So now ya know not having money didn't stop me at age 10... And it doesn't have to stop ANYONE! If you missed Part 2: ===>Here's the Rerun:-) In Part 2... I asked an IMPORTANT QUESTION. If the $5 or $10 I made from painting on the curb number was NOT the GOLD!... What WAS the GOLD? Why is it important? Because... People who struggle all their lives.... Struggle because they work for MONEY! I don't place blame on them. They TEACH/program/brainwash us to work for money in school and in society. Here's what I figured out as a young, geeky Ron Howard-looking kid. AFTER... I gave money to my mom. AFTER... I spent some on candy, walkie-talkies, and wrist rockets... I could go to the SAME PEOPLE I painted the address number for... ...and they were happy to pay for 💥OTHER STUFF I COULD TAKE OFF THEIR PLATES💥... 👉Weed pulling 👉Lawn Mowing 👉I even got to mow a cemetery for $100 a mow. (I thought I made it big!!) 👉Car washing 👉Light Carpentry stuff (but I sucked at that and had to stop.) The GOLD was the CUSTOMERS. PLEEEEEAAASSSSEEEE... Do NOT say, "I know. I know." Because MANY grown adults still don't know!! Who gets the GOLD if someone is selling on Amazon? The seller? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Amazon keeps the GOLD. Who keeps the GOLD in UBER? The poor guy or gal driving their ASS off? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! UBER keeps the CUSTOMER! In many cases... They FORBID YOU... it's against TOS to even CONTACT the customer. That's not all. Most business owners, EVEN IF they keep the GOLD (Customer), don't do ANYTHING with the customer. And they make 1/10th the money they COULD BE MAKING.... 👉Do you know WHY? 👉HINT: It's the same BOTTLENECK I had as a kid. I didn't figure out how to remove this bottleneck until I was in my mid-THIRTIES... BY FORTY... I was a millionaire. That's HOW IMPORTANT it was and how fast I got out of the rat race. But... Again... It is too important for me to just shout out.

I was a broke, freckle-faced 10-year-old boy... I was the oldest of 4 kids... My mom was single... And broke too. But I didn't let that stop me. I figured out what I now call: "A Gravel to Gold Sitch" Let's come back to that... One of my "income streams" was painting curb numbers for homeowners and renters whose addresses were either faded or completely gone. I knew my "pitch" wasn't a pretty address number. It WAS not getting COLD PIZZA because the pizza guy couldn't find your address. It WAS the ambulance, police, or fire department that found their home when every SECOND COUNTS. I'd charge $5 to $10, depending on whether I painted one or two numbers for them. (some wanted the number on both sides of the entry) Now... My investment for materials... Was about $10 to get fresh stencils, paint brushes and black and white paint. (From memory, this was a few decades ago 😁) I could paint about 10-12 address numbers from my $10 investment. Which meant $50 to $60 + tips for revenue. A $10 investment with a $60 return for an afternoon in 1977 was pretty solid. A lot of men/women were not making that... This is what I call the "Gravel to Gold Sitch"... Paint and the supplies are GRAVEL. I had the PROCESS: Take the paint and turn it into address numbers so the pizza guy and emergency services could find homes fast. Once I turned the paint into an address number on a curb... I turned a little bit of paint (gravel) into (gold)... NOW... If You Think That The money Was The Gold... HUGE MISPERCEPTION Don't get me wrong... It bought Snickers bars, walkie-talkies, and other stuff when I was 10 years old... But that wasn't the GOLD REALLY. (Hang on tight for a sec.) So... Here was my big fat problem. I was a broke kid. My mom was broke. How did I get my "start-up" capital? I PRE-SOLD! I'd knock doors and when I got a "YES."... I just had them PAY ME UPFRONT... Then I'd bike it to the hardware store and buy my supplies! I still PRE-SELL most stuff to THIS DAY as a 58-year-old.

Respect! 141 Rockstars are in for Part TWO of How to Get in the FU Position with Less Than $1000! I'm putting part deux together for you NOW! As a yummy appetizer... (Who doesn't like appetizers?) I'm laying out... 💥How I've duct-taped together cash flow businesses with no money - starting at age TEN! I was the oldest of 4 kids and helped my single momma put Hamburger Helper on the table. I still use this secret today! 💥Why too much money make ya stoopid! Much of my scrappy resourcefulness I owe to the School of Hard Knocks on the come-up. Most of my cash LOSSES were because I got STOOPID because I had too much money. 💥After I F'd up my finances, I bootstrapped a $3,000-a-month RECURRING biz by ASSEMBLING (NOT BUILDING) a micro-distribution network in 48 hours and then RENTING ACCESS. This was in the late 1990's. With AI in 2026, this is even simpler. 💥Think SELLING is the #1 skill? I don't. Why RENTING beats the crap out of SELLING if you want DEPENDABLE cash flow with LOW STRESS! (This is why AI Tools make PERFECT RENTAL PROPERTIES.) 💥I paid $1,000 to a very wise old timer who taught me one of the most valuable lessons I ever learned. DON'T SELL ONESY TWOESY. Sell ONE person and let them do ALL of the selling FOR YOU. NOW, combine that with my "renting" breakthrough. RENT to one person and let them RENT to dozens or hundreds of people. He showed me WHO. AFTER I started applying this, my website would get 30,000 visitors on an average day (I made millions)...and unless you know the late great Jim Straw...I bet you will NEVER GUESS "WHO" you should sell/rent to:-) 💥HOW ALL the ABOVE apply to getting into the FU Position with LESS Than $1k...with AI. 💥💥💥A surprise announcement that AFFECTS all AI Rockstars. Right now... 141 Rockstars are GUARANTEED to get Parts 2 - ??? (Not sure I can get it all in 2 parts.) If you chimed in on THIS POST...you're good to go!