I have a bunch of money that I want to use to start a business...

[styledoesmatter]

I would take the money, and I would travel for a year. See 40 countries. Go to Asia. To Africa. To South America. To Australia.

When you come back, you will know what you want to do.

And you'll be a lot wiser for it.

Push your horizons out.

Start watching around 8.00 or so, the first bit might not be interesting to you.

Ross Beaty - Casey Clubhouse Reception - YouTube

This is the best advice you could ever get...don't ignore it.

The best thing I ever did in my life was travel long-term. No, it doesn't help your business directly, but it's the best life ROI you're going to get.

The confidence I get from traveling translates directly to my business. I've been dropped into rural villages in China where no one speaks English and canoed in crocodile infested waters in Vietnam...do you think I'm going to be intimidated by a potential client? Please.

Take at LEAST a few months somewhere to travel and THEN come back to this. You'll probably find that you have a fresh new prospective and a laundry list of awesome stories from your time abroad.

 

[guerilla]

I think it's because they love the money, and not the activity that leads to it.

I don't even think it is because people love money, but because they never had to explore any concept of values for themselves (public school and mainstream society is designed to project values onto you, like going to college for a degree you don't care about, or mindlessly buying products featured on TV).

That was why I suggested the trip. Get away from what you know, and challenge yourself to experience something new. Perspective is invaluable.

We live in the west. The West hasn't been truly dynamic in maybe, 80 years, outside of nearly all of our lifetimes.

Small side-story here. I moved to NZ for a couple years in the early 90s. They had better technology, and a cleaner country than we had, and yet in North America, it's implicitly and explicitly reinforced that we have the best and most modern society. And yet here I am in a small country where 3 million people are outnumbered by 15 million sheep, and everything is more modern, thoughtful etc than it was back home.

It's realizations like that, which challenge your fundamental beliefs, and force you to reconsider your worldview that make you a smarter person. Anyone can believe, not everyone can or does think. And if you look at the successful people in business, they don't tend to come from the shallow end of society.

 

[kanjimanji]

Ok here's my theory: as soon as you monetize your passion, it cease to inspire you. Passion and getting paid are inversely related things. So the better you become in something that also brings you money, the less you enjoy it. Until the tipping point, that is, where you can afford to hire people to manage it for you. But by that time the passion would be long goan.

 

[JoseArmando]

But I can't decide what to do. I'm not passionate about anything...

I'm planning on quitting my job next week, so I can give it 100% of my focus, whatever it is.

I keep going back in forth in my head. Do I want to spend 6 months designing a physical product? Do I want to make mobile apps? Do I want to buy a a franchise? Do I want to invest in rental properties? Do I want to give affiliate marketing a shot again? Nothing seems that appealing.

I have two engineering degrees, but don't have enough real-life experience to really utilize them. Besides, engineering doesn't excite me anymore.

I just want to find something that will reward me for my efforts, not necessarily the risk I take.

So what did you do then? It's been a while since you posted this

 

[FerrisHilton]

So what did you do then? It's been a while since you posted this

wtf. avatar confusing me coz its someone elses. Can we please have Newt Gingrich back and I SEE $$$$

 

[impulse8]

Start making passive income. Set up some websites, niche sites, or go into mobile apps/kindle apps. it may seem over saturated, but it's not.

 

[seohug]

You are lost. You can't make decisions when you don't know what you want. Take some time off, but don't leave work. If that doesn't help, take some more time off.

 

[Fatbat]

Y'all are posting in an ancient thread.

Someone should get banned for this shit.

 

[coolmastr]

But I can't decide what to do. I'm not passionate about anything...

I'm planning on quitting my job next week, so I can give it 100% of my focus, whatever it is.

I keep going back in forth in my head. Do I want to spend 6 months designing a physical product? Do I want to make mobile apps? Do I want to buy a a franchise? Do I want to invest in rental properties? Do I want to give affiliate marketing a shot again? Nothing seems that appealing.

I have two engineering degrees, but don't have enough real-life experience to really utilize them. Besides, engineering doesn't excite me anymore.

I just want to find something that will reward me for my efforts, not necessarily the risk I take.

Considering the above quote, why start a business? What about investing?

 

[kingofsp]

Yes... Coincidentally, my last business started to fail as soon as we got into a relationship.

Hopefully you learned something from that.

You can't let anyone stifle you if you want to be successful. And if you're worried about not having enough time/attention to give to some girl then she's probably not that cool anyway.

The way I see it, the best thing you can do is build the holy hell out of your business and make piles of money to free up your time. Your time is so dang valuable. A lot of people seem to forget this.

That way when some 20 year old college girl texts you asking you what you're doing because she decided to ditch class and watch Gossip Girl all day and she's "bored", you can just head right over instead of the poor guy who is like "I get off at 6, wanna hang out then?"

But, you know, go back to grinding when you're done with all that.

 

[kingofsp]

Y'all are posting in an ancient thread.

That was fate's way of extracting my brilliant previous post from my brain and sharing it with all of you.

 

[FerrisHilton]

That way when some 20 year old college girl texts you asking you what you're doing because she decided to ditch class and watch Gossip Girl all day and she's "bored", you can just head right over instead of the poor guy who is like "I get off at 6, wanna hang out then?"

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Gossip Girl was cancelled.

 

[blackpepper]

Very well said. I totally agree.

But you do need some kind of passion/fire to make things work for you - be it freeing up time, making money, enjoying a lifestyle where you are not answerable to anyone.. ?

Hopefully you learned something from that.

You can't let anyone stifle you if you want to be successful. And if you're worried about not having enough time/attention to give to some girl then she's probably not that cool anyway.

The way I see it, the best thing you can do is build the holy hell out of your business and make piles of money to free up your time. Your time is so dang valuable. A lot of people seem to forget this.

That way when some 20 year old college girl texts you asking you what you're doing because she decided to ditch class and watch Gossip Girl all day and she's "bored", you can just head right over instead of the poor guy who is like "I get off at 6, wanna hang out then?"

But, you know, go back to grinding when you're done with all that.

 

[O Marina]

a good relationship with a woman might help really well i suppose..... nonetheless i'm not competent in relationships, soo was interesting to know

I agree with you about the right relationship only helps you overall.
If you have 2 people working towards the same goals. Team.