[Serious Thread] What are your current roadblocks?

[LightningKing]

To those who are "stuck" in college/university:

No one pointed a gun to your head to go there, you're living your OWN life, not someone else's' expectation of you. When that life drags you down, you have no one to blame but yourself. When you win, you created it (with whatever help you had, of course, but YOU took the action).

If you are willingly in the "higher" education, remember, you are NOT there for the knowledge! Spend JUST enough time to pass, that piece of paper you "earned" at the end looks the same to anyone who actually asks, as long as you PASS. You are actually there to NETWORK, meet people, get into circles of people who get things done. These are the future leaders of the corporate world, if you want to be one of them later, be one of them now.

If you are just there to study and get good grades, you have MISSED THE POINT of the game.

Awesome advice bro.

Didn't think about the networking opportunity.

 

[illuminateme]

Awesome advice bro.

Didn't think about the networking opportunity.

Wasn't even my advice, it came from a very wise friend. If you saw him in university you would think he did fuck all, then look at him 20 years later, you'd realize he did exactly what was needed there... copy off the A students, hang with the C students who are all future business leaders.

 

[daddyj2]

I will consider these things my Roadblocks now.

1. Don't have much time to spend studying IM
2. Afraid to invest on methods I read in here
3. My day job eat a lot of my time
4. I still have some online job's I need to do because my salary on my day job is not enough.

P.S
As of now I am saving good methods in here to PDF and read it at home and study it. And I already decided to invest some of my online earnings to try methods that I read to test.

 

[Topiano]

As of now I am saving good methods in here to PDF

... Stop saving start executing — A method that works a month ago could be dead by now.

 

[DanielOnYouTube]

They do not have secured cards or debit cards in CA?

I'm guessing you need one to get a decent email service (MC has been garbage for years now) and I would bet a secured card or a debit card would work with them.

The issue is that companies like Get Response, Aweber, etc. don't accept PayPal from 1st world countries and I don't really feel like providing direct access to my bank account with my debit.

 

[DanielOnYouTube]

Then can't you get a debit card?

I don't feel particularly comfortable using my debit card for making purchases online. PayPal is my go-to, but companies like GetResponse, AWeber, etc. don't accept PayPal payments from Canada, U.S.A, etc. only countries like Russia, Ukraine, etc.

 

[Sherb]

Thanks for replying
We Tried Adsense, native ads, CPA, but nothing seems to work that well with Reddit traffic... Had submitted for revcontent a week ago but no reply from them yet

Gregory T. Boats is spot on with this one. Reddit traffic is super high quality, but doesn't convert well. If you've got something that the hivemind likes, and it doesn't seem spammy, they will eat it up. Especially in the smaller niche subreddits. I'm getting a lot of my visitors for my Iceland site and my local site from Reddit and Instagram.

I recently graduated from college ... I turned 22 recently and I can understand how you feel . One thing I do to keep with track — After returning from classes I try taking naps so that I can get my self re-energized. Wake up for few hours to get things done before sleeping again for next day classes. But you need to focus mate — Focus One Course till U Successful. You having little time would make you want to indulge in many things. Try as much as possible to spend time understanding one before moving to another if not going to work in a long run . That would help you save little time you’ve got

Good post! You're describing polyphasic sleep. I did something similar for a little while in college. Six hours a night, followed by a 90 minute nap (around a full REM cycle) in the afternoon. Slowly weaned down the nap time until I didn't need it any more. Then after a few months I said fuck it and went back to seven to 7.5 hours a night. Everyone's circadian rhythm is so different.

Time management is key balancing college and business. I did IM stuff while a full time college student, working 30 hours a week as well in multiple offline jobs that were pretty demanding. The end result was a solid income, but at the sacrifice of networking and the true college experience, which I will get to below. Enjoy college though, it's the most carefree, freeing time of your life, especially if you are a full time student living on campus. Those were the days...

The thread is blowing up already lots of good info in it, thanks @Sherb for starting it. For users struggling with procrastination I'd suggest you to listen to an audiobook called as the 10x rule, it helped me a lot when I needed it. The only limit is your mind, make up your mind and work like crazy. Good luck to all on their future ventures

10x rule is pretty sweet. Another one that will kick you in the balls is the first TFS podcast with Jocko Willinck: https://tim.blog/2015/09/25/jocko-willink/

Hell yeah, I've got my niche , found my clickbank product and I`m working on it.

Kill it, son.

I feel like I'm spiritually stagnating because of my emotional hang ups.

You're on a different level than most of us, sir. Just go with the flow. All wounds heal. Worst case, move to Africa and start a watermelon farm. I know a guy who's doing that and it's working pretty well for him.

I work from 9am til 9pm. so not much work i can do. My biggest problem is being not tired and not being able to wake up early. Apart from that, building my facebook page. Very hard to get likes on page

Focus on Instagram and Twitter, and flow those into Facebook. I have similar issues. It's difficult when there's no real follow/unfollow option like in the other two. Regarding wake up time, commit to two mornings a week you will wake up at 4:30am and grind through three hours of online work before getting ready for the real job. That's an extra six hours a week you will have that you wouldn't have otherwise. Eventually try to get into a three times a week rhythm, and you'll end up with almost a full work week of time every month.

Source: I wake up at 4:30am almost every day, and work a full time job.

Definitely execution! I love thinking of different ideas but struggle in taking action in fear of failure.

I always love a change to peddle some Ferriss. Let this change your mindset:

Thanks for your answers,guys! Really means a lot to me.

So basically the problems started when i started to become emotionally invested in the relationship which was about 1 year ago. The love slowly faded away and she became more distant. I started to get clingy (which i know was a bad way to go) but after 1 year it keeps getting worse and worse. I can't get it out of my head and it distracts me so hard in every aspect of my life. Like literally every aspect of my life is. We've been together for 3 yrs and the first 2 years were so awesome and magical - like i never had it with someone else like that before (its not my 1st relationship) and its just hard to let go of that particular person. I know i have to let go, but this is exactly my problem, i can't let go.. I wouldn't say i became a wussy in the relationship but i am starting to feel like its going to happen, and ive tried to fix everything, talking etc. - It just doesn't seem to help.

Current state of my life is not that great at the moment - I get a certain amount of IM Income which i could basically live of but i have a offline job as well, which kinda drains me out. All this together and then the relationship really kills me at the moment. I was also thinking about opening up a journey thread because i recently started to get into media buying and i thought i could make a journey that sorta combines the media buying journey as well as my personal. Something like "My journey to a better life" or something like that,lol - But i don't know if anyone would even read that. Anyways, thanks for reading lol

How old are you, bro? That will determine a lot based on my next answer. Disclaimer: I got into my current relationship when I was 17 years old and she was 16. All the signs pointed to us never making it, from being friendzoned in high school to me going off to college a year before her, to having completely different career paths (she is a doctor now, I am in business and analytics). But it's been over ten years, and we have been married for almost five.

At the moment, I'd say time management and information overload.

Make a top five list of methods/projects you want. Make a folder on your desktop for each one, and a sixth empty folder called "backburner". Focus on those five projects. Give yourself three months. After three months, take the three projects that either are looking like they aren't going to pan out, or that you have the least interest in/spent the least amount of time on, and put them in the backburner folder. Don't think about them, don't touch them, until you are happy with the status of the first two.

For time management, get Todoist and use it religiously. Get a morning routine. Here's my thread on that: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/becoming-effective-part-1-using-a-morning-routine-to-compound-productivity-and-do-more-faster.973321/

I get worked up easily.

Chill brah.

Pull an all-nighter, seriously.

I had the worst sleep pattern when I was at school. I used to go to bed at 5am at the weekend and not be tired enough to go to bed and wake up at 7am. Staying up all night helps sooooo much. Not only do you get more done, but you can go from waking up at 12pm to 6am in an instant without actually losing that much energy.

I'm too much of a little bitch to do all-nighters. The wife does one every fourth or fifth night (not by choice). I think she is surviving on pure adrenaline from the trauma bay lately.

Actually start doing a method because for whatever reason i think everything is saturated and that demotivates me a lot.

Fuck saturation. That's a crutch so you can justify not giving something a try. Find something you love and work at it. Pretend like you will never get paid and you're doing the work for free. Then once the money starts rolling in you will be thrilled. If you aren't doing something you love, what's the fuckin' point?

To those who are "stuck" in college/university:

No one pointed a gun to your head to go there, you're living your OWN life, not someone else's' expectation of you. When that life drags you down, you have no one to blame but yourself. When you win, you created it (with whatever help you had, of course, but YOU took the action).

If you are willingly in the "higher" education, remember, you are NOT there for the knowledge! Spend JUST enough time to pass, that piece of paper you "earned" at the end looks the same to anyone who actually asks, as long as you PASS. You are actually there to NETWORK, meet people, get into circles of people who get things done. These are the future leaders of the corporate world, if you want to be one of them later, be one of them now.

If you are just there to study and get good grades, you have MISSED THE POINT of the game.

This right here. Networking is what makes college so great. I walked out with a shiny large piece of card stock saying that I spent four years of my life to have a degree in something I only put into practice when it's tax season. Never used it a bit, but damn if I didn't have it, I wouldn't have the sweet-ass cushy office job I have right now, surrounded by coworkers and supervisors whose presence I love, making a difference in a multibillion dollar company and building up a beautiful resume.

College is a massive stepping stone to the real world, and puts you miles ahead of those who don't do it. Do it for the networking opportunities, and the experiences, and the piece of paper last. Don't let the billionaire dropout survivorship bias sway you into thinking you're better off without it, because in most cases, you aren't. If you have the opportunity, seize it. You won't regret it.

I will consider these things my Roadblocks now.

1. Don't have much time to spend studying IM
2. Afraid to invest on methods I read in here
3. My day job eat a lot of my time
4. I still have some online job's I need to do because my salary on my day job is not enough.

P.S
As of now I am saving good methods in here to PDF and read it at home and study it. And I already decided to invest some of my online earnings to try methods that I read to test.

1) Make time, not excuses.
2) Only invest what you are willing to lose.
3) Mine too. You gotta suck it up and deal with it bro.
4) Same here. I make plenty in my day job, and the wife does too. But I crave more. Hence IM and other income streams.

You got this brah. https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/we-are-all-gonna-make-it.1006416/

I don't feel particularly comfortable using my debit card for making purchases online. PayPal is my go-to, but companies like GetResponse, AWeber, etc. don't accept PayPal payments from Canada, U.S.A, etc. only countries like Russia, Ukraine, etc.

Get that credit card game going, son. It's a beautiful middleman between your bank account and third party systems.

 

[Apocalypto]

I love you Sherby.

 

[Heiko]

How old are you, bro? That will determine a lot based on my next answer. Disclaimer: I got into my current relationship when I was 17 years old and she was 16. All the signs pointed to us never making it, from being friendzoned in high school to me going off to college a year before her, to having completely different career paths (she is a doctor now, I am in business and analytics). But it's been over ten years, and we have been married for almost five.

21, turning 22 in May. Thanks for your reply

 

[awesomewebsites]

... Stop saving start executing — A method that works a month ago could be dead by now.

Problem is that I like reading on BHW a lot. I come across new methods all time and feel compelled to bookmark some.

 

[Frap]

Hey Sherb again, nice thread!

I just got out of prison a little less than a year ago(I did 14 months for illegal computer activity). Its not a huge road block but its blocking something.

When I got out, I didn't have much money. I was able to get a marketing job paying shitty $40k a year. I never took the job seriously. Instead I spent my days at work looking at crypto prices and thinking of new ideas.

I just quit my job last week. I couldn't take it anymore. I know I'm worth more. I dont have a lot of savings but I have a good support system and a good line of credit.

I feel like if I didn't quit, I would never get to pursue this. I always wanted to do IM as a career, own a few websites, have a big following, and generate a ton of passive income.

My main problem is not staying focused. I'm a pretty smart guy and its only a matter of time before I get this down. I have been doing a lot better though after I quit.

I know why I'm not focused and sorry if this doesn't make sense:

So I just started putting a lot more hours into my website.

If I know how to do something, even if its a lot of work, I'd get started ASAP and finish it in the shortest time possible.

If I don't know something, I'd spend hours on the computer just searching off-topic shit, reading manga, playing cs go, etc...

That's why I quit, to give me reason to go 100% in on this. I'm not 100% yet, but I'm getting there.

I've been very productive the past few days, wrote a bunch of quality content, submitted my site for indexing, re-optimized my site, finished developing my plugin, opened social media accounts, and studied a lot of SEO.

Again, its just a matter of time before I make it. When I'm focused, I'm like Bradley Cooper from Limitless.

Thank you for this thread Sherb.

 

[Sherb]

I love you Sherby.

Love you too, bro.

21, turning 22 in May. Thanks for your reply

In that case, follow your interests. If you want to stick with the girl, do it and bust ass to make bank. If you want to stick with IM, do it and embrace solitude for a little while. From what you've written, it doesn't seem like the two will cohabitate.

Problem is that I like reading on BHW a lot. I come across new methods all time and feel compelled to bookmark some.

Whittle it down by 50%. Then leave it be for a few days. Come back and pick your top 10 from those. Leave for a few days. Then come back and narrow it down to three you REALLY want to start right now. Pick the one with the best potential, and spend 70% of your allocated time on that, and 15% each on the other two. Backburner the rest.

Hey Sherb again, nice thread!

I just got out of prison a little less than a year ago(I did 14 months for illegal computer activity). Its not a huge road block but its blocking something.

When I got out, I didn't have much money. I was able to get a marketing job paying shitty $40k a year. I never took the job seriously. Instead I spent my days at work looking at crypto prices and thinking of new ideas.

I just quit my job last week. I couldn't take it anymore. I know I'm worth more. I dont have a lot of savings but I have a good support system and a good line of credit.

I feel like if I didn't quit, I would never get to pursue this. I always wanted to do IM as a career, own a few websites, have a big following, and generate a ton of passive income.

My main problem is not staying focused. I'm a pretty smart guy and its only a matter of time before I get this down. I have been doing a lot better though after I quit.

I know why I'm not focused and sorry if this doesn't make sense:

So I just started putting a lot more hours into my website.

If I know how to do something, even if its a lot of work, I'd get started ASAP and finish it in the shortest time possible.

If I don't know something, I'd spend hours on the computer just searching off-topic shit, reading manga, playing cs go, etc...

That's why I quit, to give me reason to go 100% in on this. I'm not 100% yet, but I'm getting there.

I've been very productive the past few days, wrote a bunch of quality content, submitted my site for indexing, re-optimized my site, finished developing my plugin, opened social media accounts, and studied a lot of SEO.

Again, its just a matter of time before I make it. When I'm focused, I'm like Bradley Cooper from Limitless.

Thank you for this thread Sherb.

I have a similar problem in terms of lack of focus. The if I know how to do something, if I don't know how to do something issue is an every day struggle for me. My biggest hangups are Reddit and BHW if I'm being honest.

Sounds like you are on the right track. If I had to suggest some things that will greatly help:

1) Todoist
2) Spreadsheets to categorize and track everything
3) Trello for project management
4) Start a handwritten journal and every night write down the three biggest accomplishments that day, one issue you are facing, and the three biggest things you want to accomplish the next day. Or do a Five-Minute Journal. It's similar.

Good luck man. If you have questions you'd prefer to PM, feel free.

 

[awesomewebsites]

Whittle it down by 50%. Then leave it be for a few days. Come back and pick your top 10 from those. Leave for a few days. Then come back and narrow it down to three you REALLY want to start right now. Pick the one with the best potential, and spend 70% of your allocated time on that, and 15% each on the other two. Backburner the rest.

As I already have saved quite a lot and am busy with current methods, I think I should completely stop bookmarking any new good thread I come across here for some time. Will try to pick the best ones from those already saved using the method you suggested.

 

[Sephrata]

My only roadblock is that I am poor. Bless you lord.

Your other roadblock is that you're post-count bumping to be able to PM here.

 

[awesomewebsites]

My only roadblock is that I am poor. Bless you lord.

There is only one solution to it- "work". You are fortunate to have an internet connection and access to this forum, make good use of it.

 

[luthor23]

@DanielOnYouTube Maybe MailerLite could be the answer for MC. I use them at the moment and am happy with them.

Don’t be put of by the “approve your domain” thingy. My site is decent enough with the usual legal, tos and privacy policy and got approved within 10 minutes. In my GA I noticed that ML manually visited my site and had a look at a couple of pages.
.[/QUOTE ] do you think its impossible to get approved without a website , i don't have a website and i want to start sending emails . how do i go about this ?

 

[Degen]

Perks:
I have time to work on my projects (should've started my PA intern already.. but no place to start yet) QQ

Cons: ROADBLOCKS

- Getting 1 sale per 2 days ($12 per sale), takes 14 days to CLEAR 1 sale...
- 2 niche sites are doing marginal (hosting per month, costs currently more than the profit from the sites)

Goals :
Need $9k total to get my Actual journey going
- 3k in total for an e-book (it is already written and available on Kindle, It needs some rewriting and padding)
- 3k for my Android, UE4 project. (core code is already made, and functioning! It needs expanding and cosmetics)
- 3k to pay off other irl stuff.

 

[Deleted member 877043]

@luthor23

I have no idea to be honest. But I can imagine that it would be difficult.

Have a look here to see if you can find something;
https://www.mailerlite.com/terms-of-service

And you can contact their support here;
https://www.mailerlite.com/support

Good luck and don’t forget to update your findings. Could help someone else that may have the same question.

 

[royserpa]

fucking traffic. I have a handful of beautiful ecom sites but not enough traffic to fully monetize.

Just go where your target audience hangs out and make your brand shine there. Target audience > Irrelevant traffic

 

[DJ.Bud]

Unable to manage my stuff :l