Question about what way to pick in life

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Hello everyone. I came here with a question I am thinking of every day for past few years and it is eating me alive.

First, I would like to give out 2 warnings. My english is not very good so please keep that in mind, and the second thing is that this will be quite a long thread, so please read whole if you would like to post and contribute.

Now with that out the way, let me start. So I am a 23 years old boy and I live in Slovenia. I have full time job in metal transforming industry, on the weekends I clean stairs and I also have few websites online. All together I make less than 1k EUR. Now I am not saying this is bad or anything, in fact I am very thankfull for that, but I dont want to stop here, I have a lot of free time available and I want to get to the next level. I have many goals in my life and I will definetly have to do something to achieve them.

The problem is I have so many ideas on my head and I dont know what to do to achieve my dreams.

Let me jsut list a few I constantly have on my mind, there are many more:

- Forex trading ( I love the concept and everything else, one thing that scares me is so many people say to stay away from).

- Starting online business ( Since I have high dreams, offering products/services only locally wont be enough, thats why I am thinking of online business).

- Starting my own brand ( Designing and developing my own product, havent been thinking a lot about this one so dont know much about it).

- Starting local business ( The few I have been thinking of so far are selling cheap jewellery online, offering graphic design services and few others).

There are few more ideas that I constantly think of, but those are one of the top ones. If you have any other idea please share it with me so I can think of it too.

So now I dont know what of the above should I start investing time and money to. As I said I have a lot of free time after job available and I want to start doing something that will eventually get me to my dreams. I throw away every day I spend searching internet for funny things, youtube videos, etc....when I could spend all that time working on something that will get me to my goal.

I hope you all understand the purpose of this thread, I am not asking to get rich quick or anything like that, I am just looking for suggestions and ideas on what should I do.

And I hope to meet new people on this forum.

Thanks everyone for reading my thread, have a great day.
 
Sounds like you're possibly going off in different directions all at once. Maybe you need to know more about yourself to work out which road is best for you personally.

Some valuable advice I have gathered over the years (though sometimes you need to ignore the advice and just try something) -

1. never believe it when people say you can't do something

2. the world doesn't owe you anythng so you have to find a way to help people want to buy want you have to sell: you can't decide what they should buy

3. why try to sell something nobody else wants to sell?

4. lots of competition for the job you want? so what?, that just shows its a good job

Good luck.
 
Learn and plan

Hello everyone. I came here with a question I am thinking of every day for past few years and it is eating me alive.

First, I would like to give out 2 warnings. My english is not very good so please keep that in mind, and the second thing is that this will be quite a long thread, so please read whole if you would like to post and contribute.

Now with that out the way, let me start. So I am a 23 years old boy and I live in Slovenia. I have full time job in metal transforming industry, on the weekends I clean stairs and I also have few websites online. All together I make less than 1k EUR. Now I am not saying this is bad or anything, in fact I am very thankfull for that, but I dont want to stop here, I have a lot of free time available and I want to get to the next level. I have many goals in my life and I will definetly have to do something to achieve them.

The problem is I have so many ideas on my head and I dont know what to do to achieve my dreams.

Let me jsut list a few I constantly have on my mind, there are many more:

- Forex trading ( I love the concept and everything else, one thing that scares me is so many people say to stay away from).

- Starting online business ( Since I have high dreams, offering products/services only locally wont be enough, thats why I am thinking of online business).

- Starting my own brand ( Designing and developing my own product, havent been thinking a lot about this one so dont know much about it).

- Starting local business ( The few I have been thinking of so far are selling cheap jewellery online, offering graphic design services and few others).

There are few more ideas that I constantly think of, but those are one of the top ones. If you have any other idea please share it with me so I can think of it too.

So now I dont know what of the above should I start investing time and money to. As I said I have a lot of free time after job available and I want to start doing something that will eventually get me to my dreams. I throw away every day I spend searching internet for funny things, youtube videos, etc....when I could spend all that time working on something that will get me to my goal.

I hope you all understand the purpose of this thread, I am not asking to get rich quick or anything like that, I am just looking for suggestions and ideas on what should I do.

And I hope to meet new people on this forum.

Thanks everyone for reading my thread, have a great day.
First - you are young so have plenty of time to make this decision, plan and execute it properly
Second - you have plenty of free time, so again use it to decide, learn, plan and execute (using practice accounts if it is trading or trading very small to begin with)
Third - learn about each of the options. Don't be afraid about any of them, but take heed of other people's advice. However IN EVERY CASE run their advice positive or negative through your own evaluation process. NEVER take things at face value. Use your time to test them out within small controlled environments and see what works and what does not. In this way you will improve your own decision making ability and logical reasoning.
Fourth - for every option prepare a list of plus points and negative points, opportunities and risks.
Fifth - for every option prepare a plan. What is each step required to lead to success. What is the definition of success ? Money, status, intellectual satisfaction etc and what is the timescale for it. The first step for each of these, I suggest, is learning.
Sixth - once you have your plan, start to take the steps in turn. They need not be big, but can be small steps towards your goal e.g. I will learn how to create a website (for online selling), I will learn what is market sentiment and how to identify it (for Forex), I will find out how to patent a product I have designed etc
Seventh - for every option fully evaluate the risks and have definite plans for preventing any significant loss of your capital.

Finally good luck :)

Charlton
 
- Forex trading ( I love the concept and everything else, one thing that scares me is so many people say to stay away from).

Stay away , its not for everyone ...


GL
 
My advice is to,start focussing on 1 specialist area as quickly as possible ......all the success you see around you will be people focused

As to,what to,focus on........well that is the difficult thing

I would try to concentrate on things you feel connected to and love and are interested in.....life is a long hard haul if you are doing things you hate

Look inside yourself and ask others that know you what re you good at or what makes you fire up....

Good luck.....and please pleas pleas believe me .....trading is not for you now or if ever....it's not for people who are desperate for money........it's more at a point in your life when you have some to,lose

N
 
Lots of good advice above.
Just to add 1 more point and that is not only know yourself but be honest to yourself on your limitations. Having a dream is good but to have an impossible for you dream would be the source of much failure and bitterness. So make sure your dream is realistic. I would like to be the world's best programmer but sadly I haven't much talent in that direction. Excessive drink, drugs, religion and crime should be avoided along your path to success.

If you haven't much talent or energy I suggest marrying an heiress and enjoy yourself.
 
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I would like to thank you all for the awesome advices above.

What I think I will be doing is going through a forex trading school again, and at the side try to open a company where I will be selling yewellery online locally only.

I know trading is not for everyone, so is not owning a business or 100 other things, but I am not that everyone :)
 
I would like to thank you all for the awesome advices above.

What I think I will be doing is going through a forex trading school again, and at the side try to open a company where I will be selling yewellery online locally only.

I know trading is not for everyone, so is not owning a business or 100 other things, but I am not that everyone :)

Good luck with yewellery

:)

Did he mean jewellery or something from yew trees ?
 
Gardening centres are big business here as people love growing flowers, fruit and veg. Do you have the same culture ? If not, be the first to open in a big city preferably. Even window boxes are possible.
 
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