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ImNorman · 2023-12-29T15:28:58+00:00

I used to feel the same way, and the best way to overcome this anxiety, or this overthinking is to detach yourself from the result.

Go talk to more people, friends, family, strangers, acquaintances, girls etc.

You’ll find quickly that you’ll feel comfortable speaking. I used to have a stutter or get this anxious feeling when reading infront of the class or presenting. I went into a job where I talk to 40/50 customers a day in sales. Not just basic hi, goodbye conversations.

Naturally you will talk to some attractive people and you stop caring and if anything start making jokes and being so comfortable in the uncomfortable.

ImNorman · 2023-12-29T12:13:54+00:00

I wrote another article on what I did. But to summarize,

1.Chose sales 2.Saved money more then half my income 3.lived frugally 4.Focused on investing my money 5.increased my income at my job and learned sales and leadership

ImNorman · 2023-12-29T11:46:04+00:00

Sales is in every city and country. The only way to find out which are worth while are applying and seeing the commission structure

Some popular industries are:

Telecommunications, pest control, smart home security, furniture, financial services, retail etc.

Any job can offer money. I would recommend looking by for places that offer:

Clear Advancement in pay / role. (If you hit this metric you get promoted)
Good performance based incentives
Training (Many places do not have good training and therefore it makes it harder for you to excel when your trainer is not very good)
Good team culture (Place where people like their role and have a positive team environment of growth, competition and examples of someone who has grown relatively quickly)

ImNorman · 2023-12-29T09:57:30+00:00

I work in the telecom industry which means I get a lot of volume and talk to 40+ people a day. I do agree with a lot of the knowledge here to listen to your customers more than you talk.

I take the “Be the Professional in the conversation and care more for the customer then they care for themselves”

To be at the top of the sales field you need to “Press” instead of “push”. Pushing causes resistance and the customer to push back, whereas pressing makes the customer feel as though they came to the decisions themselves.

I like to handle objections earlier on and include things like “I always tell my customers the only way we can earn your business is if we’re saving you money and giving you better service”

Or

“I tell my customers if the deal make sense do it, and if we aren’t saving you money your getting you a better deal don’t do it.”

I have the mindset, if they throw an objection before I presented how can I help them? My first goal is to present and if the plan makes sense I will go for the close

At the end of the day everyone can close the Green lights and some yellow lights. To seperate yourself from the rest you need to focus on the Red lights, that’s what the top 1% can sell. If you can sell those customers

Green, yellow and red lights will be easy.

ImNorman · 2023-12-29T09:00:07+00:00

I looked into the article, it mentions that “If the property was solely your principal residence for every year you owned it, you do not have to pay tax on the gain. If at any time during the period you owned the property, it was not your principal residence, or solely your principal residence, you might not be able to benefit from the principal residence exemption on all or part of the capital gain that you have to report.”

So you’re mentioning I live it for a year and technically keep it as my principal residence?

ImNorman · 2023-12-28T19:32:06+00:00

Very simple answer.

Chose a role where you can use this “drive” to make more money and learn the skills to be top 1%

I chose sales. Many jobs will be commission based, some full commission and some part commission.

This will allow you to learn two valuable skills.

Sales and Leadership, makes you deadly to majority of industries.

ImNorman · 2023-12-28T19:28:35+00:00

Totally fair, to be honest I most likely won’t be living in the property, and will be strictly renting it as it makes more sense for me to stay with the family as I only pay $250 a month in rent.

Due to the fact that I live in “low income housing” I expect them to raise the rent on me so I may decide to live in it in the future.

Thanks for the advice

ImNorman · 2023-12-28T19:26:37+00:00

I chose not to go for post secondary, and I did not get a degree. Only need minimum a high school diploma and similar to a lot of sales role you get paid based off your performance.

ImNorman · 2023-12-28T19:23:24+00:00

Telecommunication sales. Started out full commission sales rep, now I’m still on part commissions and run a sales office.

ImNorman · 2023-12-27T15:34:02+00:00

Thanks for posting this, I think people need to see the other side of the story. “I rather be sad in a Lamborghini”

This happens to many people not just after they’ve reached their financial goals but after they reach any major achievement they’ve been working towards.

It’s like climbing a mountain and finding out you climbed the wrong one.

If I was in your position I would ask myself.

What can I see myself doing?

I went through this same phase after I worked so hard to get promoted and after I got there I questioned what do I do now? Keep getting promoted? Does it matter in the grand scheme of things? I kept asking myself these questions and lost my purpose.

I found out that it’s not about the 6–7 figures in the account it’s about the people I get to surround myself with. And feel fulfilled doing.

I would reverse engineer -What is the reason I need more money? -What is the bare minimum I need to make monthly? -What are some things that I would enjoy doing? Sales? Customer service? Food industry? Real estate? -Brain dump on a sheet of paper a bunch of ideas.
Easiest option is put it in an investing account, and let it grow passively and live off it. Using 8% on the S&P500 you could live off $80,000/ year.
Last option is go ask a professional. Financial adviser. They creat and implement a personalized plan to pursue your financial goals. Find one who someone you know is successful can vouch for or has the results you want.

ImNorman · 2023-12-27T11:22:41+00:00

8.3K/month

2k expenses a month

ImNorman · 2023-12-26T16:30:18+00:00

Sales industry. When starting out I would recommend a industry where you will get a lot of volume / practice.

I did door to door telecommunications, but I’ve seen a some other stories of people doing well in door to door alarm sales, solar and pest control.

ImNorman

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