Satvrn
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This is probably the best advice you will ever get in life.
There is one simple formula that will lead to wealth and success: cut out all the bullshit and grind, hustle, work, whatever you wanna call it. You'll notice the formula is working for every successful guy / gal out there.
Look at localcasestudies case study. He was not dicking around when he started his project and he will not spend his time with irrelevant stuff or bullshit excuses when setting up his next successful project. What did he do? If you had to sum up his thread in two words it'd be take action. Overcome your analysis paralysis, stop fucking around and get the fucking job done.
Most people will read this and think 'Oh wow, Captain Obvious strikes again! I didn't know that I had to put in work to make it big.' but there is more to it. There is a fine line of wanting it and WANTING IT.
The first one is like some random neckbeard jerking off to porn thinking 'fuck I want to have a dick like Ron Jeremy', the second one is your heroin addict in downtown Detroit that WANTS his first shot since two days.
At the end of the day the neckbeard is okay with not fucking hot chicks but the drug addict is not okay with not getting his trip.
Stop acting like the neckbeard, become the addict (don't move to Detroit tho).
You need to become addicted to the process, and the process for us as entrepreneurs is work. Now that I think about it, I don't like to call it work because work is something you do at your shitty 9 to 5 cubicle job where you trade time for money and go home at 5pm.
We don't work, we grind, we bang out stuff, we get shit done. If you are addicted you don't stop taking your drugs on the weekend, you don't take days off, you don't have 'working hours'. You don't care what the guy next to you is thinking about you and you don't go online and check if there are better injection methods for your next needle. Haven't you noticed that successful people have more in common with addicts than with anything else you would ever imagine?
How did I become successful? I still don't consider myself successful because I'm not done yet, I just haven't reached the pinnacles I want to reach. But I could probably stop working tomorrow and live a great, luxurious live for the next 50 years without having to worry too much about money or freedom. That might sound like a bloated statement, but it is what it is. I know that most people would love to trade places with me, but they'd never want to go through the same process I went through.
Why not? Because it's a long, dark road and you are on your own.
The story of noob Satvrn
I started with my IM career many, many moons ago in 2010 with 200 USD in my pocket. I didn't know anything about advertising or coding. I setup my first PPV campaign and burned 150 bucks. The second campaign was a winner and I reinvested my small profits. Most of the things I've tried failed, few worked. Those that did work were scaled. I found an co-reg angle that worked with downloadable software, so I created landing pages and campaigns for almost every single software out there.
For weeks I was busy creating new campaigns and the work sucked. Designing, slicing the LPs with Photoshop (because I couldn't code), setting up the whole flow, uploading it to the FTP, setting everything up with Prosper202 (tracking), scraping keywords, setting up new campaigns on traffic sources. Shit tons of work. Horrible, mundane work. I did this for probably 10 to 11 hours every day. For weeks. I think I've ended up with 200 different campaigns and only 15 or 20 made any money. The rest were burning money or were just too unstable to continue running. Eventually, all the work resulted in me hitting the 500 USD a day profit goal. The first PPV campaign was in April 2010, the 500 USD a day campaigns were created in August 2011 (I just looked at the sources files, I still got all of my old campaigns on my HDD). For one year and four months I did nothing but to bang out campaigns that made little or no money (I think the best month was 2k USD in profit). I didn't like the work, but I did not care. I wanted to make money and I knew that if I kept digging that I'd eventually struck gold.
Back in 2010, 200 USD was a lot for me as I just finished school and made about 600 bucks a month in my training. I was the guy with a flip phone when everybody had an iPhone, everybody was leasing new cars and I had an old car I bought for 500 bucks from my brother-in-law. I couldn't afford anything because I spent my cash on domains, webspace, a forum subscription and ads. My goal was not to buy a fancy car, phone or clothes, my goal was to have more money coming in every month than anybody else I knew. And I made a sacrifice to cut out all the bullshit that did not help me reach the goal. The goal was not a kind-of-goal, the goal was (and still is) 'the goal'.
Behind every success story there's a huge sacrifice. Whether it's free time, social connections (aka getting drunk at parties or spending time at boring family meetups), money, luxury, playing video games, missing out on the newest trends... usually a combination of it all, because none of that is relevant to your goals. It will only distract you from the process.
A lot of people ask me how I went to 100k a month, but no one asks the right question: what did I sacrifice for it. You don't get to 100k a month in profits by reading the latest method or black hat technique on some forum or blog. You can't just rip a great campaign with your spy tool. It all comes down to what you are willing to give up. You don't become successful copying other shit, the process makes you successful.
Being a part of CC9
I'm pretty busy with managing my campaigns and my joint ventures. It's a tough job without any breaks or off-days, yet I applied to take part in the experiment and to dedicate 2 hours a day to the project. The main goal for me was not about making money. I wanted to expand my horizon and get back to the grind. I needed to find back to the path that led me to success because I thought I had lost it back then. Now I know that all I needed was a bit of input and some people tickling my brain. I'm back on track now and the project looks great. Money is great too (I just hit 1.2k net profit yesterday). We're not done with the CC9 yet, hell we didn't even really start, yet I can say that it is a real success for me. I find it funny that some people that were given a great chance with this still can find excuses for not getting their shit together.
Time is not your friend: it is killing you.
Every day you go to bed with things that are not crossed out on your to do list means your ship is sailing in the wrong direction. You did not cut out the bullshit, you got distracted. You did not focus on the things that bring you further towards your goal. It's very depressing to acknowledge that time is killing you, your dreams and your opportunities. If you dream now without taking action, the chances of you never fulfilling that dream will grow day by day. Keep that in mind.
What I see a lot now that I grow older and gain more experience in the business world is that most guys just kinda want it. Okay, BuSo is some kind of special place that attracts great people, but just take a look at the follow alongs, case studies and CC9 threads that are abandoned. The failure rate of people is absurdly high and the solution is simple: stop fucking around. There is no excuse for it.
What is the reason for people failing?
- Not reading enough blogs and forums?
- Not having any design, coding or (insert any skill here) skills?
- Not having the right equipment to get the job done?
- Not having enough time?
There are two main reasons why people fail.
a) they fail to cut out the bullshit. That means they're not hustling, they're just fucking around, getting distracted by stuff that does not matter.
b) they give up too soon because the instant gratification is missing. Instant results usually don't last long, so train your brain to stop getting high on instant satisfaction.
So here's the true formula to success that nobody teaches in school or in university:
Getting shit done - disregarding bullshit = success
If you can't master both things you should probably go back to your old job and old life.
