My Life Defining Moment & Motivation / What's Yours?

For me, it was when I was 16 years old and wanted my first car. My dad makes decent money so I was just sort of expecting him to buy me one or at least pay for half. He told me I was going to have to get a full time job and he'd pitch in a thousand bucks. Problem was... I didn't want a job and a thousand bucks wasn't even close to the amount I needed to get the BMW I wanted. That was what made me look for ways to make more money than I could with a regular job. Which I then stumbled upon affiliate marketing and the rest is history.

One of my biggest motivations though was whenever I showed people the car I wanted...friends, family, etc... they always said something like... "yeah keep dreaming...you'll never have that" or "that's not practical". Almost everyone would tell me it's just "not practical". Nothing pisses me off more than to hear someone tell me it's not practical. I don't know why, I just fucking hate that word.

So basically I got started in this game to prove people wrong and show them that I CAN get the car I wanted, regardless of what 99% of people were telling me. About 6 months into affiliate marketing I was able to get the exact car I wanted. Here it is...

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Since I bought the car (well over a year ago) my motivation has completely changed. Right now I'm focused on making enough to build my dream home and all kinds of other things. Nothing that has to do with cars... which is kind of weird seeing how that was the original motivation.
 
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Danc1122 said:
For me, it was when I was 16 years old and wanted my first car. My dad makes decent money so I was just sort of expecting him to buy me one or at least pay for half. He told me I was going to have to get a full time job and he'd pitch in a thousand bucks. Problem was... I didn't want a job and a thousand bucks wasn't even close to the amount I needed to get the BMW I wanted. That was what made me look for ways to make more money than I could with a regular job. Which I then stumbled upon affiliate marketing and the rest is history.

One of my biggest motivations though was whenever I showed people the car I wanted...friends, family, etc... they always said something like... "yeah keep dreaming...you'll never have that" or "that's not practical". Almost everyone would tell me it's just "not practical". Nothing pisses me off more than to hear someone tell me it's not practical. I don't know why, I just fucking hate that word.
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it's just not practical! :338:
 
Good post, and thank you because I'm having a "bad" day*

I can assure you, I have not had my life-defining moment yet. But it's coming soon.

* Most people would kill for one of my bad days, but I'm just not with it today and kinda dumpy
 
My only true life defining moment was moving to Japan. I came here as a 25 year old child desperate to grow up without a mother constantly trying to put me back in the child box. Now at 33 I'm completely different person of my own design.

Quitting my job to do IM full time will prove to be a life defining moment too, but that's pretty recent.
 
This thread is full of WIN. OP, danc, and garrett you guys kick ass :thumbsup:

My first defining moment came a couple of months ago. I was sitting in one of my shit junior college classes at 7am in the morning, and we were playing powerpoint jeopardy. I noticed all the fucks around me giggling and having a good time. I was sitting there thinking to myself: "Dude you are fucking 20 years old. Why the fuck are you playing powerpoint jeopardy at 7am with all these assholes" ? I always felt like I was on another level just by the way I thought outside the box with biz and life in general, but this fucking sealed the deal for me. I have made more progress in the 2-3 months since then than I did during the 5-6 months before. I rage on this shit daily because that morning made me realize that you can either join the 99% of idiots who are gonna end up with a busted wife and driving a minivan, or you can rage with this shit, give a giant fuck you to everyone else, and squeeze every drop out of your life.
 
Soupy that mansion is the bomb. Reminds me of the guys house in Other People's Money.

I just bought a waterfront place in Nassau, Bahamas if anyone kicks around there?
 
Mine was when I was 14 years old. I was slowly trying to figure out how to make money online, but not putting much effort. Till one day when I was running around with my girlfriend, and when I was trying to grab her at some point, by accident I hit her in the face. The impact was big enough for her face to swell up and became pretty red. During this time, we had our other friend with us, and we went to the grocery to buy cold water, to place over the bruise. When I reached in my pocket to pay for the water, all I had was a nickle. Needless to say, I couldn't pay for the water ($1), and our friend coughed up the dollar. Now, I was one of those kids that never asked their parents for any money, never for lunch money, never for a school trip and so on. But that moment gave me a fuckload of motivation to make something out of myself, because I felt like a fucking douche when I couldn't even buy her a water bottle to help her out.

Luckily, I've gone a really long way since. But that's my life defining moment as of current.
 
LittleMike said:
Soupy that mansion is the bomb. Reminds me of the guys house in Other People's Money.

I just bought a waterfront place in Nassau, Bahamas if anyone kicks around there?
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I'm in your neck of the woods every once in a while, I'm just across the water (South FL) and take cruises out there every now and then.
 
Danc1122 said:
For me, it was when I was 16 years old and wanted my first car. My dad makes decent money so I was just sort of expecting him to buy me one or at least pay for half. He told me I was going to have to get a full time job and he'd pitch in a thousand bucks. Problem was... I didn't want a job and a thousand bucks wasn't even close to the amount I needed to get the BMW I wanted. That was what made me look for ways to make more money than I could with a regular job. Which I then stumbled upon affiliate marketing and the rest is history.

One of my biggest motivations though was whenever I showed people the car I wanted...friends, family, etc... they always said something like... "yeah keep dreaming...you'll never have that" or "that's not practical". Almost everyone would tell me it's just "not practical". Nothing pisses me off more than to hear someone tell me it's not practical. I don't know why, I just fucking hate that word.

So basically I got started in this game to prove people wrong and show them that I CAN get the car I wanted, regardless of what 99% of people were telling me. About 6 months into affiliate marketing I was able to get the exact car I wanted. Here it is...

car1.jpg


Since I bought the car (well over a year ago) my motivation has completely changed. Right now I'm focused on making enough to build my dream home and all kinds of other things. Nothing that has to do with cars... which is kind of weird seeing how that was the original motivation.
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Good for you!

My current motivation is a car, I drag race on the weekends so I'm not really going for the luxury aspect as I am a 10 second car.

What I have:
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What I want:
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I came to my "hell yeah" point by accident when I realized I ranked for some good terms in google from an article/tutorial I wrote months back (at that time, this was over 3 yrs ago) and started making $3k+ a month after monetizing it with design services / paid tutorials..

I make a good deal more now, but the great thing is is I still maintain those rankings 3 yrs later without having touched anything.

So, it was back 3 yrs ago that I truly realized the power of the SERPs and the income potential it can bring. Now I'm just working towards building more passive income.
 
Garrett said:
niiiiiice choice. There is this young dude who owns a Chevron station (LOL Oil) near my apartment who has one of these. They look even sexier in real life. Oh, Oh. SHIT! I just came
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I probably see a GT40 about five times a year, which is saying a lot since I see exotics and race cars EVERY DAY, and I always drool... And that's coming from a guy that literally ignores baby lambos.

Right now I'm pulling 12 second 1/4s and I should be at 11 once I finish upgrading to a new turbocharger, but GT40s are the fastest stock cars I've ever seen.

When I get mine I'm honestly going to drive it from Florida to New York to Washington to San Diego to Florida... Just me and the curvaceous lady.

I'm not going to buy another car until I get it, I want it as much as I want to breathe.
 
Mine was in college working for CompUSA. I was the leading salesman in the entire region and making the store an assload of money. I originally had permission to take Spring Break off, when the GM left and a new one came on board. So when Spring Break came around and the new boss told me that I had to stay and work, I felt depondent. My best friend was flying 1000 miles for a fun SB at the beach.

So I just dipped on work and headed to the beach. After a great week I returned to work. The GM started giving me shit, telling me that I had to work extra hours etc. So I told him to go fuck himself and set my mind to stop making my bosses rich and start working on making myself rich, or starve trying.

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