"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Picking an Idea for a Business

Desdinova

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Hey all. I've been thinking about starting my own business for a while. However, the trouble I'm having is that I have three ideas to work with! I need to choose only one that I can focus my time and energy on.

Is there any suggestions for how to choose the best idea?
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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RedPill

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What do you want out of starting a business?

You are at point A. You'd like to go to point B. What is point B? Which idea is the best vehicle to get you there?

Evaluate your choices based on the answers to these questions.
 

Chillisauce

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I'd do up a decision-making matrix in excel for starters. Put the three ideas down the left and criteria you think are important on the right. Assign a value 1-5 of importance, 1 being not important, 5 being crucial/very important. I'm not going to do this for you but a couple would be:

5 - feasability (has it been done before, likelihood you think it would have of success.)
2 - Estimated initial returns.
5 - estimated middleterm returns (after a year imo)
3 - estimated long term returns (2 years +),
3 - startup costs and asset requirements (do you have what you need to begin, will you need staff/management?, how much money will you need to borrow)
3 - your interest in the ideas field (obsession and a genuine interest in a business product/idea can go a long way.. one might look better on paper but if you find another one appeals more to you then you should pick it).
4 - do you have the neccessary skills/experience/contacts needed

You get the idea, pick criteria that you believe are important and assign an importance number (To figure out how important they are you might need to do some research on the success/failure of similar products)


now you fill out the table, say your first idea is 'turn the DJ Bible into a real publication' you assign a 1-5 on how well it achieves each criteria. For example, 4 for feasability, 4 for initial returns, 3 for middle returns, 2 for long term returns, 5 for startup costs if you had the rights to the material ;) and the money needed, 2 for interest if you dont really find DJ stuff interesting, and 1 if you have never written a book and dont have the neccessary contacts for the last criteria. Remember when assigning values to not be too optimistic. So now you total it up mulitplying the criteria importance value by the other number and come to a total of 20 + 8 + 15 + 6 + 15 + 6 + 4 = 53
Do it for the other 2 as well and the one with the highest score is your best bet.

I hope you find this useful, took longer than i expected to type up. You should also do some other things in conjunction with this to decide but without actually knowing what your ideas are i cant offer advice on that yet.
 

Chillisauce

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So Desdinova, did you get around to picking a business idea or did you get distracted by a short skirt?
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Stud

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i'm curious as to what the ideas are.
 
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