You have no girlfriend pitching.
Why don’t you throw on a wig and dress and pitch?
FY,
Har+new
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Remember when you read a comment saying, ” … it’s just a simple HTML page … .” ? What great news?! Alex confirmed your suspicions. Despite being a freshman at Code Academy you can still build something noteworthy on the web … AND NOW. Yeah, it would have to be simple, but remember this, users will pay more for simplicity. Your fundraising idea is more important than your big web idea. Why?
Well, first off, that you would have the insight to make the money before you make the baby is commendable. Lack of money and persistence are two reasons why startups fail. You have the latter bordering on being a pest, and this fundraising idea will give the former in abundance. Even help you pass that 100K bitch of a milestone.
Second. Look where Alex is today, 7 years after the Million Dollar Homepage. He’s doing something that’s probably even simpler, with Calm. Why didn’t you think of that, stupid?! And he’s living in California, a place you want to call home. The things he’s doing now would not have been possible if he didn’t become a millionaire first.
Lastly. You ARE that rare combination of “idea guy” and action figure. Reason you’re feeling more like the former is because you’re coming up with ideas that are outside of your skill set. Remember that time you said you think the wrong ideas sometimes because you don’t have the skills to quickly execute them? Well, with this fundraising idea, it’s so simple that you should be embarrassed if you don’t have everything ready by October 1st. An idea outside of your skill set can discourage you and make you question, “am I an actor? This fundraising idea will prove you’re like Bane: A man with a plan and a man of action.
FY,
Har+new
P.S. I know you only took HOH 10-20% serious at first but now the more and more you think about it you see just how much potential this baby has!
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You don’t want to be known as “The Idea Guy.” You want to be known as the Action Figure. This is what separates the doers from the dreamers. You are a doer!
Yeah, the date got pushed to June 8, but look on the bright side: You got more time to refine your pitch and work on your current idea. And, you have more time for the recruitment process to have other ideas presented. What’s 40 or 50 dollars? Furthermore, with it not being on Mother’s Day weekend, there will be more support. You need to start attending Tech Cocktails. Keep up with your coding!!!
Your pitch will be much stronger with a Beta Waiting List. At least 500. Mostly girls. Why? Because they WILL rule the site. Will you approach potential users one by one? Will you use one user to get two? Will you build the front-end and funnel them? Whatever you decide to do, that list is important. Traction. Traction. Traction.
*Michael Jordan fist pump* YES!!! I mean, I knew you were going to be there, in the building, somewhere. But I think purchasing this ticket tells me exactly where you will be in the building. ON THE STAGE, BABY!!! IN THE SPOTLIGHT!!! Because I just know, Har-old, you are not going to just go there and look up to people pitching their own ideas instead of looking down at people pitching your own. How disappointing will that be? Anyway, you have just under 3 months to prepare. Learn from Kevin and his experience. You don’t think you stumbled upon his blog by accident, do you? Watch videos and take notes of Steve Jobs being insanely great in front of audiences. Just mastermind the entire event. I feel pretty confident in you winning over that crowd and getting your idea launched in 48 hours. This will be an early birthday present to yourself. WOOOOO!!! What shyness? Ha!
You have not been a good father, to your 3 month young brainchild. The programmer thing, right? Well, I’ve got some news that really isn’t news because you think in possibilities, which means, you played with this thought before. Har-old, you do NOT need a partner to get this baby started! Instantaneous success. This is a low resistance level idea. A 180 from the Yeebizan. Now how are you going to use the last 2 days of 2011 to be the father of the year in 2012? Hmmm? Your hat is waiting on you!
Dear Har-old,
American novelist Chuck Palahniuk said,
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
When an entrepreneur, an inventor, the mastermind, or just a person in general, dies, they always say WHO they’re survived by. For instance, Steve Jobs:
Jobs is survived by his wife of 20 years, Laurene, and four children, including one from a prior relationship.
The thing I dislike about being survived by a WHO is that person will eventually die themselves. That’s temporary survival. You want staying power. So, Har-old, would you like to know how to truly live forever? Be survived by a WHAT. An idea. A good one. A great one.
Instead of being survived by a WHO, a person with their own mind, be survived by a WHAT, YOUR mind.
You know how they say of someone who’s in la la land:
He’s in his own world. Physically here; mentally there.
Well, let’s reverse that in death da da land: mentally here; physically there. Here is living. There is gone.
The idea is to be survived by your energy.
I use to fear death. Then I discovered the power of my mind and the ideas it could produce. You know what’s so powerful about your ideas? They are instant businesses. It isn’t how fast you can think of a good idea, but rather, how fast this good idea can be a reality existing outside of your mind. And you’re becoming king of that. It is happening NOW.
The lightbulb is not on the top of your head. It’s in your head, genius. Your brain is the lightbulb, Har-old.
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
P.S. I don’t think I’m done with that drawing. I think I should add upside down lightbulbs.
Dear Har-old,
In the October 22, 2011 letter, of the following fortune, I had this to say,
It’s not October 22, 2011 but the progress you’re making tells me this one will come true as well.
Har-old, I was gone wait until Saturday to letter you this one, but, how could I ignore the brightness of your “lucky” star? Really? Let’s live in the moment for a minute. Your mind yielded to you the Yeebizan’s successor; you found your “Mark Zuckerberg”; your first 100k isn’t bitchy; the world’s highest paid profession is calling you; you move into your first apartment on the 1st. I must ask you …
Do you really need 3 more days? Haha!
Look in the mirror, kid. You’re looking Har+new+ish.
Like BooBear said,
And just think it’s only the beginning!
FY,
Har+new
P.S. To celebrate, I’m waving bye-bye to the iPhone notepad and changing FY’s theme to something more futuristic. But we gone keep it in the Apple family. Hint, hint. Effective tomorrow!
Dear Har-old,
In How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling, Frank Bettger wrote:
I seldom meet anyone who never heard of Franklin’s thirteen-week plan, but I never met anyone who has told me he tried it!
In The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin wrote:
I hope, therefore, that some of my descendants may follow the example, and reap the benefit.
Har-old, I will update the first-ever letter I wrote you, OMG!, and I will choose the 13 subjects which I feel are necessary or desirable for you to acquire and try to master, and I want you to give a week’s strict attention to each subject successively. In this way, you will be able to go through your entire list in thirteen weeks, and repeat the process four times in a year. Also, each subject will be followed by a brief summary. For instance, Franklin’s second subject was Silence, and his summary was, “Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
I concluded that OMG! letter with a tagline from 43things.com, “Changing your life is hard. Doing it by yourself is harder.”
Here’s the screwed lightbulb (great idea) I had:
FY’s community will also join in on Franklin’s Thirteen-week Plan. They will list and share their thirteen subjects and summaries with you and six others of their choice. Y’all are to agree to the best way to communicate with each other. I prefer exchanging numbers because it’s more instant and direct than Twitter, Facebook or email.
This is how it will work:
Once they’ve shared their list, which will be in the order in which they plan to use it, they will assign seven people who represent the seven days of the week, to text or voicemail their subjects and summaries. This is for the subconscious. Five should be text; two should be voice mails. Har-old, you are not to or the others are not to get out-of-order meaning texting or voicing a person’s third subject during the first week, which is their first subject. Furthermore, you are only to be read or heard from once a week. No more!
At the end of every week you are to update everyone on your progress. This can either be done via a blog post, a text, an email, tweet or even phone conversation. Obviously, you can’t spread yourself to all seven people with a method like the last one-phone conversation-so again, agree on some end of the week method of updating everyone.
Har-old, writing this made me think of Dean Martin‘s Send Me The Pillow You Dream On. Listening to it now. I’m making this the theme song for this letter and the Thirteen-week Plan. Ha!
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
P.S. OMG! is now updated.
P.P.S. Let me know in the comments or through the contact form if you would like to participate.
Dear Har-old,
We all have the same twenty-four hours available to us in each day. Most of us spend eight hours working and eight hours sleeping. What you do with the remaining eight hours will have a tremendous influence on the level of success you achieve in your life.
Time management revolution. Work. Sleep.
You hate your job: hours are terrible; pay is awful; wretched co-workers; horrid boss. Fine!
You sleep for 8 hours, toss and turn, wake up and can’t remember your dreams. Still fine!
However, with The Other 8 Hours you stack a pyramid of pennies, watch movies like Matrjoschka, play video games like Guitar Hero-playing music someone else has already recorded, build the Leaning Tower Of Pisa with Jenga blocks, watch YouTube videos of other people wasting their time and comment on the internet. DEFINITELY NOT FINE!
If you spend The Other 8 Hours wisely, you will TAKE BACK your precious 16 hours stolen from you by work and sleep.
You will be doing what you love . . . in your sleep. Get it!
Now you have 24 hours to live. Enjoy!
Anything without cost is generally unappreciated. Therefore, Har-old, if you truly believe in the phrase, “time is money,” then why don’t you learn something from jobs and put a monetary value on your time hourly?
Billionaire by 46, right? Well, from your age now until you’re my age, calculate the monetary value of each hour. Do the math!
For example, if every hour is worth a $100k to you, ask yourself, “Is what I’m about to do in this hour worth wasting $100k on?” Because ever since you stated your worth, 2 billion, anything that even resembled a waste of time costed you $100k. This will work better WHEN? you plan your days in advance. You know, that self-organization day thing???
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
P.S. People who read and comment on this letter are so NOT wasting their time 
Dear Har-old,
If you were a footer and I always talked to you about my various cars named after different women, would you get upset?
If you were single and I always talked to you about being in this great romance, would you get upset?
If you were in a job that you hated and I always talked to you about doing what I love, would you get upset?
No to all three, right? Instead you will enjoy it and get inspired by it. And that’s something I always liked about you. You are money conscious, therefore, this will not work on you. However, when I talk to poverty conscious people about my nice cars, about my love life and about my dream job, they get upset. Why? You want to know why? Because I’m pushing their buttons. It’s not about me and my wealth. It’s about them not being okay with wealth, which makes them dislike seeing it flaunted by others.
Dr. Joe Vitale said,
If there’s something in your life that is pushing your hot buttons that is probably an area of a belief that needs to be released.
So, I should only flaunt my wealth in front of money conscious people, right? No!
I LOVE flaunting my wealth in the faces of the poverty conscious. Why? Because I’m trying to get them to realize the button is not external; it’s inside them. It’s their inner hot button. I’m trying to help them dissolve their inner limits. These people have low prosperity IQ’s because they have been miseducated for years by low salary teachers-their parents, the church, their friends, television, their environment. These “students” don’t raise their hand and question any of these common limiting beliefs about money. They just let other people think for them. And the scary part about this is the teachers are teaching and the students are learning at an unconscious level. So, the only way to become aware of these beliefs is acknowledging (writing it down) when someone or something pushes your hot button.
I mean, look at you! You were raised around nothing but poverty conscious people and you never let their penny thoughts rub against your fourth quarter.
The Joker said,
It’s not about money. It’s about sending a message.
And the message the money conscious is sending to the poverty conscious is hidden in their “flaunting of wealth.”
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
Dear Har-old,
Do you remember Dean Martin‘s Standing On The Corner?
I think she’s on to me.
The other day my/our wife noticed me indulging in my favorite hobby-girl watching.
She knows I’m definitely observant, a people-watcher and I’ve glanced at attractive women before. However, I think what happened the other day struck her as more than a passing glance. Maybe I’m paranoid.
I know what you’re saying, “It’s just girl watching.” Well, it’s actually more . . .
I undress women with my eyes; I stare at them long enough to picture them naked. And … I’m quite accurate! How I know? I did the same thing to her before she actually took it off and *whispers* the dimples was right there . . . the mole too.
Now before you start jumping up and down violently, screaming, “my future-self got superpowers,” I’m sure you will like to hear how you got these “superpowers.”
You simply returned to masturbating with your imagination. You know, how you first started-without any visual stimuli and with only your mind’s eye. Ha! I don’t know why I used the word simple because it wasn’t . . . at all.
Why wasn’t it simple?
Because you became dependent on visual stimuli. Yeah, that damn internet!
You found it 10x easier with porn because you didn’t have to think and you could just focus on pleasure. And those times you did “try” with your imagination again, you complained, “it doesn’t flow and I can’t focus on pleasure and my penis doesn’t get as hard.”
So, instead of jumping from the bottom of the stairs to the top, you took it one step at a time. You did it gradually. You went from video . . . picture . . . back to imagination.
Kid, you already have a vivid imagination, so use it in ALL areas.
As Mark Twain said,
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
FY,
Har+new
Remember Burnt Popcorn?
Well, I’m expanding on the idea.
For the future-selves who know their present-self hate reading and are more visually inclined, they can do video-self-letters.
Authors can either do videos for their previously written letters or videos with brand new material.
Videos shouldn’t be longer than 5 minutes.
Different presentation, same concept.
Lights. Camera. Action.
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
If you had 3 months to live, would you do exactly what it is you’re doing right now? And if you’re not doing what you’re wanting to do, what are you waiting for?
I know what you’re waiting for … the doctor to say, “Har-old, you have 3 months to live.”
Like Napoleon Hill said,
Isn’t it strange that so often people have to be cut down by failure and defeat before they learn that they have minds capable of mastering all their problems?
9 months. Birth is predictable. When mother finds out she’s pregnant, birth months are foreseen. You live your whole life knowing your birth date. You know death is certain but you don’t know when it will happen, giving birth to the phrase, “Live everyday like it’s your last.” This is one of the unfairnesses of life. That’s why those people who get told they have 3 months to live, 6 months to live, are BLESSED. Yes, blessed!
They waste no time planning. They just do.
The wind blew this bucket over with a piece of paper in it. The paper is blowing in the wind, flying all over the place. Run and catch it. Read it. It’s a list. A to-do-list. Check marks are beside everything. There are dates beside every listed item. Notice how close the dates are to each other. “All of this in a few months,” you say to yourself. Things you say you have to wait for, be “patient” for, things you say you have to plan, know-it-all before you get started. Think that list was just written? No! Look at the quality of the paper. That list is old.
Har-old, you will soon meet someone who knows when they will die. This person won’t be sad. They will be carefree, happy, motivated and a kid again. Pick their brains! Study them. Adopt their 3 month mentality.
And you know who that person will be?
You!
Every 3 months you will die and attempt to out-do what you did in your previous life. Every 3 months you will re-create yourself. Every 3 months you will be re-incarnated into a more richer you, a more handsome you, a more healthier you, a more smarter you, a more livelier you.
Your dreams can happen faster than you think but don’t let failure and defeat be responsible for inspiring you to action.
Take responsibility for your life!
Futuristically yours,
Har+new
