suppliers, only 2 responded once, and 1 I am most likely to be dealing with, but he has gone NC on me recently.
-Which lead to me wasting the past 3 days (including today) doing nothing. I pretty much "binged on videogames", like a depressed person who got divorced binges on alcohol, since the manufacturer went NC for 3 days. I'm just starting to get into habit/routine/momentum again, and your post help me do that, even just a little
-These two "low cost" businesses are only means to an end. I do enjoy working on them, but it isn't my dream business. My dream business will take too long to setup, so I'm using these as stepping stones, so I can fund my dream business. Also its more risky, and has less potential to make big $$$ than the ones I am doing right now.

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OP how exactly do you commit to such a positive mind set srs? … I'm the most negative and and pessimistic person out there, always second guessing myself, never believe in my self - just a lot of self esteem issues.

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OP how exactly do you commit to such a positive mind set srs? … I'm the most negative and and pessimistic person out there, always second guessing myself, never believe in my self - just a lot of self esteem issues.

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And get rid of the negative people in your life and your life will significantly improve.

Short version:
I made a new years resolution to try "positive thinking" and my life has become what I was visualizing every day in less than a year. A lot of strange coincidences happened, and Im posting this to try to convince you guys to buy into this chit so we can all make it. Watch something motivational every morning, take some time to visualize what kind of life you want, and try to feel like you're already living it. It helps you stay on track and make decisions based on the larger goal.






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My mom goes on and on about the secret and the law of attraction and all that chit, but I've always thought it was stupid. I used to worry a lot and tended to expect the worst when things happened. I was pretty unhappy most of the time and my luck seemed to be terrible. Whenever I paid off something, a new random bill came in the mail. I hated my job, had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, I was lonely, and was anxious all the time. So I set a new years resolution last year to commit to maintaining a positive mindset.

Journal entry from December 31st 2015:

"Why is everything going to ****? What have I done to cause this? I mean, it must me my fault right? We control our lives right? I lift, I hit my macros, I read, I go to work, I'm nice to people, I dont spend money for no reason, yet here I am doing nothing on new years eve broke as **** feeling like ****. I dont get it. I even meditate why the hell do I feel like this all the time? Mom says I'm too negative and I'm gonna be miserable my whole life with this mindset. But she buys into the secret bull****. How is visualizing good things happening gonna change anything??? Makes no sense. IDK a lot of people buy into that ****. Maybe there is something to it. **** it, I dont have anything to believe in, why not just buy into this ****. If anything, it'll probably make me feel better. Ok so whats wrong with my life?
-I'm lonely
-I'm broke
-I have no idea what Im doing with my life
-I want to start some sort of business but I have no fukn clue what to do.
-I need to get my own place
-I need to get school back on track.
-I got laid two times all year.
-I barely see my friends
-I never meet people
-I'm anxious all the time
-My room and car are a mess
-I'm late to everything

Ok so approaching this from the positive visualization way, what do I want?
-Great gf or fun fukbuddies. Prolly not a gf, idk if I want that.
-Pay off debt
-Some sort of direction in life
-My own business/ some independent source of income
-Start going out more
-Chill da **** out.
-Get to places on time

Aright **** it, heres to 2016, year of delusional positivity".


Today
-ZERO DEBT
-Run a business
-Transferred out of Community college!
-amazing girlfriend
-Great group of friends, great social life
-Very rarely nervous or worried.
-Much closer to my family.



What I did

-Every single morning I watched some sort of motivational or uplifting video
-Listened to a lot of podcasts
-Read 49 books directly related to mindset, business, or other topics that interest me
-Glanced at a note in my iphone with quotes or reminders a few times a day

-10 minute worry journal. If something was bothering me, I set a 10 minute timer and wrote out what the issue was, what I could do to fix it, what I cant change, and why it upset me. When the timer went off, I forced it out of my mind. Every single problem I've had this year has had a simple action to take or habit to form, or was not worth worrying about.

-reminders went off on my phone every few hours that said "stay the course".

-Every night before bed, I'd review my day, and re-write a description of my life as I want it to be in the present tense. Usually left me feeling grateful and fired up.

-Whenever something struck my attention, I followed it.

-Whenever I thought I should work on something, I committed to it. Stupid example, I cant draw or write legibly. So at least once a day I'd start doodling, trying to draw perfect shapes and write the alphabet out as well as I could in print and in cursive. I used to be basically fluent in spanish, but I lost some of it. At work I started helping spanish speaking customers and my phone is in spanish. I read spanish wikipedia pages when I look chit up, and I'm pretty close to fluent again.




Coincidences

Two different times this year I got an unexpected bill I couldnt afford at the time in the mail. Instead of stressing, I put it in my folder and said "It'll work out one way or another". BOTH TIMES I got an unexpected check in the mail. One was a class action lawsuit from an old job I quit two years ago. Apparently they broke labor laws that year. That check was $32 more than the unexpected bill. The other time I got reimbursed for a membership I was never able to use. I meant to cancel, I guess I didnt, got billed for two years, and sent an email saying "hey, I meant to cancel this like two years ago, didnt realize I was still being billed. I guess I should pay more attention to my finances. Anyway, I cancelled through the website but just wanted to make sure the cancellation went through. Thanks". ~6 months later I got a check in the mail for the full amount of my two years of membership, which came out to something like $100 more than a medical bill that I wasnt expecting.


I was driving in my city, ran into a friend who had just come back from college. She yelled out to me: "HEYYYY PARK SOMEWHERE IM HAVING A GRAD PARTY!!" I parked, said hi, walked in to a family function. I get in line for the taco stand right behind this HBB. Happened to know her sister, we clicked immediately and talked most of the day. She left, I didnt get her number or anything. Literally the next day I stopped by a mall that I never go to to get my friend a birthday present, and she was in the store. Got her number, and for the last 6 months she has been the perfect girlfriend, there is nothing I dont like about her.

-Found a need in a market and decided to try to fill it. Posted that i was looking for an artist, within 5 minutes got a response. Saw some of his artwork and loved it. Crazy coincidence, this fukn guys hobby is the same as mine and he has big connections in the industry. He showed a sample to his friend, a very well known guy in the industry. The guy pre-ordered 50 units. 50 units per month was my one year goal. I was aiming to hit that by November 2017, but January 2017 is already set with 53 pre-orders.

i could go on and on, I kinda already have.



I cant believe how this year has been for me. 2016 has been the greatest year of my life so far, and the only thing I changed was deciding to buy into the law of attraction. I dont think theres some mystical force that attracts what you think about, I think its a psychological thing that helps you make better decisions and live every moment with the big picture in mind. It seems like you can look at the life you visualize everyday and compare your current behavior with that as the final goal. Whenever you're faced with a decision, you can choose based on what will bring you closer to that life.



As requested: Book list. Read all of em, 49 were from this year.



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Brahs who want to change their life, might be interested in this writing exercise…

positive thinking is not gonna work if you just start thinking positive, and it goes against your SELF. real change has to come from challenging and removing deep core beliefs about your limitations, not just the peripheral mantaras you state to yourself.

was going to purchase this after seeing the rogan podcast with this guy. was one of the best episodes ive watched, srs. have you started? if so, thoughts?

Why are you finding suppliers?