Do These Things That Happy, Confident Millionaires Do
I was on the shitter taking a dump. Apparently we met at a network event 5 years ago.
Wealth is contagious.
I’m not talking about financial wealth.
I’m talking about money that buys back your time, so you can spend it doing whatever the heck you want – kids, hobbies, side hustles, masturbation, Netflix, what evs.
I’m a millionaire. I don’t say that to brag but to tell you why it matters.
See, I’m surrounded by other millionaires – on purpose.
I study how these happy, confident, non-materialistic people think daily. Here’s what they do.
Pay the tax on your wealth with failure
These millionaires have time to do whatever they want because they do one thing: they fail.
Failure is a tax you pay right now to access future wealth.
No failure … minimal chance of success – that’s the brutal truth. Society programs us in school to avoid failure. Wrong.
Millionaires choose their version of hard.
When you play the video game of life on hard it stretches your creativity, resources, and imagination. Those three things produce limitless abundance when forced to grow.
Fail your way forward. Get out there and make sh*t happen.
Choose your hard.
Screw networking. Do this instead.
Today a guy called me out of the blue. I was on the shitter taking a dump. Apparently, we met at a networking event 5 years ago.
We “networked.’
In a rush he tried to pitch me his startup. I couldn’t get him off the phone fast enough.
“Yeah mate, send me the pitch deck.”
Soon as he hung up the phone I blocked his number. He violated my morning toilet time. I answered his call, thinking it was someone else.
See what networking does? It produces these low-quality relationships.
Better than a networking
Start building in public. You’ll become a magnet for opportunities.
Use free platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Medium to share what you’re building and how. After a year or so there will be so many opportunities, you’ll never have to network for the rest of your life.
Death to networking. Deep relationships over shallow.
The oldest money ideas make the most money
Medium is dead.
LinkedIn is dead.
Twitter is dead.
Youtube is dead.
I’ve heard it all before. The people that tell you this nonsense are the failures, the ones that couldn’t figure it out so they thought they’d stop everyone else from doing it too.
Cold Email Wizard on Twitter nails it:
Nothing is dead, it’s just you.
Happy, confident millionaires don’t think tried and tested ways of making money online are dead. In fact, they’d rather these old making money ideas.
At least there is proof of success.
All one has to do is cross the threshold of participation.
They worship the sexy god of leverage
I don’t care what you say, all millionaires understand leverage. It applies to financial markets, crypto, running a business, real estate, and even social media.
This stupidly simple picture tells you everything you need to know about leverage.
Don’t work dumb. Work smarter using leverage.
Highly intelligent people are closed-minded
Happy, confident millionaires know that highly intelligent people are mostly dumb.
Highly intelligent people can get the logical facts right. They can see black and white. But logic makes no sense in an irrational world.
Wealth is irrational.
Some of the dumbest people you’ll ever meet make the most money and have the most free time.
Tascha Che sums the problem up beautifully:
1995: Amazon is just an online shop for books.
2005: Netflix is just a DVD-in--mail service.
2021: NFT is just jpeg you can right click & save.
It's amazing how many smart people can get the facts very right & yet still comprehend nothing.
Information is meaningless without comprehension and the ability to see a bright future. At the heart of the problem is a lack of optimism.
Just because you can’t see an amazing future, doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
Stay away from these highly intelligent jerks.
They sound smart but will keep you poor, forcing you to work a dead-end job for the rest of your life.
Starting something won’t make you a millionaire
Productivity porn worships starting.
Millionaires don’t give a toss about starting. They care about the long game.
Anybody can start. The question is, what will you do when things get hard? Or when you run out of motivation or see zero results?
That’s where a millionaire is born or dies.
Can you wake up daily for a year and see no results? That’s what I coped as a writer. Years of no results, no readers, no money.
Patience, execution, consistency, and iteration are the keys to the millionaire life of unlimited free time.
The real test: work when you don’t feel like it.
Takeaway
Fail more,
Build in public and document the story to attract the right people
Use tried and tested models to make money online
Understand leverage, stay away from highly intelligent logical types that can’t dream or look past facts
Be stupidly consistent (even when you don’t feel like it)
That’s what creates happy, confident millionaires who live humbly and have time to live life rather than work it away.
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