Starting a Short Term Business - Advice?

[kieranperez]

Honestly, I have a lot of emotional resistance to this. I feel cheap and like I’m cheating myself and am scared as resitant because I have a life purpose but I also need to get my livelihood needs met. Right now I’m honestly really scared and really backed into a corner. I have no relationship with my parents now and now living in SF (where it can cost $1500 for a room) with a cheap part-time job, no longer having a car now, no friends (to room with), and no assistance from any family to even try and help me move out of state where it’d be cheaper. Honesty I’m really terrified to the point where I get flight or fight responses and hyperventilating and feeling like the walls and even my mind are closing in on me. I really need help psychologically in terms of my emotions, projections, etc. in order but there’s no way in hell I can afford that. I have a life purpose which is to become a mystic sage and start something like Sat Yoga in Costa Rica and renounce and master enlightenment fully but I have a long way to go just emotionally and in my mental health and in satisfaction of my basic needs before I can do that. 

I really could use advice. The fact that I don’t have any support system or friends is making it really hard mentally or emotionally. I believe that if I start this thing I’m not going to have time to meditate, read, learn, etc. I also feel like this is impossible for some 23 year old as messed up as me. I know that I can as an abstract belief that I can start a successful small business but not in my experience be like “oh yeah, I can actually do this,” if that’s makes sense. The gap between my dreams and where I’m at in my circumstances, my mental stability and state of mind and the amount of challenge I can handle emotionally and cognitively, my own personal development just feels like an abstract fantasy or “it’d be possible if I didn’t have all this bullshit in the way.” 

I just don’t know what to do and I feel so closed in. 

[kieranperez]

@Winter it doesn’t need to be some huge business... Businesses can be small one man shops... you’re saying I need an HR team, other employees, investors and so forth. I’m talking about a smaller low cost business so that I can leverage my time in order to work on other skills and knowledge. I plan on pursuing enlightenment completely down the road as my vision is starting an ashram and so forth. 

I agree with a lot of your tips however I’m just trying to make clear the kinda business I’m talking about. 

[Chase Ellfeldt]

Are you starting a business to make ends meet or because it's a passion? 

There are many ways to make money online that do not require a lot of social interaction if you are crippled by social anxiety.

But if the thought of owning a business is too much have you thought of getting a second job instead? 

You may think you'll have no time but I find the busier you are the more junk junk you remove from your life.

[kieranperez]

10 minutes ago, Chase Ellfeldt said:

You may think you'll have no time but I find the busier you are the more junk junk you remove from your life.

The busier the more you piss your life doing nonsense which is what most people do. Most people piss their life away being busy. 

11 minutes ago, Chase Ellfeldt said:

There are many ways to make money online that do not require a lot of social interaction if you are crippled by social anxiety.

Never said anything about social anxiety.

13 minutes ago, Chase Ellfeldt said:

Are you starting a business to make ends meet or because it's a passion? 

The “business” I want to start is going to take maybe more than a decade before I can start this is shorter term. I need to get ahold of my livelihood and get this part of my life handled. I’m still coming up with ideas. 

[kieranperez]

• I have no idea where that example of restaurants came from. So... yeah, don’t really know what to say about that as that’s totally unrelated
• You're reading my post black and white. Where did I say I was planning on starting a business with 0 cost? I said low cost
• I have no idea what you’re talking about on your third point.

You seem to be all over the place

[Girzo]

Buy some kind of equipment. Learn to use it. Sell your services.

Examples: law mowing, carpet cleaning, drone video shooting, etc.

Advertise on craigslist or whatever is popular in your area. Get creative when it comes finding clients. Be RELIABLE, most people doing that kind of bussiness are very unprofessional.

If you want to work on a computer, then Web Design, Internet Marketing or Front-end Development are all easy to enter fields.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Girzo

[aurum]

@kieranperez

I’ll be honest dude, I think the idea of you creating a part time business so you can work on your purpose is unrealistic.

I think you’re underestimating how much work it’s going to take to create a business that consistently handles your basic needs.  If you try and do it part time very little is going to happen.

You might want to look into Jason Capital’s youtube channel.

[kieranperez]

6 hours ago, aurum said:

@kieranperez

I’ll be honest dude, I think the idea of you creating a part time business so you can work on your purpose is unrealistic.

I think you’re underestimating how much work it’s going to take to create a business that consistently handles your basic needs.  If you try and do it part time very little is going to happen.

You might want to look into Jason Capital’s youtube channel.

So instead you're actually suggesting I just work my same job and just be a wage slave the rest of my life and never become free and quit my entire life purpose?... I never said anything about "part-time".

[Nahm]

@kieranperez 

What are your thoughts on this...

9 hours ago, Girzo said:

Buy some kind of equipment. Learn to use it. Sell your services.

Examples: law mowing, carpet cleaning, drone video shooting, etc.

Advertise on craigslist or whatever is popular in your area. Get creative when it comes finding clients. Be RELIABLE, most people doing that kind of bussiness are very unprofessional.

If you want to work on a computer, then Web Design, Internet Marketing or Front-end Development are all easy to enter fields.

And these...

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/23715-i-want-to-work-from-home/?do=findComment&comment=262685

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/26227-how-do-you-make-money-online/?do=findComment&comment=296516

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/25332-ways-to-make-money-online-not-business/?do=findComment&comment=284111

https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/26691-the-theory-of-getting-rich-online-in-a-nutshell-thread/?do=findComment&comment=306699

https://www.savethestudent.org/make-money/10-quick-cash-injections.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jrose/2018/04/24/make-money-online/#3af0f36b4954

You might have already seen these things, but maybe there’s some content in there to at least get talkin and narrow it down to something. I feel for ya man. For what it’s worth, you’ve had some major breakthroughs, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some ego backlash happening too. I know you have actual things you need to do, just saying, if you haven’t, take time to watch that video for sure. Let me know if I can help at all. 

[kieranperez]

@rounder going to look back at that what you said there man. I really appreciate and believe it or not that did help.

[aurum]

On 12/24/2018 at 10:01 PM, kieranperez said:

So instead you're actually suggesting I just work my same job and just be a wage slave the rest of my life and never become free and quit my entire life purpose?... I never said anything about "part-time".

You know that’s not what I’m suggesting. I’m all about purpose and breaking out of the rat race.

I’m saying that if your goal is to start some sort of small business to fund what you really want to do, it’s probably not going to happen. I tried the same thing myself and nothing ever came of it.