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Is it freedom, income, growth, or something else entirely?
How do you define success in your online business?
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Making the most amount of money with the least amount of time so you can have freedom to do things you want with your family and friends.
Now if you just want to sit there and work for 18-24 hours a day and tell the world to fuck off, that's fine.
What makes you, not happy, but fulfilled? Some people have their work, so they have fun doing that. Others see work as a way to afford to do fun things outside of work - which you need time for, so freedom.
Being able to what you want whenever you want is the greatest flex. But I'd rather not flex, I'd rather move in silence - so privacy would be what I'm after.
Actually I once said and still agree: "The whole point of the internet is to make a bunch of money and then one day log off, one last time - FOREVER."
Now if you just want to sit there and work for 18-24 hours a day and tell the world to fuck off, that's fine.
What makes you, not happy, but fulfilled? Some people have their work, so they have fun doing that. Others see work as a way to afford to do fun things outside of work - which you need time for, so freedom.
Being able to what you want whenever you want is the greatest flex. But I'd rather not flex, I'd rather move in silence - so privacy would be what I'm after.
Actually I once said and still agree: "The whole point of the internet is to make a bunch of money and then one day log off, one last time - FOREVER."
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Most lucid carter post I ever read.
Shut up and make money.
Party with the hot people.
Shut up and make money.
Party with the hot people.
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It doesn't really matter if it's online or offline, unless your entire goal is to not interface with clients or customers.
I'd say that everyone is working in order to make money, and even if you don't care about money, it's something that must come or you can't really engage in your goals the way you need to or want to. And if money is involved then there might as well be a lot of it, unless you're willing to trade "a lot" for "enough" because you're also doing something you enjoy. But certainly earning a surplus of money should be in everyone's success markers so you can retire one day. Even if you can do it forever, who wants to, and things move way too fast online (and often offline) with catastrophic endings, which is why the startup/liquidation path generally always makes sense.
A nice goal everyone involved in business should have is to earn enough money that financial concerns no longer exist, because a day will come if it hasn't already that health will be a concern, as well as relational drama. Removing financial concerns makes it easier to weather any other problem, since stress accumulates and makes everything tougher. And financial freedom allows you to help others, too.
I'd say that everyone is working in order to make money, and even if you don't care about money, it's something that must come or you can't really engage in your goals the way you need to or want to. And if money is involved then there might as well be a lot of it, unless you're willing to trade "a lot" for "enough" because you're also doing something you enjoy. But certainly earning a surplus of money should be in everyone's success markers so you can retire one day. Even if you can do it forever, who wants to, and things move way too fast online (and often offline) with catastrophic endings, which is why the startup/liquidation path generally always makes sense.
A nice goal everyone involved in business should have is to earn enough money that financial concerns no longer exist, because a day will come if it hasn't already that health will be a concern, as well as relational drama. Removing financial concerns makes it easier to weather any other problem, since stress accumulates and makes everything tougher. And financial freedom allows you to help others, too.